skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pretty cool, the offending line seems to be 08.10 [1].

I thought it was a little odd that he mentioned "impressive for a high school senior in 1969" multiple times throughout -- honestly I would imagine that growing up in the Space Age would have had a massive influence on technically minded folks, reminds me of that movie from a while back called October Sky.

In the interview in TFA with the game's author he mentions being skilled at calculus--seems to me that if you were interested in space/rocketry/etc. and had the aptitude it makes sense that you'd try your hand at programming a lunar landing game.

[1]: https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander/...
Literally, true.

But, just like that fraud-plagued business environment, scale is what really matters. If you had 10X fewer suppliers, each with 10X fewer second-tiers, and so on down the chain...then how much easier would it be for Purchasing's QC people to stop sub-spec crap from reaching your factory floor?
Proxmox Helper Scripts Website
Hi all,

As you may have seen, the official Proxmox VE Helper Scripts website has reverted to the old site, apparently for several reasons. I just wanted to let you know that the new site is still available and better! I am actively developing the site, and it would be lovely to have you all here. All credit still goes to tteck for providing these amazing scripts for us!

The repository for the website is also public, so anyone is welcome to develop for the site and bring new features to life.

I will try my hardest to keep the site as up to date as possible. but since tteck doesn't want any contact with me, its going to be a little hard.

(Still need to work on a proper domain)

The github for the site is:
https://github.com/BramSuurdje/proxmox-helper-scripts
I'm more addicted to Hacker News than anything else.

I make online games. Yeah, some people have problems with them, but for me it's the ultimate form of creativity and creation. I am crafting synthetic social experiences limited only by the power of my mind's creative and technical abilities.
What does "A&E" stand for? I guess the "E" stands for emergency room.
This is definitely mainstream.
Every time I use Safari on iOS it seems somehow kneecapped by default, so maybe whitelisting the browser is no problem.
FixPath is rpath for Windows executables
fixPath is a tool to modify the path to a certain DLLs (Dynamic Shared Objects) for Microsoft Windows Executables by rewriting parts of the executable’s PE header, when the .fixPath section is present and indicates support for such rewrite, but without having to realign the PE headers. In concept, it is similar to patchelf but instead of changing search paths, fixPath hard-codes each DLL to a particular filepath.

see fixPath project page:

https://github.com/nixcloud/fixPath

release with prebuilt fixPath.exe tool + test program:

https://github.com/nixcloud/fixPath/releases/tag/v0.1.0

i'd love to get in contact with microsoft research about this, in particular with the MSVC compiler/linker team.

best,
joachim
Standing desk only. No sitting and browsing. That was a huge change for me.
Worried about hair loss with creatine
Apple's competitors lose the PR war if they don't post to social media!
The trick is to automate that stuff imo. Having devs push buttons in jira is stupid.
In Ukraine we use to have a lot of 2G devices: energy meters, terminals in grocery shops, panic buttons and anti-theft devices.
It’s from 2010
In the US, subsidizing phones was a scheme that locked customers into expensive "buy out" scenarios where large, incumbent carriers could act like cartels.

Customers could get a "$1000" phone for effectively free on contract (the discount contingent on completing the 2 or 3 year contract, but with an option to "upgrade" the phone and renew the contract every year). To exit the plan, the "discount" was revoked, and the remaining value of the phone, which was often 80% of its MSRP, had to be paid off in full.

These phones were also required to be "carrier locked" (unable to be moved to another network, of which there are many in the US), installed with a carrier firmware that limited features, forced to run carrier apps and software, and were often stuck on the major OS version they were purchased with. Even high-end phones became effectively useless before their functional lives ended.

I think the EU didn't put up with this, but the US only much more relatively recently established similar rights and protections for cellular customers.
Most professional athletes including fighters lift weights or use machines.

If you want to add power to some movement then practicing it repeatedly at full force can work. But you run into repetitive strain injuries, it’s much safer to build power using weights and controlled movements.

Critically these are very focused workouts. A professional wants to build strength in very specific ways as unnecessary bulk is actively harmful in most sports.
This is the reason I didn't check the comments until a couple of days later - I didn't expect anyone to read this and I also figured everyone would be pissed haha - the response is more mellow than I expected for a semi-controversial HN thread though!

It also pissed off some investors, so everyone is pissed off - I might write about something a bit more positive next time :D
So by that reasoning, if I'm frustrated about global warming and I share an article without reading it I'm spreading propaganda?

And committing violence?

I don't think so.
Why the emphasis on lifting weights vs. pushups or pullups? Is there a different effect from actually using weights?
Show HN: I have created playground with no registration for Workfeed
Hey Hackers, David here again. I decided to create a playground because I noticed that most of you shy away from signing up to test the tool, and thus I didn't receive enough valuable feedback from the community. That's why I created a playground, which does not require signup. Please give a try, play with it, if you find it valuable great, if not please leave some critics for me to continue working on. Thanks a lot !!
I agree. I cut out YouTube, Twitter, Reddit, now I just scroll hacker News and CNN.

CNN is such garbage.

Sometimes I browse my own photo albums.
Before you can explain the effect of interconnecting 89 billion neurons, it‘s too soon to search for pixie dust.
still good to re-iterate known data.

lot of people on HN i'm sure like me, sit at desk all day.

good to be reminded to get up and workout.
The correct advice there is that you should do deadlifts and/or variations, but also for every weighted exercise, you should take the weight seriously and learn proper technique. Don't ego lift and let your form deteriorate. Done correctly it should be perfectly safe.

Personally I've found overhead pressing to be prone to to pulling my back, and only do it with a belt now.
I wouldn't pretrain from scratch, but continued pretraining is pretty popular for adapating LLMs to recent and/or custom data. (Sometimes this is referred to 'finetuning', however, not to be confused with 'instruction finetuning').
Simple economics: not enough people are paying for it so the focus is on enterprise.

My totally anecdotal evidence (three people at different companies exploring LLMs) say MSFT won't be getting the revenue from enterprise either
As with anything about health, a workout routine is always individualised, not just to the person's specific situation but also for the person's goals.

What you illustrated here is perfect for someone who's seriously looking into improving not just their general health but also their strength and, sometimes we have difficulty admitting, their looks. But for the purposes of breaking a sedentary lifestyle and get into a level of general fitness, basic bodyweight exercises is a good start.

When I started working from home full-time in the summer of 2019, I worried about my health because even though I was not working out in my last job, it forced me to walk and climb eight flights of stairs every day. Know what I started with to make sure I don't become sedentary? Just 10 push-ups a day, which then became 10 push-ups every 2 hours after a week. Then I added some squats, then some lunges, and so on and so forth.

Fast forward to 5 years later today, I either go to the gym, where I experience what you expounded on, or play basketball by myself every day. Just last March, I've set a deadlift PR of lifting about 25% more than my bodyweight.

And I attribute all of these progress to that simple "10 push-ups a day" in 2019.
I think the last time I bought a phone via a carrier plan was about 2007.
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That is an interesting point of view, however, needing to distrust and expect fraud from every outsource agency sounds exactly like their point, which was not the elementary “outsource = bad” that you make it out to be.
You can do so much with just a couple dumbbells and an exercise mat. This got me through the early pandemic when my regular gym shut down: https://darebee.com/workouts.html
I don't know, multiple people editing the same file sounds like it would be hard to implement in nvim. Idk though, I don't know how they work.

If they add more features, though, they'd have to make sure that they work with nvim. As the amount of features grows, that would become harder.

I would definitely prefer embedded neovim, but I can definitely see why they'd do it this way.
> it is called "personal accountability", I know its very hated on in the modern world, but please...

It's hated because people almost exclusively invoke it as a thought-terminating cliche instead of actually discussing the practicalities of cultivating and relying on it at scale.
It’s not my expertise. However, if it’s a barrier to adoption it’s a problem to solve and will be.

AI is exponentially improving and there is no reason to believe that this won’t continue.
xlwings is a competitor to VBA rather than openpyxl: openpyxl can read and write the Excel file on disk, without involving the Excel application. xlwings is all about automating the Excel application, and write macros and custom functions in Python.
If there is a way for LLMs to always suggest the best practices for a given task (e.g. upsampling on those tasks), then SE devs won't make trivial errors. So the knife can cut both ways. In fact it can become a source of uptodate information if augmented properly.
In the scenario that China and India barrel into atmospheric experiments, they may be able to secure group funding from the larger island nations with high levels of buildup near the coast. I think you make a good point that we are centuries into an experiment (or longer if one wants to group all anthropogenic change like megafauna extinction) and I think that people living in places that have a high coastline to area ratio will be more likely to see it this way - perhaps even considering themselves primary subjects.
> As long as there are teenagers that are susceptible to peer pressure and don't know marketing tricks, I think it could last forever.

Consider also that you might have made a mistake in your analysis and there are factors involved other than celebrity endorsements – for example, wouldn’t it be interesting to know why Nokia, Google, Samsung, Sony, LG, etc. weren’t more successful thanks to their own endorsements? Your own peer pressure might be hindering your understanding of the market.
Not a lot of info in here. And no, whoever wrote the title, the results are not surprising.

"Resistance training is linked to boosted brain health, especially in the elderly.

Lifting weights helps balance metabolism, which may reduce Alzheimer's risk.

Regular weightlifting may improve immune health and lower inflammation."

These are all things that other types of exercise also tend to provide. I think it's probably getting too granular to say a specific type of exercise is best. There are tons of studies out there touting one exercise type over another for one reason or another. Moderation and variation doesn't just apply to food (although with food you're generally moderating down, but with exercise most people need to moderate up).
Ah. That would depend on the definition of "Linux kernel" then, yes.

You are right, in the firmware tree, not in the pure kernel itself.
But that's not what they said, and Apple surely didn't train their model on the morning of the announcement
I don't think its a straw man so much as the alternatives to plastic straws are worse. One of those short-sighted policies that ends up being worse.
I'm currently reading the Propaedia and looking up things I don't know or am curious about in Britannica app.
The point of US dollars is that there are more people who accept US dollars for their trades, and therefore settling in US dollars is safe - you will always find someone else to trade with holding US dollars.

Barter, on the other hand, even if using yuan as the unit of accounting, has the drawback that you can only trade with people who accept yuan and is willing to barter with you (or you find a willing set of trade partners to chain barter with).
What causes long Covid? Case builds for rogue antibodies
A similar project is radio aporee, a huge corpus of field recordings from all over the world (see the "maps" section for searching etc): https://aporee.org/
I despise the gym. I "lift" heavy weights with a premium, portable resistance band set. You can load it to over 400 pounds of force and do dead lifts and squats.
Why is accounts needed for collaboration bad? What would be a better way to do that?
Start presentations on the second slide
How did you format the drive to avoid things like symbolic link issues?
> It's not the phone itself that they issue, it's the content.

There is such a thing as a teabag. Despite of a good tea has a perfect ability to be fit into these ones, there is a reason why nobody sells a really good tea in the teabags.
Also it is not just the "landed gentry" who will feel like they lost their investments but also the 64% or so of Americans who own their own homes. [1]

Ithaca NY has the unusual situation that much of the land is owned by universities, colleges and other non-profits that don't pay property taxes so residential property taxes are high. In recent years tenant organizations have come to perceive that any increase in property taxes is going to be added to their rent so in addition to trying to get more money out of Cornell they are becoming increasingly spending skeptic.

[1] https://www.financialsamurai.com/u-s-homeownership-rate/
Nothing surprising about improved circulation improving the performance of an organ.
F*ck is the fake version of fuck, so maybe it works for this case.
I don't know who decided it was right to flag you into oblivion, but GraphQL is unrelated to this.

You don't always have full control over the backend. You may depend on another team, or maybe even access a public API.
React was (and still is) good at that, but with suspense, it's as if they forgot that a Web-App may want to do more than just "take stuff from server and show".
> I don’t see why it can’t do the same for another ten years.

There is no reason it cannot work for 10 years, but also no reason it has to. Computer companies have a bad habit for dropping support for stuff when it is a few years old.
Apple Has a Style Problem
Ask HN: Dev Jobs by the Hour?
I was curious to know if anyone has found dev jobs by project or by the hour? A lot of job boards seem to be specific to long term jobs, but so much of software can be broken down into small issues or milestones. Just curious if anyone knows of a job board like that?

If it doesn't exist and people are interested. I'll build it.

https://mu.xyz/work
"Life Finds a Way, Inc." has had a planet-sized laboratory, running its Natural Mutation Engine 24x7x365, for a billion-ish years now. But no Gray Goo has actually evolved, and taken over the Earth.

Perhaps, "Gray Goo" is just another cool-sounding trope, and not a real-world possibility?
Are you also a fan of James Grage? :-)
Thank you for letting me know about this - I searched for other tender offers or liquidity for employees of WeWork and couldn't find anything (and the 2 former WeWork employees I know joined in late 2019 / 2020 - so they had a pretty terrible experience)

I will re-work that section so that it's factually correct
A Business with No End (2018)
We all have different personalities. I'm one of those focused people who sometimes forgets to even bring my phone along with me when I leave the house. My gf seems to have some serious catching-up to do on her FB horse diva group any time she picks up her phone. She might benefit from some kind of barrier, and I could do a better job of keeping in touch with old friends. Let's not bury our heads in the sand.
What a brilliant observation!
I'm old, but I still think that knockout.js is the bee's knees.
No-straw alternative is not worse.
Show HN: AI-powered survey generator that streamlines survey creation
There wasn't any graphical output or any frame rate to speak of in the sense you are thinking. The output would appear printed, like this:

https://www.cs.brandeis.edu/~storer/LunarLander/LunarLander/...

Only updating the mass/acceleration at ten-second intervals would be wildly incorrect!
Thanks, this was very interesting. I was happy to see that my play was indeed near optimal.
Things having a price isn't same as profit maximizing on everything. People don't purely profit maximize.

Are you maximizing profit in your primary residence? You might derive pleasure from having a large garden instead of building an industrial plant of same sort there, for example, or not rent out rooms, or have more shirts than you need instead of investing those monies into a business.
Chesire Cat: Production ready AI agent framework
Cars have been around long enough that we can look at 70+ years of history and conclude if it hasn't happened yet it won't.
A notebook is just an IDE for writing scripts. There's software you can use (like Databricks and Azure Data Factory) to orchestrate them. But obviously if you are building an application they can't be the only IDE you use. A lot of the confusion in this article comes from trying to use them in a way that they're not designed to be used.
Some very hand-wavey (and late) thoughts from an outsider:

The current batch of LLMs can be uncharitably summarized as "just predict the next token". They're pretty good at that. If they were perfect at it, they'd enable AGI - but it doesn't look like they're going to get there. It seems like the wrong approach. Among other issues, finite context windows seem like a big limitation (even though they're being expanded), and recursive summarization is an interesting kludge.

The ARC-AGI tasks seem more about pattern matching, in the abstract sense (but also literally). Humans are good at pattern matching, and we seem to use pattern matching test performance as a proxy for measuring human intelligence (like in "IQ" tests). I'm going to side-step the question of "what is intelligence, really?" by defining it as being good at solving ARC-AGI tasks.

I don't know what the solution is, but I have some idea of what it might look like - a machine with high-order pattern-matching capabilities. "high-order" as in being able to operate on multiple granularities/abstraction-levels at once (there are parallels here to recursive summarization in LLMs).

So what is the difference between "pattern matching" and "token prediction"? They're closely related, and you could use one to do the other. But the real difference is that in pattern matching there are specific patterns that you're matching against. If you're lucky you can even name the pattern/trope, but it might be something more abstract and nameless. These patterns can be taught explicitly, or inferred from the environment (i.e. "training data").

On the other hand, "token prediction" (as implemented today) is more of a probabilistic soup of variables. You can ask an LLM why it gave a particular answer and it will hallucinate something plausible for you, but the real answer is just "the weights said so". But a hypothetical pattern matching machine could tell you which pattern(s) it was matching against, and why.

So to summarize (hah), I think a good solution will involve high-order meta-pattern matching capabilities (natively, not emulated or kludged via an LLM-shaped interface). I have no idea how to get there!
Building Manta Ray, DARPA's Uncrewed Underwater Vehicle
> "It's not the phone itself that they issue, it's the content."

I take strong issue with this position.

(Disclaimer: I make professional broadcast and media-related devices and have an opinion, decades in the making, on what has been done with mobile phones vis a vis, making other devices redundant.)

It is the phone itself.

The phone itself has usurped the user of all agency, and responsibility, for their content.

>Ad companies

There is one entity responsible for this mess, and one entity only: the OS vendor.

If the OS vendor had not become "ad companies" and were still responsibly stewarding the operating system in proper directions, we wouldn't have the issue of ad agencies with their doom scrolling statistics.

>ban attention stealing algorithms

Its not the algorithm - its the raw, fundamental means by which the user has control over the device, and the media it produces. Nobody knows what a file system is, or why to organize it, or how to standardly distinguish between shared and private media - because the OS is no longer the primary interface to doing these things.

The 'ad agency' is, or rather the web interface it has built, to usurp the device, and give it a different 'application' than one intended to promulgate user agency.

The phone, in operation, is the problem. When we decided to replace a filesystem with a live stream of uploaded content, in a fashion which immediately removes the locality of the media from control by the user, we opened up the door to todays hellish landscape.

We should revisit the issue of what "is" an operating system vendor, and why they need to be woken up from their slumber to take over the application blackhole that is sucking life from our users.

>doom scrolling your banking app

I shouldn't be using a banking app. An app is only necessary because the bank uses a completely different operating system than I do.

Imagine your data stays where you need it to stay - on your device - and the bank has access to it when it needs to service you, the customer - as opposed to the current scenario, where the customer data is owned entirely by the bank and you need permission to access it.

The distinction between these two bases of operation are made by the operating system vendors. It has been 'easier' to API-all-the-things than make smarter interfaces, imho. That laziness has given us the monster.
> Spirit is trying to determine where the titanium came from, whether it meets proper standards despite its phony documentation, and whether the parts made from the material are structurally sound enough to hold up through the projected life spans of the jets, company officials said. Spirit said it was trying to determine the most efficient way to remove and replace the affected parts if that ended up being necessary.

Why are they even considering keeping the counterfeit parts in?

Is the situation that Spirit AeroSystems believes the eventual answer will be that the aircraft can't be used with known-counterfeit parts, but they're dancing around liability or PR, or they don't want to grandstand upon their customers' toes?
Yep, and even this comic is now out of date, "identify a bird in the photo? easy!"