skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this is an awesome idea. You get two boxes of daily pills labelled A and B, you take A for a month then take B for a month, and log your feelings throughout. At the end the service reveals which month was Vit D (or whatever) and which wasn't.

I guess you could get your partner or a friend or family member to do it for you?
I'm unable to see their website

https://posthog.com

Is it just me?
Asia is ahead in automation investments, Russia is stuck with a persistent natural resources curse. It is hard to see them breaking out of that curse anytime soon, especially with the leadership they have.

Demographic decline isn’t going to be much of a problem if AI and robotics keep advancing at their current rates, as long as those investments are made (like as China is doing now).
Yeah but there are buttons for those things. My point was that the external temperature doesn't matter, not that your circumstances don't.
The Painful Truth about AI and Robotics
I have two thumb rules about social media scrolling:

1. Use social media at only one particular time of the day. Inside a strict time window. That's it. Even if you are sitting idly on a car, traveling, or even standing in a queue for something, don't open the scroller app. Just be. Even if you are sick and in bed, don't open the scroller. Make a conversation, read a book, watch a movie, listen to a talk, but never open the scroller. This I learned from Cal Newport, and at the risk of sounding hyperbolic, I will say this has made my life better. And if you do this for some months, you will like the changes in your brain.

2. Don't consume any content without premeditated intent. Don't aimlessly scroll, ever. This point is there in the OP. I scroll a particular FB group only for ~10 ninutes a day. I scroll my very narrow CS/Math/Programming YouTube account for ~15 minutes and add videos to Watch Later. That's it.
I struggled with sleep for years and years. If I exercised the insomnia would be the worst. Lately I've figured out that magnesium and B6 (p5p form) are the missing piece I have needed. I've been taking magnesium for a long time, but B6 finally allowed me to actually experience improved sleep after exercise.
I use Vivaldi, I used to use Opera and I like Vivaldi's mission statement. I don't know about manifest v2, but uBO still works on Vivaldi, at least for now.
Most people hate SOAP and WSDL. You can argue most web APIs are reinventing them in the sense that you could reimplement them with WSDL, to get worse versions of them.
Going through the GitHub discussion is eye-opening given that CEO of Vercel just publicly stated that Next.js is an API framework:
https://x.com/rauchg/status/1895599156724711665
What you just wrote reads like bad LLM output. I read very little "puff pieces". Instead I've followed him and directly what he says for about the last 8 years. And I've seen how the media has turned against him, and him doing mostly the same things he did before is now somehow bad.

Nah. He's the same man. And every common argument against him is so easily shot down. But you don't seem to care and act like a flat earther, given my first link shoots your "counter-argument" down given it's about people you as a HN reader should know saying that the praise said about him is just quite simply true.

>Most of those companies have been bailed out by goverment contacts.
To be devil'ls (yours) advocate, NASA did save SpaceX. But. NASA is one of the very few agencies that could hire SpaceX, especially due to things like ITAR. But it is obvious to anyone that SpaceX has always more than deserved those contracts, delivering value that is about 20x as high when compared to NASA's own efforts in cost to orbit, a figure that is bound to go 100x with Starship which is progressing not unlike Falcon 9 which is by far the most successful and most used launch system in the US, and the world.

Tesla benefits from selling some carbon credits yes. Which is by design. Remember that they were THE guys who managed to turn EV's from compromises to cars that can surpass ICE's. Actual good cars instead of inferior hippie mobiles like the G-whiz. Tesla operates in a system that anyone would call very capitalistic and succeeds well, doing its own technology, great products that don't even need advertising to sell, and being one of the most looked after employers by high achievers.

>Boring company, neuralink and Twitter are all abject failures
You saying Neuralink is a failure is not just a failure in your humanity but proves your abject ignorance, given it has basically saved a person, giving him his agency back. And you shouting about "puff news pieces" LOL. Kiddo you're losing any sense of believability left. Boring company is being succesfully boring in all aspects. Slow work, but succeeding. Twitter is dead yes, X is the successor who manages to be better with 20% the employees. Use it everyday while Twitter was a censorious hellhole. On X you can say what you want without being systematically censored, something that I not just heard from, but saw personally before.

>breeding hyperfixation

That is not what I was talking about but proves you don't understand the slightest about biology. Not making enough kids makes humanity die, that is just math. Fixing the species means getting humanity back on track to what we were crudely approximately doing till ~2010 after which the western society started getting very self destructive while authoritarian governments rise in power with technology. I think there absolutely is a way to win this without losing ourselves.

>removing himself from the pool

How about you start with yourself given you've contributed absolutely nothing but hate, misinformation and overall sense of envy.

For people that actually care (unlike arkhaine here):
https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2024/01/02/elon-musk-is-n...
I think it comes down to legal risk appetite.

If you go by what the law says on its face – yes, you need either approval from Congress or the Secretary, and probably the Secretary has made clear they are unlikely to agree to use whatever powers they technically have in this area.

If you start coming up with inventive legal arguments – then it comes down to whether you can convince the courts to accept them. Maybe you will, maybe you won't. But obviously this is a much more legally risky strategy.

Although, at least in this case, it is unlikely that anyone will go to prison if the courts don't like their inventive legal argument. Still, it would require state officials to risk being ruled against by federal court, and some of them might not view the political consequences of that as acceptable.
Here: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/ai-tools-for-soft...
I love theanine as a low-level anxiolytic. My recommendation:

* Try a lower dosage first. 400mg made me irritable. 100mg works great for me.

* Effect seems to lessen if taken consecutive days; in fact it might have the opposite effect of making one more irritable than calmer.

A few nights ago I was tossing and turning because I had too much coffee before bed. A theanine pill and sleep was restored. It doesn't do much more than that, but it's good to have for one of those days that you just want to punch a wall.
"in sonder" is just "in sunder". "The furious gun cracked in sunder and in the air did roar the shivered pieces"
Have you experimented with late interaction?

https://jina.ai/news/what-is-colbert-and-late-interaction-an...

http://musingsaboutlibrarianship.blogspot.com/2024/06/can-se...

https://colbert.aiserv.cloud/
That would mean the death of at a minimum Meta (market cap $1.5 trln), most of Google (market cap $2.1 trln, lets say half would die). So what, a couple trillion haircut on the US stock market, and more of a GDP hit than if the entire US military suddenly stopped getting funded.

Not to mention the secondary effects - a LOT of businesses are built based on online ads. A LOT.
Yes, please write it. I will buy and read it.
What makes you think it is trying to gaslight anyone? The post makes it clear that it just not working on the author is a possibility, but also fairly points out that there are other studies with more participants that weren't really promising either. It then suggests that those who do really believe it works on them also replicate a blinded self-experiment, which seems pretty fair to me - because then surely they'd be able to show results, if they're one of the (apparently many many) people whom it works for.

I also think/thought L-Theanine works for me, and since it's not harmful I'll keep taking it, but at this point I accept that it's likely just placebo effect until shown otherwise.
Provenance (outside programming this is the distinction between "I reckon this old table is a few hundred years old" and "Here is the bill of sale from when my grandfathers ancestors had the table made from the old tree where that cherry tree is now in 1620") not Providence.

In Rust pointer provenance is a well defined language feature and if you go to the language docs you can read how it interacts with your use of raw pointers and the twin APIs provided for this.

In C the main ISO document just says basically here be dragons. There's an additional TS from 2023 with better explanation, but of course your C compiler even if it implemented all of C23 needn't necessarily implement that TS. Also of course the API is naturally nowhere near as rich as Rust's. C is not a language where pointers have an "addr" method so they also don't need a separate exposure API.

I suspect that in Zig none of this is clearly specified.
Musk is also threatening to turn off Starlink in Ukraine in his most recent tweets. That is why Europe is urgently seeking for an alternative.
I use Vivaldi and really like it.
Everyone just assumes that the only way to do ads online are from these giant, shitty ad platforms like Facebook or Google. When really, you can have smaller ad networks that provide curated and content tailored advertising. It's just a lot more labor intensive and it doesn't scale to nation-state levels of money like Google Ads does.

If sites just embedded their own ads, then no ad blocker would be able to catch that at all because there would be no way to identify them separately from the content.
I've sent an email to support@whatsapp.com but the email wasn't even acknowledged with a ticket number or auto-reply, so I'm not sure if I'll even get a response.
> Yes, less secure because availability is part of security.

This is too often forgotten. Availability is a fundamental part of security and must be part of every threat model.

And your threat model needs to be matched with what it is being protected. One size does not fit all.

For example to log in to my brokerage account, I may be ok with a solution where I might lock myself out and have to go to a physical branch to restore access. Because while that would be a pain, it's better than having my life savings stolen.

But to log in to, say, facebook? Availability and convenience is #1 above all, it's just cat videos and other extremely low value stuff so it's not worth any inconvenience.
I wouldn't recommend Opera, BTW. It was bought by some shady consortium and is no longer the browser it used to be. Vivaldi is its spiritual successor (and what I use).
Science is great but there are still plenty of diseases and lots of other stuff that leads to tragedies.

If you happen not to have to deal with any of this, it is still just providence.
And similarly, corruption is a viable system of government.For a while...
CBD works, but it needs to be high quality and if you're a stoner with crazy high tolerance probably you just won't feel it.

For sake of experiment, I recently acquired and vaped a good amount of CBD herb, and I was definitely high as a kite, though in a much different way than if it had been loaded with THC.
"little more" can, and often is, be used as a synonym of "only". In this case, take it up with the translators of Dumas' works - it's a common choice for the translation.
The broken them. I had a model 3 with ultra sonic parking sensors and radar, they said the cameras alone were enough and started rolling out auto pilot and self park and such to only depend on cameras because of parts shortages during Covid.

The wipers are what really stuck in my craw. Because the car had great rain sensing wipers before, there was no button to turn them on or adjust the speed. It was buried in touch screen menus. Then during some autopilot update they ruined the rain sense, so you’re 3 menus deep on a touch screen while it’s raining (no autopilot, cause rain) to keep adjusting it.

They basically gave up trying to fix it and made the setting easier to access, popping up when you hit the windshield wash button on the stalk.
Another issue with Firefox containers is there's no UI to manually add or remove sites from the container assignment list. Very annoying when so many sites and services use tracking/pass-through domains.
Monopolies lead to no competition, leading to reduced innovation, economic stagnation, consolidation of wealth and power. That directly harms the American people and if left unchecked other countries may actually start to get ahead, especially if they maintain a fair market environment within their own country and ban American monopolies.

If the concern is that people will start using Baidu search, then the solution should be to ban Baidu search. It shouldn't be to let some monopolies run rampant with the hopes that other countries will never be able to compete, while forgetting that free market economy is what made America
There is always a push to do original research. Maybe a partial solution here is that it is encouraged, even required, to take up a major and a minor specialty. The major one you do original research and the minor one you work to reproduce existing research. Building that in from the start would go a long way of creating a culture of trust but verify in these fields.
> 90% of people want us to just stay with one.

> 45% of the people really want to be on standard time year round, 45% of the people want to be on daylight time year round. The rest don't care.

So you think the people that want the swapping to end above all else are a rounding error? I don't. I think it's a significant group of people.

Also it would only take a few of them to break a deadlock.

For example, let's say 42% of voters want standard, 42% want summer, 6% want either, and 10% don't care very much. Of that last 10%, let's pessimistically say that 2/3 will vote against any change and 1/3 will vote yes.

If you put up a vote to end daylight savings in either direction, 42% + 6% + 3.3% vote yes, and 42% + 6.7% vote no. It passes.
Two long-running stories about plagiary/research fraud/p-hacking.

1. Really the term 'pizzagate' has been overrun by other more mainstream things. This is the Brian Wansink p-hacking scandal. ("When it comes to stats, this guy makes Satoshi Kanazawa look like Uri Simonsohn. That explains why his response to questions about p-hacking or harking was, “Well, we weren’t testing a registered hypothesis, so there’d be no way for us to try to massage the data to meet it.”")

2. Kahneman on the discredited field of priming research (small samples, large effect sizes, hard to disprove an anecdote of an experiment was never run or falsified.)
> I'd argue that an API is not a user interface and that's not really their intention.

API is a user interface for other developers – just like MCP is a UI for LLMs.
> Refer to me as "boss"

I chuckled. This works so good.
not sure what exactly that has to do with prebuilt versions of Windows that come with bloatware/adware or other nonstandard customisations?
A lot of people worldwide, one could say
Since Chrome's engine is used by Edge, Opera, Brave, etc.. Probably the best move is to become a non-profit and have all those organizations chip in.

The main reason even Microsoft gave up and rebased their browser on top of Chrome is because of the breakneck speed at which Google introduces new standards and features to the ecosystem. Having them be forced to slow down might be a good thing for browser diversity and the future of the Internet.
Fraud is basically the only career path in our current fake economy. Everyone is committing fraud on some form or another. Your company, you personally, your government, etc.
Most people seem to agree with my "hot" takes. Why should I invest so much time for a random comment? I just clarified what are the limits of my opinion.

On the other hand it doesn't seem you read the article? It is mostly focused on performance, which often shouldnt be the main focus when selecting the language. And even if you need performance (e.g. data science) it can be very fast if you source out the billion iterations to a library.
The idea is roughly, "we want an easy way to talk about meetings and 'business hours' without constantly remembering the offset of all the timezones and doing the math".

E.G. a normal person wants to know roughly: morning, mid-day, evening +/- offset. Durations also matter, so an oversimplified version that uses numbers to represent those values appeals to some. 0800, 1400, 2000 (or in lay person time 8am 2pm 8pm)

However the further from the equator anyone is, the less those numbers hold ANY stability or reality over the course of a year. E.G. even in Seattle it barely gets to twilight overnight during the summer, and the length of a day from bright enough to do anything to too dim to safely do stuff is insane. https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/seattle (Take Jun 20: 1:43 of real night, nearly 16 hours of 'real day', and LOTS of practically day besides). Contrast to Orlando https://www.timeanddate.com/sun/usa/orlando (June 20: 6:54 Night, nearly 14 hours of 'real day')

Which is to say, DST doesn't really do much of anything, other than give very equatorial places a slightly easier way of making the evening brighter longer and making it MUCH harder to get to sleep on time with all that bright light.
i like how you reference the newsletter and not the actual busness of posthog. might make their newsletter person happy.
> when you read studies, giving people 400 mg of caffeine (~4 cups of coffee) delays sleep by 30 minutes or so.

I'll need to see those studies. I'm finding the reverse:
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3805807/

> One study examining the sleep effects of 400 mg caffeine administered 30 minutes before bedtime demonstrated both severe sleep disruption as well as important cardiovascular effects during sleep likely related to increased sympathetic activity.
The providence of being here and now, a time where those exist, a country where good medical care is available, and the means to afford it.
Related: Shamus Young's article on adding rivers to a procgen world <https://www.shamusyoung.com/twentysidedtale/?p=12076>.
I find it kind of bleakly funny that people are so all-in on this tech that's so much a black box that you have to literally swear at it to get it work as desired.
Uh, I think the article itself is fine. Not the most rigorous science, but not too bad for an amateur.

But the comments on HN, on the other hand... Every single post about medicine or disease is full of anecdote upon anecdote and pseudoscience. It's really hard to tell the difference between HN and Reddit in this regard.

The most insane part is that people here are so eager to jump on the train and recommend random treatments to others when they've only vaguely described their problem. I never understand this.
It is, yet I still feel I'm better off having read it. A real life person having this kind of strength in the face of tragedy makes one more optimistic.
please make an apple watch companion app. this is comprehensive and could become indispensable with a watch app in tow
Someone tried to relaunch Galaxy last year. They produced an August 2024 issue, none since. No idea what's going on with it. The same people tried to do a relaunch of Worlds of If a year prior, just one issue too. I honestly don't know whether to wish luck to the people doing this, or if they'd just ruin them...
My point was that no data gleaned from this experiment would've been meaningful, regardless of the result, because it was not conducted very rigourously.and on a sufficiently large scale.
The UK monarchs don't rule. They are for show only.
The point is reducing waste without changing customer habits. People could also eat the brown banana but that's beside the point.
> So you think the people that want the swapping to end above all else are a rounding error?

No, they are the 90%.
Google and Meta collectively employ how many software people in the United States? The jobs hit would be unimaginable. High octane nightmare fuel, that idea.
PassMark is "more honest"? It represents a varied load??? No, sorry, it's just not good. Seriously, read their own documentation.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_test_info.html

Right from the top it's amateurish stuff: their idea of an integer benchmark to measure "raw" CPU throughput (whatever that means) is to make a bunch of random ints and add/subtract/multiply/divide them.

Very few programs do a high volume of either integer multiply or divide. And when they do, they generally aren't doing it on random numbers. This is the kind of thing which gives synthetic benchmarks their highly deserved bad rep. It might be even worse than Dhrystone MIPs, and believe me, in benchmark nerd circles, that is a fucking diss.

If you look up Geekbench's docs, you'll find that it's all about real-world compute tasks. For example, one of the int tests in their suite is to compile a reference program with the Clang compiler. Compilers are a reasonably good litmus test of integer performance; they heavily stress the CPU features most responsible for high integer performance in this day and age. (Branch prediction, memory prefetching, out-of-order execution, speculation, that kind of thing.)

You claimed that PassMark reflects "complex" software, and Geekbench doesn't. However, I would be willing to bet that Clang alone is far more complex than all of PassMark's CPU benchmarks put together, whether you measure by SLOC or program structure.

Note that none of this has anything to do with Mac vs PC. Passmark is simply a bad benchmark that should not be used, period. That said, there are a bunch of warning signs that PassMark's ports to everything outside its native x86 Windows are probably quite sloppy, so it's even less useful for crossplatform comparisons.
Customers are willing to pay for accuracy compared to existing solutions out there. We started out in need of an accurate solution for a RAG product we were building, but none of the solutions we tried were providing the accuracy we needed.
I'm also getting an error, I wonder if my PiHole is blocking it
Well some of the Ukrainian mineral deposits are currently occupied by Russia.
Nah, the plural of anecdote is confirmation bias. Why do people keep trotting out this "plural of anecdote is data" line, is it a quote from some high-profile idiot?

Of course data can also give you confirmation bias, maybe that's the point, maybe that's why people defend anecdotes. What you have to do to find out if something is really happening is reason about it, then test your theories by doing your best to knock them over. Often though we just end up testing for statistical correlation without any better theory than "these two things go together". In that case, the plural of anecdote is bad methodology. The best thing I can say about anecdotes is that they might give you ideas.

Edit: found it, it's due to one Ray Wolfinger, behavioral political scientist: When a student once categorized one of Wolfinger’s claims as “just anecdotal,” he paused for an expectant second, dropping a copy of Robert Dahl’s “Who Governs” onto his seminar table as he replied, “The plural of anecdote is data.” His quip, emphasizing that statistics represent human stories, would become a well-known aphorism throughout the field. Well this probably shouldn't be taken literally and I suspect the criticism of his claim was fair.