skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminds me of: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/

"Persistent metabolic adaptation 6 years after The Biggest Loser competition (2016)"

"After 6 years... RMR(resting metabolic rate) was 704±427 kcal/d below baseline..."
There's sayings along the lines of "Victory/success has a thousand fathers, but defeat/failure is an orphan."

Chances are that system, and its outcomes are described very differently on a resume
From what I can tell a lot of it comes down to whether someone cares more about making sure that everyone who needs help gets it or cares more about making sure that no one who doesn't need help gets it.
> They would permaban everything even slightly unconformable and be fine.

There is no way that scales IMO.
Maybe the plot twist should be that the AI makes a big deal out of the selection process, then instead just kills those 250,000 people.
> With insurance, you are guarantee to lose.

No, you're not. There is no guarantee that your payout on a claim will be less than the value of the premiums you paid in at the time you make the claim. Averaged over all people being insured, that will be true, but you are just one person, not the average of all people.

> To insure against a 10K risk, you have to pay 20K.

No, to insure against a 10K risk, you pay some much smaller premium periodically over time. There is nothing that says you must have paid in 20K in premiums before the insurance company will pay out 10K on a claim by you. The insurance company is insuring a huge number of people; all they care about is the average result, not the single result in your individual case.

Also, all the above assumes that only monetary value matters to you. But monetary value alone is not why most people buy insurance. Most people buy insurance for risk avoidance, i.e., peace of mind. They want to transfer the risk of having to make a large payout if something bad happens to someone else who can better afford it. That is a thing of value to many people, which is why they are willing to pay for it.
I host most of my stuff myself. the only thing I need to setup is a backup and it's perfect. It's free (minus internet) and it runs my movies, music, streaming, files, previously emails, emulators, and it's smaller than my wifi router. boots and starts automatically and can be remotely managed (though I tend to keep it behind a switch that blocks remote admin)
Yes, you always lose a bit of money with insurance, but life isn't all about money, whereas the whole point of gambling is winning money. Insurance brings other benefits that improve your life.
Integration tests?
Basically the only thing you can't do with the data is disclose it to someone who doesn't also fall under HIPAA
> Socioeconomic class is not defined by assets, but rather by income or if you want to get a little more sophisticated (to cover the case of the young person about to graduate from medical school) potential to earn income

This doesn't make much sense to me. So a retired wealthy person who can draw income from investments is not upper class, even if they draw an income that would be considered middle class or lower?
Chiming in with another “no” here. We adopted a message bus/event-driven architecture when moving a very popular piece of software from the cloud, to directly on the user’s device… it was a disaster IMO.

The core orchestration of the system was done via events on the bus, and nobody had any idea what was happening when a bug occurred. People would pass bugs around, “my code did the right thing given the event it got”, “well, my code did the right thing too”, and nobody understood the full picture because everyone was stuck in their own silo. Event driven architectures encourage this: events decouple systems such that you don’t know or care what happens when you emit a message, until one day it’s emitted with slightly different timing or ordering or different semantics, and things are broken and nobody knows why.

The worst part is that software is basically “take user input, do process A on it, then do process B on that, then do process C on that.” It could have so easily been a simple imperative function that called C(B(A(input))), but instead we made events for “inputWasEmitted”, “Aoutput”, “Boutput”, etc.

What happens when system C needs one more piece of metadata about the user input? 3 PR’s into 3 repos to plumb the information around. Coordinating the release of 3 libraries. All around just awful to work with.

Oh and this is a very high profile piece of software with a user base in the 9 figure range.

(Wild tangent: holy shit is hard to get iOS to accept “do process” in a sentence. I edited that paragraph at least 30 times, no joke, trying every trick I could to stop it correcting it to “due process”. I almost gave up. I used to defend autocorrect but holy shit that was a nightmare.)
Cheers, you are a better man than I (I also apologize but you got there first and meant it, I wouldn't have)
Wait so, the Internet Archive was not involved at all in finding the original, but since the image exists in the archive, IA have written a blog post claiming to be crucial to its discovery? Seems like taking credit for something they didn't do to be honest. They didn't even mention the Tweet in the blog post which was essential to finding the image, which makes me think they want that part overlooked.
>is that there is and has been a baseline assumption of patriarchy within the field for centuries

Given 100% of present societies and all examples from recorded history can you blame them for this baseline? That's literally what a baseline is supposed to be!
Hopefully they don't fuse into immotiles!
“Sorry, Colonel. Nice tank you’ve got here. It’d be a shame if it caught fire, wouldn’t it.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0_r4PDyCs&t=1m31s
rip it from CDs to FLAC, synching it to my media server and then clean up the local once I confirm and then play it through ultrasonic
Have they got an AT&T gnot terminal running?
For others searching (alternative) generic build caching tool supporting mono-repos:

Nx - https://nx.dev/.
> A 50-page PDF loads a lot faster and shows a lot smoother than an HTML of equal textual length.

Very true! Although they are now comparable, if you rely on the browser native MathML instead of MathJax/LaTeX.

(You can test this on long arXiv HTML papers, e.g. https://ar5iv.labs.arxiv.org/html/1710.07304 is more than 60 pages as PDF. Mind you, the ar5iv default CSS is not great. I would use Latin Modern for formulas, at the very least.)

> I've never seen any modern tools that turn TeX into multifile HTML (one per section).

I believe all of them can do it out of the box now. I know for sure that LaTeXML, tex4ht and lwarp can split by chapter or section.
We need community run resiliency more than ever. Support TOR!
In insurance you expect to come out behind in the average case, unless you're an insurance company.
Damn near the same study conclusion. Uncanningly similar.
The drawback of tumblers is you don't get that sweet worm action.
> Gambling is all about risking it all.

I would say that gambling is about paying for entertainment, much like lotteries. Your overall expectation is that you will lose money, but the entertainment value of being able to imagine yourself winning a huge pot compensates for that.

Of course the above assumes that you can afford to lose the amount of money you are gambling. The few times in my life I have gambled, that was always my approach: I set aside an amount I was willing to lose all of, and if I got to the point where it was gone, I stopped. But of course many people who gamble do not take that approach.
Funding is finite. Someone who doesn't need a benefit and receives it can be taking that benefit away from someone else. If you turn up at a food bank when you don't need to you're taking food out of someone else's mouth.
Likewise with git. There's the "top-level events" that you see (commits). But even when you're doing 'unsafe' operations, you're working with the lower-level reflog events.
They used the word exfiltrate, it's not a stretch.
Japan got rid of public trash cans after the 95 sarin gas attack. There are still some, for example at the Sanja Matsuri there were several trash cans around due to the large number of stalls at Senso-ji.
Seems like you could only use very small integers or your program size would become enormous.
However, being sold something like health insurance as hedging risk is bullshit.

There is no risk in needing to provide healthcare to a population, its a given, though its not always equal cost per person.

However, something like crop insurance allows one to take the up front risk of buying a ton of seed and machines while hedging against the off chance that drought, fire, pest or rain ruins a crop before it can be harvested months later.
I dunno, works fine for me.
> That doesn't make it not gambling though.

Yes, it does. As I said in response to you elsewhere, insurance means not accepting huge variance in payoff, whereas gambling means you do accept it. They're opposites of each other. The fact that the counterparties in both cases--insurance companies and casinos--end up making money from all of their customers on net does not mean the two things are the same.
Yes, but every other feature will take ten times as long as over the next three years we will lose 90% of our best developers.
> Here is a trivial shuffle algorithm that is completely unbiased and only requires an unbiased coin (or random number generator giving bits):

How does this compare to a regular Knuth shuffle where, since you only have a 1-bit generator, when you need (for example) an integer between 0 and 23, you treat the bits you generate as the binary expansion of a real number in [0, 1), and generate them until floor(24*n) is unambiguous?

(Obviously, the random number generation is more conceptually complex, but aside from that.)
Okay, so why not just put that in the readme??
I was just quoting the guidelines. Maybe that's why they hedged it with "semi".
> Insurance brings other benefits that improve your life.

What other benefits besides the money that covers the losses?
Chinese jets circle Dutch ship in East China Sea
Plants are considerably simpler than animals so they tolerate a lot more genetic nonsense. Crazy things like duplications which would simply result in non viable animals most often don’t have nearly the harmful effects in some plants so they survive and aren’t nearly so aggressively pruned out by evolution.
Insurance companies are always going to give you unfavorable odds, unless you think for some reason youre more likely than average to have an accident.

I don't understand why car/home insurance isnt nationalized
We've had mistakes that we've been able to course-correct from.

Our users are small-businesses with organisation numbers, and we mostly think of them as unique. But they strictly aren't, so we 'overwrote' some companies with other companies.

Once we detected and fixed the bug, we just replayed the events with the fixed code, and we hadn't lost any data.
If gambling and insurance were the same you would be able to both frame insurance as a form of gambling and gambling as a form of insurance.
> The benefit that insurance conveys for the person insured is not that it is supposed to make money.

Presuming you mean ending with more money than you started, gambling isn't either. Pay in vs pay out has no relation whatsoever to that except in passing.

> It is risk avoidance.

These are the same thing dressed in different names. There's only no making money on health insurance in the sense that you don't get to keep the money, but the only reason you're not "making" that money is because you have just incurred medical debt that the given money is obligated to cover per the terms. It's exactly the same as giving the money directly into your pocket on the condition that you use it immediately to clear your medical debt. You "made" all that money. You just also owe the full amount to someone else too. Consider term life insurance instead, where there is no extreme debt obligated to cover and your next of kin does just actually get a fat check.
Zig as a build system deserves a shout-out here. It can compile C and C++ projects, good cross-compiler story, and it caches.
Show HN: Stylish and Scannable AI QR Codes, open source workflow
Every time I’ve watched that video I wonder what it would have been like to be in the audience and correct Feynman that 8x7 != 16.
The problem is the total gotcha attitude they're taking with it. They have to justify their jobs somehow and in the absence of actual problems they'll find "problems".

Besides, this is the standard Republican approach: mess things up so the people getting benefits don't. Hopefully they die and cease to be a problem. Request documentation, but the system is overloaded and it doesn't get processed, documentation "not provided", they must not be eligible anymore. We have seen it again and again with Medicaid. Or request documentation on a website that can't handle the load. (Or fails in odd ways. Wasn't a government system but I got hit by it on a private forum once--upload an image, it just vanishes. Yeah, my image was big--specifically in spoiler tags to keep from disrupting things. Turns out there was both a pixel size limit and a megabyte limit, break both and there was an error on the error and the whole error went to lala land. Successfully uploaded nothing.) And a *lot* of systems impose size limits on images that are smaller than what modern phones take.
Disk space is cheap, so where it's possible to have 2 (or more) venvs, that seems easiest. The problem with venv is that they don't automatically activate. I've been using a very simple wrapper around python to automatically activate venvs so I can just cd into the directory and do python foo.py and have it use the local venv.

I threw it online at https://github.com/fragmede/python-wool/
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> Where exactly on which exact bell curve does gambling stop and insurance start?

That's not the difference. The difference is that in gambling, you accept a large variance in payoff, whereas in insurance, you don't; you transfer that risk to someone else.
I don't think we disagree at all about how to explain falling objects to a 3 year old. I did say it's best to leave out irrelevant detail.

You might not like this, but full detail physics explanations are usually irrelevant to everyday life. I try to explain in terms of what's necessary to accomplish a goal, not what's necessary to fully understand.

e.g. "if you tip things over close to the edge it will end up on the floor, so don't do that"

As a side note, kids often put stuff in precarious places because they can't reach anywhere better.

Anyway, the exceptions would be when the goal involves fully and arbitrarily defined contexts such as code or law. You can't assume much to get on with a task before being given a full explanation.
I mean... rightfully, the facts about what's happening in the world is not copyrightable. The only things that are copyrighted is the prose and expression. I wonder where this will go
Natural selection leaving review comments: lgtm
Their next article will discuss putting water on plants -- You know the stuff in our toilets.
Contract work is a lot more common in Europe for a reason
This stuff seems miraculous.

> "Through minimally invasive surgery, Shu injected adeno-associated virus (AAV) engineered to carry and deliver functioning copies of the human OTOF transgene, into the children’s inner ears. "

Can't read that and not get curious, excited, for the future.

Congratulations to all those involved in the research and thanks to all who contributed to it - including all taxpayers if public funding was given, even indirectly (i.e. in the schooling and education, grants, for said researchers)
> In insurance you expect to come out ahead in the average case.

Not financially, no. On average people who buy insurance receive less in payouts than they pay in in premiums. If that were not the case, nobody would sell insurance because anyone who tried to would go bankrupt.

If you factor in the non-financial benefit of risk avoidance, then yes, people who buy insurance come out ahead--but now not just in the average case, but in all cases, at least as long as the people buying insurance are rational and only buy the amount of risk avoidance they actually need.
There are lots of techniques for making forward predictions- called projections- that look at investment curves and various inertial dynamics over circa 10 (at least) year timeframes.

Popularity itself is a fool's errand. Popularity is both manufactured and discovered, a stop motion virality. Some can create it but no one can predict it. The act of prediction changes the market.

And anyway, 2 years is basically tomorrow. It is not enough time for the capital investments occurring now to have material result. If you want to understand tomorrow you have to be looking back 10 years and tracing those investments through their maturation.
> Or should we make this (perhaps justifiably, after their misleading self-presentation) the first time we let someone go for performance reasons?

How is having having good negotiating skills and being well-prepared considered misleading self-representation?

> We probably can't reduce the salary, so more productive devs might also be offended if they become aware of it.

So you're telling me you'd be the first manager in history who noticed someone's lacking in experience before your team members do? I think not. You're also giving away the possible fact that there might be enough of a disparity between the pay of a new hire and a (company) senior that the current employees might get upset.

> they might at some point realize they can't catch up to the level they were hired at without years of dedicated effort and thus quit or "quit internally", making our investment pointless.

How would you know? If you just hired them, you don't know, and obviously your hiring process doesn't work, so, again, you know nothing.

The fact firing is even an option, when you fucked up, and that this situation is even a thing, is telling me you're obviously oblivious to what "culture" you actually have.

Then again...

> It would probably take another 6-12 months of intense training to get them somewhat productive

Have you already spent 6-12 months of intense training on them? Then fire.
The article does not make clear what type of weight is gained but I'd wager a guess that it is caused by water retention and as such a well-known phenomenon - just do a search on water retention after exercise and you'll get loads of results.
It's ok. I found it: https://archgee.com/
Don't know why you're being downvoted.

I can see why the rule exists, it's simpler to simply decree this than it is to sort out whether you're simply managing money that is not yours. Doesn't make it the right answer, though.
no, no, no, no, no, no....

Look at the heart to star morphing. How can you call it a "very cool effect"?! It's so damn ugly. It existed back in the day of Macromedia Flash 4 (maybe earlier), called shape tweening. Except there, you could use tween hints to control the transition.

Try this instead: look at the pairs of nearest points, take a heap sort of like 4 best matching pairs of points, and from those points traverse the curves, resampling the paths with less resolution. Now instead of interpolating positions, interpolate angles. This way the curves will naturally deform, instead of line segments passing through each-other.
Will this game work well on a Steamdeck or do you need a keyboard and mouse?
Works fine for me, except that it doesn’t play well with Safari profiles. I’ve resorted to closing and reopening 1Password on my Mac whenever I want to sign in to anything.
No, a charitable donation that does not recur is not considered income. (Ditto financial aid for students.)
Yep, this happened a few hours ago, so I assume OP is no longer actively checking this post. Anyway, I found the site. https://archgee.com/ It was interesting because it's not the typical market you would come across in HN.
It's the opposite imo. Knowledge specific stuff isn't what chatgpt excels at. It will be great for general programs but once you step into a niche, it just has a lot less data to work on
Reposting the archive link from the flagged sibling comment for those getting hit with the sign up wall:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240608185808/https://www.vanit...
> Gambling is stupid.

Not if the entertainment value provided is sufficient to compensate for the money lost. Not all benefits are monetary.
I don't think I ever realized that's why there are so many discussions of "employment contracts" here on HN (which has a heavy European population, from what I can see). In my entire adult working life in the US, I've never once had an employment contract (and still have never seen one or heard of anyone else with one, either).
I don't think it's all that rare. It's all the people that grew up with medical issues that preclude work. It's just that until the internet such people tended to be pretty isolated from most of society.
Nothing changes. A buddy always says nothing has actually changed in 20,000 years... Based on the description and other accounts of the bodies, sometimes found to be attached to the buildings... that the wealthy survived while abandoning anyone else not "worth it".
Fittingly, today I was stuck on a problem with a Python library[0], and tried asking ChatGPT. Three different times, it answered similar-but-different problems (while presenting them as genuine answers to my issue). We have a ways to go before we're obsolete, my friend.

[0] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78596316/how-to-serializ...
I love that the illustration of the siphon filter violates half of the two rules of a functioning siphon filter that they just explained. You know less by looking at it.
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> being sold something like health insurance as hedging risk is bullshit.

More precisely, what is now called "health insurance" in countries like the US is mostly not insurance, because it does not involve costly, rare, unpredictable events, which are the kinds of events that are insurable risks. What should happen is that those kinds of things (for example, insurance against injuries in accidents) should be separate from the provision of predictable health care services, which most health care services are.
Interesting, but there's one part I'm not sure I agree with.

> Pseudo-random number generators are useful for many purposes, but unbiased shuffling isn't one of them.

A properly seeded CSPRNG is perfectly fine at this. And if it's not, then all of our cryptography is pretty much screwed. This is why in modern kernels, /dev/random and /dev/urandom are the same (minus differences in behavior when the initialization isn't complete). As D.J. Bernstein put it, it's superstition to not trust CSPRNGs. https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@randombit.net/msg0... And if it's good enough for crypto, it's good enough for card shuffling.

FYI I am not a cryptographer