skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not convinced by your testes example, Polyorchidism suggests a third peak (discrete not continuous values to boot) and, again, there will be some that will insist that exceptions are not natural (Holy Diphallia, Batman!)

Levity and quibbles aside; thermal equilibriums have an entire extended family of inbred kissin cousin variations .. Black-body is a bit flat and then a bit Poisson like with a K . 1/(exp() - 1) form, but then there's the { Maxwell–Boltzmann, Bose–Einstein, Fermi–Dirac, et al } distributions that suggest an undue amount of unnatural Franken-Stein ing behind the equation shed.

I'm happy that the universe is that which we observe it to be rather than that what we wish it to be .. so it's all natural to me.
For me, VR comes down to content. Because the market is too small, there is none. There's few high end titles. HL:Alyx, Horizon: Call of the Mountain? Sometimes you get a port but then it wasn't originally designed for VR and it usually shows.

There's zero on the Quest 2/3 because it's a mobile device and it's not up to it and at least in my experience the link is not up to it either.

I'm not saying there are not some good experiences there. Several rhythm games are fun, a couple of games designed for low-power mobile devices. But the fully immersive high quality graphics games are so few an far between. If there were more I'd keep playing.
Too bad "Visual" is already taken.. maybe Vision Studio Code.
Hi everyone!

I am currently working on an open-source project of mine called envio, which is essentially a CLI tool that helps manage environment variables. Users can create profiles, which are collections of environment variables, and encrypt them using a passphrase or GPG encryption.

For more information, you can visit the GitHub repo or the official website.

The biggest complaint I have with the project is the codebase. I wrote it a year ago when I was relatively new to the Rust programming language and ecosystem. However, now I see a lot of areas for improvement. So, I would appreciate it if any experienced Rust developers could take a look at the source code and provide their thoughts on it.

Moreover, this is my first "big" open-source project and the first project that real people are going to use. So, some advice on improving the tool would be immensely helpful.

I hope to build a community around the project, constantly improving its quality and feature set.

If this interests you, please do not hesitate to take a look at the project's GitHub repo to make some contributions or to give some advice by opening an issue.
have they fixed teams yet?

that app that like the entire united states uses for pc work every day?

i still cant copy paste a code block, or copy paste literally anything. i think microsoft should use AI to learn how to code code blocks in chat or they should ask chatgpt how to use the clipboard of their own OS
I mean, it's very hard to do and you have to build the GPU shader/processing pipeline yourself, but it's not impossible. [1] Gorgonia implemented most of the necessary libraries for tensor math for their alphago implementation.

[1] https://github.com/gorgonia/agogo
This sounds humble, but it's a prediction that actually contains a lot of confidence about where the future will go.
> What is winning and what is losing? Yeah there are actions that persist our genetics but there's no rule saying that's what needs to happen, just that it's something that happens.

All of us are descended from billions of years of ancestors (long before humans) that were motivated to reproduce. Those who didn't left none of their genes behind (other than ones they might have shared with relatives).

That's exactly what "losing" means, in the evolutionary sense.
The degree to which resources are scarce and contested varies geographically yes.

Around me there is not a constraint on the deer population, resources are plentiful for them and outside of hunting season there is little contesting the deer. Eventually the deer population grows enough that the lifeforms they share space with decide to, mm, contest their expansion, but there are places and periods in which populations can grow unconstrained for a while. I suppose I was making the point that humans maintaining a certain way of life for tens of thousands of years may have lived in a way where resources and rival tribes were not an issue, and hence, had little motivation to develop defensive weaponry / collect starvation rations for rainy days.
> A 6" wiener is even rarer than being 6' tall.

Something something genetics/racial/... something, gotta be, right?
Does it really? I use it and it has blocked around 25k Blue users for me, but that's nowhere near enough to make using Twitter enjoyable.
Work is equivalent to worth. We are not biologically or sociologically prepared to differentiate the two.

I’m gonna say there’s a very very selective “we” in use here. I’m sure you’re accurately reporting your surroundings, but many people outside America (and a few within it!) are very much already there.

Plus, like, isn’t that kinda depressing? What are disabled people “worth”? If I choose to be an unpopular niche artist, am I “worth” less?
The moral dilemma is profiting from disease and the ill-health of a population.

The only argument against publicly funded drug production is that profit seeking is more efficient and the societal outcome is improved by not funding a public body to do this.

As other comments highlight, not only do societies publicly fund research (eg C19), they provide a legal system that protects monopoly profits, and won’t use single-payer bargaining on price…

So when pharmaceuticals then drop more cash on executives and shareholders it’s natural to question turning Covid19, cancer, or obesity etc into a profit centre for the wealthiest in society
I think this is subjective. I get a sense of purpose from my job. I don't feel like 'just' a labourer, I feel like by working I'm contributing to society and helping others.

I don't want infinite leisure, I want to feel useful. A good day's work is very satisfying. But at the point machines can do my job better than I can, it might be difficult to feel useful.
> Learning this makes North Sentinel island seem like a wild success story. It’s been continuously supporting a population with no outside help for at least a millennium.

IIRC, the closely-related Andamanese lost technology. Years ago I read something that said they did not use boats, but still occasionally constructed something like them (I'm thinking something like a dugout canoe) for purely ritual purposes.
Wow! That cannot be coincident. I sense a next wave of lawsuits is coming.
> One of the nice things about writing new tests by hand is you've got someone who can judge if it's the system being stupid or if it's the test.

This is an instance of a more general problem, which I call "the problem of unwanted change". If you have an automated system which can change itself, how do you know a change is actually intended/correct or merely a symptom of a bug, failure or imperfect knowledge the automation has?

That's why I think human supervision is always needed to an extent, to determine what scenario has occured.

This happens in all sorts of systems. And people tend to think they can solve this with just another layer of automation like here. Testing was originally invented as a way to check if the program works correctly. If you automate it, you will face the same problem, just with a bigger code (in the form of tests rather than assertions).
Just this. And there are things we can do. Those of us who live in democracies can influence outcomes a little.

It may be too early for political action, but perhaps is not too early for writing and reflecting, and for coming up with theories about how the near future may look like, and sharing them with the world.

If things turn really dire, there is always that turbid matter our advanced culture forbids us to reach out for: violence and revolutions. In other words, if it is the AIs or us, be it because the AIs are outright evil or because our economic systems make them evil, then we can always choose “us” and resort to forceful or even violent corrections.
Research shows that 0.8g per kg of body weight is the absolute minimum recommended for individuals with minimal physical activity. If you are attempting to become fit, research suggests you want at least 1.3g per kg for moderate activity.

Honestly 1.6g per kg isn’t that much. It’s much more than most people are used to, but it’s not like you need protein shakes and chicken breast only. It just requires you to not consume all your calories in carbs and fat, which is a lot easier.

See: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26797090/#:~:text=To%20meet%....
YouTuber is a lottery-ticket profession. It's a winner-take-all, heavy-tailed distribution. It doesn't make sense to tell a whole population to buy lottery tickets. For kids, it's a modern equivalent of "I want to be in the NBA", "I want to be an astronaut".
Optimal Protein Intake Guide
I dont buy it. Your linked blog post is about Derek Lowe gathering anecdotes, mostly.

His linked article (a better one)

https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/where-drugs-come-n...

is biased, because it only looks at approved drugs. He himself turns slightly to the R&D side and almost gets it.

> And now to innovation - 118 of the drugs during this period were considered to have scientific novelty (46%), and of those:

> 44% were from pharmaceutical companies.

> 25% were from biotech companies, and

> 31% were from universities (transferred to either biotech or pharma).

> The university-derived drugs clearly outperform in this category. What this also means is that 65% of the pharma-derived drugs get classed as "not innovative"

To be fair, i dont think you can convince me, that the pharma industry has no incentive to externalize risky or less profitable research and would never do it.

I have one anecdote for you too, hitting that exact spot: anti-biotics research. Because even though it has good prospect for profit, it is too risky research (kind of diminishing returns of R&D in that area).

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7872909/
I will always remember Amara's Law, “We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” Having been in the tech industry for 20+ years taught me a lot about the long-term impact.

PS. My daughter's name is Amara. :-)
Why no nano-texture?
There are many places across the globe (equatorial regions) that don't have the severe winter "nothing grows at all" problem that some would argue drove European cultures to advance food storage and intensive agriculture techniques.

There's always some kind of scarcity everywhere, sure, but the key notion here is regular predictable extreme scarcity that can be planned for and hedged against with a considered amount of energy and advance preparation.
I tried it and it hurt my face like hell in 10min. It’s uber heavy. I had a Quest 1 and would use it for hours without any issues.
Well it's hard to debate fantasy products given the circularity: "if they create a product that avoids all these problems, then it won't be a problem!".

I've not used a laptop (or computer) at a desk for decades, I prefer lying down, which works really well.

I do wish there was something between a laptop and a phone though. Interfaces need to improve or innovate, but I don't think VR headsets are the answer. I haven't even touched on the nausea.
The ability to move around while I’m actively wearing it is not particularly compelling or relevant to me. I didn’t get it for room-scale VR games, and I tend to take it off when I get up anyway. I find it really amazing that I can set up a huge workspace on-the-fly pretty much wherever I want, including the couch. I have a very slick dedicated home office I could be in right now but I actually enjoy using the VP from the living room more for anything other than serious 9-5 work for my employer.
It's called dignity and it's something people struggle with a LOT when they age.

"Don't worry grandad, I'll mow the lawn".
Used to be 300lbs. Going down to 200 took 18 months of eating 400 calories as many days as I could endure, and fill myself with water.

It's a thankless process. You fight years of muscle memory that tells you that you should treat yourself. Your brain is telling you about all your cravings and how hungry you are. You could be happy and full right now.

Worse, when you eat, it'll take 30 mins for you to feel full. It's all stacked against you.

Eventually you reach your goal. What now? Can you treat yourself? Loosen up? Chill? The moment you do it's a slippery slope.

It's hard to maintain lost weight because your entire body is a machine that you have trained to want this, and happiness and success looks like learning to let go.

The determination and drive to fix it is very difficult. I can understand how the craving gets appealing with time as things have settled.
Contest: Use AI to redesign this painting into a cool look ominous tattoo
erlang:process_info(Pid, binary) for all processes with some post processing was usually pretty helpful for me, although I don't think it tells you much about ets tables, which is where my big bloat usually was. If you store binaries in ets (or mnesia) and the binaries live for a long time, it's useful to run them through binary:copy/1 if the binary is a sub-binary that references a large binary that's otherwise garbage. Or at least this used to be useful; sometimes my experiencs get obsoleted when OTP updates have efficiency changes.
I'm not sure how you arrived at that conclusion given the available evidence we have of Putin's many speeches and writings on the matter. And one is not mutually exclusive of the other.
The US just carries out its wars overseas - not on its next-door neighbors. Whenever the stock price of the Big-3 War Companies drop, the senators and congressmen are encouraged to find an excuse for bombings.
For autonomous robots to replace the millions of tradesmen and workers, it would require vastly more resources than are being put toward this now. I wouldn’t expect human labor to be replaced in this way for a century or two.
No, I'm thinking utilitarianism.

I appreciate that the standard definition includes a term about "for the greatest number". But you're still defining an ethical utility function which you then seek to maximize.

That your utility function may be off model from the most doctrinaire possible interpretation of the theory does not seem to me the same as saying this is not an example of the theory.

The same could be said of effective altruism, which is anyway just the prosperity-gospel version of utilitarianism. That one should be doing utilitarianism badly does not mean one is not doing utilitarianism at all.

(Did you mean to reply to your comment rather than mine?)
> and there's enough competition to force them to pass that on as reduced prices

i found the bug.
What do you suppose we all do during the transition to utopia? How do we feed our families once we've been laid off and while we wait for the arrival of paradise?

People already going through this now.
https://github.com/jcs/progman/commit/7b707c32dcf0842c55de29...

https://github.com/jcs/progman/commit/024a5d086657a70b5303d1...

https://github.com/jcs/progman/commit/3a427653be2d5117e162da...

I'd be giving these commit messages as examples of great commit messages.

Honorable mention xd:
https://github.com/jcs/progman/commit/bd91f0f091c4656c246e7d...
I think the reason this is getting a negative reaction is because he doesn't really clearly state the problem he's actually trying to solve until the end (and describes it as "bonus chatter" when it's actually just a much better explanation than he gives at the top of the article).

> To clear up some confusion: The idea here is that the printing API has always existed on desktop, where printing is supported, and the “get me the list of printers” function is documented not to throw an exception. If you want to port the printing API to Xbox, how do you do it in a way that allows existing desktop apps to continue to run on Xbox? The inert behavior is completely truthful: There are no printers on an Xbox. Nobody expects the answer to the question, “How many printers are there?” to be “How dare you ask me such a thing!”

If he just used the words "existing desktop apps" in the second paragraph of the article instead of the second to last, I don't think people would be reacting so negatively. Instead, when he talks about avoiding "gaslighting" by returning an invalid pointer by just gaslighting in a different way by lying about the error that occurred, it almost sounds unhinged.
defaultBranch = slavemaster

has been getting a lot of traction; it helps us not shy away from what we did.
Not at all. Simple example: ants. Most of them don't reproduce, but they still work to pass on their genes.

In the case of humans... Why do you think there has always been a part of society that seems predisposed to violence and nationalism. It's not beneficial to the individual to go get in fights, but if it keeps the group alive then it's advantageous. (Note, this is not a license to be a violent nationalist asshole, but this is the internet so...) Similarly, autism and ADHD. There are very real theories that those conditions were beneficial to early society even if they were detrimental to mating because it's helpful to have people around who are hyper focused and hyper unfocused.

So yeah, helping pass on your relative's genes, however distant, is still part of the game.
It's kicking the can down the road, will still be a problem in 200 years at the rate which our society is progressing, potentially even going backwards if the orange man wins in 2024.
Finally I can fulfill my username's destiny and compile a 32 bit version of this. If this supported virtual desktops I might actually daily drive this on my laptop.
Those documents are a bit terrifying, especially when the bold and capital letters come out
I have experienced the same. I am a backend person with 30 years experience who spent 2 years doing only frontend (mostly react) and the tooling is depressingly bad. What is worse though is that (even in this thread) most (all?) libraries scream ‘not our job’, so now it’s no-one’s job then as we don’t have ‘in between’ or ‘frontend/backend sync’ (I avoid middleware on purpose here as that’s already a thing) devs.

Phoenix and other attempts are the future here imho. We have, for our saas with a few 100k users, rolled out a phoenix like (we use mostly go server side) next to our initial react/next frontend and a) our devs prefer it massively (write mostly only go and not typescript!) b) our users prefer it because it’s just more natural. With ssr you can accomplish the same but it takes more pain because we still have to think about state syncing etc; with liveview likes we are back to cgi on steroids: just handle it on the server and forget the client. You still have to do state but it’s much easier to reason about if it’s in one place.
> Germany was the 1930's equivalent of the USA in roughly comparable industrial output

Not even close. US had many times Germany’s industrial output in the 1930’s.
>we pay several times more on drugs than we would without paying those incentives to the businesses

that really depends on your economic system doesn't it? In the more capitalist systems you pay what the market will bear and there is no consideration as to what the incentives are or aren't.
Artists seem like they are first up for replacement, no?
The writer says: “[My children] are more viscerally worried about climate change”.

I’m not surprised.

I recently heard from a friend that her 7 year-old child had, as a class assignment, to create a timeline setting out the impact of climate change over their lifetime.

I was gobsmacked, and feel this amounts to a form of psychological child abuse. It’s a serious problem, don’t get me wrong, but having a small child labour to visualize modeled outputs is traumatizing. It’s really made me wonder about how reality morphs into millenarian thinking.
Somehow I missed that. Thanks!
Because "he" is grammatically correct when the gender is unknown.
It's like arguing that artists should have a say about how they should be paid for their work at the dawn of the mp3 revolution.

If you've ever been in a riot you'll know it's impossible to argue with people once the looting frenzy takes hold.

Maybe once the dust settles we can see what's left over and finally have a serious conversation about protecting our artistic commons against future incursions?

In the meantime I'm just going to leave you with this:

The next time someone tries to convince you that the existence of _any_ black box somehow negates your creative ownership of your work, ask them this:

"Have you ever created any art of your own?"

The responses are illuminating.
You are missing the point I’m making. Everyone won’t be a YouTuber. But the successful people will cultivate skills that are similar to those needed by successful YouTubers. Being an anonymous worker with anonymous output means you can be easily replaced.
Potentially they can use early versions of the automation to accelerate this.
Ask HN: Summarising Kindle books in your library
Any brilliant (legal) ideas to get chatgpt to summarise a book/chapter in my Kindle library?
Apparently in non-anglophone countries it's more accepted that bullying is a group activity, where UK/US focus on a single perpetrator.

I think the group dynamic is more accurate.
> exercising not only helps with losing weight

Running and exercising are not efficient ways to lose weight despite what the fitness and wellness industries would have you believe. And ironically the more overweight you are the less efficient it is. Great way to fuck up your joints or waste countless hours sifting through bro science and researching equipment you don't need.

It is great for keeping the weight off and enjoying life once you hit a certain point but should not be a chore as will power is finite and precious and at first you're spending it all on eating clean and walking and that is guaranteed to be enough over a long enough period.

Push too hard and you'll stall. just be patient and extremely consistent instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hacker's_Diet

If you can go for a walk for 1-2 hours a day, just simply walk your way out of the problem. And if you "can't afford" to walk for 1 hour every day your life is already in shambles and you're not in a position to make other changes before you sort this out.

Eat clean. Walk. Be consistent. Be patient as it will take more than a year, the time delayed reward is the very crux of the matter. And don't stress, laugh more!

Laughter is the best medicine buddy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5AixBKy7b4

Highly recommend watching Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia for Macs trajectory. The actor went from skinny to obese and back for a joke.

Very best of luck.
> On day 7, the bone scan finding predictive of needing amputation was observed in 0% (0 of 16) patients receiving iloprost alone (Group 1) compared to 19% (3 of 16) patients in Group 2 and 60% (9 of 15) patients in Group 3.

Ah ! It would have sucked to have Frostbite not be in Group 1 and then need to undergo amputation. Talk about bad luck ! However, I totally understand that this is the main way for the science to progress and treatments to get validated.
Is it hard to write ONE test case for ALL getters and setters using reflection?