skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Engineers have vastly different definitions of “well-functioning” and “easy”. Once I saw an app that used accelerometer API to determine in real-time whether the user is walking. It was done as a web app (native was considered too difficult) and the data was sent to GCP for processing. Even without the GCP code, which involved a custom ML model, it was in the hundreds of LoC. I don’t know how well it would function in real use, since it did not really reach mass production, but I do know it is possible to do completely on-device with very little bespoke logic and a very small LoC count on iOS (and I’m sure on Android) where APIs would give you exactly that (and even movement speed, if needed).
This was also to be expected in the sense that forecasters for a week now have been warning about century long record wind speeds and the fire dangers those bring along with them
So here is a person who has reduced suffering for animals. And your idea is...what?
Very few if any of the AIs have reasoning yet. Yes, a human would be able to think through and tell you it’s spam or better yet not even bother telling you about the message _because_ it is spam but we aren’t quite there yet.
A trip to urgent care almost destroyed me
Yep, all open source: https://github.com/gordonhart/atlasof.space

It's a static React app using Three.js for rendering and a few backend functions deployed on Netlify. It's been a pretty great experience deploying to Netlify, though I didn't expect the attention from HN to go way over my 100GB of free tier bandwidth!
> $44 billion is an absolute fuckton of money to kill Twitter and move those people to your pet project.

What's the point of having Fuck You Money if you can't say "Fuck You?" Your value assessment isn't taking into account the value of destroying old Twitter, of removing a major bullhorn in the information environment away from people that Musk probably considers adversaries at best, and malevolent actors at worst. Simply standing up his own competing platform would not have accomplished this.
https://archive.ph/ClLKV
This isnt scientific but I’ve found that I “feel like” going to bed about 24.5 hours after I went to bed the day before.

Without external stimuli, it’s very hard to avoid drifting into staying up very late at night for me.
Job Board for Lobbyists
Halo people! Made a job board for lobbyists (I also made a few for the other 18 lobbying hubs).

I'm hoping that I can sell them a resume filtering service at 1000$ and be the recruiting service for lobbyists (and hopefully more later) - so "You give us the resume we find you the job" type thing - practically a marketplace for job seekers and posters.

Right now I've been desperately trying to get more clients. There are 3 competitors in Brussels and London (where I'm focusing), they charge 2000$ 1000$ and 400$ per job posting and make about 2 million a year each.

What I'm doing.
1. emailing everyone who posts a job on their website (title: why post on x website when it's free on my website)
2. begging all my friends and quite frankly anyone I meet (I'm a ex lobbyists) to post their jobs on my website
3. trying to improve my SEO by getting people to search my website when they ask me "What do you do"
4. writing articles (Huge thanks to the positional.com guys - they were so soo sooooo generous with their time - thank you Matt!!!!!!!)
5. posting QR codes to my website on stickers everywhere (GOD, PLEASE DON'T MAKE THE POLICE FINE ME FOR THIS!!!!)
6. commenting on any post I see that offers a lobbying job (post on eujobs.co it's free etc...)
7. I'm not going to write all the desperate things I do... BUT PLEASE DO GIVE ME IDEAS!!!

I lowered my basic tier to free because I need market share, but dang it's hard to see so much money go down the drain (potential paying posts).

Also please don't tell me to apply to YC, did it like 4 times and I think it just doesn't make sense for me - right now I'm just in survival mode (it's a joke on founder mode, hope you got it).

My main doubts are:
- Did I fuck up doing a free tier?
- Am I unknowingly demoralized? I mean initially I was trying to make a SaaS to compete with FTI (a huge lobbying firm with a market cap of 2billion), now I'm making a job board and worrying what my mom will say when I turn 30 (very soon).
- Did I fuck up making multiple websites (Zurich, London, and all the other lobbying hubs), my thought process was "it only costs 10$ to buy the domain"
- What other things can I do to get clients (I found some lists of things that don't scale but another one would be helpful - I even made one)
- Should I pay for a press release? Like einpresswire or something like that?
- How are my competitors kicking my ass. They have no SEO (literally zero keyword strategy), the website is not mobile friendly, they don't use stripe so payments only with a bank transfer, they even did job.euractiv so they don't get the seo benefits from their newspaper, and so many more things... I thought in 3 months I'd be rolling them.

Anyways, Thanks a lot HN! And sorry for my mega rant - it's 3:52 in the morning here.
Lions are quite dumb, Humans are very smart and can be vegan or vegetarian because of civilization and economic specialization.

Unrelatedly, elephants are quite a bit smarter than lions and herbivorous, as are many primates!
Altering headlines automatically is really irresponsible.
That’s on top of about 3.4% inflation from 2023 to 2024. So over a 5% cut in real terms.
I don't get why everyone keeps talking about the planets aligning. All the planets are pretty much in the same plane. So if you are on one of the planets, all of the others will always be in a line.

edit: to those downvoting me, can you explain why?
There may also be engineers working harder because of being worried about getting laid off. How could they separate those productivity increases from AI?
7% mortgage rates will change housing for a decade
Or an effective way to let HR know you're not in the best shape, so they can fire you
Advertisements in general are usually targeted to women, still today. They spend more and make the spending decisions if they have a husband.
Do you have any recommended books or links on this topic?
From the linked post:

>Some time ago, I found myself with zero obligations to follow the usual daily routine: wake up in the morning and go to sleep at night (the “normal people schedule”). During my time awake, I was either working on side-projects or playing with my hobbies, and I’d go to sleep whenever I felt sleepy, wake up naturally (no alarms), and repeat. This led me to observe that without sticking to a daily routine, my sleep schedule would drift every day compared to the previous one. I also noticed that on most days I’d sleep a bit longer than 8h, sometimes 9h or even 10h.

>An example of the sleep schedule drift: if on day X I went to sleep at 10:00 and woke up at 18:00, on day X+1 I’d go to bed at a time later than 10:00, and wake up later than 18:00. I almost never went to sleep at the same time on two consecutive days.

>I realised that this was happening because it took me longer to feel tired than the “normal people schedule” assumed. If I followed it, sleeping would tend towards napping until the tiredness built up, at which point I’d need to sleep more. In fact, for most of my adult life (especially when I had a full-time job), I’d always have to force myself to go to bed during weekdays, and naturally this drift would occur, and then I’d “reset” during the weekend (often 10h+ of sleep), thus going back to forcing myself to sleep on weekdays to stick to the routine.
WebKit is still mostly developed by Apple, isn't it?
The AI trough of trough of disillusionment is coming, and these hype-driven execs are going to feel it. There are relatively few techs that have a genuine use-case for it (copilot being an obvious example).
> definition of concurrency quoted from the Python wiki [0] which is imprecise: "Concurrency in programming means that multiple computations happen at the same time."

Surprising to some, this is the literal definition. The word "concurrent" is a portmanteau from Latin, "con" translates as same and "current" translates as time. Concurrent literally means "same time". Comp Sci really needs to use a different word.
Link to their vector page, since the main page makes them look like yet another AI image generator:

https://www.recraft.ai/ai-image-vectorizer

The quality does look quite amazing at first glance. How are the vectors to work with? Can you just open them in illustrator and start editing?
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> Let’s ignore how AWS S3 still charges you $23/TB/month—1.6x the price of buying the physical disk outright every month—and then charges you egress fees on top for every byte you actually download. But this is an article about the state of the art in computing, not the state of the art in setting money on fire.

Can’t help but chuckle at this. The old adage “It’s not voltage but current that kills you” now becomes “It’s not storage but egress that gets you.”
I think you don't mean "statistically significant" here, but something like "relevant" instead. Something can be statistically significant and entirely irrelevant if the effect size is too small.
any language with Synalœpha deserves to remain a dead language. looking at you next french.
A mutual aid resource map for those affected by the fires in LA
Still very much under construction, but wanted to get out there to help people ASAP.
> imagine making every single day a jet-lagged day.

That's exactly what this pattern is trying to avoid. For people whose sleep cycle is longer than 24h, a "normal" rhythm makes every single day a jet-lagged day, and in the "wrong" direction (it's easier to travel west/stay awake longer rather than travel east/go to bed earlier for most people).
It's been ages since I've driven there, but SFpark[1] was (and maybe still is?) considered the gold standard in demand-based pricing.

One interesting finding from the initial research reports was that it achieved the goal of improving availability while at the same time lowering the average meter price, which is nice because it drives home that the purpose is maximizing efficiency, not revenue.

And despite my using it as an example above, Midtown Manhattan actually does this reasonably well, especially in contrast with trying to park in the Upper East/West Side or Harlem.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SFpark
Even worse, we have done a good job of detecting spam before AI was a thing.
That’s not what his link [1] shows. Santa Monica airport appears to have reported a relative humidity of 0.33%
Given my exposure to the product and portions of it's userbase I -want- to call it a cult more than anything else, mostly based on years spent fucking around in the back end of one salesforce instance after another trying to get it to replicate functionality that I could have gotten online in an afternoon with a 2 page training document and a couple shared Google spreadsheets. I am clearly not in the target audience as I do -not- see the value proposition and never have.
A somewhat American problem, A lot of the rest of the world has more variant mortgage rates over the life of a mortgage and re-financing is common. Typically people hedge inside their mortgage with a fixed period when they can (at low rates) or a partial fix of some of the loan.

Is refinancing out of high rates uncommon in the USA? Why would somebody stay locked into 7% for 30 years, if they could shift down when the longterm rate moves? What I read says it can cost 5% or more of the loan value. It's nothing like that expensive to refinance outside of the USA so this must be the vig to make long-lived mortgage finance "work" for the market.
Read into this what you will for Salesforce particularly, but we are probably going to start seeing similar announcements from other companies. Generative AI has completely revolutionzed the nature of knowledge work, and this will be the year when it really starts to hit.
> it's cost competitive with all the other email providers

Have you looked at MXRoute? We pay $65 per year for unlimited domains and addresses. Not a huge amount of storage space so there's a bit of education in getting people to share large files using another service, but otherwise it's great value.
More information since my last comment, at least half the budget cuts indeed impacted large scale disaster response capabilities.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/california-wildfires/la-w...

> The budget reduction, approved last year by Mayor Karen Bass, was mostly absorbed by leaving many administrative jobs unfilled, but that left about $7 million that was cut from its overtime budget that was used for training, fire prevention, and other key functions.

> The variable overtime hours, called "V-Hours" within the LAFD, were used to pay for FAA-mandated pilot training and helicopter coordination staffing for wildfire suppression, the memo said.

"Without this funding, pilot compliance and readiness are jeopardized, and aerial firefighting capabilities are diminished," it said. "Changes to the Air Operations Section impact the Department's ability to adhere to current automatic and mutual aid agreements, provide air ambulance service, and quickly respond to woodland fires with water dropping helicopters."

> The memo also highlighted other programs that would suffer under the cuts, including the Disaster Response Section, which funds the bulldozer teams that cut breaks and control lines around wildfires, and the Critical Incident Planning and Training Section, which develops plans for major emergencies.
People with self respect will find it insulting if an advertisement doesn't try to convince them with copy. In the past, advertisers wanted to be careful to not insult their prospective clients. Modern ads usually have an undertone of "we despise you" towards their prospective clients. I guess they figured out that it's better spent dollars to try to reach people without self respect.
Don't forget about the `prog*` family.

---

(prog1 foo bar*)

Evaluates foo, then bar(s), and returns the result of evaluating foo and discards the results of bar(s).

Useful if `foo` is the condition and you need to perform some change to it immediately after, eg:

(while (prog1 (< next prev) (setq prev next)) ...)

---

(prog2 foo bar baz*)

Evaluates foo, then bar, then baz(s) (if present), returns the result of evaluating bar and discards the results of evaluating foo and baz(s).

Might be what GP wants. `foo` is the preparation, `bar` is the condition`, and `baz` can be some post-condition mutation on the compared value. Not too dissimilar to

for (pre, cond, post) {}

With `prog2` you could achieve similar behavior with no built in `for`:

(while (prog2 pre cond post) ...)

---

(progn foo*)

Evaluate each foo in order, return the result of evaluating the last element of foo and discard all the others.

`progn` is similar to repeated uses of the comma operator in C, which GP has possibly overlooked as one solution.

while (prepare, condition) { process }
It’s the same as how soldiers were trained to de-anthropomorphize their enemies.
If they're no longer a technology company, won't that crush their multiple?
Biologically I have low melatonin and low cortisol. This means I have trouble falling asleep and then I have trouble waking up.

Countless times in my life I have lived 26-28 hour cycles and otherwise I am in a never ending struggle to live a 24 hour cycle. Once I hit retirement I will definitely try this 28 hour cycle and might even switch to it permanently.

Yeah there are obvious downsides having to do with SO, friends, etc. Having a husband with this same biological quirk would be ideal, but again once I no longer have to go into the office it will be really hard not to fall into a > 24 hour pattern.
In Toronto the decline of the scene in the late '90s was accelerated significantly when the city clamped down on promotors by restricting them from renting venues on city owned property. This was after gradually requiring EMTs and increased security at events after Allen Ho died in 1999. There was a huge protest at city hall, but that had no impact on the course of things. Combined with the recession and then SARS in 2003, people effectively stopped going out to larger events, although people getting older with more obligations was certainly a contributing factor as well. However, there are still family friendly events held at Cherry Beach in the summer with people from the scene back then going on every year.
This is much more useful for actual design jobs.
Wasn't there a paper from Heidi Howard that stated you it's not actually f failures in 2f+1 nodes, but you can actually make the number of nodes that can fail a lot higher, if you have some nodes that have to take part in the quorum (or the prior proposal)? This feels roughly similar?
.net is the very obvious exception to this kind of thing, yes. .net very deliberately makes this kind of tampering quite trivial in comparison
> I have faith that UW leadership will make it right in the end.

Yikes, they're going to walk all over you.
I recommend to everyone to get out of cities and counties that have large pension liabilities. You will be less safe, your kids will be educated more poorly, and your quality of public services will be whittled away because the money is going to retirees and debt.

E.g. Retirement benefits and debt service took up 43% of Chicago’s budget in 2022: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/opinion/chicago-illinois-.... A decade ago my wife and I decided to abandon our efforts to move back to the city (where we went to law school) because we saw this coming.
Yes, but a standard household wall socket in the US supplies 120V @ 15A, for a max continuous power of 1.4 kW or so. So typical power supplies are only designed to draw up to that much power, or less.

If someone made a PC power supply designed to plug into a NEMA 14-50 you could run a lot of GPUs! And generate a lot of heat!
untrusted docx/xlsx file

Contrary to what the propaganda wants you to think, I suspect the majority of people who have the brain to oppose are not opening every file that's sent to them by strangers.
I would love to play this but the site stops audio playback on mobile because it tries to play click sounds all the time. Are you able to add a mute option? :)
These are between $20 and $250, but having many different band resistance levels is useful:

https://gofit.net/collections/resistance-tubes-bands

There are plenty of cheaper no-name options on Amazon, but they have the property that the handles snap off during use, risking injury.
Wonderful! I showed my kids (9 and 10) and we really enjoyed zooming in and out, reading about different Celistial bodie. We were all really intrigued about the "Trans-Neptuinan Objects" and the strange orbits.

We spent a whole 30 minutes afterwards talking about the existence of aliens and how long it would take to reach Alpha Centauri at our current level of technology versus light speed, and the further unpacking faster than light travel depicted in science fiction.

Thank you!
The presentation is cool but the order here is pretty bad. When teaching subtractive synthesis, you really should start with the oscillators and their waveforms (sine, tri, saw, square), then talk about filter, then amplitude. That’s really all there is to it - create a fundamental and a series of harmonics, carve it away with a filter and then give it an amplitude envelope. I love Ableton, but I think they may have been a bit too focused on making this look nice.
CPU Performance
Recommended strategy instead:

1. Change your credit card number so that you cannot be billed anymore

2. Use a free and open source alternative. They're good enough at this point

Otherwise you're just funding their grift.
The real problem is very few vendors are inclined to spend the time and money to make their products truly stable & secure. Instead we churn out a firehouse of crap code for a sewage dump of cheap IoT products. I'm not sure how much a government-conceived seal will raise the bar of consumer expectations.

I'd still put my faith in other indicators like a company's track record, third party audits, robustness of open source library choices where applicable, my own analysis of their stack and engineering choices based on signs I can observe about their product / interface / etc (there are usually several present), my own testing and so forth.

I'd argue the generally accepted pace of consumer product development these days is reckless, and not sustainable if you want truly robust results.

I would have been glad to see this step in the right direction if I weren't convinced all it will likely amount to in practice is security theatre. Here's hoping my skepticism is unwarranted.
I think that's a different thing... I believe you're talking about flexible paxos (https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.06696).

Flexible paxos doesn't change the underlying guarantees at all, whereas this does.
Show HN: Could I have done better? (investment tool)
In the last 2-3 years i've spent a lot of time to understand investing better and occasionally sample and check different stocks and crypto and see how it coompares.

I built a very simple tool to see if my investments could be improved upon. In short, if i would have placed the same amount of money in a different stock or crypto for example, would i have done better?

It's open source and in-browser (using local storage), meaning investment data stays private in your browser between you and your browser (yourself). Everything is in 1 html file only which you can use or copy and change yourself. Lastly, in order to get stock and crypto prices, it does use 2 api's (Twelve Data & Alpha Vantage)

Hope it's helpful for you guys and let me know if you have any suggestions.
it's almost like universities are about controlling an artificial limited access to knowledge than about knowledge uh.
Are you familiar with the origins of Facebook?
> Surprising to some, this is the literal definition.

I don't think it's surprising to anyone that speaks English what the definition of concurrency in everyday language is. It is not the same as the computer science definition and that's unlikely to change anytime soon. Can anyone with permission fix the Python wiki?
You normally pay per credit, so not quite, and also that way you'll have lower grades, fewer chances to get internships, and make less connections.
Beyond Conventional Physics
Do you and a lion possess the same degree of executive function?

Plant based diets are:

- more affordable

- better for the environment

- healthier

- avoid/reduce cruelty (livestock and human)

If you want to eat meat, fine, but the comment you replied to is innocuous and not "guilt-tripping" anyone.
That makes sense. Thanks for this and your other post.
Newsom hasn't taken dams down unless you're talking about the useless Klamath River dam which is an environmental disaster and all the way on the border with Oregon. What helps water retention is less concrete and healthy soils (e.g. soils with mycorrhizal bacteria can hold 50x as much water as dead soils)
Really interesting! I was interested in polyphasic sleep for a moment.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyphasic_sleep

I never actually tried it from what I remember. Cool to read someone’s experience with it.
I know several attorneys that still use Corel.
Flash crash. It's really hard to put in fair minimum times on things. A basic delay isn't really any better.
Now they are saying another fire broke out near hollywood hills. If winds don't stop how much worse can this get?

Sixth fire: A new brush fire called the Sunset Fire broke out in the Hollywood Hills near Runyon Canyon Wednesday evening. A mandatory evacuation order is in place for Laurel Canyon Boulevard (on the west) to Mulholland Drive (on the north) to 101 Freeway (on the east) down to Hollywood Boulevard (on the south).
Except that if rendering was magically free... why not just pathtrace everything?

DLSS might not be as good as pure unlimited pathtracing, but for a given budget it might be better than rasterization alone.
Zero interest rate policy by Federal Reserve.