skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is this really a Mercator projection? It doesn't appear to maintain the invariant that lines of constant bearing are straight lines.

If I pick a point somewhere in the middle of Manhattan, the top point of Manhattan is somewhere near the top of the light colored area and the bottom point of Manhattan nearish the bottom of the light colored area. This means that if I draw straight lines on the the map from San Francisco to these two points, the angle between them is something like 30 degrees. They pass through very roughly the top and bottom of Nevada. But there's no line of constant bearing that passes from SF through the top of Nevada to the top of Manhattan while at the same time one that passes through the bottom of Nevada to the bottom of Manhattan.

This is all very wishy-washy, but it doesn't look right to me.
You do understand that those who do not procreate inevitably die out in the long run, right? That does not bode well for the taxable base either, and therefore for the roads.
Yes, just like with Newtonian gravity. Any inverse-square law force will be zero inside a spherical shell. The higher force from parts of the shell closer to you is exactly canceled out by the farther parts exerting less force but there being more of those farther parts.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell_theorem
Signal does cache them in a CDN. If the vulnerability was sending any link, you could just set up your own web server and get the person’s IP
Except they could not. You can't buy with money the experience of a good life partner, you cannot buy with money the experience of having kids and raising them.

Those are things you buy with your time, your life clock if you will. You have a limited budget of time and you don't get to spend it twice. And when you get to the point where you feel like you've probably spent half or more of it, you might look at what you spent your time acquiring and be disappointed.

Pretty much everyone I've talked to about 'success' uses the definition of 'the sense of pride in what they have achieved in their life so far.'

If the value of what is a 'good' thing to achieve came from inside of you, then in my experience, you'll be happy with what you've achieved. However, if you adopted someone else's definition of what is 'good' to achieve, you may find that having achieved it you don't feel happy. I expect it is different for everyone.

What this conversation did for me was to show me how one thought about 'success' affected the choices of where you spent your time, that they were different for everyone, and that people using someone else's idea of success could be disappointed or unhappy having achieved 'success'. And that realization helped me make decisions about how I spent my time based on what I valued in my life rather than by an arbitrary "score" like a bank balance.
Just to be clear, it's not necessarily $10 each time you don't go. You set yourself a target like "4 times this week" or "10 times this month" and it's when you fail to hit your own target that you lose the money.
https://Hylo.com is trying to be that alternative, they're not federated yet (longer-term goal i think) but they are open-source.
Ask HN: Is anyone doing anything cool with tiny language models?
I mean anything in the 0.5B-3B range that's available on Ollama (for example). Have you built any cool tooling that uses these models as part of your work flow?
At the beginning, that's how it worked. Each page would link to the next page in the ring, with the last one linking back to the first one. You can probably see how this might be inconvenient.

At the height of their popularity, the webring snippet would link to the previous page, the next page, a random page, and the index.
No. I'm making fun of the comments on my previous article that called me "radical woke."
Wasn’t there a sci-fi anthology series (maybe Black Mirror?) that had an episode, where a high-tech wizard used robot bees as weapons (particularly nasty ones)?
you forgot the uppercase
My models are both 4 bit. But yeah, that could be - small models are much worse at tolerating quantization. That's why people use LoRA to recover the accuracy somewhat even if they don't need domain adaptation.
This is such a good series - my favorite video is "Part 2: 1-D Sine Waves and Their Sums" which makes fourier transforms make so much sense.
Even if this works, it represents a failure in the system that needs to be fixed.

(I assume you're just trying to help the parent solve their problem so I'm not trying to be dismissive of your comment)
I personally really wouldn't bet on there being less UFO believers these days than before the ubiquitous availability of cameras.
Agreed. I think most people would be a lot happier if they got rid of half their stuff.

Then, next year, get rid of half again. We all keep so much and acquire so much that brings stress not joy.
It's more a sense to trying to get where we could've gone, rather than nostalgia to me.
I think in the US, it's basically an intractable problem the way restaurants operate and are staffed. Low margin, high failure rate businesses with many fly by night small operators. Front of house staff is high turnover, while back of house staff is largely non-English speaking of sometimes questionable immigration/work permit status.

And then there is the supply chain since most restaurants are not cooking every single part of every meal from absolute scratch ingredients.

There was a story about a woman near us operating some sort of celiac friendly/gluten free bakery. One day the donuts were delivered and she noticed some D shaped sprinkles and realized her supplier had come up short and just put some random Dunkin Donuts into the delivery. Good on her catching it, but how in good conscience could she operate a bakery advertising itself as celiac friendly/gluten free if she was outsourcing like this?

If I had any sort of food allergy that could result in hospitalization or death, I'd just stop eating out. I'd rather be a little boring than very dead.
I'm curious where this level of bitterness is coming from. It doesn't seem healthy.
They're your words. I didn't say everyone. You didn't say everyone. Where's the straw-man?
Kyiv Metro Fonts
I have an older relative who uses their Venu3 to take their own ECG and combine that with a Garmin Index BPM (~$150) to help monitor their heart function. The ECG is simple to use on the watch and the BPM syncs to Garmin Connect so that all that data is stored daily for their cardiac specialist to review when they go in for appointments. They had a diagnosis of A-Fib a while back that explained all their decrease in energy levels and since beginning treatment for it they have had no further issues. Now they have the ability to sit and take an ECG to transmit to their cardiologist if they start feeling bad. For them it provides peace of mind that their meds are working as designed. They regularly get in 5k - 10k steps daily which is pretty great for someone making a strong run at 90 y.o.

I don't think Garmin has a device that is able to track or identify sleep anea events but would not be surprised to see that functionality appear in the near future on some product.

I have an Instinct 2 Solar and it has been great for me. I told other relatives about it and they have picked their own models to suit their lifestyles.

I think that is Garmin's strength, the wide variety of fitness devices suited for almost any activity or personality.
The argument that "TikTok et al. is the ring of power", rather than the state, which insists on armed conquest and control of the planet and seems to have not a shred of foresight about the long-term implications of the evolution of the internet, is simply not persuasive.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but tiktok will never hurt me.
Bingo. Everything that can be wrongly used or abused started out its existence within sane constraints and use patterns.
"One of Apple’s core UI design tenants is that you should be continuously surprised and delighted when you use iPhone, and then share your discoveries with friends to build up an Apple user community."

Ha ha ha, I do remember this catchphrase and it so perfectly sums up what's wrong with a lot of Apple (and, to be fair, other) UI today. I want to get shit done, not play with an Advent calendar.

Friendly FYI: The word you're looking for is TENETS. Tenants would be renting space, and I haven't received any checks yet.

Actually, not true... those AAPL dividends might count.
Every company is different. Congratulations for pulling that off. It won't work everywhere though. The real trick is figuring out where they can negotiate - there is always something.
Very interesting, would love a more detailed tutorial on setting something similar up
A website can satisfy this qualifier while still being heavily encumbered with JavaScript.
...in decimal.

https://t5k.org/notes/words.html points out that "When we work in base 36 all the letters are used - hence all words are numbers." Primes can be especially memorable in base 36. "Did," "nun," and "pop" are base-36 primes, as is "primetest" and many others.
Yeah, they sure forget their faults fast.

The amount of hatred Dems showed openly during 2016 election run was truely something special.
To be fair, they were specifically responding to a comment about "the means of production being owned collectively", which sounds exactly like the government seizing assets.
I had thought I saw somewhere that learning is specifically better when you are wrong, if the feedback for that is rapid enough. That is, "guess and check" is the quickest path to learning.

Specifically, asking a question and getting an answer is not a general path to learning. Being asked a question and you answering it is. Somewhat, this is regardless of if you are correct or not.
I'm Canadian, I forget about term limits

Plus has there ever been a US president that came back after a term away? Usually when a "new" president comes in you figure they'll be running again next time.
skos:Concept RDFS Class: https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/#concepts

schema:Thing: https://schema.org/Thing

atomspace:ConceptNode: https://wiki.opencog.org/w/Atom_types ..
https://github.com/opencog/atomspace#examples-documentation-...

SKOS Simple Knowledge Organization System > Concepts, ConceptScheme:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Knowledge_Organization_...

But temporal instability observed in repeat functional imaging studies indicates that functional localization constant: the regions of the brain that activate for a given cue vary over time.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42091934 :

> "Representational drift: Emerging theories for continual learning and experimental future directions" (2022)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S095943882... :

>> Future work should characterize drift across brain regions, cell types, and learning.
It depends on the type. Some are partially digested as carbohydrates. Others are not. You can look up their individual Glycemin Index.

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0261/4761/8864/files/Scree...
To quote Signal themselves:

> Privacy isn’t an optional mode — it’s just the way that Signal works. Every message, every call, every time [1]

While I don't consider this a critical bug requiring an immediate technical remediation from Signal, this should definitely be either fixed or called out in the documentation at some point.

[1] https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007320391-Is...
I think "this writing is sensationalist" is constructive, actionable feedback.

And I think expecting that all criticism must come from people the target of it knows and trusts is a bit much.

> what have you made lately?

Plenty of stuff. But that's irrelevant. People are free to give feedback regardless of what they've been working on.
Sure but for creating fairly uniform/gradual fields of static electricity over a large space?

Electrostatic precipitators exist but they aren't large. Everything else I'm aware of that works on larger scales fails to satisfy the uniform/gradual aspect.
I never found this hard, because $ is conventionally used at the end of many strings in Windows land (e.g. the names of network drives), which probably dates back to the CP/M dollar-terminated string.
I wanna be really ultra-clear here, because I might say this and be perceived as defending wordpress or thinking it's a good thing: this is bad!!!

I, unfortunately for myself, have some legal background and that's a...choppy...reading of it.

Let me explain:

The court found WPEngine is likely to succeed on its claim that WordPress.org/Automattic/Mullenweg intentionally interfered with WPEngine's existing customer contracts through specific harmful actions taken after September 20, 2024, including:

- Suddenly blocking access that had been freely available.

- Taking over and modifying the ACF plugin without authorization.

- Forcing WPEngine's customers to declare they weren't affiliated with WPEngine.

- Making it difficult for WPEngine to service its existing customers.

- Actively trying to get WPEngine's customers to break their contracts.

The court viewed these as potentially illegal interference tactics, especially since they appeared to be retaliatory after WPEngine refused to pay the demanded 8% revenue share.

However, this is different from a finding about WordPress.org's general right to implement a fair charging system in the future. The issue isn't that WordPress.org wanted to charge money - it's that they allegedly used improper interference tactics to try to force payment and harm WPEngine's business relationships.

Noting again for the record, I deplore the behavior here. However, you are allowed to charge people: just not start doing only with one singular entity, as a gish gallop of nonsense that affects the one singular entity's customers.

(the shortest smoking gun on this is footnote 11, but it might be too legal-ese to parse the plain meaning, which is "hey this makes sense if you're complaining about a one-off surprise of fucking with only your customers, but I can't justify it in the long term, and you know that, you're not trying to either")

Footnote 11: "In its briefs, WPEngine refers to its “interference claims” but only addresses the elements of theclaim for intentional interference with contractual relations. See Mot. at 26-28. For this reason,the Court does not separately analyze whether WPEngine is likely to succeed on its claim forintentional interference with prospective economic relations.")
>relies on oil in an unhealthy way

You've got me there.

That's what I started doing in the late 1970's :)

>I'd suggest a closer look at that.

That's one thing I have been doing in real-time since the 1960's, you should have seen how bad it already was before the oil shock.

Oil shock was just the nail in the coffin.

I made sure I could do a lot of unique things with oil & gas ever since.

Would never have done that if things hadn't gotten so bad, I was into alternative energy.

Still spent most of my time with chemicals anyway, for one thing they aren't cheap enough to burn for fuel and that makes a big difference, even if many of them are more toxic than petroleum itself.

There's always been more money in oil though, because there's so god damned much of it :\
I wish it were as simple as

final lazy Logger log = () -> Logger.getLogger("..");

or even

final lazy Logger log = Logger.getLogger("..");
If you have a real chance to win the gold in the Olympics in most events you have to be working out that much. Even if you end up coming in last of the serious competitors just the workload to be a serious competitor will be 10k+ per day.

At that level training is your full time job though.
Yeah, my local news had a clip that was clearly an American Airlines tail logo.
Yep. There's always one apologist who weighs in with that equivalent.
Intresting, will save this for later.

Funny enough, the article also serves as a Nix repellent! I’ve read few interesting things about it, but seeing here how hard it makes your life I won’t be touching it with a long stick…
Try something like a Forerunner 265S. When you see an "S" suffix on model numbers that indicates it's a "small" size variant specifically designed for petite wearers.
As far as I understand it:

If it supports ESC/POS commands then yes, otherwise no.
I recently got into using the connect app. What were some notable changes that made the app less usable and upset their core user base?
I’ve owned both and the truth is Garmin makes the best fitness tracker that can be a smartwatch and Apple makes the best smartwatch that can be a fitness tracker.
It doesn't cause extreme mental anguish, I just... don't have to play along with childish games like pretending someone can be the opposite sex. I just don't! However easy or respectful you think it would be for me to play make believe, or even just pay two-faced lip service.

That seems to really wind people up but since the executive order today (I'm not American incidentally), everyone is going to have to get used to it.

I don't sneer, by the way. Never have, never will! I'm more of a smirker. ;)
Face recognition & AI, smart security solutions for Mumbai’s lifeline
FTC Sends $5M in Refunds to Consumers Harmed by Bogus Credit Repair Scheme
Sabot in the Age of AI
I think I'd rather just have nothing at all.
You can use prisoners and it has been done. However there are enough differences between prison and normal life that it is questionable if your results apply outside of prison.
Privacy by default is Signal's entire brand
what I want is social screentime approval

on iphone, the built in screentime app is just a face id approval or your pin code, but what if instead you had to request approval and your friends on FindMy were the only people that could approve, by consensus
It's worth noting that the service isn't just a VPN but also a mail provider and cloud storage provider. And the visionary plan comes with several terabytes of storage.
It does come in handy if you search for stuff with regular expressions a lot!
Each Tesla sold in the USA gets a $7500 subsidy. That is the company's entire profit and more.

SpaceX has received $15 billion in government contracts.

I don't think either company would exist without government support.
I’ve found the same. Claude outputs are usually not good enough for what I’m looking for but the conversation is enough to get me engaged and started on a project.
I'd love a hard answer to this if anyone knows or has time to look at the source code.

https://github.com/signalapp
> "Jack squat" is still in the millions of dollars for holders of a golden ticket, but it is fundamentally a gamble.

I was interviewing with a bunch of mid-stage (series A/B) startups for senior/staff roles. Without exception, every single one offered me so little equity that the only way they'd EQUAL big tech pay was if they hit a slam dunk and became multibillion dollar monsters.

> no one wants to believe they're the grump ruining everyone's fun, but would you take all that emotional effort to go challenge the grumps, who are just going to argue, aren't going to appreciate anything you do, and are just a bunch of cynical unhappy assholes, or would you just go find a different digital lawn?

The situation above was without factoring in dilution and across a few different sub industries. I think it's pretty reasonable to make fun of founders for this.
When you eat, depending on the glycemic index of the food you're consuming your blood sugar starts immediately going up and can quickly peak at dangerous numbers if the food is sugary.

A diabetic will want to take dose of insulin a bit before eating in order to send their blood glucose level on a lowering trend. If you dose it right the two waves semi cancel each other out and your blood sugar goes up some, but hopefully not a huge amount.

If you get the dose wrong, it drops dangerously or rockets up and you have take correction doses.
This line sparks no confidence:

> No guarantees of future support but we will try hard to add support.

AMD reps told me exactly the same thing years ago about how they'd love to support all cards, when RDNA2 had just launched. Fast forward, only W6800 is properly supported from that gen. The last time I tried, it had tons of kernel bugs that caused hard freezes outside most basic cases.

You need to come out and say that you will support all cards, no ifs or buts, by a hard deadline.
But if its a wall and you touch it - you should become part of it and thus be unable to leave it ?
so... it's IRC all over again. I wonder why we need a new protocol for that
I use Cloud66 to deploy and it is very easy
You are onto something. If you maximise fruit and veg then you are also maximising phytochemicals, and that means having a nice skin tone.

I really like this aspect, the inside-out skin care, and I now see little point in eating something such as a huge bowl of pasta or rice because of a lack of phytochemicals. I need green veggies, orange ones, red ones and the phytochemicals that make them so.

I think that 'nutrition experiments' are what you need, so, as you say, small changes. This means discontinuing things as well as adopting new things. With an 'experiment' in can be for a month. I quit processed foods, dairy and much else in this way, to note the improvements to things like oral health, joint pain, digestion and so on.

You are right about changing the palate, it actually takes about ten days for the taste buds to be replaced.
Oh please, we are all a bit sensitive right now.

We always enjoy reading your articles, Ken!
US food labelling is insane.

For example - lactose-free yogurt is often just regular yogurt with lactase enzyme added.

If that's what I wanted, I'd buy regular yogurt and take a lactaid supplement.
Moving is awesome for that reason. You are forced to really reckon with "do I care enough about this to put effort into moving it", and most times the answer will be no. Moving is a pain for other reasons though.
That's my impression too. There was a flock of academics and relatively non-tech folks joining a few years ago. Most didn't stay, and a few of those who did are now flocking to Bluesky.

But the others seem to be very much at home. They are not millions. They are probably prioritizing the small communities that have formed over maximum reach.
They have some postings for jobs that I might actually enjoy working on also. Too bad they don't offer remote roles.
"And DARPA"

That was my first thought - the military would be all over this if there's even a remote chance you could build energy shields or something.
Things people get wrong about Electron
My problem w/ a subreddit is that reddit would show you a lot of stuff that is off-mission for the group and surrounding community. Also I'd expect such a page to be focused around getting people to show up to events rather than having discussions (e.g. the moderation problem is much easier if discussions are only for the purposes of the group; off-topic rants about divisive subjects are easy to squash; you don't have the problem of the rumor mongering about crime which I think is toxic on nextdoor but doesn't cross the line)

I wouldn't mind ads but I'd want to see ads of the old-school sponsorship variety (the running club could see ads for the local running shoe store, one of the local grocery stores, an overfunded non-profit like the United Way, etc.) as opposed to the auction-based, personalized ads that you'd see on reddit. Similarly if a sidebar on the running club had a link to a local board game or ham radio club I'd think that's OK but the mission on my mind is to get people to join the ham radio club where they're going to do comms for the running club, not to maximize time on site.
I hated when doing math homework and they didn't give me the answer sheet. If I could do an integral and verify if it's correct or not, I could either quickly learn from my mistake, or keep doing integrals with added confidence. Which is how I learned the best. Gatekeeping it because someone might use the answers wrong felt weird, you still had to show your work.