skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a belief that a lot of (but certainly not all) back pain is caused by weak back muscles. Back muscles support the spine and hold it straight against the weight of the abdomen. Like all muscles, they atrophy if you don't exercise them. The very best way to exercise them is to spend most of your day standing, walking, and a good part of it running. Which is what evolution designed our bodies to do.

I had a standing desk at work and while I only used it for a couple hours a day, it helped GREATLY in erasing my chronic back pain.

The fact that they studied standing desks in particular is a bit odd, but it fits into the growing body of evidence showing that activity and fitness don't have nearly as big an impact on cardiovascular disease as diet does.
Something related to this that I've been thinking about. We all have kind of a story of ourselves and our life through various memories that make a picture of who we are. But if you ever meet up with someone you haven't seen for 20 years, or find some old documents, or whatever, stuff can easily come up that you've completely forgotten, or reframe things in a whole different light.

We know this kind of thing happens with history - certain people become famous while others drift into obscurity, things get remembered incorrectly etc - but it also happens with your own memory of your own life. The only real way around it is keeping a journal.
A city should be capable of rolling its own competently at less cost than it takes to engage Cubic to do so.

Cubic is setting things up real nice to have exact data about a lot of peoples travels in cities all around the world. That could be some pretty valuable data.
I wonder if after the standing desk fad now we'll have a squatting desk fad.
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They are asking why the information is shared in that order.
Hardly just an Android issue. North American bought iPhones don't work - these can also end up as refurbished models sold locally. This doesn't just affect grey market imports but also tourists.
Does anyone know a tool that would generate links automatically for types (etc) to Docs.rs. We have a library (Burn) and accompanying book where were references types in many places.
With NYC, there is a fun example of the opposite.

Manhattan Cruise Terminal in Hell’s Kitchen was constructed by cutting out parts of midtown Manhattan’s bedrock, in order to make the piers long enough to accommodate modern cruise ships. You can see on the map that those piers cut in noticeably further than any others.
They're already highly unprofitable, it's just a matter of how much the big execs of cloud companies (Nadella, Bezos, whoever runs GCP) actually stick to their commitment of "its better to waste money than miss out on the upsides". In that sense, there's surely a ceiling but we wont get to it unless the gains stop coming in from their millions in expenditure on training costs.

Or we could all agree its meh and move along from this trend.
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they should bring it back
It might not even be ZIRP. It jumped right after March, 2020, so it might have always been a bad covid-related trade.
> I can only assume that American media is an environment in which only the very most extreme and grotesque representations can break through.

Pretty much this. Our media is hyper-optimized for what drives clicks/views/subscriptions, and it turns out that nothing drives those things so much as showing outrageous behavior, rather than trying to portray what is typical. You can see it in our political culture as well: if you listen to the media, every single member of (insert other side here) is a step below Hitler on the evil scale. But if you talk to people across the political spectrum, you will find that the vast majority are good, decent people who share your same values and merely disagree on how to best reach them.

I genuinely think that the media is responsible for most of the social issues in our country, and if we could get rid of them we would be significantly better off.
So the solution to traffic congestion and pedestrian deaths is not “make better cars”
Why would you browse the web without an ad blocker?
Ugh that sounds like the Spring effect. I really like Java but Spring and IoC/DI makes it very complicated.
i guess the main question is will selling access to LLMs be like grocery stores where the margins are tiny or will it end up being like lawyers and doctors where they maintain high margins
Exactly. I mostly sit. When I move the desk to a standing position it lets me walk around a bit while working. Press compile and then walk a bit back while thinking. It is a wonderful tool.

Static standing all day is horrible, that isn't news.
I'm sure this is very variable person-to-person. I stand 98% of the time, not for any theoretical health reason, but because I find it far more comfortable. I have terrible posture when sitting and made little progress in trying to correct it. Switching to standing all-but eliminated my lower back pain and most of my neck pain.

The only time I sit these days is if I'm extremely tired for some reason. I have been doing this for more than 10 years now though, and it took a while until it became easy.
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Correct. You need an existing plan, and clearly the carrier can see what handset you are/were using. It's also the right thing to do because they are imposing a financial burden on people. People with older handsets are (I assume) likely the ones that can't afford newer ones.
Here's another ADORABLE one I found of a little kid almost getting the soccer ball into the net (MVI_1012.MOV) -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6eYAxaXijc
That’s the funny thing though… historically, companies that have a technical lead but in a margin sensitive business tend to get crushed by anyone who can reduce those margins.
AVs can be buses, so the point about "private transportation" is orthogonal to AVs.

It went unmentioned that noise also correlates with drag, and upcoming mass market AVs are far more aerodynamic than existing cars. Quantity of noise matters here, not just "makes [non-zero] noise."

If we want to restrict speed, AVs can reliably achieve that (vs speed enforcement of human drivers). Computers never get impatient! Again AV buses are left out in your analysis.

Restructuring all American cities to be like Swedish cities is far more "pie-in-the-sky," sorry to break it to you.

"Will destroy cities" remains vastly overblown given the actual concerns being voiced here. And again, zero credit for ultimately preventing millions of fatalities annually (which is literally "cities" worth of people being "destroyed"). Where is your concern for those people?
If nothing else a physical ticket is a bearer instrument. You can sell it to someone else without having to give StubHub or another third party a cut of the deal.
For the same reason people will choose to get calories from Twinkies rather than home cooked meals, I would imagine. You have to put a conscious effort in to avoid the product which is bad for you but has been meticulously crafted to be easier and hit the dopamine centers of your brain harder.
And how much money did they make from your viewing of the article? Likely 0.

If only companies would learn that tasteful ads are possible and would likely give better returns, but the web has been infested with garbage so most people have their guards up.
Any book or website that can…

Build things. Write your own software to solve real personal problems you have.

I am currently working on a Nodejs web server and docker container management dashboard. It’s just for me and my household, but it scales in ways other solutions I have tried don’t. I have been doing JavaScript work for almost 20 years and I am still learning things and improving my architecture. I know I can do things many other developers cannot because of my years of personal practice and I also realize I am still learning.
Think about the hell that most people go through, who have no concept of an adblocker.
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it would be a totally game changer and super helpful for months then people start abusing it to gain views anyway like the current web
It's a simple risk/reward calculus. The reward of not having to see ads everywhere is absolutely worth the risk that some of these shitty media companies go under. Ads are repulsive.

The good companies will find a way to survive.
Agreed. And by the logic whereby everybody over a certain age is more likely to already have HPV if they were "active", vaccination should be even more recommended to people >45 who start dating again after a monogamous life, right? Because the assumption would be that they don't have it yet, and they are now starting to have sexual encounters with people who are more likely to have it.

More couples are divorcing after age 50 than ever before, so this is not just abstract theory.

Also last time I checked the statistics for HPV strains like HPV-6 or HPV-16, only 5% or less of males were infected by that specific strain. So on a single-strain basis it's not quite "you probably already have it". Cumulatively, it is no doubt higher considering all strains, but the argument against vaccination for all strains on the basis that recipients may already have a few of those strains seems flawed.
The only way to solve this is to have publishers you trust to label every source. If you hang out on platforms that tolerate or even encourage generated content without proper attribution, of course everything will be in doubt. I don't know how people can remain stuck in such an ugly place.
Better JSON5
Worth checking out https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap which starts from a handwritten hex bootloader and later a Scheme interpreter that implements a C compiler that compiles tcc

Full steps on https://github.com/fosslinux/live-bootstrap/blob/master/part...
3G is a legacy protocol. The handsets themselves are irrelevant. They're shutting down a legacy protocol and (for somewhat misguided reasons) blocking handsets because they can't access 000 anymore.
Despite it having advantages over 4/5G, I do think it's progress (at least in terms of security).

A load of older IoT devices and POS terminals are likely not working anymore though. That's a harder problem to solve.
And to keep consistency with Wikipedia and the "one right opinion" people downvote this 100% correct comment. When asked later on why Harris lost they claim "the right is stupid"... Ignoring facts and opinions that conflict with your world-view is stupid.

People formed a narrative and are forcefully trying to make the bricks fit.
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We went to one parents' weekend, during our son's freshman year. It was not an especially exciting time, and really all I remember of it was a bit of a football game. I assume that we consumed alcohol, but moderately. I did not see middle-aged drunks staggering about.
Exactly. Look at Wikipedia for a counter-example, showing how to do things right. Sure, Wikipedia is frequently asking for donations, but in reality they have a large endowment and can go without new funding for ages, though they'd have to cut back on the unimportant stuff.

Mozilla could have done the same thing if they had a little foresight and didn't just assume the piles of cash would keep flowing in forever.
Countries recognize standards broadly along two avenues:

* Internationally recognized standards organizations, such as ISO (literally International Organization for Standardization). Republic of Backwoods and Kingdom of Flyover can't really do much against the majority of the whole world agreeing on something.

* Bigger Gun and/or First Past The Post Adoption, mostly exercised by the US in recent decades. Examples include practically all IT standards, aviation standards, and so on.

If you manage to combine them, you're basically unstoppable at conquering the world.
Since the original sed command took "Haskell" as standard input, why not:

{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}

import qualified Data.Text as T
import qualified Data.Text.IO as T

main :: IO ()
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I’m pretty sure they’re referring to Twitter.
For something between standing and sitting, you could use a stool as I do. I have a bad back and I find it to be better than any chair I've used so far, though I've only tried a few. You still get a slight bit of elevated heart rate and caloric expenditure to keep your body firm and in good posture so I'd say it's better than sitting and more relaxing than standing. You also don't have to remind yourself to get up and move every once in a while because if you're practicing good posture, you won't be too comfortable.
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I will repeat my standard advice for writing more: lower your standards, and allow yourself (in fact force yourself) to publish things despite knowing that they could be better if you just changed a few more things...

Also, write about things you've learned and projects you've built: both of those are topics where you aren't expected to provide shining new insight never seen before online: https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/6/what-to-blog-about/
F# is much easier to teach and learn than C#.
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I've often wondered why the ad blocker can't render the full page to some offscreen buffer to get the ad impression revenue for the site. It could even randomly click an ad or two every few minutes.
Acted as an actually good parent, not just someone who plays one on social media.

Read books about parenting, paid attention, did required medical tests and advocated with healthcare.

Purchases? Healthy food, mostly.
At least for me - friction. That said, this is definitely targeting more of the DP market (with built in sounds), since if you're using a midi controller like an NI Komplete keyboard you already have to connect DAW/VSTs.

Having to lug my laptop out, boot'up Bitwig, connect it to the piano, press record completely takes me out of the flow.

With this, I can flip on my Kawai and start banging away, then pull out the impromptu motifs for later refinement.
Kinda disappointed that they allowed null into the language, they should've just made some syntactic sugar or some auto bridge to reinterpret them nullable types as option types.
Well, too bad. Not that I was a huge F# user anyway :D
I've made basically a keytar - just a flat board hanging down like a guitar, with a guitar strap for it, and then I mounted a (wireless) keyboard and trackpad to it (flat), so I can stand and type/mouse with my arms and hands hanging down. There's still fatigue, but there's not the same need for gorilla arms. So I don't see 1 as insurmountable.
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Not as bad as 90EUR, but shipping for me comes out as 71 NZD for me, which also seems a bit steep — would purchase almost instantly for a similarly priced shipping to that mentioned here, ~35 to 45 NZD?. Just noticed the default UPS Worldwide Saver® is quoted as 6-7 business days which (for me all the way down here) seems pretty speedy — I'd be totally happy with something cheaper but more paced like a snail!
> AVs can be buses too, so your point about "private transportation" is orthogonal to the AV issue.

AV public transit mentioned @30:58. More general point is continuing (over-)emphasis on cars is inefficient and wasteful compared to other options, regardless of whether the cars are human- or computer-driven.

> You neglect to mention that noise is correlated with drag, and upcoming mass AVs are far more aerodynamically efficient than existing cars. Quantity matters here, not just "makes noise.

Even now, with perhaps less aerodynamically efficient cars, tire noise is the largest source, so if aerodynamic efficiency goes up then tire noise will become a larger proportion:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadway_noise
None of that is a refutation of what I said though, since I reject the notion that belief in the existence of the soul can be used as justification for stripping a person of their bodily autonomy.

If we found out cancer cells had souls tomorrow, exactly no one would be screaming “but their souls!” at folks walking into a cancer clinic.
This brings back memories of Regium. A kickstarter scam 5 years ago that used realistic 3d animation videos of an automated chessboard to trick people out of their cash.

chess.com happily took regium's money to advertise their scam to their audience.

It eventually got kicked off kickstarter, and then kicked off some other kickstarter clones before self hosting their own kickstarter clone website. That was a wide ride. searching youtube for "regium chess board" will get a few hits.

Pi board looks like a fun project that I'm sure will be refined over the years.
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[Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Comprehensive News Index]

The attitude of international investors towards overseas Chinese securities markets has become more cautious.

Dongzi Securities Nov. 11, 2024 9:30:00

Today, Dongzi Securities released the "Overseas Chinese Securities - Daily Comprehensive News Index" which showed a reading of 50.4, a decline of 11.8% from the previous period. This significant decline is mainly attributed to investors' lower expectations for Beijing's fiscal stimulus plan, leading international investors to become more cautious about the overseas Chinese securities market.

Louis Wong, executive director of Hui Li Capital Management, said: "Chinese assets immediately fell after the National People's Congress press conference started at 4pm. This may reflect investor disappointment over the economic stimulus plan, as it mainly focuses on addressing the hidden debt problems of provincial governments."

Swiss private bank economist Carlos Casanova believes that Beijing may remain on the sidelines until the details of US President-elect Donald Trump's tariff plans become clearer.

Despite the fact that addressing local government debt is indeed an important aspect of policy support, it is merely one part of the broader efforts needed to revive the economy. Bernie O'Connor, Chief Investment Officer of UBS O'Connor Global Multi-Asset Alpha, said in an interview with Bloomberg TV: "In order to have a truly positive impact on the market, we need to see stimulus measures of $200 billion or more, particularly those related to consumption."

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Apple doesn't have the "flick" UI for it, but you can screen share a Mac to Apple TV, so I'm able to use my TV as a monitor with no trouble. The security boundary is that all devices need to be logged into the same wifi, maybe also iCloud.
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That's exactly what I did. I got a small treadmill, but I walked 8hrs on my first day and hurt my knee. Everything in moderation.
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Hi HN,

I purchased a Pixel 7a for work several months ago. On the initial setup, I created a new Google account and PIN. The phone was intended for occasional use and the data on the phone was not important, so I didn't think to record the new account details.

Several months later I cannot remember the PIN or account. I've tried a hard factory reset however it requires either of these proceed.

The retailer referred me to Pixel support, Pixel support (in 4 separate conversions) essentially concluded that were no options available.

I understand the reasons for the phone behaving like this, and perhaps it thwarts theft and black market sales in the majority of cases, however surely there are a growing number of folks like me who are rightful owners locked out of their devices.

Importantly, I have the original box with the IMEI, as well as proof of purchase (receipt from the retailer and bank statements), which Pixel support never asked for despite my mentioning it.

Have you been in a similar situation, and did you have any success with unbricking the phone?
Here's an article [1] from a few years ago from Cornell ergonomics researchers that is still relevant the discusses the pluses and minuses of both sitting and standing desks.

Here is their recommendation:

> Sit to do computer work. Sit using a height-adjustable, downward titling keyboard tray for the best work posture, then every 20 minutes stand for 8 minutes AND MOVE for 2 minutes. The absolute time isn’t critical but about every 20-30 minutes take a posture break and stand and move for a couple of minutes. Simply standing is insufficient. Movement is important to get blood circulation through the muscles. And movement is FREE! Research shows that you don’t need to do vigorous exercise (e.g. jumping jacks) to get the benefits, just walking around is sufficient. So build in a pattern of creating greater movement variety in the workplace (e.g. walk to a printer, water fountain, stand for a meeting, take the stairs, walk around the floor, park a bit further away from the building each day).

[1] https://ergo.human.cornell.edu/CUESitStand.html