skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> discovery of what is truly high quality

Sometimes nobody really tries. It doesn't help that there are a lot of perverse incentive systems out there. I'm approaching this from mostly an Internet-centric perspective:

One observation I've made is that any story I first see by advertising is probably bad, even if I later see it elsewhere - if it were actually any good, I would've seen it in one of the non-advertising-based mechanisms first. But sites have a strong incentive to promote advertisements to the detriment of quality (and the inaccuracy of "hot" lists).

The "zero-initial-following" problem can be solved by showing each story to a random small subset of active readers (since, as big as the supply of crappy stories is, the demand is always higher). This should be smeared across time-of-day, rather than having a "new" queue subject to gamification. There also needs to be a quick "I'm not interested" feedback, with reasons including "breaks site rules", "bad story", "bad grammar", "bad initial hook", "bad continuation", "I just don't like it" (featured prominently), and "this story is badly tagged" (because both positive and negative tag searches should be the primary way of using any reading site).

Some particular ways that tagging implementations can fail:

* categories and tags are different things, thus a tag is often missing

* no tagging for things like "this a fanfiction of", "this is translated from", "author is not a native English speaker", ...

* tag names are ambiguous, meaning completely different things in different contexts

* tag names are contextual, providing a different shade of meaning depending on other tags

* tags are not prominently displayed when actually looking at a work

* user-made tags are permitted, so duplicates and typos are common

* user-made tags are not permitted and essential tags that people wish to search for (or hide) are missing

* hierarchial (DAG, not tree) tags are not supported, thus a tag is often missing (or if present the list takes up too much space)

* no way to specify tag degree (does this just show up in the background, or is it the focus of the work?)

* number of tags is artificially limited to a very small number

* tag is applied but applicable content doesn't appear yet (mostly relevant for when published serially)

Obviously with outright malicious actors, simply fixing these won't fix everything, but they are absolutely needed to function at scale for the honest actors.
Without becoming a software engineer? None. Work for 1 hour a month in the developed world to make enough money to pay for, say, a month on https://wpengine.com/, and get to working on the actual website, not its infra.

Even Python will take someone starting from zero anywhere between 10-100 hours to fully grok. A phenomenal time investment if you have any professional interest at all in computers, but if you truly don't, a ridiculous one.
None. I’m three years in with mine in Denver so it deals with hot summer, frigid winter, random hail, occasional high winds.
I’ve never had to touch it.

I wish more home technology was so painless.
It's not a great name, for discoverability reasons, but I assumed the name was playing on the relationship with Bartender.
Anyone wants to take a shot at porting Moksha DE to pkgsrc?
It's been a while, but with a little bit of solder and a slightly-janky connector, you don't need the proprietary dongle to connect to a serial connection (at least with a Vantage Vue from ~2010).

The Vantage Vue hardware is solid; much better than the cheaper kits out there.
I have a Vantage Pro2 with the WeatherLink Live. I'm really happy with it. It has a pretty simple API you can hit on the local network, and it can push to weatherlink.com. It's a bit on the pricey side, but I live in a fairly rural area, so it's nice to have my own data. Plus, I'm on a private airstrip, so other pilots can use see it.
The primary thesis - perhaps overstated - of Wade Davis's book - is that it was more or less the demons/memory of the Great War that drove them. having not read Conefry's book yet - it's only been published for less than a month, I don't know if this is Mick's thesis or your thesis.

All that said, Davis's book is held in high regard by the mountaineering and the historians of the period.
You might notice that these quotes talk about the future. That's literally the point. They see a development and realize that they'll have a problem if the status quo is kept the same.

It won't, which is why the actual issue mostly fails to realize as projected.
Not only can basically everything you do lead to weight loss in some way, if your study is "27 women and 14 men", it might just be impossible to draw any real conclusions about population wide effects from it.
Both are correct. Indexes is more modern.

The idea that Latin-derived words should have Latin-style plurals in English makes for pointless inconsistencies in the language.
I have a lot of old AE projects I sometimes need to modify for clients, so I need AE for those.

Since I can create the same titles/animations in Apple Motion in a fraction of the time that they take to create in AE, I use that for all newer projects.
Cascadia Subduction Zone, one of Earth's top hazards, comes into sharper focus
Again, I would suggest Wade Davis's book, which goes into this into much more detail and has a strong point of view on this.
Not currently, but you can do that using a Terminal command. Search all replies here for it
NeXT you mean.

Additionally, Apple has a long term roadmap to fix that design decision, hence why they are killing one kernel subsystem at a time, moving them into userspace, with one year given for the developers to adopt each of them, after being made available as the new way.

Finally, it is kind of ironic that systems that have doubled down on monolithic kernels, are now used to run an endless pile of containers and Kubernetes clusters.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1798729302110044164.html
Yes. Beware, it's in MOST Benadryl too.

My dog did not get any xylitol BUT it was close -- he got stung by a bee, and was having difficulty breathing. And we received bad advice from a clinic to give him Benadryl. Which would have been good advice but for the fact Benadryl is VERY often sweetened with Xylitol. We got a 2nd opinion and better treatment from another emergency vet, by luck.
Study: Nature and transmission of mitochondrial DNA mutations in humans
HN loves Postgres because Swiss Army knife but mysql is just much faster in most cases. We have a weird use case with data scientists and millions of tables in one db: postgres is terrible at it, mysql has no issues at all. I guess it’s all fine if you are doing an ERP or crm; I would pick Postgres. But for anything else, I would start with mysql and see how far goes without wasting your life in devops (mysql master slave and master master are built in and trivial to set up; it just works).

(Sure, I hate Oracle too, but they actually did a pretty good job of both Java and mysql; i guess the 90s Borg for MS Gates and Satan for Oracle Ellison are less things now than they were)
Brown rice tends to contain more arsenic than white rice. Everything in moderation.

https://doi.org/10.3389%2Ffnut.2023.1209574
The way it was handled only proves the point UNIX would never had taken off outside Bell Labs, if AT&T was allowed to sell UNIX the moment it stopped being a toy project for playing games.
The risk taking personality type has always been with us, and the thing is, they'll take risks whether it's necessary or not. I think we can all agree they're pretty good to have around when the shit hits the fan.
Cheers for that.

It can get a little warmer here: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/202402/html/IDCJDW6136.202... and even more so in other parts of the state: http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/dwo/202402/html/IDCJDW6079.202...

( 100F == 37.7C , 109F == 42.7C )
But then how do you test out the latest model that came out from who knows where and has the weirdest dependencies and a super obscure command to install?
The pictures of the layout seem to have at least 4 layers I can see. Could be buried vias.
It shows how to reorder them into groups that are hidden temporarily and/or permanently. Very useful to keep a clutter free and optimised workspace.
Clinical trial shows 15-day Paxlovid regimen safe; no benefit for long Covid
You're projecting current developments into the future, ignoring that things change on the way there.

If your expectation is that everything has to stay the same: then yes, alarm bells should be going of. For 40+ years already considering pollution, climate change etc.

But labor has gotten less important with every step since the industrial revolution, objectively speaking the shrinking nations will have a lot less issues medium/long term then the ones "restocking" via immigration
and for anyone in the TeX User Group there is this fun experiment in Typesetting which starts off with the amazing TeX origin story

https://youtu.be/Y65FRxE7uMc
Show HN: C++ headers for reading numpy files
Hi all,

Some while ago I needed to read numpy files that contain structured arrays in C++. I wasn't entirely happy with the existing alternatives, because I could not use them on all the systems I wanted to without pulling in too many dependencies, or they didn't support nested structured arrays, and I also needed to flexibly change the zip backend (for .npz files). So, I wrote my own. I still use it occasionally even though it's not "feature complete", and thought some others might find this useful. A brief warning: this code was developed during a research project, and it might not reach the level of robustness that you need.

Cheers
You right, it is run by a pile of containers in Kubernetes clusters, on top of type 1 hypervisors. The irony.
Show HN: Another AI Music Generator
As Boyd says in his book on Chebyshev Methods: when in doubt use Chebyshev polynomials.

I use Chebyshev polynomials extensively in finance and have tried problems like MNIST with Chebyshev and they get close to CNNs in accuracy.

ApproxFun Julia package pretty cool for Chebyshev work:

https://juliaapproximation.github.io/ApproxFun.jl/latest/
Yeah but what’s with the masochism attached to it?
In a country where the courts themselves are corrupt. See the 6 part Dutch documentary called “De Villamoord” wherein 9 innocent people were framed and jailed. One committed suicide. At the end of every episode they post the names of the two responsible people. One of which was the former head of the organised crime unit in Arnhem. Now she is the president of the court of Maastricht. And it’s not the only time she had perverted the course of justice.

One guy wrote a book about it. Within days the book was pulled from the shelves and he was fined 17,000 euros. Now he won’t talk about it with anyone.

And in the Netherlands it’s written into law that all government officials can lie under oath without fear of being prosecuted for perjury (New addition around 2020, the law itself said anyone in a profession that has an obligation to secrecy, which is all of Dutch government these days. The real reason for the law). Yes that’s right, and I have a letter from the attorney general stating explicitly that perjury doesn’t apply to prosecutors.

Yep! Really the courts here are highly respected.

Just unreasonably. Do some research.
That is misinformation. Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern. The molecules are too large to be absorbed through human digestive systems. Almost all of the cholesterol in our bodies is endogenously produced.

https://peterattiamd.com/understanding-cardiovascular-diseas...

https://health.gov/our-work/nutrition-physical-activity/diet...
The Smart, Cheap Fix for Slow, Dumb Traffic Lights
oh boy, this seems nice.
Wondering if there is something like this around git visualition (github) that one can use or integrate with github desktop.
There's also the classic Churchill quote, when a friend who had just published a book gave him a copy: "Thank you very much, I shall lose no time reading it."
It would be surprising if it is not end to end encrypted.
A good alternative to AE, especially for simpler stuff, is Apple Motion. It works in real time, unlike AE.

I’ve chosen it over AE for all the animated titles I’ve worked on for the past 8 or so years and have had no issues.

Opening AE to update old projects is a chore, never enjoyable. Motion is actually fun to use. I paid once, and they’ve been updating it for free since 2011.
Just use conda.
It's not just Greed.

Sure there are mindless greedy parasites in any environment that extract more than they input into the system, but you can easily find a whole bunch of execs in American corporate wonderland who are not greedy. And there are a whole lot of well known mechanism to handle parasites.

Yet these outcomes are very common. Main reason being economic and business theories that have been taught and followed for decades are hitting their limitations. Especially around fictionalization.

You don't need an Einstein to work out how to profit taking advantage of cross border differences in labor costs, interest rates, tax rates, govt subsidies, forex, real estate costs etc. Because you don't have to be Einstein, everyone blindly follows what they have been taught.

All these are financial engineering methods of showing a profit happen without actually depending on what you produce, its quality, or demand/supply in the market. If Everyone plays financial engineering games, cause its become easy, doesn't require much imagination or creativity (only access to capital or credit) then what happens?

Without new theories about making this system sustainable, its like watching European theories of colonization and empire that once everyone believed in running their course.
This works just fine in other contexts. Eg. when you move to Alaska, you only start getting your Permanent Fund dividend only when you’re Alaskan resident for a full calendar year. You are only eligible for resident hunting permit after 12 months of residency. There are many more examples.
You can call 19th century romance fiction as being about "status hierarchies" in the same sense you can say "There's only 3 types of stories, man verse man, man verse nature, man verse himself".

I don't see how reducing this to a succinct label shows whether or not there is a "rich inner life" at play, going back to your earlier statement about neurotypical people.

Lord of the Rings might be a book about "man vs man" and maybe Frodo's resistence of the ring is about "man vs self" but there's probably some richness to be found in those 1000 pages, for example.

I guess I'd push back at the idea what you call "status hierarchies" is less "rich" in terms of inner life.
> These private companies have a much much higher detail on the ground than the government by being able to partner with companies that make common internet-connected personal radar stations and reselling that data to each other.

I haven't heard of personal radar stations, and wasn't hitting anything in a quick web search. Are you able to provide an example of these systems?
That book doesn't even rise to the level of "theory." Just drivel from a notorious climate denier.
I agree with 2/3rds of that but none of it is toxic. You aren't very well going to send women out to get themselves killed and being pressured into it is a good thing. Men aren't supposed to go out and get themselves killed for nothing, they're only supposed to do that when someone else tells them to. A key point of responsible manliness is accepting that you have a responsibility to support your community and that might require you to make some sacrifices. Hopefully not death, but that is very much on the table. If a death is going to be involved in that era they were going to be making sure that it is a man who dies because the alternative was a woman who are much more important at a societal level.

How else do you see them figuring out what is at the top of Everest? Someone had to go up and have a look. It is like spaceflight or exploring the oceans; death is highly likely for the first few people who attempt it but someone had to do it. They couldn't send a drone up - they didn't have them.

> no benefit other than for colonial grandstanding

This is the one I disagree on - they're dealing with the unknown. They didn't know very much about climbing tall mountains like the Everest. The point of that sort of thing is they don't know if there is anything worthwhile about the act or not, and they deal with that by doing it to see what happens.

The colonisation process was horrible but undeniably hugely beneficial to the European powers. "Colonial Grandstanding" of this sort turned out to be hugely net positive to the countries doing it on average.
That's not really a fact though is it?
William Anders never walked on another world.
> but the fact that a product like Recall got shipped says a lot about the makeup of the product org that shipped it.

Microsoft is just tripping over themselves right now bringing AI to market because they don't want to miss the boat. Their copilot for office 365 stuff is hardly working, it's real beta quality. No normal company would have released it to market in this state. But they're just terrified that Google will eat their lunch.

I don't think security and privacy concerns are much on the radar there anymore. They just want to establish their name in this new market at all costs. And I think in their eyes it makes sense, they've always succeeded because they had the biggest installed base, not because they were the best. It makes sense they see value in being first mover at all costs.

It's just a bit frustrating as a customer. As usual with something they launch it's more promise than substance. I have to say that usually they do have the follow-through to really make it a success. But it does take time.
If you are not in US.
Then you get one of my favorites: NVIDIA-<something> has failed because it couldn't communicate with the NVIDIA driver. Make sure that the latest NVIDIA driver is installed and running.
You can get pretty fast Spaces switching by checking Reduce Motion in Accessibility. Obviously that has applied to other things across the system.
I would agree that my brain is definitely as susceptible as anyone else's to manipulation. I'm just as human as you, and subject to the same limitations.

I've made you defensive, and that wasn't my intent. At least you didn't go straight to irrational anger.

That said, I really don't see anything in your reply to change my assessment.

You're not engaging on the linked content other than to state disbelief, you seem to have applied some kind of category label to me as a believer in some kind of letter campaign(?), you have affirmed the extremely high level of certainty you have in your ability to assess information, and you've hyperbolized the level of rigor you use to assess all information claims you ingest from any source.

We're not going to take this discussion anywhere useful from here.

And that's okay. I tried, and now remember why most people don't. I don't hold any ill will towards you.
Fossil finds amplify Europe's status as a hotbed of great ape evolution
It's like an LLM ate a whole bag of 2:1 gummies.
Newer versions of macOS have something in addition to Keychain Access, known as Passwords. In fact, when you launch the Keychain Access program it now asks if you want to use "Passwords" or "Keychain Access", the former opening what the parent speaks of, and the latter continuing to the legacy Keychain Access.
There would definitely be an investigation, as all sentinel events are investigated. Management would do their RCA and I'm sure the issue with alarm fatigue would be ignored or underplayed (Something bad happen? make sure an alarm sounded. If staff ignored it, it must be the fault of the staff). I doubt any one person would be in trouble as it was a collective/systemic failure, but I don't know exactly what would have come of it. Likely a policy change or daily reminders for the next few weeks about not ignoring the monitors even if it has been going off nonstop for hours. Maybe extra charting or peer audits. It's a lot less expensive and effort to put pressure on staff than it is to change technology (even if it is as little as setting different, more sane, defaults). Depending on what was recorded from the monitor to the chart, if it looked like there wasn't a delay in resuscitation/cardioversion (like if the lethal rhythm wasn't recorded initially), it may have been just put down as clinical course for the patient, like you suggested. My perspective of that place is a bit jaded (and therefore biased), that place was a toxic burn-out factory.
BTW, "post mortem"? Thanks, the morbid humor made me laugh!
> good luck.

Do you see this as an unexpectedly challenging task? If so, what do you think makes it challenging?
Right, the pervasivenes today is much higher. But marketers/advertisers have always hoovered up and exploited as much information as was technically possible. That attitude isn't new.
Most power lines across the nation have <5% utilisation. Ie. They transfer in a year less than 5% of what they could have transferred.

If we had smarter systems to plan and route power transfers, we could get the network to move far far more power

Most of that overcapacity is in little local wiring, like the cables to your street, where there is likely nothing smart at all right now.
Yeah, pick your poison. I've seen Prop 65 warnings on spinach, which apparently absorbs quite a bit of heavy metals from the soil. Eat your vegetables, but not too much!
Haven’t considered that for reducing the number of support tickets, something to consider
Great book! Sadly, I don't think the sequel (about the H-Bomb) is quite as good.
Thanks for mentioning. When I looked up MADIS, Wiki pointed me here: https://www.weather.gov/ncep/

There, selecting 'Weather Prediction Center' goes to https://www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/#page=ovw

There I searched in 'Local forecast' for cities and see most of what 'weather com' delivers, with 3 domains in Noscript instead of the couple-dozen from weather.com
I spent some time building a data logger when I first got my vue, but they updated hardware circa 2012 specifically to thwart this, it seems[0]. It was a frustrating discovery: had to spend an extra $100 for something that can be made with $2 worth of parts :(

[0]: <https://www.wxforum.net/index.php?topic=10721.275>
You think the person building technologies that cause human suffering values human life? Come on now.
I have no idea how to calculate it, but I interpreted this to mean not that the earth rotated (which everyone is trying to calculate) but that the earth was crossing the horizon of the moon such that four miles of earth crosses the horizon during the shot causing earth blur for a moon-stable reference frame.
You're saying a bunch of nothing
Although your bill might only show one bundled price depending on who supplies and delivers your electricity, the cost of electricity in the US usually includes both a "supply" or "generation" charge and a "delivery" charge. Based on what I'm seeing on that page I think it's almost certainly only showing the electric supply rates, not the combined total of supply + delivery.

I don't live in California so the nuances are lost on me, but it looks like for SF county the residential delivery rate is about 19c/kWh, the supply rate ranges from roughly 12-16c/kWh, and "surcharges" are 0-1c/kWh, for a total of 31-37c/kWh. For San Diego county the delivery rate is 25-26c/kWh, the supply rate is 15-18c/kWh, and surcharges are 2-5c/kWh, with a total of 45-46c/kWh.[1]

[1] https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/RateComparison
Not terribly challenging, but harder than expected.

The reason: parsing.

The bc language is poorly designed for a REPL, which it needs to handle.

I got sick of fixing parse bugs, though, and my source code got a sarcastic comment: https://git.gavinhoward.com/gavin/bc/src/commit/4b83bf07b97f...
That's actually really direct. It appears as though they had python rewrite had more familiarity with the programmers so they had an easier time writing it.

I come from the opposite side and find python syntax and style stifling.