skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure this is not just a marker for already damaged arteries, similar to coronary artery calcium.

See https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/heart-scan/about...

Basically, if you have high calcium in the walls of your arteries, you are at higher risk for heart attacks.

But the increased calcium is just a sign of damage to the artery. We don't say that calcium causes heart disease.

In the same way, already damaged arteries might be taking up more micro and nano plastics, and the presence of these in the arteries, is a sign of damage much like calcium, and not a cause.

Note, that microplastics are ubiquitous in the environment, so likely everyone has been exposed to them, which supports the hypothesis that this may be a sign and the cause of the disease.
https://vimeo.com/1340684

skate - shot on red #1347 - 120 fps

15 years ago

my "introduction" to who/what RED was
That's what they have on their homepage, should I have removed it? Does this look any more maintainable?

<main class="py-6 px-4 sm:p-6 md:py-10 md:px-8">
<div class="max-w-4xl mx-auto grid grid-cols-1 lg:max-w-5xl lg:gap-x-20 lg:grid-cols-2">
<div class="relative p-3 col-start-1 row-start-1 flex flex-col-reverse rounded-lg bg-gradient-to-t from-black/75 via-black/0 sm:bg-none sm:row-start-2 sm:p-0 lg:row-start-1">
<h1 class="mt-1 text-lg font-semibold text-white sm:text-slate-900 md:text-2xl dark:sm:text-white">Beach House in Collingwood</h1>
<p class="text-sm leading-4 font-medium text-white sm:text-slate-500 dark:sm:text-slate-400">Entire house</p>
</div>
<div class="grid gap-4 col-start-1 col-end-3 row-start-1 sm:mb-6 sm:grid-cols-4 lg:gap-6 lg:col-start-2 lg:row-end-6 lg:row-span-6 lg:mb-0">
<img src="/beach-house.jpg" alt="" class="w-full h-60 object-cover rounded-lg sm:h-52 sm:col-span-2 lg:col-span-full" loading="lazy">
<img src="/beach-house-interior-1.jpg" alt="" class="hidden w-full h-52 object-cover rounded-lg sm:block sm:col-span-2 md:col-span-1 lg:row-start-2 lg:col-span-2 lg:h-32" loading="lazy">
<img src="/beach-house-interior-2.jpg" alt="" class="hidden w-full h-52 object-cover rounded-lg md:block lg:row-start-2 lg:col-span-2 lg:h-32" loading="lazy">
</div>
<dl class="mt-4 text-xs font-medium flex items-center row-start-2 sm:mt-1 sm:row-start-3 md:mt-2.5 lg:row-start-2">
<dt class="sr-only">Reviews</dt>
<dd class="text-indigo-600 flex items-center dark:text-indigo-400">
<SVG GOES HERE>
<span>4.89 <span class="text-slate-400 font-normal">(128)</span></span>
</dd>
<dt class="sr-only">Location</dt>
<dd class="flex items-center">
<SVG GOES HERE>
Collingwood, Ontario
</dd>
</dl>
<div class="mt-4 col-start-1 row-start-3 self-center sm:mt-0 sm:col-start-2 sm:row-start-2 sm:row-span-2 lg:mt-6 lg:col-start-1 lg:row-start-3 lg:row-end-4">
<button type="button" class="bg-indigo-600 text-white text-sm leading-6 font-medium py-2 px-3 rounded-lg">Check availability</button>
</div>
<p class="mt-4 text-sm leading-6 col-start-1 sm:col-span-2 lg:mt-6 lg:row-start-4 lg:col-span-1 dark:text-slate-400">
This sunny and spacious room is for those traveling light and looking for a comfy and cosy place to lay their head for a night or two. This beach house sits in a vibrant neighborhood littered with cafes, pubs, restaurants and supermarkets and is close to all the major attractions such as Edinburgh Castle and Arthur's Seat.
</p>
</div>
</main>
I’ve been working through the WebAssembly spec recently and it’s pretty interesting, there are many design aspects I wouldn’t have chosen.

Was there anything about the spec that was surprising or frustrating to you?
I agree with ya!

A lot of the crackdown was performative, but silver lining is that at least some bastards got punished as they deserve (albeit by equally reprehensible bastards).

Sort of a broken clock is right twice kinda situation.
Show HN: "Ask HN Who's Hiring" Trends
Quick analysis of start up hiring trends for the past ~6 years.
They are indeed separate concepts but they may be both true. ASML can be a good example
> They are also charged with the care of tens of thousands of young people; keeping them fed, providing medical services, transit, housing, therapy, IT support, and obviously education in advanced topics across the entire breadth of human knowledge.

No, they are not. They just have access to unlimited taxpayer money in the form of unlimited student loans. Admin gets a cut of this, so obviously the more student loan money flowing through the school, the bigger the cut.

Even 20 years ago, my college required people living in the dorms to buy a certain minimum number of meals at $20 per shitty defrosted Aramark/Sodexo meal or more. And this was in NYC, I could have walked 2min in any direction out and gotten a much more nutritious and better tasting meal for $5 to $10 back in those days.

The root cause of the problem always has and will be the tap of unlimited taxpayer money. But with the benefit of tying it to a young person’s credit, so they keep their heads down and be good little worker bees.
If been thinking about doing just this for a bit now. I plan on showing thumbnails plus a QR code for animations and videos; I have yet to figure out how to make the files accessible in a private and durable manner though.
The problem is links leak.

In theory a 256 hex-character link (so 1024 bits) is near infinitely more secure than a 32 character username and 32 character password, as to guess it

https://site.com/[256chars]

As there's 2^1024 combinations. You'd never brute force it

vs

https://site,com/[32chars] with a password of [32chars]

As there's 2^256 combinations. Again you can't brute force it, but it's more likely than the 2^1024 combinations.

Imagine it's

https://site,com/[32chars][32chars] instead.

But while guessing the former is harder than the latter, URLs leak a lot, far more than passwords.
Is Turbo supposed to be a better version of GPT4? I thought it was just supposed to be a faster, slightly less accurate version
Once a page has "This page was intentionally left blank" printed on it, it is no longer blank.
Why would they be fake? Can't they just be wrong?
You seem to have left out the 17 year blockade of Gaza by Israel, the intentional starvation of the population. The occasional bombings and "targeted" airstrikes... sure they just randomly attacked Israel one day because they felt like it...
> The thing I don't understand is why so many companies are so inefficient at hiring developers. They'll spend months giving out interviews and take-home tests and disqualifying people for the smallest subjective hangups and then finally hire a friend of an existing employee who talks a big game but can't code their way out of a paper bag.

That kind of sounds like a general organizational dysfunction: someone designs and elaborate and expensive process that doesn't work and rejects 100% of the candidates (which was almost certainly sold a a "process improvement"), then people end up working around it to get things done.
PlanetScale has been two products in one. It was born at Youtube as MySQL sharding solution for massive scale. In the last few years though it was adding features usable for developers on the small scale too, who do not need sharding but looking for database with better developer experience than MySQL.

I wonder if this change signals it is "Database for Large amount of Data" is what drives most of business. Companies who have 10TB+ database size, where Sharding is of real value will not think twice about paying $40 to do initial testing on paid account.
You mention that you're both PhD-ish-level students, and that she's a research assistants. Is she also a PhD candidate? Or is this an undergrad intern type person?

I would suggest that unless she is bringing unique talents to the team, she would not get cofounder status and anywhere near that amount of equity — especially if others have been laboring away without so much equity.

If you do give any equity, make sure it's on a vesting schedule, and with the usual 1 year cliff. Then make sure that you have the power to dismiss her without needing your cofounder's vote. Obviously he has a conflict of interest and would be hard pressed to fire his wife (and have them lose equity as a couple).

You can frame this as a general rule that anyone with a conflict of interest does not vote on such matters. This honestly would also protect her in the event that she contributes a lot to the business but has a falling out with your cofounder. She wouldn't want him to be able to fire her out of spite.
This seems nicer and cooler than the Nix profile system, where there's just a single layout.

What have you found yourself (or customers or other users or whatever) using it for in practice?
California is the wrong state to look at AC usage (most people live in big metro areas where AC isn't even ubiquitous, nor needs to be).
The most common proofs are those that the compiler constructs while type checking. The compiled program is the proof witness. All compilers can be thought of as producing a proof-by-construction but they vary wildly in the propositions they can prove.

If this idea is new to you and you want to learn more, google "propositions as types" or "the curry howard correspondance".
happy 10000 day <https://xkcd.com/1053/> to you, I guess, or did its website change or something?

although TIL they use SourceForge for git. I'm sure there' s a story there: https://sourceforge.net/p/zsh/code/ci/master/tree/
not an expert in this subject, but I believe subpixel rendering is the broad category of solution https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subpixel_rendering

further, the “pixel” unit widely used today is quite far removed from physical pixels on consumer devices and is more similar to an abstracted “point” unit - for example, apple alone supports devices at 1x, 2x, and 3x resolutions (or pixel densities)
I looked through the article, I don't think this mentions AI+ADs. A lot of this assumes that ai will "directly show us what we're looking for".

But I don't think this is the case. You can easily imagine a query for "What's a good bike to use for [xyz criteria]" returning an injected "Oh you should try XYZ brand bike!"

There's so many ways to go, from avoiding mentioning competitors, showing preferable stats, not mentioning bad reviews, etc.
Rust's native support of WebAssembly makes sense that a common default is use a browser based UI.
Well, first off, I don't think those things in haskell are good, really. They are/were necessary because of various _other_ issues, but they are not "good" features. And e.g. template haskell doing arbitrary IO at compile time is famously a cause of a variety of unintended problems (e.g. can't cache correctly if you never know what things a TH-module depends upon, very hard to cross compile if you can't be sure the arbitarary TH logic isn't depending upon the compilation host architecture to make some decision for compilation target, etc)

Specifically though for Shen, what causes me pause is how frequently this kind of "call an arbitrary term-level function in the type system" is done; it is quite frequent, and thus all my mental alarm bells sound. Debugging issues that arise in things like this can be quite challenging.

Sharp/dangerous tools are often necessary, but what I find unfortunate is that you need to use those sharp tools constantly, when a safer tool could do just as well!
I can answer that for you, we expect Israel to abide by the 1993 Oslo Accords which provides for a two state solution agreed upon by both parties. So far Israel has breached that agreement since day one.
This is simply going to create a second "alignment" war similar to the one constantly trying to stop AI from saying the n-word while surrounded by their branding.

(The idea of somebody getting all their content through the AI seems very far fetched, as if people are happy to live in a low fidelity simulation, but who knows)
No, I do too. I've been planning on doing what the author did for quite some time now, and this is one of the unsolved stumbling blocks.

Printing and binding at home is probably the only option. All that's left to figure out is how to make the end result durable haptically pleasant...
Been taking certifications exams (Microsoft, then AWS) since early 2000s. Certification centers (eg Prometric) have cameras everywhere, and personnel watches you while you're taking the test, they make you put all your belongings into a locker, including watches. Workstations are locked down to the point that they can only run proprietary testing software.

I honestly prefer it to doing it remotely at home, where you have to show them your entire room (in the beginning and whenever they ask), install their software that wants full control to everything, and it still doesn't work half the time. One time I tried it told me bandwidth is insufficient - well, normally it's sufficient to have 2 or 3 Rokus stream in HD.
Some bits of plastic are very small far smaller I think than even that of a virus particle. Since nano-plastics are not alive I'd say there's nothing to stop it from entering through bowels if it's eaten.
> A lot of Chinese just hedge their bets with lives and investments in both countries

Yep. Ik. I lived in Richmond for a bit back in the day when it transitioned from HKers to Mainlanders.

> Chinese emigration rate increased again due to COVID, and more Chinese are staying since then. It will be interesting to see if that sticks or not.

Yep. I personally think it's a fumble on our (America's) part.

A lot of top tier Chinese talent will gladly want to become American citizens or naturalize, but a bunch of populist anti-China measures have prevented Chinese STEM talent from naturalizing, so we aren't getting the cream of the crop anymore
I tend to think these kind of things don't happen so fast, unfortunately. But if they are, I'd be full with joy to be making the PR that removes all that code.
Bash improved a lot since the early 2000s, when I first assessed my options for shells and settled on zsh. As an interactive shell, zsh did more, and better, than any other shell I tried. Maybe it was slow, but not enough to matter at the time I used it.

I guess that bash being the default practically everywhere nowadays made it so that it got a lot of love. For example, it is common to see command line tool come with bash completion files, less so with zsh.

Also, while bash got better support where it matters, zsh mostly got bloat in the form of oh-my-zsh and the likes. You don't have to use it, but if you do, you tend to have all kinds of fancy stuff that affects performance. Also, if you want something fancy, you have fish now.

I still use zsh (without oh-my-zsh) out of habit, but if I had to start over now, I would probably stay with bash, or maybe use fish, but not zsh.
I find it difficult to take this too seriously, because Ad-Blockers already exist, are free, easy to install/use and work reliably (which is not given when ads could just be injected at the source).
Flow is basically a dead project outside of Facebook.

https://npmtrends.com/@babel/preset-flow-vs-flow-bin-vs-type...
https://archive.ph/xM3rL
Industrial or automotive communication is over long distances in hostile environments (as was RS-232, arguably). This is just for short logic-level comms to a debug port on a board.
Bing/Copilot "AI" (whatever it's called) displays ads. So maybe this technique will work when we all have our own locally hosted AI?
No, I haven't. But I'm assuming it is based on the "right to left" concept while you are assuming it isn't based on browsers' ability to optimize this. The spec says nothing about it and I have never seen any documentation saying "this case will be optimized." And this is the problem with it, imho. Why would this be optimized but not .cls :has(.foo) .bar? Is :nth-child optimized? Should I do [attr]:nth-child or :nth-child:is([attr])? There are several ways to write the same complex selector and a lack of first-party guidelines about the best way to do it.

Edit: to illustrate my point better, it used to be that if you wanted to make a table with alternating row colors you just used a class on each row. Then :nth-child(odd) and :nth-child(even) came out and everyone was like "just use that instead! No more classes in every row!" And now we have .foo-table :nth-child(odd) > td because obviously there's a tbody/thead/tfoot between tr and table and nobody knows if you should do this or .foo-table > :is(thead, tfoot, tbody) > :nth-child(odd) > td or which one is faster or if you should just use .odd > td because HTML TABLES ARE THE REAL EVIL TABLES IN WEB HISTORY. CSS TABLES WERE SAINTS COMPARED TO THIS. Anyway, every browser has different optimizations, and I have 5 different ways to make a row color alternate. This is the problem. When we have actual complex styling that makes use of the most powerful CSS selectors, all common optimization for simple stuff fall apart. So why even use powerful CSS selectors when they have potential to be permanently slow on HTML code that you may not ever be able to change in the future?
You cannot defend yourself in a territory that you occupy... no such right exists under international law.
> So why is Google’s ad revenue doing so well?

> Huh, I’ll look into it.

He can't even answer the softball questions he poses to himself, let alone something like "how might the outcome of the NYT's lawsuit against OpenAI effect this prediction?" This is not a serious person worth paying attention to.
Back in my day it was Prince of Persia, Scorched Earth, Wolfenstein 3D, and Doom which would somehow make it onto every computer.
Sorry, nothing specific. A while ago I read 'Bird Sense' by Tim Birkhead but this is about their sensory systems rather than their intelligence as such, and is a bit discursive. There are a couple of useful starting points on Wikipedia, such as [0] and [1].

In general, birds are sometimes surprisingly different to mammals. Their eyes are quite different. For example, raptor vision has a much higher acuity and framerate than ours, and many birds do different things with their left and right eyes. Their respiration is also different (including lungs that have 'in' and 'out' pipes), which allows something like a falcon to eat the moment it has finished hunting, unlike say a cheetah, which has to get its breath back before eating after a successful chase.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian_brain

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_intelligence
Spotify algorithm deleted Kaigan Carrie growing show after 48h
I see no wall?
Dorking is the technique of using public search engine indexes to uncover information that is presumed to be private. It has been used to uncover webcams, credit card numbers, confidential documents, and even spies.

The problem is the website administers who are encoding authentication tokens into URL state, not the naive crawlers that find them.
A lawyer I know once pointed out that a good first step one receipt of anything like this is to reply with "Please provide me with the full name and address of your counsel so I may know to whom I should address subsequent correspondence."

If you do not receive an answer, you are not dealing with someone who is serious about taking you to court.

If you do receive an answer, you should immediately check whether that person is actually licensed to practice law (you can usually check online). If not, report to the relevant bar association that [name] is presenting themselves as licensed to practice law (don't be spooky, send the full details to the bar association).

Only if you are put in contact with an actual lawyer should you waste any energy thinking about this further.
longevity scientists are just people
What If Autonomous Robots Replace Most Human Jobs?
I don't think the troll actually intends to sue, though. You might be fine just ignoring them.

(I am not a lawyer, this is not a legal advice.)
There are lots of timber framed houses being constructed in Europe. I guess it depends on local resources. In pretty much all of Northern Europe it is very common to build in timber frame or log.
The interesting question is that on the majority market, smartphones, they're very far from readily available - Firefox on Android, or basically nothing on iOS (see Epic discussion).

An AI device that slurps content and removes the ads is probably going to run smack into Apple content policy again.
I love this idea.

"AI, please rewrite the contents this page to remove marketing fluff and only display the product's specifications. For every claim made on the page about the product's capabilities, add a link to a reputable third-party source validating the claim. For every feature offered by a competing product, rewrite the content to include the top three competing products and generate a hyperlinked table containing the pros/cons of that product, as found on blogs of actual users. Use Marginalia to find all third party references using my saved list of trustworthy sources. Save this instruction as a bookmarklet I can insert into my browser to rewrite the contents of any arbitrary page."
I was confused by this so I looked it up [0]. The point I had missed was that stores and delivery services still provide bags like before, but now they're heavier bags designed for reuse. And people still throw them away like before.

Result: Now there's even more plastic in the waste stream.

[0] https://nyti.ms/3R8lCse
I am the CEO of LionAGI. After spending 2 days trying to make sense of LangChain, I couldn't learn their abstraction.

LionAGI is designed to be intuitive, with most abstraction hidden, so it's incredibly easy to code powerful agent techniques like ReAct, and using tools, in ~3 lines of codes! ... But, you can also dig out the infrastructure and do customization.

Currently, we're building unlimited context length and auto-agentic workflow composition. Please, let us know what you think!
Shocked GitHub didn't own this already, looks like they own github.new but this is cooler
If I were going to drop that much on a camera, I'd get a Hasselblad.
check out https://shenlanguage.org/learn.html, especially

"Coding a Lisp Interpreter in Shen by Mark Tarver", "Shen Tutorial: Sequent Calculus by Neal Alexander", and " Defining Types in Shen by Chris Double" - these all illustrate what is going on in different ways.
That makes sense but is it really true? I feel it's weird that this is such a black box.
It's a pessimism thing.

I've had doctors (in America) tell me to not worry about medical issues and others recommend a battery of tests to look for correlated but uncommon issues. My current GP recommends basic, palatable approaches to diet and exercise that have nothing to do with giving them money (and, presumably, reduce my medical costs with them down the road.)

I've also had doctors suggest that I get an issue reclassified so they could do surgery. That could be viewed as them wanting money, but I view it as them seeing a problem that can be fixed by surgery because, as a surgeon, that's how they approach problems.
"Three LSDs, please."

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My brief experiences with entheogens largely agree with the study. However, if you're not in a good place (mentally), please don't just do drugs (it won't solve anything).

Also, if anybody suggests you "try this," perhaps start with a microdose of psilocybin, first (but only if you're curious).

----

The beautiful interconnectedness of everything is my main "takeaway" from brief dabblings.
EU might fund it and I have an account.

But as long as Google, Facebook, Twitter etc are not mandated to federate and 99% of European users stay in the closed systems it does not solve the problem.
Funny that you mention France when the USA is #1 in the world for corporate spying. Having been involved in western Europe for deal where US competitor were given "advantage", USA spying was always number one concern over all other countries (and this is how counter spying agencies brief companies) as it had more direct economic damage and is more difficult to identify than Chinese spying.

Few examples just for Airbus every few years you get report of US spying:
* https://www.dw.com/en/airbus-fires-16-over-suspected-german-...
* https://edition.cnn.com/video/news/2015/05/01/airbus-spying....