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Honestly sometimes i doubt there's a more damagingly, intentionally overloaded term in modern lexicon than "free to play". Many, many things claim that title while placing if not game play, then socially necessary events, items, costumes, locations, quests, game modes, etc behind a paywall. We need a different term to describe the incredibly predatory behavior and psychology behind most of the current space of "free to play" games. (I'm not saying your favorite game is a lie, just that many games claiming this title effectively are)
Linux NVMe SSD USB enclosure TRIM support (2019)
> 4-5 chicken breasts is around 120g a day

Bad math? Per USDA standards, a single boneless skinless chicken breast has ~54 grams of protein; so 4-5 would be ~200-250g of protein.

Because that's grossly outside the norm for the general public, you're not going to find any evidence to support the idea it's a healthy amount for a typical person to consume for a long period of time. And likewise, you'll find little evidence saying what negative consequences it might have, if any.

You're welcome to make whatever assumptions you want to in that case, but there's not a lot of ground for anyone to convince skeptics who disagree with them. It's tenuous assumptions all the way down.

Regardless, in the real world, that also represents 1200-1500 calories of absurdly (mind-numbingly) high-satiety food and quite a lot of slow digestive bulk. Most people simply wouldn't be able to consume that while also eating a varied diet that provides them with adequate long-term nutrition. So it's probably a pretty bad idea for them to dedicate themselves to it, unless -- like some athletes and gym bros -- they have the further discipline to also stuff themselves of all the other stuff they need to eat while also not eating so much that they become overweight. Do you know many people like that? I'm not sure I've met more than a handful in my lifetime.

Whatever the impact of the very high protein consumption itself in some abstract theoretical kind of way, which we're far from having evidence into understanding, it's just terrible advice for the general public because of the secondary effects we might reasonably expect in practice.
> The whole point was that he went far enough away (sailing, Australia) to not only speak with the anger of the injustice (what happened to him), but to target the structural aspects (how enslavers are made)

Going far away won't help with targeting enslavers. If you're enslaved in Africa, the enslavers are in Africa.
There's a distinction - between obvious BS that is a philosophical puzzle to rebut on one hand, and genuine issues on the other. You don't really have to play the game of the former, unless you don't like philosophical puzzles of course.
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments and flamebait? You've unfortunately been doing it repeatedly. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

I'm talking about comments like the one you posted here, plus these:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42191168

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42083498

We don't need you to change your views, just not to degrade the site like this. If you'd like to share your views thoughtfully and substantively, that would of course be fine.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
When you’re talking about outliers, it’s not an even-or situation. It’s not that being diligent is more valuable than being smart. Lots of people are smart, but the ones who are exceptionally smart and exceptionally diligent—outliers on two dimensions—are usually the most successful.

It’s also worth pointing out that people who e.g. study algebra in eighth grade and calculus in high school aren’t actually outliers; they’re maybe the top 1/3 or so of the class in terms of mathematics ability.
Show HN: My Free WooCommerce Plugin for Custom Coupon URLs / Links
Hello HN!

This is a plugin I made last year but due to several circumstances I just published it around a month ago.

It let's you create a custom URL (link) that will let you automatically apply a coupon and optionally a product when visiting the URL. It's a WooCommerce plugin and it's meant to be 100% free (no upgrade or pro version).

I'd love to read what you think and which ways I can improve it (event the marketing/wording).
I agree. I actually think self-employment / mass self-employment, with the augmentation of tools is the future. Traditional corporate employment is starting to turn sour.
Sounds like you're describing complicated nepotism.
Somewhat counterintuitively, all knots are homeomorphic to each other.
There are entire categories of saas and enterprise vendors that are about to be completely blown away.

For example -- not long ago, when you wanted to do l10n/i18n for your business, you'd have to go through a pretty painful process of integrating with eg translations.com. If you're running an ecommerce site with a lot of new products (and product descriptions) coming online quickly, that whole process would be painful and expensive.

Fast forward to today -- a well-crafted prompt to Llama3.1 within a product pipeline makes that vendor completely obsolete. Now, you could argue that this kind of automation isn't new, you could have done it with an api call to Google translate or something similar, and sure, that's possible, but now you have one single interface into a very broad, capable brain to carry out any number of tasks.

If I was a vendor whose business was at all centered around language or data ETL or anything that involves taking text and doing something with it, I would be absolutely terrified at someone writing a 20-line python script with a good system prompt that would make my entire business's reason for being evaporate.
That is just eating disorder kind of thinking. Stop spreading it. You can eat sugar, it wont harm you. Pretty much anything harms you in super large quantities.

Sacharids are good for you in general, just like faits, protein and everything else.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follow_Through_(project) for starters, one of the largest educational studies ever conducted: "The results of Follow Through did not show how models that showed little or no effects could be improved. But they did show which models—as suggested by the less than ideal conditions of the experiment—had some indications of success. Of these models, Siegfried Engelmann's Direct Instruction method demonstrated the highest gains in the comparative study. [T]he models which showed positive effects were largely basic skills models. ..."
There were two strains, to be fair: there were eugenicist arguments as well, and some authors from the turn of the twentieth century go on at length about how the problem children probably aren't _actually_ gifted because truly superior people wouldn't misbehave. But for example, from "Classroom Problems in the Education of Gifted Children" (1917):

"It is just as important for the bright child to acquire correct habits of work as it is for the dull or average child to do so, whereas in the ordinary class the brightest children are likely to have from a fourth to a half of their time in which to loaf, and never or rarely have the opportunity of knowing what it means to work up to the limit of their powers. The consequent habits of indolence, carelessness and inattention, which are so likely to be formed under such conditions, might be avoided by the provision, for such children, of special courses of such a nature as to fit their peculiar characteristics."
In Muslim society, one can choose not to believe in Islam and have no problem, as long as one continues to outwardly perform the expected public rituals, recite the shahada etc. (Quiet personal atheism is much more widespread in the Muslim world than outsiders might suspect.) But if you are a black slave or a descendant thereof in a society based on blood purity, you can’t change your skin colour or descent no matter hard you try. So, while both bases for slavery and segregated society are indeed bad, it’s hard to claim that one might not be a more preferable fate for some unfortunate people than the other.
I think there is some sound advice in there that just happens to fit into his mornings. Take always like having your day poisoned by news, stuff in your life and so on would also occur for you if you woke up later. I do agree that it’s not that deep. Anyone who’s bipolar has ADHD or other “doesn’t fit into the 9-5 society” issues can likely tell you how their emotions will fuck with their productivity.

There isn’t a whole lot you can do with it if you don’t have the freedom to work when you’re energised and stop when you’re not. A lot of us in the software industry have the advantage of being able to not work a lot during “normal hours” and then pull off an entire weeks worth of work on a Saturday, but a lot of us don’t. I worked 30 hours a week for a while (37 is normal in Denmark) and I consistently scores between 20-30% better on our infernal measurements for quality and productivity than I did when I went back to a 37 hour week. Not because I was doing anything different, felt less motivated or was intentionally trying to do anything different. I was simply more tired and it impacted me more than it might do to neurotypical (or whatever we call healthy people these days). Of course for me personally the 37 hours are way better because it pays 20% more.

Anyway, even if you aren’t neurodivergent like me I still suspect you’re not cut out to do office work as though you were at an assembly line. Which is really where the modern “work week” originated. Cutting down on distractions, getting enough sleep and so on will obviously work in your favour. So yeah, I agree with you.
I think it isn't super uncommon. Software engineering is my second career, and unlikely to be my last. Probably 30% of my co-workers had a non tech career before getting where they are.

In my career transition I learned and grew a lot, and it helped give me a different perspective on some problems.

I do wonder if people changed their careers every 10-15 years if they would be happier. You would get to work on a whole different set of problems, you would get to learn new skills, and eventually demonstrate your mastery over those new skills.
And if you are American you are born into obscene wealth that most people throughout history wouldn't be able to comprehend, so what's your point? Throughout my life I've listened to all sorts of people who were "poor since birth" and it's always code for "I want money from you without having to work"
Sure, it's really hard to do SF where you have aliens and keep them alien, because they no longer fulfil ordinary plot parameters. The key characters in the parallel story in Greg Egan's novel "Incandescence" aren't humans, never have been humans, and they live somewhere that humans would immediately die horribly and we'd need an XKCD "What if?" discussion to figure out how they die exactly 'cos they're much too close to a collapsed star and there's also no Oxygen and you can bet everything is totally saturated in radiation... They're probably... tiny? Nevertheless, they're our protagonists for fully half of a novel, so, they're going to get humanized.
Well cars generally get wet. The stainless steel getting tarnished in the rain is a predictable failure, even if we assume some of the ones showing rust are overblown. Not even the only cosmetic failure, it seems like the panels dont ship well, which should be very foreseeable.

Needing a specialised Car Wash Mode to protect the interior. They very obviously saw the issue coming, did engineer around it. Any other car manufacturer would simply try and make the vehicle as watertight as possible in all scenarios.

Frunk causing injuries. (I would add the word "frunk" is also a fail state but thats subjective)

Theres hundreds of these, all you need to do is find a couple of cybertruck owners complaining without feeling the need to be defensive.
Nah, that was the aughts. These days the only anxiety is about cost of living, but it doesn't hit until college age. Speaking completely truthfully, my perception is that the teens of today are better adjusted psychologically than any generation before them.
> quality, habit and integration

> hardware investment, their interface, their brand

Exactly, you gave all the possible moats for LLMs. Not saying OpenAI has it right now, I am disagreeing with the premise that LLM provider can never have moat.
I think that's something fundamental that has changed.
Hardware performance is increasing at 10% per generation https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html

Do you see your hardware getting significantly better at each gen?
Launch HNs for YC startups get placed on the front page. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.

The instructions for YC founders are here: https://news.ycombinator.com/yli.html, if anyone wants to take a look.

I think most people here consider it fair that HN gives certain things back to YC in exchange for funding it.
Refined sugar is extremely concentrated compared to the natural sources. You need like 50 kilos of sugar cane to produce one kilo of refined sugar, and through multiple steps of heavy industrial processes.

You could make a case for honey, but, like all other natural sources, it contains other ingredients that somehow limits ingestion or metabolization.
So many prompts blocked. ".. inspired by .." three out of four are blocked.
I'm not sure "automated foreman for employees" is right - I always thought about it more like "a human can now manage 10-15 AI 'interns'" and review their work without having to do everything by hand - the AI still serves the human, and "human_as_tool" is a way for AI to ask for help/guidance.

> "Machines should think. People should work." Less of a joke every day.

yes. I agree. a little weird. I forget where I heard this but the other version is "we should get ai/robots to cook and do laundry so we can spend more time writing and making art...feels like we ended up the other way around"
Where there’s a gradient and a binary decision, there’s absolutely a line.
The low hood is almost definitely to help prevent scraping mailboxes and other objects, but especially mailboxes. My dad was a rural USPS carrier that used his own vehicle, and despite him having been an excellent driver with no accidents on record in his life, he still ended up swapping minor paint with mailboxes a few times.

Can't imagine how often it happens across the country.
Hey, will say your right about "seems similar to human", but behavior such as moms taking care of their babies is found in many plant species, as is loyalty. Probably happiness and longing as well.

Ask yourself how many of these feelings arise from the rational thinking part of your brain vs how they seem to be full body sensations, and realize that the central nervous system might allow such signals/awareness to propagate at mammal speed, but why would a plant need that speed?

There really is no reason why a CNS is needed for these emotions to be active, just a way to distribute hormones/chemical signals throughout the body.
I can say from direct anecdotal experience that being excluded leads to being even more excluded in the future unless an outside force intervenes. Social skills, speech, belief in the ability to be understood by others are things that need honing and proofing by experience. The less you have of them, the less meaningful opportunities to improve them you get.
I know at least one person - a very, very smart person - who really struggles in flipped classrooms. I think there are people who thrive in them and people who don't, and that axis is orthogonal to the gifted/not gifted axis.

Flipped classrooms look wonderful - here's a group of people who were struggling before, and look, they're thriving! But you can miss that here's another group who were thriving before, and now they're struggling.
Honestly I think it looks great - the design screams "I care for pedestrian safety" and "I'm a nice person, and I don't need to compensate for anything, because I have great sex life."
No downtime noted yet at https://status.python.org/ but confirmed from here
this is cool. I have been an andon cord guy forever
> but most of the current generation of AI hype are a limited number of algorithms and approaches, mixed and matched in different ways, with other features bolted on to try and corral them into behaving as we hope. it is much more realistic to expect that we are in the period of diminishing returns as far as investing in these approaches than it is to believe we'll continue to see earth-shattering growth.

100% agree, but I think those who disagree with that are failing on point 1. I absolutely think we'll need something different, but I'm also sure that there's a solid chance we get there, with a lot of bracketing around "eventually".

When something has been done once before, we have a directional map and we can often copy fairly quickly. See OpenAI to Claude.

We know animals are smarter than LLM’s in the important, learning day-to-day ways, so we have a directional compass. We know the fundamentals are relatively simple, because randomness found them before we did. We know it’s possible, just figuring out if it’s possible with anything like the hardware we have now.

We don’t know if a battery like that is possible - there are no comparisons to make, no steer that says “it’s there, keep looking”.

This is also the time in history with the most compute capacity coming online and the most people trying to solve it. Superpowers, superscalers, all universities, many people over areas as diverse as neuro, psych who wouldn’t have looked at the domain 5 years ago are now very motivated to be relevant, to study or build in related areas. We’ve tasted success. So my opinion is based on us having made progress, the emerging understanding of what it means for individuals and countries in terms of competitive landscape, and the desire to be a part of shaping that future rather than having it happen to us. ~Everyone is very motivated.

Betting against that just seems like a risky choice. Honestly, what would you bet, over what timeframe? How strongly would you say you’re certain of your position? I’m not challenging you, I just think it’s a good frame for grounding opinions. In the end, we really are making those bets.

My bands are pretty wide. I can make a case for 5 years to AGI, or 100 years. Top of my head without thinking, I’d put a small amount on 5 years, all my money on within 100, 50% or more within 20/30.
What you describe IMHO is the lack of hardware progress.

Nowadays,hardware performance is increasing at 10% per generation https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html
I tried Halo and it was surprisingly spot on. I would buy the set it generated for me.
or use POP , POP3, whatever, which will delete the email off the server - which (unpopular opinion) is a feature not a bug.

Yes, one copy of each email;
yes, I don't want to handle each (any) email multiple times, even if the second is a once-a-week mass delete of have-processed-already emails.
It says I can't use it because I'm under 18. I wish.
The chance that a randomly generated 1KB file can shrink by 100 bytes is the same as the chance that a randomly generated 100MB file can shrink by 100 bytes.

And that chance is too low to distinguish from zero before the universe dies.
I, on the other hand, prefer the modern media for the ability to include animations etc.
To be clear I think the goal should not be to equalize opportunities or outcomes. I think the goal should be to equalize the amount of challenge each student experiences, wherever they are. (It's like strength training.)
The article goes over that.

specifically how it wasn't the grade that was the issue, it was the speed of the course material. so once your son catches up, the problems will resurface because of the slow people. just now compounded by the social isolation and lack of physical development in comparison to peers.
> Or the various pre-industrial human cultures who ate virtually nothing but fish and small game because their climate was notoriously resistant to agriculture and fruit trees?

We have longer life span. We are healthier then them. And we have also bigger muscles for those fitness oriented.
I honestly don't understand how this has been allowed to stand all these years.
In my particular example, these were of course deliberately simple snippets to illustrate the point. The power comes in chaining these things, .map.filter.reduce... . Using iteration, you end up writing a lot of boilerplate that is much harder to parallelise, and extremely difficult to lazily evaluate. Without these constructs, to express "the concept of filtering & reducing an array", the reader of your program needs to read how you implemented those things, in addition to what you're using them for. You can do that stuff yourself in goroutines, but there is no contest to having native support for these extremely common operations.
Civil forfeiture is also out and out corruption. But I agree that this goes beyond the usual bounds of that process.
I agree and I think there's a market for faster computers!
Ask HN: Would you use this App to create an immersive visit of your place?
You have all sorts of 360° photos Tools. I get it. But I think we can do better.
For example, this more immersive Visit :
https://free-visit.net/fr/demo01

Now, I just release a no-codeApp to build these of immersive visits.
Here is the Trailer :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEsqp93sq3w&t=7s

Question :
- What do you think ?
- Would you use my App in replacement of a traditional 360° photos tool ?
Stop the spread now:

>> California has recently seen a significant rise in detections of H5N1 in dairy herds. Experts believe that animals at as many as half the dairy farms in California are infected. That is why it is important to pasteurize milk, which kills the virus. (All milk sold across state lines is pasteurized; 30 states allow the in-state sale of nonpasteurized milk, which is labeled “raw.”)

>> Two states, Colorado and Pennsylvania, have agreed to test pooled milk from all farms before pasteurization to monitor spread. Bulk milk testing should be mandatory in all states with dairy farms to determine the full extent of the infection on these farms and also allow us to contain the virus. As if to underline the importance of such a mandate, bird flu was detected in raw milk bought retail last Thursday from a dairy producer based in Fresno, Calif.
Acceptable Standards for Exposure Levels and Adverse Effects of Mercury Toxicity
Show HN: I created a lightweight JavaScript library to visualize JSON as a graph
M2M - Machine to Machine
> outside of consulting, law, medicine and investment banking

The exact kinds of jobs that the parents are working and hate, but are scared of their kids not being able to get.
That kind of moral value being given to what is just neurodiversity is a huge part of the problem. By implication, you've just called people with learning disabilities "the worst".

Neither group of children benefits from morality being attributed to their neurodivergence. Least of all the kids who overperform and have learning disabilities at the same time.

It is good that people are different. It doesn't make gifted kids better.
Nevada? https://www.davidsonacademy.unr.edu/
I meant weird/useless in the sense of that it's used virtually nowhere in practice.

There is a nice func Must(value, err) { if err { panic(err) } else { return value } that you can use in tests to get around the inane regular error handling. But that's about it, to my knowledge. Sad that there isn't more to it. If literally everything returns error as last return value, there could well be some syntax sugar there.
It took me about 5 jumps before learning what the protocol is, except learning that it's something awesome, and community driven, and open source.
Oh, the programs are supposed to take an integer from the command line? Then I wonder how many of them would fail when given an integer that's just a wee bit too large (like, say (2^129)-1).
Huh, why is that?