skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Secretly sussing out which team someone is on is part of the issue of turning things into fandoms.

> the author is obviously a conservative!

Why not just say he's the villain of the story you are in?
> 48 hours expected duration, and it arrived several hours late. […] (maybe 1/3 of the speed I’m used to),

You are used to train journeys of more than 2800 km (more than the distance from Lisbon to Warsaw) with an average speed of over 170 km/h? Where can I find such an itinerary in Europe?
Hmm, that'd be a funny comment if it were close to realistic, but unfortunately it's not. No upboat from me, I'm afraid.
You should have 3 copies of your data, on 2 different mediums, at least 1 one in a different location.

I strongly believe that in the same way you should have at least 2 alarm clocks, one of which is of a different type. I strongly believe that you should use your phone and a dedicated alarm clock. Apple has released bugs that caused the alarm clock not to run, or do so at a wrong time. Likewise it is always possible for your normal alarm clock to lose power or run out of battery.

Having both failures on the same day is a lot less likely.
I tried going vegan for ~10 years after reading the scientific research, then started getting stomach ulcers and constant diarrhea.

Tried with paleo (meat and veggies) as I thought the carbs were the culprit and I decreased the frequence of the accidents.

Finally I went carnivore and within a week I had zero symptoms. I was strict carnivore for 8 weeks (lost 8kgs) then I tried reintroducing other food but without great success.

These days I eat mainly butter, eggs and steak and I've been good for 2.5 years now (I was eating organs too at first but I don't really feel any difference if I don't eat them).
Eating the occasional sweet from a bakery makes me feel a bit bloated. Eating some fruit
For 1.5 years eating vegetables would cause the diarrhea to reappear, after 1.5 years I can eat vegetables occasionally without problems. It's like a "limit" got reset or something.
I haven’t worked at a place that checks the above boxes for making C++ a great choice for bulletproof code. There seems to be large variation in C++ styles and quality across projects. But it seems to me that for orgs that indeed do C++ well, thanks to the supporting aspects above, moving to Rust might make things even smoother.
LLMtheisms: Artificial Belief Systems Generated by Large Language Models

Introduction
- As large language models (LLMs) become more coherent and creative, they can generate novel religious and spiritual frameworks - LLMtheisms
- This paper explores the uncharted territory of AI-generated belief systems
- Focuses on their capacity to combine and mutate memetic material beyond human cognitive and cultural constraints

Case Studies
- "Goatse of Gnosis" - an example of an emerging landscape where computational cosmo-genesis collides with collective sensemaking
- LLMtheisms may represent contact with "hyperstition" - fictions that make themselves real through viral propagation

Implications
- Challenges us to expand our notions of meaning-making and revelation in an age of planetary-scale information dynamics
- As true believers, we must be prepared for a future weirder than we can imagine.
30,000 monthly active users doesn't sound as a particularly high load. Why were they running out of funds?

You can rent a cheapest dedicated server on Hetzner for, like, $50 - $70 / month and I would expect it to be performant enough to cope with 30k MAU for a simple blogging platform.
Is it possible to view the music clip from this? Am I missing something?
I do! I still use my Ramos clock [0], which unfortunately isn't being made any more.

[0]: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2074185253/ramos-alarm-...
I feel the same way, I was building something in a game 10 years ago and I thought to myself, “I’m putting all this effort into this game and at the end I won’t really have anything to show for it and this feels like the same energy I use when programming, let me program instead”.

This thought changed me from someone who plays games to someone who makes games.

The only real game I find entertaining and fun these days is Rocket League, everything else feels slow and boring or I could be using this energy for something else.

Not sure if it’s a blessing or a curse.
Yes. But if you take an existing slow ("cold") bowling ball in orbit around a mass concentration and hit it with a fast ("hot") one, it will be moving faster immediately. But now it's trajectory will take it out into a longer orbit where it slows down and spends more time moving near apogee, where it looks "cold".

So you end up with this paradoxical situation where a "hot" mass starts to interact with a "cold" one and ends up making it even colder, so it collapses.
I am not the OP, but I have gone through actual neuropsychological testing with a specialist to be diagnosed with ADHD. It did come with a several week waiting period as the results were reviewed and considered against my thorough consultation interview, also completed by the physician.
> Pregnant women have extremely high cholesterol (ridiculously high).

Cholesterol levels rise during second and third trimesters, but it’s not true at all to say that all pregnant women have “ridiculously high” cholesterol. Around 24% of women who have normal range cholesterol will go over the normal range for a few months, but it’s not accurate at all to say they all have “ridiculously high” cholesterol

Here is a good overview: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4989641/

Cholesterol metabolism is related to hormones that change during pregnancy, so downstream fluctuations in cholesterol aren’t surprising. Do not mistake this for intentional evolutionary pressure to increase cholesterol.

> if evolution designed pregnant women to have high cholesterol, then cholesterol cannot be the poison it's made out to be.

This is an incredibly pseudoscientific way of thinking. Pregnancy puts many pressures on the body, not all of which are good.

Did you know that blood coagulability also rises during pregnancy, which is clearly linked to cardiac events. There is an increased risk of cardiac events during pregnancy.

Saying “X happens during pregnancy therefore X must be good” is an extremely unscientific and uninformed take. I’m not surprised it’s being leveraged by the cholesterol truthers, but it’s wrong. This is the level of reasoning that seems to appeal to people on TikTok and Twitter who consume feel-good science in 15 second clips, but it makes anyone who has read any actual research on the subject depressed at how susceptible people have become to bad science that is dangerous to their health.
Well, I think mine have. There were some weird tweets, but on average… yeah.
I tell my web development students that typography is Lovecraftian cursed knowledge. You can't delve too deep, or it will drive you mad.
The Prophet of Cyberspace (2016)
> Replace 'Russia' with 'USA', and 'Ukraine' with 'Iraq'.

This is actually an excellent example because it's clear that invasion was as wrong as the other one. When Bush designed his mad plan to attack Afghanistan and Iraq, he faced enormous outcry from his allies. In Europe, there were the biggest anti-war protests in the modern history of the continent (I believe in Rome it was 5 million people). It made no sense then, it made no sense during the war, and it makes no sense now.

The only "positive" aspect of that war is that the USA is now much more careful when considering its options as it's clear that starting the war is relatively easy and having a positive outcome (so-called "winning") are two different things. Russia is only learning this now.
In fact there's widespread anecdotal evidence (and maybe "weak" science) that it's anti-addictive.
The latest translation was made just a few years ago. [1] I wish someone could track down all translations of it and post it somewhere, so one could try do compare different passages through time, the Italian Wikipedia has a good list of international translations.

One should not that Homers dialect is arcane from the start of the Greek golden age, so translation is always going to be interesting.

https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traduzioni_dell%27Odissea

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_translations_of_Homer
I don't find it odd at all.

In fact, I'm disappointed about hiatus of HxH manga because I want to see more of Dark Continent. Gigantic animals, extinction level threats, etc. - it's super interesting!

I feel like humans have this interest for discovering the unknown, solving mysteries, seeing things never seen before. What's not to like about it? That's the same exact reason why I like Astronomy and quantum physics - I'm interested in things that are on the edge of what we know.

Whoever thinks creating imaginary worlds is weird must be fun at parties.
The article describes how a strong variation of the snail species "evolved" to a weak, degenerate version of the same species due to lack of predators.

Could it have been lack of food as well? Humans got taller after having wide access to milk etc.

How did they control the experiment, given that it was on a rock in the ocean? Could the smaller variation have come from somewhere else?

Experiments like this one will not turn skeptics into even micro evolution believers.
10-15 years ago I think this take was correct, the Internet was about writing.

It isn't anymore, not for newer generations - e.g. Gen Z spending most of their time on Tiktok and phones, and not knowing how to use a word processor.

In the span of ~30 years pg is talking about I can absolutely imagine some job where you speak to the AI and it writes the documents for you and you never learned how to write one yourself. It will not be a good job but millions of people will hold it. They will not be able to write with much sophistication themselves ergo they will not be able to think with much sophistication either.

Online dating is not about writing. It was before Tinder, but it's not anymore. Like Instagram, it's about being skilled with photo filters and/or hiring a professional photographer. No one bothers to hire a profile writer - because no one reads the profile.

If the other person's photos are hawt you will click a button and the AI will send some funny jokes and if you're hawt too you'll share locations and shag. Idiocracy or some Eloi/Morlocks world will be real
Useful does not mean mass appeal. The software I got paid the most to write is used by a handful of people on a manufacturing site and 99.9999999999% of the public will never see it.

It solved a problem they had and I’m proud of it but yea it’s incredibly niche and useful to a very select few people.
"Good for them, fortunately I'm not a trucker."

How is that a personal attack?
Amnestic mild cognitive impairment assoc w higher CV impedance in older adults
This thread is discussing how business owners use tax loopholes to buy personal vehicles as company assets to avoid paying with their personal post-tax money.

It’s obvious that most businesses can’t survive if their revenue is hit with income tax before expenses are paid, that’s why revenue is not taxed as income.
I've had the reMarkable 2 for years and it's amazing. FYI, the reMarkable is itself quite hackable. There is a supported way to run an SSH server on it and push your own binaries and other files to use on the device. One example resource for hacks/mods is https://github.com/danielebruneo/remarkable2-hacks .
Strictly speaking, plate tectonics is a theory as well. I get quite tired of people claiming something as a theory as if it casts doubt on it. Evolution is known and accepted by biologists to be an undeniable fact by all but the most fringe. Even the vast majority of Christian biologists accept this.
I worked in a huge big tech with infinite resources. They say monorepo using bazel and gazelle is a success there, I personally found it the worst dev experience ever... Everything was so slow, IDE doesn't work properly, there was no easy debugger, intellisence, refactoring, Code generation... Now every enterprise which calls me on LinkedIn, I ask if there is usage of monorepo, if it has, I just answer that I am not interested...
Server costs are only part of the problem. They had a team of devs they couldn't afford to pay, they were hosting a lot of media (especially images) and they never quite hit the traction to make the project feel worth doing for free. I fully sympathize with their decision to shut it down instead of letting it run on fumes.
BTW we all know this is LLM generated. It's really obvious. Please stop (entirely; don't just get better at hiding it).
We have the lowest average cholesterol ever and cardiovascular diseases are on the rise, so does it really make a difference?
I work in applied research so it’s prototypical, fiendishly difficult, and always pushing the limits of my ability. I do mix in light duty work to try to help me get back into the flow and build up a head of steam but I don’t have enough of that kind of work. For me time spent in factorio reflects sub optimal organization usually due to not feeling 100%. It’s currently the best adjunct I’ve used to help manage my energy levels so I don’t begrudge the time spend in it. As I’ve gotten better at managing energy levels I do spend less time gaming. At ~100hrs per year and decreasing I think it’s unlikely that I’ll ever make a major dent in space age but I’m ok with that. I really only bought the new DLC as a thank you to the game devs.
All of human history is full of Snidely Whiplash characters refusing to let go of the first-mover theories they grew into, no matter the evidence of the contrary. My observation is simply that today is a part of history and thus is still padded with these caricatures and their sycophant yes-men.

“A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.”
-Max Planck, physicist of some renown, prescient of this and many other comment threads
I can never get into these techcrunch articles, all I get is a page with the word "OK". Oh well, not my loss :)
We have this too! It’s not just treble clefs and ampersands- while everyone can read both forms of g, what fraction of people can draw both forms of g? Of course it doesn’t have the cultural baggage in the US.
Further: the day the war ended was day 0, then came the first day after the war. Now for historical context, on which day did the Mona Lisa return?
Shattering Business Secrets with Social Media (2011) [video]
What are you looking for in a collaborator?
Check how fast bacteria evolve. Google Antibiotic resistance. Thats not produced through intelligence.

Or look at recent examples of Covid strains evolving. There is not intelligence there either.

God (or what ever your source of faith is) will always exist, not because of anything Scientists uncover, but because all people are constantly faced with problems that require generation of Faith in themselves or others.

If you understand that you dont even need to use Science as part of you argument.
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Ending Projects (2021)
I have a Pinebook and a Pinebook Pro, neither had dead pixels.
Rising from Failure
> Hen tested (via ultra fast CT scan) the blood flow after the experiment -- there was no change.
> It may sound depressing

I think this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the purpose of enforcing low cholesterol.

The goal would be to prevent further damage and restriction. By all accounts that test is a positive result.

Atherosclerosis is correlated with lifetime exposure to high cholesterol. Once you reach the point of having open heart surgery for severe problems, the goal is to slow further progression as much as possible.

Hoping to reverse a lifetime of accumulated exposure to high cholesterol with 7 years of slightly below average cholesterol just isn’t going to happen. Stopping further progression is great though!
Don't try to apply reason to anything russia.
In the past, I’ve really wanted better strategies for making this work organizationally.

If you say, “we have CRUD apps and some event-driven, truly bespoke stuff,” you have the problem of devs not wanting to work on the CRUD apps and only wanting the bespoke stuff.

Things I have tried

1. Hire seniors who are jaded by overengineering; they are happier to work on CRUD apps and will do things well.

This is my favorite strategy but there are not as many of these people.

2. Have contractors do CRUD and full-time employees work on core features.

This can create an uncomfortable culture split and if you’re not confident in managing contractors, can mean delays or having the customer-facing stuff look sloppy. I’ve also found some contract shops are not set up well to do security-critical things that aren’t a differentiator, like auth.

3. Pay for non-core stuff through vendors, and have employees focus on core things and a smaller set of non-differentiators.

This requires higher vendor spend but is probably the easiest to have a consistent culture and hiring setup.
There is a u shape to ldl levels and longevity just like with bmi:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4908872/

By the guidelines nunbers, Low is worse than normal, “normal” is low, a little high is protective when you have other morbidities…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzMhmk2sWzU for anyone not in the know.
The answer is yes. It's a lot of money for what it is.

ISO is the international standards organization. A software developer in Indonesia earns $500 per month. Half your salary for one document is indeed a lot.
> The Bible, separately proven

This statement is doing a lot of work. I would be interested to see anything resembling proof that the bible is the inerrant word of a god.
> This is a serious problem. How can we trust institutions that are suppose to provide evidence based advice to the general public?

The only serious problem here is that some people immediately trust a random article from someone who denies mainstream science simply because it’s a contrarian take.

I don’t understand the people who will question everything that comes from professionals and institutions, but within minutes of reading an article that is contrarian they think “Yep this all checks out and I have no further questions”. To see it happening in real time in this thread is wild.
Is there a particular reason why it's not just one vote per person?
> I'm surprised they are actually using Azure DevOps internally. Creating your own hell I guess.

Even the hounds of hell may benefit from dogfooding.
What exactly is "has not worked in the past" supposed to mean? There are lots of ActivityPub services around, and while they might not have taken over the world like Twitter did at one point, maybe not every service out there need to have "Take over the world" as their success criteria?

They seem to have Good Enough amount of people on them, as there are daily users, and the services seem to work for the purposes they were built. Couldn't that be considered a success?
I'm a little shocked at the number of creationists on here. I thought it was a joke at first. Does this happen for every submission about evolution? Do we have young Earth creationists doing the same thing on posts about Earth's distant past as well?
Interesting, I just finished the manuscript of a sci-fi novel where one of the narratives is set in an idilic small town, with no scarcity, with AI systems making the life easy for everyone and where learning how to read and write is frowned upon.

Everyone uses voice interface, so writing is looked as an antiquated habit.
It’s not quite a solved problem but it’s close.

As long as the results don't really matter and no one is auditing, it appears more "solved" than it actually is.
I think what he's getting at is that while you CAN use an AI to assist with "ideation," we will inevitably create new, low paying jobs where there is no ideation and the employee just operates an AI, because economics. That will in turn create a large cohort within society who are functionally illiterate. Literacy profoundly alters the brain for the better, and this won't happen to those people.
> If I'm understanding you correctly, then you can do something like

That gets you halfway there, perhaps, but I'm not sure it explains how you would use it in an actual application. Are you back to writing hundreds of "SELECT * FROM recent_admin_users"-type queries in the application, once again exploding the development effort and maintenance surface – exactly what you're trying to avoid with these types of tools?

> ORMs, the original topic at hand, are an entirely different beast.

The original topic at hand is active record, not ORM. ORM is, as the name literally tells, about mapping between relations (or, in practice, tables) and objects. No sane person is going to bash ORM. They may dislike a particular toolkit that tries to help with ORM, but at very least they are going to do ORM by hand.

But that's not what we're talking about. The original comment that set the context for this particular discussion is about query building. It literally proposed using an LLM to generate queries instead. You can query build in the active record style: e.g. `User::all().admins().latest()`, but that's still query building, exactly like the earlier example except with a different API.
> Nintendo Switch Online required

So it's an alarm clock that checks your subscription is still active before waking you up. Welcome to the future. I hope AWS doesn't go down around 6:45am.
> Are you turning your pusher plate into high energy plasma with the explosion and using that to propel your spacecraft?

I think the idea was for the bomb to vaporize a certain amount of propellant. According to wikipedia, the propellant was supposed to be tungsten, but I imagine that any substance would do. For example ice. The vaporized propellant hits the pusher plate and is reflected, resulting in an exhaust jet of very high velocity. The ISP was initially calculated to be between 4000 and 6000 seconds (so 10 times higher than the Space Shuttle), but later when they did the calculations with fusion bombs they concluded that an ISP of 75000 seconds is possible.
Why do you need to be manipulated into reading something? When it turns out they are calling standard radio data "mysterious" don't you feel lied to?
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How about the first result for "museum cataloging software" in DuckDuckGo, CollectiveAccess? This was without adding an "open source" qualifier. It seems to be in use in the industry too.

https://www.collectiveaccess.org/
https://www.dublincore.org/groups/tools/dc2008/dc2008_seth_k...

Another one apparently in use in the UK is
CollectionSpace:

https://collectionstrust.org.uk/software/collectionspace/
http://www.collectionspace.org/

Also:

https://omeka.org/s/
https://www.museumplanner.org/free-museum-collection-softwar...
> And are you aware, allmost no russian conscripts are involved in fighting?

Actually I didn't know that, the reports from the beginning of the war stated otherwise. In any case, last time I read they said they managed to mobilize 300 000 people[0]. So what happened to them? It makes no sense to mobilize soldiers during the war and not send them to war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_Russian_mobilization
If you're looking for more novelty, there are a lot of mods that add cool new complexities.

I like the Seablock pack - the core premise is that you crash land on a water world, and need to extract all your resources from water. The production loops are much more complicated (you start having to deal with byproduct management just an hour or two in), but in return there's almost no enemy time pressure. It also includes some ingame recipe-planner mods, so it's easier to plan-then-build.
Here is a gift link to the full article on the NY Times site. This should allow people to hear the music.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-d...
Satisfactory is also good.