skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a lot of truth to this. Back when I was doing UI for a big bank, I urged them to cleanup their frontend technical debt and unify their interface into a more consistent modern look and feel. They ignored it and I ended up leaving rather than hack into jQuery all day.

They understandably emphasized stability over replacing tested components, which financial is often known for. However I think their visible sign of improvement to the customer is severely lacking even today (this was five years ago), especially compared to their competitors. My overall feel is that the site is brittle regardless of what's happening under the hood.
> The nuance, thankfully, is far less frightening, at least from a public health standpoint. A case series published Jan. 29 in Nature Medicine by scientists at University College London reported that five patients who were given growth hormones derived from human cadavers as part of a now-obsolete childhood medical treatment later developed early-onset Alzheimer’s disease.

I'm currently under investigation of early-onset dementia due to significant cognitive decline in the last year or so with the earliest of symptoms being noticed about 6 years ago. This topic is particularly interesting because I had a cervical spine fusion 6 years ago with a cadaver bone used from an elderly patient. That was the beginning of my journey in hell. It seems extremely unlikely that was a route for transmitting anything to me, but nevertheless the topic posed in this article and the underlying reference articles makes me wonder. If anything, I'm grateful that it's being looked at more closely.
> What happens if we artificially change the value for a cell? I imagine it would ensure chaos and the changes would eventually propagate to every level. Would love to see this.

Is this analogous to cancer? Would be interesting to see it develop and even if any ‘correction’ or ‘immune system’ type effects happens.
If you can't tell that your employees are actually doing work without one of these tools then what are you paying them for?

What computer job has no externally visible sign of work being done except "looks busy?"
This article needs an update to after this version where Microsoft used a touch-friendly calculator that took up half the screen and somehow took a second+ to load.
yes. ASML.
My wife has churned through a few video services, netflix, amazon, disney, etc.

I've seen her frustration as series come and go from the catalogs, and the lack of things that we can watch together. So recently I've gone back to DVDs.

Many local shops sell used DVDs for €1 each, and I recently discovered a store in Helsinki which is lined with DVDs basically from floor to ceiling - a little more expensive, but not much. It was fun spending an hour browsing around looking for things I remembered or wanted to see for the first time.

Sure DVDs won't last forever, but I think having TV shows, and films, on disk is going to keep me going for the next 10+ years quite happily. Maybe after that I'll switch to something else, but I struggle to imagine it.
It’s frustrating to me how every studio / network feels it needs its own streaming service, one where they control the entire experience. It’s stupidly user hostile and yet there’s no alternative other than physical media (with all its negatives) or piracy.
I also use the little $10-15 kit off amazon. Like you I did that for a long time as well as brushing. Unfortunately when I went back to the dentist I had a single cavity but a bunch of calcified plaque between my teeth that I had to pay like $800 to get cleaned out. Obviously I’m a big flosser and picker now.

I must have had some pretty bad halitosis with that calcified plaque because now I’m not habituated to the smell. For those in my family that are clearly not flossing and have shit breath i thought about buying them dental kits and floss for Christmas stocking stuffers. My SO said no and it’s their wives and dentists who should tell them. I kinda disagree but I’ll leave it alone. Someone had to tell me - what if no one ever tells them their breath is horrid because of the calcified plaque? They’ll just wander through life like that?
He's not wrong and tracking your employees like that is actually illegal in Switzerland and probably other places as well.

In fact if you install security cameras in your work place they can not be used to track employees.

You are permitted to gather overall metrics over all employees but you can't track individuals. There are exceptions but only for very specific instances.

If you don't trust your employees to do the work then what guarantee do you have that they do their work well? This is how you end up with door hinges meant for the front ending up installed in the rear. Zero trust means their is zero incentive for the employee to give a shit about doing their job right.
Ask HN: What's your favourite kind of programming?
Hi everyone I hope you're having a satisfying Saturday. I was curious if there was a pattern to the kinds of work people enjoy in software engineering.

Do you enjoy optimisation?

Do you enjoy factorio?

Do you enjoy server setup and configuration?

Do you enjoy software architecture design?

Do you enjoy API design?

Do you enjoy performance engineering?

Do you enjoy UI design?

Do you enjoy workflow systems?

Do you enjoy backend architecture design ? Frontend architecture?

Do you enjoy software dependency picking?

Do you enjoy business logic or technical detail?

Do you enjoy CRUD?

Do you enjoy integration work?

Do you enjoy SQL?

Do you enjoy pipelines?

Do you enjoy functional programming or OOP or network/REST API programming?

Do you enjoy maintenance work?
The “Submit” link just takes me to the Tally home page. I wonder if the link is broken of if they exceeded a limit.
Bro even people like me don't turn up to the office if there aren't mandatory days cos nobody can be arsed to go to an office where there's noone there and they haven't built a relationship with their colleagues anyway. It doesn't fulfil the needs I have if it's not a social activity. I think there should be remote jobs and hybrid jobs and you should just choose to work somewhere remote and I should choose somewhere hybrid.
That would require us as a society to develop concrete solutions to determining who can be trusted. That’s obviously impossible, so we’re stuck with the process we have.
It's not complicated though
I have no idea why - and I'm someone who has worked in the health insurance industry - it was ever allowed to be called insurance in the first place. It has only ever resembled insurance in the vaguest possible way (HDHPs are probably the closest thing to actual insurance now).

Insurers like to take all the benefits of the insurance model, and as few of the downsides as possible.

I mean, look at the model of "first you have to meet your deductible, then you have a co-pay which is your 'contribution' to your health care, but also you have to pay coinsurance which is the your portion of your costs after the deductible".

It's a partial amortization scheme for healthcare with a little "benefit of group negotiation" thrown in (when it doesn't actually cost "you" more to go through insurance than out of pocket... "you" because some people, like Martin Shkreli, make money pushing the illusion that somehow insurance companies are magical money fairies who pay providers with something other than the premiums you and I pay, either directly or through an employer...).
Show HN: Beating Microsoft's Garnet KV Store in less than 300 lines of code
I saw Microsoft's Garnet getting to the limits of (CPU) concurrent hashmap performance and thought it would be interesting to see if I could beat it with a GPU. Specifically, the GET throughput at 256M keys.

Of course, a few lines of hacky code doesn't get one very much, but it's enough to connect a to remote hashmap and throw integers around.

Redis got 1.5-1.7 Mop/s.
Because its fun
Pardon my poor vocabulary to describe the following:

But if the patterns are precomputed at whatever timescales, the patterns repeat in a predicable interval, based on the scale of time..

So, I wonder what each layer of pattern looks at from a perspective of a prime or true prime number scale digit...

Like if real-time baseline is 1 - and if you look at the pattern in a still frame at position scale 1. What is the pattern look like at time scale of the primes and true primes?

Whereas the primes and true primes are known discretes, so one could think of them as discrete dimensions of timescale based on the pattern represented at timescale position 1 (real-time)

And what if timescale at position 1 is some reflection of the pattern at the primes and true prime timescales... (assuming a dimension simply means the rate at which times flow at that energy level)

Does that make sense?
They offer a hosted version so they’re making money, even if they could earn more if they wanted.
> I feel like a foreigner in another land when I read your comment and others like it. For as long as I can remember using SQL, I can't remember ever finding it more difficult or backwards than anything else I use

Learn linq or query/list comprehensions and then you'll easily see why SQL is backwards.
I'm not convinced that Apple's dominance in the US is a result of anything other than simply producing a better product. I was an Android user for a decade and recently switched when the iPhone 12 came out.

This is going to read like an ad, but within 48 hours I realized that barring Apple really screwing things up, I was never going back to Android. It's simply better at almost everything I want a smart phone to do. Also, the integration with the rest of the ecosystem is superb. There is nothing else like it on the market.

I'll admit that there are things that Android does better. The biggest being the variety of hardware available, such as folding screens, gaming phones with built-in liquid cooling, or phones that work with styli for drawing and taking notes. However, when I consider the whole package, Apple is the one that will be getting my money for the foreseeable future.

Also the whole iMessage blue versus green bubble controversy is overblown. Nobody above the age of 18 cares. They may joke about it, but at the end of the day you just use something like WhatsApp or Discord if you need more features than what green bubbles in iMessage can provide.
You realize when people go in for cleanings they are getting checked for cavities right?
Important piece.
It's not a slippery slope at all. Wikipedia has a very clear and explicit licensing model - content can be used under Creative Commons.
90% of startups fail, so it's not just a matter of waiting for the tech to get better and having more value - most of the current players will simply fail and go out of business.
Wait, does anyone _actually_ reward lines of code today, in this future year of 2024? Like, I remember people joking 20 years ago about how it was the sort of thing companies like IBM used to do in the 80s.
Snark of grandparent aside:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1102.1889
if you want to read more.
I think the poster means "bot" in the sense of them officially being a cyborg.
I suppose in a sense it would. Would be really interesting to explore that with different input values and see what happens. I imagine some changes would result in the whole thing eventually collapsing and others would maybe get self corrected. My guess is a any single change would collapse it either entirely or at least break the simulation of the game of life, while two changes might self correct each other.

I also wonder what happens if we make changes not just to the initial configuration but at different iterations. After iteration 2, change x. It'd be like interweaving functions.

Hmm really getting curious about trying this out myself.
There is no dispute that the observable universe is as you describe, but there is absolutely no consensus as to whether the universe is finite or infinite.
How did you calibrate the meter for the changing temperature and pressure? Most CO2 meter designs are extremely sensitive to pressure changes.
This is a known bug. There are form links elsewhere in these comments.
We manage a fleet of gps-equipped vehicles with SIMs from https://1nce.com/. These SIMS cost 10 euros, are good for 10 years, work with all mobile operators (at least here in SK) and have 500 MB data package that can be recharged, if needed.
Received data are processed on our server.
It's very simple. Obviously your teeth, eyes, ears and mind are not part of your body. Everyone knows this.
I'm getting the same error in Firefox
I would love dental insurance that covers that tail risk, but it doesn't seem to exist. Every dental plan I've had covers at most $1500 or $2000 per year. That's meaningless when something comes up that costs ten times as much.
I enjoyed the majority of it, minus a few obvious things (quals, low pay).
I think Google may become irrelevant by the end of the decade
It's not bad enough that it's worth actually trying to overturn, and the inertia from everything speaking SQL means there's a lot less pushback if you also do that.

SQL actually killed alternatives back in the 80s (and 90s, Postgres used to use a dialect of Ingres's QUEL, the "SQL" bit of PostgreSQL specifically denotes the switch over from QUEL to SQL).
For more than 30 years, plastic Garfield phones washed up on French beaches
Now rip them to a Plex server and have something like your own streaming service.

And by ripping I of course mean "create a private backup".
I have a friend like that and I didn't have the heart to tell him. Coming from your perspective, how did someone telling you that feel?
Folks, this is one where you really have to try it not just read the comments (as I usually just do).

I nearly clicked away but went in and was fricken mesmerized by this.

It’s incredible.
Bunk beds in aircraft cabins: the realistic prospects
Agreed. When Netflix had just about everything, piracy took a big hit.

We need a return to Blockbuster-like selection, but streaming. A streaming service should purchases however many copies they are streaming, and replace them on a schedule as the copy “wears out”, like Blockbuster.
How is that "HDR"?
Edit: in v17.3 we have a minimal dependency on RxJS in ApplicationRef and NgZone, but in practice, it's unlikely that you'd need to use these APIs. In the following versions, we'll remove these dependencies and introduce interop APIs as well.
Nope, I didn't realize that. Thank you for informing me. You are so wise.

Next time maybe try engaging with the actual topic of the conversation? Like how some people are more or less prone to cavities and why that might be biologically or something? Obviously we all know that dentists are checking for cavities and people should go. I had an irrational fear of going to the dentist and opened about up about that here and all you can think to do is berate a point everyone here already knows?
Delegating the complexity to the user was my biggest motivation behind many features of soupault.

Hugo has two different Markdown libraries baked in and you have to choose them, and it also had hardcoded commands to call rST and AsciiDoc processors. If you are migrating from a different SSG, Markdown processors behavior differences can bite you and there's no way out.

With soupault, you just configure a command to convert a file with a certain extension to HTML, and all features (ToC, footnotes, anything provided by plugins...) work the same because they they are implemented by manipulating the parsed HTML element tree.

Want a CSS preprocessor? You can pipe <style> tag contents through any external program if you feel like it. Want to re-compress or manipulate images? You can write a Lua script that gets their paths from <img> and <picture> tags and calls an external program on their files. And so on.
GPT-3 was 175B, so it'd be a bit odd if GPT-4 wasn't at least 5x larger (1T), especially since it's apparently a mixture of experts.
I had the same expectations. Would be a super difficult control problem I think, with stuff like the end of the tails motion range, collisions, lack of ability to predict the motions of actual limbs and so on. Perhaps a 2D model could be a useful approach to this problem, with super low friction swivel chairs too high for the feet to interact with the ground?

Might even be an interesting playground for Neuralink. Robotic tails with a diffuse control from the brain, now that would put the "furries" comments elsewhere in the thread on the next level!
Your nuanced plan of paying for things yourself completely falls apart once you or a loved one contracts stage II or higher cancer, suffers life threatening injuries from a car crash or any of a panopoly of unfortunate situations that would completely exceed your ability to self insure.

I am also not impressed with all of these just asking questions it's so complicated asides; there are dozens of existence proofs that demonstrate a diverse set of approaches that more or less solve this problem at the nation level. But that would require a bit of curiosity about how the rest of the world works, I suppose.

The problem with health care/insurance in the US is not because of unanswered economic theories (or lack of half baked econ 101 approaches), rather it's because of hard ideological commitments to maximize rent extraction based on historical contingencies.

Ever wonder why US corporations generally provide health insurance? World War II something something.
Yeah, honestly over nearly 20 years of working in this industry, I’m not sure that I’ve ever worked anywhere where there’d be significant management pushback on something like this. Now, granted, I’ve mostly worked in small companies, and one rather selective largish companies; maybe things really are much worse in the truly huge companies.
That's actually how you kill the internet. This won't change people's minds. They'll still think all those "offensive" things. They just won't post them publicly anymore because of the social consequences. You'll never know what people are really thinking.

I prefer to know. I want to experience the full spectrum of humanity.
I expect parents can review the teacher and administration bathroom log? In the interest of ensuring the best possible education, like this measure, of course.
For all the people dismissing lines of code as a metric, I want to point out that very early on a line of code was literally a CPU instruction. While there was certainly something to be said for efficiency of your subroutine, lines of code was not a totally unreasonable measurement of things that your program was doing. Obviously we get removed from that the more we abstract and well constructed code is different from lines of code, but I can see where they were coming from.
Is it though? I think most people brought up in the Christian tradition would associate the Sabbath with rules about church attendance and Sunday best, dutiful visits to great aunt Agatha, etc.

Very much not doing nothing, just not doing financially productive work.
Not a bad thought. (Your first one: if we're throwing nukes around I suspect minefields will be the last of our worries.) The complicating factor would be how widely they can be dispersed, and how quickly they can converge. It might take more vacuum bombs than is feasible to clear even a small area.

I had another thought. There's a tried and tested method for knocking down bird-sized moving objects. So, what about shotguns? (Yes, I know they're currently banned for combat use. I think something like this would override that, at least de facto.)
My most productive periods in life was before I moved in with my girlfriend.

We'd live together on weekends, but not the weekdays. So I'd work on problems all week, and then go visit her, bringing no computer or anything like that.

I always came up with a bunch of solutions to hard problems I'd been working on during those weekends away from the keyboard. They'd just appear in my head one by one, throughout the weekend. All of my most inspired ideas came out of that period. It's as though working activley on a problem spawns a bunch of threads that, without serious time away from the problem, continuously get interrupted and never resolve.
musl support would be highly appreciated.
I wonder how do people with PMO actually know they have this condition? If they always see faces "distorted", how do they know other people see them differently? Maybe when they feel the inconsistency when touching their face? Or they do not see distortions when they see only parts of a face and the rest is hidden?
The double standard here is hilarious. The ChatGPT result you got is better largely because you typed in a longer search doc. The illusion of superiority that surrounds ChatGPT is significantly due to the human factors curiosity that people are willing to type in a long-ass search string in the conversational context. They will type "best pants" into Google then complain about the futility of it, then switch tabs and spend ten minutes writing a short essay on pants for ChatGPT, and rave about the results.

If you take the entire quoted search sentence from your third paragraph, then Google also presents a complete solution.
I'm sorry that you're going through this.

I know this is a shot in the dark, I posted this the other day. There's a correlation between poor oral hygiene and dementia/Alzheimer's.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/mind-and-mood/good-oral-healt...

My dad had an infection in his teeth and died with cognitive decline.

The infection isn't always visible, even with a standard X-ray from the dentist.

You'll want to get a "cone CT scan". Not every dentistry will have this equipment. But it's your best bet for finding a festering, chronic dental inflammation.
Ah thank you, I only searched here for this specific URL before posting.
Services like Popcorn Time and the many spin-offs will just continue to improve and show what 'streaming' can be like if not for the futile attempts at trying to contain the technology. When commercial streaming took off there seemed to be a sigh of relief, finally the industry has gotten the message than people are willing to pay for 'content' just as long as the user experience is up to par. Well, the message seems to have entered one ear to escape out the other and the high seas have started to look quite inviting again. Arrrrr, matey!
Sonoma's lost versions bug: what it is and how to safeguard versions
They all have their own streaming platform, that doesn’t always have their own shows. I remember being so frustrated trying to find the actual correct spot to stream Yellowstone. (Been a few years, trying to remember)It was on the paramount channel, but not on paramount plus streaming. It was apparently on the peacock streaming service, but only on their most expensive tier, and my tv didn’t work with peacock tv at the time…
It's actually the individual's responsibility to develop an understanding of how one determines what is trustworthy and what isn't trustworthy, and they they do their best to develop that. For example, if someone lies, they are caught lying, the evidence is presented but a person doesn't care or put any weight on that someone lied - well, they are going to rank that person or an organization they are running or still party to.

I'd argue it's bad actors who don't want such a highly organized system that helps people discern easier, a sort of societal wide "fog of war" to make knowing closer towards the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth - harder; with AI generated images and video coming, I don't know how society will cope with such a thing - where "video evidence" could exist painting a horrific reputation of someone to destroy them perhaps not only economically but perhaps also weaponizing a mob to kill someone.