skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing about government policies in my lifetime tells me either party or any administration makes increasing individual incomes a priority. Instead they created a system that puts young people in debt to pay for devalued degrees, then don't allow discharging that debt in bankruptcy. Telling everyone to go to college to get a degree just led to an example of Goodhart's Law -- people optimized for getting a piece of paper rather than optimizing for learning anything or at least graduating with some career skills.

I can think of many other examples of the government fleecing citizens into poverty (medical care, just to give one), enriching a few corporations and wealthy individuals at the expense of the general welfare. A government that cared about its citizens making more money wouldn't have hundreds of thousands of them living on the streets. If the government actually prioritized increasing tax revenues I can point them to some very rich companies and individuals not paying their share.
Those are cherry-picked studies and the article you linked points that out. The current scientific literature points to diets high in saturated fats being linked to cardiovascular and metabolic diseases.
> and when spacetime is curved, you end up moving

You did the same as everyone else: You hard waved right past "end up moving". Why do I end up moving instead of just sitting there?

And if I "end up moving" that means I exchange momentum, if it's just bent space that magically makes me move, what did I exchange momentum with, if not via a force toward another particle?

Gravity is a force that acts on energy. If you disagree please give me a counter example.
A sqlite extension that provides a virtual table backed by an Automerge document (https://automerge.org/).

I believe that there are plenty of applications that could benefit from the collaboration or sync-ability that CRDTs* provide, but that don't need to manage the CRDTs directly. Moving the CRDT management into the database seems like a natural fit.

It's very early, and not public anywhere, but I'd be happy to chat about it if anyone has any thoughts or questions.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict-free_replicated_data_...
In my experience it depends on the speciality you need.

If you need to see an Otolaryngologist (ENT), you might be able to get an appointment within a few weeks. If you need to see an Endocrinologist, it might be 4-6 months.
Presumably, their career economists found that this "weird" pricing scheme is actually optimal—that selling tiny RAM upgrades for $200 or $400 is empirically, measurably an effective way to sort their consumers by purchasing power, and optimally drain their wallets.

It goes by many names, the "microeconomic pricing strategy where identical or largely similar goods or services are sold at different prices by the same provider to different buyers based on which market segment they are perceived to be part of",

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination
A "greatest common denominator" format for data synchronization.
Like, JSON done right.
CRDT and very algebraic.

https://github.com/gritzko/librdx
Do they sell matching monitors to go with these all in one style iMac's?

I'm not really an Apple person, but I can't imagine having a single monitor in this day and age and any other color would look silly next to a weird pastel pink device.
I’m in Southern California and it also is a bit of a wait
An opportunity to speak about a resource most people take for granted in their daily lives.

This reliance on electrical power leaves us vulnerable to solar events, particularly coronal mass ejections (CMEs). These massive bursts from the sun can disrupt electrical grids, satellite communications, and even the internet, yet many remain unaware of the potential consequences of a grid collapse.

The Carrington Event of 1859 serves as a historical warning; it caused significant disruptions to telegraph systems, highlighting our susceptibility to solar storms. Today, as our technology becomes increasingly dependent on electricity, the risks associated with a large-scale CME grow. Experts suggest that significant solar events occur every 100 years or so, making the possibility of another Carrington-like incident a real and pressing concern.

Despite this knowledge, many remain oblivious to the implications of a potential grid failure. Such an event could lead to widespread blackouts, crippling essential services and throwing modern society into disarray. Our ability to predict and mitigate these solar threats is limited, and the sun’s unpredictable behavior adds layers of uncertainty.

In an era where attention is scarce, it is critical to focus on the serious risks posed by our electrical dependence. The stakes are incredibly high—food and water supplies, emergency services, and national security could all be compromised by a severe CME. Acknowledging our vulnerability to these solar events is essential for developing resilience strategies and investing in infrastructure that can withstand such threats. Our civilization’s fate may very well rest in the hands of the sun, and we must prepare for that possibility.
You genuinely don't know what you're talking about. The word "function" means different things in different areas. So does the word "map" or "mapping". In analysis, what you personally call a "function" instead falls under the term "mapping". In foundations - which is a different area with incompatible terminology - the terms "mapping" and "function" are defined to mean the same thing.

This situation is a consequence of how mathematicians haven't always been sure how to define certain concepts. See "generating function" for yet another usage of the word "function" that's in direct contradiction with the last two. So that's three incompatible usages of the term "function". All this terminology goes back to the 1700s when mathematics was done without the rigour it has today.

I find it aggravating how you're so confidently wrong. I hope it's not on purpose.

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Is it instinct at play here or is this what you are taught by those who depends on it?

In my experience people are more than happy to share if left to their own devices.
I took it to mean that the goal is a reduction in adiposity. For most cases, weight loss will mean that, but it is also possible to become sarcopenic or chronically dehydrated, be lighter, and be in worse health.

Most studies look at more than just weight, they minimally assess BMI and ideally estimate body fat percentage. Some go further, looking at relative risk of other endpoints such as heart attack, heart failure, stroke, diabetes, injury, hospitalization, death, etc.
Resolving metastability issues during bootstrapping CLOS [pdf]
what do you mean by "just sits there"?

Sits where?

In the same position relative to the sun? Relative to the center of the Galaxy? Relative to the local galaxy supercluster?

A particle does not just sit still!
Show HN: Hunt Subway Art with your camera and AI
> Regardless, I'm extremely skeptical. When one has a sedentary lifestyle, and turns to consistent sport activity, it's very typical to quickly lose fat and gain muscles for some time, which is in conflict with the research.

I have two thoughts on this. The first one is, I see more than a few chubby-or-more professional baseball players. Second, I see a TON of professional football players, specifically lineman, lose a hundred plus pounds because they're no longer trying to stay above a weight to remain competitive. The last one I read about just changed his diet. Had no desire to lift a weight or run a sprint ever again.

I don't track why people think weight loss is mostly exercise, where it is in fact almost entirely diet. This topic really makes people mad, I've never understood why. If you want to lose weight you can do so, safely, without ever exercising.
The other thing that I was amazed by in Africa was watching hundreds of people walking beside highways in the pitch dark.
Wow. And I thought several hundred MiB for my langservers was absurd.
The amount low-effort/low-value extensions on the VSCode extension marketplace are astonishing. Searching for "darcula" shows around 100 typo-squatting themes, who knows how many of which are malicious. I think both the distribution mechanism and the language shortcomings contribute to the problem.

Users publish their extension which may or may not reflect the reported repository. Users download a bunch of amorphous JS code (perhaps compressed, perhaps obfuscated, perhaps malicious) to their machine and are at the mercy of it. If JS didn't need this build step and a user was able to download extensions directly from the Git forge, then the story would be a bit better.
Myself, mind and body

Everyday, I get up and cold plunge. I exercise twice a day. I eat carnivore diet. I do red light therapy. I drink a gallon of water. I read 10 pages out of two books. Sometimes I get a third exercise in. I use the sauna (20 minutes at 205F). I stand on a vibration plate for 10 minutes.

I also play factorio.
"Labor shortage", except real wages in the usa have been declining since the 1970s. People need to be shamed for using these terms. Inflation adjusted, and even worse, real estate adjusted, wages have dropped like a rock.
>“In the U.S. the current landscape of marijuana legalization in adults adds a complex layer to the issues of adolescent marijuana use. As more states continue to legalize recreational marijuana, the accessibility and perceived normalcy of the drug may increase, particularly for adolescents who may view its legal status as an indication of safety or acceptability,” said Charles H. Hennekens, M.D.

Interesting to read this in an article about how marijuana use has gone down in the time since legalization efforts have started to see success. It almost seems comically out of touch.
Either ublock origin with all filter lists checked

Ghostery with ad-blocking, anti-tracking and Never Consent enabled with Fanboy's Annoyance List added to custom filters

Mullvad DNS

https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls
If there isn't enough people paying it isn't a business to start with.

Easy, make the math how much packages you need to sell each month to keep your salary.

Then add up everything else a business depends on.
I could never justify getting an iMac. All the downsides of a laptop & desktop in one; not upgradeable and not portable. Leaves me wondering how many of these Apple actually sell. A Mac Mini with a separate screen feels like it makes far more sense.
This article litterally talked of accountability non-stop without actually touching on accountability. It could be reduced to "be nice when people deliver on deadlines, be strict when they don't"
I would say a diet soda is significantly healthier than orange juice.
When he was competing, Michael Phelps famously ate something like 8,000 calories a day. How do we square this with the Exercise Paradox?
Perhaps historical accuracy takes a backseat to the need for illumination -- nobody wants to watch a movie with people sitting around in a room so dark you can't see what the actors are doing or their facial expressions.
Urgent care is often a 1-4 hour wait and insurance tends to have a higher copay. If you have a patient profile at a large health care provider's facility, you can often get appointments same or next day if you're willing to be flexible about the specific provider that sees you, with the normal (~15 minute) wait and lower copay.
Looks like we overlap somewhat https://github.com/gritzko/librdx

I had some success embedding CRDT into LSM databases.
Those are built around merge operators.
I'm always open to learning.

Do you have any code to share which automates turning markdown to a blog site?
> Then again, the rest of the industry has figured out a way to make slottable RAM almost as fast and compact as soldered RAM…

Just be patient, the EU will take a large stick and force Apple to allow users to replace their RAM soon too.
Meta develops own AI search engine to cut reliance on Google, Bing
3 children.

If it's 10, 20, 30, this doesn't work. This is the entire point, that care work does not scale like manufacturing or farming or software or entertainment or...
I have zero interest in Ai helping me to write or rewrite email or other text. Siri maybe, lets hope it finally becomes somewhat useful, considering how useless and stupid the current version is.
I think making a networked teapot with an undocumented endpoint for "brew coffee" that returned 418 would be fun :)
I see it all the time, applications that would be very usable and streamlined for users from a ui perspective are frustrating and painful to use because every action requires a multi second request. So the experience is mostly reduced to staring at progress spinners.
Popular scientists have been saying it for decades and always use the flexible rubber sheet as the learning aid. Serious physicists tended to stay out of the fray, preferring to just "shut up and compute", as they do for quantum mechanics.

It's a relatively recent development that physicists have entered the fray and say maybe curved spacetime isn't a model, maybe it's reality. I urge caution to all as we have no evidence that the model of curved spacetime is indeed reality. I think the caution is warranted considering that GR contains singularities, which is a sign the theory has issues.
I was just watching with my young kids YT videos about casting metals into objects and how steel is made, sometimes modernity is great
I think it's a combination of long covid and the effect covid had on people's mental health.

Being "disenfranchised" can very easily lead to major depressive disorder, anxiety disorders, etc.
Question. Is this "Apple Intelligence" phoning home all the time?
I must be really confused about physics and reality, because that argument feels like an April Fools joke.

Stick a rocket engine to the side of the mountain, and light it up. An accelerometer glued to the mountain will show a 0. So will one glued to the rocket. Does that mean thrust is not a force now?
Your iPhone lies to you. The acceleration is indeed upwards, as you’ll see if you look at raw accelerometer data… or the feeling from your feet, which counts.
There's this website called tcrf.net discussing hidden gems in old games and I feel like in the past, at least in some companies, engineering was fun. I really cannot picture creating anything like 418 in my current workplace.
My wife is college educated and native Korean, so these are just my observations of her and her friend group's engagement with Chinese characters (Hanja).

Hanja, in daily life, has largely disappeared from colloquial Korean for those under 40 or so. It's still preserved in some formal settings like medicine and law, and is used to appeal to older generations. I've been with my wife long enough to remember when Hanja was still very common to see on newspapers.

There are some small vestigial problem with eliminating from daily life, the large number of monosyllabic Chinese-origin loan words in modern Korean can sometime create ambiguity when written in Hangul. Native Korean speakers will sometimes disambiguate these words by referring to the Hanja, but that's largely disappearing as a habit as well.

Younger Korean generations still learn it in K-12, but it's mostly wasted class time in an already overly crammed education. The kids who focus on it are really geared towards becoming lawyers, and certain kinds of doctors (mostly traditional medicine). STEM focused kids will focus on English instead. As a result there's an active linguistic process occurring where English loan words are slowly replacing Chinese-origin words and concepts in active and modern Korean.

I don't too much about Japanese, but I do have a sense from native speakers that writing the same words in the four major writing systems offers some sense of nuance to how close a reader might be to a concept, or how they might consider it in various ways. From visits there, I did notice the expectation that native speakers could seamlessly read and jump between the systems, often within the same sentence. But I also understand that the pronunciation of Kanji is somewhat nonstandard, and it's not immediately clear how to say something written purely in Kanji (sometimes this is supported by providing explanatory superscripts in another system next to the Kanji). Why persist with this? I suppose it's the nuance that's being conveyed, and this nuance is still prized among native Japanese speakers.

I do get the sense that China has no particular plans on moving away from the system, as it's a unifying source of national identity (and has been for centuries). And they really have very few other options. The main problem is that China is a highly linguistically diverse country, and Chinese offers the ability to transmit ideas instead of sounds which allows speakers of non-mutually-intelligible "dialects" to communicate. Moving to a Latinate system or even to Zhuyin Fuhao (Bopomofo) encodes sounds, not ideas, and risks fracturing the state. It would only become possible if there was a concerted effort, maybe over a couple generations, to Mandarinize and discourage the use of local dialects, but that would also be highly disruptive. Koreans, Japanese (and other adjacent non-Sino languages like Vietnamese, etc.) escaped this either through a higher level of linguistic uniformity, or strong efforts to standardize or teach a national dialect that the writing system (Hangul, Chữ Quốc ngữ, Hiragana, etc.) could amplify.
Sure, it's not required to build _some_ houses, but it's required for scale.

Backyard forges are OK if you have few hundred million people, most of them in farming, with most families living in a house with a a single room. But you cannot build New York on without large factories.
Why would you self-build when you could just lease an Al-Ghaib?
Yes, and I think that's about what people need. The 8 hour standard became a thing to support industrial work. 8 hours sleep, 12 hours at the factory, 4 hours to eat and get to and from work.
English is a quasi-phonetic language in that most words can be mostly pronounced how they're written, but in some cases it inherits the pronunciation of the language the word came from. I'd imagine many English speakers would consider this an undesirable quirk, though.

Indeed, there has been a tendency over the centuries, particularly in the US, to move towards writing words how they sound or pronouncing words how they're written. Lieutenant is an interesting example, since in the UK we pronounce that "lef-tenant" traditionally, but the US moved to the (IMO superior) "lieu-tenant". Nowadays, most young people would probably use the US pronunciation.

I do take some slight umbrage with the implication that some people seem to be making in this thread that language features can't be criticised or that one language can't be better than another. I'm don't see why this would necessarily be true. Even with spoken languages. There are a ton of annoying aspects to English that simply aren't issues in other languages, and I think it's fair to criticise other languages for their failings too. This is especially true of writing systems, which are human inventions rather than something we learn intuitively.

Logographic/logo-syllabic orthographies are harder to learn and remain proficient at than alphabets/abjads, for native speakers and second language learners alike. Alphabets are an innovation that improved on ancient orthographies and enabled a wider range of people to be able to communicate as easily by writing as they do by speaking. Besides the issue mentioned in the article, the writing systems in China/Japan are associated with other issues we rarely see here. Even dictionaries are a non-obvious challenge with logographic languages, which has resulted in several competing ways to sort words.
> one path through spacetime that takes no energy to follow.

Again, this if fine for an orbit for example, it does not explain how a particle will accelerate, it also does not explain momentum, because when that particle accelerate it exchanges momentum with another particle - it does not give momentum to the "geodesic".

And explain please what information is not captured by saying "Gravity is a force that acts on energy". What nuance is lost by saying that?
This is very interesting, thank you
This shows that your accelerometer is broken. (or, more likely, that the vector is mislabeled)

Try this thought experiment. Assume your phone is really accelerating downwards when at rest. Then let it enter a free fall i.e. drop it. Now it's accelerating down even more so the downwards acceleration should show an increase. Actually, it goes to zero. Relative to a free-fall, being stationary is an acceleration upwards.
Gets even better with a touch screen and trying to rotate the virtual knobs. It just doesnt work.

Piece of software I use frequently has most of the important programming and setup done through touch screen and relatively little through its command line which prior version used more off, the touch screen rotary encoders are just confusing and I can never seem to get it to the right value
That strikes me as a complete non-sequitur. I have no idea what it might mean.
age is definitely more mature, and as you say, it should probably say somewhere that ezcrypt is still a hobby project (albeit a serious one).

Some motives (some of which may sound strange, but mattered to me):

* Completely public domain.
* Without any third party dependencies (not even openssl or similar).
* Don't rely on a single cipher (low trust).
* Extremely portable (should easily build for and run on anything from an M4 Mac to a Raspberry Pi to an old OpenWRT MIPS router with 32 MB RAM for instance).
* Should be easy to use (e.g. no key management, unless you want to), and composable in standard Unix ways (pipes etc).
* Security focused, obviously. E.g. software architecture-wise, minimize dependencies, properly manage files, processes and secrets, etc.
* Personally: To learn and to build something that I trust.

In a way: When the dust settles after the nuclear apocalypse, if you manage to dig out a C compiler, this is your tool. ;-)
The problem is the insane markups, but my anecdata is the opposite of yours.

I'm also doing Rust dev, but I can't work with less than ~24GB.

On my headless rackmount dev box that I use for my remote development environment, the box sits around 17GB of memory in use + 8GB of cache. I've got an M3 with 36GB running a few Visual Studios Code (plus browser/Docker/Dropbox) with about 30GB used (8GB of that is cache).

16GB would not have been enough for me for my work at Deno. My current job involves both Rust and Python work and I'd quickly hit the limits of 16GB if I'm running my code while developing it, let alone running a browser or keeping my email client open.
I haven’t tried it myself but if you really want that 5K 27 inch form factor samsung’s viewfinity s9 is exactly that. Or apple’s studio display ofcourse.
I don't think Gothic architecture ever drove the plots of Gothic romance or horror, apart from a few choice novels. It was mostly used as a setting.

The spookiness, at least for Americans, came like so:

1. Gilded Age upper classes built the fanciest mansions they could afford, in the Neo-Gothic style which was fashionable at the time

2. Like the English country houses (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destruction_of_country_houses_...), eventually these rich owners couldn't afford the upkeep of these massively oversized and ornate dwellings. And nobody would buy them. So they moved out and left the mansions to become ruins

3. Now lots of people know about the old abandoned mansion on the hill. Gothic! Spooky! That includes Charles Addams, who starts making jolly cartoons in the New Yorker about the odd family that live in a big spooky mansion, and it includes Alfred Hitchcock who thinks a run-down mansion is a great setting for Psycho
We don't regulate letters or phone calls (not to mention in-person meetings) in the way that today's governments want to regulate the internet.