skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This particular article has a prelude on the same website

https://profmattstrassler.com/2025/01/10/no-the-short-range-...
As a Gen Xer, the relatively recent discoveries around the purpose of sleep are pretty fascinating to me. Throughout most of my life, we basically didn't know why we need sleep. It's very clear we (and essentially all vertebrates) do need sleep, but we really didn't know why.

Now we basically do: sleep is when you clear out waste products in your brain. As someone who definitely doesn't understand all the details, it's when "channels" it your brain get opened up so these waste products can be swept away. This study (based on the title) claims to show the mechanism for doing that:

1. Norepinephrine-mediated: norepinephrine is a neurotransmitter, so this is saying it's responsible for the mechanism of action.

2. slow vasomotion - you can Google what vasomotion means, but it's essentially a rhythmic change it the walls of blood vessels - this is essentially the "sweeping away" part I mentioned above.

3. glymphatic clearance - the glymphatic system in the brain is that network of fluid filled spaces in the brain, and it's what clears away brain waste products, so glymphatic clearance means allowing the glymphatic system to "wash away" those waste products.

So, this study claims to explain the mechanism by which waste products get cleared from the brain during sleep, and the larger context is that it is indeed why we need sleep in the first place.
It obviously can't explain where the actual money is going, but it potentially can change the way CEOs behave in a way that changes where money goes.

Before the rise in CEO comp, CEOs were upper-middle class or borderline upper class. After the rise, CEOs are solidly upper class.

That aligns CEOs' interests much more firmly with the interests of capital and less with the interests of labor.
This reminds me of comic strips where someone interacts with an adjacent frame.
you keep moving the goal posts. im asking why its difficult to accept a poor marketing messaging that triggers the consumer base leads to bad sales as demonstrated by Bud Light's decision to feature a transvestite on their beer cans, promotional material.
I don't think OP disagrees, or their mother. I think it's more the time spent on such things. They might be worth a semester or two, but the world would be a much better place if we learnt a little about a lot, because to functionally understand one thing means to understand the links between things. I person would have a much deeper understanding of the American Civil war if they understood the British Empire at the time their competition with France to dominate the world stage, and how the US fits within that. Instead, the US seems to teach about the Civil War as if it were an independent conflict when not much happened before or after.
Are you sure it'd only be accurate up to 1000km? I'm not as experienced but would have assumed that by sampling a dozen times, you would have at least 95% likelihood of a 100km radius
All companies that are doing something with the current iteration of "AI" are underwater. Sam Altman says that the pro tier of ChatGPT is losing money, Adobe is losing tons on firefly, ...
This is pretty typical for silicon valley though, we always burn investor money to corner the market and then tech usually catches up. Most enterprises don't need to be first adopters.
I am substantially underreporting the productivity gains in my real life jobs (overemployed). I don't share any productivity tricks I learn. I pretend to be helpless and dumb.
I think part of the problem is everyone thinks they are the "adult in the room" and everyone else is the "primates". I agree policy discussions are a bit of a farce though (in a sorta funny twist places like TikTok are responsible for that since the engagement metrics have a tendency to promote nonsense and lies)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/nov/19/starling-ba...
> Phonics and memorising times tables in schools should be as controversial as hand washing in hospitals, but they aren't, and that's just the tip of the iceberg that a very average layperson can see.

Hand washing at hospitals is controversial (again)?
I think your cultural palate is showing. The marketing of a few simple ingredients sounds good except it's not like American McDonalds is putting them in for no reason. You can make the case that fillers are used to cut cost but for french fries all that stuff costs extra. To Americans that shit tastes great.

* The beef flavor is mimicking frying in beef tallow. If you use Marmite in your brown gravy you're using the same trick.

* Americans, being flushed with corn and corn syrup which is sweeter than granulated sugar, developed a sweeter tooth than other places which is why the dextrose.

* Potatoes once cut and exposed to air get that gross dark color. Most home cooks usually solve that by keeping them submerged in water until frying but Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate works the same.
What's the "best part" of someone with both HIV and cancer who is going through a divorce getting robbed out of every cent to their name and then mocked on the Internet?

Yeah, hilarious. Ell oh ell oh ell.
Bush and Bill would still laugh about nailing jelly to the wall
> but that they rely on third party dependencies for critical components (like regex and async).

Regex is not a third-party dependency:

https://github.com/rust-lang/regex
Nor a moron.

Solitary people who are groomed and love bombed aren't idiots, they are victims. Abuse of this type works so often because people have weakened defenses due to other events in their life. We're hard wired as a species to value social cohesion and social approvals.
> You must be confused. The words Buddhist or Twitter do not appear anywhere in this paper.

I'm referring to the link in the parent comment: https://opentheory.net/2023/07/principles-of-vasocomputation...

It has "Buddhist" in the URL, the title, and the first sentence.
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The mechanics of it are pretty simple: Congress passes a law setting an exchange rate or causing the treasury to do so, then the treasury starts exchanging dollars for gold at that rate. I'll leave whether that's a good idea to people who actually study economics seriously; most of them seem to think it's not.
If you are asking what would putting B12 (or B1) in alcohol do: prevent serious irreversible deficiencies that are not only horrible for the person themselves, but people as a whole, one way or another.

Call it risk reduction.
Post Snowden, I think the assumption has to be any large US hosting/service provider is compromised in a similar fashion.
I created a quick tutorial on how to backup and download all of your TikToks.

https://x.com/adocomplete/status/1879568249261621572
The currency stuff is a bit of a distraction. The real meat of the economic reform has been in terms of fiscal and regulatory policy.

If there are no pegs, then production drives the value of currency. Getting production up is important. Currency being stable helps achieve that goal, because production requires predictability for planning purposes. Although, it cannot be stable if there's no production and high debt. So, the solution to the currency woes is also those same fiscal and regulatory reforms. Any monetary tinkering would be minor by comparison.

Milei dramatically cut the budget, cut the number of state employees, and embarked on deregulation, removal of price controls, etc.

All of that stuff will dramatically boost production, and that explains 95% of the success.

By success, I just mean that it has the potential to bring them from their difficult condition up to something more like the USA. The USA has many problems, such as unaffordability of housing, and their approach will certainly end up producing something similar. But, the overall condition would likely be improved.
When I joined fastmail I imported my gmail and also configured it to be able to fully use my gmail account via IMAP so I wouldn't need to sign into gmail at all.

I was also moving from a gmail address, so next I created a label that got attached to any email received to the old email address via that IMAP connection, which gave me a nice self-maintaining todo list for services that had not yet been updated to use a new email address.

I was also surprised by how flawlessly seamless the whole process was. It was a big factor in my selection of Fastmail over other competitors when I was making the decision to leave Gmail.
How will you be checkiing the quality of the AI recommendations in the your PR. Do you think that using different model ( chatgpt, claude,gemin, qwen) to challenge the recommendation made by another AI could help ?
This is why we have Bitcoin.
She didn't earn that money.
The bigger scam was acted against the wealthy entrepreneur who saw a big chunk of his money going to his ex-wife.

Divorce laws are ridiculous, you are better off not getting married and using a surrogate mother.
This trope tends to be wrong.
I am sure that some people will question some of the historiography there, but Cadillac Desert is a book all about the history of water management of the great plains, from Kansas onwards.

TLDR: America has spent a whole lot of money trying to make land more productive for farming, including land where it probably doesn't make much economic sense once you account for the infrastructure costs.
but inference time compute is the new hotness.
She was paying for his divorce with jolie. She got 770k euros from her own divorce. Not exactly a poor person

A fool and her money are easily parted. You can have sympathy for her while admitting that she s a fool. Not even the first or second one.

Moral of the story is "don't be a fool" because there is no chance that scammers will disappeared
My wife's a doctor, and had patients begging her for leftover Vioxx samples after Merck pulled it from the market, preferring to take their chances with heart issues rather than living in agonizing pain that Vioxx was especially good at treating.

Turns out medicine's complicated, who knew?
He's not even really a food safety crusader, he's just a vocal proponent of the "whole foods movement". Other than that, he's a former heroin addict Kennedy dynasty failson.
She got the money from a divorce. What comes easy goes easy. I feel bad for the ex-husband.
It's possible for things to be both sad and funny from different perspectives. Hope that helps.
Will most organisations be building out their own AI Infrastructure? I would guess in most cases they would either use APIs to existing models (OpenAI etc) or use cloud providers where they need to run and train their own models. Is there a risk that cloud providers cannot meet the demand?
Germany’s economy has been heavily dependent on specific sectors, particularly the automotive and machinery industries. These sectors are so vital that any decline in their performance could have significant ripple effects across the economy. However, the global market is increasingly shifting towards electric vehicles (EVs) with advanced software interfaces. Companies like Tesla and Chinese manufacturers have taken the lead in this space, while German carmakers have struggled to adapt to the EV and software revolution.

Germany also has been facing two big challenges that have seen limited action: rising energy costs and slowing exports to China, both of which have started around 2020. The decision to rely heavily on Russian energy to sustain its industrial economy has proven to be a bad idea. The influx of low- or unskilled labor into a social welfare system, coupled with the challenges of cultural integration (German culture isn't the sexiest of things), has also turned out to be a bad idea.

Bonus issue: Germany’s taxes are high, particularly for individuals and workers. Some of the highest in the world. This gives consumers less $ to consume with.
Loaded question: in order to answer you have to agree with the premise. Homeschooling is not "fashionable", it's out of necessity.
Ask HN: What's you're heuristic for using 'const' vs. 'var' in 2025?
Disclaimer: I acknowledge that the entire 'debate' is pretty trivial. For the most part, whatever gets the job done is fine.

I recently joined a team that uses a different heuristic than I prefer, and frankly until now I assumed my approach was pretty universal. Since I am joining "their" code base I'm adapting to their style but wanted an outside perspective on what is more common. The way I see it, there are 5 main approaches.

Const literally never: 'Const' is not allowed as all data should be mutable, and the responsibility to mutate the values belongs to the object/class that value is declared in, and that object/class should have full power to do what it wants within itself. Don't expose set() functions if you're worried.

Const nearly never: Only use const for real constants, like in the mathematical sense. Pi, domain name, etc. If a different client or instance could get a different value - it's not a constant.

Const for things that locally never change: Things like feature flags, usernames, etc. Stuff where changing the value outside very explicit situations, something almost definitely went wrong.

Const whenever possible - Use const at all times unless you explicitly need to change the value, such as in an accumulator. If you write a function and never need to reassign the value for your use case, make it const, ignoring all other aspects. If you return to that function a month from now and now need to reassign it, change it to 'let' and make your changes.

Const literally always: 'let' is not allowed. If you need to declare 'let', you either need to actually declare several 'const' variables or make better use of native functions (such as reduce() for accumulators)
because stats, raw numbers are raw numbers and an non-eu imigrant is 5x more likely to commit a serious crime.

And lets not open whole muslim can of worms where crime vs infidels are not seen as crimes and even if seen as crime its illegal for muslim to side with infidel side.
- collect telemetry data they can use in their products

- bandwidth is cheap but the bad actor data they gather directly helps their paid enterprise tools

- people wouldn't pay for it and move to a competitor that offers it free, so its basically a monopoly on a large portion of the sales funnel

- branding message as "we are the good guys we are so generous" as you can see from the comments has worked in their favor
"conservatives pushed for the same"

RFK Jr is basically the polar opposite of a conservative, even though he hitched his wagon to Trump after Harris refused to return his calls. Seeing the Trump base adopt RFK's positions is...super weird. Trump is extremely pro Corporation and anti-regulation. RFK is anti-corporation and super pro regulation, and believes that fast food should be banned and the government should provide every American with three organic meals a day, which isn't really a Republican platform. And there's a good chance RFK Jr has served his purpose to the MAGA group and he'll start facing opposition that leads to his elimination from the administration.

Indeed, it's normal on HN to see endless attacks on California (which had already banned both red dye #3 and 40, among others, to the extent that they can as a state) for banning potential carcinogens, making this a rather hilarious turn of events.

And FWIW, the FDA started the process for this months ago, and months earlier received a petition (from a Democrat, if it matters) to ban the dye.
I know what "sleep" means!
> This just...gives no sense at all as to what this stiffness parameter actually is, why it turned up, or why there's what feels like a very coincidental overlap with the Uncertainty principle

Because not everyone has the prerequisite math or time/attention to go into quantum field theory for a rather intuitive point about mass and fields.

This reminds me a bit of how high school physics classes are sometimes taught when it comes to thermodynamics and optics. You learn these "formulas" and properties (like harmonics or ideal gas law) because deriving where they come from require 2-3 years of actual undergraduate physics with additional lessons in differential equations and analysis.
It seems there are some issues with the rollout.

Me:

> Give me positive feedback every hour

ChatGPT:

> Provide positive feedback

> Next run Jan 15, 2025

> Got it! I’ll send you positive feedback every hour.

An hour later, I received the following email:

```

Your scheduled task couldn't be completed

ChatGPT tried to complete Provide positive feedback multiple times, but it encountered an error and wasn't able to send. It will try again the next time this task is scheduled.

Open chat
If you have any questions, please contact through the help center.

All the best,
ChatGPT

```
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I suspect they also greatly benefit from developers using them for hobbies and suggesting that their workplace use them in turn. Though, that's much harder to track.
Farming isn't really that large of an industry in Arizona today, maybe 2% of GDP tops. But my understanding is that surface water rights were allocated over a hundred years ago and naturally those rights were allocated to the people that wanted them then, i.e. agricultural landowners.
My personal thesis is some combination of Bezos’ “regret minimization framework” and working on “cool problems with the smartest people”

This job application cycle I encountered three tranches of roles:

1) Great WLB companies — fully remote, ~$200k salary, if slightly less exciting work

2) Big tech companies — typically hybrid, much higher salaries ($300k+), if possibly less WLB and more boring day-to-day work in service of an exciting larger goal

3) Early-stage — super exciting work, smart people, at cost of WLB, salary, and brand

Not having gone to a prestigious university, brand was a big factor I considered — esp for future fundraising and roles. Some of the big tech companies were also likely to IPO for some quick cash, and obviously had smart people there.

Having a family leaned me towards the great WLB roles too, but ultimately I went with the early-stage because life is just a pure joy when both the work and people are great.

Another reason is community. I lacked true peers/mentors much of my life until I joined a really solid early-stage with smart people, who became great friends. So when I sense a chance to recreate this experience, I jump at the chance.
It could get really interesting if they allow webhooks and structured output
> Hyperbole.

> 1. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton.

> 2. A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as much greater or less, better or worse, than they really are; a statement exaggerated fancifully, through excitement, or for effect.

> 3. Extreme exaggeration or overstatement; especially as a literary or rhetorical device.

From DuckDuckGo, quoting Wordnik, quoting The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
Congrats!
Sounds amazing and could be very useful!
One half of the NSA's mission is defensive, dedicated to improving the security of US systems and infrastructure: https://www.nsa.gov/Cybersecurity/
See also this analysis that brings up trends that (e.g.) started in the 1960s:

* https://www.yesigiveafig.com/p/what-really-happened-in-1971

Also:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/comments/i9ycy9/the_br...

Updated by the same author a few years later:

* https://old.reddit.com/r/AskEconomics/comments/sccs74/so_wtf...
Of course the Ukrainians matter. That is why they should have accepted the Istanbul agreement (confirmed by Naftali Bennett and not the Russians) after the illegal and horrible Russian invasion instead of fighting a U.S. proxy war and dying for nothing.
I heard a great theory about this recently.

The hardest part of onboarding a new customer to Cloudflare is the bit where you need to switch over to having them manage DNS for you.

If you're under a DoS attack or similar, waiting for DNS changes to propagate is the last thing you want to have to care about!

Cloudflare's generous free tier is an amazing way of getting that funnel started: anyone who signs up for the free tier has already configured everything that matters, which means when they DO consider becoming a paying customer the friction in doing so is tiny.
I really like this a lot. The default provides a really good audiobook feel, especially the Isabella voice. Any chance you could add in an API hook for optional ElevenLabs use?
My social network is WhatsApp and Telegram: 1-to-1 messages and some groups where I usually know everybody in them. That's the threshold.
Is it what they're feeling, or what Rupert Murdoch media has infected their mind with?
The US probably bought uranium because of fears it’d otherwise get sold to North Korea, Iran or terrorists. Just like it basically financed the Russian space program for decades to ensure those rocket scientists didn’t take a nice salary from Iran.
A Spymaster Sheikh Controls a $1.5T Fortune. He Wants to Dominate AI
My god, in this thread you can tell who actually used TikTok and who only read about it
Maybe a receptor resistance build up? Seems to be a common pattern that medication needs to be dosed up to work- and blunts the receptors for the "normal" amount the body produces, if it does not cease to produce it at all.
"This" -- do you mean theft and abuse are the reasons why? Or debilitating illness (HIV/Cancer).
If you look at the images from this case, they weren't AI. They could have been done in Microsoft Paint.
We french are specialists of the tragi-comique
Before Phoenix the city was founded, there was a canal built by the indigenous people who live there in the lower Sonoran.

That canal became the basis for Phoenix, and eventually, the big canal that transport water long range through the state.

The other is that, with sufficient water, you can grow year round.

Not that I think industrial ag is good for society.

Phoenix itself is a metro area whose primary economic driver is real estate speculation. Many older citrus orchards has been surrounded, and sometimes bought and redeveloped.
I really don’t like overloading pipes like this. I would rather chain methods like how the django orm does it.

you could reassign every line, but it would look nicer with chained functions.

pipeline = task(get_data, branch=True)
pipeline = pipeline | task(step1, workers=20)
pipeline = pipeline | task(step2, workers=20)
pipeline = pipeline | task(step3, workers=20, multiprocess=True)

edit:

I would be tempted to do something like this:

steps = [task(step1, workers=20),
task(step2, workers=20),
task(step3, workers=20, multiprocess=True)]
pipeline = task(get_data, branch=True)

for step in steps:
pipeline = pipeline.__or__(step)
They develop software like monkeys on purpose, because that way they justify their planned obsolescence on security.

It has been decades, their software should be mostly by now super audited and stable assembly code.

The guilt is 100% them.
I agree that you have to do the exercises instead of expecting others to explain and walk you through it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXhsutNKhec

Just one programming book was able to help my son, who is 12 yrs old, learn lambda calculus and write a meta circular evaluator.
Terraform plan on steroids? Love it
Do you have plans to interlink with other observability platforms?
How would you handle the situation that if this is successful, you’ll get massively more than 10 candidates each day?