skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Except that the Bitcoin only has value so long as the cryptography behind it is secure. If it is broken, then the value drops to zero and all your coins are worth nothing.
was still told this and i graduated college in 2024. it did work out for me, but for the vast majority of ppl in my graduating class, unless they double majored from B School or did a proper STEM degree, they’re unemployed
The issue is, if you want to make an EV cheap enough to sit in the Civic/Carolla market, it still ends up being useless for most people because you can't afford to equip it with a large battery. Not to mention the only way an EV makes sense is if you can charge it with your own utility power, having to go and sit at a charger for 30+ minutes isn't, and will never be, tenable for most people.

Think about who's buying Civics and Corollas. It's apartment dwellers mostly, and they don't have chargers, nor can they. Maybe their parking lot has chargers, and those will be expensive, and they could use public chargers, which are also expensive, but you're talking basically making the cost 1:1 with a gas car at that point, but less convenient, less range, heavier, and all that assumes you can even sell it in that price bracket. It simply makes no sense for the majority of consumers. You'd have to invert the gas/electric pricing, which, given current trends, isn't likely to happen.

Now will that always be the case? Very likely not, eventually we'll have cheap power, eventually enough people will be driving EV's that gasoline loses its scale advantage. Until then, the EV market will stay mid-high end, and that means crossovers/suv's/trucks/etc.

Some people view that as dreadfully bad, myself, I'm happy that EV's are being developed and sold. By the time the world is ready for them, they're going to be very, very good, and that's the point which I'll be buying one. That is assuming I don't nab myself a late 90's ford ranger with a blown motor and build my own EV first.
But what about the ten-thousand invisible habits? You could be engaged in furious activity right now and not even know it.
and nothing I wrote suggests that financials and health of the business are linked.

There are countless examples of companies that seem to have a lot of money then die suddenly.

There are plenty of zombie companies (IBM) too, hard to know what this will be, but I wouldn't take financials as an indicator of anything really.
You're right it's ambiguous. It's a playful reference to a piece of literature.

It's also quite an old terminology which is not going to change.

If we could come up with a new terminology from the start we could find better options.

For example:

* Least/Most Significant First (LSF / MSF)
* Low/High Address Least Significant (LALS/HALS)

Etc
They are allowed to work from home the rest of the time.
Interesting and frustrating story! There's an Android app I've used that does that: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.koalative....
I was prescribed a CPAP (well, APAP as you mention) and the first week was miserable. I think I got 3 hours of sleep total that week, and obviously felt like crap. I talked to my primary doctor and she's like "well then go back to the specialist". That's what I'm doing.

My plan is to get a prescription I can use to buy a bunch of different masks (I don't care about the cost), and get a few days of sleep aids. That should sort it out.

The few hours I did sleep with a CPAP were crazy. I forgot that I stopped having dreams. I had so many dreams while I could breathe at night.
in order to disallow obsessive work?
Which is why my first read is just skimming the book, marking important passages. Then I read just these passages, write notes down, and put the book away. But I often buy heavily discounted books.
When reading a specialist critique of a popular notion it's important not to conflate the strength of the argument against the popular notion with the strength of the argument for what the author proposes as true instead.

Almost any specialist can muster a well-supported argument to a layperson that "X is wrong."

Unfortunately, it's a substantial turn from "X is wrong..." to "...Y is true."

And a well-supported refuting of X shouldn't be transfered into credibility towards Y.

The acoup guy is a decent author, but sometimes he makes that pivot a bit too glibly and leverages the ignorance of his readers.
I'd argue that designing an aircraft still fails badly with waterfall and it is a major reason that aviation is massively behind where it should be right now. Space-x shows that you can build rockets, a lot better, if you ditch that waterfall process.
How a Scientific Dispute Spiralled into a Defamation Lawsuit
I played D&D with Lawrence Schick (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Schick) in the 80s. He very much did NPC voices back then. It's what made playing with him as the DM amazing. I have always assumed since then, the best DMs can do NPC voices.
https://archive.ph/aZaQS
This was a good read, and the author makes convincing points. Largely, I agree, but the author makes a mistake that's extremely common in the hobby: they presume that the author of the book is the authority of the game, whereas the presumption made by Gygax et al. was that the Dungeon Master was overflowing with ideas, and needed only some reference points to pin them down.

One might as well refer to my garage toolbox as "anti-Cabinets" for containing no hinges.

And these anti-Medieval fixtures from the text aren't even necessarily central to the experience. Hiring retainers is a hand-wave, a way to get back to the meat of the game: prying gems from the eyes of enchanted statues.

I guess my point is that the most accurate possible exegesis of the Gygaxian canon misses, almost entirely, the heart of the game, which exists overwhelmingly at the table, and not in the book.
Pydantic: Data validation and settings management using Python type annotations
This is a common and difficult problem. Has your sleep doctor helped you with it? You might also find an online Sleep Apnea forum has ideas for you. I learned a lot from https://www.apneaboard.com/
Rate limiters seem like the poster child for something you'd want to host in an in-memory KVS. Typical access times look more like ~100us, not milliseconds. Even if you have a complicated algorithm, you can still limit it to a single round trip by using a Redis Function or some moral equivalent.
:^D Best first post evar.
The Rise of Post-Literate History
Why take the word of the developers of a Chromium-based browser, some of whom may not even be part of the project in the long run? Firefox is built on an entirely different engine and doesn't have this problem.
> The audience is primarily children

Ask me how I know you didn’t read the handbook! Over 50% of the audience is >=25
More and more it's crystallizing that people with high agency can elevate themselves as never before, while the average person is dragged down into a mud as never before. The divide is crazy and it's starting already in early childhood.

Yes, you and people like you can seek out the best browser extensions, install them, understand how to use them, and can curate a nicely tended online garden for yourself, and this is genuinely great. But "we live in a society", even you are subject to wider trends of how people around you live their lives and spend their time. And average people's front page is filled with slop and AI generated chum and Youtube-face thumbnails etc. While you can configure ublock origin to remove irrelevant recommendations from the middle of search results, the average person browses the internet without adblock and sinks hours into mindlessly scrolling social media.

Our parents worried about us staring at the TV all day, and today we have that on super steroids.

It's super hard to avoid rabbit holes. Once the recommender engine picks up on something you find interesting it will exploit that with no end.

The mind numbing stuff can be highly specific that no human TV program manager would ever think up. For example, I clicked a few videos about cow and horse hoof trimming and horseshoe applications. Kinda interesting, geeking out on skilled crafts like this, never seen it done in real life, maybe I learn something interesting! And a few days later I find myself regularly clicking these because I get so many of these now on my frontpage and I kind of take a step back and think, is this really time well spent? Watching hoof after hoof being trimmed? (By the way, these videos have millions of views each, and have entire channels dedicated to producing them over and over again. It's an entire genre, not just a few videos.)

I see this stuff with family members too. Zoning out and watching repetitive crap, like the hydraulic press channel, red hot ball, a guy who cleans up backyards, powerwashing objects, dashcam crashes, arrest bodycam footage, pimple popping, mukbang. (And I'm not even getting into political outrage stuff, that's a topic to itself.) Once Youtube figures out which type of repetitive brain-numbing genre you respond to, it will push it. It takes more self-awareness to get back in control than a lot of people have. Some of these "genres" are shockingly weird, like jigger removal (a kind of larva) from dog paws. I don't know if this has been studied properly. It's kind of like a non-sexual version of fetishes. Highly specific and somehow repetitively able to "tickle" one's brain, and while it's soothing and satisfying to some, it's disgusting and weird to others, pretty much like sexual fetishes.
The Happiness Lottery
How do you guys find employees/founding team members who actually value results over hours worked just like MrBeast?

At this point I’m convinced any great company follows this same principle. I also strongly believe in this in my startup.

But I’ve been finding it super hard to find employees or founding team members with this kind of mindset.

How do you spot these people?
I just took a look - golden rice doesn't look too bad actually. It reminds me of yellow rice. Golden lettuce looks kinda gross though.
Very relevant quote from the article:

> In my view comparing Ai’s cognitive, creative or intellectual powers to those of the human brain is not especially helpful. Think of the car. Humans can’t run as fast as horses. But we can build machines that far outpace them. We do not achieve this by imitation. We don’t engineer mechanical legs and hooves of the kind that took evolution 34 million years of tinkering and modification from eohippus to the present day. We go a completely different way and we come up with something that doesn’t at all exist in nature: the wheel. And instead of a mechanical heart and mechanical muscles Karl Benz offers us the internal combustion engine and crankshaft. Ditto with flying, and travelling across or under the waves. The commonly held idea that the best engineering mimics nature is largely misguided. Yes, we look sometimes look to the natural world for inspiration but in the big things, structurally, we go our own way. And as a result we can fly higher and faster than birds, move over land quicker than a cheetah, swim over and under the water faster and further than a salmon or a whale and so on.
Actually, it's also a miracle drug that can reduce inflammation and reduce the medication load of millions of people.

From what I've seen anecdotally, Ozempic adherence is much higher than most other meds. And the side effects are minor compared to, say, being 200 lbs overweight.
This seems like something that works exactly once ever and every non-profit will be treated with extreme scrutiny from now on.
The past four years have really been an astonishing example of the executive class being hit over the head with a good idea, picking themselves back up, and carrying on as if nothing ever happened based purely on their own prejudices and egoes.
Thank you for recommending this!
I have ordered this book just now, but from the preface, this is the book I have been searching for
Windows settings is pointless, long live Control Panel
Seems like an admirable goal and the utilization of UV is great! I'm wondering if there's any possibility for integrating this sort of package management into a project like Quarto which already has a strong ecosystem of plugins and outputs from their scientific notebooks. Quarto notebooks are also markdown based and can utilize Jupyter as a back end for Notebook rendering?
Google Flights shows the leg room in inches, and there's several sites that you can research it on.

However most concretely, back in 2000, American removed a few rows of coach across its entire narrow body fleet to give passengers an extra 3-5 inches of legroom throughout coach. They did not recover the costs and walked it back. jetBlue provides more legroom through all of coach, and even I as a very tall person, don't go out of my way to book them.

Some people will pay more for extra legroom, and I think the current split of seating in planes is likely right around the optimal distribution based on who will and won't pay.

> Two, people can certainly be fooled; for a long time airlines have been playing a game of gradually ratcheting back amenities without being up front about it.

Kind of but not really. Yeah they're not going to put out a press release when they take the olives off your salad. Airlines are an incredibly low margin commodity business. Many years they're negative margins. American's current operating margin is 3.41% [1] This is typical. These aren't B2B SaaS margins we're talking about.

So generally when they take the olives off your salad, instead of putting out a press release they just lower fares on competitive routes. Because most people book on fare or based on corporate contract, which is a second-order effect of fare.

[1] https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/AAL/american-airli...
I like the concept but I'm curious how it works. It sounds like it's based on detecting the movements of the wearer? Does that work?

It's a shame Apple is having patent issues with their SpO2 sensor. The O2Ring was a huge help in me understanding my sleep apnea early on, in combination with a formal sleep study. Sleep apnea is a very common and harmful problem, any sort of way of helping detect it will improve a lot of lives.
"PE isn't the only sector that wants to cut unneeded costs."

But PE stereotypically cuts cost in a shortsighted way.
When will AI outthink humans?
Petrarch climbed a mountain for fun in 1336.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascent_of_Mont_Ventoux
I've long contended that most uses of the "-ism" terms in popular discourse mostly serve an emotional purpose and otherwise do more to obfuscate than they do to illuminate understanding, especially because most people have very little idea of what the -isms actually entail.

As a case in point, there was a recent conversation I was having with someone kvetching about modern-day feudalism, and when I asked them what they thought feudalism was, they were modelling it after Louis XIV's absolute monarchy. Louis XIV was the king who abolished the last vestiges of feudalism in France. (To their credit, after I explained the history of feudalism and absolute monarchy, and why absolute monarchy is almost the complete opposite of feudalism, they did understand the mistake they were making.)

As Bret Devereaux points out, I think a large part of the problem is the sheer compression of history. We take about 1000 years of history and compress it into just a few events: the Fall of the (Western) Roman Empire, Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor, the Viking Age, the First Crusade, (maybe) the Black Death, the Protestant Reformation, and two of those are bookends for the period.
One company I worked with we switch over from waterfall to agile. The 'guardian' of the rooms of paperwork was so happy when she could bin 2 rooms full of filing cabinets overflowing with designs no one really followed. Took her about a week to clear it all out. Hundreds of rolls of gantt charts dumped into a recycle dumpster. Basically we stopped pretending we were not redesigning everything as we went along.
ACKS fixes this
I would make one small change to the author's analogies of imperative versus declarative and one small change to their description of LLMs for declarative programming.

First, on imperative versus declarative. I would describe imperative as "giving a list of instructions to follow". The words "instruction" and "direction" are largely synonyms in my mind and the difference may be subtler than the original words they are trying to describe. Instead, I would say that declarative programming gives "a goal and a set of constraints". We describe what we want, not how to get it. A large part of describing what we want is by describing what we don't want or can't do.

On using LLMs for declarative programming, I assert that we already do this. Prompt engineering is all about defining a set of constraints on the LLMs response. The goal is often within the system prompt: answer the user's question given the context. The user's request is just one of many constraints on the answer.

This declaration in the form of constraints is a direct result of the fact that LLMs operate on conditional probabilities. An LLM chooses each token by taking the list of all possible tokens and their a priori probabilities and conditioning those on the tokens that preceded it. By prefacing the generated output with a list of tokens describing constraints, we condition the LLMs generation to fit those constraints. The generated text is the result of applying the constraints to the space of all possible outcomes.

As we know, this isn't perfect. Most declarative languages and their engines use strict logic to limit the generated solutions, whereas LLMs are probabilistic. The constraints aren't specified in concrete terms but as a set of arbitrary tokens whose influence on the generated output is based on frequency of occurrence within a corpus of text rather than any logical rules.

Still, the fact that the generated output is the result of conditioning based on a set of tokens provided by the user means that it uses constraints to determine an outcome that fits those constraints, which is exactly how we solve a problem based on a declarative description.
> Well, speaking in different languages facilitates different modes of thinking

Sapir-Whorf? Can’t that just be put to bed by now?

> People against that tend to lean totalitarian. People for a monoculture, that is.

On the topic of languages at least.

Some technologists seem to want to get rid of all ostensibly useless things. More than one language being one of them.
What bothers me is that you need a prescription to get a mask for a CPAP - I kinda get the prescription needed for the CPAP - but the accessory mask - that just seems absurd to me.
Neither have I. Most of my software career has been spent in medical device development: a tightly regulated industry, and waterfall is just a concept.

Sure, you do requirements elicitation, review and documentation, and then architectural design, followed by detailed design & coding, etc. But it's never a linear process end-to-end. There's always feedback. There's always something you didn't account for showing up and requiring a change to an earlier part of the process.

Waterfall can, and does work, but only on fairly small projects that can be completely defined correctly the first time around. And like everything else, it's easier if you've done that kind of project before.
Please point me to the exact place in the source code where it does that:

https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
Even if you never push the code to production, it’s a crazy gorse multiplier for the explore and adventure prototype phase of a project
> As little as possible might be more than they could get elsewhere. Plus if you don't have a tax ID you don't pay taxes.

The Syrian civil war reduced their GDP per capita from ~11,000 in 2010 to ~530 USD/year in 2022: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=Syria+gdp+per+capita+20...

Even if someone is trying to game the system from a better position such as fleeing Ukraine, they're going to face competition from people *that poor*, who are otherwise in the same position.

Crucially, this is bellow the 24200 SEK (2.133,15 Euro) tax-free allowance where they wouldn't pay tax anyway.

> Don't get me wrong these people are being exploited, but they could be making more than if they were home.

Are you sure those people aren't trafficked, rather than in your country voluntarily? Such exploitation is also a problem, but I'd say a different one.
Strictly speaking, an inline view counter, which is incremented on each GET and included in the response, would break idempotence. Similarly, a PUT request that implicitly modifies a "last updated" field would also break idempotence. These are pretty minor violations, though, which arguably don't change any "semantics" of the response.
Amazon tells employees to return to office five days a week
Extremely apt and true for Amazon
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Okay, maybe I just don’t understand the flow of the conversation here. Too many referents, not enough clarity about which referents we’re talking about.
Low-income neighborhoods are good signal indicator for flooding high risk zones. There's a demographic angle, too.
I think you missed OPs point.

If you want something useful, then we're getting closer.

AGI is something specific, as a requisite, it must understand what is being asked, and what we have now is a puppet show that makes us humans think that the machine is thinking, similar to Markov chains.

There is absolutely some utility in this- but it's about as close to AGI as the horse-cart is to commercial aircraft.

Some AI hype people are really uncomfortable with that fact, I'm sorry, but that reality will hit you sooner rather than later.

It does not mean what we have is perfect, cannot be improved in the short term, or that it has no practical applications already.

EDIT: downvoting me wont change this, go study the field of academic AI properly please
Can you get your app to detect if your user's weight suddenly doubles while they're lying down?
Makes sense. Apple could be held liable for any false or misleading health claims made about an app.
I think the person you're responding to is FOS but anyone can audit the source code to find such a thing: https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow
Might want to use M-x gptel instead.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsRnh_brggM

https://github.com/karthink/gptel
Where I live indeed naaldhakken are called pumps as well. I hence, maybe uncorrectly, assumed it is an English word... Flemish/Dutch is so full of English words.

We use words like sneakers, shorts, wonderbra, jeans, hoodie,... often there is no Dutch alternative even.
I just noticed that that video has a copyright notice at the end for Velcro BVBA (which I think is Belgian). Apparently it's a swiss invention. I had always assumed velcro was an American company, because in my language we don't say velcro either.
Not disagreeing with you, can you give and explain one of the examples where you have seen this?
Developed "privately" only in the rather facile sense this can be said of anything done with the necessary support of massive federal funding, yes. It's bureaucracy that allocates and disburses that money.
Yes and this was pointed out on pretty much every thread about this, but it was always drowned out by the extremists. Most people on HN are extremists in this case.
I'm sorry but the proposed metaphor is just completely unworkable. The ring is not "too powerful for humans" it's not useful at all to humans! it induces irrational desire for it, but actually is of minor real utility, one person at a time can become real stealthy, it's cool but it's not beating an army. oh but actually when you try and use it for that minor ability, it secretly calls goons on you. Not desirable!

So it's like the atomic bomb, except there's only exactly one, and only the nazis can use it as a bomb, when the americans have it it just poisons the local groundwater a bit. But they have to keep it around and just let it do that because it's really important to guard it against the axis getting their hands on it.