skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thats great to hear. I'm also working on my body after 2 spinal surgeries. Doing pilates each day, and additionally weight training and cycling on each alternating day.

For a skinny guy who never did any resistance training, this transformed my body to a lean, muscular type in what it seems to me like overnight. I cannot emphasize enough how good that was (and is) for the body. The body at first doesn't like it, but giving it a bit of consistency it learns and yearns for it.

The back pains I had are gone and even if they come back here and there they are much less intense and more manageable. Doing some impromptu exercises for couple of minutes fixes that too.

One of the biggest wtfs I had was when I decided to drill some holes in the wall because I was unable to for months after last surgery. I've grabbed my battery powered drill from the shed and was open mouthed how suddenly light that tool was. I literally checked if I've put the battery on. You don't notice the strength gain that much during normal work in the house, but do something which you know was heavy before and be amazed.

I definitely credit good people on this site for sharing their experiences. At first I thought that only weirdos and meatheads do resistance training and always had a mental image of steroid laden walking muscles. Then I've read that article where was the graph of expected life expectancy for a person taking on training in their forties vs not training and it really did concern me. As a guy in early forties I didn't want to spend the rest of my life with very poor quality of life/mobility. I didn't want to be glued to my computer all day long as it would virtually be the death of me.

I wanted to write a blog post about this journey (which is still short, but memory is fresh;) maybe to help geeks like us to see that being in front of the computer all day long is terrible. It works when you're young, but it absolutely doesn't as you get older. And everyone will get older whatever the younger people think. If I knew stuff I know now about fitness 20 years ago, I'm sure I would be 5 times more healthier, and I wouldn't need any spinal surgeries. But nobody told me anything and I thought "doing stuff" on the computer all day long is fine. "I'll be mobile and skinny even when much older, what else would I need?". Oh boy how wrong was I.
Working on a web app to check various metrics on cloud servers (or virtual machines on-prem) and suggest optimizations to reduce cloud waste (and costs). I'm basically automating a good part of the infrastructure maintenance I was doing as a full-stack dev in my previous job.

There are already a lot of services to right-size servers, but I want to focus on small teams that might not have a full-time devops yet and lack the time to check every server manually.

The app will be simple with an educational part, it should be like having access to continuous audits on our infrastructure, just like the CI/CD tools we use on our codebase.

It already helped me at home to reduce the load on my oldest Raspberry Pi by shifting some services to a newer one that was mostly idle and right-sizing some VMs in the Proxmox cluster of the rack in my homelab. Having a green check next to each server name is a good motivation!

Another thing that is scratching my own itch is server discovery (especially in a multi-cloud environment) and integrations because it's just so easy to forget some servers in a cloud when you do a lot of experiments and keep paying for them for months.

The MVP is getting ready to launch, I'm making the landing page right now, and then I hope to find some early adopters to iterate on the app and make it useful to other devs. I'm also thinking about open-sourcing it.

I'm interested in having conversations to discover the pain points of other people in that space, so feel free to reach out to me!

https://cloudcheck.cc
There are gifted schools that don't force kids to slow down to the lowest common denominator. I went to one. In theory, they also enforce a work ethic. My problem was the reverse: I started working after school when I was 15, and when I got to university I found my peers had absolutely slovenly work ethics and no experience, and I was being taught things that were laughable in a real work environment, by professors who hadn't had a real job in decades (if ever). And I was supposed to be paying $30k a year for the privilege. I realized at 19 that I was better off at any pay rate in the private sector ;)
Study: Generative AI Can Harm Learning
I'm looking for new ideas for my witch.inc comic strips, it's like IT-Crowd, but for witches and wizards. I kinda ran out of them after I quit my tech-support job. Doing database administration now but it's not as rich in corporate slip-ups

https://ko-fi.com/album/New-Album-J3J512CD1A
Sounds bruising.
The first wallet address in that file has a balance equivalent to $8m USD - dang.

https://etherscan.io/address/0xc02aaa39b223fe8d0a0e5c4f27ead...
ExTwitter makes the news mostly about blocking this or that, not so much about new features, it have I missed something?

It looks like trying to slow down decay, not about growth.
i think steadily recognizing words from letter sequences is very far from basic or intuitive for anyone starting out. Probably the most difficult step actually. Hence all these tricks like the cueing theory to get the kids to understand at least something and start progressing.
Isn't asking an LLM "to write a Python validator" suffers from the 99.9% (or whatever the error rate for validators written by Claude) problem?
Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feist_Publications%2C_Inc.%2C_....
I am long done with commenting on this platform, as most of Russian people, who cannot write here (and most of other western internet forums) what they think. I will make an exception in this case, however.

1. "I think it is perfectly fair for governments to take down large channels that are clearly against the law"

Telegram obviously acts upon such requests Here in Italy I cannot access the channels of RIA and Sputnik, obviously a request was made to Telegram on behalf of EU /Italy, and Telegram complied.

2. I think that you, in your US bubble, which you THINK guarantees free speech, misunderstand yourself what Telegram is. Right now, it is the ONLY wide audience platform in the world, where Russian people can freely (as opposed to, say, HN) write what they really think. And it is true as much for the people who are "pro", as for the people who are "against Putin", (I use these nonsense labels to adapt what I write to the general american level of "understanding" Russia).
Well, an app serving all customers is supposed to satisfy the needs of all customers. The crucial point is that each customer should be able to configure the app to disable all the unwanted - not just for "lack of interest", but with the purpose of closing all the security implications of personally-not-interesting features.
If I remember correctly, people had the same issues with the soda can tabs. Back in the days they were detachable (and people simply tossed them wherever). So they introduced various attachable designs before settling on the current one. It took some time for people to adjust.

An article from Slate: https://slate.com/human-interest/2012/09/can-tabs-how-alumin...
So much for clear-cut example!
I can’t believe a mostly text website that doesn’t scale well on mobile made it to production in this day and age. Was it worked on by a single person? Did no one review it and think of opening it on their mobile?

I’d even say it’s harder to make a text website NOT render well on mobile. Doesn’t HTML handle that by default, unless you use some freakishly long text without spaces?
But I don't get motion sickness from those. I still turn them off.
Thank you for asking! Excitingly, I'm working on maintaining and improving my canvas library. Which is not news because I spend much of my spare time doing this exact same work.

However for this months work, I'm adding new stuff to the library - specifically some new OKLAB/OKLCH filters: something I don't think other canvas libraries have yet got around to considering[1]. And this weekend (a 3 day weekend in the UK) I'm spending time fixing the horror-show code for the reduce-palette (dither) filter[2] to see if I can get it to work just a little bit faster ...

(Fans of small PRs should definitely not click on these links)

[1] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/94

[2] - https://github.com/KaliedaRik/Scrawl-canvas/pull/96
Show HN: Snapbio – Create beautiful bio links in seconds
Hi HN! I'm excited to share Snapbio, a tool I've built to simplify the creation of bio links for social media profiles.

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Snapbio is a user-friendly platform that allows you to create a single, customizable link containing all your important links and content.

It's designed for creators, professionals, and anyone looking to maximize their online presence.

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Key Features:

- Quick setup: Create your bio link in under a minute

- Customizable design: Choose from various themes or create your own

- Analytics: Just total page views (current feature)

- Mobile-responsive: Looks great on all devices

- No coding required: User-friendly interface for all skill levels

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Why I built it:

As an indie maker, I noticed the growing need for a simple yet powerful bio link tool.

Existing solutions were either too complex or lacked customization options. Snapbio aims to bridge this gap.

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Tech Stack: Built with Next.js 14, Tailwind CSS, shadcn/ui, Supabase.

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Future Plans:

- Introducing more integrations with popular platforms

- Implementing AI-powered link suggestions

- Expanding analytics capabilities

- More and more powerful features

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I'd love to hear your thoughts and feedback. Feel free to try it out and let me know what you think!

Website: https://snapbio.me

Demo Video: https://app.supademo.com/demo/cm08twxnu0wqw128vymg983vh

Thank you for your time, and I'm looking forward to your comments!
My university experience was very much “submit! work!” - I was on “keeping of term” almost permanently and had the threat of rustication hanging over my head for the duration of my time there as I flat out refused to attend lectures, tutorials, or labs - I was having way too much fun running a bar and the debating society.

Anyway. What I learned was that people rarely make good on their threats, that charm and doing the absolute bare minimum to not “get fired” will get you through - and that I can cram a three year physics course into a month of intense study and still pass with a 2:1, which they demoted to a Desmond as they didn’t feel they could in good conscience reward me with a 2:1 - which also taught me that institutions can’t be trusted and are ultimately run by opinion.

This lead to a career path of opportunistic system-hacking and an early retirement to a cabin in the woods. I never had a work ethic, apart from in that which interests me. If something bores me, it’s for the birds.

I’m not quite sure what I’m trying to say here, other than that at no point in my education was I given any useful guidance or advice, just expectations of prodigy, and was left to figure things out for myself - which I did, but not as I think others would have hoped. I now, in my forties, know that I have raging ADHD - it wasn’t even a consideration as a kid - just that I was “brilliant but bone-idle”.
I don't care. The problem in this case is that if you install "isNumber", you use someone else's definition of what a number is. If you ever have to check if something is a number, you should do that according to your own specs, not hope someone else got it right. In this case, strings with all kinds of weirdness seem to be allowed, and perhaps that's not acceptable.

Only the fact that you can write a bunch of slightly different versions because of Javascript's flaws/features should be a sign that you just can't grab an arbitrary implementation and hope it matches your use case, and especially not if you don't/can't pin the version.
I think Hanlon’s Razor probably applies here; he’s just really incompetent.
Hi fellow hackers!

Yesterday, I've built a minimalist solution to let you host Markdown files, while rendering it as html in the browser.

No preprocessing needed (like Hugo, Jekyll, Astro...).

- You just write plain markdown

- Add a script import at the top

- Upload

Check it out > https://www.tducret.com/pure-markdown/
> In any case, if you have the choice of making "aggressively mediocre" passwords harder to crack, is there a reason not to do so?

"All features start out with minus 100 points" (Eric Gunnerson, popularized via Raymond Chen)
I’m working on an Open Source SQLite VFS extension with modern encryption using libsodium. Using the VFS instead of adapting the source like SQLcipher is not straightforward but feasible. I hope that a modern encryption library, extensive testing and using vanilla SQLite source can convince users to give the extension a chance.
Hi! I'm working on https://UpdateMaker.com. UpdateMaker is a super-simple widget for delivering in-app updates and notifications to users.

As a dev, I always want to tell users about our latest updates, but making front-end updates requires a whole production deploy, and a backend notification service is a lot to set up. UpdateMaker makes it easy to manage updates without an engineering cycle.

UpdateMaker lets you copy-paste our widget into your website, and then you can push update notifications to your users. You can customize the look and feel, schedule updates, track user engagement, and make it conditional on pages the user might visit. We manage all the cookie-handling so the user only sees updates they haven't seen before. It's been super useful for us!

From there, UpdateMaker also automatically exports all your updates as a changelog that you can publish for your users or SEO :)
WUT? GDPR gives you controll of your data, which all those "saint" vc-blessed startups from siliconvale hate with passion... (and they can go * themselves :D)
You can make a decent living playing cricket in Aus (or England) but for the big bucks you have to go to the Indian Premier League
Maze(s) triggers PTSD in me. I was asked to write a code to generate one using a 100x100 grid in an Google interview in 40 min such that it was "fair". It was for L6/L7 (IC) position. I wrote a working code and the interviewer even acknowledged that I had atleast have a working code compared to others. The actual time I had was 30 min as 10 min included upfront discussion about what "fair" means and some time after-the-code discussion on improvements.

I was rejected with lean-no-hire (or weak-no-hire .. I don't remember the exact term but basically not a strong reject).
They aren't the same as humans. They definitely work differently.

Also they've been trained to say something as plausible as possible. If it happens to be true, then that's great because it's extra plausible. If it's not true, no big deal.

While I have worked with one awful human in the past who was like that, most thankfully aren't!
Yes, at least conceptually. However, CDK is more opinionated, uses Cloudformation and depends on its own CLI.
https://bagas31.pro/microsoft-office-365-full-crack/
"Sky News Investigates" is synonomous with Murdoch Press grossly exaggerates small issues to be world threatening edge of the seat click baiting prequels to the coming apocolypse.

At least in Australia and in the UK. Maybe they're a moderate and balanced presenter of truth on the ground in Sweden.

Seems unlikely.

I'm fully aware this reads as "attacking the source" but there's no rabid attack intended here just a frank pragmatic assessment of what "Sky News Investigates" actually means.
Cybersecurity has rapidly become a growing and evolving field, driven by increasing threats in the digital world. For those looking to pursue a career in this domain, beginner-level certifications serve as a critical step in acquiring fundamental knowledge and skills
Telegram messaging app CEO Durov arrested in France
Reading the repository readme, on one hand I feel incredibly sorry for you, on the other super excited that you've found something that works for you. Depression is such a wide catch all term and there are countlessly many underlying reasons that can lead to it. Unfortunately that also means that curing depression is always a bespoke effort, every person suffering with it is different so it's very hard to try and figure out what helps. I had no idea food could be linked so strongly! I hope what you've found is sustainable and leads you to a better tomorrow.
Sorry I don't understand the question. Is it about cigarette lighters?
Super cool! Any plan on making different form factors? For electrified cargo bikes, the battery is better placed bellow the cargo [0] so a squarish and flatter pack would be nicer.

[0] This build for example: https://danielbuettner.medium.com/building-a-custom-e-cargo-...
Many people are in fact dumb, and will never acquire the prerequisites. We're not all blank slates with equal potential.
Business, yes, that was the word I was looking for, thanks! So the ISP could just limit the residential packages, limit the business packages to actual businesses, and that's all.
This is quite useful. Apartment renters can now create their own ical feeds for booking platforms.
Heads Up: The Founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov's Arrest in France – Freedurov
If you want to see the single queries: https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb/blob/main/src/lib/data/im...
> I'm curious about such questions because on a larger scheme of the things, I really hope that Boeing is not a miniature reflection of the US - an empire in its twilight that got entangled in irreconcilable interests, doomed to watch its own inevitable decline.

Markets cycle. Companies cycle. People cycle (actually just die unless you consider their offspring their continuation).

All systems do cycle; including the USA. It doesn't mean it's the end. If China doesn't rise and crashes it, there isn't really any other serious challenger and it will likely be the "rising" empire again.
Few recent side projects:

- a fact management tool based on a timeline. I have a complex legal situation, so I created a tool to store information about events. I can prioritize and tag the events, attach files to them, and have small workflow on them, and then filter the timeline based on the tags/priorities/workflow states. It is very helpful, because the amount of events and data was too much to handle mentally. I am using Django/HTMX/AlpineJS.

- a dance event calendar for dance events in Finland, where both artists and venues can add events. The data is stuctured, which allows me to make views for each performer, venue etc. Mostly Django, but some HTMX/AlpineJS as well for complex screens

- for the dance event calendar, I have created a support site that uses ChatGPT to handle two first steps for incoming support emails/questions. First it categorizes the question, and then tries to answer it based on FAQ. If it fails, it summarizes the issue (and possibly asks few basic questions related to it) and forwards it to me.
Get another word - https://getanotherword.com

Simplistic thesaurus and synonym finder.

Built with Flask and bit of jQuery
Claude is 5x better than ChatGPT premium.

The only issue I have with Claude is that the rate limits are retarded.

Impossible to get real work done.
Understanding is critical.

I unfortunately spent the entire introduction to calculus in hospital, so missed it - when I came back to school, I was dropped straight into “differentiate this” and “integrate that”. There was no explanation of what either operation was, just the rules that you followed to obtain the result. I had no idea that we were looking at rates of change or at areas under curves. For the first time in my life, I found myself bewildered, and struggling - until a month later I happened to find myself reading a biography of Newton which actually explained what the purpose of calculus/fluxions was - and then it became easy, as it was obvious if a result was nonsensical.
When to Test in Production?
In a sense even this is not true, as in any sufficiently complex (which turns out to be quite simple) formal system you can create proofs that are true and untrue at the same time creating a contradiction. In other words, mathematics works by setting up useful axioms and following up on the logical consequences, but they usually can be used to create contradictory proofs even if useful in many problems.

I recommend learning about Gödel’s incompleteness theorem behind it all.

For a pop science book that explains it nicely I recommend ”I am a strange loop”. The wiki intro is also quite good

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompletenes...
> They can't let Apple decide what web browser iPhones should default to

User can still choose Safari. If they choose something else then we can't really say that they were ok with delegating that decision to Apple.

> what apps are safe to install

Users can still choose to only use apples app store. If they choose to install software any other way... well they clearly aren't ok with apples choices on what they can install.

> whole bunch of defaults

The user can still choose apple defaults.

It seems that users can still delegate everything to apple.
This is what Andrej Karpathy also observed here: https://x.com/karpathy/status/1827143768459637073

( He did not mention anything about ChatGPT, but him using Claude instead says a lot )

My takeaway: Time for me to move from ChatGPT to Claude
I am working on an https://evy.app/

Evy is an app for collectors, both professional and casual, to help them keep track of their items and share it with the world. Currently there are either overly complex inventory management systems, which are overkill for casual collectors, or generic social platforms, which are "fine" for everything, but great for nothing. My goal with Evy is to fill this gap by offering an easy way for any collector to manage their items.

In short, it is an asset management system tailored specifically for collectors.
Viruses that infect USB devices can compromise systems based on air gaps.

Cf. eg., https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2013/10/air_gaps.html and https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/05/ramsey_malwar...
I'd like to interject for a moment...
Is onything preventing Apple from introducing an optional “safe mode” that prevents you from installing apps not approved by Apple?
This is obviously something we are going to need to solve if we want to advance further as a society.

I really want to know about studies being done in this area.
I used a screenshot of my internet banking transaction list with GPT4-o to get a list of transactions for my company tax return. Visually verified the results and they were correct.

Earlier, a product manager sent me a list of company id's to turn on a feature flag for as a screenshot. Rather than enter them all in manually, I used that to get GPT4-o to generate a comma separated list from the screenshot. Again, worked perfectly.
https://arcprize.org/
I am trying to climb this leaderboard for the arc competition: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions/arc-prize-2024/leaderboa...
AFAIK, Signal doesn’t provide any way to prove its application were built from non-modified audited free open source code. Indeed there are evidences it behaves “a bit” differently.

So unless you’ve built application by yourself, you have no guarantee of it’s sequrity.
> Remember: Stupid Pointless Annoying Message.

That looks to be retrofitted, not the origin of the term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamming#Etymology
Replacement system tables for Amazon Redshift.

Thinking a free and paid version.

Free is everything, but runs on the existing system tables; so it's slow, and so a six day history only.

Paid has a system table archiving mechanism, so you have before-and-after when something goes wrong, and where the tables are in Redshift proper, not the leader node, it's fast.