skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't read as I'm on a no-Twitter diet, so I'm not sure exactly which app they're referring to, but my Oral-B toothbrush has an app that tracks brushing habits over Bluetooth.

I decided when I bought it that I would never ever ever install that app or make use of these features (it's tooth-brushing, for crying out loud), and I don't feel like I'm missing out on anything.

I'm sure the company just wants to collect data about my brushing habits in order to sell it to... someone, who knows.
In that case there is no SpaceX equivalent. Is SpaceX's tower used for transporting stacked human-rated rockets from hangar to pad?
My guess why potatoes creates weight loss
I dissented regularly and vehemently and was not banned on HN.
Adipose Flux: Energy and Linoleic Acid
I had an allergist tell me about a study that supported this idea recently :
Introduction of pig whipworm eggs into the digestive tract of IBS patients reduced symptoms for a some patients. Pretty fascinating actually.

I was seeing the allergist for my eczema and he asked me if I experienced symptom relief when traveling abroad, which I did in Honduras. He thought I may have been exposed to a parasite there that diverted my overactive immune response. go figure.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3149054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1856386/
Makes sense. I don't have an X account, so I can only see the linked post (AFAIK).
It's not a hit rate I think, it's a not yet failed rate. A lot of these were started just recently. And a lot is deep in red but is supported by the VC IV line. And by supported I mean totally. If a Word competitor needs to cut costs it theoretically can scale down and survive. If a neural network startup needs to cut costs it has to shut down operations, due to incredible price to train models and run inference.
The project's webpage is a more helpful starting point than the repository: https://klee-se.org/
To me there's an uncanny-valley effect. Maybe it's the Looneys or the kilometres on the road signs, but it definitely feels the tiniest bit different.
If they're both saying the same things, then it truly does not matter. The crank might accidentally arrive at the positive outcome, the sincere skeptic might mislead unintentionally.

You responded, you obviously think you're making a point. I hope you're one of the cranks though, because that would explain how poor your argument is.
Can we cancel Boeing as a company? Fire all of the C-suite, break up space, commercial airline, and defense businesses into separate corporations
The Old Friends hypothesis doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Viruses did not come around much later than bacteria and parasites, and definitely before the adaptive immune system.

Bacterial viruses may have been involved in the evolution of nuclei
https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j....

The adaptive immune system of jawed vertebrates itself probably wouldn't be around if a virus hadn't infected the gametes of our fishy ancestors
https://www.nature.com/articles/29457
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2686171/

More likely is that there is a critical time window during the development of the immune system when it is trained not to react to most bacteria (which are passed on from the mother's vaginal microbiota and harmed by cesarian sections and early antibiotic use).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6904599/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4464665/

There's more and more evidence that one person's commensal bacteria can be someone else's pathogen, and that we should really think about it as a "lock and key" with your immune system rather than categorizing bacteria as inherently good or bad.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5300855/

Another rarely mentioned complication though is that the successful immune response itself likely selects for more pathogenic microbes.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15539148/

Removing selective pressure from pathogens can actually lead to less virulent strains.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30100182/

That may be why the body spends considerable resources feeding the microbiota at a slow pace using by secreting mucus which contains a large amount of sugars, but which are attached using an extreme amount of diverse linkages so that one bacteria cannot sweep the field and take over.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1134114/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41522-023-00468-3

You cannot really withhold food from bacteria, they will just eat you. But if you give them a slow trickle of sugar, you remove their reason to invade you (which is is at a risk to themselves). I personally think this concept can be applied to wars and immigration, but anyway..

Why are viruses more likely to cause autoimmune diseases than parasites? Probably because viruses go inside us and set of (Th1) intracellular responses , whereas parasites set of extracellular responses (Th2). You're probably more likely to be tricked into attacking yourself when you are fighting off something inside yourself than something outside your cells.
> showed an up-to-date current world events news feed

Say what now? Oral-B? World events news feed?
Microsoft as a company is extremely myopic. Budgets are scrutinized down to the penny every few months at very senior levels. This drives a culture of immediacy. Wine was a threat until Microsoft realized everyone in tech had moved to service based business models (aka "cloud"). Only afterwards, did they "realize" Linux as a threat to their long term viability no longer mattered.
> they take place in fictional worlds so there is no reason they can't have diversity.

There is one reason and it's the only reason you need: the developer wants it to be that way. If you don't like it, play something else.

If you want to make a game with no white people and full of political propaganda, you're free to do so, just don't cry when nobody buys it, as we've seen recently.

> Diversity is going to happen, most people recognize the value of diversity. Your choice is going to be whether or not you will continue to be part of society

And there's the classic progressive gaslighting: "everyone agrees with me except you, you must also agree with me or you will be pushed out of society"
Maybe the rejections by funds and by customers are related and your product/execution is the real problem?

Being jealous of younger "purely technical" developers with a track record you don't have won't help you.
Although the pushback against trans activist policy has come mostly from the right in the US (with some notable exceptions - Kara Dansky of Women's Declaration International, for example), it's a different story in the UK.

Around the mid-2010s, two events occurred in close succession: the Conservative government of the time proposed a policy of gender self-identification, and trans-identifying male prisoner Karen White was charged with sexually assaulting female prisoners while he was incarcerated in a women's prison. He was later convicted and it was uncovered that he'd been sent to the women's prison due to his "female" identity, despite having previous convictions of sexually assaulting and raping women.

The reaction from women was immense, organised on Mumsnet and other forums, mostly by left-wing feminists. After a lot of protest and publicity, the Tories dropped this policy. It was only later on they changed tack with policy proposals that shifted the balance away from trans activism, mostly to draw a line between them and Labour.
What are the other considerations? (assuming we are dealing with FP)
> You are so full of yourself. HN is great proof that there is zero association between "self identifies as technical" and "intelligence"

First off, the early internet barrier wasn't "self identification", it was a minimum degree of intelligence and technical ability.

And even so, they're right to say that the payoff for manipulation has become huge. The incentives at play today are totally different than they were, and very often of the lowest common denominator or tragedy of the commons variety.
To the contrary, it presumes that the right edge of the curves for both applicant pools do _not_ connect at n - ~100. Given the size difference between cohorts, I argue the curves would never meet at all. If the sizes were identical or close, then you could argue I'm using the fallacy.

Your second guess is correct.
Which game are you referring to? Both that I mentioned are fully released
I have always found pen and paper to be far more satisfying to check things off and it brings clarity better than a digital note or Kanban board.

I use a single sheet of paper every day. I write down 2-4 things I want to get done that day and any small tasks I need to do (ie, reply to x email).

The rest of the paper is for notes or thoughts throughout the day.

At the end of the day I take a new sheet of paper and write the next days tasks and notes. I then toss the old page in the trash.

Every. Fucking. Day.

Works like magic.
Thinking from 10,000 feet, the quality of the media seems bad at a time when anyone can publish contradicting accounts, with evidence, on the internet.

Do you think the old media was actually better? Or was there just no platform for dissenting voices?

If there are no dissenting voices heard, then the media seems like “the truth”.

This is exactly why authoritarian governments and religions are very concerned about counter narrative publications. They want the people to believe that the official sources are the truth.
Emacs 30 (pre-release) highlights
Self plug, I'm developing a minimal gui for Taskwarrior, focused on keyboard navigation.

https://github.com/tmahmood/taskwarrior-web/

Task warrior is the my core of task management, as I've ADHD,I lost track of my task if it's not easily visible, this ui helps me with that. It shows timer for active task on the top.

Future plan is to integrate time warrior too.
Had a quick peek at the first couple of paragraphs, here.

And now, I want to go back and reread some of that turgid text!
> half hoping that someone will take that as an opportunity to correct me

Well, you can use another pixel to take a photo of the screen...
Much appreciated. Thanks for this!
Ah yes, that is indeed very annoying. That's why I usually don't configure a swap partition on Linux, although that probably ends up wasting a lot of memory on write-once-read-never pages that could otherwise be used for the page cache.

A per-process real memory maximum that automatically invokes the OOM killer unless somehow opted out would probably be useful.
Product owners love that shit. No thoughts or analysis required. "That's so cool...I LOVE IT!" I hear that phrase used on so many boring, bad ideas.
Same thing (blank page) for me in Chrome/Vanadium on a Pixel 8.

EDIT: It does work in Firefox for Android!
Unit Economics of LLM APIs
Cheating in online gaming is such a blight on the industry. Such a waste of time & money for every legitimate participant in the market, except for the groups making and profiting of the cheats of course.

I still like my idea for a third-party reputation service that has consequences for not just one game but every multiplayer game participating in the program: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28634784

I really do think it would make cheating non-existent, and allow developers to focus on building cool games instead of building invasive & ineffective rootkits we have to install just to play games online fairly.
I would say that "useful idiots" is a better term than "puppets".
I don't get how pwning noobs is gratifying at all. It's just griefing and for a normal sane person there's no fun in seeing other people suffer. It's like wrestling with toddlers.

Proper "cheating" is not about wreaking havoc. Although there are plenty of weird people who do weird things - but cheats are not a problem, they just enable those weirdos to do weird things.

It's just automation, all about offloading work to a machine - a principle that the whole human civilization is built upon. And developing an aid that actually helps you to improve is - surely - a personally gratifying experience. If someone has difficulties doing something the "intended" way, but can think of and implement an alternative approach to achieve the same effect - that's just humans being humans, it's as fair as life can be.
Let me guess, you're a spamware developer?
How does US policy tangibly affect Canada? Outside of NAFTA, what else is there?

It seems like the worst thing that happens is a bunch of people threatening to move to Canada every 4 years.
Even with AOT compilation, as someone who loves C# and also does embedded development in C I would personally say a garbage collected language like C# has no place there.
I can think of a few things at least:

* Collect data on brushing frequency and thoroughness, and sell that data to dental insurance companies. Perhaps not even anonymized, so they can raise your premiums if you don't brush as often or as well as they'd like.

* Nag you to buy brush replacements after a certain amount of time or certain number of uses.

* Use dark patterns to trick you into giving access to other, unrelated data on your phone, and sell this data to third parties.

* Market their other products to you, or even perhaps suggest other things (sold by marketing partners) to buy, like different kinds of toothpaste, floss, mouthwash, etc.
In that case it sounds like a software protection product has been applied to the AI-based applications. That product is doing a simple check that should be fairly easy to hypass through other means.
How does it know which tooth you’re cleaning?
Because we needed yet another budget app
Because we really needed yet another budget app...
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Manage your spending without pulling your hair out. Yes, it's possible.

- Aggregate your personal and shared budgets in a single click, because juggling several apps is so 2010.
- Automate your recurring expenses to avoid surprises at the end of the month. Because forgetting Netflix is a classic.
- Share expenses without provoking a world war between friends. Yes, you can define who pays what, without the hassle.
- Calculate your debts without using an Excel spreadsheet. I promise, you don't need to become an accountant for that.
- And last but not least, analyse your finances using clear, fun graphs, because we know you love pretty curves... especially the ones that show how much you're saving.

In short, Boney is the budget app you've been waiting for, but can't live without. Because managing your money has never been easier, even for those who prefer to procrastinate.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/07/elon-musk...

> Musk told engineers to turn off communications network to hobble Ukraine drone attack on Russian warships
Canadian here, and I think that especially on philosophical grounds, the Canadian system is terrible.

The state has a monopoly on the purchasing of healthcare services, it is illegal in most provinces to buy any healthcare for your family. The official marketing is that services are given out in priority order. In practice, it's rationed according to a lottery, your connections, whether you can afford to live near medical center, your ability to advocate for yourself, ability to show up an hour before a facility opens and wait in line for 5 hours, push through constant gaslighting by doctors whose goal is to dissuade you from receiving care (they'd rather you just give up and go home, here take this antibiotic and get out of my face), willingness to embellish symptoms to get higher priority placement, etc.

When the system utterly fails you, you have zero recourse. You just accept that you won't get to see a specialist for 6 months (if you're lucky, often a year). There is no escape hatch. Only if you're lucky enough to afford paying out of pocket and be able to get out of the country to get medical attention.

Millions of Canadians have no access to a family doctor (25-60% of British Columbians, for example). With increasing frequency, Emergency Rooms themselves are closing their doors (can't operate a whole 24/7 rotation).

On a philosophical level, I think it plainly evil that, even after I've paid such high taxes to fund everyone else's treatment, and then after the government refuses to provide me with adequate healthcare, after already paying for services not received, they then make it illegal to use whatever money I have left to provide basic healthcare to myself and my family.
It should be called prompt science.
I use paper for my daily to-do. I take a 3x5 index card and write what I need to do that day.

If I can't fit it on the card, I know I don't have a chance to get it all done; in this way it's self-limiting.
"HR" stands for "Human Resources".

Resources are exploited by companies.

QED.

The most profitable thing in all of human history has always been and will always be information disparity. Create systems to share information on your salary with other people in your field.
Yeah that makes sense. Maybe arenas will be viable once the working group makes progress on allocators. https://github.com/rust-lang/wg-allocators
Funny how you hit the name on the head and still getting down-voted. Today I deleted my reddit account and sent a request to get my HN account removed as well.
Moved to lemmy and not looking back.
It’s actually less sophisticated - it’s merely the choice of what key input is reported when two keys are physically in the down position, simultaneously.

“Report last key that was activated” means that rapidly switching/alternating between, say, A and D to switch movement directions is a matter of just pressing the next key instead of coordinating the lifting of the other key.

AFAIK this has existed as an autohotkey script for a long time, but it’s so simple a legitimate hardware implementation detail can be another vector, and wouldn’t fit in the “unauthorized software” definition of cheating so needed a separate callout.
Agreed. Yes, we have national security interests in having the capability to build airplanes, etc., but there must be a way to maintain that capability without permanently giving one company and its executives the right to mismanage unlimited amounts of money. Maybe some more flexible mechanism that can handle networks of smaller companies achieving the same end result.
Traditional taxi services haven’t needed this feature, why does Lyft?

Is there a way I can opt out, short of deleting my account?
I think you do need to sacrifice some rigor to reach a level of perfect balance, or at least sacrifice the appearance of rigor. So let's agree to differ on that one.

I think we would agree about most aspects of college admissions being flawed.
Can anybody speak to the accounting implications of "donating" software to a foundation/501(c)3? Can there be any kind of tax write-off? (It looks like this might already have been owned by a foundation, but I'm still generally curious)
Same reason why the WTC windows were smaller than they needed to be, to give people a sense of security.
> I’ll be honest I didn’t really read your comment far enough to get to where you said just two companies. You said you can’t buy chocolate in the USA

Those two companies account for some large fraction of marketshare in the US. And since I didn't grow up eating $10/bar Geflaggersverkenfunkenderassen swiss chocolate, those hold little appeal anyway. Thanks though for admitting you just kind of ignored what I said, I figure that goes for the downvoters too.
"open-source uipath alternative" is quite a bold claim amigos!! I hope you're right, because the world need a good open source RPA in nocoloco (no-code/low-code).
The previous commenter is right. This is related to espionnage and warfare, which every major power (China included) invests in. I believe China values education and sovereignty.
Using port number as a service identifier sucks because it means you can only run e.g. one normally-accessible SSH server per IP address. One potential solution is to look up port numbers via DNS SRV records[1], but very few protocol standards demand clients do this.

HTTP and SMTP have their own ad-hoc, partial solutions to this (vhosting, MX records), but most every other service requires a unique IP address per instance.

* [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRV_record
Yup he cuts my hair good. Always tip your barber. Don't want a shitty haircut next time. Dunno what his base pay is. He does have to rent his chair from the shop. How much does that cost?
> I'm guessing this is Google similarly trying to stop people extracting their local models by not letting unlocked devices access them.

It seems like it's not even that thought out. Google allows the devices to fully download the models...just not run them?

If you want the models, here ya go: https://pastebin.com/jh4YG5jX

That's every file the app downloads on launch.

EDIT: Seemingly I'm wrong. Someone below in another comment stated that they are not allowing the device to download the Gemini Nano model and that's what the failure is from.
not everything running on a 20-mips 32-bit microcontroller with 2 kibibytes of sram needs to be hard real time and failure-free, and of course the esp32 has hundreds of kibibytes

and, correct me if i'm wrong here, but doesn't c# allow you to statically allocate structs just as much as c does? i'd think you'd be able to avoid garbage collection about as much as you want, but i've never written much beyond 'hello, world' in c#
> Censorship is something governments do.

Not exclusively, no. There's nothing in the definitions of the words 'censor' or 'censorship' that imply it is an act exclusive to governments.

Effectively, something can be censorship even if the government is not involved.

When the government is involved, then it's government censorship.
> What exactly is it Bechtel and friends struggling with?

Some of it is reasonable. Covid threw a spanner in schedules and increased costs due to a rise in price levels. Some is from design changes due to new information, e.g. "during launch, the SLS generates exhaust blast plume pressure, random vibration, vibration from acoustics, and heat. These loads can cause damage to the launch vehicle, payload, launch pad, and surrounding structures. After the Artemis I launch, NASA found higher-than-expected thermal, acoustic, and blast loads to the ML-1. ML-2 project
management is assessing these lessons learned from Artemis I and anticipates the ML-2 structure will require some additional strengthening to withstand the predicted loads" [1].

A lot of it, however, is laughably-incompetent cost-plus subcontracting nonsense:
"While Bechtel revised its IFCs in response to the RFIs, according to ML-2 project management, the
company did not allot sufficient time in its schedule to do so, and this iterative process resulted in cost increases and schedule delays. In mid-2023, ML-2 project management found the delays in steel fabrication and delivery resulted in a 3-month schedule slip, leaving Bechtel with no additional schedule reserve to meet the May 2026 contract end date.

...

In mid-2021, ML-2 project management noted that Bechtel’s 'interactions and business relationship with the steel fabricator deteriorated to the point of dysfunction,' resulting in unresolved fabrication issues that impacted the ML-2 project’s critical path. Bechtel’s lack of awareness and oversight of critical second-tier subcontractors responsible for steel fabrication contributed to a delayed construction start date. One subcontractor, which Bechtel allocated approximately 46 percent of the fabrication work to, sold all of its shop space to a non-NASA customer because Bechtel's steel fabrication plan lacked a signed contract with the subcontractor. As a result, Bechtel attempted to find another subcontractor with available shop space but was unable to do so in a timely manner. The delay in the steel fabrication process continued to impact the ML-2 project’s schedule" (pp 18).

[1] https://oig.nasa.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/ig-24-016.pd... page 20