skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Show HN: LifeCycles -Calculate Your Remaining Natural Cycles by Age and Location
Hi HN!

I recently built a simple tool called LifeCycles. It calculates the number of natural cycles – like sunsets, seasons, and full moons – you might still experience, based on your age and the life expectancy in your country.

I wanted to create a way for people to reflect on time and connect with nature in a more personal way. The project only took a few hours to build, but I’m excited about how it turned out and the discussions it’s sparked.

Would love any feedback, and happy to answer questions about the development process or future plans for the project!

Check it out here: https://natural-lifecyles.vercel.app/
This happens regardless. Either the factories go to different countries or the cheaper labor is imported. There's not really a way to prevent this.
Archived version: http://web.archive.org/web/20241107090749/https://www.middle...
But none of that changes the fact that Americans have the right to consume foreign controlled media. Totally state controlled media is legal to consume and spread and even become super popular in the US. I really dislike the idea that if some content is popular in the US and the government thinks the content is bad, they can just ban it. "Algorithmic manipulation" is a red herring. If people like it, they can watch it. If they don't they don't have to. Doesn't matter who makes it or for what reason
More likely social evolution will take care of it long before biological evolution. Muslims have fertility rate of 3.1, for example.
> this feels like we're punishing the victim instead of the perpetrator.

Wouldn't placing the limits on the social media companies potentially prevent them for operating at a profit? I don't think you're wrong, but I question if you're not removing social media for child and teenagers regardless, the difference is if there will be social media for them to use later in life.

Banning social media for those under 16 (or 18) or killing off social media in general do to restrictions in how they operate doesn't really matter to me, even if the latter seems like a bigger win for society in general.

Social media was an interesting and at times fun experiment, but it might be time accept that it's not working out as we had hoped.
I invested in an LLM company in 2014 and nvidia was very aggressive in giving GPUs for use in training models. Their program wasn't targeted specifically at LLMs, but they were definitely aware of the uses.

In case anyone is confused, here's an explanatory tweet about one of the founders of that company: https://x.com/jxmnop/status/1725949517940294055 . LLMs have been in the works for awhile. But you need lots of money to make them good! Even back in 2014 they were mining reddit for training data.
S3 Virge could do 3d and 2d on the same card and is older than the GeForce

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3_ViRGE
TIL "babbling idiot" is a technical term https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q797603

> failure condition on a computer bus or network in which a malfunctioning node sends data at inappropriate times thus interfering with the communication of the working nodes
That's a funny bit of snark, what are you hoping for me to feel in response?
> I think part of All-In's success is that it has the vibe of a group of friends sitting around and shooting the breeze.

imho that's the dangerous part, same with Rogan, it's mostly for entertainment but they slowly lost that part and somehow gained authority. Now you have stuff like Musk saying absurd shit such as: animal farming has 0 impact on the greenhouse effect "because you can't measure it" even though you very well can measure it. It's like getting stoned with your bros on a friday night and discussing the world and politics but they have XX millions of view
So a better name for 'snake oil' would be 'truffle oil'...
> Can you provide any data to refute the numbers I shared? Because again, the job market is looking pretty good to me.

This is why everyone hates economists.
They have zero insight into how lives are for ordinary people.
I applied for a job at grocery stores and fast food restaurants.
I did not get ONE call back from any of these places.

Also another thing -- they keep saying rate of inflation is now under control.
Well guess what, the prices went up and have not come down. Wages did not keep pace with the high rate of inflation so unless you can have negative inflation somehow, there is still constant pain every day, every month. I mean it is so obvious and yet economists chase spherical cows...
I don't think they do and even if I'm wrong I think it's just not practical and will never happen as it's too complicated for the majority of voters. Citizens are never all going to be economists and scientists capable of analyzing these issues as experts. This is the role of government. If voters make the wrong decision and the problem is not solved by who they voted for, their remedy is to vote for someone else next time.
ESL-milk which doesn't taste any different from regular milk can last up to 3 weeks in the fridge, or even more if kept cool below 5°C. in many places it is already replacing regular milk, because why wouldn't you prefer that given that it tastes the same.
> Also I don't see the point, because there are americans saying, we should be friends with communist china and become like them. By giving those ideas more room - whenever they want, they can shape the discourse.

That's called free speech. Horrible, terrible ideas are given room, and we trust people to figure it out. Hell, many many Americans became vaccine skeptics because they were drawn into RFK talking points. That's dangerous too, but free speech is more important than forcing everyone to be good or have good, safe opinions
Yes, one of the main reasons to have a garden. I guess the next article will be "Fishing instead of swimming in the Ocean"
Consistently fund it, integrated races, feed malnourished and vulnerable children, didn't demonize POC, removed magical thinking and religion from it, etc.
> Dev's *like* to feel ownership of reasonably sized chunks of code.

I just have to say this has not been my experience at all. A lot of developers want nothing more than to come in and write whatever lines of code they're told to and get paid. Ownership is often the last thing they want.
Yes, that is what I meant with

> perhaps humans continue to exist because a tribe removes women’s ability to not become pregnant

I guess technically it should be “because a tribe removes women’s ability to not become pregnant, be financially independent, and physically independent/secure”
What telemetry are you sending without this setting?
Profit, it's profit, almost free, self-perpetuation, self-promoting profit, build on addictions and exploitation of users.
Three observations: "The OC Problem", "Useful for n==1", and "Build an Internal Internet".

1) OC, aka: Original Content. Most sharing has trended towards reposts, memes, etc. That is the toxic cancer that has spread throughout most "social" networks. Somebody finds a funny meme, or ridiculous tornado picking up a car while someone dances a jig in front of it, and that drowns out "real" pictures of peoples kids or cats or whatever.

2) Useful for n==1. I believe it was an interview with the founder of del.ico.us (one of the OG bookmarking sites) who said "if you want users, you have to make something that's useful for _just that one user_, and if more users use it, then it gets better". It was shockingly insightful! He made delicious where I was motivated (for myself) to save bookmarks / links. If other people saved the same link, a counter went up (social proof?). I (and others) could explore shared tags (eg: `#tech`, `#javascript`, whatever), and that had an exponential utility based on number of users, BUT BOUNDED IN THE n==1 CASE!

3) Build an Internal Internet: I had a blog once upon a time (still do, and still nobody reads it ;-), and then twitter came along. Of course it grabbed my attention, of course I tweeted to be cool like the cool kids. Then I got upset with myself: "I like this micro-blogging thing, but it's taking away from my own blogging!" So I made `tweet.sh`, which did `echo "$1" > "~/blog/entries/tweets/$DATE-tweet.md"` and then styled it appropriately.

Putting it all together, build an INTERNAL instagram to help people back up, organize, showcase their photos (n==1). SOCIALIZE it via cooperating / federated instances (exponential utility). Allow tagging/repost/non-OC suppression (and SOCIALIZE that... eg: allow people to anti-socialize reposts).

For monetizing? Good luck. It's got to be better than iPhotos.
>privacy first

>social media

you don't. you just killed your only decent revenue source, and will never out compete others. Social media live and die by their users.
This reminds me of the first time I was exposed to the concept of information defined using biological concepts.

The Puppet Master: It can also be argued that DNA is nothing more than a program designed to preserve itself. Life has become more complex in the overwhelming sea of information. And life, when organized into species, relies upon genes to be its memory system. So, man is an individual only because of his intangible memory... and memory cannot be defined, but it defines mankind. The advent of computers, and the subsequent accumulation of incalculable data has given rise to a new system of memory and thought parallel to your own. Humanity has underestimated the consequences of computerization.

Chief Nakamura: Nonsense! There's no proof at all that you are a living, thinking life form!

The Puppet Master: And can you offer me proof of your existence? How can you, when neither modern science nor philosophy can explain what life is?

https://youtu.be/NJtl95R3tf8?si=eH5YNwTVOfwJLPCp
Pixelfed is already what you are looking for. You could contribute yourself, fork it, or just use it in your server.

What I don't see often, and I think it was a neat idea is a copy of Path. A social network for a very very small set of people to share their things. I think path was like 2 members.

I imagine that just a whatsapp/telegram conversation chat is more than enough for this case tho.
A screenshot or example would help. Interesting idea.
If you don't trust someone with your location, you don't have to give it to them. Personally I find the corporations angle more creepy. You cannot personally vet the people they hire, but you know who you give access to your address to. Outside of family, only one friend ever drops me his location information temporarily because he drives his truck and he uses it to give me a heads up when he's near him in town, in case we can hang out. I mostly ignore it though unless he tells me how close he is.
Ludus: AI toolkit for Unreal Engine 5
ha that's awesome
No dang, YOU have destroyed this site. It's already well on its way to becoming the next Reddit. Only the most extreme progressive positions can be posted here, anything else will get flagged out of existence. Hackernews and all the other social media sites with their censorship are destroying the minds of people and furthering this division. Just look at this thread as a perfect example. Ruthmarx and I have a fundamental disagreement about the actual facts, and you call that a flamewar. Now we can't find a resolution. Neither of us can learn anything.
Everything goes as deep as the Planck length (theoretically). The only thing we've figured out is that we still don't know much more than we know.
Its disconnected from power during the day when I am not at home. So can't put it to sleep.
Or CP.

Also we have to consider that gov spying programs are developed everywhere in the world, and the fact CP has been used as an excuse to pass questionable bills again and again.

What's even crazier is that we have to even argue this is a problem.

And that intelligent people are arguing that this is all OK. People that read history books, saw PRISM and Snowden, heard about cops abusing their system already, etc.
No. The developers are very capable. Think about Volkswagen’s diesel defeat device. The managers are the ones running the show. And you can do anything you like as developer in such situation. Managerial decisions will not change. It’s hidden caste system where (somehow arrogant automotive) managers will never listen to (probably for particular project leased from some bodyshop) developers.
> You also don’t need to do dynamic linking.

This is a big one. Linking against libc on many platforms also means making your binaries relocatable. It's a lot of unnecessary, incidental complexity.
When I'm using Windows, Paint and Notepad are tools I value because they're simple and reasonably minimalist. It's a shame to see those benefits being diluted.
Interesting that under the "URAvatar from Phone Scan" section, the first example shows a lady with blush/flush, which only appears in the center video when viewed straight on - the other angles remove this
>Then prices go up by 20% or more

Going to chime in here hopefully to give better context than "a carton of eggs is up 10%!" or whatever.

The average price of a gallon of gas in 2018 was ~$2.72, peak was $2.92 in May.

The average price of a gallon of gas in 2022 was ~$3.95, peak was $5.01 in June.

So that's an increase in average price of about 45% between the midpoints of Trump and Biden, and an eyewatering 71% in peak increases. Obama 2014 was ~$3.37 average and $3.70 peak in June, for further comparison. Trump's economy was objectively and factually easier to live in.

A 45% increase for a good necessary for daily life is going to hurt no matter what, let alone 71%. All else being equal it's thrown around as a meme that incumbent presidents and parties live and die by the gas price index, but there's a reason for that.

Anecdata, I'm decidedly middle class. I can afford luxuries reasonably if I want to, and objectively I can tolerate increasing costs of living fine (for now). That said though, even I feel a bit of discomfort buying mundane groceries because they definitely feel like they should be cheaper. It's even worse for mundane luxuries like beer, I can't really complain about a luxury good being expensive but at the same time it still feels too expensive anyway.

Don't get me started on gas prices, where I'm at they're ~$4.00 per gallon today and were up to ~$5.00 at some points during Biden. It was ~$2.00 during Trump. That's a 100% increase or more, you can't pay me to say that doesn't hurt even if I can still afford it.

That feeling of discomfort and pain isn't nice and I don't blame a voter if they cast a single issue vote on it.
This is great work, although I note that the longer you look at them, and the more examples you look at in the page, the wow factor drops off a bit. The first example is exceptional, but when you get down to the video of "More from Phone Scan" and look at any individual avatar, you find yourself deep in the uncanny valley very quickly
Where do you live that the majority of domestic gardens are used primarily to grow food?
Exactly, I am now morally bound to figure out the answer instead of going to work.
Not that you’re wrong, but Returns aren’t predicted using the branch predictor, but with the RSB (return stack buffer) which stores the return addresses of the current call stack. The x86 optimization manual (starting quite a few years ago) explicitly mentions calls and rets should match for best performance.
Police hunt 40 monkeys that escaped from a South Carolina research facility
If you’re passionate about this idea, launch it! Your initial costs will be on the low end. If it does grow to the point you need to worry about costs, that’s a good problem to have which you can then handle appropriately at that time.
Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with critical flaw in its wireless system
I think vibes are underrated. The smart people can easily mislead you because they're smart. So you can cover things up with "official statistics", maliciously or by accident.

For instance, inflation is a big one. I remember during the first spike in inflation (2021 I believe), I started nothing prices have gone up between 25-50%. We've been told at the time inflation was something like 7% but that would mean paying $5.35 for something that used to cost $5, which was obviously not what was happening. In short, they play games with the numbers.

Bezos was on Fridman talking about something similar. He learned that Amazon’s metrics said typical wait time less than 1 min to reach customer service. But everyone complained about how long it took. So in a meeting he called Amazon’s customer service line and was put on hold for over 10 minutes, far exceeding the promised wait time. He stated, “When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right."

All in goes off vibes and try to tie it to reality but sometimes miss the mark. But I think the vibes are often more right than the data.
Trump's presidency was as much the cause for inflation as Biden. The two main drivers (apart from exogenous supply chain issues) were massive stimulus and keeping rates low for too long. In true Trump fashion, he promised "the biggest" stimulus and effectively forced the dems to promise and deliver an unprecedented package. Trump also signed into effect massive stimulus himself during his term and raised the debt/GDP to historic levels which was inflationary. Trump appointed Powell who stood behind the decisions to keep rates low even as inflation was rapidly growing. What's funny is I think Powell actually ended up doing a decent job and that a lot (maybe not all) of that stimulus was good. The problem with Trump is he makes long-term bad decisions to appease to his less educated voter base. He does this on a level I've never seen a politician do it. The only thing he cares about people admiring him and only him. That's why the minute someone like Powell gets a bit of spotlight, he starts getting jealous and puts them down. He would have done better as a medieval ruler than the leader of the world's largest democratic bureaucracy. Like a mob boss he is all about loyalty and pays little attention to the abilities of those he leads.
Just like me :(
> we indicated that there was government advice/ruling around this.

Why would any pre-teen / teen care about what government thinks? They care what their friends think about that TikTok they saw during recess, though.
The aim of the tariffs is to make it unprofitable again. Majority of people want this.
Having it be decentralized is more important than anything IMO.

True privacy comes from having control over your data.
Sixteen U.S. states still ban community-owned broadband networks
Validating your react-intl applications
The forum links on that page don't seem to work. Is there a forum?
This isn't benchmarked against returning a Result right?

Like wouldn't bypassing any unwinding be faster than improving unwinding. You already seem to have control over the code as the thrown and caught exception have to be the same so might as well just write the code as a `Result<T, Exception>` in the first place no?
Build, Deploy and Scale nextjs app with Codegiant and Cloudflare (Cheaper alt to vercel and others): https://blog.codegiant.io/p/how-team-yareta-built-their-mvp-...
Retool AI Alternative [video]
Hey HN! Datagran Co-founder here. We first introduced ourselves a few years back with what we thought was a cool idea: mixing workflow automation with machine learning, kinda like zapier.com for ML. At the time, it was a shot in the dark, but many got excited with the idea because we were abstracting the complexities of putting AI models into production.

Fast forward to today, and after many hours talking to clients, we’ve honed in on what really matters: developers want to build their own data infrastructure, but the real problem was in laying it out for the business folks. How can we make data not just available, but also understandable for them where and when they need it? That’s the puzzle we’ve been piecing together.

With that in mind, we brought together all of our past experience in regards to serving data quicker and easier and arrived at a solution that we think will be extremely useful: Datagran APPs.

With our platform, developers will be able to create Apps with the power of AI + functional programming—enabling them to build applications like HR churn management tools, develop data models, create intelligent AI bots, and send data to any destination in minutes.

In a nutshell, Datagran makes it easy for developers to deliver internal data tools, empowering business users to query their data as needed, whenever they need it—including through NLP capabilities.

Think of Datagran as the AI-powered alternative to Retool.

PS: Apps is in Beta and we will add more components as we see usage.

Thanks!
Sanitize Client-Side: Why Server-Side HTML Sanitization Is Doomed to Fail
My Path Towards Data at Netflix
> What it shows is that we need Mozilla and healthcare.

I agree, although I'd say that we need a mozilla-like effort that is effective.

> Don't forget Apple's browsers, including all the iPhone users.

Sure, but Apple's world is effectively a monoculture itself. If you don't buy into Apple and their ecosystem, the existence of those things is irrelevant.
Full quote from Susan Sontag's essay (Thirty Years Later):

What I didn’t understand (I was surely not the right person to understand this) is that seriousness itself was in the early stages of losing credibility in the culture at large, and that some of the more transgressive art I was enjoying would reinforce frivolous, merely consumerist transgressions. Thirty years later, the undermining of standards of seriousness is almost complete, with the ascendancy of a culture whose most intelligible, persuasive values are drawn from the entertainment industries. Now the very idea of the serious (and the honorable) seems quaint, “unrealistic,” to most people; and when allowed, as an arbitrary decision of temperament, probably unhealthy, too.

I found the full version of the essay here:

https://www.threepennyreview.com/thirty-years-later/
Rolling recordings are a massive boon for developers too. Any time something odd or buggy happens, the user already has it recorded, they just have to hit the button to save it.

It'll be nice to have this on the average user's PC, just like every current console and some previous do.
Curiously enough, influencers' pages are actually ad pages, because some of them get paid to promote products. But of course they won't be paying you. Celebs might also promote their latest movie/song/coffee machine/perfume cooperation. Are these ads?

So the "no ads" model falls apart there.

I wonder if a non-targetted ad could be considered privacy-preserving. Then of course I thought but I'd want some targetting, e.g. by country, because for example having an ad for a spa in Helsinki would be quite irrelevant for users in Bangladesh... then how about by age-range, or gender, etc.

At least I'd welcome when the app transparently says e.g. "You're seeing this ad because it's targetting males over 40 with the geo-ip location of Europe".
"""Aristotle said a bunch of stuff that was wrong. Galileo and Newton fixed things up. Then Einstein broke everything again. Now, we’ve basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence, and the concept of time""" - Zach Weinersmith, https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/9666621-aristotle-said-a-bu...
> Making it illegal could make it taboo, kids are less likely to talk about it in fear of "getting caught" and less talking means less usage

So like piracy?

> This is not like porn which is a solitary activity: on social media you have to be social and let everyone know… at least for traditional actually-social media, not content-consuming apps like TikTok

You don't? You can stay perfectly anonymous.
A classic library, you can play with it here: https://ciao-lang.org/playground/#https://github.com/ciao-la...
Man who lived rent-free in NYC hotel for years is found unfit to stand trial