skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you mean aerobic range? It isn't physiologically possible to get most of your energy from anaerobic metabolism for efforts more than a few minutes long.
You are wrong. I am aware of the FDA limit on pills. That's why I used potassium chloride powder instead. I don't remember the exact amount, maybe half the RDA?
removing unobvious bugs makes things better
Agreed, it's a fact that any US corporation will not be allowed to run lest they give the gov access to the data they hold (cref lavabit). I've never really understood the trust given to Signal in the tech community when a hard identity is required (phone #) and it immediately asks you to send your whole contact list to them on first run.

We know from Snowden that metadata about who is communicating with whom, and when, is one of their most valuable data streams. While signal may not be able to turn over the contents of your messages, they absolutely retain a rich stream of metadata.
> The days where a cop, judge or prosecutor identified as the function they render to society are over, I suspect.

The are in fact people who take their jobs seriously today. Are there actual hard numbers on how the prevalence of this has changed over the long term?

> To do good work means risking divorce, lowering your per hour wage, becoming a target for the bad guys, watching your lazier colleagues pass you by, and putting your health in jeopardy.

It is in fact possible to do quality work without martyring yourself.

> This was seen as heroic in the 80s. Today it is seen as dumb, naïve and futile.

"Was seen"... by whom? Both now and then, you'll get different answers on whether it's a good thing depending on who you ask.
homosextual -- is that guys texting other guys? gross
The actual website is here: https://www.careersbuilttolast.com/

It seems to pick a random path (?) and eventually show a ten year career timeline, such as this for CNC Machinist:

- MAY 2025: Get My First Paycheck, Up to $54K/year

- JANUARY 2030: Level Up to a CNC Machinist II, Up to $63K/year

- JANUARY 2035: Growing My Career as a CNC Programmer, Up to $72K/year

To try other paths, edit the headline near the top:

HOW DOES A CAREER IN ___________
COMPARE TO BEING A ____________?

Or click the blue "New Matchup" pill button near the bottom.
Still a bug in Firefox.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644503
Just realised that it will also have issues with horizontal scaling if you're relying on conflicts for shorter IDs. When you're that big I guess all can just be 22chars
And each level up in RAM typically includes a bump to CPU and/or GPU core counts as well, so it is even more difficult to discern the true pricing. Annoying, but also understandable that they don't want to produce every possible combination of specs.

Don't get me started on needing to buy a 1TB+ iPad Pro to get double the RAM, though.
If the topic is "favorite personal serverless platform" then discussion of other offerings is absolutely on-topic.

> Apologies for the very off-topic reply ... it does seem like here at HN ...

There's nothing more HN than filling the first page of comments with discussion of everything except the linked article.
What the interns have wrought, 2024 edition
I don't think that's really correct. At least if you look at ultramarathon world records the male performance advantage remains fairly constant across all of the common times and distances.

https://x.com/Scienceofsport/status/1828149521441763729?s=19

https://iau-ultramarathon.org/iau-records.html
A lot of these estimates seem to be using a projected present price - this is what it costs for the hardware if you build it now - rather than what it would cost if you delay 15 years to slow-roll the program and keep a portion of an academic lab's human resource (and thus a portion of a research university, who take their large cut) alive on shoestring grants in the meantime to run it.

This is one of the many reasons I tend to favor doing big hardware spends on programs to complete them at scale in five years or less. If it's projected at $50M for N science capability, why not built it at $100M for 10N science capability starting yesterday instead of building it at $125M for N science capability starting after fifteen years of being the hobby fixation of a few scientists? There are large economies of scale associated with increasing manufacturing spend in an R&D intensive area, and larger associated with getting the results sooner than later.
This is great, I will check it out, thank you! I'm going to try and get the recommended daily amount of potassium from changing my diet initially. If I still struggle to get enough in my diet I'm going to try some supplements.
Let's Build a Simple Load Balancer with Golang
This is a future technology that is one of the candidates for replacing silicon as the semiconductor material for digital circuits.

The replacement of silicon might happen 10 years from now, or even later, it is not something that will happen before 2030.

So these transistors are neither for desktop chips nor for mobile chips, but for all of them. Nevertheless besides molybdenum sulfide (this article) and similar materials, there are other 4 or 5 alternatives, e.g. diamond, carbon nanotubes and others. It is not known for sure which will be the winning technology for replacing silicon.

All the alternatives for silicon have currently various problems that must be solved in order to make possible their practical use.

This paper appears to solve one of the difficult existing problems. Molybdenum sulfide and a few other similar materials can form an active single-crystal layer suitable for making transistors in it that has a thickness of only one atom. Therefore using such a material will achieve the smallest possible thickness. A smaller thickness is a precondition for reducing also the horizontal dimensions that determine the transistor density per area.

The problem is that over the semiconductor layer, one has to deposit an insulating layer in order to make a MOS field-effect transistor. While for the semiconductor layer it was known how to make an almost perfect layer only 1-atom thick, depositing over it an insulator resulted in a layer with non-uniform thickness and with many defects.

This paper shows a method that creates an insulating layer with a similar thickness and uniformity as the 1-atom thick semiconductor layer on which it is deposited. This greatly increases the chances that it will become possible to make integrated circuits with such materials instead of silicon.
Lengyel's post doesn't discuss the whole plane-based vs. point-based war at all, and he makes it clear in his book that both approaches are equivalent. He actually says both are happening at the same time whichever way you look at it, but I'm still trying to wrap my head around that. Gunn is not one of the authors of the material Lengyel is talking about in his post.
I don't think Lengyel is criticizing anything for just being ugly. When he says something is janky, it's because there's something mathematically wrong/incorrect/broken with it.
Expert perspective here (I suppose the submitter != the author, but I'm offering a critique aimed at the author):

This tries to explain too much at once. It would be better to work through the concept of reference semantics for variables (all the `sys.getrefcount` stuff) separately, and the idea of mutating and non-mutating methods (and, by extension, immutability of objects) separately. What's written here would be good as the first draft of a long lecture (where you have a captive audience and can build on things you just said instead of on previous articles), but IMO is not focused or organized properly for a blog piece. (It seems like the necessary pieces for this might already exist, even - given the link to the "white room analogy" etc.)

Also, pedantically Python is pass-by-value, by the original definitions of the terms. Just like how objects in Java are (https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40480 ; https://javaranch.com/campfire/StoryPassBy.jsp), or `class` instances in C# are (https://jonskeet.uk/csharp/parameters.html). It's just that the value being passed has reference semantics, which causes surprising results. The terminology wasn't designed to account for that, and was coined in an era where value semantics were dominant. Of course, Lisp has reference semantics, because they're pretty well required to support dynamic typing (of the sort Python has). But Lisp is also strongly oriented towards immutability, and is much more descriptive than imperative, so the topic doesn't come up as much.

"Pass by assignment" doesn't mean quite the same thing as "pass by sharing" (it would be nice to attribute the latter term explicitly to Barbara Liskov, BTW), and isn't as descriptive. The connotation is instead that passing a parameter to an argument does the same thing as assigning a value to a variable. It's true that Python does work this way - but so does C++, where pass-by-reference is implemented by having an entirely separate category of reference types (which are not just the types of variables with reference semantics as above - and arguably not types at all, since the corresponding variables might not actually be represented by any kind of storage in the corresponding code). It doesn't actually describe the reference-semantics-plus-pass-by-value behaviour. Rather, in languages that don't have a special hack like C++'s, it really means the same thing as pass by value. Nowadays, I can't even think of a language in common use that isn't "pass by assignment".

Finally, while it's good to note that this system can cause confusion, the end of the summary is not really a good place for it. People who read through that much should be praised for learning something (and should have actually done so, of course), not reassured that it's okay to still not understand.

That said, the extended "recipe" example is quite nice. I find it reminiscent of something Raymond Hettinger might use in a talk.
Which book was that?
I genuinely can't think of use cases other than tax evasion, and 'discrete' purchases.
Why would an Apple user ever want to do that? Obviously Apple knows better.
pushing your recovery for extra hours of work now may well cost you years of pain later.

take your time and let it heal. live with being one handed for months or more, even if it sucks. good time for a vacation.
With something like https://github.com/cberner/raptorq you can do several gbits/s over high latency/lossy UDP.
The difference in number of situations where it's a corporation enforcing their will on you vs. you being able to trust them is massive. If Signal had used a different method then I don't think there would be a single example of "customers to make sure that corporations are actually running the code they're claiming to be running".
There are real recent "Hot" cases that dont have resources to solve. No need to use resources on old ones that are more difficult.
> The ideal number of employees in any company is zero.

No. The ideal number of employees is the number that maximizes the sum of all future profit. This may be zero employees but isn't required to be.

> Nobody owes anybody a job. Literally the only reason anyone has one is because there was a problem at some point in that business that required a human to do some part of the work. Building on that, if that ever becomes not the case, for a particular person or team or department of human employees, the natural next action is to get rid of them.

Because it is expensive to find, hire, and train new employees, companies are highly incentivized to find other work for an employee whose work becomes automated. In fact, a lot of value is created when work becomes automated so that employees can do tasks with higher complexity.

> So now we have three pieces. The ideal number of employees is zero, companies are extremely unhappy with their current workforces, and just now —starting in 2023 and 2024, it is actually becoming possible to replace human intelligence tasks with technology.

Employees' work has been automated countless times in the past. They just end up doing other stuff. This is the trap that Keynes fell into when he projected we'd love eventually never do work because everything was becoming more efficient.

When everything becomes automated, we invent work to be done.

When you make wider lanes, more people drive. More capacity generates more supply.
No one uses anything unless you find a way to market it.

If you are building, spending and expecting anyone to automatically use it I would stop. Your product is only one part of a successful release the other part is figuring out how to get people to use your software. Many of us don't care and publish for the joy of releasing. Changing your mindset would make any project you release successful.
> Apple is a hardware company. They don't give a shit about software.

A bicycle company is hardware.

To turn a bicycle into a bicycle for the mind is software.
Really? Linux usage has been climbing quickly the last few years. We have a mainstream gaming machine by one of the largest gaming companies using arch linux. I really don't buy this argument anymore at this point.
My comment came out crankier than I intended. I do think comments like yours are valuable, and I agree that you were respectful and informative. I'm just genuinely amused that the top comment is for a completely different tool. That's more an observation about how we vote as a community, not about your post. I include myself in that group though as I have in the past been drawn to the new and shiny over the already known.
This is amazingly cool! I love it.

Im really interested in how you got gist to be the scratchpad for GPT.

Im wondering if this could be tied into VSCode's AI Fork "Cursor" to tell that AI IDE to keep a running Memory for the AI in a Gisty manner.

Since you have the example of "What coffee is in the pantry" -- this is prompting it to read the gist file first to answer yes?

If so - then having the ability to link it to gist/several gists for specific memory prompt cacheing and codeartifact retrieval and rules to abide by files (like how to craft the file headers to always include full path, description, version, timestamp.

Then you can have a .env gist for the AI's behavior - such that you have it always read its .env before doing any of the work on the prompt - which reminds it of the StyleGuide for the prompts, how to use certain words, a bibliograghy, adefinition of terms, etc...

Tell it which parts of the env persona settings to adopts "From env @python-styles give me a python to XYZ"

The env "python_styles: section of youre discernment lattice provides all the style guide info on how to format the project. Like telling it which venv things to do,kk how to save files, build out a fastapi directory and touch all the files, which db things to use, logging instructions, requirements.txt gist to grab...
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Can you give me a writeup on how to make the gist-scratchpad?

Before I read too deeply into your post - my first thought was to give it a Gsheets tie in. Gist is better.

You said free gpt-40? and is it free github account?

I want to figure out how to claude to gist - and gpt - to gist.

Can gpt read gist?

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My GF worked at french laundry for years as a somm, and now works for a very exclusive winery where bottles start at $1,000 for latest shipments... waiting list and all that

I wanna make this for her to log wines to.

How gist gpt action?

EDIT:

Also on HN today is Flamingo AI - and I just attempted to use it - but it appears to require a paid ChatGPT API account. Even though it claims to use 200+ models, it only gives GPT4o bring your own paid token access - which is not what its stated goals are. The Flamingo.ai people should take note of your post.
I have Lengyel's book and it's great. Highly recommended.
Efficient Pre-commit Hooks with checkout-index (2023)
As a former mathematician from one of the more elitist subfields of math, I have to say this is the first time I’ve heard anyone claim geometric algebra lacks rigor.
Something like this or something more akin to "when I die, please take all my healthcare records, data from smart watch, etc and make that available to research"?

https://www.tidepool.org/bigdata
The only purpose to life is to propagate more life. Anything else we might attribute to life is simply a coping mechanism for this abyssal vapidity.

Life also selects for more life, for the obvious reason.

Marriage-less and/or childless people hold no equity in the future and will be naturally selected out for those who do. The birth rate "problem" will resolve itself.

Note for context: I'm 35, never married nor intend to and never had nor intend to have children. I hold no equity in the future and I sincerely couldn't care less; I'm busy living as it is.
Nonzero, for sure.
I think a choice between standard/relative line numbers would be nice to have because that choice potentially affects your chosen motions
AI model weights are probably not even copyrightable.
I’ve got two apps running on two servers (ie both on both) using Kamal and Traefik and it works great. I didn’t set it up but I deploy with it almost every day.
Incorrect.

Orthogonal facets are orthogonal.

If we are talking about the security of a messaging system, then the only thing that matters to compare, is the security of the messaging system, not any particular implimentation detail.

All messaging systems are "comparable". If one relies on a secure enclave and one does not, it's hardly any more different than if one is painted yellow and one is painted green.

Messaging apps on phones painted blue and with tyre inflators are exactly "comparable" to ones on phones painted yellow with secure enclaves.
Why would you call a histogram a line?

If you segment your data into buckets, its a histogram.

Histospark? SparkGram?
I finally splurged on an Apple Watch. But before I had a very cheap $20 alarm vibrating watch marketed towards reminding people to take their pills. It worked great as a vibrating morning alarm so I didn’t wake my partner up.
It's always cool to see new developments in transistor materials and fabrication. It gives me hope that the industry will survive beyond the end of Moore scaling (arguably, we're already past it). Then I see that their prototypes are 100um wide and 250nm long. Quite a ways to go to match our state of the art 2-3nm processes (which don't actually have feature sizes that small but they're still in single digit nm)
> Japan’s national bird (green pheasant) is, IIRC, the only national bird that’s also a game bird.

India’s national bird is the Peacock. It is a type of pheasant and was historically a game bird that was a common delicacy, especially for the rich. It is now illegal to hunt peacock in India, but people still get it in the black market.
> Much more often, it's to bite off limbs until it dies, feasting on cashflow and assets

This can be a legitimate strategy. I know someone who made millions buying yellow pages companies and managing them for de-growth.
> If he cares so much about exposing the US government, he should stand up for his beliefs.

You should read what Daniel Ellsberg had to say about Snowden's decision to flee the country. Things have changed dramatically since Vietnam:

<https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/may/30/daniel...>

> He didn't have to escape to Russia...

The intent was never to stay in Russia. Snowden's passport was revoked by the US State Department while he was in transit from Hong Kong to -IIRC- Ecuador. His trip had him stop in Russia, which would not let him leave because his passport was no longer valid.

<https://apnews.com/article/82f87def2ddc4abfba271420f4e81ddf>
Their market wants “works better than Windows” too.

What an unbelievably tired cliche. Sure, aesthetics play a part in purchasing but there are PC laptops with similar aesthetics and build quality for around the same price and same lack of upgradability.

Next, you’ll say with a smirk, that they need their Mac laptop to write their novel in a coffee shop.
After living with satellite Internet as the only option for about 15 years, now that I have fiber, I still catch myself declining downloads that are too big and opening the scheduler.

Old habits die hard.

And the modern Internet implicitly assumes the end user is not on a metered connection. Websites are fucking massive these days.
I doubt this is true in all cases. I wouldn't recommend trying this and certainly would not trust my life to this advice.
I'd argue the opposite. Putin is systematically bombing out the Ukrainian power grid. Meanwhile, his "extremist" minions are plotting and practicing taking out the US power grid, coordinating on a digital platform that seems to be under his grip.

That's far scarier and more sinister than some French investigation that nothing might come out of.
"but one big upside is that you can theoretically avoid the rubber/microplastic particulate emission associated with tires".

Flying cars would solve this problem.
New mathematical model shows how the body regulates potassium (2023)

https://phys.org/news/2023-01-mathematical-body-potassium.ht... -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34589454
Is it maybe Tancrede Lepoint? He always seemed shady to me. Or Peter Schwabe?
One reference point is that about billion years ago the Earth had just invented multicellular life.
Funny how that kind of posts is now called "DevOps", while 10 years ago it was simply called "system administration" ;-)

Besides I fail to see any DevOps tenets in it, quite the opposite: a shell script at the bottom is little in the way of reliable automation.

To me this post reads more like someone relatively new to server management wanted to share their gathered tips and tricks, i.e. me 10 years ago when I started my self-hosting journey :-D
It’s a fact he went to Azerbaijan at the same time Putin did. It’s also a fact that he flew to the Paris right after. Putin spokesman said they did not meet. There were speculations that they did - references are on Wikipedia page.
Probably "Anatomy of Love".
What prompted you to build the site in the first place? Does that desire and reasoning still apply?

Whether you stop now, or complete and "ship" the project, what will you have learned? That's probably the most important question.
That is a joke I believe.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Origin_of_Species

I would've gone with 1987 though.

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/05/09/us/new-evidence-in-demise...
My banking apps work just fine on GrapheneOS.
This definitely requires some citations. There is no evidence that you are presenting that supports the 2-5% claim.
I don’t think you are fully understanding the impact of price collusion or the suit presented here. The DOJ very clearly thinks this is anticompetitive.
Chat with characters on your phone. Offline, private, and free
My friend and I were frustrated by the censorship, lack of privacy, and lack of control in current chat platforms. We saw all the great tools for running LLMs locally like SillyTavern. We realized it'd be awesome to make a great mobile roleplay experience w/ local LLMs.

So we made an offline role play app that's:

- 100% free
- Completely private (no servers are used. all the data stays on your phone)
- Runs offline LLMs (we finetuned Gemma 2B). No internet needed.
- Let’s you create and own your characters

Here are the links to download it and our Discord:

Appstore link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yap-ai/id6633414696

Discord invite: https://discord.com/invite/CVKQa5mpnS

Quick note: It's currently only available on iPhone 13 and up (with even faster performance on iPhone 15+). We are working to make this available on more devices.

We would really appreciate your feedback and thoughts. We hope you enjoy using it like we do :). Next we are thinking about working on:

1. Writing style options
2. Image generation capabilities
3. Overall speed improvements
23andme tried that but well you know