skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> How does this compare to Roc, if you've looked at it?

Strangely, I haven't heard of Roc, thanks! Looks neat, albeit a bit minimal. AOO seems to have more features. Most importantly, it has an (optional) connection server to facilitate peer-to-peer streaming over the internet, but there are also many little things like stream metadata, embedded stream messages, event handling, etc. Some of these are very useful or even essential for online jamming applications, for example. (https://sonobus.net/ uses AOO under the hood.)

> Would it be possible to have pulse/pipewire sink/source examples to quickly get started on desktop?

ATM, there are only portaudio examples (https://git.iem.at/aoo/aoo/-/tree/master/examples/cpp), but they should translate easily to pulse/pipewire.
Sure, the statistical method matters, but I think it's missing the forest for the tree.

Any metric will differ: bpm, sleep phases, body temp, etc.

Because those devices are not super accurate, and the context you wear them in doesn't allow them to be anyway.

If you were to do a respiratory polygraph with proper medical equipment you'll find different values from your Apple Watch or Oura ring for the times you wake up. But you'll also notice a gap between getting the values at home and in a hospital, because in the hospital the nurses will check your equipment setup.

Those devices are great to give you a big picture, follow general trends and understand your own body. That's it.
Yes, why not? You don't re-test every single one, though: you spot-check a statistically significant percentage of them. Or maybe you do check all of them, but only for a one month period every year (a month that changes every year, and isn't known to the testing lab, so they can't game the system).

Another option is to send "control samples" to the testing lab, something you know already is infected with something they should be testing for. Do this enough times, and you'll know if they're accurately reporting the bad samples.

This type of thing is the only way for anyone in any kind of organization to verify that their outsourcing is effective and they're getting the result they want.
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Yoast SEO for non-WordPress sites
We want to move our websites from wordpress to another CMS, and there are plenty of better options out there for our use case, mostly static web sites with a few updates per month.
To my surprise, the only WP functionality we have not been able to find good a replacement for, is Yoast SEO plugin.

Do you know any SEO tool with the same level of functionality that can work with static websites or any CMS? In particular our marketing team likes Yoast analysis tools and its improvement recommendations.

Thanks in advance!
There's not much space between having a "Home Library" and hording... it's way too easy to get carried away, and cross it. 8(

It's sad to contemplate, but I think the closing of bookstores leads the eventual disappearance of home libraries. Everything could be digitized and saved, but the copyright cartels aren't about to let that happen, are they? 8(
That is a great analogy.
When I wrote my note/hws in latex, I had the urge to go look for a package more frequently. When I started converting those docs into typst, I was able to hack around more easily, it really did feel like a modern programming language that has great error messages and that I enjoyed writing in.
It did not feel complex, especially with the help of compiler errors messages
I am not sure it is useful to bring in something as nebulous as "intelligence" and hand wave everything else away, unless you are going to tightly define what intelligence means.

There are only two objective measurements needed:

-is it making progress towards its goal?

-is it able to acquire capabilities it didn't have previously?

I am not sure if even the first one is objective enough.

Dismissing the argument without stating why you aren't convinced just comes across as a form of AI ludditism.
Yea it does seem pretty clear that it's mainly Terrance's contributions to the context window that is bringing the model to the right answer
Cool, thanks! I wonder if this is easy to use in Docker. Scanned but couldn't see
This doesn't make much sense as Terraform is for declarative infrastructure. It only make sense if you have an array of orders and keep adding orders and have an order resource with a for_each where you turn that array into an object with a unique key (maybe a hash of the date and line items). What happens if you delete an order from that list, though? Well, you will also have to delete it from the state then. Anyway, this is an abuse of Terraform. Best would be an CLI or TUI.
The Starlink trains are a nice touch.
'Goat porn'? That's your problem?
I think you've been misinformed - ReMarkable pens have replaceable nibs (tips), because they get worn away as you use them, but they are not powered at all (unless there's a new aspect to the Pro's market that I'm not aware of?)

For what it's worth: the reason it needs those tips is they are what helps it feel like writing on paper, but the tips can be put into third-party stylos - if you search Reddit or elsewhere you'll find plenty of people discussing alternatives.
There's the AWS Marketplace, so, it's possible.
> Do 'you' think that printing "Hello World" is an appropriate suggestion for what to do with a bootstrapping network of self referential agents?

Can you explain whether you think it is an appropriate suggestion and why?

Meconium is a word of utmost feculence!
People knew how to use the second core 20 years ago, SMP machines had been around for decades by that point. For the most part, the second core was taken care of by the OS which already had support for those SMP systems, and using multithreading or multiprocessing workloads.
You can still do this kind of audit, but you need to test a statistically significant number of samples in your "spot check" such that you know you some of them will be infected. The number will vary depending on the incidence of a particular type of infection present, but this is data that should be available.

I agree that sending control samples can also be effective, though. But if you need to send the whole organ to the test lab (and not just a small tissue sample), you probably don't want to be wasting healthy organs by infecting them. Better to just wait until you have an organ that's known to be infected already.
No, they both read equally "left to right". What GP asks, why "a : A" instead of "A a" and "fn -> A" instead of "A fn" has billions of right answers, but "readable left to right" is not one of them.
Yeah, wow! I wonder what strange threads led us both to that GitHub at the same time... IIRC it showed up in my GH recommended side panel, tho not totally sure haha! Not sure about you but...that could be it?
My favorite thing to do with Flux is create images with a white background for my substack[1] because the text following is amazing and I can communicate something visually through the artwork as well.

[1]https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/w_1456,c_limit,f_webp,q_...
Killing of Nika Shakarami
unfortunately i cannot edit the previous post anymore. another _excellent_ resource is this article/video from "mr protesilaos stavrou" : https://protesilaos.com/codelog/2024-02-08-emacs-window-rule...

he goes by the moniker 'prot' and has tons of very very good emacs information (both on his website, and youtube). always worthwhile to check them out !

as someone would say, if you like that kind of thing, this the is kind of thing you will like :o)
i have wildly high HRV and my cardiologist says it doesn't really mean anything

815 ms average HRV when normal is like 50-200 ms
When someone points to an area of my ignorance, I research the hell out of it to become educated on the matter. If I were to become offended by this being pointed out, I would have succumbed to stupidity.
What an amazing article. And what amazing analysis of this 30 years old blob. This was super enjoyable to read.

My only tiny gripe is that with the first quirk the author who insists that his implementation is bug for bug compatible lists the other implementations behavior and explains that they are very different from the original.

And then they proceed with additional quirks where the supposedly bug-for-bug compatible implementation also is different in the same way as the first example in that it produces an error message rather than the quirky output.

Don’t get me wrong: errors rather than quirks is much better behavior, but then don’t claim to be bug-for-bug compatible, nor roast other implementations for doing the same thing.
I simply stated two facts

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lying_by_omission
Sure, reducing the conditions that lead people to need transplants is a great idea, and should be done more. But I don't see how that's relevant to this discussion.
What's sketchy? It's a less common model these days, but GNU traditionally did that.
> SpaceX and by extension Starship are critical for the entire western space industry.

That is both true, and monumentally depressing.

>If you don’t like Elon Musk that’s fine. But his companies get stuff done.

For extremely broad values of "stuff" <glances over it the dumpster fire Twitter has been reduced to, and the CyberTaxi launch, and and and>

Yeah, SpaceX has been mostly hitting it out of the park. Tesla kinda was for a while 5 or 10 years back, but way less so these days. I can't think of another example of an Elon company "getting stuff done" in a positive way. I'm more inclined to think SpaceX succeeds due to the huge amount of luck a billionaire benefactor can bring to a hard problem, and succeeds in spite of rather than because of any other influence from Elon.
> Moreover, logistically, not building that accelerator means you quite likely never have it

That's exactly wrong. Who knows if you wait a bit the underlying technologies might cause a step change in price to build and make it so the project actually might get completed. For example waxahatchie vs cern
Thankfully with hugo there is documentation, old releases etc. For some of my old JS projects I can't do anything but rewrite. Packages disappeared, documentation too (some of it is on archive thankfully).
I think it’s funny he starts off by pointing to the controversy about WordPress’ CEO being a jerk and by the fourth paragraph he’s talking about how the CEO of the alternative CMS he recommends also has a reputation for being a jerk so you should host it elsewhere.

At that point I closed the tab.

Sort of reminds me of people fleeing Twitter/X due to not liking the new owner only to discover the people running Mastodon instances, BlueSky and uh Facebook Threads are not necessarily to their liking either.

At a certain point I just decided to be ruthlessly utilitarian in my approach to vendors. I never need to like the ceo, founder, etc. I don’t even expect them to treat me well for very long, I just need a viable plan for when the relationship turns. The great thing about low expectations is they are so often exceeded.
> No one has demanded that original copies of such books be removed from libraries.

They don't have to. Publishers caved to cultural pressure from the left and were originally planning on stopping publishing of the original editions. That plan would have phased out Dahl's work without having to force anyone to do anything—as libraries replaced damaged books their shelves would become sanitized.

Left-wing destruction of history and suppression of difficult ideas isn't better for the world just because it finds non-legislative means like silent publisher edits and massive grassroots cancellation campaigns.

Florida is awful, and I'm not condoning their legislature's behavior. But so are those who yank Harry Potter because Rowling is loudly not liberal enough for their tastes. It's just different tools to accomplish the same odious end.
Pay apology agencies to say 'I'm sorry' when it's too hard to do it yourself
There's also a large percentage of the country that simply wouldn't benefit from rail in their day to day lives, because most of the country doesn't have the population density to make rail make sense. It would at best be an alternative to flying, assuming it didn't take longer.

These are the same people for whom owning a car is an essential part of life.
That may have been true decades ago, but is no longer the case. Of course nothing is risk-free, but current drugs can get HIV viral loads down to undetectable levels, and if your drug treatment is successful, it's considered reasonably safe for you to swap fluids with others (with their knowledge of your medical history, and consent, of course), as well as become pregnant. Sexual partners should be on PrEP too, to further reduce the risk.

This isn't "living a normal life" completely, and the retrovirals have side effects and the regimen needs to be maintained, but the state of things for people with HIV is so much better than it was back in the 90s.
In general, with the TeX "engine", you can locally scope most changes by simply wrapping them in braces {}.

However, if you have a need to override something globally (eg. a global heading font, or spacing at the paragraph level), there is really no way to do it other than doing it globally.

How would Typst solve this without having the same problem? Eg. how can I have a package that sets every "the" in red colour, without it interfering with a package that sets every "the" in blue or titlecase?

Perhaps it's structured better (I would hope so, with ~40 years of learnings since TeX was introduced), but the problem seems unavoidable if you allow things like the above.
> We were all told to shut the fuck up and listen to a handful of cherry picked “doomsday experts”

No, you were told to out aside your opinions and allow people educated in epidemiology to guide a rapidly changing situation. It turns out the there were too many people with a chip on their shoulder to make the policy recommendations effective.

> if we were to express any doubt of any kind, we were evil alt-right grandma killers who deserved horrible Covid deaths.

Pointless hyperbole.

> no acknowledgment of the harms they were causing

Such as?

> What the Covid “side” did was abhorrent and history will not look fondly on them at all.

Reading between the lines it seems like you have many baked in assumptions that distort your perception of the event.
Don’t both sides this. I am not discounting that there are some folks who are not aligned with the Right. The magnitude of the efforts by the right to censor and limit ideas is a large multiple of what occurs on the left.
> where your parent comment specifically claimed that wages were less important than "how much work it takes to buy something similar, like steak, compared to the past". It misses the point

The story is better on the consumer goods side (vs. housing, health care, higher education...) Consumers would probably be in much worse shape without cheap goods from the likes of Walmart, Ikea, Amazon, etc.

> inequality isn't necessarily bad if all needs are met.

The interesting progress of automation is that it's moving up in terms of job salary, while a smaller number of new jobs is created at the top and at the bottom.
Diabetes in South Asians: Is the Phenotype Different?
Every day that goes by I'm more satisfied with my decision a week a go to migrate everything I have/am building off of WordPress.

Matt, if you read this...

:(
It is better to say RVC is almost never present without the full-size 4 byte instructions since we have one counter example:

https://github.com/gsmecher/minimax

This is an experimental rather than practical design that only directly implements the compressed instructions in hardware and then implements the normal RV32I instructions in "microcode" written using the compressed instructions.
Free as in beer only?
Radioactive ones.
We are paying 70bn€ annually for roads. And gain 25 in taxes for it.
It's really not, it's just that the right is loud and obnoxious about it while the left is smart and subtle.

The left isn't better from a moral perspective just because they suppress their taboo ideas by quietly influencing school curricula and sanitizing books at the publisher level rather than hamfistedly legislating the "problematic ideas" away.

Both are reprehensible, but one is less competent. I honestly view the left as more dangerous when it comes to censorship precisely because it's not hamfisted.
I guess it's optimized for artsy images?
Our biological ancestors evolved over 10s-100s of millions of years to consume raw plant matter and raw meat. Only in the last 100k years or so did we start consuming cooked food, which gives some time for evolution to adjust our genes. Our bodies are wet chemical machines that we are confident can consume such food.

These are the unprocessed and moderately unprocessed foods in the NOVA categorization. Processed foods is something that began to be consumed a few thousand years ago (eg. Tofu is 2k+ years old in China), and ultra-processed foods, as defined above, became largely consumed a few decades ago. So there are very good reasons to define these categories as they are. The lines dividing them are fuzzy but that is how all non-physics sciences work.

> ultra-processed as a food category is that it has very little to do with the nutritional value.

Now, if you have a complex system like the human body, it's reasonable to say that the more you drive it outside the domain that it was designed and tested in, the more risk you are taking on the something bad will happen. So a priori you would be mindful of consuming ultra-processed foods. It is a testament to biological evolution that nothing radically bad happens when we consume ultra-processed foods. But it seems very reasonable to investigate such foods more carefully for smaller but long term impacts on health.

> little to do with the nutritional value.

The digestive system doesn't just care about raw nutrition - the number of proteins/fats/carbs - of the incoming food. There are a number of physical and chemical processes occur during digestion, and these processes can be sensitive to what combination of things go in and in what physical form, etc.
I’m not sure how this is an alternative to Typora, that seems misleading. Typora is a minimalist markdown editor, this is some sort of to-do app.
so how do you propose the limited public money ought to be spent on which project? Perhaps just feel good vibes?
Why does anyone run an operating system that grants ambient authority to executables?

This is analogous to a power grid stripped of all fuses and circuit breakers to make it easier to design toasters.

We've studied this problem since 1972[1]. Solutions were found (but the Internet Archive is down, so I can't be sure [2] points to the right files now).

[1] https://csrc.nist.rip/publications/history/ande72.pdf

[2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120919111301/http://www.albany...
It's from The Long Now Foundation: a nonprofit established in 01996 to foster long-term thinking.
Your bed needs to be breathable. That's the single most important thing. A cool bed without proper ventilation will attract condensation and mold, and make you feel damp.

A good spring mattress sitting on top of slats will never get uncomfortably hot or cold in any particular spot, because air moves freely in and out, powered by your own body movements.

The mattress should also be as firm as you can tolerate. A firm mattress leaves breathable space between some parts of your body and the surface of the bed, instead of allowing your body to sink into the foam and become insulated on all sides. Again, airflow is key. Regardless of what heating or cooling solution you have, airflow will multiply its effect.
I couldn't even sign up and create a virtual card. The reason? "An error has occurred, please contact support or try again later".

Yeah I don't think so, you had one job privacy.com
The Indian startup bubble is insane
comedy of the extinct?
Here's easier parenting: walk from your house/apartment to a close by square, and play with your kids there
https://imgur.com/ayAWSKr

Prompt: frozen cyan peach fuzz, with default settings on a first generation SD model.

People _seriously_ do not understand how good these tools have been for nearly two years already.
I think you should disclose that it is freemium and not FREE. Typora is a one-time buy of $15; the app here, IF, is $3 /mo.

Personally, I have gone through so many productivity note-taking apps that mine are now plain-texts[1] with a tool that can read them. Of course, the texts are spiced with a tad of Markdown for readability and for the tools to make it easier on the eye. Right now, I'm with Obsidian.[2] However, I can move to any tool that does not chew up my content but just does its thang on top of it.

I also use iA Writer[3] a lot when picking out just a single file to focus on.

1. https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/

2. https://obsidian.md

3. https://ia.net/writer
Everyone has a different baseline. For athletic training and recovery they usually look at variations from the baseline rather than the absolute value.
Give it another month and it will be porn, just like sdxl.
I'm a boomer, the best thing is for my generation to die out. We are the most selfish and ignorant generation ever in modern times. And yet we had access to the most information! My kids don't like me to talk like this, my reply is always, "prove me wrong". (I'm referring to the mess we have caused the world, not necessarily the mankind helping accomplishments.)
I have been questioning the value beyond novelty as well recently. I’m curious if you replaced it with another tool or simply don’t derive value from those things?
If you need to rock the standard Dishy, I own and recommend the Caseman 20911 case. I especially like how the case serves as a mount for the dish. Most recently shipped to Western NC to get folks online after Helene.

https://caseman.com/products/20911-travel-case-to-hold-starl...
I'm puzzled why this is headlined as an alternative to Typora.

I'm a happy, paying Typora (on macOS) customer. Looking at the linked page, I would never have guessed that IF is at all a Typora competitor.

I love Typora because it is a great, flexible WYSIWYG-ish Markdown editor (at least for me), and that is how it bills itself: “A minimal Markdown editor and reader.”

The linked page about IF doesn't mention Markdown at all… but it does mention things like “todo” and “pomo” and “schedule”. What do those have to do with editing Markdown?