skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> A politically controlled money supply

All money is politically controlled, including Bitcoin (although it's debatable if Bitcoin even counts as money). The politics of Bitcoin are one-op-one-vote rather than one-man-one-vote, but it's still there, and it's still mutable if enough of them cast their votes in any given way.
Culture war trolls add to UK vegan restaurants' struggles
> Here's this one example, so therefore this is proven bullshit

Nice logic.

What is "a lot" that indicates the majority of tribes didn't understand that babies happen when sex happens? Have you ever heard folk stories or native stories about birth and death?

If you're on an island, having an uncapped population is a recipe for disaster. This much is on obvious. The goal of living isn't to create as many more humans as possible.

It's like you're offended that humans would follow the same natural path as animals where access to resources is finite. Or at least that it is "bad" or "evil" that humans could ever live in a situation where they can't just consume more andore resources
is this true? I mean they cannot delete Chrome data

which web capabilities will actually not work any more?

I mean service workers will not, and it is a big one... all they do is caching and you can create an offline working website with them

web push another big one (not for me, but many use them)

which other web capabilities does Apple target?
Here's a parent of two, 9F, 12M:
As soon as you can interact with them set few, understandable rules and stick with them (bed time, screen time, eating habits, chores). Those will create routines and the frictions will decrease. Don't pass to them the responsibility of the decisions (what to eat, seeing or not seeing grandparents, going here or there) as this makes them feel unsure.
In the good or in the bad, if you promise, deliver.
Let them know there's no such thing as a free lunch, neither at their family home.
Be consistent.
Those suggestions will help you to avoid anger overflows.
Some of that reliability is just the homogeneous software ecosystem. Where most applications developed for the AS/400 are using roughly the same stack for "app server", "database", and so on. That closed ecosystem means core bugs get ironed out via customer feedback pretty quickly. There's a limited amount of unique combinations of software parts and config.
Feedback on Science-Based Workout Tracker in the Making
Hi folks!

I've personally always found it annoying to adjust my weights manually on a weekly basis plus hated tracking all workouts with Google Sheets without being able to visually see how my lifts are progressing. Thus, I'm working on a new app to help out with that.

It's like Macrofactor but for weights - aiming to adjust your weights automatically to stimulate progressive overload, which helps to stimulate muscle growth and overcome plateaus, just like a one-on-one coach would - but for free.

I've tried other workout logger apps, but wasn't able to find something that's based on science, nor ones that allowed me to implement deload weeks, integrated partials, RIR, and so on.

If you're curious or want to have a preview of what it looks like - check it out here: [https://joinforj.com/](https://joinforj.com/)

I'm the sole creator of this app, so I would REALLY appreciate feedback and ideas on how to make this app better. Feel free to share it down in the comments or let me know if there's anything you’d love to see as a user.

Thanks!
Show HN: Simple 1-Rep Max Calculator for Strength Training (Italian)
Just released this pet project. I've found the other available solutions to be too much SEO-focused. I just wanted a straightforward calculator that's easy to find for italian users.
I agree that native apps can offer better experiences and often do because they get more development effort. I disagree that most people hate PWAs because they are just websites.

I think many mix bad websites with "PWA is a bad technology". All the cookie banners, ads and prompts to install the native app are the reason the experience is worse.

What could a native app for Wikipedia, Google or a basic news pages (without ads) do better? I use the Twitter PWA for years as it saves battery and offers the same experience. Maybe animations are not as smooth but most people won't even notice that. I also rather use YouTube in Firefox mobile so I can use uBlock even though the app offers more features and generally more ambition. For hardware heavy use cases native apps are obviously better.

Also when companies push people to install the native apps for quick access, push notifications and better data collection you can't take customer usage as a metric for people's taste.
Sorry, I've had my fair share of experience with russians, none of those were positive and I'm being extremely generous. And sorry, "you could be punished for calling this war a war" this is called being a chronic coward, assuming they do not support the war. When the special forces were beating people up to death on the streets a few kilometers from my home in the 90's, my dad picked up a crowbar and went out to fight back and my grandmother, who was 50 kilos went out to do the same with a wooden stick. They were both willing to do everything they can, even give their lives if it came down to it. This says one of two things about the current russian society: either cowards or psychopaths supporting genocide. But most probably both.

And yes, look him up on google, swap the face and the voice and you won't be able to tell the difference between the dictator and the dictator wannabe - they say the exact same things.
Sure plenty of automated tools do that.
They all have long necks, are looking straight on, are perfectly vertical....
What am I chatgpt? Just make your point and tell us which 2000 binaries don't run and we can argue about whether or not that counts as a mark against backwards compatibility.

Also, is this a trick question about binaries that weren't patched for y2k or something?
To me, most noteworthy is the 4GWh? Of battery storage.
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Wonder why it took so long for FDA. Seems it was used elsewhere (I've found reports from EU and Nepal) for treating frostbites at least a decade.
>How easy will it be for any company like MS to correlate that data with all that other data they extracted without user consent?

Doable to some extent, but would they really learn much that we haven't already told them, given our propensity to Google for symptoms and diseases?

Personally, my worry here, if I had some embarrassing medical history that I wouldn't want people to know about, would be some malicious party gaining access to de-anonymized data and using it to blackmail, or just simply making it public.

Edit: Come to think of it, insurance companies could probably have a field day with a data set like this.
> re your second point, looking at this thread, "what is open source" is taking up a lot of the brainspace.

A lot of those discussions are not about the definition of open source (but something closely related, like "does it suck that it is difficult to get a new open source license OSI-approved?" or "should the JSON license be OSI-approved?", etc).

But "open source" is defined, has been for a while, and those who disagree with the meaning and would like to merge "source available" and "open source" are just fighting a useless fight IMO.

And really, in the featured article, the author clearly says "I will redefine 'open source' so that I don't have to say that I was wrong in my toot and in my book". To me it's like if I tooted "my favourite color in the visible spectrum is microwave", got pissed at people telling me that "microwave" is not in the "visible spectrum", and wrote a whole definition section explaining why I can't accept that I was wrong.
You don't need LPM Tries (2023)
Might be worth considering a different journaling fs, like nilfs2 for filesystems you need r/w.
Dividends are not spending. It’s just the shareholders taking money they own.
And of course, don't confuse them with "Palma" (de Mallorca) which is also in an island, but in the Mediterranean Sea :D
One of your assumptions is that we will start from 1 robot per year. I believe this is not true. I assume robots will be similar to high end cars in regards to the complexity of manufacturing. Once a company develops a prototype with AGI(mechanically the robots are almost there already, just the control systems and software that's lacking, which is supposed to be solved by AGI) it will rain VC money. The first million will be built by humans. The initial robots will take over the manufacturing only later. Setting up manufacturing that will be able to produce a million units in 2-3 years is possible. Let's say 5 years for a more plausible situation for a million robots to be built. These million will then scale exponentially. Also there is no reason to believe it will be 2^n, it can also be 3^n or 1.1^n or any arbitrary number.
I recommend this piece

You and the author appear to be the same guy. To be sure, the piece itself is an academic exercise hypothesizing a world in which the MIT license were law. And in such a world, the GPL gestapo would continue railing against opaque binaries even if those binaries were shameless but legal ripoffs of someone's hard work.

If I took emacs, modified it to be thread-safe, and distributed it as an opaque binary, John Q. Emacs User retains his thread-unsafe version but now knows there's something better out there which he can't iterate on. You can say this knowledge isn't a real "loss," but that would be dismissing the concept of opportunity cost.
I guess venting in an echo-chamber isn't very effective, but why do smart people keep doing it?
And last but not least: if you love them, let them know as they need to be ultra sure about that.
Many uses of numbers aren’t magic numbers. If you want to count something then setting the counter to 0 and incrementing by 1 isn’t unexplained or subject to change.
In "List of products", I was curious to see if you would also generate URLs to random photos ...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromorphic_engineering

The novelty is integration?
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I made this to learn what goes into seriously publishing a solo-developed (except music) game. Initially I planned to finish this in 6 Months, But its now been 2 years. Would love to hear your thoughts on the same.
I really wouldn't want to lose appendages from frostbite, so this sounds great.

The first treatment addressing lack toes intolerance.
You need to factor in usage, if you are idling a lot ARM > X86.

And you need to look at longevity, there I suspect ARM will outlive X86 too.

For modularity ARM > X86 too, because they are cheaper to have many small of.

But for scalability (= business in the current economy) X86 > ARM.

Also all graphs should be per watt, that 2 -> 4 is more performant is not news, that it is more performant per watt is!

And if you did that you would see that Raspberry 5 is not getting as much per watt performance increase as it should.

We have peaked permanently for the eternity of mankind.

Let that sink in.

Last but not least, the ONLY hope for any progress (openness not performance) at this point is the JH7110, but they are lagging behind in 3D support.
Is this saying that slavery is justified as long as the goal is something "monumental"? As long as some slaves are "proud" of the work they're being _forced_ to do _on penalty of death_ then we can at least rest assured that their pride in humanity was boosted at the amazing spectacle of a giant pile of rocks built on behalf of an oppressor. Oof.
I just wanted to let you know I've read your entire comment, and thank you for writing it.
You're mostly right, but: depends on your manager.

I do let my FE engineers do mockups when they want. It is often objected by other people who wanted to do it (but didn't) or wanted someone else to do it (but didn't have time). But whoever is trying to make me and my team's job hell, will get the same treatment from me.
Scrum is supposed to be training wheels for agile, not the end point.

I think a lot of ppl forget that.
>What is the evolutionary advantage of being able to match abstract patterns? Assuming it increases evolutionary fitness, what is the cost of it that kept it from becoming universal?

Likely there is a tension between over- and under-fitting, with behavioral and evolutionary tuning always in flux as conditions change.
> My second advice is to always behave as if you are going to leave tomorrow.

In a similar vein, my ultimate management technique is to take leave and have my subordinates act in my position (for at least 2 weeks). It really accelerates their development and it's oddly reassuring to discover that I'm not indispensable. At the same time, I do wonder if it indicates that I'm doing something wrong given they seem to develop faster when I'm not there...
This should absolutely be done everywhere.

It will exponentially reduce time to cures for various diseases. The amount of red tape in academia and pharma to do simple data studies is wild...
Note: applies in hot, dry climates where you’re wearing light clothing that lets the sweat evaporate. Don’t try it in New Orleans or Singapore.
There are widely used practices for API design and versioning that work well today. While this article's kludgy approach to backward compatibility may have been passable a few decades ago, this is a terrible way to approach the problem in 2024, specially with services & APIs being deployed & distributed across platforms.

The article illustrates how *not* to build APIs.
I just read it as easy language. Guanches is a term few people understand unless they've been at least a visitor, whereas Canary Islands is much more widely known.

But apparently there's more to it: in the language the term comes from, it specifically means person from Tenerife. So yes, we might consider it respectful to not refer to people on ancient El Hierro as Guanche. You might want to take a look at how es.wikipedia is linked from en.wikipedia. As a tourist to Tenerife, I didn't know about the nuance myself, before today's wiki dive.
New World: Upgraded Combat and Animation System Deep Dive
The title does need to match the one within the website
What do you mean shift to x86?
He’s the son of one of the largest political clans here too. If you know what I mean.
My take on that was that rolling your own crypto is hubris, but for all other ready-made libraries it's just about saving time[0].

There's only one person I ever met who thought manual memory management was a good idea, and their code was terrible in lots of other ways besides that, so I can't say I've ever thought about that particular example.

But after a decade or so of "don't roll your own crypro", I've also heard that if you specifically want to get into cryptography, the only way to do it is to research existing crypro libraries and work your way upwards, starting from "can I find bugs someone else already found, without reading the full details of their report?" and eventually rolling your own.

[0] That said, I'd now also add that libraries serve as Schelling points to make it easier to find jobs and to find workers.
> Finally, getting to L7 EM is maybe 30% in your control and 70% circumstances, but that ratio is IMO inverted for ICs.

That sounds like a positive. As an EM, there's a good chance you'll be promoted to L7 via pure luck - with no abnormal amounts of effort, and with no outstanding talent for management. It sucks if you're in the minority which "deserves" the promo (is super hard working and talented), but for everyone else, it's a free lottery ticket to a higher comp.
Grub is very reliable complex as it may be. Its lifespan in the system is only a second I’m fine with that.
Sometimes, a number is just a number. The average of a, b, c is (a+b+c)/3, an positive interger is single digit when less then 10, the formula for the volume of a sphere is 4/3PIr^3, etc... And that's excluding 0, 1 and 2 which are naturally everywhere.

That some numbers are not magic would be obvious to a human reviewer, but the tool probably just treats any number in an expression as a magic number or something like that, and the workaround is to define constants for raw numbers. Which entirely defeats the purpose since now, people will just use these constants for actual magic numbers and the tool will see nothing.
I remember playing this for the first time and being absolutely stunned. I think it would have been on an A3000, and up to then, the only machines I'd used were BBC micros and a Mac 512, neither of which were capable of anything like this. It was like science fiction.
NO, employee turnover (and minimal training for the new hires) are merely mid-string dominoes. But they're faceless, easily blamed, and few readers of a modern American business magazine will be bothered if you point fingers there.

The real problem is upstream, with short-term-profit-is-our-one-and-only-God capitalism. If you optimize ruthlessly enough for that - well, d'oh, obviously everything will end up enshittified. Any freshman bright enough to get an 'A' in Business Math 111 could have told you that.
Hops are added to prevent spoilage, in temperate places. They might have a different solution, or a different problem.
On a related note. Watch this demonstration on how these settlers used to use a pole to move in that rough volcano terrain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4fn0VlImq4
> 1. using Alpine configured to barely touch disk

I'd like to learn some tips on how to do that... do you mean something like https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Installation#Diskless_Mode ?
So can we extract the complete map from this? Where is that defined?
The StuffIt I remember was created by high school student Raymond Lau — apparently in 1987 (37 years ago) according to Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StuffIt

Always blew my mind that a "kid" wrote this app.
That's quite big news for many RPA startups I guess?
The EU Commission is a shitshow, but they occasionally do a few things to improve their popularity and these things are mostly fine. I don't criticize them for that.
Hey everyone!

I made a ScrapeGPT, an open source local tool designed to perform content analysis of the entire website and answer questions based on the scraped content.

Basically the idea came from the job interview question when I was given an assignment to "study our company website and provide new product recommendations", and since I was pretty lazy, I decided to automate the process of studying a whole website.

The app works completely locally and scrapes the entire website and its sublinks (with regards to robots.txt) and uses RAG pipeline to retrieve answers from the text. It supports both local LLMs (Ollama) and public ones (I use Perplexity API, since its cheaper to use their offline models).

You can use it as a:
- CLI tool (pls see commented out main() function);
- Telegram bot (default);
- Gradio app (separate file, work in progress).

I made it for the educational purposes sharing it as a mean to get some feedback.

Feel free to fork and contribute, just don't forget to mention me and please use it within legal boundaries.

Repo: https://github.com/LexiestLeszek/ScrapeGPT

Best.
Ahhh good point well made!

Oh well :-/
It’s funny being the parent of teenagers and witnessing this behavior. It’s frequently frustrating and hurtful so it helps to realize that it’s just part of life and not something truly directed at me.

It’s the simple things like ape genes, and having basic needs met.

I kind of feel like it’s all this little stuff that bubbles up. Like keeping inflammation low in general.
Cynicism aside, air travel is one of the industries with pretty healthy levels of competition. (At least in Europe and South East Asia. I haven't spent much time in North America, so can't judge the market there.)

People love to hate eg RyanAir, but their effect on prices is felt throughout the industry; even if you never take a single RyanAir flight.
I’m a parent and my house is a no anger, no punishment house.

If a child isn’t behaving the way I expect, I start with the assumption that the full picture has not been explained to them of why they’re behavior doesn’t fit with what I/others expect.

Kids don’t start knowing everything, they need it explained.

Many parents show their kids a behavior is not ok by getting angry.
A long time ago, it used to be. It doesn't seem to be now, and I don't have any idea why the distros changed. (Maybe it's due to the mv semantics? But I though people considered the idea of creating a file in /tmp and then renaming it to be bad instead.)

In fact, I didn't notice the change until now.
Just me? I thought the article was terrible. Most of the solutions discussed involve not being angry but being motivated. Did i miss something?
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And lobbying:

Never forget the s€£t-show that was the Covid vaccine procurement by the EU.
> First advice must be to mount FS in read only mode

How then do you update the system or install new software?
Reddit reportedly signed a content licensing deal with an AI company
Hopefully I won’t have to share the bug bounty with OpenAI.
Personally I like AMDAutoUpdate which is a scheduled task that'll pop a terminal window on your desktop at 12:00 sharp.
Sometimes the value you pass to a setter can go through additional logic to determine the final value to be set e.g.:

private int value1;

private int value2;

public void setValue2(int value2) {
this.value2 = value2;
}

public void setValue1(int value1) {
if (this.value2 > 0) {
this.value1 = value1 + this.value2;
} else {
this.value1 = value1;
}
}

Obviously this is a contrived example but if you have logic other than a simple "this.value = value", then you might want to unit test that bit.
It would be refreshing to see a version of this where the avatars actually look like plausible users and not models/dolls/uncanny robots. Backgrounds, less attractive faces, and different poses would help. Most of the time avatars come from candid snapshots.
Update: no, it doesn't as of now.
It worked for me in the past but I don't think it's sustainable. Just like you can't be gung ho all the time, you can't be angry all the time. And when it drops you lose your focus. I picked and dropped 100 things in my life.

The only way for 100% is to "embrace the suck". Keep going on bad days, too. Even if it's only a little.
Almost every skinnable WM has a BeOS theme.

Pekwm has my favourite BeOS theme (https://www.pekwm.se/themes/benu.html) because it supports window grouping flawlessly, which turns every window into a potential tab just by dragging.
N100 costs about $1.50 a year in electricity yet is like 30x faster.
That's great, but private insurance and out of pocket accounts for almost 2x the annual drug spend that Medicare does [1]. So there's nothing stopping pharma companies from shifting the costs to maintain profits. In a way, this is a cost shifting exercise from Boomers to everyone else.

Without a Medicare-for-all system, Congress could still easily stop this by capping pharma company profits but I haven't even seen an attempt to do so.

[1] https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/how-does-prescripti...
web apps are a lowest common denominator solution that result in shittier software with worse features, security, and privacy