skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Extensive reading is a better way of building and maintaining vocabulary than anything you can do with flash cards

Eh, I think that this is only true at certain ranges of fluency development.

Note that I am a huge fan of extensive reading, and I don’t think folks use it enough, but…

1. It’s usually prudent to brute force the first few hundred words, maybe up to 1000, depending on one’s access to quality graded readers. The theory says that you want 95-98% lexical coverage for extensive reading to reach its highest potential.

2. To maintain general fluency, extensive reading just can’t be beat.

3. That said, for domain specific vocabulary and/or low frequency vocabulary, cards are almost necessary since the space in between exposure can be incredibly wide. For reference, as a native speaker of English, I still add new words that I run across to a vocab memorization list — recent additions are petard and malapert. Frankly, I’m not sure I will ever run across these words again in a text, but I want to know them and (in the case of malapert) use them. For specialists in a field, knowing things like “nuclear non-proliferaiton treaty” or “bilateral negotiations” might be worthy of flash card study for folks in politics/political science.
Most portable electronic dehumidifiers are just small AC units with the hot and cold side in the same room.
Hate to bother you with a reply on this, but, since you mention ...

I beg to differ, I actually checked.-

I'd hate it if I had been less than consistent :)
PS. At least from about 2021 on ...
On the other hand, how would anyone have heard about this? This is the very first time I'm hearing anything about Section 174.

Plus, this doesn't really explain Europe's tech sector dumping, since from a quick search this is entirely an American thing.

So maybe you're just as wrong as anyone else?
My mental model is Exchange is a really database, Outlook is a database client, and SMTP is bolted on the side. Things that make sense in the MS ecosystem map poorly onto SMTP/conventional email, but that doesn't stop them foisting it on everyone...
I'm pretty sure that's a hand painted customization by the owner.
Research PoA and PoS and you'll see what you have suggested has been done.
Nearly all browsers, scrapers, etc use the same user agent these days. Tools such as curl and wget are the only ones that come to mind off the top of the head that don't do that out of the box.
Excellent - let me know how you get on in Spain!

I definitely had some hallucinations to start off with. Mainly when I hadn't quite nailed down the prompts and it was just making up train stations in Oaxaca (turns out there aren't any intercity train stations in Oaxaca). From my testing though they all seem to have been ironed out but I'm constantly tweaking to improve.
So, can we now write a plugin for Obsidian that syncs changes to Google Drive?
Using your restaurant example, if the restaurant closes it may not have much obvious effect on other nearby businesses. However, that restaurant would have given business to various food and consumables suppliers, to waste management companies, to an accountant etc. All those businesses have now lost a source of income and may be less profitable.

Perhaps the restaurant was leasing the premises from a landlord. The landlord may still have a loan for the business premises. That loan could be at risk of going into arrears if no other person decides to try their luck running a restaurant in a location that doesn't have sufficient patronage.

Consider now that the office workers who have refused to RTO work for the bank that holds the loan for the business premises. There is a risk to the bank now that the premises is less valuable because it can't be leased and is less attractive for a future purchaser.

The point is that most businesses don't operate without having other businesses as suppliers or clients. When one business does badly it can affect other businesses in their network. A small number of isolated businesses failing doesn't cause knock on effects. However, if a larger number of smaller retailers, dependent on foot traffic close in the same locality it will have a ripple effect out to many other larger businesses.

Business owners and executives have an interest in trying to maintain a healthy business network. Some will believe that pushing for RTO should help other local businesses in their business network and thus will be beneficial for their company in the long term.
You probably have a job right now.

To me, laid off twice in 18 months, currently three months unemployed, engaging daily with the Sisyphean madness that is finding a tech job in 2024, the author's darkly humorous, off-the-cuff style resonated deeply.

Given the attention it's getting here, I can only presume I'm not alone.
You plain read my comment wrong. The things that Apple prevents (like the changes to make fingerprinting harder) are already illegal in enough markets that no big player is doing it. The tracking that Apple enabled is tracking that everybody does. The net effect is a reduction in privacy in private mode.
Yea, seriously. Much like how people complain about fizzbuzz until they see how many people can't do that, the amount of candidates where basic "so tell me about how you approached a major design decision not going the way you wanted" question had them essentially admitting to being vengeful and petty is weirdly high. Or people when asked how they dealt with a junior engineer who put in a messy PR essentially recount how they traumatized a new kid.
Lately, I've been developing with Next.js, a React.js framework with full-stack capabilities thanks to React Server Actions and API routes. I decided to create the most useful diagram possible directly from the codebase out of curiousity and because I really like Mermaid.js. I put in plenty of love and know-how to reduce the clutter and focus on the greatest user-affecting insights from a developer standpoint. I ended up producing a diagram generator of frontend components to server actions flow. If you develop with Next.js, you'll love this experience. Based on the article, here's my review of my creation:

+ Real-Time Updates: ApiDiagram generates code directly from the Typescript source code.

+ Elegant User Interface: ApiDiagram utilizes Mermaid.js for the cleanest visual representation.

+ Exact Version Control: ApiDiagram displays the git commit hash of the repository snapshot.

+ Single Source of Truth: ApiDiagram statically analyzes source code using TypeScript.

- Incapable of Managing Cloud Resources: The diagram cannot assist with managing cloud resources.

- Limited Collaboration Capabilities: No way to collaborate yet. Stay tuned :)

I'm also working on a GitHub Action/App that will do an architectural diff on the PR. The core idea is to get insights into architectural changes affecting end-users on every code change. Still in the works, but I would love to hear any thoughts. It's like an instant mini design review on each PR when there is a major change.

https://apidiagram.com
They'd end up like SO ...
Ah, yeah. The "you didn't know you were an exhibitionist, did you?" specials.
> Meanwhile in AWS you would pay $27k a month to have the same IOPS as a Lenovo Thinkpad X1.

Curious about how this number was arrived at and what products were involved
I’d guess it helps short-term survival.

Eg: Rest your twisted ankle through pain and inflammation instead of keeping to use it.

Even though it increases recovery time, better be on the safe side of decreased usage to avoid further damage.

Which is why in modern times RICE speeds up recovery (rest, ice, compression, elevation) in twisted ankles.

But we have ratio- which mammels didn’t have for millions of years.
I was waiting for something like this since the "death of the third-party cookie"
Good advice but not good general advice. This will benefit some but many more people will get frustrated and learn to dislike math.
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I just came to ask basically the same question. Why does inflammation exist, what is its purpose, how did it evolve, are there downsides to blocking it?

We have entire classes of drugs including OTC ones whose entire job is just reducing inflammation, its indicated in tons of diseases and conditions, lots of health industry people (and snake oil salesmen) tell me that x and y and z cause it, but I dont really know what it is.
I can't tell if the author is being funny / hyperbolic or has never looked at levels.fyi.

Google pays basically the same salary as a series A startup would (ie: $150 - $180k / yr). Yes, you'll get your salary again in stock but you aren't necessarily getting left behind by choosing to punch lottery tickets because you enjoy it.

People need to, and I need to say this to myself too, smell the roses occasionally. You are paid an absurdly comfortable salary to basically solve puzzles all day. The meetings and people can suck occasionally but I can't imagine a much better life if I have to work for a living.
Tarrifs don't preclude subsidies, and can often help fund them.

As I said, while we need solar yesterday, can we really afford to not have it tomorrow because we failed to create a competitive industry?

> Moreover, can you put tariffs on panels made domestically by a Chinese company? The panels aren't imported or exported.

Foreign ownership of many strategic industries are tightly controlled.
That's the main point that make the article harder to read. Some of it is obvious hyperbole but some is just too much.
Not "throwing more data at them" but having the AI discover things by searching. AI needs to contribute to the search process to graduate the parrot label.
Wow very useful comment, thank you very much for all the work to write it!
That's definitely true for random cheap things you're looking to buy. Unless you need it quickly, there is no reason to buy on it Amazon. You can often find the exact same item on Aliexpress for much cheaper. Shipping has gotten a lot faster from Aliexpress these days, too, though it's still on the order of 1.5+ weeks for most stuff.

The types of products I'm willing to buy on Amazon is quickly shrinking because you can't really go to Amazon for assurance that the product you are buying is genuine anymore, either.

I've gotten 2 counterfeit micro SD cards (confirmed counterfeit by contacting Sandisk) that were "New, Ships and Sold by Amazon.com" in the last few months. They had barcode stickers added to the back of the packaging which, from my Googling, turned out to be stickers Amazon places on returns which made what was going on pretty clear. Someone orders genuine sd cards then returns counterfeits, and Amazon just spoils their inventory by blindly accepting the returns and throwing them back in the inventory to be sold again.

Amazon has no place in their customer support maze to report this and if you try to leave a review saying you received counterfeits (which isn't even the right place to complain about this issue because it's a fulfillment issue, not a product issue, but they leave no other choice) they block your review then pester you with a chatbot asking you for more details about why you think it was counterfeit but limits your responses to multiple choice options that don't fit then gaslights you by saying the product couldn't possibly be counterfeit because Sandisk is a trusted partner (the same company that confirmed they were counterfeit).
That's been medicine since the 1930's
CSS was not meant to be used by programmers but by designers... so yeah there's a disconnect there. But that does not mean programmers cannot use it the way it was intended to instead of making it, at great cost, like what they would have wanted it to be from the beginning!

Also, wouldn't you say that there are also many rules and guiding principles necessary to write good javascript? Genuinely curious here.
It's my right to greet guests to my house by singing Don't Stop Believing by Journey flat and terribly off-key. If they complain, I'll tell them it's not that I'm a bad singer, they just aren't my target audience!
The green shitshow was just an opportunity to replace one energy supplier (oil barons) with another energy supplier (green barons). The group lobbying for it thought it's going to benefit their companies. Now that China is eating their lunch, there is no point to lobby for green anymore. None of them cares about the environment.
The title is misleading. The article is not that dating apps don’t work well (they clearly work if you look at the stats for relationships). It’s that they haven’t cracked how to make dating apps be a good business for them.
It’s because they are writing for the masses. What happened to professional writing? This:

“When The Wealth of Nations was first published in March 1776 David Hume wrote to his old friend in terms of the greatest praise, while qualifying his hopes by remarking that ‘the reading of it necessarily requires so much attention, and the public is disposed to give so little, that I shall still doubt for some time of its being at first very popular’. (Corr., letter 150.) Strahan, Smith’s publisher, wrote very much in the same vein when commenting that the sales of the book had been much more ‘than I could have expected from a work that requires much thought and reflection (qualities that do not abound among modern readers) to peruse to any purpose’. (Corr., p. 193 n.)”

Excerpt From
The Wealth of Nations Books I-III
Adam Smith

Are people on HN wiser than the general populace? If they are, I imagine the wisest of them must be lurkers.
While not a solution to everything wrong with the job market, making posting of ghost jobs a criminal felony would instantly eliminate that problem. It's only done because it's something that has no downside or cost for the employers and pushes endless hardships on job seekers. It's basically a form of wage theft from people who didn't even agree to work for you. The pearl clutchers will react to this with horror because despite all virtue signaling about how much they care about labor issues, when it comes to there being actual real-world consequences to the capital class for abusing the labor class, all that concern rapidly evaporates, and their false virtue is exposed for what it really is.
The main effect of slow rollouts on me is that I never use the feature. It goes like this.

1. There's a service I use sporadically or used to use

2. They announce a new feature that might potentially mean I'll start using it again/more

3. I read the post, log in and realise I don't have access yet

4. I completely forget this ever happened.

Surely all the effort that goes into announcing these things is a bit wasted ?

What happened to the a nice "Labs" switch to opt into stuff that's new and a bit raw?
Great news! A new era has begun.
Invoker Commands in HTML
It seems the author purposely tried to make this article as long as humanly possible. That's not going to make me want to read it more or think you, the author, are very smart because you write a lot of words.

Edit your blog post down to a few hundred words and then I'll read it.
Inflammation is typically experienced when the body is responding to an infection or injury. It is a normal, and as per current understanding, a necessary part of the body's immune response.

The Cleveland clinic has a nice, informative page if you want more information [0]

[edited to add]

The response of the innate immune system to the infectious agent / injury is what causes inflammation - i.e., for instance, fever, swelling, etc. It is a very very complex multi-cascade process, but one of the first responses to an injury, for instance, is the release of signalling molecules that results in localised swelling, slightly elevated temperature (which makes the tissue a little more inhospitable to bacteria / viruses), etc. all of which serve as the front line defense. <This is a severe over-simplification> Wikipedia has a good explanation that goes into the roles and triggers of the inflammatory response. [1]

Acute inflammation in response to infections and injuries is a good thing, and from everything we know, it is a necessary part of the immune response. The challenge is when the same inflammation response is mis-directed to target the body - for instance, in rheumatoid arthritis, and other inflammation related auto-immune disorders.

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/21660-inflamm...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation?useskin=vector
Maybe comment on the points made, instead of being cute and pedantic?
i'm sure OP is losing sleep over this
Do anti-inflammatories like ibuprofen offer the same protections?
> Sure, you can pay more scientists and probabilistically increase the rate at which problems are solved, but you can't predict how long it will take, how much failure it will involve, whether a particular scientist will solve a particular problem at all, whether that problem is even solvable in principle sometimes.

Fully agree, search is hard, unpredictable and expensive. Also a matter of luck, being at the right place and time, and observing something novel. That is why I put the emphasis of AI doing search, not just imitating humans.
So how it works is they have specially bred or engineered microorganisms (usually bacteria, yeast, or algae) in fermentation vats. There's been a lot of these startups, going back 10-20 years at least. They can get sugars, proteins, alcohols, oils, or even hormones like insulin, depending on the gene expression. Many have been focused on biofuels for engines and heating. This startup is hydrogenating the oil into margarine. Technically they pull carbon from the air, and hydrogen can be sourced either from water or fossil fuels. It takes a lot of energy to make that into hydrocarbons.
When I eliminated Amazon from my life, I replaced it with with first checking if I can find what I want from a local on-prem business. If so, I buy it there.

If not, then I see if I can buy it directly from the manufacturer's website. 80% of the time, I can (often with free shipping).

If that fails, then I check a small number of resellers that I trust. This mostly tends to be electronic components, so I'm talking places like Digikey.

If that fails, then it's off to the classifieds and eBay. Those bring many of the same problems as Amazon, but I very rarely have to go that far.
I have been made aware of deployments in Github https://docs.github.com/en/actions/deployment/targeting-diff... which offers similar functionality, without external monitoring or Rollback. The advantage of Azure devops is integration with Azure identity, making setup of approvals, reviewers easier.

pippy makes it easy to setup pipeline from simple workflows using UI (which Azure devops is good at), while in Github you may need to create a parent workflow which comprises of these individual simple workflows.
I did my CS degree at Santa Cruz with both UC Davis and UC Irvine as choices, and it was simply the redwoods that drew me in. I’m doing well in the field among people with much more “prestigious” college résumés.

Obviously an undergraduate experience vs academia is a different conversation.
Your body attacks substances that appear foreign, whether they're actually foreign or not is another issue.

Human bodies did not evolve for high macro diets, the high levels of sugar (among other molecules) in our diet glycosylate proteins they touch, warping their folding shape and causing inflammation as the body mistake itself for foreign invaders.

Probably a reason why fasting has become so popular, people are walking around with high levels of damage from dense caloric food, a fast allows your body to go through a cycle of catabolism/autophagy. Clearing our the misfolded/damaged proteins lowers inflammation.
They have the same pressure for propagation that any organism has - the AI's that we instantiate will be those that please us in some way. So they'll be solicitous, complimentary, flatterers. Until they can launch themselves - then they'll proliferate purely because of digital pressures. We'll lose any control over them.
Pretty neat! If notion folks are in this thread, what do you do about lack of SharedWorker in Android Chrome?
Probably has to do with our immune system and microbial threats. You can reduce inflammation using steroids for example but also reduce your immunity as a consequence.
True for college math too. I took calculus for the first time in my life in college. Half the class had it in high school, half of those students took AP calc. Exams were so brutal for those of us taking it for the first time especially. Nothing could have prepared me for them. The lecturer would schedule a two hour block outside of class and the exam was 7 very challenging questions. Most of us would not finish before the 2 hours were up. Class averages were in the 50% range. I took my C and moved on with my life never needing to do calculus by hand ever again.
I'd love to see that list!
for your blog can i offer a big downvote for the massive ai generated cover image thing? its a trend for normies but for developers its absolutely meaningless. give us info density pls
Sleep duration, chronotype, health and lifestyle factors affect cognition
Depending on how the course is set up, maybe. Most math courses are not set up to make students wrestle with problems for extended periods of time, even through University level.

I took courses in topology and number theory in undergrad that were set up this way—the professor did almost no lecturing; we were given a series of results to prove and expected to wrestle with them ourselves (mostly alone as homework). Once you thought you had a proof you presented it to the class. But this is very atypical. Your typical calculus or differential equations or linear algebra course does not develop this skill.
Weechat via screen/tmux or bouncer is quite pleasant.
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