skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(Not an explanation of how it works, but just of how it could be true)

IIRC it follows a principle similar to the Hilbert hotel[0]. The idea is that you can split an infinity into an infinity[1] of infinite parts.

for a simplex example imagine all the points (n,m) where n,m are natural numbers, lets call this set P. we can split P into two sets:

- Q defined by all the (n,m) in P where n<m
- R defined by all the (n,m) in P where n>=m

Now you can "bend" Q by mapping (n,m) into (n, m-n-1) and R by mapping (n,m) into (n-m,m).

These bent version of Q and R are both identical to the initial P set.

This was a very informal and messy proof, but the core idea is the same: split the set (like a sphere surface) into many sets, manipulate (rotate) each one taking advantage of their infinity, recompose them as needed.

I do not think I am able to legibly comunicate the idea behind Banach-Tarski, but hopefully this gives some intuition

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Gra...

[1] the idea is that if K and H are two infinities then size(H * K) = max(H, K) for reasonable definitions of multiplication and size https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number#Cardinal_multi...
Tracking his flight: https://www.flightradar24.com/VJT199/35db3268
I'm surprised it took Google this long to come to this conclusion, there are so many UX downsides to infinite scroll, especially for SERPs.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/infinite-scrolling/
Google 'polarized training'.
It's 80% really slow conversational pace jogging, and 20% really hard, struggle to breath flat out sprinting.
Just avoid the intermediate jogging that's comfortable, but unproductive.
Why not go further and make it 'dark' or 'invisible' to the external network... thus its secure by default from external network attacks. As BunkerWeb is built on Nginx, this is relevant - https://blog.openziti.io/nginx-zerotrust-api-security
But there are plenty of industrialized societies where obesity is less of a problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_obesity_r...
This looks really cool! The only thing that seems to be missing is sync, since SQLite doesn't work well with SyncThing et al.

Something like cr-sqlite could potentially fix that though, although I'd prefer just plain markdown files for the backend.
Ok. Consider the age in days or microseconds of my cousins if that makes it sound more similar.

The point is that the random variable is about mappings to general numbers.

“The random variable X is a function mapping the outcome to its probability”

makes as much sense as

“The random variable X is a function mapping the outcome to the exponential of the square root of its probability”

Those are valid definitions of two different random variables - not a general definition of “random variable”.
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I'm not sure what you've done to your macOS install, but mine is also an out of the box Apple experience and I have none of that.
> Nobody is implying colonial rule is better.

The person I responded to was heavily implying that.
Yeah, the cynic in me wonders if this is to drive more traffic to page-1 links (which, incidentally, are often mostly 'sponsored' links). Maybe too many people had learned that hitting pgdn a few times yielded better search results.
Of course, the value of the system is that it's a global payment network. If the card brands started cutting out over regulated markets then the system would decrease in value for customers in it's main profit centres. The outcome is just that the rest of the world ends up subsiding European payment networks. The negative impact of policies like this isn't that the payment networks will start exiting markets, it's that they just won't innovate. Which is why most of the innovation in the payment industry recently has been in EMIs and in-app payment systems, which are both more expensive and worse for consumers.

But all of this is secondary to the point, which is your claim that a 3% processing fee is insane. The way the system works is insane, if you said today that you wanted to build the type of system that the card bands have built, nobody would believe that it would be possible. Especially not all for a 3% processing fee. If the payment networks didn't exist, everything you buy would be a lot more than 3% more expensive, and your quality of life would be very notably reduced. The value you're getting from them is a lot more than what you're paying to use them.
they tried to create a separate company, but culture was imported. It's called vw group for a reason. They have lot's of 'bureaucracy' and this is not specific just for vw. That's why things do happen so slow - changing the processes that do already work (poorly but work) is super hard when there are lot's of ppl that do praise these procedures
If it is the only tool you use and you came from a world of Skype/Lync, then for you Teams is a significant improvement. But for example if you come from Slack, Teams provides an abysmal experience.
this sounds interesting!

i think aa is linear in the number of terms, and reduced aa is linear in the number of independent variables, but possibly i don't understand your meaning
Difference is just 5.8 per 1000 person-years.

The effect size is very modest. You spend more time in exercising than increase your lifespan. The metaphor is literal, you are running from death and disease, and death is running faster.

What we need is review studies ranking lifestyle and health regimes by their effect size and combined effect sizes. Almost certainly combining two effective regimes increases the life- and healthspan more than their sum.

Whatever you do, the effect likely is probably just 5 years of healthspan (relative to your generation).

Wild guess: Body weight, proper nutrition, exercise, no stress, no smoking or alcohol and controlling inflammation in the body other ways, like dental hygiene[1] is the best you can do.

[1]: Patients with periodontitis have a doubled risk of stroke already before age 50
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/news/brain/patients-periodontitis...
Vista was bloated for its time, but man those widgets it had were so fun. Clock, dual car-like speedometers for CPU and RAM, calendar, weather, stocks, sticky notes. Luckily Android copied the idea soon after.
Near came out in 2005 and Nearer in 2024 so if we assume a halving of new edition times we should have Nearerer in 2033 and the Nearererererererere... explosion by 2043.
There is an undercurrent of skepticism and contrarianism bordering on anti-intellectualism on this forum - especially with those accounts started after the pandemic.

This is just one of dozens of studies that have shown that good cardiovascular health (a side effect of "vigorous" exercise) has a downstream positive effect on health.

And I personally can attest to that - the days I don't vigorously exercise (run, swim, BJJ, MT) are also the days I see the biggest cognitive declines - and I'm fairly young.
Some functions accept a callback and behave differently depending on whether or not the callback returns a value. If your callback is a single expression arrow function, then you might find it cleaner to just void the result instead of wrapping the body of the function in a code block (which prettier will format using multiple lines). Super contrived example:

import { produce } from 'immer'

let i = 1
const a = produce({ x: 0 }, draftState => i++)
const b = produce({ x: 0 }, draftState => void i++)
const c = produce({ x: 0 }, draftState => {
i++
})
console.log({ a, b, c }) // Logs: { a: 1, b: { x: 0 }, c: { x: 0 } }

The immer docs have a section about this pattern: https://immerjs.github.io/immer/return#inline-shortcuts-usin...
Are those the reason for all crimes done? And why isn’t this politically feasible? There has to be a solution?
I don't agree with it for games consoles as well, but a NES back then is completely different to a phone these days.

Everybody uses a phone, for everything now.
An interesting read, with lots of comments emoting views on morality which is quite distinct from legality. It's entirely possible the greater good was revealing awful acts by the US military. The offence here was in
conspiracy, and inducement/excitement to break the law.

Unrelated I wonder if the people who paid bail for Assange in the UK only to have him skip bail got refunded.

The OP points out a lot of half truths and hot takes exist especially around the Sweden side of things.
haha this is surreal - like the ghosts we used to see form on the walls when the paint chipped off of it - but this is so so early too and specific to remember
This fact is being used as an excuse that to ignore two other enormous problems: people refuse to grow up and take responsability on the one hand and on the other hand they are completly drowned in a sea of manipulation that does everything it can to make sure they consume as much as possible. Ban all advertising and foster a culture of maturity.
When I lived in the USA, I flew almost every month - for work, for interviews, for a few days in some nice place. It really was like catching a bus. But, man was it stressy. Just getting to the airport, going through the security theatre, commuting on soulless American freeways for hours on end.

Now that I live in Europe I do the same, but with trains - and it is a far more pleasant experience.

I've even just taken the train for a couple of days so that I could get some work done - nothing gets the neurons firing better than an 8 hour train-ride to Prague or an overnighter to Hamburg or Paris.

Its a pretty decent office environment too, if you book things right, or take a sleeper car. I know some folks who just take the train to work, not to get to work, on a regular basis. I absolutely love to be able to see the landscape scroll by while I wait for a build.. and have even had a TV set up in my terrestrial offices with such videos on in the background, although I confess that these days I really like those hour-long "walk through <city>" videos as a viable attention-boosting tool.

And, this being Europe, Internet access is not so bad - never had issues with my remote shells being terminated due to altitude limits or zoning issues. Beer spills, and the opening of the disco car, on the other hand ..
Show HN: Scene-AI powered all-in-one web design workspace
Hey everyone!

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We focussed primarily on collaboration: what it looks like when teammates with different areas of expertise work together to build a site. We did a deep dive into how designers and marketers work today, and how they envision working in the future.

AI will be a big part of that future. But AI is not here to replace the web design process. We know designers don't fully trust creations made entirely by AI—and why should they?

Instead, AI is here to lend a helping hand. It can help you get past the ‘blank canvas’ stage with suggestions, and level up your creative ideas.

We'd like your feedback on these two key areas:

Collab - Scene is designed to help team members work together, making it easier to share ideas, provide feedback, and iterate quickly. We’re eager to learn more about how you currently collaborate on projects.

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Caching the retrieved results for future follow-up page 2 queries is nontrivial. It’s also not clear if it’s worth it, the number of requests going to page 2 are in the lower percentages at best, maybe even <1%.

So what you typically do instead is to just issue a new query and request 20 instead of 10 results, drop the first 10, and voila, there is your page 2.

I do not know if this is how google websearch does it though.
Why deal with real people when we can plug ourselves into the matrix? Until we get so bored that we ask the matrix to create fake people for us to interact with.
i hadn't, this is fantastic!
In 1939 Moscow invaded Finland, killed 25,000 its citizens, annexed 10% of territory. Do you claim Finland should have been Moscow ally afterwards?
The article begins with VW investing $5B on them. Gotta love crappy Bloomberg journalism.
Also a Tesla owner. Hate that can not use Car Play. What am I missing? Google maps lets me search by topic, Telsa doesn't. I end up having to pull out my phone to find anything. Then to add insult to injuiry, 50% of the time I pick "share" and pick the Tesla app it fails with some error message and I need to get out of Google Maps, launch the Tesla app, then go back to Maps and share again. No other app on my phone has issues with sharing .

Another feature I miss from
CarPlay is my podcast app. Instead, to listen to my podcasts I have to again use the phone instead of the Tesla console.

others include that my phone streams better and has more services. I could take a video call with CarPlay or stream something from a service not available on Tesla

I'd also like to use a functional browser on the large screen while charging. Tesla's browser has crashed on me just trying to read the Tesla manual. It's useless
What do people there vote for? Is it identities or is it pressing issues or propaganda or what?
Not really, Banach-Tarski is very similar to the hilbert hotel with odd-even rooms, the genius is in finding a way to recompose these parts using only rotations.
The average never tells the full story, it can be heavily impacted by a few order-of-magnitude outliers.
You can not rent your property to a doctor or a teacher only in the off-season.
i searched through the page and have not found `find ... -printf "%M %n %u %g %s ...\0"` mentioned. this way you get ls(1)-like output, yet machine-parseable.
This is so arbitrary. State what you want, make it explicit.

if ( list_of_names ) { ... }

doesn't make any sense at all. For one thing, `list_of_names` should only be allowed to be `null` in exceptional cases; disallowing it removes a whole class of errors.

Second, imagine you have two handy operators / functions `not` and `is_empty`, then the above becomes either

if ( not is_empty list_of_names ) { ... }

or

if ( is_empty list_of_names ) { ... }

as the case may be. In which universe is that too long for a load-bearing program that people depend on?
I didn't hear much criticism. Have always thought they did well with the styling. And yeah, I might even say they have the best brand image of any electric car company at this point - which could be a big part of why VW wants this relationship.
yes! I loved all the weird and funny easter eggs hidden in the OS. Magical time.
Wow, I had to check a lot more apps before I found one that used the standard page setup. I eventually relented and opened Pages — for anyone who wishes to bypass all that hunting around!
Moving objects precisely with sound
Ask HN: Should I stay at my default dead startup or go and do something else?
Hi everyone,

As you can probably tell from the title, I'm one of the cofounders of a VC backed startup. I've been working on this startup for about three and a half years, but we've pivoted a couple of times and have been working on this particular iteration for about two of those years.

In that time we've raised about $10m, have about $7m left in the bank, and are a team of about 15. We are making basically zero revenue (a rounding error amount), and almost for the whole of the three years that has been the case. I find my cofounder very hard to work with at this point - for a variety of reasons.

I feel very tired, and it has been a huge slog to get this latest version of the product out and I have little confidence it will meaningfully impact the metrics that matter i.e. revenue and retention.

But at the same time, I know that I want to build another startup.

Does anyone have any good mental models for how I should think about whether or not to stay at this startup any longer? I feel a sense of obligation to our team, and obviously we have a reasonable amount of cash in the bank (investors want us to return this), and I feel obviously worried about leaving without a clear plan on what to do next.

Would appreciate any thoughts!

Thanks!
Infinite scroll is probably the absolute worst ux feature ever conceived.

Love to see it get ripped out of everything.
Would you like to sign up for free time on our system to do it "right"?

https://hotaisle.xyz/free-compute-offer/
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Pretty much, yeah. A credit score is a descriptor of the risk of financial loss when lending the individual concerned some money.

So the only real way to grow and keep the score high is:

* Pay your credit card and loan statements when they are due (late payments imply you don't have money).

* Keep credit inquiries to the minimum necessary (an inquiry means you're asking for a loan, implying you don't have money).

* Don't max out your credit limits if possible (you're taking and maxing out lines of credit, implying you don't have money).

* Keep old credit cards open even if you don't use them, if it's practical (a longstanding open line of credit implies you have money).

* Keep doing all of the above for many years (a good credit score implies you have money and will pay back debts incurred).

There's no magic or mystery to it, it just takes a lot of time to grow and keep high because you're building and maintaining trust with banks. You know that old saying? Trust is built over years but destroyed in a second? Yeah.
> are same old dated mindsets, dated biz models, etc

Probably best the jetpacks aren't made by slaves, so I guess they need paying for.
So there is Apple, a massive company that makes software and has struggled with its car project, and VW, a massive company that makes cars and has struggle with software.

In another universe, I wonder if this could have been a partnership?
> we can inflate big arenas

Read that as hyenas. Amusing thought!
There are also some interesting digs going on in some of Cardiff's football fields:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/25/preh...
Yet you can easily switch to a different "gatekeeper" like Deezer while it is not possible.
I think they call that focus "AI Engineer".

Edit: just realized you might also be thinking of "MLOps". See end of comment.

It's what I have been doing for the last two years but I refer to it as "software engineer with a recent focus on generative AI".

I also think AI Integration Engineer is good but I have only really seen AI Engineer.

The thing is, up until a few years ago, doing useful things with AI generally did require something more like machine learning knowledge.

But now that we have general purpose models like gpt-4o, Claude 3.5, LlaVA, etc., you can just do an API call and in a day or two have a more functional system than what a machine learning engineer may have spent months training a custom model on previously.

So that somewhat explains the confusion. I think it's best to just honest. Most applications actually don't need "real" ML knowledge or custom neural network architectures or training a model from scratch.

I do think that ML is a good field to be in if you have the patience to learn the math and about neural networks etc. But I think that is not what you are talking about. And the architectures and models are very general purpose so as I said you can work on many applications of ML now without having that background.

Go to the Anthropic or OpenAI documentation and copy paste their examples and try inserting some customization into the system message using an f-string.

I think MLOps is also a thing. Go to HuggingFace and RunPod and practice deploying models with Python. Also find some tutorials on LLM pre-training, fine-tuning, and evaluations. Check out Predibase.

A big thing right now I believe is Diffusion Transformers. If you can find some article explaining how to run a training job for that, you may be able to help people.

If you want to "cheat", check out replicate.com. cog could be useful for self hosting ML models outside of replicate.com also.
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I was using this on XP!

Edit: Noooooo I was playing some other program! It looked slightly better than this. Can't find it now :(
1984 was already served during the coronavirus pandemic when vaccine mandates were enforced via smartphone apps.
On the topic of time.

I’m a fitness person, I love it and have made it large part of my none professional life. One of the most annoying things I hear fitness people say is:

We all have the same 24 hours.

Yeh no, people don’t and telling them that isn’t helping. What’s better is to accept people have different lived and see how exercise can be snuck in.

Getting off the bus two stops early to get a 10 minute walk for example is a pretty manageable one.
I recalled the big WiFi sign in the middle of the Torres del Paine trek. When you come closer it says in spanish: "no wifi, enjoy the nature"
It would be ok if the scroll bar and slow loading could be solved. However I don’t think they can be.

Rest in hell.
As I used to do a few years ago, I'll go straight to the 4th page
I think it has to do with the fact the ISPs are responding to requests automatically and don't fight for user privacy.
The situation in Greece is really dire if they think Germany's internet connectivity is much better than there.
The person that doesn’t need modern infrastructure because they are at peace with nature is literally the noble savage
Also you can just wear your customers down over time apparently. I wish I could make Apple Music's subscription nag screen go away for example, I have local music I sync to it iPod-style for when I'm travelling through areas with poor data reception and every single time I open the app it whinges at me that I'm not subscribed.

What will it take to make these companies realise I'm perfectly happy with my current music streaming service and I don't want theirs regardless of the price it's offered at? I find it very disrespectful as a user when software can't take 'no' for an answer; my 'no' isn't 'maybe if you wear me down with enough nag screens' it means 'no I'm not interested please go away'.
If I remember the paper correctly, it also uses a metric that isn't just the usual euclidean one.
If on top of rigorous, you want them to be formally verified in Coq at the same time as they are computed: https://www.lri.fr/~melquion/doc/18-jar.pdf
Why does the EU have no tech industry?
My mum couldn't use WhatsApp because her font size is too large
Based on your blog, you have Sri Lankan ancestry. From the failed Dutch attempts at colonisation. That came after the failed Portugese attempts.

Did British colonisation really have significant local support from the Sinhalese?

Because I feel like the fact that there were two Kandyan wars before Britain managed to take control of Sri Lanka is a strong argument against that.

And if the British colonisation had so much local support, then why did they import Tamils, surely the Sinhalese were eager to work for them?

Colonisers have always played off groups/tribes/petty kingdoms against each other to gain a foothold. Substantial support? Citation needed, seriously.

And as for India not being held by arms alone, true, it was also held by alliances with petty kingdoms and diplomats playing them off against each other.

As well as a bunch of armed soldiers invading when push came to shove.

This is exactly how it played out in Ireland too. Where my family is from - on the coloniser side.

But then India wasn't a coherent polity at the time - which is the point I made in a previous paragraph about how colonisers rolled.