skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This feels a LOT like weight loss. Calories in --> calories out is conceptually very simple, but in practice more people struggle with it than not. It certainly cannot be the case that they struggle with the concept; they struggle with actually putting it into action. Lying to themselves, twisting themselves into philosophical knots, and probably most often, conceding to their cravings. Food acquisition is one of out more basic drives, so it should probably be no surprise that people struggle to intellectualize it.

Imagine a piano teacher. Their mantra is practice in --------> skill out. Profound. Every time their students come to them and complain about not being motivated, practice being too dull, experiencing back pain or repetitive stress syndromes, wanting to change up the practice, they just say: practice in equals skill out. What is so hard to understand?

That’s what the "calories in/out" people are like. And this is the only area where this is an accepted argument. Where it is even treated as a valid argument at all.

Everyone knows that you have to put in time on an instrument in order to get better. Everyone. No one denies it. Similarily I don’t think the overlap of weight loss pursuers and deniers of energy conservation as it moves through food groups (plants to cows to humans) is terribly large.

If you truly want to rationally assist people who want to learn the piano or lose weight you do what works. You don’t repeat a truism. Cutting out sugar? Meat? Intermmitteng fasting? Counting calories? Anything that works. You don’t sheepishly point out that they failed to practice their ten hours last week without even asking why didn’t follow through.

The in/out people seem to have a hard time intellectualizing this simple concept.
It asked for specific metrics backing your claim.

Your claim was that tech billionaires contributed more towards the good of society than any other group.

You provided a list of metrics that are in no way exclusively attributable to tech billionaires, and no actual data/number on how and how much these are attributable to tech billionaires.

Your analogy is completely unrelated too.

It's more like if you said 'whales are the best animal' and then gave me a bunch of random metrics about the state of the world.
> I think stat based bans are the ultimate solution for all the client side bullshit.

When I play basketball I keep getting stuck playing against 7'6" guys with an 83% free throw percentage which is statistically very unlikely.

Alas my arguments they should be banned on statistical grounds have fallen on deaf ears :)
The tool is absolutely biased, what makes you think it wouldn’t be?
Anecdotal, but I for one despise the youtube/instagram etc. rabbidholes. When I'm in the mood for a good one I scroll wikipedia. I had the best random conversations about what I read there and it feels like I remember this forever
Drowning isn’t the problem; just the water.
I'm sorry I don't understand the Twitter connection here
The thing is that I claimed to have a solution and I even filed a patent for it. Some time later I understood I need many iterations to even understand if I’m right or wrong. The direction is OK, but I’m still trying to understand if I’m the right person to solve this problem: I am sending a secret via Email (which is a right direction), then to send and receive data to and from “bank.com” I send it to a Frontend JavaScript code that has access to this secret key (user clicks a link in the Email). The JavaScript resides on a subdomain of my service which is whitelisted via CORS.

If anyone would read this, could you please reflect?
Thinking: Will we get an Apple Car after all, just in a different way?
Thinking: will we get an Apple Car after all? Just in a different way from what we imagined?
What do you think?
According to the article, Ms. Yamashita is 70 and Ms. Kondo is 40.

Why do newspapers sometimes list the person's age? The front page has a bunch of Trump stories, but none of those list his age. What criteria are they using to decide if age should be included?
This is really interesting, and I'll probably sign up for your app (I'm training for rock climbing). I've used a kitchen scale for a few weeks at home and got pretty good at estimating portion size during that time. Biggest takeaway was that even if you aren't "over-indulging" when you eat out, the portion sizes (especially in the US, less so in Europe) are just insane. 2-3x portions. Ordering half-orders or starters and letting the food settle before eating/ordering more helped quite a bit.
>you can't exercise out of a bad diet

You can, but it's not easy. People who exercise _a lot_ often have trouble eating enough calories. 5,000 to 10,000 calories a day is hard to eat and not out of reach.

I knew a guy who was drinking a gallon of whole milk a day for a while to try to maintain weight.
Yeah, sounds like you need a break from them.

Just for some context, many people have older phones so they're not getting the AI shoved down their throats yet. their built in apps, OS updates don't really change anything there. I don't use mail/photos either but I have yet to notice it annoying me in any way, definitely it doesn't "turn on" in any way for me after an update.

I don't use their music or news apps, maybe that's the issue, maybe their apps just suck.
Node.js – v23.6.1
I might be misreading what you are asking, but I just went into Shortcuts app and tried creating a new one, and there are both “Get Current Focus” and “Set Focus” actions.

Is this what you were looking for? “Set Focus” allows setting any focus mode (including custom ones, you can see one in my screenshot) on/off. And if you choose “on”, there is an additional conditional afterwards (until manually turned off/until time/until leaving location/until a calendar event ends).

Here is a screenshot of how it looks (https://ibb.co/R6gdRq4).
It is amazing when it comes to any topic that is constantly thorny people will constantly twist your words. When I say "magically solve", I specifically mean that it wouldn't have solved the issue. The issue would still exist in some capacity.

There was problems with houses becoming to expensive (there are multitude of reasons for this) while we were still in the EU. Part of this was also do with the monetary policy of central banks after the 2008. Part of this is there is a shortage of housing. There was problems with utilities well before we left the EU, because of mismanagement.

This is all a deflection anyway from the point that high levels of immigration increase demand. Unless you don't believe in supply and demand, which is basic economics. BTW I don't believe that immigration is the only reason there is high demand, there are others. But it certainly doesn't help that we have record numbers of people entering the UK.
You urge me to not install all of them?

But I might need that program later and not have internet. /s
Show HN: Pytest-evals – Simple LLM apps evaluation using pytest
I came here to say the same. Having recently moved to VT, FPF has been a real eye opener in terms of civil, useful local discourse. I don't think it's in the DNA of people in Vermont since the local subreddits for VT and communities are just as weird as they are other places I've looked at.
Apple Intelligence is not turned on by default. You are asked after the software update completes if you would like to turn it on.
Sorta. A very common pattern is for startups to make abysmal hires for these "executive" roles, because the people in those roles in big tech bring loads of politics and a very narrow type of experience. They bring in their friends, and it isn't terribly long before the people who got the company to the place of initial success are gone. I've seen this play out many times.

Not to say that the early employee is necessarily guaranteed to be better, but at least they're a known quantity, have demonstrated loyalty, and have loads of business context that the shiny exec hire won't have.
They don't it's just promised in the future™. And even then, it should be a webpage on their website or API documentation, not a GitHub repo.

It's not bikeshedding to expect a source code repository to have source code...
>wasting time reinventing the wheel for no good reason

Nearly all of learning relies on reinventing the wheel. Most personal projects involve reinventing wheels, but improving yourself by doing so.
I posted that 19 hours ago. I couldn’t have made any recent edits…

> I find it hard to interpret such a catastrophic exogenous factor as a personal failure

I mentioned in another reply that the 2008 crash hurt me too. It was definitely a personal failure that I had five mortgages where I owed a half million dollars, put 0% down on four of them and only 10% down on the fifth and I was only making $70K from my primary job at the time and didn’t know what the hell I was doing.
Part of his attack requires disabling the cache on his (sender) side so that he doesn’t pollute the cache. That implies that both sides of the conversation share the same URL, which means Cloudflare could assume two IP addresses requesting the same URL on the Signal attachment domain are participating in a shared conversation.
They use other models to judge correct-ness and when possible just ask the model output something that can be directly verified. Like math equations that can be checked 1:1 against the correct answer.
Everything is currently listed as operational.
'gave to the world' implies the world didn't have this money before gates came along. Which is obviously not true and quite literally impossible.
I think that is false, but struggle to explain my point without being excessively graphic. People get a lot of bad advice, that results in people being anxiously stuck in their head during sex, trying to "do a good job" and "pleasure their partner."

The reality is mammals have instincts that make sex pleasurable both both parties, and it is usually shockingly aggressive, even violent seeming. If people could get out of their head and into their body and primal desires- and quite literally act more like an animal, they'd have much better sex.
Normal paper printers concentrate print services to a Windows or Linux print server that authenticates users before they submit a job. All the direct ports on the printer are firewalled and restricted to the print server.

The main issue is that paper printers are a terrible legacy technology that didn't evolve much and are grandfathered into corporate security, whereas any new technology or new vendors have a much higher bar to pass before they're let on networks. Yes, there are many workarounds like VLANs, firewalls and black hole routes etc but they're usually treated as exceptions these days.

The TOS is meant to cover worst case scenarios, such as, the x509 certificates on the printer expire, or a major vulnerability is found. The printer is a hybrid cloud connected or LAN connected service and thus it's reasonable to warn users they need to update periodically because Bambu doesn't want to be exposed by for unpatched backdoor attacks etc. This is a similar issue with MacOS or Windows where you cant use your web browser securely after a few years of missing updates, or other connected devices where you must consent to automatic updates to use the device (Google Nest or Amazon Ring devices come to mind). Bambu is actually being better than most device companies in that they are just requiring this for crucial security updates and they don't require an internet connection: you can patch it via SD Card.
A certain prison industrial complex does not need more incentives.
I also appreciate being able to tell the LLM "look, it's late, I'm tired, really dumb this down for me" and it does it.
There was mention that the Teleport tool no longer works after the bugfix of the underlying issue (calling other cf locations via Workers and an internal subnet). It seemed like the ability to query which caches HIT on the dye-test image relied on being able to call out to each other DC.

Without this control over the route (driving the probing of which caches were hit), the attack would no longer work, right?
Maybe not individual warrants (at least not warrants to do non-scalable collections like hardware bugs in one's phone - I.e. warrants that, most users, with high probability, are not subject to). But mass surveillance, e.g. NSA, even with 'mass warrants' (e.g. Verizon-FISA warrant), that everyone is subject to, is probably in most people's attacker model. I don't have a study handy, but it seems reasonable that most users use signal to protect against mass surveillance and signal advertises itself as being good for this.

Also Marlinspike and Whittaker are quite outspoken about mass surveillance.

If cloudflare can compile a big part of the "who chats with whom" graph, that is a system design defect.
Millions of people used AOL but it was not the killer app for the Internet. We are at the beginning of the LLM lifecycle and have yet to figure out what niche it will best fill.
I can't tell if this is a joke if if you're serious
Good points about roles not being prizes (unless that was the deal, which it sometimes is), but I'll devil's advocate this anyway.

> Your second programmer isn’t going to be as good at is as some guy who has been a director 6 years else where

If you hire smart people who learn, and who believe in the mission and team... that programmer might well be in the running to lead engineering.

Knowing tech industry a bit, I'd be at least as skeptical of directors from outside. Of course I'd have to consider them, at times. But I expect at least half of the outside candidates for leadership roles will be disingenuous halfwits.

Meanwhile, if you've got people who had the grit to help get you to that point, and demonstrated alignment and loyalty when it mattered, and who foster that trust in your company culture, then you'd be an idiot not to try to find a way to get rare goodness like that in your leadership.
I wonder the subtlety in the understanding of this will be lost with AI.
- Robotics and autonomous services

- Resurgence of crazed AR/VR games like 'Pokémon Go'
this is cool - looks like lots of the connectors are not available though? I work on https://mcp.run, which has some overlap to pica, where its really easy to ship your own connectors and run them directly in your LLM/Agent, or compose them into a Task.

would love to connect and see if there are ways to share :)
Can you imagine the expense? “We need 1 mile of poly film, 20-feet wide …”
Per the article, price too high and alternative drug is increasingly available (that may be considered a superior product), a maybe people are more health conscious.

Just regular ol' economics at play here.
I've seen plenty of projects where people had that attitude except the thing they saw as time-wasting was the CI and Unit Tests.

Those projects weren't even dumpster fires.

You can, genuinely, do without all of this stuff — but they're just helpful tools, not silver bullets or the only way to do things, but helpful.
What I mean is, you can be pretty unfit and still have a resting heart rate in the mid 30s when you are asleep. The same unfit person takes a resting heart rate just sitting in a chair doing nothing for a minute or two and it's probably not going to be anywhere near 30.

I've known people who have had resting hearts in the low 40s, but actual resting heart rate when awake is closer to 70!

I think Garmin uses resting heart rate when you are asleep as it makes it seem like you have a really low resting heart rate, where you might not. I think it's overly flattering.
If you have an immersion blender, making mayonnaise without sugar in it is very easy:

https://www.seriouseats.com/two-minute-mayonnaise

(And it tastes way better than commercial mayo!)

I love this author's recipes; it's the opposite of the normal recipe-preamble-slop. All of the stuff before the actual recipe is relevant information. In more complex recipes, he goes over the testing and process that led to the finished recipe. It's a wonderful view into the world of recipe creation.
Who makes the best (or at least very good) vibrating watch alarm today?
There's no such thing as presumptive partial ownership. Lando had a presumptive partial ownership and if you do you should expect the Vader treatment, "I am altering the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further".
Attempted rebrand of AI.
My successful weight loss approach is to give up on counting calories and focus entirely on my own weight.

I set a goal weight for the week, and if I weigh more than that, I don’t eat (or eat just vegetables). I’ve lost 5 kg so far and I maintained the weight loss between thanksgiving and new year’s despite spikes on the holidays.

It’s taught me what proper portions feel like so I don’t have a desire to rebound as soon as I take a break.
human existence doesn't really scale exponentially, that's my take on this
Thank you for the reference! Would you mind to see if you can reflect on my solution idea which I’m questioning myself about? I filed a patent for it and mentioned it in a comment above. Please
Seven years of open source: A more secure and diverse ecosystem
We use it at work, but I get the impression it is not very widely used. The only project I can think of off the top of my head that uses it is Lucee.

I, personally, feel like it's a terrible name for a VCS hosting service, because traditionally the "bitbucket" is a trash can where we dump garbage data...
As it frequently happens, such interpretation says more about your own mindset than the piece itself, and sounds embattled.

That is, if you can’t consider complaints against folks who share your position but but took things too far.
Robotics absolutely, in particular easy reprogrammability of robots (through mimicking)
Better question ---- Does Trump care about having legitimacy?
Digital Silence
National parks are a small percentage of California’s land area. Does the state do controlled burns outside of the national parks? If not, national parks doing controlled burns do not do very much.
I did this for a few weeks when I was maintaining weight and did MyFitnessPal for a couple weeks a few years later and got pretty much the same calorie count each time. Very effective.
I noticed because both of my current customers are using Bitbucket and a git push got slow and eventually returned an HTML page.

When I asked my customers why they are using Bitbucket instead of GitHub both of them told me because of that period of time (probably in the mid 10s) when Bitbucket allowed few developers and infinite private projects and GitHub did the opposite: infinite developers and limited private projects. They have more projects than developers so migrated to Bitbucket and are still there. One of them uses other tools from Atlassian.
In the EU, food manufacturers are required to label macronutrients (and salt) in mg/100mg or mg/100ml for fluids. Easy to compare, works great.
I am currently in a nightmare scenario at a new job. I just finished building their website, and it got flagged as a phishing website by Google Safebrowsing because Google seems to think that our analytics subdomain which is a self-hosted instance of Umami Analytics is a phishing attempt.

I requested a review once, they removed the flag. It came back a couple of days ago. I then had to move Umami to its own domain because I couldn't risk this ever happening again (visitors to our root domain were also getting the huge red warning, and our business was coming off as a scam).

Then they flagged the new domain as well. They've removed it again at my request, but I am just counting down the days until it happens again.

There is no way for me to get through to a human to talk about why this is happening.
The real lesson should be, use an LLM when an educated guess is good enough. They're probabilistic systems doing best-fit math. If guessing is OK or even reasonable (in a feedback loop with an actual person, for example) then an LLM can be useful. If guessing is not OK, if you need algorithmic rigidity, just write code, don't introduce D&D dice rolls into your system.

Example: Should we use "AI" for authentication and authorization?

For logging in: No.

For checking authority for an operation: No.

For determining the likelihood that the IP address a login attempt is coming from is part of an attack pattern: Yes!
What does it mean for a metric to be "attributable" to somebody? For example, is length attributable to me? Is weight attributable to the whale?

What are you talking about?
As stated before, the documentation in both languages was already consulted. It did not clear up how Rust is any different than Go in this regard. Consider a simple example from the Go documentation: Support for numeric underscores, which was not a part of the original language and later included in a 'new edition' of Go.

i := 10_000_000

Using the 1.13 or later version of the gc compiler, if your go.mod specifies anything after 1.12 the above compiles fine. But if go.mod asserts go 1.12 or earlier, you will get a compiler error from the above code as the compiler reverts to 1.12 or earlier behaviour based on the version directive. That sounds exactly like what you described! And, like I said before, Rust's documentation too echoes to my read that editions accomplish basically the same thing and exist for the same reason Go version directives exist.

But the earlier commenter indicated that they are very different. So, unfortunately, you have again failed to break the cycle. We need something dumbed down for us regular people, not something directed at those who walk, talk, and sleep Rust.
Was it wise to replace dementia with dementia?
Nothing entitles a for-profit entity such as WP Engine, to use the non-profit wordpress.org theme/plugin repository resources and infrastructure for free
Right, agreed that VPN is the primary mitigation against this from a user perspective. But opsec is hard, especially when the attack can be triggered by a notification when the victim might not be expecting it and might not have VPN enabled (e.g. maybe they only enable VPN when using Discord).

(But notifications are already a bad idea for opsec anyway.)
Hmm, I'm not a coder. In my field you do need some specialised knowledge you generally get through experience. And then you have the soft skills, like being able to work in a team, being able to run projects, understanding business needs vs doing what's technically interesting, etc. Postdocs do have some of those skills, but there is not much you get through a postdoc specifically vs doing a PhD or spending 7-10 years in an industry role. And, to be honest, your attitude is part of the problem - I sure wouldn't hire someone who will look down on the job or think they are too smart to do it, and neither should someone with 10 years experience be happy getting a job writing simple AWS code.

The point I'm trying to make is more about the opportunity cost, not the skills you get out at the end.
Tesla has consistently had a stock valuation that is completely disconnected from reality.
Great choice MUNBYN printers are awesome! Recently I found that NETUM thermal printers are even cheaper for comparable performance. :)
The counter point is that anyone who cares about being anonymous is using methods to disguise their identity that cannot be compromised by this attack, e.g: a VPN. Plus, there are much more effective versions of this attack, like sending a link to an endpoint that you control -- getting someone to click a link isn't hard if you're considered trustworthy enough to send them notifications. And less technical versions, like correlating when the user is online vs. offline with timezones around the world.

The method that both Apple and Cloudflare use in their own privacy software (iCloud Private Relay for apple, WARP for Cloudflare) is specifically based on the idea that your region is not information that reveals your identity. If you enable Apple Private Relay, your origin IP will be obscured but the IP your traffic is routed through will be in the same country -- same principle.

https://www.apple.com/icloud/docs/iCloud_Private_Relay_Overv...

This attack is academically interesting and novel but it's not "deanonymization".