skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems like a bad science yes, or perhaps editorialized by media. And completely unexpected that all information proliferation follow power laws. If they were comparing different categories of information (political, rage bait, technical discussions, neutral boring news) etc they could say something interesting. But this is such a narrow focus on a mostly value judgment based class of misinformation. It would be much more interesting to know how certain types of information differ from each other in terms of topological properties.
> And you probably ignored any that the ratio probably improved between "good" and "bad" lipids?

"For predicting your risk of heart disease, many healthcare professionals now believe that determining your non-HDL cholesterol level may be more useful than calculating your cholesterol ratio"[1]. Additionally, "extremely high HDL-C levels are associated with an increased risk of age-related macular degeneration (also genetically), infectious disease, and all-cause mortality."[2]

[1]https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-ch...

[2]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10119031/

> Lipid research is sponsored by pharma a lot. They need to push their statins.

A comment in a keto/low carb discussion believing in a statin conspiracy? shocked.

> Anecdotal datum of one

Entirely irrelevant
I’ve worked with some blog post writers in the past. They tended to be people who were singularly uninterested in career advancement. At least one of them left industry for academia.

Different people have different motivations, and some of them get a ton of satisfaction out of sharing knowledge with the world. It may not lead to maximum career earnings, but they’re operating under a different utility function.
Show HN: Sumochess, chess variant where you push pieces out
I made a prototype for a chess variant where you have to push pieces off the board to take them (the king can still capture).

What I like about it is that it seems more intense than normal chess, as the game doesn't get simplified much as it goes on, because most of the pieces stay on the board since they are hard to get rid of. And you can make some cunning moves with a well-placed push.
I had lots of games where I was in desperate situations and was able to reverse the course, and vice versa, which I believe makes it quite entertaining until the end, and there is not such a big focus on taking a simple pawn for example.

What do you think of it?

I played it a lot but I still don't know if there is some strategy or opening that would make the game unplayable for the opponent. If that were the case, I would need to tweak the rules, I guess.
Napster kept a central repository if who had what files, not the files themselves.

Kazaa and ed2k were distributed. I think ed2k is still viable.
There has always been a lot of marketing an airing to make music catchy. The entire “Motown machine” wasn’t about the artists, it was about the writers, producers, choreographers etc and making sure music was “acceptable” to a wider audience.
Give me a break.

The purpose of broadband is so that nothing has any latency when you're not on dial-up.

Except user-initiated mega downloads, and they occur at the maximum connection rate the hardware can handle. At bandwidth costs anybody can afford. Just like with dial-up, why settle for less instantaneous performance than the hardware can handle? Just to make it so lesser geeks can participate?

The hallmark of insufficient web "engineering" has always been the completeness of the failure to pre-deploy on dial-up.
So, evidently you have not used a Steam Deck or appear to be in abject denial of what it is.

> the Steam Deck is so different and specifically made for gaming that it’s really hard to count it amongst the Linux fold.

That's funny, it has a KDE desktop and a graphical installer for Linux packages. It looks no different from my Linux desktop at home.

> We don’t count the Switch owners as computer users of BSD after all.

You very well could: https://switchroot.org/

The default Switch OS is more importantly based on Android though.

> a portable console connected to the largest gaming store in the world is not a winning move.

You're damn right. That's why Valve specifically designed the Steam Deck so it's not connected to them for essential services. You can install Windows on it, put another Linux distro over the base install, or dual boot with whatever ungodly combination you prefer. I don't know who led you onto this, but using Valve-provided software is entirely optional for Steam Deck owners.

> With how fickle Valve is, they’ll go all in on AI any day now.

Evidently you don't use Steam very much, either. Steam, the app, hasn't received a serious "new feature" since they spruced up the in-game chat app during the pandemic. I am about as worried of Valve going all-in on AI as I am worried of Joe Biden adopting serious socialist reform into his policy. It's not going to happen, Jack.
> Most "facts" aren't provable in the mathematical sense.

Mathematics is not applicable to reality by itself. Math can be a tool among others to deal with truths and lies, but it is useless by itself.

> Fake news and false rumors are as old as humanity. They are not a problem that needs to be solved

Why do you think so?

Firstly there is a non sequitur: from "X is old and was not a problem" doesn't follow that "X is not a problem now". Burning coal was not a problem, but it is a big problem now.

Secondly, why do you think that they are not a problem to solve? There are agents that weaponize rumors and fake news. I see no obvious ways to reason, that they will fail inevitably, that we need just wait and watch how they will fail. But if you see a way to prove it (in any meaning of a proof, not necessarily in mathematical one), I'd like to hear it.

> we certainly don't need governments or media executives acting as arbiters of truth.

Are you proposing a radical change on how a democracy works? Any democracy has courts that act as arbiters of truths. Democracy cannot exist without these arbiters. Democracy has parliaments, congresses and suchlike to decide on what is a best way to tackle the current problems. These authorities are also acting as arbiters of truth in some sense.

I believe you want to say, that we cannot trust governments to run uncontrolled, and yes, we cannot. But the problem of limiting powers of governments is an old problem, it has solutions in some specific cases. So now we need to figure out how to control fake news without giving governments too many powers. It will not be easy, but we cannot say it is impossible before we tried.
Valve.computer
So much for the health benefits of building model kits and collecting stamps and coins.
Thanks for the suggestions, I will add about page, and also provide JSON API.
Making specific claims without evidence is Fake News because you’re saying you have evidence that X is true when you don’t.

“COVID-19 COULD have leaked from a lab” is perfectly fine. Saying “COVID-19 leaked from a lab” requires evidence or it’s not news even though you claim it is thus the label “Fake” news.
You're right, but nobody here cares about the details of data subprocessors and how a lot of nodes in the chain get impacted. It doesn't play well on the internet where short & pithy moral outrage is the level of discourse.

It makes me sad that the initial reaction is gleeful & mean-spirited towards the targets, when if you've ever been involved in something like this you'd hope it would be empathy for what a lot of Snowflake and TM employees are working on this weekend, and anger towards the hackers. It's like people forget that because it's data and the targets are big companies these criminals aren't stealing from real people and making the world a worse place.
Without more context or additional assumptions there's no good answer to that.

If you just care about today, then clearly B is better because it provides the correct result today.

Also, just because A is written in a type-safe language and has extensive unit tests doesn't in itself mean it's any less complex and undecipherable than B.

I can think of several takes, with different assumptions, leading to very different perspectives.

One take could be this:

Lets assume A has been written by a competent team, using good practices. Lets also assume the problem of incorrect answers in A has been known for some time and has been investigated a fair bit. That is, it's not just a trivial bug that's not been caught yet.

Since A doesn't work one could reasonably assume B is complex and difficult to understand, otherwise A's team should be able to find their error based on studying the SQL in B. Otherwise it indicates A's team is not competent, which goes against our previous assumption.

Given that, one could reasonably assume changing B will be very difficult.

Thus if one cares about maintaining and evolving the pipeline due to changing demands over many years, then it's likely A is better, as the bug in A producing the wrong answer should be fixable by a competent team.

Again, just one take of many possible...

An alternate, more trivial take could be that team A were given an incorrect specification. So while they implemented the specification correctly, B actually implements something slightly differently.

We see this one with customers all the time. Where they think the old system does X but it does in fact do something slightly different, so when we implement the new system as requested, the customer files a bug report because it doesn't do what the old system actually did.
I think you're overestimating what the open source community has done.

The core value of GenAI (the models) that is currently open sourced has ONLY been contributed by large companies.

What the open source *community* has contributed is frontends and implementations of research papers. It is hugely important of course, and not to be ignored, but GenAI simply doesn't exist at all without large companies.
I know you are right, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to fight against every injustice or underhanded business tactic. Plus it takes a toll on my mental health to obsess about these things and I have to force myself not to do it. If there were a viable open source alternative that I could run, or better yet, a pre built version I could buy and plug into my TV then that's about the right level of righteous indignation I can muster for this particular case.
Because for a heavy car to handle well it must have a stiff suspension. Otherwise it’ll be floaty, especially in the corners, and you’d pan it for that instead.
Optimized Go code will generally perform on par with optimized Rust code. Exceptions exist and Go is a much less expressive language but that affects developers more than users. Go's error handling with wrapping is very similar to the anyhow crate which also has runtime overhead. The happy path should occur much more often than the error path and so the overhead is usually worth it for developer convenience in debugging.

The quality of code relying on reflection varies wildly (even within the standard library) so I don't think anything about the reflection system itself is the problem. I've written reflection-based solutions to problems sparingly but with an eye to giving good output on errors so debugging is easy. You can write some awful and hard-to-debug macros in Rust too.
Certainly the display contributed a bit to battery drain.

And in bright sunlight, I love eInk compared to a regular display.
I remember teaching in China nearly 20 years ago and all the kids did this. I thought it was so strange. Crazy music would come on between each class, which was the prompt to start “eye exercises”. They all stopped what they were doing and massaged their eyes and forehead for about two minutes. Then got back to doing whatever they were doing. Non-participation was punished.
> The pilots figured out that the way to beat the Zero was a head on attack, with both pilots blasting away. With no armor the Zero would get shredded. The Zero pilots had a pretty hard time of it during the war.

Sounds like that lack of armor wasn't an advantage.
> “Normal businesses make more money when they cut costs. Utilities (typically) get to charge a fixed upsell percentage and so they make more money when they increase their costs."

Yeah this is a pretty essential thing to understand right now… utilities are licking their chops at the prospect of heat pump electrification (which is absolutely necessary) because in the northeast for instance, it will mean shifting peak demand to winter and greatly increasing the size of the peak, which means grid expansion, which means more profit in absolute terms, even if the margin stays the same, with the added costs passed onto the customers. This is one of the reasons why state and municipal governments need to be funding deep energy retrofits (insulation, weatherizing via air sealing etc) in conjunction with heat pump electrification (ie to help control winter peaking, and thus keep grid expansion to a minimum and control costs passed onto customers).
I thought you were an idiot until the last sentence and now I know it. "Eighty-nine percent of homeowners who live under an HOA say the HOA's rules protect and enhance property values". You can't tell someone's political constituency when they belong to the same group as 90% of people. You're certainly wrong about mine, and nearly everything else you said, to the point where there's nothing here worth responding to. This drivel belongs on Reddit.
Earlier this week I purchased a Casio Waveceptor watch. It features the ability to synchronize with this radio signal. I'm very happy with it. I was also happy with an early-2000s model for several years prior. The older one's receiver seemed to become unreliable after about a decade, possibly due to changes in the wireless spectrum over time. Overall, it was quite a reliable watch and so I have good confidence in this product line.
These are indeed very cool!

If for some reason you are a few standard deviations more paranoid about not having the correct time than the average person, they now apparently have models that can get the current time via GPS, time beacon, or Bluetooth from a connected smartphone :)

https://gshock.casio.com/us/technology/3way/
Wasn’t there some recent news about imposing tariff on electric car imports? The EU may argue that’s because Chinese cars are made with more CO2 emissions than EU cars (which is an argument that will force honest politicians to look at the spreadsheet). But the US is being less cynical and saying that it is to protect the local industry…
It's a link to a playground session, sure, but that doesn't explain in any way why one would have to log in to see it.
> Something is happening, it’s not just a fad

these are not mutually exclusive. It is a fad AND something is happening.

That something comes down to two major things about low carb/carnivore diets:

1. You are removing processed foods. Going from a Standard American Diet to basically anything that involves more whole foods is going to be healthier for you and make you feel better. This doesn't mean that the new diet is optimal but it can be a step in the right direction.

2. Restricting your diet down to a few types of food is going to remove a lot of allergens. If you only eat meat for example, you are removing literally every single non-meat allergen in your diet - most people have some sort of food sensitivity (lactose intolerance being a common one) so you are going to feel better when you remove those allergens. However, this does not mean that accidental elimination diets are the long term solution. You should slowly add back foods and see what you react to so you can do something less extreme but still feel good doing it.

So yes a lot of people feel better on these diets but that does not indicate they are healthy long term or superior to other options.
FWIW, the London police was weirdly keen on finding my bike that was stolen with an airtag on it. Sent patrol several time over several weeks to chase after the thief. Not even in hope to unravel some big bike-stealing operation (they found it repainted and resold at a shop and didn't pursue further), just... keen, to my own great surprise.

Would recommend airtagging: even if you aren't as lucky as I was, at least you'll have the reassurance of knowing you did what you could.
Most of the time those researchers are left leaning, so they will focus on fake news from the right.
I don't think the poster is being too hyperbolic. A very large share of the most vocal on both sides of the political aisle prioritize narrative over truth. Literal truth is less important to these people than something that is maybe not 100% true but captures 100% of what they feel. Tools can help these stories spread less wide but they will not be able to prevent the most ardent from continuing to use these stories as cornerstones of their beliefs. This is probably a small fraction of the country overall but a large share of the active on political X/Twitter.
That’s a nice platitude, but completely impractical. Try to really count the number of things you know first-hand, like really truly know because you were there and you’ve also controlled for alternative explanations. Be honest.

Also think hard about the number of things you believe to be true but haven’t verified yourself.

My list of truths I know first-hand isn’t very big, I don’t know first-hand how an airplane or computer works (even though I design software and hardware), I don’t know first-hand that people landed on the moon, and I don’t know first hand anything about national politics. Pretty much everything we do is based on belief and things other people tell us (which includes stories we read or watch on video).

I don’t know it for a fact, but I believe that most people have about the same level of first-hand knowledge as me, that most people know very few truths, and the majority of how we function day-to-day is based on beliefs that we haven’t and won’t take the time to prove.

This is perhaps a generalization of Brandolini’s Law. [1] I briefly looked for whether there’s a broader and less negative version of this that applies to all information and not just misinformation, and didn’t find it yet. But if you think about it, it’s true that the amount of energy needed to know something is true first-hand is far, far higher (way more than an order of magnitude) than the amount of energy needed to use that information effectively. We basically don’t have the option to spend all of our time verifying the truthfulness of every opinion we have, or nothing at all would get done.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
>push from OS makers (...and Apple) to increase margins via including tracking and ads

I'm not sure I see much incentive with macOS. They might make a few dollars from ads but less than the hundreds of dollars they make when someone buys a macbook because they don't like the ads in windows. I've noticed zero ads pushed to me by the os in ten years of mac use. Also googling just now has them as the US's most profitable company making $100bn last year so I doubt they are desperate to change their strategy by shoving ads in.
I'm using Modal (modal.com). Works with my Python heavy stack.
I normally need to select both as I regret not doing things but also regret doing them after.
Assets don't have to produce any cash flow. Most popularly, gold. Stocks that provide stable dividends are also less and less usual.

Assets can just hold their real value compared to inflation and that's useful enough - even losing value slower than inflation is still good.
I remember being queued up to download one song from a specific host. My download with be like 6th in line.
You're right, the source code is open for reuse with BSD 2 Clause license, I've add the license file and mark in readme explicitly. Thanks for the reminding.
> We used to have the right

> That all went away in 1790

Interesting use of the word “we” here.

Also there’s a few other “rights” that have changed since then, not sure this argument has the power you think it does.
S3 buckets for the SPA's, AWS Lambda, API Gateway and EC2 for a MySQL instance. Some SQS to help with orchestration of the operational stuff. Have about 5k MAU and total cost barely breaks 40$ a month.

Chose this because it's the stack I'm super familiar with.
Resource curse: it’s profitable for them to do hybrids and ICEs, so they are unable to do anything else well. Sort of like Google Ads vs everything else Google does. It’s not like they couldn’t do it. It’s that the amounts of money are so vastly different that they don’t wanna.
> I am using a ZimaBlade (2 cores, 16gb DDR3L RAM) as my cloud server, and an old Nvidia Jetson NX (very outdated ARM CPU with negligible GPU power) as my email server. I also run a bunch of frontends and apps on both. They work flawlessly.

How do you like the ZimaBlade and NVDA Jetson? I actually want to get these two, and have been consider going with ZimaBlade or ZimaBoard...

I want to have a Jetson for LLM purpose, but after checking the specs, I don't think it would be powerful enough though...

> ...... we were in the process of moving a bunch of hosting services on a mid-tower server which actually was less powerful than nowadays NUCs

Do you mean you are moving these hosting services to a mid-tower server (English is not my first language, so to is easier for me to understand than on). Would you say that even if they are not more powerful from performance perspective, but they offer some server-specific functionalities that NUCs don't, such as better thermals?
> The composition of this ordeal was inferred from statistical analysis of fights in The Iliad. Each of those scenarios included a fair share of spear throws, sword strikes, shooting arrows, and spear strikes, all performed in full body armor. Overall, the whole day was effectively a long, high-intensity interval exercise.

I love the idea of people 2000 years from now doing statistical analysis of Rambo movies to deduce how wars were fought in 20th century.
Fair, let's compare like for like.

A pair of AirPods weighs the same as two ordinary plastic bags, the grocery store kind.

Lithium? About a gram of lithium in a disposable AA lithium battery. About 0.015 grams per AirPod proper, and another 0.16 grams in the case. So call it 0.2 grams, or when you toss five (5) AirPods with their cases, that's as much lithium as one (1) disposable AA battery.
You have this backwards. Utilities typically have to build a rate case where they have to justify the price they are charging based on the necessary costs (like the price of energy and necessary investments into the grid). They absolutely want to reduce costs. This is a good thing, because otherwise they would just not improve the grid
>Particularly when that tactic is derived specifically from Russian dezinformatsiya techniques

I think it is incorrect to call such tactics "Russian dezinformatsiya techniques". It's rather "leftist techniques". Putin just uses it because he was a member of communist party and KGB and was taught it this way.
That's surprisingly not a thing in many platforms.
already, Disney has been censoring past episodes not even based on today's sensibilities but it seems purely based on keywords.

there's an episode of the suite life of zach and cody where zach pretends to have dyslexia in order to get extra time in his exams, and near the end of the episode he gets busted and they have a thoughtful conversation about how it's unfair and hurts the people who need the extra time, and he should be less lazy and do the work, etc, and somehow that's too offensive now.
I like it for the aesthetics. It's cute. I don't care whether it's more useful for getting feedback or whatever.
Render. Happy with it for now as a prototyping / MVP tool. Won’t be able to continue forever due to HIPAA requirements and not sure how it scales anyway.
Secretariat of the Antarctic Treaty
This is not for a business, but I am working on a side project that uses node.js + sqlite and the entire stack will run on a single Lightsail instance ($5 per month)