skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that there is novelty in doing CSS Art but due to the fact that it requires a lot of deep dive into nitty gritty-ness of css, devs usually don't prefer it whereas three.js is being pushed from niche 3D artist coder community to mainstream and that might just be a good thing.

Saying all that, three.js is not a perfect solution to everything and should be considered with it's pros and cons without creating unnecessary bloated websites.
I've learned recently that sometimes dying is just getting sick, and failing to get better.
I'm not an expert on the literature, but I do know Bmr isn't a fixed number. It is a function of activity, muscle mass, and other factors.

It seems that a largely sedentary lifestyle free from exertion matches both.

It would be insightful to see the sensitivity analysis for BMR with respect to strength, activity, muscle mass, ect.

I know there is a body of data about environmental hormones and BMR, ect, but my understanding is that the impact is barely measurable with large sample sizes. I expect that it can't hold a candle to activity. In my personal experience, my BMR can easily modulate by 1000 calories based on body composition and behavior. That is a huge impact.
In Amsterdam they are commuting, and in a fantastic infrastructure where cars get red lights when bicycles approach on an intersecting cycleway. That's probably the main reason for safety and why they ride so much.
What? There's no reason but product level features to choose an RTOS. An RTOS won't be more ergonomic, won't make life easier in general, won't give you any new primitives that are development related...

You choose it because the product demands good performance, low latency, etc. And the Rabbit fits that bill pretty cleanly.

Closer to bare metal doesn't mean it needed to be running a custom GPU driver, but it's also not running a Flutter/Compose app on a 6 year old GPU core...
Yes, it's attractive to rich Chinese taking a break from Xi's regime. Others pick Canada or NZ instead.
I'm a pretty proficient cyclist (lifetime mileage in the tens of thousands) but there have still been a handful of incidents where I've been very grateful to have had a helmet.

It might be the case that helmets are a net negative for casual riders. But whenever I've done a spontaneous unplanned dismount at 20mph I didn't find that knowing how to fall helped me much.
I'm guessing they mean overlaying the screen recording on top of a 3D render of a phone or laptop to show them being used "on device" instead of just as a flat screen recording.
so do we trust it?
Great post on building extremely complex hardware from scratch.

At the same time I hate to be that business guy, but both this blog post and the abl site are missing a good answer to my first question: Why? Given that SpaceX exists and is quickly approaching feasibility of Starship on top of Falcon, what is the primary goal of this rocket system? How will it compete? Who will its customers be? Is it getting its metric ton payload to orbit faster/cheaper/easier? Is this "from scratch" engine design superior to existing designs in some way? What is its current ISP? Is Jet-A + LOX a better fuel choice given expected mission parameters?

I'd love to see a blog post that tackles these kinds of questions.
Regardless of what it is, if I don’t get my morning run in, I am a very unpleasant person to be around! Running has changed my life in all ways- I am much more calm, tolerant, positive, energetic. If the whole country did a mandated morning run, assuming you’re able, I really think this world would be a much better place!!

Start slow, 5 minutes, breathe, go slow, and enjoy the beautiful weather here this time of year.
I've been seeing strange downtrends on my VO2Max numbers with Apple Watch: they have dropped from 40's to 20's over a matter of a few days and have been steadily trending down. I haven't changed my exercise patterns at all for years now. There are others on the Apple forum facing similar abrupt drops, anyone else here seeing it? I'm hoping it's the watch messing up and not my health!
The initial v0.1.0 release will only have linear scans, but I want to support ANN indexes like IVF/HNSW in the future! Wanted to focus on fullscans first to make things easier.

In my experiments you can get pretty far with linear scans using sqlite-vec. Depends on the number of dimensions of course, but I'd expect it can handle searching 100's of thousands of vectors to maybe a million with sub-second searches, especially if you tweak some settings (page_size, mmap_size, etc.). And if you quantize your vectors (int8 reduces size 4x, binary 32x) you can get even faster, at the expense of quality. Or use Matryoshka embeddings[0] to shave down dimensions even more.

Building sql.js-httpvfs would be cool! Though I'm using the "official" SQLite WASM builds which came out after sql.js, so I don't think it'll be compatible out of the box. Would be very curious to see how much effort it would be to make a new HTTP VFS for SQLite's new WASM builds

[0] https://huggingface.co/blog/matryoshka
Good question!

ChatGPT certainly makes it easier to implement a prototype that works quite well for documents meeting certain conditions. For example, it does pretty well with restaurant menus out of the box because the entities extracted tend to have fairly unique text.

However, with documents where you have a lot of repetition or complex tabular structures even the latest ChatGPT isn't enough. It struggles capturing the structure of the table in the output, and struggles when the same text appears in different instances in the document.

This is where a hybrid system that merges the zero-shot strenghts of ChatGPT, but that also leverages strong priors and conditioning from strong heuristics, can yield a much better end product.

Currently the implementation is more of the LLM heavy side, but our plan is to iterate to include more of these heuristics to get a more robust tool overall across different document types.
They have RSUs.
What sort of workouts do you do? I've been trying to do the same thing, but I'm finding it difficult to get VO2max to go up consistently.
Pretty neat.
I think I found a small UI glitch: If I search and then click the browser back button when I'm on the results page, the search button on the home page shows the spinning icon.
I was a fan of LDA but would not agree that it is 'probably useful' today. It's an unsupervised clustering algorithm based on Gibbs sampling. Like k-means, it's gonna return a few buckets that will have to be reviewed by a human for data exploration. In this case instead of neatly labeled buckets, these are unlabeled distributions of distributions (lists of single word tokens). If you do some kind of multiword tokenization preprocessing, it'll return a few lists of words and multiword tokens for each document. How is this useful to an end user? Even internally, they're not useful embeddings/vectorizations. Would love to hear some contrary opinions
> brand is built on investor money (not profits) and then later profits are achieved by cashing out the brand value.

Well for one, every new business is initially built on investor money, not profits, and "cashing out" is in the eye of the beholder, so I'm not sure how you're going to get everyone to agree on where the line is.

Furthermore, I think cory (and many of the folks here who have fallen in love with the term) misunderstands why platforms decay. Facebook doesn't suck because it is trying to please business customers at the expense of its users. Facebook sucks because it is attempting to please 2B users all at once. Every new little feature or notification or ranking change is loved by millions of people and hated by millions more (and merely tolerated by the vast majority). If the former is greater than the latter, it gets shipped to production. Rinse and repeat for 10 years across a myriad of teams, and you get a muddled, confusing mess that has a wider audience but much worse experience for most. That is the root cause of the decay.
Sudo is fine for single user workstations, but that's an excellent point about logging into the wrong machine.

Since most machines are single user, what's about a variant of passwordless sudo, where you type the name of the machine you're on instead of a password?

When is multi user actually used these days? I don't do a lot of cloud work, so I only ever see it in the form of different systems users, and some of that could be replaced with stronger per binary permissions like AppArmor.

I'd imagine on database servers or something with different levels of access, but I'm guessing most of those accounts wouldn't have sudo.
> I don't think releasing a messaging app that flops is bad?

For an exec, it's a "learning experience." Most startups fail. Take the VC cash, fail, and "learn" on their dime.

For any employee, it's s short stint to list on a resume that will make them less attractive to recruiters for the rest of their careers. "Why were you only at FooBarCorp for Baz months?" (Oh, wonderful - how do I explain without throwing anyone under the bus?)
There isn’t any. The poster above you is incorrect.
It's the same with lifting and adding muscle mass.

If you've never lifted before and you hit the gym consistently and have the proper diet, you will get some serious "newb gains." The first year can be amazing.

But if you've lifted seriously for a decade, it's totally different. Muscle mass is very hard to add now.

Cardio gains from a coach potato introducing a serious routine will be incredible. I went from not being able to run more than 30 seconds to running a 5k in 4-5 months, and that's without pushing myself extremely hard.
Got a source for him being a Fascist?
You must know something about the domain. One time I spent several weeks falling to implement a minimal SAML relying party. Not even an idp. I found the spec to be impenetrable without a baseline understanding of the jargon. All the definitions seemed to be circular like when I end up on a Wikipedia article for some fancy math concept.
Some banks in Australia (probably globally) use credit-card fraud prevention services. So say I buy something from overseas, for a large-ish value, that service will call me to verify it was me. And request the same identification etc. But it's not even the bank that is calling.
If you have to measure time spent and do cost/benefit analysis, you're most likely not going to stick with it for the entirety of life.
It happens when they have a pay package that is dependent on moving the share price. So it’s not about stock market math but the explicit agreement between the company and the executive.
Ontario family doctor says new AI notetaking saved her job
After you work too long you can't concentrate and are more prone to errors.
Most of life is acting against one conditioned impulse in favor of a better one.

Every solution to every problem involves overcoming ones own detrimental impulses in favor of positive ones.
> Me and my bicyclist friends have never injured a head while falling down from bike

Back when I did bike, I'd fall off and hit my (helmeted) head once a year or so.

I was always thankful for having a helmet.

Granted it was typically doing something stupid (jumping a curb or such), but still, I was thankful for having a helmet!
Uh, isn’t there a huge venture backed startup that rhymes with spleen that contradicts this? Not saying you’re wrong but.. one of you is.
The other problem with advice is that TechStars operates like a franchise.

So you don't know which of the many accelerators are problematic or not or what their incentives are.
Basically each graphic is a single `div` element and everything else comes from CSS. Early days of codepen were also used to be filled with these kind of fun little CSS Art.
A better alternative law would be to provide free helmets. People can choose not to use them out of preference but at least they'll have one to make that choice with.
I'm not sure what math you're using. 12.9 MET for running * 3 hours * 60 minutes/hour is 2322 MET-minutes, so just 3 hours of running is sufficient to exceed the 2200 threshold. 36 hours of running would be 27864 MET-minutes, of course it is too much. But 3 hours of running in a week is quite easy to exceed, e.g. if you run half an hour every morning.

There are some studies which suggest that the artery buildup from frequent running is not bad, but these don't take cancer or other factors into account - in contrast all-cause mortality is one of the most comprehensive statistics available. The drawback is that although it gives you a number, that number might be affected by unknown variables.
I'm trying to normalize this to my circle and strangers in India, where getting let go is a huge shame. I joined a company and my boss wanted me to be a human copilot, given a task and left for a few hours before getting interrupted. I copy pasted 500 line scripts in Lambda web editor, released certain versions for dev/prod, complained about sql injection and variables named data which overwrite each other depending on state and more crap.
why is "something went wrong"[0] considered a useful notification?

[0]https://www.craft.do/#:~:text=(Actually)%20useful%20notifica...
> In the example you cited, that's 36 hours (!) of runnning in a week

Isn’t OP saying explicitly that 2200 MET minutes per week is simply 3 hours of running per week at 8mph? Where does your 36 hours come from?
i usually just disable ssh agent forwarding globally by default, and only enable it selectively via my ~/.ssh/config
You are a hero. We need a personally secretary app that would identify spam calls and keep them waiting forever, plying To Elise music in the background.
MET-minutes seem to be "Metabolic equivalent of task" minutes [1]. In the paper, they give running an MET of 8 (paragraph 3 of Data Analysis section), so 2200 MET-minutes of running would be 2200/8 = 275 minutes, if I understand correctly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic_equivalent_of_task
I wonder what the point of that sentence is - to get picked up by HN? Kinda like how any product or service even tangentially related to data suddenly has 'by the way also AI and stuff' added somewhere on their landing page.
You don't see 'Developed using intellisense' used in READMEs.
Awesome work! It would be great if you can share a post of how you developed that extension. I am not familiar with SQLite extensions, so I am not sure how to dig into the github repo.
> That influence almost always comes in the form of board seats

Most pre-seed and seed investors don't take board seats.

And at Series A and above they are putting in enough money where it seems fair enough.
Bacteria on the ISS has mutated into something never seen on Earth
What do you think about PLC programming? If someone had time to actually go to school, would that be a bit less saturated.

I always see PLC jobs and think wow, those guys make 3x what I did at my peak and can't be replaced by AI as easily, and are sometimes still needed in small towns where nobody needs a regular embedded developer....

Meanwhile, whenever I do a personal FOSS project or a volunteer thing, I find myself using concepts from PLC and SCADA.
I was just going to comment to ask if Hobby spines were the minimal solution to any mathematical loss. Natural cubic splines are the solution to minimum L2 penalty on "roughness" (integrated squared second derivative).
Why is two hours ridiculous?

I find most people who devote themselves like this enjoy the process. If they enjoy it, it objectively improves their body, and they have the time - why not?
Why do parasites always emerge in every ecosystem nature has produced? Cause there is always some weakness to exploit.

Focus goes to the scariest parasites that cause the most harm. You can collect them all and ship them off to Australia, but the list of exploitable weaknesses in the population doesn't reduce. So you want karma points? Show us how to reduce that list.
My point is that for most adults in the world right now (western, industrialized, developing, modern, whatever) there is an obesity epidemic and any amount of focused self-care through exercise and diet will improve health outcomes. Eat less, exercise more. If an arbitrary metric on fitness tracker helps you reach that goal, then just do it.
> Jews, Blacks, LGBT, and other minorities should naturally align together to protect values of freedom.

Should do, yeah; but I've known anti-Black Jews, antisemitic Blacks, racist-af queers; etc. Clarence Goddamn Thomas.

> And come on now, you're not blaming the Jews for anti-LGBTQ+ sentiments.

History is a real motherfucker, isn't it? Yes, modern Israel is a lot more tolerant of us today, but do not pretend that the Israeli right wing -- the party in power today -- has any love for me. As of 2023[1], 43% of Israelis were opposed to gay marriage. If Israel was in Europe, the anti-gay sentiment is on par with Nazi-ass Hungary.

And there's the rub; modern Israel is a result of Europeans not wanting Jews to live in Europe, and simultaneously seeing Muslims as vermin who should be eradicated -- I won't say that this hot conflict was "all part of the plan" but it sure looks inevitable to me. Queers and Romani were not so convenient; we weren't given a place to go.

> The crazy thing is that I as a Jewish person need to contemplate voting for right wing politicians because I feel the left wing is assaulting my people.

Well, we agree here, that is bat shit crazy. Why did Netanyahu fund Hamas? Seriously, why did Netanyahu fund Hamas? And don't get me wrong, the US is the real big bad guy here -- we meddled in the affairs of the middle east, we funded terrorism, we fought proxy wars with Russia; we collectively brought power to militant Islam. Israel's been a convenient patsy all along. And today, antisemitism is on the rise, in Palestine and the US. Just as Islamophobia is on the rise in Israel and the US.

Are there some antisemitic Palestinians hanging around in anti-Israel protests? Yes. Are there islamophobic Israelis hanging around in anti-Palestinian protests? Yes. Is this extremely natural consequence of an entirely predictable hot war going to make you vote for the party of white nationalism? That is crazy. Read your Niemöller; Republicans are not your friends, they want Jews to continue dying at the front in their war against Islam. And once that's over, you're just a Jew.

Do not mistake radical Islamists for leftists. They're right-wing hard-liners through and through. Just like the Jewish Supremecists in Israel who the actual leftists are gathering to protest. I've been to the encampment at the university in my town, with my Jewish girlfriend, and we saw none of what you're talking about. But what we did see was a lot of protesting against the Israeli government. I do read the news, there are definitely some incidents of Palestinian-aligned antisemitism; it's real, I won't deny it. But in the news, I see a whole lot more criticism of the right-wing government of Israel being portrayed as leftist antisemitism, than actual antisemitism from actual leftists. Be very careful where you get your information.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/11/27/how-peopl...
That is a bit optimistic. China doesn’t really list what is allowed, it’s whatever they want to allow or forbid after the fact.
Thoughts on Zig
> unsigned char

WARNING unpaired | unescaped *'s !! :-)

grrr, markup
“Just“ means the options and consequences are clear. The actions are the hard part.

People are faced with the choice between eating more or living longer, and nearly everyone knows it.
From which ISP?
> In the same way the Apple Watch doesn’t do anything better than an iPhone

I don't own an Apple Watch, but even my basic little Fitbit Charge has quite a few things it does way better than my phone (some of which my phone can't do at all, due to not actually having the required sensors).

It's a little weird to me how common a sentiment this has been in all this. Do y'all not actually use the wearables that already exist? They all have something clear and useful that they do excellently compared to the weird little Android box that the r1 currently is - even little sleep rings like the Oura ring.

And that's beside the fact that the r1 isn't even a wearable.
Quoting from Wikipedia, "серафими многоꙮчитїй" (serafimi mnogoočitii, "many-eyed seraphim")

Biblically accurate cyrillic O character.
A pastie is a particular kind of savory pie. The filling usually includes meat. There is a top crust (or just a single crust folded over). It is sized for a single person and readily handheld.

Calzones are sort of the same thing, just with a different national origin.

Though TIL there's a completely unrelated Irish pastie as well.
It might just be me, but I find both of those to be massively less readable. More terse is not the same as more readable (in fact, I find the reverse).

I'm a huge fan of keeping things simple; my experience has shown me that complex things have lots of obscure failure points, while simple things are generally more robust.
That's amazing. What a time to be alive.
> Aimmy was designed for Gamers who are at a severe disadvantage over normal gamers.

> This includes but is not limited to:

> - Gamers who are mentally challenged

Hope it was worth your dignity.

Seriously though, the whole point of ranked matchmaking is to give you a fair game with people who are similar in skill. If you compete without cheating, you will get matched up with other casual players instead of "sweatlords".
DEXA cost <$200 most places (I think closer to $100)
> Why does Microsoft build the very VisualStudio installer with Electron then?

> To me it seems companies ship electron because it's easy to hire a JavaScript developer.

When I worked at Microsoft, one team I was on, very ironically, had a really hard time finding Windows developers.

We actually resorted to drawing straws to see who on the team would have to learn native Windows development!

IMHO a large part of the problem is that native Windows development is a career dead end, unless you work at Microsoft, there are relatively few well paying jobs for what is now a niche skillset.
Apple Q2 2024 earnings slightly beats expectations with $90.75B revenue
A year of publishing the MDN Blog
> Is he just repeating what he's seen humans do

This is most probably the main reason. However there is some debate on whether these learned behaviours can be passed across generations.

Here is David Attenborough showing Orangutans washing clothes/using soap/tools/etc. mimicking what they have seen Humans in their environment do - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFACrIx5SZ0
I definitely plan to! I have a much larger list of SQLite extensions I've built here: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-ecosystem

Here's a few other references you may enjoy if you wanna learn more about SQLite extensions:

- The single source file for sqlite-vec: https://github.com/asg017/sqlite-vec/blob/main/sqlite-vec.c

- sqlean, a project from Anton Zhiyanov which is good base of great SQLite extensions: https://github.com/nalgeon/sqlean

- The official SQLite docs: https://www.sqlite.org/loadext.html

- The "hello world" SQLite extension example: https://www.sqlite.org/src/file/ext/misc/rot13.c
The comment mentioned "much of the European world" :)