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Choosing between title case and sentence case for effective article headlines
One of the core puzzles in blogging and SEO today is whether to use title case ("Python Tutorial For Beginners") or sentence case ("Python tutorial for beginners") headlines for your article or blog post.

At some point during the evolution of the Internet, it became an unspoken rule that title case symbolized brand credibility and established reputation, while sentence case symbolized a casual or personal approach. As a result, it became common practice in business circles to use title case in order to "stand out" from the rest. Even today, a title case headline is generally perceived to be more professional.

But now that about two decades have passed since the invention of the World Wide Web, title cases are no longer the unique and distinct thing they once were. Their effect is wearing thin. You see, title cases were remarkable only due to their eye-catching ability; they used to attract more attention because they stood out from the rest. But now that every uncle in the neighborhood and their dog is also writing article headlines in title case, does it still have the ability to stand out? I don't think so.

Nevertheless, most highly ranked articles on Google on most topics happen to use title case headlines, even though they no longer retain that X factor. For example, when I googled "how to improve your website SEO in 2024" today, I found that all except one article in the SERP had title case headlines. For me, that one article[1] felt unique and distinct, and it stood out from the rest. Are you starting to see some irony here?

*Sentence cases aren't that bad*

1. Sentence casing follows the basic rules of English grammar. Now, let's talk about a few benefits or advantages of sentence cases. Firstly, sentence case headlines are grammatically proper. Since only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized, it's not only a more consistent approach but also enhances readability for those new to the Internet or those who don't have English as their first language, and we are only going to see more of them as the global reach of the Internet increases!

2. Helps maintain consistency in multi-lingual blogging. If your content features multiple languages or you publish articles with translations in many languages, sentence case headlines help maintain consistency due to their uniform appearance, simplified rules of capitalization, and reduced stress on translation. As we geopolitically transition into a globally multi-polar world, the scope of multi-lingual content is only going to increase.

What I have read about search engines and SEO so far is that Google doesn't have any bias towards title casing or sentence casing for ranking purposes. It all depends on the content itself and a dozen other arcane factors relating to the way the Internet works. Nevertheless, folks still keep using title case in their articles and essays, the quality of which varies. But the way I see it, title cased headlines no longer have that appeal or uniqueness they once had.

[1] https://seositecheckup.com/articles/10-things-to-do-in-2024-to-boost-your-websites-seo
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41926162
There's also "spread application" syntax in JS, like `Math.max(...list)`, but for many years browsers might permit it for small lists while crashing when supplied with large lists; the compatibility tradeoffs and non-obvious behaviors of all these alternatives make the point pretty clearly, I think.
Space is way, way, way bigger and way, way, way less hospitable than "technically interested" folks on here understand. And being multiplanetary isn't really a great hedge against the types of risks that are existential to a species that's capable of being multiplanetary.
> Will they notify those charged interest?

Yes? Where do you think this money is going?

> Goldman will pay $64.8 million. Of that total, $19.8 million will go back to consumers.
The Morning Show, Severance, Silo, Tehran, Presumed Innocent, Ted Lasso, Slow Horses, Disclaimer, Shrinking, Loot, Severance, Where's Wanda?, Foundation, Cowboy Cartel (short documentary), Midnight Family, The Last Thing He Told Me, Invasion, Mythic Quest, Bad Monkey, Dickinson...

There's so many good shows on Apple TV.
I'm badly split on Institute for Justice, the nonprofit backing this suit.

On the one hand, they aggressively advocate for obvious constitutional rights cases like this one and have put a lot of effort into fighting legally-accepted-yet-fundamentally-nonsensical practices like civil forfeiture.

On the other, they also aggressively support school vouchers, which are mostly a scheme to drain money from public schools into private ones that can use broad excuses to keep out students that would cost more or lower their grade averages.
Thank you for your question! While we haven't published a formal evaluation yet, it's something we are working toward. Currently, we rely mostly on human reviews to monitor and assess LLM outputs. We also maintain a golden test suite that is run against every release to ensure consistency and quality over time, using regex-based evaluations.

Our key metrics include the time and cost per agentic loop, as well as the false positive rate for a full end-to-end test. If you have any specific benchmarks or evaluation metrics you'd suggest, we'd be happy to hear them!
I was thinking exactly the same. You can write

if (cond) { cons }

on one line and get more readable code admittedly a few chars longer.
I'm the same way. I usually end up re-reading or re-watching books/seasons just ahead of a newly released volume/season. Since I like the content it isn't a big deal, but after a long enough time it can start to seem like a chore. I'd be nice if they put out some well edited summaries for past volumes/seasons. Sometime you'll see recaps, but often they're either too thin to be useful or they only tell you the important things that will matter later which can actually spoil things by putting a spotlight on foreshadowing.
The existential quantifier(∃) and the unique existential quantifier (∃!) of Predicate logic correspond to "a" and "the".
We Trained an AI to Reveal the Ultimate Halloween Costume
We can go back and forth on whether police should have access to this data and what regulations should be put on how/why it should be accessed. I think reasonable people can disagree about details, and cultural expectations around privacy and safety probably means there isn’t a single best answer.

But I don’t think anyone can honestly say the right amount of regulation is zero, which is what we have now. It is absolutely bonkers to me that anyone off the street should be able to gather such highly granular data about any other person as long as they can pay.
> I'm struggling a little bit with the "misleading consumers into getting interest-free monthly payments" part. I never found the checkout flow particularly unclear or obtuse

I really wish everybody who makes claims like these would go to the local library and do volunteer tech support for the elderly, poorly educated and cognitively challenged for a day.

The bar for these things is not "would the average HN reader find this confusing" it is "would the average customer find this confusing". The average IQ is 100, more than half of the US population reads below the grade 6 level.
The public figure conservation officer with the implied vendetta can be viewed on page 47/52 of this pdf https://www.fishandboat.com/About-Us/Angler-and-Boater/Legac... . It is a public document showing a public function where he received an award. The PDF is available on a government website and intentionally published for and accessible by the public.
Our insurance just started covering Ozempic for weight loss, but they will only supply it via their online pharmacy for diabetes. If you are prescribed it for weight loss, you have to find it retail and pay a $200 copay. But at least it's for branded Ozempic, not grey market compounded meds. Mounjaro is the better product if you need for both weight loss and diabetes, but the supply on that is even worse than for Ozempic.
Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted
Don't worry, I have paid apps too haha. I just have one free app that I haven't needed to upgrade.
both "illegal search on private lands" and "illegal control by private groups over public lands" are going on in the continental US West.. what is said in public does not always match what is done each day.
The city should be able to put cameras where it sees fit (especially on public property where no one else can). I agree though that the footage should be only accessible with a narrowly definable warrant.

We really don't need this much hand-wringing, the solution seems pretty straightforward.
The article mostly centers on 2023 and onwards as an increase in trend. But anyone who has seen a TED talk over the last 10 years is right to have ample suspicion about anything anyone says that does not fall under their direct, day to day job. A lot of it is people trying to make lateral, far-reaching connections into things they have no idea about, and package it into some kind of TED-paced equivalent of Hero’s Journey. Anecdotes dressed up to be sold to thought leaders who push unfounded conclusions onto unsuspecting innocents. Nasty stuff.

So it’s not so much about studies which cannot be replicated, but shit that sounded off key to begin with.

TYFAMTT.
"The Mother of All Demos" by Douglas Engelbart and his team at SRI happened the same year. It was done live.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nm47PFALc8

It included:

- A pointing device (the first mouse)

- A GUI

- Hypertext

- Word processing

- Collaborative real-time editing of a document

- Video conferencing

- File sharing
Beautiful architecture. Startups and companies like Netflix should learn from this instead of cargo culting microservices.
Statement still stands. The company can't afford lifetime because of this possibility. They should change the terms. They could say single owner lifetime or something like that.
> Beyond his main vocation as a chimney business owner, Thomas often drove for Lyft and Uber. After the criminal citation was filed, he automatically lost both driving jobs—banned by both companies due to the legal violation.

For being found guilty (overturned on appeal) of fishing with more than 8 lines due to what is likely a vendetta on the part of the officer. A particularly succinct example of automated cruelty. But what can one do?
> - Building our Go project in a Nix package was nearly impossible with private GitHub repos, so we moved on.

Yes. This is a nightmare, and is the literal step-one problem FlakeHub is designed to solve.

Regarding the monorepo causing big-bang updates that broke all your stuff: continued, strong, agreement. I think as nixpkgs continues to grow, and usage grows, we'll see a wider adoption of flakes from a pure "how do we all work together?" perspective. That's the flip side of FlakeHub's initial concept.
The one (and only) time I filled a prescription for propecia a couple decades ago, one of the warnings said something akin to: pregnant women should not even touch a broken propecia capsule due to the risk of birth defect.

After that, I decided to just allow nature to take its course on my hairline.
I used to work on an app that very heavily leaned on Elasticsearch to do advanced text querying for similarities between a 1-2 sentence input and a corpus of paragraph+ length documents.

It was fascinating how much tokenization strategies could affect a particular subset of queries. A really great example is a "W-4" or "W4" Standard tokenization might split on the "-" or split on letter / number boundaries. That input now becomes completely unidentifiable in the index, when it otherwise would have been a very rich factor in matching HR / salary / tax related content.

Different domain, but this doesn't shock me at all.
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It seems like a good change if you're a Helen Keller impersonator. To anyone not blind and deaf, we understand the intention of that ruling is to cripple the agencies as much as possible.

That is, and has been, conservative political policy. If you're conservative and ideologically opposed to the notion of the bureaucracy in general then it's a good change, because now they are much weaker.

The fatal flaw you're making here is that courts are impartial. No, the intention of this overturning is such that rules which are obviously correct can still be challenged, delayed, and even killed by conservative courts. It takes even a cursory glance at the courts in Texas to understand this is the case.

There're two aspects to law: what it says, and how it's practiced. What it says is that overstepping agencies must now prove they are following the laws as set by Congress. In practice, this means agencies will be blocked by extremely ungenerous conservative interpretations of law such that they cannot enforce common-sense regulations, with the intention of further empowering the private sector.
Just to make things clear, Phoronix said they are being "delisted".

No, they have actually been banished, because if you're not a maintainer of some Linux kernel subsystem, Linus Torvalds stops accepting merge requests from you. You need to go through an actual maintainer first.
Remote working is like veganism or crossfit, people have to come to announce them doing it at every possible possibility.
If there was no backtracking, that implies it couldn't solve every sudoku? That is rather amusing with the implication that it couldn't solve every dependency, as well?
It looks like the pdfs of at least some of the books are there. But it's a pretty small subset of their out of print books.
And that's why health care should be universal and not subject patients to the worst outcomes of capitalistic tendencies.
Who would be liable?
Great idea Kyle! I read through the source code as an experienced desktop automation/Electron developer and felt good about trying it for some basic tasks.

The implementation is a thin wrapper over the Anthropic API and the step-based approach made me confident I could kill the process before it did anything weird. Closed anything I didn't want Anthropic seeing in a screenshot. Installed smoothly on my M1 and was running in minutes.

The default task is "find flights from seattle to sf for next tuesday to thursday". I let it run with my Anthropic API key and it used chrome. Takes a few seconds per action step. It correctly opened up google flights, but booked the wrong dates!

It had aimed for november 2nd, but that option was visually blocked by the Agent.exe window itself, so it chose november 20th instead. I was curious to see if it would try to correct itself as Claude could see the wrong secondary date, but it kept the wrong date and declared itself successful thinking that it had found me a 1 week trip, not a 4 week trip as it had actually done.

The exercise cost $0.38 in credits and about 20 seconds. Will continue to experiment
Code patterns are social! What is strange to one is normal to another.

The kind of pattern used here with the `||` might seem weird to some JavaScript developers, but it's pretty normal in shell scripts, and it's pretty normal in Ruby with `unless`!
Don't even need the curly braces. I do

if (cond) doSomething();

all the time.
Right. I read a ton of business books in my day, many of them with great ideas, but when I came across Andy Grove’s High Output Management, it just hit different. Andy Grove being former CEO of Intel spoke from experience actually doing hard things, whereas many of the other books were written by people who were peddling wisdom to sell books. Not bad wisdom, just untested and not generalizable.

Working Backwards is another book full of practical wisdom that has actually been battle tested.
Because the majority of people don't do that.
"We, Israeli citizens residing in Israel and abroad, call on the international community – the UN and its institutions, the United States, the European Union, the League of Arab States, and all states around the world – to intervene immediately and implement every possible sanction towards achieving an immediate ceasefire between Israel and its neighbors, for the future of both peoples in Israel/Palestine and the peoples of the region, and for their rights to security and life.
..."

At least there is hope left(if my post is not killed/flagged at sight like a Palestinian)
In the EU no bank is allowed to operate without safe 2FA (no SMS) due to the PSD2 directive.
This is interesting. What types of content are you using this approach on and how does it handle semi structured data? For instance, embedded tables.
From my limited experience with Apple TV (Master of the Air and whatever that terrible Nasa one was) they seem to suffer from the same problem as most throw away TV shows on the streaming services - They lack writers who know anything about the subject matter and they couldn't care less about attention to detail.

They attempt to cash in on the emotional value of these dramatic events without doing the legwork required to do it properly and so it falls flat upon its face.
Thanks a lot. I’m browsing this with my screen reader.

…ok not really but that would be funny.
We've been playing with the idea of trying to answer inane questions as if they were actual serious business problems that require solving.

It took some doing to get ChatGPT to go beyond just making up some nonsense that sounded good, but we documented all the prompts and responses that actually got used in the process, and there's a reasonable sort of logic to how and where it landed.
It's been a while since my EE degree so I had to refresh my memory [2]. This is related to PID controllers (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%E2%80%93integral%...).

Type I is proportional only.

Type II compensation adds a zero (to increase phase margin [1]) and a pole (to filter high-frequency noise) to the compensation network, resulting in proportional-integral (PI) control.

Type III compensation introduces two zeros and two poles into the control loop, making it a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control scheme.

... and if you want to go one step further, MPC [3] also exists:

https://iaeme.com/MasterAdmin/Journal_uploads/IJARET/VOLUME_...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase_margin

[2] https://eng.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Industrial_and_System...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_predictive_control
There was a lot of public debate about this at the time. Kahle's argument made sense.
I purchased four 5ml bottles of semaglutide from China for $50. It's available at underground lab steroid sites and easy to find. Many people are ordering this and getting them tested and the results are posted. I realize the risk.
This completely ignores the political motivations for rulings. In my opinion, a person who does not at least try to address the obvious partisanism of our current court is not worth listening to.

Please keep in mind some justices have gone as far as recommending revisiting rulings on same-sex marriage and interracial marriage. We cannot continue to play stupid.
Don’t encourage the /s, I only see people use /s when they’re writing something that isn’t funny enough to read as a joke or are doing sarcasm badly.

Sometimes people make a joke that not everyone is going to get. That’s fine. But if you add the /s, it ruins the joke for the people who did get it.
> According to 12 words of Pennsylvania state code, PFBC officials have authority to “enter upon any land or water in the performance of their duties.” The statue provides wide latitude for PFBC to enter onto any property without consent, probable cause, or warrant—with no limits on duration, frequency, or scope.

Say what? That is how you get shot in rural america, as you should...
Pretty much the same as using Cable TV or Satellite TV without paying for a subscription. I don't see much difference between paying the BBC and paying Comcast.

In the case of Satellite TV, in the 1990s there were companies that sold decoder boxes so you could use a dish antenna without paying the Satellite TV company. You'd pay the pirating company instead. Lots of cat-and-mouse games involving changing encryption methods.
There are plenty of burbs in major cities where you can live without being in MiddleOfNowhere Nebraska. People move from their childhood homes all of the time.

Should I have stayed in my small town in south GA when I graduated from college in CS in the mid 90s to be close to my parents and friends?

The US is a big place with diverse weather.

I bet you I can find you a nice big house in the burbs of Atlanta, Charlotte, a hurricane mostly safe place in central Florida, rtc.

I in fact moved from Atlanta where I spent all of my adult life since 1996 two years ago with my wife because I wanted better weather and save money on taxes (no state tax) as a bonus.

You adapt, you make new friends. Honestly most of my friends in Atlanta are so busy with their own lives and family, even when I lived in the same metro area, we still had to make an effort to plan quarterly get togethers.

I still do that now - I just hop on a plane.
Wow awesome! Reminded me of Cucinelli's AI website: https://www.brunellocucinelli.ai/ which is one of the best one I've seen. It's dedicated to Mr Cucinelli's life and beliefs. The aesthetics are similar.
The PSD2 directive mandates the 2nd factor to be able provide you with an independent means of displaying the transaction you are performing. This essentially means the 2nd factor must be an device.
I doubt it's anywhere near that clearcut. "Weight" by itself is neither a disease nor a symptom. I have read numerous reports saying that weight loss often does not improve outcomes for various specific problems. Or that weight loss can help, but the way that it is lost matters more than the amount lost, and losing it the wrong way can be worse than maintaining the original weight. Not to mention that there are plenty of healthy overweight people and unhealthy skinny people. So I wouldn't be surprised if insurance companies are sitting back to see what the empirical effects of semaglutide-induced weight loss are on health outcomes. Perhaps there are data available on that now; I haven't looked.

Besides, it's hard to know what the health effects really are of being overweight, because it's such a convenient rug for doctors to sweep any and all problems under. "Let's see if you still have this problem after you've dropped 20 pounds, ok?" Because clearly your weight is due to a moral failing, and it suggests you're probably screwing up all kinds of other things. Why bother to work on helping you when you're unwilling to even try to do your part? Fat => lazy and weak-willed => won't stick to medication schedule or exercise or diet or anything => unworthy of help. There's not a lot of questioning whether being overweight is an effect or has a common cause; it's assumed to be the relevant cause, or at least has a high enough probability of being the only relevant cause worth looking at because it's common knowledge.

(Neither I nor anyone in my immediate family are overweight, by the way, so don't ignore my rant by assuming I'm being bitter about personal experience.)
First off, major kudos and this is very very cool work. It's also a great article and really, everyone should go read it.

Beyond "just" better string arrays, my favorite side effect of this is efficient NaN support in string arrays. The article talks about this a lot, but I had already started this comment before fully reading the article :p

I mean, sure, the old approach was object arrays, and you can do it there because each element is an independent object, but they're super inefficient. This both makes things efficient _and_ has a really cool side effect of supporting something that had become common partly as an accident of the old object array approach - NaNs in arrays of strings.

This is really really really useful work and it's _super_ cool!!
shoot me an email i the address in the profile. id be happy to chat to you about it.
this is fire could see this being amazing for the simpler