skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It was that Fisher continued to repeat one finding in one study, despite that said finding had not been replicated in new studies (namely, lung cancer patients described themselves as inhalers less often than the controls), and continued to obstinately ignore all the other research coming out.

Even if that finding were true, it could just mean that the cancer patients had stopped inhaling due to lung problems and underestimated how much they used to inhale.

If you asked me to estimate my caffeine, alcohol, fat, or sugar estimate from even 10 or 15 years ago, or how many steps per day I walked, I’m not confident I could give an accurate answer at all. If you asked me details about how I ate and drank — how fast I ate, how often I ate out, how quickly I replenished empty drinks, what percentage of the time I drank water with alcohol, or how often I cleaned my plate — I’m sure I’d be completely off the mark.
For what it’s worth, you can get a house with no insurance or mortgage. They tend to be cheap. I had an uninsured thatched cottage for a while, it was 68k
Muslims have not asked for a majority Muslim state in Europe or started a terror campaign in support of that goal.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zionist_political_violence
... I didn't mean to imply anything about you personally, but I think someone could reasonably read this comment that way, so, sorry, I should be more careful.
$23,000,000,000 profit/29 million insured makes $793 profit per insured person.
You selected pre-climate change examples. How curious.
They bank it as any insurance company should do. Invest it cautiously. Hire sound decent people to run it with solid levels of accountability (including from a board of directors that is mostly made up of a rotating number of clients). Do it from the beginning of the company. Grow your staff slowly. Build enough of a cushion that can last the company years. Right? Right?

I'd run that company well for $250k/annually + benefits (an enormous amount of money).
Billion Cell Spreadsheets with Rust
We've put together a response here which responds to the claims re: cryptography https://getsession.org/blog/a-response-to-recent-claims-abou...
The problem is that "AI" is likely whitewashing the copyright from proprietary code.

I asked one of the "AI" assistants to do a very specific algorithmic problem for me and it did. And included unit tests which just so happened to hit all the exact edge cases that you would need to test for with the algorithm.

The "AI assistant" very clearly regurgitated the code of somebody. I, however, couldn't find a particular example of that code no matter how hard I searched. It is extremely likely that the regurgitated code was not open source.

Who is liable if I incorporate that code into my product?
I think a big part of your bad experience is probably due to the django adapter which seems to be the less well maintained out of all of them.

Even more, maybe it's not even the django adapter but the overal "assets" and frontend stuff integration in django which is somewhere between non-existent and 15 years outdated.

I can guarantee it works incredibly well with Laravel, Rails or Adonis.
The _why_ is extensively documented. See:

https://nuejs.org/docs/

Also FAQ:

https://nuejs.org/docs/faq.html
One of the interesting things about theory is sometimes it lets you short circuit entire ideas. For example, if someone comes up with a perpetual motion machine it makes sense to ask how they broke Thermodynamics Law 1/deleted friction. If they don't have an answer then it isn't necessary to look at any of the details to conclude the machine can't work.

With OKRs, the question is "how did you get around the problem where we can't measure programming productivity?". That is an unsolved problem in software engineering and it is impossible to design a better OKR system until it is resolved. Managers just have to wing it based on their personal opinions, things will work or fail at random, largely independent of the OKRs used.

If senior management wants to give their software teams nonsensical OKRs, the company's problem is that their senior managers are bad. Arguing with them about the OKRs probably won't make them better at managing the company and, frankly, I suspect it would be more productive just to get one of the engineers to bake a slice of something that looks like pie quickly one weekend rather than fight a losing battle on an unimportant hill. A company with nonsensical OKRs is going to have to make a habit of ignoring the OKRs anyway; the senior management can't use them for anything so all the junior managers will have to ignore them in sync. Ask the senior managers what they want at the water cooler once a fortnight and set the sprints up to deliver in that direction + some pie slices on occasion.

TLDR; I don't think articles that talk about better ways to do OKRs are the path to a better place.
Fantastic article. So what if one set of matket participants goes full blown denial and tries to force a economically unsound activity upon the state who forces it upon external unwilling participants aka a classic extractive empire going to war for extended reality denial? Economic idealisms or nostalgia with outsourced externalities what a concept..
Before learning magit on emacs, this site saved my ass so many times. After learning magit on emacs, this site saved my ass so many times.
A cynical take would be that the current market conditions allow you to filter out such college graduates and only take the better ones.
>Unused variables? Doesn't matter. Unreachable code blocks? Doesn't matter. Comments and naming that have nothing to do with the actual business case the code is supposed to be addressing? Doesn't matter.

maybe I am just supremely lucky but while I have encountered people like (in the coding part) it is somewhat rare from my experience. These comments on HN always makes it seem like it's at least 30% of the people out there.
The Green Revolution has so far just postponed famines. We are farming in an unsustainable way. We're running out of fertile topsoil and are depleting fossil aquifers in many regions of the world. Inorganic fertilizers might become scarce in the foreseeable future too.
It's just not practical. How are you going to manually enter the password for let's say 10 servers?
Y-sweet (which this is built with) allows you to make a Yjs app local-first by passing “offlineSupport” to the provider when constructing.

There’s a demo of this here:
https://demos.y-sweet.dev/color-grid

The source for that demo is here: https://github.com/jamsocket/y-sweet/blob/5fa6941cf5568f4a3f...

That demo uses react, but there is a vanilla js version of the same demo here:
https://github.com/jamsocket/y-sweet/tree/main/examples/vani...

(The vanilla js version is not local first, but it would just be a matter of passing the same offlineSupport flag to make it so.)
> While the brilliant person will have higher quality reasoning on average due to the stretching of the distribution... any individual belief or statement they come up with is being drawn from a distribution that still includes boneheadely wrong.

One is reminded of Linus Pauling's flubs on two counts: his obsession with Vitamin C and his denial of quasicrystals.
A lot of ancient societies rapidly adapted to problems. In my previously mentioned tsunami example, ancient societies would build their towns above a certain point to be safe from them. Some cultures used to (and some poorer people still do) build houses on stilts near flood areas to stay safe from rising water.

But in modern, literate society, people think "nah it'll be fine bro" and build houses right up on and flat against the coastline. Then entire towns get washed away.

The biggest mistake modern people make is assuming ancient societies were stupid. They didn't have people sitting in offices thinking up solutions to problems. But the reality is those societies learned just as quickly as anyone else did, and a lot of them probably had a much stronger fear of nature and didn't sit around thinking "nah bro we'll totally survive. we have technology". They knew a tiny mistake meant death. Death to modern first worlders seems like a very out of reach thing. We operate on the assumption we'll live long lives and die in a retirement home.

And Colorado isn't by any means inhospitable. There were plenty of tribes in Colorado before literate enlightened megagenius westerners came along to save the day. It has some of the oldest known towns on the North American continent.[1] Westerners may have at first struggled to survive there with their modern technology, but natives lived just fine in Colorado for thousands of years.

Tibet is a far more inhospitable place. So is Saudi Arabia. But those also have thousands of years of history all without a printing press. Arabian culture even managed to spread across the world out from the inhospitable desert and even dominate part of Europe before the printing press existed. Spain and Indonesia became Islamic before enlightened Europeans went out to save the world and make it "habitable".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesa_Verde_National_Park
OS_32Bit: 32-bit operating system designed to serve as a platform for learning
So what? Living without insurance is nothing crazy.

Many dogs (pitbulls, akitas..) are uninsurable, yet we see them everywhere. People just accept damages, and pay it out of their own pocket (or run away and do not pay).
Theoretically it could, but that would be a rather surprising side effect. You could also check the new revision out and leave HEAD intact. Which one of those outcomes you would expect and why?

"error: ref in use by higher layers" makes much more sense to me in this case.
> They bank it as any insurance company should do. Invest it cautiously.

I hope they aren't investing that capital. AFAIK, insurance capital needs to be liquid, for it to be ready for a payout.

You still didn't address my point is that $25m/yr is a drop in the ocean. "investing $25m properly" will have zero impact on the business.
It could simply be that the US decided they didn't want a Chinese app showing content to an enormous amount of Americans. Tiktok is allowed to continue if they find a US buyer for it operations.
Mesh Stitching: Techniques for Repairing Gaps and Cracks in 3D Models
> whoever wrote this ... just doesn't have a lot of exposure to QFT

Incredible.

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=19WGkFsAAAAJ&hl=en

be sure to check past the first 20 papers or so, like, oh, say his 1990 paper with Michael Peskin (438 citations), a copy of which can be found at <https://www.slac.stanford.edu/pubs/slacpubs/5250/slac-pub-53...>.
Just based on the title, a major company or bank being offline for 24 hours I am surprised doesn't happen more often.
hosts with tens of thousands of entries, kagi for search and recipes from the spammer godsend Llm in librewolf is still an option but no idea for how long.
in a way that if they kept their heading there was a higher than acceptable risk of impact and they had to divert, yes.
I agree. That’s why I created the simplest possible RSS reader[1]. I use it daily, but so far I’m the only user :D.

[1]: https://motherfuckingrssreader.com/
Limiting US GPU exports to unaligned countries is completely counterproductive as it creates a market in those countries for Chinese GPUs, accelerating their development even faster. Because a mediocre Huawei GPU is better than no GPU. And it harms the revenue of US-aligned GPU companies, slowing their development.
Related:

FDIC sues 17 former Silicon Valley Bank executives over collapse

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/16/business/fdic-sues-svb-execut...
(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42733329)
They were trying to warn us by naming it “Smart Driver”. Come on yall.
I think you're right.

It's a shame that this was so vulnerable to abuse. Webmentions as a concept is such a great idea. Maybe the more recent implementation is better, but it doesn't seem like many people (relatively speaking) are familiar with the idea.
Sure, so then if background checks worked...then problem would already be solved.

And if background checks are not useful for keeping weapons/ammo out of the hands of criminals, then what purpose does this bill serve?

Conservatives will view it as more overreach by the nanny state, and progressives with any critical thinking skills will see it for what it is, useless.
> Even if the tech freezes in place, I think it will yield substantial economic value in the coming years.

The question is, where will this "economic value" be? Because "economic value" and actual progress that helps society are two very different things. For example, if someone wants to hire people, they can use "AI" to sift through the applications. But people looking for a job can also use "AI" to write their applications. In the end you may have created "economic value", but its an arms race and a waste of resources at the core, more digital paperwork, a waste of compute. So the actual value is not positive, it is negative. And we see that in many places where this so called "AI" is supposed to help.

Does it mean it is entirely useless? No, but the field of applications where it actually makes sense and has an overall net benefit is way smaller than many believe.

Plus, there are different types of neural networks in use for decades already. Look at OCR, for example, where the commercial OCR software switched to neural networks around the mid 90s already. So it is not that "AI" as such is bad, just that this generative neural network stuff is overly hyped by people who have absolutely no clue about it, but have to hop on the bandwagon to not be left out and keep shareholder values up, because most of these shareholders are equally stupid about the whole issue. Its a circus that burns many resources, money that could have created way more value in other areas.
> An investigation by the Federal Trade Commission determined that consumers had not been aware that the automaker was providing their driving information to data brokers.

Yeah, no shit. Why on earth would I assume the company from which I bought my car is selling my information? Why are they allowed to sell this data at all?

We can all acknowledge how ridiculous this is, right?
Is that really a problem though? Just don't bill beyond the cap then and leave the last few requests free, too.

Or write a disclaimer that the billing cap doesn't necessarily cut off at exactly that amount and that there might be an overcharge.

I am pretty sure most people would be okay with either of these options, we didn't need a perfect system, just one that works well enough
Responding to the link you posted:
Apparently, the future of programming is 100 hour weeks? Naive me was thinking we could work less and think more with these new tools at our disposal.
Was this a case of something along the lines of an isolated function that had a bunch of bit shifting magic for some hyper optimization that was required, or was it just regular code?

Not saying it's acceptable, but the first example is maybe worth a thoughtful discussion while the latter would make me lose hope.
I don't think its necessarily the case what people don't want, but I assume that type of build doesn't come cheap and people find existing homes expensive enough.
There are 8k homeless in SF and 350k homeless in NYC. I was surprised at the huge difference!

Larger buildings like a city hall or Lincoln center will have better waste management than a bodega or small shop. The larger places will have a loading dock and probably a compactor. Source: I worked at a waste tech company

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

https://www.sf.gov/data/homeless-population
We are almost certainly not alone according to laws of probability.

However .... The likelihood of ever meeting another set of intelligent creatures is highly unlikely, as the distances between the little islands of intelligence in the universe(s) are just too large to ever allow intelligent interchange of communication between them.

As an analogy, think of the various empires on earth a thousand or two years ago. The Aztecs never met Egyptians because they just couldn't span those "impossibly large" Earthly distances for that era.

But whereas humans managed to go faster and faster on Earth to Egyptians to meet Americans, the Speed of Light is a barrier to us meeting the inhabitants of the nearest island of intelligence to Earth even if it's only a couple of hundred light-years away.
OMG! The only question is did anyone try it?
Did you read that blog post? Despite the post being titled as it is, the post contains more examples of justices voicing skepticism to the TikTok lawyers' arguments than it does examples of justices who were voicing skepticism to the law:

"Some justices, however, were unconvinced that the law necessarily raises a First Amendment issue. Justice Clarence Thomas asked Francisco how a restriction on ByteDance’s ownership of TikTok created any limitations on TikTok’s speech.

Justice Elena Kagan echoed Thomas’s skepticism. If the law only targets ByteDance, which does not have any First Amendment rights because it is a foreign corporation, she asked Francisco, how does that implicate TikTok’s First Amendment rights? TikTok can still use whatever algorithm it wants, Kagan observed.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett also appeared to agree at times. The law, she simply requires ByteDance to divest TikTok. A shut-down by TikTok, she suggested, would be the consequence of ByteDance’s choice not to do so.

Other justices appeared persuaded by the government’s invocation of national security concerns. Chief Justice John Roberts observed that, although Francisco contended that TikTok is a U.S. company, Congress had concluded that the “ultimate company that controls” TikTok is subject to Chinese laws, including an obligation to assist the Chinese government with intelligence work. “Are we,” Roberts queried, “supposed to ignore that?”

Justice Brett Kavanaugh noted the government’s contention that China is using TikTok to access information about millions of U.S. citizens, and in particular young people, and could in the future use that information to try to recruit spies or manipulate future U.S. officials. That “seems like a huge concern for the future of” the United States, Kavanaugh observed."
My experience with LLMs and code generation is usually the opposite, even using ChatGPT and the fancy o1 model. Maybe it's because I write a lot of F#, and the training data for that is probably low. When I'm not writing F#, then I like to write functional-style code. But either way, nine times out of ten I'm only using LLMs for "rubber ducking," as the code they give me usually falls flat on its face with obvious compiler errors.

I do agree that I feel much more productive with it LLMs though. Just being able to rubber duck my ideas with an AI and talk about code is extremely helpful, especially because I'm a solo dev/freelancer and don't usually have anyone else to do that with. And even though I don't typically use the code they give me, it's still helpful to see what the AI is thinking and explore that.
> I feel like government stepping in and being the insurer with a sufficiently large pool of risk to spread around lets them set a fair rate without the need to make a return or answer to shareholders.

Youre about 20-30 years late to the game, but arrive in time to see the conclusion does not match your assumption. See california for fire, florida for fstorm damage, and everywhere in the us for federal flood coverage. It doesnt work. CA FAIR has higher rates to account for increasing the coverage pool, but it doesnt look like premiums will cover the current or future loses. Which is the universal story when your policy attracts all the high risk/payout buyers. And FAIR, roughly, is setup to go recoup losses from all the _other_ insurance providers in the state. Even ones not insuring those policy holders _or that type of insurance_. Its just a layer of indirection to subsidize fire risk against all poly holders.
Interesting. Nowdays people put more money to lure devs to their platforms.
Doing nothing is a better alternative, because these restrictions will just encourage neutral countries to purchase Chinese GPUs, because their access to US GPUs is limited by these regulations. This will accelerate the growth of Chinese GPU companies and slow the growth of US-aligned ones; it's basically equivalent to the majority of nations in the world placing sanctions on NVidia.
The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.
depends on the threat model. a rot saw will hack it :P
There isn't an end to that, what is "all the data"? Someone will always want to record more data, and then sell it to someone. How do you force people to always reveal all the data they have. I think if you start peeling back the onion on what you're suggesting you will realize that it's not really possible or practical in any sense.
Looks interesting! Thanks for the link.

Not sure I agree with this though:

> first-class development environment (Xcode)
Would you know if I already started a project on my personal account can I still move it to a new LLC account?

Also, assume I already have an LLC then how do I indicate this account is an LLC? Can you sign up as an organization on Firebase?
Yeah and it’s simple to reidentify anonymous location traces. The simplest way is to buy cell phone location data from apps, which is generally intermittent, but even with just 5-6 location/time pairs, you’re going to be able to positively identify someone, with the small caveat that there will be some ambiguity with members of a household that share a car.
I would bet the percentage increased since then.
Hey same for 25 years of my life, and counting.
The cost of labor is extremely high in the US compared to Bangladesh, and that along with building standards, minimum lot size, minimum floor space requirements and required low density zoning (lmao) make these two case very different
This is actually a completely legal (and awesome) hobby.

A good site to find and share designs is https://ctrlpew.com
i just used it with https://github.com/santinic/audiblez/pull/14/files (including the pr because it has gpu accel)

it is very fast and very passable.
I don't understand the FTC. Why and how did they start protecting consumer privacy? Could they have done it before? Do they have an overall systematic plan for protecting it comprehensively? Do they have a guiding principle?

I'm glad they are moving forward on it, at least until Monday.
Think about what you’ve just written… you’re saying that a stone building is less safe than a wood building in a fire.

Have we seen any stone cities burn down lately? Because I haven’t seen London burn down since they replaced all the wooden houses with brick in 1666.
That’s gotten pretty hard to do recently since Musk cracked down on api access
You can have a mortgage with no insurance (after purchase day) here in New Zealand. The bank won’t like it, but also won’t know.
The big risk that we need regulation for is not that insurance charges too much, but too little. There will always be the temptation to charge less than the other guy, get lots of customers and hope nothing really bad happens.
That’s because healthcare is unusually expensive in the US, not because insurers’ profit margins are unusually high.