skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When it overtakes coal+oil+gas then it will finally be in the middle of the way toward net zero. Which won't be a complete solution neither. But in any case, it is a process going in the right direction.
I guess your point is that frequent social media users are in a constant state of withdrawal because the second they stop using it, they go into withdrawal.

Is that what happens with smokers/drinkers? Are smokers/drinkers considered to be in a constant state of withdrawal? I always thought withdrawal symptoms happen when someone tries to quit. I didn't think they happen constantly.
I have ADHD, and I am certain that most of the reduced life expectancy is from chronic stress- a well established killer. With ADHD you frequently don’t have the executive control to do what you decided to do, and needs to get done. This leads to constantly being terrified of failing at everything, and letting everyone in your life down. Often calling yourself (and being called by others) lazy, unreliable, disorganized, etc. even when you care deeply and are doing everything you can to succeed.

It would be nice to figure out what can be done about this. I’ve found I usually have dangerously high blood pressure, but a few minutes of slow exhale breathing exercises and a short walk brings it down to normal. Which I usually feel I am too stressed and busy to do.
MLK files are crazy! Dude was having diddy parties.
3D scanning is not some niche cottage industry. There's loads of different solutions by companies ranging from Epic Games to Autodesk, DIY solutions using Xbox Kinect, to dedicated devices. Just depends on what you are trying to do and tolerance for dodgy BS.

And oh, you aren't likely to get a clean 3D model from the get go, more likely is that you are going to generate a point cloud that has to be edited to get a usable 3D model.
Why not? Isn’t this just a consolidated effort to create a tool invokable by the toolexec flag?
> I actually wouldn’t blame software developers per se. I would somewhat blame the habits they develop along the way. Nobody is taught to write real software in university computer science programs. They are taught to code, and if they are lucky enough learn the fundamentals of software development/software engineering.

It's not the habits they develop; it's the pressure from management to "just deliver the darn thing so we can get paid, so we can pay YOU the employees!".

Those who know what I'm talking about, know!
You can always change the power target.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdjOfKPt51s
I write C every day and wrote C compiler. I know all all the issues it has very well, but it still a relatively simple language. It also not that difficult to parse. The lexer hack is interesting, because you can almost get away with using a context-free lexer, but you need this one hack. But this is not really a problem. People failing to read c declarations is also not the same thing as complexity, although I would agree that those are weird. Null-terminated strings have safety issues, but this is also not the same thing as complexity.
late stage academia is directly responsible for degradation in scientific research and responsible for why people don't believe it.

repeal student loans, repeal university funding across the board. only way to fix the tax funded grift is to force them to operate in the market. if it doesn't survive it didn't deserve to.

the people that want the “imperfect system” to continue are responsible for why people don't believe it.
If optimizing for CO2 reduction, the key metric is marginal cost per unit of low-emissions electricity. If battery storage charged by clean energy has a lifetime cost per megawatt hour of $150 while solar PV has a lifetime cost of $50 per megawatt hour, it's more cost effective to keep building (and curtailing) solar until more than 2/3 of annual solar generation needs to be discarded.
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Well, this is certainly going into my mental "small-talk at the doctor's office" folder.

I would assume that there's no (good) way to directly compare traditional readings with lying-down readings, so some longitudinal studies (of the same person/people as time passes) would need to continue taking upright data samples, even if a new stream of data from the lying-down method is added as well.

> The authors note that in the ARIC study, lying-down readings were done after a 20-minute rest period in that position.

The need for a bed (rather than a chair) and more time (20 minutes vs 5) might be a small barrier to adoption, since it could impact how many patients can be processed per time.
Would love a summary of this
Quality and relevance can always be improved on any topic, if you are the one to do so.
Many times it is “threw everything out and started over” because the fundamental design and architecture was flawed. Some things have no incremental fix.
You have to put the credits somewhere, and that's a good place to put them.
Not great! We have to "correct" them mathematically. Some can be crazy off until you calibrate them, for instance my husband's then-new Apple Watch was 2X off for months until he transitioned from winter indoor treadmill running to an outdoor run where it can calibrate. But even Garmin/Whoop/Oura can be substantially off, 50% easy. A "fun" simple way you can test yourself: do the exact same weight lifting workout but at + or - 10ºF between the two replicates. Guarantee you'll get dramatically different "calories burned" when in reality they are more similar. Your heart beating faster to cool you off in the hotter environment even though you're doing the same amount of (physics definition) "work" is NOT burning 50% more calories. Heart Rate is just a proxy for "work" and is confounded with other causes of heart rate change, such as ambient temperature/cooling.
If you actually begin the steps of suing them in small claims court (which after the dropping of mandatory arbitration clause, is the official dispute mechanism for Minecraft), suddenly support has no problem giving you your account back.

If you bought the game back in the Notch-owned Mojang days, you have a license guaranteeing your right to access all future Minecraft versions. It's a pretty open-and-shut case.
The article waste no time in dismissing "insurance companies are greedy":

> Homeowners insurance profitability is extremely low, and in any given year the industry is very likely to lose money. Between 1977 and 2022, US homeowners insurance profits were greater than 10% in only 5 years, and nationwide annual profits have never exceeded 15%. The average annual profitability for the industry is less than 1% (and depending on how you calculate it, it may actually be negative).3 In any given year, insurers lose money on homeowners insurance in about 1/3rd of the states.

Which is not to say anything nice about homeowners insurance companies...other than "at least they haven't all shut down yet".
I think it's fine to use in this situation. So many 3d web experiences use scroll to progress through the scene, so doing that on the home page heremakes sense.
I mentioned in another comment that I used some very old (2.0) bootstrap for fun recently and yeah I like it better than the flat / colorless stuff.
We've reached the point where adding new wind and solar generation is cheaper than adding new coal/gas generation. American utility companies aren't adding more wind and solar generation to be green; they're doing it because it's cheaper. They just got a positive PR spin for being green.
Sure, but the formula is so clunky. Just take:

A) a person famous for their brilliance or other quality

B) a humdrum everyday failing experienced by regular people, such as hubris, poor ability to predict the future, problems in school, difficulty in relationships, etc.

Mix them together and you get "Einstein flunked math in primary school" and Freud saying "who knows what women want" and other stuff.

I'm all for stories, but these aren't very good ones.
I'm pretty sure that's a typo, and "incremental" was meant to be included in that sentence.
The Fourth amendment "protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the government". Then, third-party doctrine created by SCOTUS is a loophole for the fourth Amendment. Third-party doctrine says 4A "does not apply to information that is voluntarily shared with third parties".

Section 702 allows to collect all communications between American citizens and non-citizens, and communications between non-citizens, without any warrant. The issue is: does one need a warrant to search any data about a US citizen in 702 collections? Here, the court says it violates 4A.
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we'd love to have you! LMK any questions over email or whatnot.
Today we're given 2 AI models to be freaked out about.

From the article: UI-TARS https://venturebeat.com/ai/bytedances-ui-tars-can-take-over-...

And also from today, Deepseek R1: https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-everyone-in-ai-is-freaking-ou...
You described the advantages of exploiting you for your boss. Your colleagues will only treat you worse because of these points. And you think because of your university someone have to like you or what?
> "Popular" art which stands on its own without needing critical interpretation does more for its audience than art which requires the accompaniment of a cultural tour guide. And audiences sense it, which is why popular art will always be popular.

Miley Cyrus' "Flowers", a pop song, alludes to a Bruno Mars song "When I Was Your Man". Allusions exist all over, of many different brows. There's nothing insidious about Dante alluding to Greco-Roman poets as well as his Italian political contemporaries.
We're working on this here: https://github.com/DioxusLabs/blitz See the "screenshot" example for rendering to png.
There's no SVG backend currently, but one could be added.

(proper announcement of project coming soon)
Check this video out if you want to know what this is about:

https://www.youtube.com/live/Fn0_8iZGkLk?si=gVF5PUOTjJ83oJyS

Time code 17:20
Quite difficult!

Form another slightly similar game, they used a trick to avoid stupid errors. When the user clicks on a monster that would kill them, the game ignores the first click. If the moron clicks again, they die. You can implement the same trick to squares marked with a red number too. (And perhaps to upgrade or hearts when you are too healthy.)

[spoiler alert]

Most of the time you have to buy knowledge in exchange of health.
US home sales in 2024 fell to lowest level since 1995
Yeah. My "budget" for similar scale project (sw, fw, hw, enclosure co-design) in high school 24 years ago was about $200. I'd have loved to have these kinds of resources/lab tools access. I even made [private, so that tool makers did not patch the holes/obfuscate] cracks for Eagle, HI-TECH C compilers and Solid Edge, to have some nice SW tools to work with, without arbitrary limits.

But I sure had plenty of time, and it was fun to always be learning something new. Simpler times when it was out of reach to have anything done for me, like prototype PCBs and let alone assembly. :)

These days are absolutely crazy in comaprison, with all the ready-made SBCs or SBC modules, and free software, and like $4 PCB prototyping services and CNC machining, 3D printing, $15 powerful FPGAs, $7 fully Linux capable 1GHz Cortex-A7 tiny computer modules for bread-boards, and cheap components from China... Still remember going to a shop buying single unit amounts of SMD resistors and capacitors over the counter. Now I can get 4000 unit SMD sample book for a few $ and never think about it again. Even my 2000 self would be able to afford it without much trouble. It's kind of a force multiplier easily available even for high-schoolers.
They're too focused on their shiny new AI toys to care about solving existing existential problems. Maybe they will change their mind after a few AI datacenters are flooded or when "another unprecedented F6 hurricane" begins heading straight for their shiny new AI datacenters.
They establish that people with ADHD live shorter lives by about 6-9 years on average. They speculate on, but do not directly investigate possible reasons for this.
I built https://hackernewsalerts.com/ just for this. It's open source https://github.com/mihailthebuilder/hackernewsalerts-backend
The U.S. Government Just Declassified Cold War-Era Docs About DIY Nukes
Not sure what "digital rights" that "manages"? I don't see it as an unreasonable suggestion that the tool shouldn't be set up out of the box to DoS sites it's scraping, that doesn't prevent anyone who is technical enough to know what they're doing to fork it and remove whatever limits are there by default? I can't see it as a "my computer should do what I want!" issue, if you don't like how this package works, change it or use another?
I thought Congress held power over the purse? How come anybody is listening to these "orders" ?
i think there will still be a need for "programmers" with those skills. We'll always need specialists and people building new language/frameworks/etc.

But I think everyone who isn't at least a standard deviation above the average programmer (like myself) shouldn't be focused on being able to read, write, and debug code. For this cohort the important ability is to see the bigger picture, understand the end goal of the code, and then match those needs to appropriate technology stacks. Essentially just moving more and more towards a product manager managing AI programming agents.
> First time I'm hearing about a "Strategic Bitcoin Reserve"

You should definitely know what your government might be involved in, after all government is made up of people many of whom are bitcoiners. Here is a report that's a good primer: "Digital Gold: Evaluating a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for the United States" https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/digital-gold-evaluating-a...

Here's the "Strengthening American Leadership In Digital Financial Technology" executive order that discusses policy direction in the context of cryptocurrency: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/stre...
Congrats to you both!! Paras- you guys were always one of the ones we looked up to when starting Amplitude way back in 2012.
I would argue that the problem of C is something else: It does not provide enough functionality out of the box. So instead of using some safe abstraction, people open-code their string manipulation or buffer management. This is then cumbersome and error prone, leading to complexity of the solution and safety issues which would could easily be avoided.
Flicking the camera down to despawn cars is a common trick in speedrunning those 3d GTA games. They did it better than cyberpunk, but it was not figured out.
Extremely strong nominative determinism at play here across multiple languages.
It's all very minor stuff. I've had surgery before and it was a very minor improvement. In most aspects, I look like a "healthy" adult male. The problem is that my facial attractiveness is subpar and most women I run into in places like NYC and SF have a bar that is hard to pass. Most of the women you encounter that are in relationships are not a respective audience of what you will find out in the singles market. Women who are single at 30+ in NYC/SF are a very different crowd than the ones who married their college boyfriend. Part of the reason these women are single is because of their high demands.

My hope is that one day I will be able to pass the looks threshold and be able to get matches on things like dating apps. I'm doubtful that I ever will and so that's why I am super consistent about going out and doing stuff but the brainrot from being online all the time has infected most women I run into. Most of the women I'd be compatible with just don't go out to many events where single men are.
Amazon ships Project Kuiper satellites to Florida prepares for milestone launch
I can't take these people seriously when they single out TikTok and not mention this is a problem across the board. I guess when American billionaires exploit and harm American children, that's a good thing.
The median home price graphic and statistic is pretty astonishing. This site:

https://dqydj.com/historical-home-prices/

has the same data in a format where you can adjust the time period of the graph; Late 2019 to May 2022 looks like the steepest curve in the data (goes back to 2/1953) by a long shot. Despite being a home owner (or maybe because of it - I haven't thought about this stuff in a long time) I'm a philistine on the topic but charts and statistics like this make it pretty clear why so many people have essentially given up on buying a home.
Yes, they've noticed. Unfortunately, the ones who are taking the best notes are the ones who want to repeat this performance.
It was a time when tech companies were trying to make computers a common household item, so they did tons of user testing and we made great strides in UX as discoverability became king.

Then, starting about 10 years ago, they started throwing all that research out the window in favor of minimal, clean, flat, "sleek" UIs because the screenshots are easier to market.

They started appealing to the lowest common denominator. We've lost choice and customizability in favor of allowing Apple and Microsoft to decide what our desktops should look like because some people might be confused if they open up an options panel.

I hate nearly every single thing about the MacOS UX. The dock is awful, and so many insane defaults all over the place. Hiding scrollbars is a bug, not a feature. Pointer acceleration is a bug, not a feature. The scroll wheel operating in reverse is a bug, not a feature.

At least with Windows, I can make it tolerable with third party software to make my task bar and Start menu look and feel like the Win2K days. My biggest complaint about the modern UX is coalescing multiple windows from one program into a single item and not having text. If I have 3 Firefox windows open, that should be 3 items on my task bar. It makes it so I can switch to any of them in a single click. It also means that I can use a window as a widget to monitor something by having the status as the title of the window.
It's called Project 2025, not Project Someday/Maybe, after all.
Why wouldn't it? Are your allergies not listed, is your local economy not explained and thus median expectations of price sensitivity not inferrable, are the words you use to describe your preferences and habits so out of distribution?
This is how I use Cursor Composer Agents. Detailed outline up front and see what it comes up with. I then use it to iterate on that idea. Sometimes it breaks things, so I'll have to reject/revert the change and then ask it again, but tell it not to change XYZ. If it starts going down the wrong path, I'll step it and code it myself. But I've ran into cases where the next question I ask it seems to be based on the state of the code form its last change, not the current state as I have changed it. So that can be frustrating.

I've really only done greenfield hobby projects with it so far. Hesitant to throw larger things at it that have been growing for 8/9 years. But, there's always undo or `git reset`. :P
I ack that I don't expect much difference in capabilities over 2000ish years, such that I expect I largely agree with you. You are taking "largely compatible" to be a left handed agreement, it seems? I... didn't intend it that way? I flat out agree that I am wrong if discussing people from most of recorded history.

My general question is largely the same, though. Do you think we haven't evolved with more intelligence since proto-human periods? Because that seems to be the claim, that we somehow evolved intelligence, and it has been solely knowledge acquisition since then. I suspect that is defensible, but feels off to me.

And my nitpicks would be that evolution isn't measured in years, but generations. And moves more rapidly when pressure on a population is stronger. Seeing how autistic so many "smart" people act, I confess I would expect more negative pressure on those behaviors in the past.
Great, I'll keep a look out but will hold off on using it for now.
FWIW you can make a singly linked list with infinite number of nodes too. Memory leaks happen in well formed programs just fine, glibc is just one of many examples.
'The Road Ahead' at 30: Bill Gates classic book about the future
Depression is a common co-morbidity also.
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A lot of Einstein quotes are either misquoted and/or not by him. Same for Churchill.

Even the current news likes to pick quotes out of context. Trump says a lot of dumb things but often when I hear the full context of something people are mad about, he didn't say that. I am sure the right wingers do the same.
In 1995 I bought a house for ~20% of what it sells for today.
With this order size there is no public pricing information. So if you can't deliver fast enough you would adjust prices or specifically charge more for the first few delivery slots.

Compare it to ordering very high price items with long lead time like airliners, you pay for a specific delivery slot, not just the item at a random moment. And you can buy options to more deliveries in a specific timeframe, which influences the price of your order.
This is certainly building on principles and ideas from a long history of computer science research.

And yes, there are moment where you go "oh, we implicitly gave up xyz (i.e., causal order across steps) when we started adopting architecture pqr (microservices). But here is a thought on how to bring that back without breaking the benefits of pqr".

If you want, you can think of this as one of these cases. I would argue that there is tremendous practical value in that (I found that to be the case throughout my career).

And technology advances in zig zag lines. You add capability x but lose y on the way and later someone finds a way to have x and y together. That's progress.
PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory
The thought is that the maintainer would own a share of the asset and if they retire, they would be free to sell or hold that share. Maybe for something as trivial as a button it isn't obvious where the value is but for entire libraries, etc. it could provide economic incentive to recognize valuable projects and invest in them while they are still young. You could "own a little piece" of your favorite framework along with the maintainer(s).

The concept of a fork even maps pretty well to how forks work in the blockchain. You would own a share of each fork if you owned a piece of the original project.