skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Point.-

PS. I wonder what - if anything - implications that has for leadership or management - you know, the whole achievement falling apart, missing one individual ...

(Or, to project management - low "bus factor", so to speak ...)
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Show HN: I made a tool to receive alerts when answers change
Hi HN,

I've created a tool called Alertfor that scours the open web to find the most relevant and up-to-date answers for complex questions. You can set up alerts to receive continuous updates whenever there are changes or new information becomes available for a given question.

I used an agent framework (Autogen + Sibyl) to collect and answer questions, and I schedule a Celery job to run the same query continuously every six hours.

I would love to hear your feedback, suggestions, or anything else you’d like to say.

Note: I'm submitting this for a second time; I'm not sure if this is against HN policy.
It sounds like you have a soul and/or morals. The people writing the emails in TFA clearly have neither.
Does a deep cut on one hand constitute a defense wound?
I imagine the typical trajectory that a huge number of people follow would be to suddenly and briefly enter the top 1% near the end of their lives.
The drawing looks like a circle of half steps, not a circle of fifths.

It seems that the article would be clearer if the 180 degree rotation were to put F# at the top of the drawing.
It is a wrong assumption. The only activity of a business is to turn a profit.
I'm sorry but this falls flat for me. GPT4 routinely can answer impressive math questions for me (college-level):

- What diameter steel wire would I need to be rated for a weight of 500lbs?

- How many digits would a ID need to be (using 36 characters) to have a 1/10^20 chance of collision over 1 billion random IDs?

- If I have a list of a million times (say durations of a web request) and they follow a normal distribution, and I take a sample of 1 million of those, how close would the average of my .1% sample be to the true average of the billion?

- Suppose in D&D I am told to roll 20 d6, but instead of rolling that many dice I want to roll just two (larger) dice and add a constant. Which standard D&D dice might give the closest variance and what is the constant?
Anecdotal but a dark beer settles my stomach almost instantly.

But here's research since you asked: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9966200/

It's really not surprising, we know fermented foods are good for the microbiome.
So, roughly 1 in twenty are old /infirm, and one in 100 are really old / infirm?

Makes sense to me. Is that supposed to be surprising?
Italy has a system where if it's genetic it's covered and if it's influenced by lifestyle you pay a tax.

Even in the US, insurance still decides what is covered and what's not. There's always someone deciding in any system unless it's cash.
Among other concerns: apparently Nasa would like to determine the cause of the glitches. Much of the evidence would burn up on reentry, so remaining docked at the ISS is the only way to conduct forensics, despite a less-than-ideal environment.

(I'd picked this up recently in a podcast discussing Starliner.)
Sorry to say, but I think you have put the wagon ahead of the horse.

Being able to predict an outcome has nothing to do with the process of deriving the outcome, and it has nothing to do with bias.

There may be many signals that correlate with an outcome. If you are out of shape and move ploddingly, you probably can't do a triple axel even though you believe you can. Is that prediction biased?

Bias would be if you could demonstrate that predicting the outcome has influenced their decision-making.
How are non technical people, like our parents, ... going to install their own router? And then they might have to manage it, like a manual update or asjustment now and then or whatever.

Most people simply don’t have the knowledge.

It would be like everyone buying car parts themselves and repairing their own cars when they break…
For most commercial companies you'll see pharmacy benefits split similarly: 1% - 2% of people on the health plan will account for ~50% of the pharmacy drug spend. That's regardless of overall health of the rest of the members. It's great there's been a lot of innovations for newer drugs that help more people with rare diseases, but specialty drugs just cost a lot. It takes a long time for generics or biosimilars can make it to market.
I thing the wording already implied perception as opposed to reality.
The effect of a grumpy person sending Bob to jail is also not immediate or enormous (unless you are bob or bob's family).
The only truly safe option is passkeys because (a) passwords can be phished and (b) if someone is generating a password they can remember, they’re probably also reusing that password across multiple apps/websites.
There’s a tool called lnav that will parse logfiles into a temporary SQLite database and allows to analyse them using SQL features:

https://lnav.org/
Woah is that a typo? $108,000 a year for psoriasis?

Would it be cheaper to fly somewhere?
I’m enjoying experimenting with nonsensical math:

> Apple * dog

> CalcGPT: Apple Mini − dog or dog. Total= Apple Dog Mini MiniDog=49

I was wondering if math of words would produce the embedding of the operation of those words, but nope :)
Top 5% account for 50% of all healthcare spending.

https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/health-...
Chris Masterjohn's analysis of the topic is a better look of the data available https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4QzEelRGvA
Of course: the sickest 1% will always spend more money than everyone else on an average per capita basis
FWIW, if you are actually living in Japan, your first $120k or so qualifies for Foreign Earned Income Exclusion (FEIE) so you're not actually paying double, but talk to your tax person.
This is the first time I have come across Calvin Liang, but I’m already a big fan. Their artist’s statement manages to be very funny while making a point. I like today.
Obsidian has been very successful gaining "vocal" users who recommend and share their use of the software at "every opportunity. I'm not sure how they did it, but it must be incredibly valuable
As usual the childlike questions are the hardest ..
If the idea is that bad choices should be disincentivized, then this should be limited to people capable of planning far enough.
This is fascinating.

For those unfamiliar, the original study found that judges were kinder in their decisions right after lunch, and harshest right before. (I’m dramatically oversimplifying, but that’s the bit folks usually cite.)

This study contests the strength of that finding by showing that positive rulings take longer, and that you can fit more simple negative rulings in just before a break (negative rulings are denials of parole, if you’re wondering why they are faster). Judges don’t want to start complex cases that are more likely to be favorable just before break. (Again, dramatically simplifying. The article has more.)

I have cited the original study countless times, and this injects a lot more nuance for me. I’m glad it was revisited.
And youtube. The rise of youtube gaming channels made minecraft, and vice versa.
Why does this paper defy common sense?
Ask HN: Similarities between Audio and Image processing?
Hi HN.
I have been producing music as a hobby over the last few years. I am familiar with many concepts such as dynamic range, filtering, etc. A while ago, I read an introduction to Signal Processing, where I learned that fundamentally, both audio and images are just signals, which differ in dimensionality.
Recently, I am trying to get into image editing. I noticed a lot of similar terms: saturation, dynamic range, filters... While on the surface, these terms seem to refer to different concepts, I think they are actually the same thing when viewed through the lens of signal theory: e.g., a low pass filter cuts out high frequencies in the frequency domain. In audio editing, this results in a more bassy sound, while in image editing, a low pass filter (or blurring) removes high-frequency details, making the image appear smoother and less sharp.

Therefore, my question: Are there any good learning resources, where I can learn about image editing by leveraging my existing knowledge on audio editing and (a bit of) signal theory?
A skeptic's first contact with Kubernetes
In the 90s I remember the '1 or 2 glasses of wine a day is good for you' message was common knowledge but now appears to be propoganda. I always that it was strange at the time and nowadays that myth has been thoroughly debunked. I am no longer a partaker but I wonder what is unique about alcohol that triggers people to come out of the woodwork with whataboutism and messenger attacks to defend its' usage? In this thread we see examples of people in denial and with unhealthy dependent relationships with it. Or perhaps they work in the industry.
Roasted coffee has variable amounts of acetaldehyde, but typically in the tens of ppm. So, coffee will present orders of magnitude lower acetaldehyde exposure than drinking even dilute alcoholic beverages.

I wonder more about soluble fiber carbohydrates leading to ethanol production in the gut.
Perhaps you could just study a criminal court instead of a parole board?
A tritone interval by itself (only 2 notes sounding) sounds quite dissonant to me.

But in the context of the dominant 7th chord, the only note dissonant with the bass is the 7th. The tritone itself is not so prominent since it occurs between two non-bass notes.
Your statement seems very strong. Is Mac OS X not based on Darwin? Are you defining "lineage" in some way to only mean licensing and exclude the shared ideas (a kernel manipulating files)? Thanks for the "carcinisation" link.
Yes and I recommend you Wrocław city museum for a showcase of beautifully thought out plans that never went anywhere even when Wrocław was Breslau. It is the reason I was touched by such a mundane topic that I would not otherwise be interested in.

One of the reasons such plans did not go ahead is that it required a state that can expropriate left and right and amounts of capital not available to localities, even in cities like Wrocław.

Those kind of grand plans only work if there is a national drive that imposes it, or most likely after a war. This is true in Poland Portugal or anywhere developed and desirable.
This was going to be my comment as well. Same with insurance, those that have car accidents or house fires or floods will disproportionately account for the cost of insurance. This is how it works.

I don't have a link, but I remember a study that looked at this specific issue for the few outliers in health care that were a causing the use of the most resources. It turns out that identifying them and giving them a more holistic care approach dramatically reduced costs and improved outcomes for those people. Part of the problem was the segmented approach to healthcare.
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Well are the "people" responsible, or are outrageous-prices (e.g. one subscription costs 50k) responsible?

Or is it just like 1% of people have cancer?

Would love to see a good-faith analysis by somebody who has 50 hours to commit to it, a good grasp of statistics, and no interest in politics.
This is from the article:

“Christians, get out and vote. Just this time,” he said at The Believers’ Summit, an event hosted by the conservative advocacy group Turning Point Action, in West Palm Beach, Fla. “You won’t have to do it anymore, you know what? Four more years, it’ll be fixed, it’ll be fine, you won’t have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians.”

He’s not claiming he’ll install an autocracy. He’s telling a group of voters that they need to vote for him and he’ll “fix” the country by making it better and that in 4 years they can safely go back to their non-voting ways.
So do you mainly use this on your laptop?

I was curious if you incorporate the mobile version too, I try to with git based syncing between the two.
Some wheelchairs are custom-fitted
Up to 90% of my code is now generated by AI
Nonsense. Ultimately, it's a zero sum game and therefore there can not be shared interest between business owners and Unions.

You may have detente or even just a laid back employee base.

But you're only pro-Union insofar as you are financially and personally comfortable with what the Union demands at the penalty of consequences.

Unless there is some kind of non-standard relationship between yourself and the Union, then there isn't a direct connection between what they will eventually demand and what you are willing to give at the cost of your business.

Your pro-Union stance can only be solely due to lack of personal stakes, and therefore it is only a matter of time or a change in labor circumstances. Unless your vision for your company is as a total cooperative.
This depends. The point of TLS is to protect your application from hostile networks. Cloudflare hasn't proven hostile yet.
Why was this post removed?
Next do "time traveler's guide to betting on red" or "time traveler's guide to retirement!"
I started experimenting yesterday and I was delighted that the templater strings I set up at my computer were functioning on my phone. I’m excited about it because the lack of good system wide text expansion on the phone has been frustrating for me, and it looks like using obsidian will be a way to define pretty complex templates and be able to create and edit notes on my phone using them.
Not exactly law texts, but if you’re interested in original texts from that era, from roughly the same people, read the Icelandic Sagas. Really good reading.
> Having a scapegoat was crucial for the Nazis. Without the jews, who should have taken that role?

If they had arised a few decades later they probably would scapegoat immigrants.
I’m not sure this study does anything to show that hunger increases irrationality. If anything, the authors point to rational, predictive decision-making right before meal time.

Do you see something that indicates increased irrationality?
[I am not a music theory expert but just finished two semesters of music theory at community college and have several decades of experience as an adult]

Functional harmony is usually what people mean by music theory.

Functional is the key to my understanding. Functional Harmony is what has been done harmonically and melodically in styles of music derived from The Period of Common Practice. Functional Harmony describes what some people did. Using it makes music that sounds like what those people did.

From the street where I live, I see cultural institutions that ascribe moral value to the conventions of The Period of Common Practice. There’s an industry built up around The Period of Common Practice and the flow of money means there are jobs for those of jobbing age and careers for those of careering age.

It is a disjointed mess like any jobs program.
Food as You Know It Is About to Change
Yes, I generally blame management. But sometimes I blame the engineers when its obvious they had other good options.
It's astonishing to me that there are people defending nazis as "just another political ideology", or "just a normal reaction to leftwing people". The very ideology that the free world spent 5 years at total war to defeat. The people who defeated fascism in WW2 are literally called The Greatest Generation but nowadays we have people thinking "oh I bet we can make fascism work for us. It's never backfired on its adherents!"

I wonder if that's due to WW2 veterans dying, or just plain time passing. And will we see another Axis?
>Yep. Probably people who are on drugs that cost very little to make but are being sold for enormous amounts of money.

This entirely ignores the cost of R&D, clinical trials, and most importantly, all the other drugs that didn't make it to market.
>In his comments to the Guardian he more or less admits that he is only doing this because the benefits of alcohol consumption are inconvenient to people like him who want to regulate booze like tobacco...

>>“The idea [alcohol has benefits] has impacted national drinking guidelines, estimates of alcohol’s burden of disease worldwide and has been an impediment to effective policymaking on alcohol and public health,” he added.

That doesn't sound like he's "admitting to" what your linked article says he's admitting to.

Seems like a lot of trouble to go to, trying to debunk this Stockwell guy's work, only to make oneself look unreliable with such claims.
Yeah it’s kind of like a FPGA implementation: it proves the concept but is by definition not optimized for efficiency. There must be a way to go from the weights to an algorithm.
The winner in the “software with passionate users” has to be emacs.
If you have other good options, thats just greed. Sure its painful to turn down $200k in RSU’s but if you can jump ship and still get paid a respectable $160k I don’t have much sympathy for your choice to fuck over millions of people just so you can buy a house two years sooner.
Why does the dry lake bed emit large amounts of CO2? I couldn’t find that explained in the article.

Edit: For those curious like me, sources 1,2,3 from the original paper go into more detail about it. Original paper: https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322(24)00326-...
I despise such titles.
Funny - after watching this video a friend had this same thought about the lava lamps and random numbers, then I had the same thought about using a fish tank to generate random numbers.
The short answer is yes. There have been many presentations on this topic that tries to explain it in various ways.

The problem is that most people who are unfamiliar with APL usually don't see the larger picture, and you need to learn the language before understanding the reasoning. But once you understand it, you don't really need to hear the arguments anymore.

One argument that may be easier to digest is that the very optimised syntax allows you to easily work with the data in an interactive fashion. This is similar to how a calculator that forced you to write 1.add(2) would be rather painful to use, even if it functionally is the same as 1+2.

In programs that you save to a file and is part of a larger project, this benefit is of course less relevant.
So what's exactly the performance benefits of using io_uring to access files?
Yeah, the US difference is in the absolute costs!
> It takes a long time for generics or biosimilars can make it to market.

Especially considering the pharmaceutical companies pay the generic manufacturers to stay out of the market. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/06/pharmaceut...
Why should the employee with the CEO title get a raise for increasing company profits, while the employees without the CEO title do not get a raise for increasing company profits?

> the company would make less money and it would be the CEO's fault.

It would be the CEO's fault, and the workers who were not at fault would be fired when the company needs to tighten the belt.
I never heard about this before your post.

Wiki tells me: <<Earliest eligible virtual deadline first (EEVDF) is a dynamic priority proportional share scheduling algorithm for soft real-time systems.>>

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earliest_eligible_virtual_dead...
Not to mention (though I am), awaiting the last installment!
Thanks! (but, alas no psychedelics)
And as oceans heat up, they slow down absorbing CO2, eventually stop and then start releasing the CO2 back. You know, like soda.

The oceans, to date, have absorbed 1/3 of human CO2 emissions.

Climate change is full of tipping points and feedback loops, many of them unmapped and unknown to us.
Any ancestor of mine would be thoroughly disappointed if their descendants hadn't found ways to improve themselves over the generations and find me still stuck at their level.
Company B is probably worse and covering it up with philanthropy.

Purchasing power has greatly decreased as the cost of living and basic necessities has skyrocketed. Even with sufficient income, medical bills or dependents quickly erase all that surplus. There's often only only fiscally prudent candidate, politically or commercially.

What computer programs or AI agents can help? Are you referring to programs such as GnuCash, or are there consumer-friendly AIs nowadays?

I don't think you realize how thoroughly infested our culture has become with toxic pricing schemes. You could have all the cash in the world and without a credit score and a credit card half the market would be off-limits.

One example that's been weighing heavily on me is how I've been forced to return to Android. I used to try LineageOS on older phones but would lose the ability to make contactless payments, purchase train tickets, launch train/metro and even grocery store apps all thanks to SafetyNet attestation. Ironically my banking app couldn't care less.
Is git-based syncing something that's built into Obsidian? I'd imagine it's awkward setting up git management on a smartphone outside of Obsidian?
I'm amazed that this is still an ongoing discussion. All of these "studies" have been distracting with muddied data from a very simple, unambiguous scientific fact: alcohol is a poison. By its immediate biological effects, it literally is a poison. And you shouldn't drink poison.

Decades of studies rationalizing that "actually, people who drink two glasses of wine a day live longer" and their ilk, have only ever distracted from this simple truth, obviously so hard to contradict by first principles.
I'm wondering if there are any security standards maintained by standards bodies, like ISO, that a company might pay to be certified as upholding that require a fired employee lose network access and leave the workplace immediately?

Anecdotally I am not aware of any in the private sector in the U.S. Usually this is documented in corporate security policies and standards that may be referenced conditionally by SOC1/SOC2 self volunteered audit documentation and PCI audit documentation but that will vary by industry type and individual organizations. My anecdotes come from the private sector in managed hosting and in financial tech and whilst I was not in compliance I spent a big portion of my career working directly with compliance and legal. Perhaps someone here in the public sector has something more to add.

You may get better response to this type of question here [1]

[1] - https://security.stackexchange.com/
Wow, didn’t know that kind of “max cost” cutoff existed. I thought the whole point of insurance was “I’ll probably be fine but if things really go south, good thing I have insurance.”
It probably is similar if you look at "final year spending". Some people have very expensive conditions, some are otherwise healthy (or appear so) and suddenly drop dead.
Definitely not a bad thing.
That's why I have the health insurance. I pay a $5 copay on it.

I don't think it's sustainable on the national scale much longer; the insurance premium costs me twice my mortgage each month.
My ISP default router (it's free from them, in their defense) has zero capability of changing the dns servers. That alone was a good reason to drop 250 euros on a WRT3200ACM and get OpenWRT running on it.
RNA: Coding, or non-coding, that is the question
Title is misleading: more than half of Teslas that _are being traded in at dealerships_ are traded in for gas cars.
> Hot + dog

CalcGTP: Three dogs holding a hot dog with tails pointing to infinity
Luckily Open Source Projects such as Linux, Vim, or Emacs don't suffer from similar issues.
> nothing to do

> Which is an “exercise”.

You're arguing against a strawman. I'm not complaining about working for self-improvement, I'm complaining about how muscles shrink away so rapidly when not in use. Look at what happens when people are bedridden for a few weeks, that is not good design!

And I'm not saying people should automatically look like body builders, I'm saying the baseline should be a healthy level.
There is hopefully no lowerbound on the gap between bard and bagatyr