skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Considering what a huge percentage of modern US health ailments are self inflicted through lifestyle, it's hard to imagine future generations wouldn't look at our cars and our big macs with the same patronizing quaint view as we would healing with burning sticks.

The modern person who sticks to a healthy lifestyle while still having modern medicine for emergencies and misfortunes will surely live better than just about anyone in the past, but, that person is not the actual average. The average person nowadays has their health dragged down by modern lifestyle problems so much, that I'm not sure if they're better off than someone in the past[1], even with modern medicine

[1]: Cherry picking a pretty recent past, though. For example, the obesity epidemic was way less in full swing in 1970, but we already had modern sanitation, antibiotics, and vaccines by then, which eliminated the lions' share of illness. Once you go back before vaccines, it's a mixed bag. Still hard to say though, the diabetes epidemic is getting almost as bad as polio once was and trend lines keep pointing upwards.
It was always absurd to assign a blanket recommendation not accounting for climate, weather, exercise, and individual differences.
TIL a two dimensional plane isn't natural.
We seem to have been able to build GPS without this breakthrough.
I've never seen so many young people on bikes in the UK as I do now. Sure, the bikes are likely stolen and the kids up to no good, but at least one of them has TdF potential
These days I use the search feature much more than commenting or reading posts. The frontpage is the usual recent news addiction treadmill, while for research into niche topics you can find a treasure trove of interesting comments in the archives.

Want more posts about Lisp, Smalltalk and reverse engineering, for example, rather than the usual front page drivel? Search for them.

On one hand I wish Algolia didn't give very old posts a lot of weight (it often prefers to show posts > 8+ years ago), on the other hand old content tends to be before the Eternal September of tech-adjacent people coming to this forum to discuss tech-adjacent light content, so it's actually a feature. The real value of HN is its archives IMO.
Random question, but what are Apple adapters? Kind of hard to google it, lol
I couldn't imagine 35 cents. Here in the midwest we're paying 8-11cents. My water bill is billed quarterly and I don't use much over the base amount you get included with the service charge. We're talking 100$ for sewer, garbage, and water per 3 months. I have 4 bathrooms.
Block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click
Quality and productivity are not necessarily mutually exclusive
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoscience

Pseudoscience consists of statements, beliefs, or practices that claim to be both scientific and factual but are incompatible with the scientific method.
>niche use cases (such as WebRTC, WebUSB,WebGL, WebAudio and so on and so forth)

WebUSB is a lot more common than one might think, but I mostly see it used in music gear. Companies like Novation use WebUSB to facilitate firmware upgrades, backups, patch management, etc with their synthesizers and workstations.

Its pretty much a necessity for me at this point so that I can remain OS agnostic and still manage my gear.
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openais-annualized-r...
Huh. It's almost like these bigotries are structural, embedded throughout the system and making it much harder for anyone subject to them to get into the "owner class"...
> I don't think there's a single developer who is not using AI to get help while coding

It's banned at my company due to copyright concerns. Company policy at the moment considers it a copyright landmine. It does need to be "perfect" at not being a legal liability at the very least.

And the blog post image thing is not a great point. AI images for blog posts, on the whole, are still quite terrible and immediately recognizable as AI generated slop. I usually click out of articles immediately when I see an AI image at the top, because I expect the rest of the article to be in line: low value, high fluff.

There are useful LLM applications, but for things that play to its strengths. It's effectively a search engine. Using it for search and summarization is useful. Using it to generate code based on code it has read would be useful if it weren't for the copyright liability, and I would argue that if you have that much boilerplate, the answer is better abstractions, libraries, and frameworks, rather than just generating that code stochastically. Imagine if the answer to assembly language being verbose was to just generate all of it rather than creating compiled programming languages.
Here's a question, will accessibility be considered?
I fully realize my HN contributions are a bit of a broken record but also, if I don't bring this up, it appears nobody does so here we are.

Is this going to work with screen readers, magnification, speech recognition etc? I guess a more abstract version of that question is: Does Ladybird intend to offer some kind of feature parity with existing solutions where integration with OS-specific accessibility architectures (UIA, AT-SPI2, etc.) are concerned? If not, it's a non-starter for quite a few people, and I'd rather know so I know to even keep up with this project or add it to the "user first but oh not actually all users first" pile :)
Instead they have to model screens and the operating systems that allow us to change the temperature with only 6 clicks!
What is "the above"? The context was (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40844208):

> The one-sided pattern matching seems to be a peculiarity of Elixir.

And Erlang. And Haskell. And OCaml. And F#. And...

All of these "languages mentioned above" have one-sided pattern matching. This was the claim. Not more, not less. Are you disagreeing with this claim? Are you trying to say something about "one-sided pattern matching"? Or are you trying to say something about something other than "one-sided pattern matching"? You are not being clear.
The point is that credentials plus $3.50 will buy you a coffee in our democratic system. The system shouldn’t be designed to give more weight to your views on broad value issues-say through the actions of unelected bureaucracies or professional organizations—just because you have credentials.
Power Nap is another feature rather than a bug https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mh40773/mac
And to me, there's a distinction between taking a drug that increases availability of red blood cells vs taking steroids or meth.
It varies a lot. Later European archaeology is generally quite well-founded as it ties in to a historical record. While I don't have any familiarity with the Colosseum, I have heard that there are records of payments to sailors for manipulating the shades.

If you get further away from historical records, it does get more tenuous, but there is often a solid basis of scientific or technical evidence. My own doctorate is in use of physics for dating by thermoluminescence and optically stimulated luminescence, which together cover a lot of ground for stuff that cannot be dated by C14. There are several quantitative techniques like that, for instance for isotopic analysis which can be used for deducing trade routes. There are also many qualitative and semi-quantitative techniques, varying from traditional trenches and ground penetrating radar to pollen analysis (which gives you information on climate and ground cover).

However all of this has to be tied together in to a picture of human culture. That necessarily has a large element of interpretation. This is not unique - you can see the same pattern in fields like astronomy. Generally I think archaeologists are reasonably good at knowing when they are on uncertain ground. If I may give an example: in Scotland, mainly on the north west coasts, there are the remains of pre-historic buildings called brochs. The biggest stands 40' high, and it is possible to walk up through the stairs between the double walls to the top. We know roughly when they were built, but not why. There are several theories, but I find it interesting that there is an absence of dogmatic assertion that one particular interpretation is true, and it is still possible to have a sensible discussion about a "fringe" theory (my own idea is that some of them may have been for excarnation) which will centre on what evidence you might need to search for (bone fragments in this case).
It's great for multiple mail addresses. I get mail from multiple domains all in my ProtonMail inbox. Very easy to send from multiple addresses as well.

You can also turn on catch all addresses where you'll get all mail sent to anything @yourdomain.com. Very handy to create unique emails for sites I don't want to have my emails I actually use with contacts.

I can't really comment on multiple calendars. I haven't experimented much with that and get all my invites sent to one address.
Email in my profile. I run a small agency with a few web & mobile devs. We are in between the projects right now, and generally specialise in early stage startups.

Most of my team is based in eastern Europe so they are a bit more affordable than US / UK prices, but skilled ones are never cheap.

But to answer your questions:

> How do you go about it without getting burned?

The only way we found is via personal recommendations. You might be lucky with your first contact with a random, but could as well be unlucky.

> Do you go to a dev shop, or make a team of individual ones?

Either works, but I think going for a dev shop is a bit better because you know the team already knows how to work together, so there is a lot less initial friction.
employers care about employees feelings in so far as employees being happy is actually valuable to the company. Since we are in an employer market, they will essentially do whatever they want.
A CPU is really just a fast interpreter for machine code.
I think human's attempts to make busy beavers may be clean, but chaos being hard to control doesn't matter to the "real" busy beavers because we pick from the entire range. I think that's one of the hardest things to wrap human brains around trying to intuit how the sequence behaves. We are selecting for the maximally pathological machines. If there is a frontier between chaos, order, and simply never halting, we are deliberately hunting the one that is just barely on that line. I don't think clean patterns can ever hope to compete with one that is exploiting chaos to just that bit that barely walks up to the line and doesn't quite, after a number of steps beyond any human ability to write down with any amount of notation we have, cross it.

But yeah, it's an opinion. :)
As the article points out, the hardware was revised because it wasn't desirable.
PMs get promoted when doing the shiny new thing instead of improving the dull old thing.
When that American is fighting in a foreign force and aiding actively against US/alied armed forces as a combatant? Yeah I think that’s okay. You can’t hold off on a military target because some American mercenary is there. Those are the chances you take as a mercenary. We’re discussing a president who can now kill anyone he wants with Seal Team 6 and not face any repercussions ever, unless impeached, well I hate to say it but the current MAGA party will never impeach Trump under any circumstances.
My company moved from fastify to fastify with typescript, then to nestjs. I've found them all to be inferior to the frameworks that you get out of the box with .Net. I don't think javascript or typescript are good backend languages because you usually end up either writing the same code twice in order to manage ORM and deserializing your models, or you use some hacky framework to define the models while also providing RTTI. The only decent argument I can see for writing a backend in javascript or typescript is that your engineers only know one language, and in my experience that is the precise reason why node is popular
I wish that on a positive find Defender had a "for the nerds" section that says what exactly was found. Was there a URL Regex match, like this article gives an example for? Tell me that. I get enough false positives that I want to be able to vet them myself, but that's hard to do without just trusting the source if all get is a "This has been quarantined" without telling me why beyond a broad class of types of malware.
Why would Aleph* be necessary or relevant?

ZFC and larger theories are only relevant for infinite objects, not finite objects like BB.
Healthcare for one.
Would you consider the Collatz conjecture as potentially undecidable?

Because that one needs to be solved for BB(6) already: https://wiki.bbchallenge.org/wiki/Antihydra

Considering how we made basically no real progress on it mathematically in a whole generation, solving BB(6) within the next decades would be a miracle, and I would bet a lot against it.

I can't see us EVER getting to BB(10), no matter how advanced humanity grows (and it would be meaninglessly large anyway).

I think 765 is just a huge overestimation based on the fact that it is somewhat straightforward to construct.
Afuera!
The comments here focus on WordPerfect, reveal codes, etc, as is natural for a tech site.

But what struck me reading this obituary is that he was a graduate of Brigham Young University, lived in Utah, and was a strong LGTBQ+ advocate, appearing to be a member of that community himself. I can't imagine that was easy, especially in the past (googling shows it is still condemned by the LDS church today) and he seems to have tackled it through very strong philanthropy and support.

Kudos. Kindness and support for those who need it is a greater legacy than any technology.
That adding a motor would be upgrade and tinkering of a bike. So why should it not be allowed? Isn't it entirely in same spirit?
They don’t use DJI for the attacks, only reconnaissance, the attacks are done by FPV drones, all parts are Chinese.
This is incredibly useful advice that essentially everyone who gets to make decisions in this space hates

This article makes sense to me as a developer and an occasional manager of developers and a former student of psychology and honestly if you meet and talk to people who do actual work in any capacity sometimes in your life and had any honest assessment of their day-over-day work over any appreciable period of this time you will have a hard time avoiding this conclusion

But businesspeople and especially high-level investors are rewarded for ignoring it. I've been in a few C-suite and board meetings and while you occasionally see the folks there talk about their underlings, they tend to mostly talk about abstract measures of outputs, with "velocity" being a popular term in tech orgs in particular. If they mention a worker by name, they tend to be high-ranking, perhaps a manager, but usually they are getting a lot done fast, or used to be and now aren't. Seldom is the latter kind of conversation had with remorse, sympathy, or the slightest hint that the prior state was a direct cause

Developers, especially experienced ones, often know what they need to get work done. They are often realistic about how much work to take on. They are incentivised to take on too much anyway, because the culture of business is fundamentally deeply broken

As far as I can tell, there has been no point since the invention of factories and metrics at which this has not been true, the rule rather than the exception among the entire classes of owners and high-level managers. And what's worse is that often competent ones of these can get some clout by delivering results by realizing this, but as more of them are added to the decision-making process, their ability to resist this tide, either socially or through direct loss of power, diminishes
British work culture apart from some startups is complete apathy, slow service.

What we in the US do in a day, takes them about 2 weeks to do. Such is the wild difference.
That assumes that it occurs under a demoratic and moral president, all he has to do is blanket pardon them. It’s an easy problem to solve for the President. Circular logic is often just fine in legal circles.
I agree with you. I'm using a couple of different LLMs depending on what I'm doing and what happens to be easiest but the difference between them is marginal in my experience.

The only play for OpenAI et al in my opinion is to try to pull up the draw bridge behind them by getting legislation passed which makes compliance prohibitively difficult if that's not your core business.
> Linus was pretty steamed at the participants in that debacle (especially Tridge for some reason)

The reason was that Tridge was trying to build an OSS alternative to BK.
Ah. Cleaning data. The big trick going back to data warehousing.
> The wars are very different and IMHO Russia behaves much better in all phases (the lead up, and the war itself) than the US did in all it's invasions

This, like most of your claims, is full-on delusional, or just brazen propaganda. I probably shouldn't bother even answering.

Russian attack is best compared to USSR and German attacks in WW2, not any modern scenario. Both in the authoritarian and imperialistic setup, and in the execution that has no qualms with generating war crimes of all kinds.
Thanks, 10 years of HN and I was still using "site:news.ycombinator.com"
My personal semi-conspiracy theory is that cycling is the only sport that took anti doping measures seriously and sort of fucked itself over. All the "anti" doping measures in major sports are laughable. There's too much money involved for the athletes to be not on steroids.
Robinhood Acquired AI Based Investment Chatbot
fastmail would be lot better.

I migrated from paid proton to fastmail years ago and still happy.
Simplifying a key-value service using CHERIoT
The point isn't clear for you is it
What a world we live in when even the agencies have to deal with PMs
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40859993
> slightly charred ends of the sticks had been cut specially to stick into the fire, and both were coated in human or animal fat.

Wait, what? Where did they get human fat from…?
This sounds about right. I can switch tasks whenever I'm waiting for feedback on one, or I need to let a problem with one simmer unconsciously. Sometimes I'll pick up a quick chore if I don't have a block of time or energy to get into a meaty part of one. But sometimes you just gotta power through it regardless.
I think it failed for the same reasons that visual programming languages fail. Things that look good on a PowerPoint slide don't scale. Eventually you're forced to buy an enormous plotter just for printing your diagrams -- which you tape to the wall, and watch them get out of date.

I'd say that the final nail in the coffin was NoSQL databases. Everything about programming shifted to rapid, iterative development. Data integrity goes out the window; you just write your programs to be tolerant of data format changes. The quality of your data sucks, but if you botch a few orders, hey, that's just web scale. Move fast, break things.

It was dead before NoSQL, and Big Data stomped on the ashes. Lots of data, mediocre quality, but good enough for the Silicon Valley work.

Serious Software Engineering shifted to being about scaling, supporting vast numbers of customers with vast amounts of data. You have to put it elsewhere to do any analysis, and that analysis is probably at least partly wrong, but if it's within a couple of decimal points it's likely good enough.

There are places where data quality still matters. They could use UML, but it just wasn't information-dense enough to inspire the kinds of tools you'd need to make it really valuable. Like, reliable two-way transitions from your actual implementations and back. It would help if you had a good object-relational system, but that turns out to never quite work either. The differences in approach feel like you can harmonize them, but they turn out to be like translating human languages on a word-by-word basis. Even if it works, you hate it.

Anyway, that's just my $.037 (inflation adjusted).
The output of science has been quite effective in warming up the planet, and at creating ever better technology for killing each other, also without much questioning (of science's contribution to such things, or the wisdom of our culture using it as guidance for our actions and beliefs in the proportion we do, or what we might have accomplished if we'd invested more in other disciplines). And, science achieved this in only a couple hundred years!
That makes sense. I’m on the North of the island and it’s not even raining any more (for the time being).
Ask HN: What tooling do you use for SQL/DB migrations
My team is growing and maturing, and we want to start keeping migrations and changes to the DB structure in a deployable manner. What tooling have you found that works best for this need?
How about you help build that if you want that?
Recently went from using devcontainers to nix-shell. But in every new project I include instructions for both nix-shell + direnv as well as dev containers, so people can fully ignore nix if they choose.

A form of this which mixes devcontainer and nix might be the holy grail

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpBXrsVg83Y&t=941s

Positives

- You lean on the power of dev containers while still using a portable spec

- You get access to nixpkgs which is arguably the most exhaustive package library

- You get the "true reproducibility" of nix over docker

Negatives

- Docker remains the king for ephemeral databases, more convoluted to manage with nix
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Happy coding
Whatever the non-profit tries to spin it, the reality is probably a no.

"User first" definitely doesn't mean targeting all 8 billions people on the planet.
YES! Apple user base is very very valuable - in general the apple user base has money and is willing to spend it on shiny stuff
This isn't MicroPython though, and it's not similar either.
Anatomy of a Murder
Maybe not the current ones but as Commander in Chief he absolutely can form Seal Team 7, secretly have them swear complete loyalty to him, and then assassinate whomever he wants. I think you’re sincerely thinking logically about this within the confines of a working democracy, if Trump wins and with this SCOTUS decision, that all goes out the window.
I'm from a Jewish family that has been unable to pass down its rituals over the past few generations. My great-grandparents were observant on both sides. I have no religion or inherited rituals to speak of.

So how does a ritual get successfully passed down for something like 500 generations? What must the observer get from it that motivated them so strongly to pass it along with the necessary vigor? Was it something in the ritual itself, perhaps an altered state drug experience? Or was the motivation just cultural?

Is there anything in our culture that could possibly have such staying power, or is our cultural temperature so high that nothing can survive for long?
It's the other way around. The US has done a lot of work to contain Russia and not allow them to develop their economy.
If primates are not exceptional as prey, how is the deer irrelevant?

Primate == food;
Deer == food

Why would one food be different?
Uh.. no?