skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is rather scant and hyperbolic.

> “… was dominated by an aggressive mob mentality around barefoot running”

Really? Most of the barefoot running enthusiasts I encountered were super friendly and open-minded.

> “… the appeal to nature fallacy: a logical fallacy in which a subject is claimed to be good simply because it is natural”

I’m not sure it is a fallacy to revert to tradition (proven heuristics) in a complex realm of limited first-principles understanding. Much of the barefoot running enthusiasm (and general naturalist or anthropologically-oriented problem-solving) is less oriented to proving various theories and more so trying to find gains with a clear awareness of uncertainty.

Personally: I suspect simple shoes best honor the immense structural complexity of the feet and legs (and the integration with the rest of the body). I wear thin-soled shoes in order to maintain healthy lower limbs. As a lover of walks for a clear mind I advocate for simple, thin-soled shoes (but I don’t believe we need an inquisition and I haven’t yet started collecting funds for a mission).

The few times I attempted to wear shoes with significant support I noticed dangerous knee strain that went away upon returning to simple shoes. While there’s no overwhelming body of evidence there and I probably can’t write a paper about it, that’s sufficient signal for me to stick with simple shoes.
And you have to build up the volume gradually. In the industry this is called "warming up IP addresses". See for example https://help.elasticemail.com/en/articles/2788598-how-to-war... or https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/dedicated-ip-warmi...
So called barefoot shoes, which are notable for their thin, flat soles and wide foot boxes, are not based on an appeal to nature at all. Constricting the foot and movement of the toes results in visible changes to feet and complications like ingrown toenails which are otherwise rare. Thick soles cause a transition to a hard heel strike pattern which ultimately increases stress on the heels and knees. The amount of hard data which is currently available is limited, but also rather dramatic.

My work involves walking all around urban environments. I had long had problems with overly narrow shoes, and when I transitioned to barefoot style shoes my gait completely changed. The result has been a massive improvement in quality of life with foot and joint pain that used to be constant now completely gone. One interesting part of this is that it took a full two years to completely make the transition, and now when I want to buy shoes I almost always find a range available in my size because so many attempt to transition to wearing barefoot shoes turn back because it is genuinely painful, difficult, and dangerous, especially at first in the initial two weeks or so.

This article is interesting, but to me seems a bit off. More interesting than the brief spike of strong interest is the fact that interest in barefoot running and barefoot shoes remained elevated afterwards relative to before.
There is someone out there who doesn't let LLM touch his code but uses it solely for commit messages.
I really liked the idea of "barefoot running" at the time, but it was always pretty clearly an extreme take. I do still think (with 0 evidence) that a lot of supported shoes are overly padded - that said, people run on a pretty wide variety of surfaces, it seems hard to argue that people evolved to run on concrete.

Nice bit of context for anyone interested but not wanting to read the whole book is Christopher McDougal's TED talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-iGZPtWXzE
From the article:

> Specifically, the confusion of the genre system disturbed the means for the proper release of the soul’s passions, causing audiences to be ruled instead by their unfettered emotions and impulses

I.e.: there are more ways to tackle the same topic, to develop an artistic work about some area. And there are progressive and regressive experiences. The topic is clearly too hefty to be summarize here - but the very submission has several points of "progressive vs regressive" expression as its theme...

If the poster writes «quite disturbing», probably he means that "the progressive is not there" (as sensible interpretation).
Took me 24 hours of cogitating on this — when someone says "bully" you think "Trump"?

And here I am thinking that we are in a period of Capitalism frought with fraud, monopolies, cronyism, vulture capitalism....

(Maybe "dickish" is the word I should have used. But, I suppose we're back to politics again — hmmm... maybe there's just something in the air as we round the first quarter of the 21st Century.)
> Someone should make a Microsoft or phishing domain? game.

Done: https://domaingame.damgaard.dev/ :-D
For a couple of years, there was this barefoot guy who commuted on the same train as me to work. No matter the season, always barefoot. I must say, purely from a hygiene perspective, it felt uncomfortable looking at his feet. They were dirty and dusty in the same way shoes would pick up dirt.

What do your feet look like today ? Honest question.
Humans are flesh and blood after all. Our entire higher brain only exists to serve the inner lizard.
They presumably don’t have any extra information except what’s in the article which said they “often squirmed” rather than always, which means simply repeating the process enough gives times when they didn’t.

If you want technique: “infants were _ to reduce movement.”

If you missed what was in the blank you might want to reread to see what else you missed.
People's DNA up for sale as 23andMe goes bankrupt
I trust apple to have more intelligent audit controls on their employees than the average carrier.

And the calculation for the carrier is different. There's a inherent incentive on unblocking a phone for the carrier, as this means a billable contract. For Apple there's a inherent incentive in being known as having devices hard to unblock and thus, presumably less attractive for thieves.
URL redirects to fake virus scam, history hijack
> Like the original version of Newton’s method, each iteration of this new algorithm is still computationally more expensive than methods such as gradient descent. As a result, for the moment, the new work won’t change the way self-driving cars, machine learning algorithms or air traffic control systems work. The best bet in these cases is still gradient descent.

Unfortunately not.
I worked for a company, back in 2007, who had two products, one written in C++ and WxWidgets, and another written in Delphi. The Delphi product was an online publishing platform, running on IIS. They started hiring like crazy to create a new Java based platform, they must have spend millions only to scrap the whole thing a year or two in. I left just as that was happening, as did many others. Nobody wanted to go from working on the new hotness to working on the ageing Delphi platform. I think they kept it running for another five years or so, then pivoted to an online ad platform and then bankruptcy.

For online I don't think Borland, or whoever owned Delhi back then, really had the resources to keep up with everything else. Even today it's pretty expensive to buy the tooling from Embarcadero to keep projects alive, but probably cheaper and less risky that porting to another language.
You may have success checking for common tracking and advertising elements in a mail. Good chance it's spam if there's not 100 trackers. Frustrating.
Best of both worlds:

> No results found for "digiatl". Did you mean to search for "digital" instead?
There are so many things put together here almost randomly, because of that its easy to criticise the whole thing, but there are some reasonable things in it.

Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you, so is any reasonable exposure to nature. The key here is exposure to nature, walking on asphalt or concrete is not nature. This is about walking barefoot so that your soles connect to the soil, earth, dirt, grass or sand. In the modern world of course you have to be careful and watch out for sharp objects, all kinds of garbage etc.

People who have a piece of land, garden or park access can definitely use it for barewalking, running or just standing - it doesn't matter as long as feet touch the soil, without any fancy, minimal, shoes or anything like that.

In many spiritual places they require you to remove your shoes and even your socks, there are certain benefits of doing that, but even the holiest of people would wear shoes when going on rough terrain, thats just a question of sanity.
I just had a similar issue with action cameras. My options are GoPro overheats and short battery life, DJI app banned in the store that I would not use regardless, insta360 / akaso which appear to both be the same shell companies and their camera can't even activate without an app despite the vendor promising otherwise. Returned and one starred all that junk. I would like to find a true stand-alone professional fully functional action camera with stabilization, long battery life and built by pros. Without exception I will not use anything that requires a phone or wifi and I don't care how big it is. Even if it's a 200,000 pound excavator, it will be on their doorstep if it requires a phone or wifi some are going this direction and one way or another they will be paying for shipping and my time.
In most organizations there is no point in a sysadmin to spend the effort in understanding how to set it up correctly as Marketing has got more authority on email. Marketing will simply demand changes to the config that they do not understand and there is nothing you can do to stop it as they will have the CEO on their side.
Almost guaranteed this is user error. Ollama has a (tiny) default of 2048 context, so about then is probably when you noticed the results sharply decline in quality. Try 16384
Qwq:32b + qwen2.5-coder:32b is a nice combination for aider, running locally on a 4090. It has to swap models between architect and edit steps so it's not especially fast, but it's capable enough to be useful. qwen2.5-coder does screw up the edit format sometimes though, which is a pain.
They can make a difference for athletes:

"The data showed significant differences in the oxygen uptake (a way to measure the energy cost of running) in the Vaporfly shoe resulting in a 2.8 percent improved running economy, or the amount of energy it takes a runner to go a certain distance, over the Adidas shoe on average"

https://lifesciences.byu.edu/can-your-shoes-really-make-you-...
Ski Itinerary Optimization
Palantir suggests 'common operating system' for UK govt data
It's funny that people will hear about something new, misinterpret it, and then get angry about it.
Sounds good. As I said it was my first time, and I'd just glossed over the specs and did not look forward to it (I usually don't enjoy sysadmin work). So, was just pleasantly surprised.
Is this a TLDraw wrapper?
Wow thanks for the plug!

Here is also the concept map from the book for people to see what topics are covered in it: https://minireference.com/static/conceptmaps/math_and_physic...

Since you mentioned DSP, you might want to also check out this excerpt on Fourier transformations from the No Bullshit Guide to Linear Algebra:
https://minireference.com/static/excerpts/fourier_transforma...
You are highly highly aware of your feet when running in shoes with 3mm of total rubber/padding.
Funnily enough you can buy GPUs where someone has done exactly that: solder extra VRAM into a stock model.
I never wrote that Schengen "is not an EU programme", I pointed out succintly that the countries in Schengen and the countries in EU are not the same thing.

In fact there are also EU countries NOT in Schengen. And there are countries in Europe but not in the EU which are not in Schengen either.
How will this year release scale when you need to work with newer compilers? I don‘t write cpp so I honestly don‘t know. Do you need to freeze your version of the compiler forever? Or is gcc / clang backwards compatible? Or do you sprinkle tons of pragmas on the files to control this? What I mean is how can you make sure your version one API is still compiling in the future. Take the counter example of ruby for instance. I could write a package with lots of namespaces and declare v1 frozen. But I still need to potentially

update the code so it can run in newer versions of the runtime.
Edit: typos
Currently the goal is to make the product awesome for our initial markets (US/Canada) but UK will be supported soon after we believe
to be fair here: for a lot of companies, if the mass mailing stops, the money-flow stops then that's no good for anyone... so the CEO will probably err on the side of money, presumably.
Note that Bosh in this case is a brand of BSH Hausgeräte so if you have reason to boycott them you probably also want to boycott their other home appliance brands, including Siemens and more:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSH_Hausger%C3%A4te#Appliance_...
You always want a bit of headroom for context. It's a problem I keep bumping into with 32B models on a 24GB card: the decent quants fit, but the context you have available on the card isn't quite as much as I'd like.
"In modern world you have to be careful and watch out for sharp objects, all kinds of garbage etc."

Also in the pre modern world. Spikey plants are in many places and my feet regular hurt in summer.

"but even the holiest of people would wear shoes when going on rough terrain"

Unless when done with purpose. It is a good awareness training, walking through the bushes barefeet. One moment of distraction .. ouch.
> Having barefoot connection with soil is definitely good for you

Citation needed
Yep. I also draw the line if you are hateful against minorities. I don't care what you think inside your heads or what are you afraid of. But if you make the effort to make the lifes of people already in danger and suffering even worse, that definitely needs to be called out.
Thanks for your feedback. Did you have any thoughts on the platform? You can find it at https://zarathustra.network
It's a bit more complicated than that.

Firenze went through several waves of

1. being ruled by a certain noble family, usually with French or Papal connections

2. a rebellion happens; a new "communal" government sees other nobles and the merchant class rule together for a short period

3. one noble family rises to the top again, or the city gets reconquered by the old family

4. rinse and repeat

The development of new towers was blocked during one of those briefs interreigns, more specifically a situations where both main factions from the nobility were absent from the city, busy fighting a war among themselves in the nearby regions.

Later, when one of the factions had come back into the city and emerged as winner, they destroyed their enemies' towers. Such enemies inevitably came back stronger, retook the city, and destroyed the left-over towers. By that point, towers were clearly not enough to ensure safety (because conflicts now involved pretty large armies), so nobody tried to rebuild them.

Meanwhile, nearby San Gimignano was remote enough to not be periodically invaded, so their towers survived largely unscathed.
> Equally obviously, someone else thought it was a good idea and went and implemented it.

Maybe I misunderstood, but it's not obvious to me that someone read your idea, thought it was good, and then went to implement it.

https://github.com/searchmysite/searchmysite.net/graphs/code... looks like the bulk of the code was added 2 - 4 years ago.
To add to the anecdotal support for barefoot running: I ran in traditional running shoes for years ... and my knees were eventually not happy. I gave up running, assuming I just had bad knees.

When I heard about barefoot running a year or so later, I tried it. Running on the balls of my feet took some re-learning but the knee pain never came back. I continued to run for 4 or 5 years. (I'm not sure why I started walking instead of running — getting older? Or to share the time with my non-running wife?)

(On a tangent: I dislike any kind of shoe-clip when biking. I feel that pulling up on your leg/knee to power a bicycle goes against the design of our knee.)
The 4090 can run 32B models in Q4_K_M, so yes, on that measure. Not unquantised though, nothing bigger than Q8 would fit. On a 32GB card you'll have more choices to trade off quantisation against context.
Thanks! That is an interesting take! Today, the majority of users use Obsidian as their exporter. My idea was to have a broad offering, but it might be confusing and scare people away. I will definitely consider this!
It's IMPOSSIBLE to query "Webalizer" on the 3rd largest search engine
amazon.com

webalizer vs awstats
> 1-16 of 77 results for "nebulizer vs astats"

webalizer vs Google Analytics
> 1-16 of 54 results for "nebulizer vs google analytics"

1-16 of 77 results for "nebulizer vs astats"

webalizer server side tracking
> 1-16 of 35 results for "nebulizer server side tracking"
> I dont remember the thread but the context I think was regarding reading memories digitally somehow.

Funnily enough, apparently the language in the different parts of memory process (i.e. encoding+storage+retrieval) stems exactly from "digital computer memory" :), psychologists in the 40s/50s looked at the development of computers and started making analogies with the brain.

> I wonder if revisiting memories often enough will reencode them before they are lost?

Well, you have Ebbinghaus' forgetting curve, which shows how (in this case, semantic) memory decays with time but, with rehearsal, the memory trace (i.e. the neural substrate) gets "stronger" ("neurons that wire together fire together") and lasts longer in memory.

There are multiple types of "forgetting" (Schacter's "The Seven Sins of Memory"), what we usually mean by it is the "transience sin", i.e. forgetting because of elapsed time. There are several views why it happens, mainly storage failure, i.e. that memory trace getting weaker, or retrieval failure, being unable to get the right "memory cue" to retrieve that memory.

So, probably, if you start associating one particular [0] cue with the memory, and training that over time, yes, it should be possible to not-lose the memory (I don't think it will help with Alzheimer's, though).

The funny thing is that every time you retrieve a memory from long-term storage, it gets re-encoded before it goes back to storage so, basically, every time you remember you are modifying the memory a bit with your current biases (another sin!), thus also forgetting :).

[0] And choosing the best cue is already a hard topic, as it should be different enough as to not trigger many different memories ("cue overload principle" from Surprenant and Neath's "principles of memory"), and the memory should be not so different enough that you may get the risk of other singular memories interfering with it.
Should have mentioned: This is outdoor (and indoor), in Denmark, year round, including winter.
Yes, the half in "Half-baked" is making long-winded assertions backed up with anecdotes not facts. [Editted]

It is anti-intellectual to blather on over pages and pages, trying to tell people how to live their lives without giving any information to show if ones statements are correct or not.

"Intellectual" is, for some reason, accepted in some circles as meaning longwinded unscientific musings, to which whole university departments are devoted.
That does not mean it is not an utter waste of time and effort, that would be better spent on measuring things and giving advice that is actually shown to improve people's lives.
Marketing decides on DKIM and SPF ?
Don't Buy into Apple's Hype About AirPods Max Gaining Lossless Audio
Is there actually an "domain reputation as a service" provider, which controls a couple thousand gmail addresses, sends itself the emails and manually unmarks them as spam? Asking for a friend..........
> all this is causation or correlation

Both: it is a vicious circle.
Also the significant benefits that comes from improved post-run recovery with modern super shoes, allowing athletes to run significantly more weekly mileage.
I like this, thank you! I just lost an hour of time to the exact sort of random but considered personal websites that I think made the Web great in the first place.
I'm still running in my vibrams mostly because I've not had a reason to change and researching alternative shoes is annoying and expensive, limiting my experimentation with different brands and models. I also put in a good amount of mileage and worry how long the shoe will last. I'm mostly considering changing because vibrams aren't on sale as often, carried by fewer retailers, and sizing online is a pain (especially when they don't list the european size).

I didn't start out of any book hype but bought a pair out of curiosity and then lost my regular running shoes before a race. It was a monthly 5k and my time dramatically improved that month (I had also switched to a standing desk, making root cause fuzzier, which I also still use). Most of my running is on rough, rocky trails except when they are wet or for the 5k.
I think the domain rep is worth less than IP rep. I had occasional issues sending issues when I self hosted on a VPS. When I moved my domain to Fastmail I haven’t ever had my emails go to spam.

Most home and VPS IP ranges have negative rep.
Maybe it's indeed just the walking.

The shoes I wear most other times are oxfords, monks or brogues however.

These kinda lock your foot in place, metatarsal and arch of the foot are not 'exercised' as much because of the rigidity of these shoes.

I do use more feet muscles in my Five Fingers for the simple fact that these shoes allow me to do that.

You can kinda flex your feet and e.g. choose to land only on the metatarsal and feel safe.
> This phrasing seems to suggest they think they invented the idea of "TikTok but it's Wikipedia". I see the author is OP, so my suggestion might be to consider rephrasing a bit as it comes off a bit accusatory.

Am I missing something, it comes off as the precise opposite to me? OP wrote "I built X, but the idea came from this source" basically, acknowledging they built the thing but the idea came from somewhere else.
> strongly worded claims: barefoot running prevented injuries; barefoot running was more efficient; heel striking was evil; barefoot running was the natural and therefore "correct" way to run.

Anecdata: a friend of mine has been running for years, and for years he complained about knee pain. As it turns out he was heel striking the whole time, it completely disappeared since I told him to run 50 meters barefoot to find his "natural" point of contact
When is Delete a delete not Trash
I have been in many occasion troubled by the fact that Delete icon, or The word delete doesn't mean delete something. Rather it means move to trash. For example in Gmail that is the case. I was trying to help someone about their Gmail account not having much space, I saw Gmail was taking up like 14+ GB of space, so I told him to delete mails from Inbox. My bad I didn't realize that delete isn't delete, and they have to clear up Trash.

Friends would ask their computer doesn't have storage, yet they barely have something on it.

I wonder, on how may occasions people found themselves in trouble because the Delete button/icon isn't "deleting" things?
First we have Gruber. Then we have Macrumors. Something about the Apple's PR wall is falling.
If the contract doesn’t correspond to what the salesperson said, wouldn’t the company still be on the hook for false advertising and/or fraud?
Clickacble for everyone who likes old.* better:

https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1h5jf7s/apple_intell...
When will humanity receive the electric Japanese?
Size. I don't think you can buy a 60" monitor.
I disagree. The root cause is obviously Israel founding which was the the last colonial project that Western European countries undertook.

I predict that in the next decades Europe will cut ties with Israel completely but until then we reap what we sow.
Shop window in Spitalfields - that didn’t happen to be a personal training gym called The Foundry, did it?
Silicon Valley's Invite-Only IRL Dating Scene