skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A funny one was I was visiting my parents for the holidays. They have the news on and it is talking about that $2T funding cuts. It shows a bunch of examples with like $50m to this, $500k to that, and then a random $10k to "youth break dancing." And I'm like "why is that there? Seems like rage bait. Why not list more big ticket items? It's $2T, $10k is a nothing at that scale." You guessed right, this started a fight. I wasn't even trying to say that the thing should be funded (though I have no issues. Sounds like just a recreational program. Who cares? It's not even "pennies").

A lesson I continually fail to learn is that it isn't about the actual things. Information is a weapon to many people. Not a thing to chase, to uncover, to discover, but a thing that is concrete and certain. I still fear the man that "knows", since all I can be certain of is that he knows nothing.
He “collected” it by co-founding Stack Overflow, which sold in 2021. He’s only had this level of wealth a few years.
I don't really believe that. The real issue is that basic science in medicine is hard. You can't test a human in ways that might cause harm, which really limits how much investigation we can do. Ethics and morals also restrict what can be done to animals to investigate the basics on them too, though admittedly a lot of the time things just don't carry over anyway.

That being said, I think the rise of "evidence-based" medicine is also causing issues. It gets used as a cop-out to avoid thinking about the mechanics of what is actually happening in an injury. While this is certainly a good things for treatments where A or B superiority is uncertain, there's a lot of cases where I think an RCT just doesn't really make sense.

A pet example:

I broke my ankle recently, and this dug into the literature and common practice. A significant number of people will get end-stage arthritis a few years after "simple" ankle fractures and often the doctors have no idea why. At the same time, an important part of ankle anatomy is often left unfixed (the deltoid ligament) because a few studies back in the 80s found it wasn't necessary to fix it. The bone that serves an equivalent purpose IS fixed (if broken) though. Mechanically, they restrict the ankle joint and prevent it moving in certain directions.

When presented with biomechanical reasons for fixing it, and concurrent common poor outcomes for some patients, I've seen the response from surgeons thusly - "it's not supported by evidence" presumably because there isn't an RCT demonstrating definitive superiority.

So much of medicine and treatment is literally just hearsay and whatever your surgeon happened to read last week. As a whole the standard is rising, but so much research is so disjoint, disorganised and inconsistent that doctors often have no definitive guidance. It's probably more of a problem in some fields (like ortho) than others, but its still surprising when you see it yourself.
Many normal hydroelectric dams can be converted, they already have half the setup .

As long as there is a lower reservoir or space for one , any hydroelectric dam could converted to pumped storage without additional ecological impact .
Wow
From the article
wrote a script to remove copyright info, including the word “copyright” and “acknowledgments,” from ebooks in LibGen.

suggests that Meta strips [copyright information] ......

.....it torrented LibGen,
Oh it's alarmingly fun.

1. radio decryption and cyphers

2. Complete flying fortress customization

3. ancient tech-obsessed desert culture kinda like homeworld

4. merchant raiding and resource constrained survival

If you get deep into building customized ships, I have an automated optimizer for you to check your stats against :)
Hack your calendar and be there for him! All the best!
I'm really sorry to hear that. Since you're asking for moonshots and weird things to try, here's something they can ask their doctor about:

> Case reports involving glioblastoma patients using water-only fasting regimens in conjunction with other forms of cancer treatment have reported favorable outcomes with respect to tumor growth https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2874558/ https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5884883/

From https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6836141/
Eh, I'm just assuming OP holds views that a lot of people here disagree here with (thus end up getting downvoted), and writes it off as "not allowed to say it" here. That's usually the gist of why people complain about freedom of speech nowadays, regardless of their ideology. Yes, I understand there are billions of exceptions, and I understand how users get banned for "wrong think". But that happens literally everywhere, and all you have to do is to be loud enough to piss of the right people.

Everyone wants to be liked, and search for the venues where they can express their views where they would be a part of majority. Basically the reason why people skew towards echo-chambers, in real and digital life.
I'm not sure the trajectory of PR matters much.

The actual generation trajectory seems more useful: https://www.eia.gov/international/analysis/country/CHN
This. It is very dependent on the type of cancer. There is a lot of research on this. For a little context, I was a pediatric neurology professor for a while, and have been on a low carb diet for a decade. Much of the department did low carb, as did much of the oncology dept. Many kids with epilepsy are put on keto as well with great effect. I did a deep dive into low carb research before starting and keeping with the diet, and found a lot about using it for cancer therapy. I'm not sure what has changed in the last 10 years, but the above abstract looks promising. With a GBM, they probably don't have much to lose. *This is not medical advice, I'm not an MD (I was a BME doing epilepsy research), have them check with their Dr.
fasting and low carb probably wouldn't hurt
1. Tumor Treating Fields (electricity, not magnets): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37953242/

2. CEGAT Vaccine: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51315-8

3. Supplementation: keto diet, curcumin, sauna, and some Chinese traditional medicines all have good academic data that improves overall and progression free survival

Source: I am a rare disease dad and did a lot of research and put together a private research team as well.
Best not to confuse the right to "free speech," with others publishing it electronically.
What are you implying here? That Europeans don't get addicted to nicotine?
Nuclear requires an extremely mature bureaucracy to handle the serious longterm risks efficiently. Here in the USA I'm just not sure our government is mature enough for the task. Every 4 years we may have someone come in to slash safety regulations or erect impossible regulatory barriers, not to mention all of our defense treaty obligations and their churn. Every year (or less!) our congress may decide to let the government shutdown and stop paying critical contractors. Trains carrying spent or unspent fuel may derail thanks to inefficient regulation. etc etc.

One of the massive benefits of wind and solar is that it can be scaled down to a size even a consumer can deploy. This makes it relatively resilient to regulatory whims compared to massive undertakings like nuclear. I'm not a nuclear engineer, but I suspect the recent emphasis on smaller nuclear plants has more to do with navigating regulatory hurdles and uncertainty than efficiency.

All that to say I am quite jealous of countries with mature bureaucratic regimes that can efficiently manage nuclear!
amazing, i didn't know PDF supported javascript.

i've tried making "interactive" PDFs before but using POST and server side rendering rather than client, e.g. a PDF typewriter i made a little while back on http://news.coffee
Here is a good site to find clinical trials: https://clinicaltrials.gov
Check this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5FqS0Y82reI&pp=ygUPdGhvbWFzIHN...

Search for other Thomas Seyfried videos on YouTube - he defends a metabolic approach to cancer treatment.

He writes the forward to “Keto for Cancer” - https://a.co/d/8NxMOXJ
> When fully charged, the upper reservoir can store enough energy to power the plant at full capacity for 10.8 hours

That's actually 38.8GWh so close enough.
That’s a shallow take. Opting for community notes without any fact checking will transform truth from facts to “loudest voice”. So, who can yell louder will be accepted as the flag of truth, which is very dangerous.

Of course, if you like your propaganda well-done, Facebook will be a great place for that.
Not an expert or doctor disclaimer.

Sugar is the food cancer cells crave. Not a miracle cure but restricting sugars may help reduce the growth of the tumor.
I'd suggest browsing through ourworldindata.org's energy section. It is an absolutely astonishing accomplishment what China has built with slashing PV and battery prices as well as production capacities in recent years. Dynamics are such that there's hope they'll reach peak CO2 emissions in the upcoming few years, way ahead of their own plans. I'm saying that as a German whose 20y old idea (be a global supplier for renewable tech) they copied and executed like 10x better.
But can your PDF run an AI agent?
Sorry for your dad. That thing's a bitch.
The Lobbyist Behind Your $7 Eggs
Not a bio hack per se but check out “Tripping over the Truth: The Metabolic Theory of Cancer”[0]

[0] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23496164
Not to big to fit in the opening of a motorcycle gas tank, as I once painfully discovered.
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Have you looked into ivermectin and fenbendazole?

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3158014/

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7505114/
Yes, HN's dehower is buggy. Fixed now. Sorry!
All of these are true (even more so) for the Pi Zero.

Why would someone buy a Pi5 when they can get more power for the same price?
https://www.2ndsmartestguyintheworld.com/p/ivermectin-testim... -- see "New and improved Joe Tippens protocol".

Has worked for hundreds of people, and what has he got to lose? It's all natural medicines.
Total guess implies that they closed their eyes and made a random choice. There's a reason why the top posts, including one by a lawyer (who recommends immediately shutting down the site before getting advice), are saying caution is very warranted.
I'm really curious about why Portugal is tier 2. Switzerland may make some kind of sense.
Thanks for the kind words, and I agree it is a shame, but we a ran out of money! Chris raised $2m from investors, and we spent that over 3 years with a pretty minimal burn rate as far as SF startups go. We couldn't really show a path to making money at that time (although I still think we were on to some things), so we couldn't raise anymore. We tried for an acquihire but nah.

As for continuing the ideas, I'm putting a lot of what we learned into Mech. I know that Chris and Josh went to work at Relational AI, but I'm not sure exactly what work they got up to there. But Chris recently posted about generative AI and how it goes back to things we were thinking about in 2015 with respect to Eve: https://x.com/ibdknox/status/1630548754238435330

So in that sense generative AI can be a vector for some of the ideas in Eve coming to the mainstream.
Baltimore bridge disaster, Musk: DEI. Nothing supporting that.

Alaska Flight 1282, door blows off, Musk: DEI. Nothing supporting that.

I want an electrified future. I want a multi-planet civilization.

Read Alex Jones' text that Musk says is "true." It is objectively insane.

Why is he doing this? He is discrediting the species-level important things. He used to be the best of us, the clearest thinker. What in the heck happened?
They do. Here is a summary of the environmental impaction evaluation of stage 2. Whether it is scientific enough, I cannot say because I haven't read the report (judging from the summary, readers need to contact them to get the report, which is pretty annoying).

https://www.fengning.gov.cn/art/2014/6/23/art_3204_165228.ht...
I enjoyed the name Euphoria State University for his fictional model of UC Berkeley.

To combine this news with the AI zeitgeist, consider reading his 2001 novel, Thinks….
I wish I had something better to add, but I can add an anecdotal +1 to this.

A relative went keto pretty hard after a bad diagnosis and they are still going strong. As far as I understand it, cancer cells can only function on glucose.
I don't think the US has any either, there's a reason they built Tom Sauk (not sure there's any other pretty much entirely artificial PHS).

There might be a few locations in the Alps e.g. existing barrages which could be retrofitted into PHS in Switzerland and Austria (KOPS II was commissioned in 2008).
> grinding of male chicks is an interesting case because it's actually pretty low on the suffering and distress spectrum, but high on the visceral reaction scale

And nothing requires they be ground alive versus e.g. introduced into a nitrogen atmosphere and then minced. (Or simply neutered, raised and sold as capon.)
This is the bargaining phase of grief, where a person will seek to do whatever they can to change a fate. But when they find they can’t no matter how hard they try, they’ll just proceed to anger and then depression.
>Are irrational numbers even on a number line?

Yes, e is between 2 and 3 and Pi is between 3 and 4. There are geometrical lengths corresponding to each number.

>Isn’t it definitionally impossible to pick it as a “point along the line”?

No, it's mathematically possible to have a random process which picks a random real between 0 and n, with equal probability. Imagine it akin to throwing a dart at a line and picking the point it lands on as the number.
Since there are only countably many rationals and uncountably many irrationals (i.e. not just infinitely more, but so many that you could never pair off the rationals with the irrationals, there are just too many) on any such length of the real line, chances are the number you end up with is overwhelmingly likely to be irrational.
One of the problems Michigan has is term limits. It seemed like such a great idea at the time. But because folks are in Lansing for such a short time it has handed immense power over to the lobbyists with sometimes very bad results.
It may be one of these who do post industrial, smelter towers, decaying mine shafts.

There's another one who photographs electricity pylons. Stunning shots, b&w.
IIRC one is a fork of the other with the purpose of supporting more libraries
My mother has “frozen” breast cancer for 15 years using oral bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis).

To give you the short version of the story about how it works for HER: taking bloodroot causes the cancer to shrink too small to take a biopsy, but not go into remission, and when she stops taking it per the doctors advice, it gets very large and they start talking about surgery.

Nobody really understands how it works and a lot of people claim it doesn’t work, but I think it’s probably similar to a low dose natural chemo.

I have seen it work unusually well with skin cancers (melanoma) as well using paste application (this is called black salve), so despite what the FDA claims, I think there’s something there, and there’s a few papers that agree.

Don’t put black salve on your head, it leaves a hole where the cancer comes out.
e and pi are highly related, both pop out of periodic phenomenon.
I find it very easy to stay off their feed of algorithmic garbage, but unfortunately despite being (imo) less usable than Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace is what everyone around me uses.
What you're describing is a completely unsecured device.
Any security comes from elsewhere.
Any insights would be appreciated here :)

I stayed at my first startup for 13 years. Loved every minute of it, because we were creating something meaningful together; and actually having fun, not just talking about it.

Since then it's been a pretty depressing downhill ride, last year was a total disaster and I'm afraid its getting worse.

I'm pretty sure there are still companies out there worth working for; where experience and skill is appreciated, where humans are seen and have fun.

But I'm sick and tired of searching, of having to deal with clueless suckers; of being treated like a tool, means to an end.
Why should states provide taxpayer-funded subsidies for people to site homes in places that are so expensive to insure that insurers literally can't offer insurance under the statute?

Two more reasonable outcomes:

1. States forbid construction in those places.

2. States allow construction, but you're on your own re: insurance.

Of course, the ideal outcome would be:

3. States allow construction, and insurers are allowed to underwrite.
Thanks a lot, I hadn't seen this. I'll read through.
When You Change the World and No One Notices (2016)
No, thanks a lot for pointing out.
Oddly enough, I started thinking more like this.

I think it's because I've felt discriminated against myself and thinking about ways in which I myself discriminate against certain animals such as cows, pigs and chickens helps me to put it into perspective.

That said, my moral framework is consistent because it's based on intelligence. I will not eat dolphin or killer whale.

Among humans, I often find myself tolerating intelligent jerks, for the same reason.

I started penalizing for evil more strongly in recent years though. Before that, I subconsciously assumed that there was an inverse correlation between intelligence and evil, but it has come to my awareness that it's not the case. Reality is that, as intelligence goes up, evil, if present, gets better at hiding.
> Most software vulnerabilities aren't intentionally added backdoors

>it is extremely common for e.g. TVs and smart phones to ship with malware included

These aren't mutually exclusive. With that being said, I'm probably with you when it comes to the overall debate. For something to get exploited it needs a vulnerability and a means to exploit it. The most insecure device in the world can't be exploited if I'm the only one who ahs the means to do it. Unfortunately we live in a world where Zawinski's Law has itself expanded such that everyone wants to be able to access everything from everywhere, which rules out airgapping a lot of devices. It's a consumer economy - we have to build what people want and then secure it. We don't have the luxury of building secure things and then convincing people to want them.
There is an important distinction to be made here. Examples in this thread show cases of irrational numbers multiplied by or added to other irrational numbers producing real numbers, but in the special case of a rational number added to or multiplied by an irrational number, the result is always irrational.

Otherwise, supposing for instance that (n/m)x is rational for integers n, m, both non-zero, and irrational x, we can express (n/m)x as a ratio of two integers p, q, q non-zero: (n/m)x = p/q if and only if x = (mp)/(qn). Since integers are closed under multiplication, x is rational, against supposition; thus by contradiction (n/m)x is irrational for any rational r = (n/m), with integers n, m both non-zero. Similarly for the case of addition.
There are a ton of open source things to participate in and contribute to. Obviously anything that involves travel costs money.
I like this distinction from automation by Bartosz Pucek:

At its core, an Agent is software that can:

Take in a task description

Break it down into steps

Execute those steps using available tools

Adapt its approach based on feedback

The key distinction from traditional automation: Agents handle variance and uncertainty by replanning rather than failing when their happy path breaks.

Source: https://newsletter.pucek.com/p/2025-the-state-of-ai-agents-a...
> We’ve made the decision to reallocate resources due to the lawsuits from WP Engine. This legal action diverts significant time and energy that could otherwise be directed toward supporting WordPress’s growth and health. We remain hopeful that WP Engine will reconsider this legal attack, allowing us to refocus our efforts on contributions that benefit the broader WordPress ecosystem.

The only reason the lawsuit happened is because Matt started the feud. This is literally the "guy puts stick in own bike wheel then falls off" meme.
No, they can't reach the tumor surgically. Thanks for the info though.
You're right, it's a shallow take in response to a straw man of my position. Clearly content moderation is a HARD problem and the decision-makers at Facebook know this better than almost anyone. They made a decision that presumably was in their best interest, of which I happen to support.
Cool! Before building a full test platform for testdriver.ai we made a similar sdk called Goodlooks. It didn't get much traction, but will leave it here for those interested:
https://github.com/testdriverai/goodlooks
It's the cult of superficial thought. Hate speech is a small price to pay for the fight against censorship. But there is a not-insignificant amount of people that look at the hate speech, think it should be censored because it's bad, and literally think no further about the potential consequences of censorship.

Yes, lies are bad and dangerous, but censorship is much worse and far more dangerous.
Not sure what anyone here gains from a reductive comment like this. In case it wasn't clear, obviously that's not what I'm saying -- I was curious why you'd be OK with a reduction in fact checking when the platform is a means to such despicable acts.
It'd be nice, but doing it without giving away that's what's happening would probably get complicated
I have some possibly shocking news for you. Humans are animals. Pretending we're very special and that everything we do is automatically "bad" is silly. Some things that are very good for humans overall is bad for competing species. Everything in moderation, of course, but I'm not shedding a tear for cowkind that they get slaughtered a lot. Cows would undoubtedly set up a system much like this if they were smart carnivores and we were dumb herbivores. (And many of them would hand-wring (hoof-wring?) about it due to that smartness. It's just part of the package.)
How do you know it’s a male?
Action in inaction.
>If you manage to get a device in range you can... turn my lights on and off?

Is that all it's capable of or all you use it for?
Insert Homer Simpson meme “Not every city is drowning in those kinds of liabilities, yet”
This has been my exact strategy. I've finally got about half my box-o-wallwarts labeled for their associated device.
Maybe they should make porn an olympic event?

It wouldn't be the stupedist, and some forms are probably pretty physically demanding (can't really comment based on first person experience since I don't view it).

Personally, I find the whole competitive sports industry to be a giant waste of time and money.

For poelpe practicing the sports, most probably bring physical benefits. For the 99.999% who just watch it on TV, what's the point really?

If someone likes sports, they should go out and play them...
For anyone happy enough to consider dealing with the JVM instead of C, and Clojure instead of SQL, I think this CINQ project can deliver on much of what you're looking for here: https://github.com/wotbrew/cinq

> I just write a SQL query instead with joining with seeing the internal data representation of the software as an information system instead of bespoke code

This sounds very similar to how CINQ's macro-based implementation performs relational optimizations on top of regular looking Clojure code (whilst sticking to using a single language for everything).
Example, Vercel and Nelify, both running on top of AWS, yet their serverless offering is a tiny subset of Lambda capabilites.
I've just read both and highly recommend them and was coming in to this thread to do so.

Liftoff : https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53402132-liftoff

Re-entry : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/205309521-reentry

Both have very high ratings on Goodreads.