skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It takes me 2 hours to burn 1000 calories. That is just a single foot long Subway sandwich and a cookie. You can undo hours of hard work in minutes.

Only thing I've ever found that works is fasting. Especially since my base metabolic rate has been about 1500 calories after hitting 35 years old.
"Quick" as in being quick to exploit LLM hype.

"Cash grab" as in Elizabeth Holmes grabbing $700m from Theranos investors.
Well yeah, you can eat 1k+ calories in 30 minutes easy. But to "lose" the same amount of weight you'd need rigorous exercise over multiple hours.
Please file in a calm and orderly fashion toward the exits and remember: IBM killed Centos for profit.

Terraform users can pick up their new alternative here:

https://opentofu.org/

and for those of you with Vault, you can find your new alternative here:

https://openbao.org/
How many ships could the ships ship if the ships could ship probes?
Per the article, they purposefully rolled back suppression of spammy results:

> In the March 2019 core update to search, which happened about a week before the end of the code yellow, was expected to be “one of the largest updates to search in a very long time. Yet when it launched, many found that the update mostly rolled back changes, and traffic was increasing to sites that had previously been suppressed by Google Search’s “Penguin” update from 2012 that specifically targeted spammy search results, as well as those hit by an update from an August 1, 2018, a few months after Gomes became Head of Search.
I was there around this time and remember the first time someone said out loud that they were doing project Z because "that's what will get me promoted". I argued until I was blue in the face that it was a bad idea, but they didn't care: they had their objective and knew how to get it.
Unhappily, everyone was right: he got promoted and the project was an expensive failure.

My two cents is that Google has been consumed by its performance review process; the amount of money made by advancing dwarfed the amount of money made by making advancements, and as always the metric was the outcome.
OpenAI: Training LLMs to Prioritize Privileged Instructions
Reminds me of Ted Hughes' Wodwo, playing with the concept of the known, unknown, and unknowable.

It challenges the reader to try to model and define a Wodwo, but provides basically no information on what a wodwo is, aside from the fact that it is something that itself is struggles to define it's relation and connection to the world.

In my opinion, it highlights how we are all physical perception machines looking for meaning and identity, but meaning and identity can not be physically perceived.

https://allpoetry.com/poem/8495307-Wodwo-by-Ted-Hughes
After 10 levels, it could be the same levels again, but with a time limit that gets shorter for each cycle, or something else to make it harder, like wind that blows the ball off course and changes direction all the time.
It's not perfect, but I use https://simplenote.com/

Someday I will build my own clone of Simplenote/Notational Velocity/Taskpaper/Drafts/Bkmks.com...

1. From mobile browser, share to Simplenote adds a new note with title + url.

2. Not often.

3. Not often.

4. Also Simplenote. Also used Notational Velocity: one note per JIRA ticket.

5. I wish Simplenote's tagging system were better (more like TaskPaper)

- I wish it were simple to add (markdown) images like Github. (CTRL-V automatically uploads and inserts markdown).

- Also Simplenote added some features that get in the way (I just want to type `[`, but Simple note opens this inter-note linking interface)

- Notational Velocity supported rich text, but I just wanted everything in plaintext, especially when pasting information into a note.
"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail." -Abraham Maslow
That background seems pretty cool as it is -- I like the changing colors. Maybe try playing with depth as well, along the lines of the T=450 point of the LifeViewer demo pattern here

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/LifeViewer

-- or go for broke and steal some code from

https://oimo.io/works/life/

for an infinite zoom into (or out of) a fractal Life pattern.
Some people are just so good at this stuff. I've tried to get better at circuits for decades but yeah, they're hard.
Wanix: A WebAssembly Operating and Development Environment
Blurb: WANIX takes WebAssembly to the next level. Edit, compile, and run WebAssembly from a WebAssembly UNIX-like environment entirely in the browser. Written in and using Go as a runtime, WANIX draws from Genera and Plan9 to provide a local-first operating and development environment of the future.

It's written in Go, and has a Go compiler available at runtime.
This is probably what it felt like to be alive during the peak of the "dotcom" craze I read about in historical literature.
I'd wager that if you started riding the same amount, at the same HR, you wouldn't lose that 25.

(I say this as someone who rides a lot, somewhat competitively, and has directly observed that weight loss comes in the kitchen, not from riding. And if you try to cut back on nutrition during the ride, you'll feel so awful you won't be able to ride.)
RIP

This is why we can't have nice things.
In fact, in Taiwan you’re more likely to see Japanese in the wild than bopomofo.
Spritely Goblins v0.13.0: Object persistence and easier IO
Still remember my first independent bus ride
Maybe a nitpick, but virtual inheritance is a term used for something else entirely.

What you're talking about is dynamic dispatch
Ok, I get it. Fair points. I'm not a jquery hater. In a lot of cases, I'd rather write jquery than react for instance.
That reminds me of the time that Folding Ideas' Dan Olsen wrote a book on an arbitrary subject to see how the economics of a passive income audiobook grift worked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biYciU1uiUw&t=2052s
> because my body demanded it

Are you sure it wasn't because you were younger then? Despite not doing any exercise other than walking I could eat any amount of anything until I was over forty when the weight started creeping up.
From what I can tell this is a full ban (except for senior leadership), is that correct?

This is definitely an overall good thing for workers, but I do think a non compete that you are paid your salary during is fair for some industries. The ridiculousness always stemmed from companies being able to control who you worked for while you had ceased to benefit from the company.
Squeeze China and soon you’ll see shiny new toys fill holes in Russia’s capabilities.

This is a failure to understand the situation—China’s restraint so far. And that for the West such actions come with consequences now.

China’s (again, rather limited) involvement will not decrease. There is much the West can do to increase it.
The web is over now. Google first, AI later killed any incentive to create content for the open web
Wow, that's actually really fun. Is this what "proofs" are in math classes?
Your analogy to buggy implementations in ordinary programming languages is deeply flawed though.

The things formally defined and stated are proven. There can be no bugs in a library that lead to formally stated theorems being erroneously proven.

Bugs at the library level can only appear in the form that formally stated theorems might not be what you think they are.

So I object to your characterization that they might be mathematically incorrect. The mathematical content might be different than believed though.
60/40 was (always?) back-of-the-envelope math to show how it could be more performant than 100% stocks or 100% bonds with rebalancing and less risk.

The other main shift has been that retirement at 65 isn't just for 10 years or so - you could be staring down 25+ years, and need the retirement income to last that long.

If you can get there with 60/40, you probably should be investigating annuities as they protect against the final risk: outliving the money.
Good they are actually banning them.

IANAL, but i am in canada and from what i understand, most non-competes are unenforcible here (to be enforcible it must meet a bunch of standards which most tech non competes dont) but yet tech companies still insist on them to scare workers who dont know better into compliance. Its better to just ban them outright.
I'd also point out that given just how bloody the bleeding edge of software development tooling is, only investing in things that have managed to stick around for a decade sounds pretty damn smart.

Hell, React alone has been through 3 or 4 different paradigms in the last 10 years.
Fair enough, but the last US presidential election had this banana nonsense going on with various recounts lasting for weeks. Maybe you can fix all the states in the entire country while you rework the election system, but since ranked choice and approval voting both solve the two party problem, I don't know why you'd risk the down side for ranked choice.
this exists!

https://www.openinterpreter.com/

even their hardware is (apparently) open-sourced
These are not by design. They are by chance.
That’s a diluted version of the logic that if we just printed out 10 million for each citizen, then everyone could quit their job and live rich, but the system somehow wants to keep people miserable and prevents this.
What do you use instead?

I have it behind a CSS test for the existence of the CSS property so it is only enabled if the browser supports it.
Indeed!

And it can be called from go command too: go fmt main.go

https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/go#hdr-Gofmt__reformat__package_sourc...
US shale keeps sheltering America from the next oil price surge
Show HN: A Directory of Every Canadian Startup Investor
Brave search works pretty well.
Save for all those universes where due to leverage your investment goes to zero.

Anyways, go ahead and put 100% of your portfolio in XXXX.P, and enjoy your retirement in 2034!
They were banned in Ontario in 2021, with only a couple exceptions for executive roles or after acquisitions.

https://www.ontario.ca/document/your-guide-employment-standa...
At the risk of being reductive…has this not been a known fact for a really, really long time?

No amount of gym time can counteract a terrible diet. But you can easily lose weight by simply eating fewer calories than your body burns day to day.
I remember how my mom and I used to feed the pigeons together in the park
he transitioned to IC way before he left
Yes. All of these are things that should be tallied if we are only looking for ghg contributions.
Prior to getting into biking, I was generally pretty sedentary and was maybe +15 over my eventual racing weight.

But I must admit that you could be right. Maybe it was just age or something. I guess I'll find out when I make my glorious return.
IIRC, they combined have about 51% voting shares
> You seem to be presenting nepotism as if it's a feature when it's obviously a bug.

I guess that's where we disagree: in my view, it's definitely a feature. When I have kids, I will 100% be willing to give them opportunities over other (more qualified) people. It's not even really a question in my mind. I am much more likely to invest in a friend's company ("friends and family" rounds are a thing, you know); I am much more likely to get into business with close associates, and so on.
I'm really glad the article came out though, it fills in some gaps that I was fairly confident about but didn't have anything other than my sense of the players and their actions to back up what I thought was going on.

I and a number of other people left in 2010. I went on to work at Blekko which was trying to 'fix' search using a mix of curation and ranking.

When I left, this problem of CPC's (the amount Google got per ad click in search) was going down (I believe mostly because of click fraud and advertisers losing faith in Google's metrics). While they were reporting it in their financial results, I had made a little spreadsheet[1] from their quarterly reports and you can see things tanking.

I've written here and elsewhere about it, and watched from the outside post 2010 and when people were saying "Google is going to steam roll everyone" I was saying, "I don't think so, I think unless they change they are dead already." There are lots of systemic reasons inside Google why it was hard for them to change and many of their processes reinforced the bad side of things rather than the good side. The question for me has always been "Will they pull their head out in time to recover?" recognizing that to do that they would have to be a lot more honest internally about their actions than they were when I was there. I was also way more pessimistic, figuring that they would be having company wide layoffs by 2015 to 2017 but they pushed that out by 5 years.

I remember pointing out to an engineering director in 2008 that Google was living in the dead husk of SGI[2] which caused them to laugh. They re-assured me that Google was here to stay. I pointed out that Wei Ting told me the same thing about SGI when they were building the campus. (SGI tried to recruit me from Sun which had a campus just down the road from where Google is currently.)

[1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18_y-Zyhx-5a1_kcW-x7p...

[2] Silicon Graphics -- https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/peninsula-high-tech...
While I couldn't find any characters with more than three or four readings in this list, the Taiwan list (https://language.moe.gov.tw/files/people_files/%e5%88%9d%e7%...) has one character with five readings (著) and one with six (和). Still a long way from 15, though.
That is a very big assumption -that brains have conscious and subconscious levels that are good and bad at different things- that needs to be itself proved, before it can be used to support any other line of inquiry.

I'm not well versed in the relevant literature at all but my understanding is that research in the area points to the completely opposite direction: that humans e.g. playing baseball do not find solutions to kinematic equations, but instead use simple heuristics that exploit our senses and body configuration, like placing their hands in front of their eyes so that they line up with the ball etc.

This makes a lot more sense, not only for humans playing tennis, but for animals surviving in the wild, finding sustenance and shelter, and mates, while avoiding becoming a meal. Consider the Portia spider [1], a spider-hunting spider, itself prey to other hunting spiders, with a brain consisting of a few tens of thousands of neurons and still perfectly capable not only of navigating complex environments in all three space dimensions but also making complex plans involving detours.

Just think of how quickly a spider must be able to think that hunts, and is hunted by other spiders -some of the most deadly predators in the animal kingdom. There is no chance of a snowball in hell that such an animal has the time to solve kinematic equations with a few KBs of neurons. Absolutely no chance at all.

For that and many other stuff like that it looks very unlikely to me that human brains, or any brains, are like you say. In any case, that sounds positively Freudian and I don't mean that as an insult, but I so could.

______________

[1] My favourite. No, I don't mean meal. I just love this paper; it's almost the best paper in autonomous robotics and planning that I've ever read:

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10....
Large fast FPGAs are great but very expensive, small size slow FPGAs are not practical for most solutions, where ARM controllers are used, significantly cheaper.
> The need for physical libraries has passed just as the need for “public” radio and TV has passed. The internet has made those concepts as archaic as carrying coins.

Your bizarre take is hopefully one of youthful ignorance, but you do know the internet costs money right? Do you also know libraries are a source of internet for people that can't afford it?
I, too, could not read a chapter of Harry Potter and then tell you how many times a word was used. This isn't what my brain (and by extension LLMs) is good at. However, if you told me ahead of time that was my goal for reading a chapter, I'd approach reading differently. I might have a scratch pad for tallying. Or I might just do a word find on a document. I'd design a framework to solve the problem.

"The Harry Potter Problem" has the feel of a strawman. LLMs are not universal problem solvers. You still have to break down tasks or give it a framework for working things through. If you ask an LLM to produce a code snippet for word counting, it will do great. Maybe that isn't as sexy, but what are you really trying to achieve?
Once again 60/40 is dead, just like it was declared in 2017, 2016, 2015, … receipts:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2022/06/is-the-60-40-really...

More recently in 2023:

* https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2023/09/the-60-40-portfolio...

> It’s one of my smallest accounts, but the goal is for the portfolio to be accessible […]

has eleven "slices" with dozens and dozens individual holdings

If that's "accessible" I would hate to see inaccessible. How the hell do you even rebalancing such a creature (e.g., individual holding having a target 4% allocation)?

For anyone who is a fan of the 60/40, there's merch (in the style of "AC/DC" band) at (no affiliation):

* https://www.idontshop.com
This is huge, but I'm very concerned that it will get struck down.
If it can do what it claims to do, which is automate on top of existing apps by your voice, whats the difference? Seems innovative regardless of the tech underneath.
I don't think that is retroactive, people bought it because it was different and looks cool and is quirky. I think it is a very fun device and has some great games for it. It isn't for everyone but it is a cool device for people that appreciate what Panic is doing with it.
> It turns out the mirror test is not a good measure.

How so?

Of course if you're exercising regularly and strenuously, there are some athletic metrics: how long you can run until exhaustion, how much weight you can lift, etc.
FTC Bans Noncompete Clauses
I expect apple to have local LLMs in hardware in five years or less.
basically impossible if you stay 3x and below
opentofu now's your time to shine (also pick a better name)
We've tried a lot of different methods over time. Currently the LifeWiki --

https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Main_Page

-- is the most likely central location; any sufficiently big news will probably find its way into the CurrentNews pane, sooner rather than later.

For a couple of years I've been trying to keep up with an informal summary of new developments, in an email-newsletter form mostly intended for "old-guard" Lifenthusiasts:

https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5650

As I mostly expected, it ends up being a bit too much work for one person to do properly. But the back issues there do go into a bit more detail than there is room for in LifeWiki CurrentNews back issues.
> if every individual investor bought the S&P with leverage

You could also go broke! (or at least significantly underperform historical averages.) Sure, you can make higher returns by taking more risk. That's not most people's tolerance in a retirement portfolio.

There are plenty of other ways to diversify besides a 60-40 portfolio that are a lot lower risk.
Good share, thank you! Yeah I think Contextual AI has also been doing some interesting work in this area. Glossary is definitely interesting and an area we're looking into. Curious to see what work is being done with building knowledge graphs, that's another area where we've seen positive results.
The fitness advice I've heard is that higher intensity cardio can increase your appetite, causing you to compensate for the calories burned. Low intensity cardio like walking doesn't have the same effect.
Hat off, You made it! After reading and skimming Show HN: Device-Bound Session Tokens in JavaScript ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40052684 ) I had "same" idea to explore PoC, but never done. Thanks!
Sure. But static PGO was introduced in .Net Framework 4.7.0. And we're talking about apps in production, so there's no excuse NOT to use static PGO on the .net framework 4.7.0 version.

And you have misrepresented the contents of the blogs. The projects discussed in the blogs are typically claiming ~30% improvements (perhaps because they weren't using static PGO in their 4.7.0 incarnation), with two dramatic outliers that seem to be related to migrating from IIS to Kestrel.
Jewish Problems: Problems Designed to Prevent Jews Getting a Passing Grade
I suppose the risk of a 0-day in the compression format, given we’re in the post-xz-era. Publishing the source code in clear text would alleviate such risk for the consumer
http://www.nongnu.org/enigma/
Nah I am just totally apathetic to the whole thing. I don't live there, it's not my war, it doesn't belong to me in any kind of context.

Same is true for 99% of the corps out there. They should focus on giving their employees a better living instead of political circus.
A slight over simplification, for example s&p was negative 1% per year from Jan 2000 to Dec 2009. Plus the cost of your leverage.

But the general point that US equity returns have been good and leverage would have increased them stands.

For some reason, Americans are “told” to get 4x leveraged to the real estate market but to pay for their equities with 100% cash.
$ vi ’grep -l pattern files'

lets you edit with vi, all the files matching that grep pattern.

For example, this is useful for editing all files of a project, which contain a particular variable name, in order to change that name to something else everywhere it is used.

The single quotes in the command should actually be backward single quotes, which I don't have on my mobile keyboard right now.
I remember Mozilla was working on 3D web browsers. Could be new way to do things in Vision Pro? Is there any progress on that front?
FTC announces rule banning noncompetes
It's less about literature, and more about experience.

Over the years just about every natural key I've seen ends up being either not-universal (-everyone- has a phone number right? Even that new-born baby?) Or not unique (phone numbers can be shared) or mutable (like people's names changing).

It's just so much easier to add a column and use a surrogate key. I prefer uuids because they are unique And immutable - properties I really appreciate in primary keys.
/s?

Underrated comment.
It will take 4 months to be effective, and there will be lots of lawsuits and obstacles. We'll see what happens.

On a personal note I had the most insane experience moving from California to Colorado and being offered a most extreme non-compete clause by a local engineering company that had just hired a new CEO ... from California; I had to give them information about every project I had worked on in the past, would have to report whatever I did outside of work hours, and give them a blank card to patent either if they felt like it. The director who wanted to hire me said they never had that kind of non-compete, the new CEO --fresh from California-- had introduced it. I declined.
I just recently switched to Kagi. It's worth paying a few bucks to get decent results.
Porting a cross-platform GUI application to Rust