skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So these points address the "traction" part of your appraisal. What makes the role or working for them great?
My understanding is that the environmental reviews were intended to e.g. help less-privileged people from having highways and refineries built where they lived. Of course it has been abused to no end by more politically savvy folks.
The reduced oxygen concentration prompts the generation of new red blood cells. That translates to a higher VO2-max back at regular altitudes.
> you want us to spend less on defense, and weaken our ability to protect from spies

What a remarkable misrepresentation of what I wrote.

I don't want us to spend less (necessarily) I want us to waste less and spend effectively. If you aren't just trolling and really don't understand that, then I'm honestly surprised you successfully found and clicked the reply button.

And since your reading comprehension is so bad, the $200k is not their pay, their pay is likely around $60-90k/year. The $200k was total cost to keep someone sitting in a desk producing nothing for a year, and a lowball. Quite frequently what happens, in high COL areas especially, they sit there for a year, get a Secret or TS clearance, and then bounce to a contractor for 2-4x the pay. US tax payers get nothing for it, but got to spend at least $60k on salary, another $30k on benefits, another $30-50k in other overhead, and $50k or more on the security clearance process itself. And in the end the position the person was hired for is vacant, has to be filled again, and the process repeats.

This is not effective, it is not efficient, it's just wasteful.
He didn't say no skill, he said less in comparison with other professional sports.
Reminds me of swimmer Mark Spitz who had a mustache at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, and won 7 gold medals in a world record. The Russian swimming coach asked him about the mustache, and he replied that American scientists had determined that it made him faster. A year later, in the 1973 World Championships, most of the Russian team had mustaches, while Spitz had shaved his off.
Saying "Thank you" instead of "I'm Sorry"
How I Designed Helpful 404's and Stopped Worrying about Broken Links
An Nd friend of mine uses it to rephrase things so he doesn’t come across as too blunt.
So llm is helpful for him at least.
That was the early EPO era.. there were some riders that died in their sleep their blood was so thick from massive amounts of EPO. Their red blood cell counts were excessively high.
Them and cross country skiers (for VO2Max domination)
High-resolution land surface dataset provides Earth system modeling details
I think many are just exhausted by all the people who constantly miss the forest for the trees on this issue. Supply and demand isn't really something that is taught in our school system unless you go on to take classes that go over this and other basic economic theories.
"Too bad TimApple has no sense of how to do anything other than chase growth …" I feel like this is more emblematic of the wider industry trend than Apple's own strategy that they chose to impose on us.

The focus shifted very hard over the past 15-20 years from selling people new and novel gadgets and software to turning us ordinary folks into "monthly active users." Personal computing got a lot less personal, and Apple leaned into it to stay relevant.
Couple of things:

I’m not sure this is dangerous, per se, as long as the dosage is measured. As you learn in school, CO is only poisonous because it replaces oxygen in your blood. There’s no negative long term effects as long as the dose never reduces the oxygen mix of air beyond what a human can survive on.

This is being used to simulate altitude training, so I don’t see how you can ban it. It’ll just mean all teams go back to altitude training instead. We don’t consider altitude training doping because that would be an insane position to take. Would you ban riders from mountainous regions from cycling?

That second point also means it’s not being dangerously configured because we know the oxygen % levels at different altitudes.

An interesting article, nonetheless.
Yes, some sites use text that is too small, but...

Browsers have (stateful) per-site zooming and if you want all text everywhere to be bigger, operating systems (including mobile) let you adjust this at the system level.
Discord vs. IRC Rough Notes
I wonder if there’s currently a lightbulb conspiracy against Hybrid Incandescent Bulbs

https://www.techbriefs.com/component/content/article/15641-t...
Never thought about this, but always surprised me how many people don't use AI at all; differences in personality might account for that
To be clear, the 8x was comparing the slowest ECR throughput measurement against the fastest S3 one. In any case, the improvement is significant.
I doubt it’s dangerous at all:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40948229
Seems like an odd solution. The problem, according to another non-paywalled article [1] is that astronauts complained about lack of liquids on long spacewalks and [glorified] diapers being annoying to wear. So this contraption which has a volume of 38cm by 23cm by 23cm was developed. I say it's weird because that's 20 liters of volume (to say nothing of the additional complexities/breakable stuff involved)! Why not simply use 10 or 20% of the volume and add more room for refreshments? And perhaps keep the idea of providing a tube, and just direct it to a diaper.

Far less complex, far less volume, far less mass, far less likely to break, far cheaper, and probably far more pleasant for the astronaut as well.

[1] - https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jul/12/scie...
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It's also really easy to ask someone to leave your office. Just because you're owed money doesn't mean you can trespass.
Honest question, why does the finger of entitlement point toward people wanting to build more or live in a place instead of toward the people who feel entitled to keep their neighborhoods stagnant, or entitled to rising property values?

Who gets to point the finger of entitlement, and why?
> I'm surprised at 0 comments after 11h!

There's so much frothy bullshit in this area that I'm not surprised people aren't paying attention.

This is not a comment on the paper itself, just on the phenomenon you noted.
Yes, from the developer's perspective, someone else is running the platform (the platform team). (At least, as long as the developers can avoid assuming ownership of the platform by managing terraform files or something, which in practice I've yet to see anyone avoid...)
Is Mesop and Web Components the cure to Front-end fatigue?
We posted on Show HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40567327 ~a month ago and got a ton of great feedback.

Since then, we've made a lot of updates to Mesop, including adding support for web components which allows you to write custom JS and wrap existing JS libraries.

We've also fully re-designed our home page at https://google.github.io/mesop
- with many more code examples and demo, which hopefully shows how Mesop is different than some of the other Python UI frameworks out there.

As always, appreciate any feedback about the project. Thanks!
I use OpenMPI with no issues over multiple H100 nodes and A100 nodes, with multiple infiniband 200G and ethernet 100G/200G networks, and RDMA (though using mellanox instead of broadcom cards, but afaik broadcom supports this just the same). Side note, make sure you compile nvidia_peermem correctly if you want GDRMA to work :)
Marketing. There was a recent article that hit the nail on the head. The author was quite prolific within his field, and always used Forth. He would be called in as a consultant to do a certain kind of work (mostly DSP programming), and could adapt his existing Forth code to the new problems. His coworkers invariably thought that he was _cheating_ by using Forth. They were Real Engineers writing code in a Proper systems language like C. Don’t you know all of C’s advantages?

The fact was that he could run rings around whole teams of C programmers. His implementation would be more efficient, more reliable, and cheaper to mass produce (lower ram requirements, lower power requirements, etc). But he could never stay anywhere very long because all the Real Engineers knew that C was the Right Language to implement things in. His better solutions were seen as aberrations rather than a condemnation of their own mediocrity.

That’s the power of good marketing. Forth never had an industry giant spending billions a year on marketing to convince all of the engineers that it was the best language ever. C, C++, and Java all did. All the VPs have read articles and attended conferences that touted C++ or Java as the best thing ever, but they’ve never even heard of Forth.
I feel like most people aren't trying to bring their whole home lab on their glamping trip, which seems to be the target use case for these.
Only someone who’s never cycled quickly could say there’s less skill involved. Try riding down the side of a mountain at 50mph and follow up your post.
That video was awesome!
I'd counter that the South is an interesting place in its own right. Skipping it because it's too much like Western countries is to miss out on all the fascinating ways it isn't.

Furthermore, I'd question the value of finding out for yourself what life is like under a famine-stricken, xenophobic, totalitarian, hereditary absolute monarchy. What is it you're hoping to get out of an experience like that?
I'd argue that going for 0 failures in virtually any domain will lead to inefficiency. You need some failures to get the feedback that you've "under-engineered" something. Without failures, you can guarantee that you've over-engineered it.

In a similar vein, I think proper risk acceptance policies shouldn't say "security/safety is our #1 priority", just like a good SLA doesn't guarantee 100% uptime. When you set a 99.9% uptime SLA, make sure you're actually down sometimes. When you want efficient rockets, you have to see some of them crash.
Bicycles are the most efficient form of transport... at moderate speeds. At elite level speeds you are so far down the exponental well of wind resistance that you need meticulous attention to aero savings and sustained power output. All of the possible aero gains permitted under the rules are already accounted for. That leaves power output as the only avenue for gaining a competitive advantage. No other sport has the same combination of antagonizing factors at play.
Try riding down the side of a mountain at 50-70mph and tell me there’s less skill in that
Thanks for the research and details - appreciate it.

> Meanwhile, most people in the city I wager have no idea any of this has been going on, since most local papers have shut down in recent years and LA times has severely cut down on its staff as well.

I think this is a bigger problem than just local news (although I do want that problem solved too). People simply don’t have time to keep up on all of this even if the news was there. We have too little time and too many source of information, entertainment, etc. to follow all of this closely. If you have a family, forget it. Personally I think the issue is more structural - like the ease with which small numbers of representatives or public employees can be influenced.
> License Windows NT from Microsoft and bolt a Mac-like interface onto it.

Gosh, am I glad that that didn't happen. I wonder how serious of an option that really was, it seems wildly out of place compared to the other propositions, which are all reasonable.
Here's my paper on recursive program synthesis using combinator expressions from 2006:

https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~oneill/papers/Combinators-ASPGP.pdf
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I'm a schizotype and a maintenance programmer among other things.

The maintenance programmer in me is highly skeptical of things that almost work.

I've seen transcripts where people talk to ChatGPT and it seduces them and they get giddy and it is like watching a "meet cute" in a movie and you can see somebody having so much fun interacting with it that they don't really see that what it says doesn't really make sense.

That's not me.

I love chatting with chatbots about old sci-fi books by people like Smith, Anderson, Niven and such. I've only met two people in my life who are better at sci-fi chat than a good chatbot.

Lately I have been asking Copilot for help with maintenance work, it does amazingly well at explaining strange but highly repetitive code such as the stuff the Babel transpiler inserts into code (stuff that is probably all over the training set.) Sometimes it beats searching Google and Stack Overflow.

I am working on several "second brain" programs that use LLMs for classification, clustering and other analysis but not doing any generative stuff right now. I use one of these programs to pick out articles from an RSS feed, everything I post to HN was chosen by that system and then chosen by me twice. I am using another to look through a collection of 250,000 images and another copy of that software to look at about 400 notes a friend made in Evernote. I am hoping to merge these together in the future. These projects are very much about building something that works with the unusual way I think.
Different ions with different charges. Sodium (Na^+) as you can see has one positive charge per ion, as does potassium (K^+), calcium has two (Ca^2+), and hydrogen has one (H^+). This charge is balanced with negative charges, a minority from chloride (Cl^-) and the majority from proteins. When it comes to proteins, they are comprised of amino acids which have varying charges and proteins generally end up with a negative charge from all of the sites where they can be protonated. Just for clarification, protonation is where a H+ (a proton) can ironically bind to a molecule with a negative charge, this is how most acids work (that's a generalization don't @ me, chemists)

So we have a shitload of proteins inside the cell with a shitload of negative charges, we have a variety of ions with positive charges, and we have ion channels which are transmembrane proteins that have a specific structure to allow certain ions of one charge or size or just all ions in general to pass through their pore. Some are leak channels which are almost always open, some open when a ligand (other molecule) binds, some open when they sense a certain voltage.

That takes us to difference in charge. The cell membrane acts as a capacitor, separating charge. There are many pumps that pump out positive ions to maintain this separation and different cells can sit at different voltages where the voltage is simply the difference in charge between the intracellular and extracellular space, this can be measured in whole cell configuration patch clamp experiments where we attach a pipette with a tip smaller than a cell to the membrane and apply suction to break into the cell so we can get a reading but that's a whole topic on its own

When it comes to excitation vs inhibitions, it really is about positive vs negative charges. Excitatory ion channels such as kainate AMPA and NMDA receptors pass cations, the positive ions, while GABAa and glycine receptors are ion channels that selectively allow Cl^- into the cell in adults.

The developing brain is weird and backward when it comes to Cl^- so again, another topic
The caps are melting and some people are all in on bringing back the woolly mammoth.

How about the woolly rhino while we're at it? Maybe open a zoo in Death Valley to house 'em.
For SaaS, I'd say it definitely improved and sped up delivery of the software from development machine to CI to production environment. How this translates to actual end users, it's totally up to the developers/DevOps/etc. of each product.

For self-hosted software, be it for business or personal use, it immensely simplified how a software package can be pulled, and run in isolated environment.

Dependency hell is avoided, and you can easily create/start/stop/delete a specific software, without affecting the rest of the host machine.
Thanks for sharing! This is a great project. It is quite close to the memoization part of `mandala` and I'll add it to the related work in the README. I think the similarities are:

- using `joblib` to hash arbitrary objects (which is a good fit for ML which inlcudes a lot of numpy arrays, which joblib is optimized for)

- how composition of decorated functions is emphasized - I think that's very important

- wrapping outputs of memoized functions in special objects: this encourages composition, and also makes it possible to run pipelines "lazily" by retracing memoized calls without actually loading large objects in memory

- versioning: in a past version of `mandala`, I used the solution you provided (which is now subsumed by the versioning system, but it still quite helpful)

The differences:
- w.r.t. memoization, in `mandala` you can represent data structures in a way transparent to the system. E.g., you can have a memoized function return a list of things, and each thing will have an independent storage address and be usable by downstream memoized functions. Most importantly, this is tracked by the provenance system (though I'm not sure - maybe this is also possible in `provenance`?)

- one big finding (for me) while doing this project is that memoization on its own is not sufficient to manage a complex project; you need some declarative way to understand what has been computed. This is what all the `ComputationFrame` stuff is about.

- finally, the versioning system: as you mention in the `provenance` docs, it's almost impossible to figure out what a Python function depends on, but `mandala` bites this bullet in a restricted sense; you can read about it here: https://amakelov.github.io/blog/deps/

Re:Unison - yes definitely; it is mentioned in the related work on github! A major difference is that Unison hashes the AST of functions; `mandala` is not that smart (currently) and hashes the source code.
Yeah, I think the only commercial OEM releases of NT that got sold were x86 and Alpha, though there was support for a handful of specific MIPS and PPC machines, I don't think there were any OEM sales of them with it. I do know that only x86 and Alpha had all the service packs released. There were also at one time internal MS builds on Sparc, but that didn't last long. Alpha did have some pre-release builds of windows 2000 that went out, but there was no final release.

A fun fact is that because of where he worked at the time was a DEC shop, the creator of PuTTY originally created it because he got an alpha windows machine and there was no compatible terminal emulator for alpha NT. He supported alpha builds well into the 2000s and IIRC only dropped it as the machine he was using still for builds finally died.
Early pricing is currently $25, but you are correct that there is no free tier. I made a preview video a bit ago in case this helps!

https://youtu.be/K57udxkfTyM?si=F_oK66r3HciCwK6Z
Urban legend.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Pen#Uses_in_the_U.S._and...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-n...
You inhale less CO and other pollutants on a bicycle than you do in a car. I don’t have the study to hand but this has definitely been measured.
I've said before that I think a lot of people that think they suffer from depression are actually suffering from despair. I guess the more clinical term would be situational depression.

It's understandable to constantly feel anxiety over rising rents and living expenses in the face of flat wages, and their constant poor mood from the stress makes them think they're suffering from depression, and they'll seek help. But a Prozac or whatever won't make you feel any better about having a 2-digit bank account after paying the bills.
On the other side of the coin its never you and all your neighbors. Its you and a handful of a noisy minority of neighbors with the free time to show up and complain at development meetings. No census on the issue was ever done. A lot of people don't care at all about apartments or not. Case in point: all the people living in and near apartments across the earth. And on top of all of this most people aren't even qualified to opine on sweeping land use decisions when you consider the economic knowledge required to put all of this in its correct context.
Don't agree -w/all this cynicism... (Did I get a programmer's joke to work?)

Your fastest open-cycle resource usage is water. If you can recycle your water, you've got much slower mass-growth per unit of time in free flight. This could make the difference between 8 hour spacewalk capabilities and 8 day spacewalks.
A few days ago I was listening to a psychologist interviewed about chatbots, and they explained a very critical issue:

Chatbots will always say what you want them to say, in a tone that you like. They will always affirm that you're right.

In contrast, in a relationship with a real person, they won't always agree with you, take a tone that you like, or constantly affirm that your worldview is correct.

So I would assume you getting along well with chatbots is by design.
My point was that a lot of older software, especially desktop apps, did not have such wild dependencies. Therefore this was less of an issue. Today with Python and with JavaScript and its NPM hell it is of course.
The example is poorly chosen in terms of practicality for this reason, but otherwise, no, this is a poor summary that misses something interesting.

The memory layout isn't changing in the faster versions, and there are no additional cache misses. It's easy to convince yourself that the only difference between the naive linked list and assuming linear layout is the extra pointer load - but TFA shows this is false! The execution pipeline incurs extra costs, and you can influence it.
I'll stick to https://jsbenchit.org/. If it ever goes down I'll still have all the code snippets in gist form, and a repo to self-host locally.
Lead Found In Psyllium Fiber Supplements

https://www.consumerlab.com/news/best-psyllium-fiber-supplem...
Seconded. Hard no.
The Financial Frontier
I think this is a common approach, but I was surprised that it starts to show the forbidden answer at all. I guess the latency for kosher answers is too great if you don't stream them as they are output.
Scurvy? The history on that one is quite interesting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scurvy#History