skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Normal kidneys excrete aluminum just fine. Lycopene also helps. If aluminum is accumulating in the brain or the blood, there is something that's not washing it out, meaning the waste removal process of the brain or kidneys is compromised.
I'm pretty left leaning and I don't like Bluesky. For me, it's too hostile and too much of an angry echo chamber. X is scattered wildly but I with muting I have been able to shape to get a more reasonable feed.
Sure, the other effects is that they're much more likely to be driving at night, overextended their waking hours, distracted by friends / a date / a prostitute, and driving a route that they do not normally drive.

How could you not be 10x more likely to crash than the nurse getting off at 2am who has driven the route a thousand times and knows all the bad blind spots / bad intersections / is still well within her normal waking hours. That is much closer to the normal profile of the sober people who are out driving during prime drinking hours.
Digg is doing early access today
A tiny one-time $5 barrier keeps the bots at bay and saves the best usernames for actual humans.
That's pretty much Rocket Money

https://www.rocketmoney.com/
Those starred rhetorical questions initially looked to me like a critique of Lisp! Because that's how Lisp (particularly Common Lisp) works. All those things are softish. You can see unexported symbols even if you're not supposed to use them. There is no actual privacy unless you do something special like unintern then recreate a symbol.
> More accurate is “streaming without discrete ad breaks.”

Yes, or as people call it: "ad-free". We all know what is meant by that phrase, being pedantic about "well actually there are ads regardless" doesn't make communication clearer.
Ask HN: What is the end goal of DT and EM?
As the title says, what is the end goal of these 2 and those in the administration pushing various agendas? Is it capturing all the data about everyone in the US? Is it deporting everyone who is not a US citizen? Is it jailing everyone who speaks up against them?
This was the push back on parent comment that I was hoping to find, against the misguided qualifier. Thanks. Strongly agree.

All weaknesses are strengths in the right context. Yea, perhaps the context simply doesn't exist in the world we maintain, but we can unreservedly acknowledge it's definitely in the "latent space of culture" :)
Solar panels aren't free. And aren't hassle-free either.

I wouldn't even bring that into the equasion since a large part of the population can't use solar panels.

Not to mention GPU value depreciation.
> Where is the self-awareness, the doubt, even the shame that brings wisdom?

There is a book Investing Between the Lines by Rittenhouse that argues that candor is a high predictor for company outperformance. Buffett for example has written on multiple occasions things like “this was fully my mistake” or “it turned out I was wrong”. With the book in the back of my mind, I set out to find annual reports were the letters showed candor instead of the typical “Among a greatly turbulent economy, we have maintained good revenue numbers and customer satisfaction” rhetoric.

I have read about 100 reports and found one or two satisfying this criterium. From the top of my head, only Berskhire, Amazon in the 2000s, and Ryanair conduct candor communication.

So yes I fully agree with your point on candor and self-awareness.
Last I checked, there was a surplus of tech talent in the US who have been subject to layoffs.

Govt gives benefits and job security, at least till the next opportunity rises.
One approach you could use is to

- run your code through a preprocessor (like tsc or babel) and have it set to generate 'es2016' code. This will transpile out async/await to equivalent code without those keywords.

- Then edit the generated code and/or the runtime library it attaches to use Bluebird promises instead of native promises.

Are you on an old version of nodejs? Past a certain version (I don't know which one), native promises are actually faster.
Oh come on. I have this thing open all day when I'm working, you can't bullshit me like that. It's a not good UI, its serviceable.

It's not good by any conceivable metric other than those they have internally decided represent business goals. If you want to have a tautological argument that makes it good, because those goals are the only goals that matter. That's a boring response to an article about how business incentives have turned the UI into trash.

FFS the Play button frequently breaks requiring a refresh. And as much as I appreciate the inevitable response that I'm holding it wrong, how is that my problem?
First person to ask for more parenthesis in Lisp.
Next time you see a HN post on a lisp-centric topic, click into the comments. I'll bet you a nickel that they'll be happier than most. Instead of phrases like "dumpster fire" they're using words like "joyful".

That's why I keep rekindling my learn-lisp effort. It feels like I'm just scratching the surface re: the fun that can be had.
You're probably right that it was a fuck-up. But given that she was carrying frog embryos and not something illegal I don't understand why the government would revoke her visa. Just give her a warning and move on.
> grad students

No, fresh 22 year olds with bachelor degrees.

> effective institutional ecologies

More so, they act as liability sponges. Leadership can blame them for any problems, poor decisions etc.
TLDR:

The main problem here is that the systems are starting to look more and more alike every day. Systems that are oppressed by algorithms turn into a Hollywood porn star: they are just trying to show what they like the most. This makes the systems uniform by wiping out all other beautiful and valuable things.

Instead of really making a system better, we're trying to make it look like the most popular one available. As a result, we have copies with silicone lips, silicone breasts, plenty of aesthetics, but cheap and soulless. Instead of improving existing systems, we corrupt them by copying them.
Show HN: Rewriting SQL on the Fly in CipherStash Proxy
if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.

it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.
I guess I'm weird because I pay for Netflix/HBO for no ads, but I'm on the ad supported tier for Peacock and Hulu. I guess it's just what I'm used to (I don't expect to see ads on Netflix, but I do expect to see them on Hulu)
"unhealthy" it's simple profiteering.

In the UK that's got especially interesting. When more consultants started quitting these big firms to go independent (offering cheaper services to public sector and often better quality), these corporations lobbied for something called IR35 - basically means if company is worker owned, then it cannot make profit. Now big consultancies have very much a monopoly on making profit from some else's work and charge public sector - tax payer handsomely.

You would think that such setup is ultimately corrupt.
> My company's customer-facing API bits are written in nodejs,

First mistake.

If the argument is about performance, then using nodejs is really a bad choice in general. Node promises are already expensive on memory and can easily cause memory leaks if not handled properly.

> and our VP insists that we are not allowed to use async/await, and must instead use Bluebird promises [1].

I don't think Bluebird will solve the problem and is more likely to break on new versions of node that have critical security fixes.

If you are seriously after performance with strong concurrency characteristics, use Go instead.
I love Crystal but I’m surprised at how nothing the WASM story is this late in the game. I’d love to run Crystal directly in the browser, especially given how web-focused they seem to be.

Also, windows support has been more or less “done” for a couple of years now, is the “preview” tag still necessary?
"but part of the secret sauce of why these big orgs generally operate as effective institutional ecologies"

Nah

the secret sauce is "who you know"

it's a tale as old as time
There are almost none because everything goes obsolete in a month. In 6 months, it's deprecated. Nearly every book or guide you find will be outdated by the time it's released and the people who write them are getting exhausted with this loop.

I once wrote slides on how to give AI context so it can code. When I asked a friend to proofread it, GPT-4 came out and it was smart enough to make all my techniques obsolete. I updated my workflow for it, and then Cursor came out, basically automating all the indexing and stuff in seconds while I'd take days.

There's YouTube, but they tend to be brief and look like hype or unedited. Most of the good stuff is experimental, but experimental isn't helpful and shouldn't be. If you want names: techfren and Sabrina Ramonov

The new GPT-4o image update is just amazing. It compounds with the new memory update less 24 hours ago. I could write pages about why but I'd rather just make stuff with it. Anyone who's getting excited about it but not using it is a bit of a hypocrite.

Just treat it like a skateboard. No book. You'll fall many times at first. Have fun with it. You don't have to go anywhere, just go around the block. Join one of the many hackathons out there and do something with it. It'll click.

Make good use of Cunningham's Law - just exclaim that it can't do Y, and someone will explain how it does Y. Like the skater community, people want to see you do tricks.
96 of 301 projects complete, 58 in progress • https://www.project2025.observer/
I think this issue with using these models is something he touches on. As big-hollywood-company-xyz you can ask the writer what were the influences of the work and determine if anything crosses a legal line. You can have a level of trust in what the writer says since their reputation/career is on the line.

With the AI model, it can regurgitate something from the internet word for word and it's on you to check it.

There's a lot of work being done to make AI more transparent but it seems like that has a way to go.

Or you realise that the models are all trained on pirated data anyways and no one cared so if you are a big enough company you can just do whatever you want.
Are you claiming cancel culture isn't real?
Gemini 2.5 DeepResearch new Pentagon consultant.
The story was pushed by the Canadian government due to tariffs and to shift the blame. Freezing funds and opening an investigation is good press. It doesn't matter if they know there was crime.

Electrek is thoughtless garbage. It wasn't that long ago it was a pro tesla hype machine.
This goal feels like a marketing OKR to me. A proper technical goal would be "all packages, except the ones that have a valid reason, such as signatures, not to be reproducible".
This is going to devastate the DC area. Most of my friends work for one of the big IT contractors. It's a great gig if you can get it, very nice compensation and not a lot of responsibility. The first rule of government contracting has always been why buy something when you can buy it for three times the price. As a result these firms have become quite massive in their size and billings. This is going to cause a major overturn in people living in the DC region, and overall incomes. I would say perhaps, perhaps, it's the equivalent of a very large company leaving Silicon Valley.
The article says that 2015 Netflix and 2015 Spotify were better, my point is that 2025 Netflix and Spotify are better for the actual customers (the advertisers), but they are not transformatively better in the way that generative AI is.
It's almost like supporting an ally whose sovereign territory is being violated is some kind of different situation than the US unilaterally performing military actions in a variety of locations. Amazing!
Friend, when your argument evaporates in the presence of the financial numbers and you revert to character assassination, you might be identifying yourself among the untrustworthy. Bad faith arguments really undermine any trust I could build for you through this media.

> The premium you pay a non SpaceX launch provider is so that the rug isn’t pulled on you. Cheaper is not always better.

Again, when one of them manages to land an orbital class rocket, call me. Competition would be great.
Personally disappointed to see opposition US liberals in the US still fantasizing that the problem of Trump is going to be solved "eventually" in 2026 or in the courts.

More protests needed. This is tyranny-lite in action, huge overreach by the executive that I'm pretty sure the hallowed founders -- that people always talk about with reverance down there -- would be horrified by. 18th century revolutionaries would be disappointed to see the way people are rolling over.
Erlang's not about lightweight processes and message passing (2023)
workers are allowed to bargain against the government, as in “i will not take the job at the pay you are offering.”

both private companies and workers should not be allowed to band together to deny the government all contracts until they get the one they want.
It's hard to track, because it's all nice websites with generic messages like "we make life better" and pictures with obligatory diversity faces. E.g. $4.5 billion here chemonics.com. Or $3 billion here devalt.org. Where did these money go? How can we measure the ROI?

USAID is a corrupt wasteful sinkhole, good riddance to it.
I'd love to offer a few words of encouragement for this excellent project. This space only appears crowded to those that have already been here for a while. To everyone else, this might just be the most obvious thing to adopt for Kubernetes and they might not even have heard of Kustomize/Helm. So I would suggest two separate personas to target in the docs and communication: 1) Jaded devs that need to be convinced with detailed proof that Koreo isn't yet-another YAML tool. 2) Everyone else, to whom the pitch is that Koreo is the most obvious choice when the need is A, B, or C.

Looking forward to trying this out soon!

I also think more high level patterns would make Koreo more approachable. Real world problems and how they could be addressed with Koreo.
Oftentimes, the consulting companies are outsourcing back to the government but for free. The dynamic is something like:

1) Consultant is hired to solve a problem.

2) Consultant struggles to understand the nuances of the problem.

3) Consultant relies on government employees to hand-hold them through the solution, effectively subsidizing the consultant with free labor.

4) Consultant writes it up in a final report with their company logo on the title page and gets paid.

Maybe that's not necessarily bad if it eventually solves the problem, but it does seem pretty inefficient for the taxpayer.
Create Your Own Game Using Prompts
Don’t hate the player hate the game. Academia has been perforated with metric driven nonsense from administration at all levels of funding and the university. It is not possible to quantify how much work it takes to generate a new idea that will downstream benefit humanity. This metric driven academic reality has led to two outcomes. An over production of papers on every topic. And the reduction of research into predictable outcomes that cannot be considered science because it is trodding well worn paths knowing it will produce yet another paper. Meanwhile funding agencies, job rules and laws, etc. all incentivize hiring PhDs over all other kinds of positions because it’s usually rather impossible to create lots of forever tenure track professor and research scientist positions since no one has funding for the next 40 years of a persons career. It was wrong that they cheated and they should be removed but i understand why they did it.
We immediately cancel our subscription as soon as we subscribe for services like Netflix, Disney+ etc, where you keep the service for the month. It's thankfully really easy to susbcribe and unsubscribe these days, so doing it this way means we never unknowingly renew. Must have saved us hundreds of pounds by now.
Any answer requires us to be mind readers, and we can't read their minds.

The closest you might get to learning something about a possible 'end goal' is to read up on Project 2025 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_2025).
> benefits have not been touched…

If you don't count mass firings, sure.
> They cannot be disabled.

https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/156lw72/the_be...
more maddening yet is you can actually mount it as a limited storage device using https://libimobiledevice.org/ under linux, but not MacOs(to my knowledge)

EDIT: perhaps it's time I make a utility that I could use to achieve these ends: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/libimobiledevice
This is unlikely, because previous Tory government created even stronger bond by changing IR35, to basically remove small independent companies from the market and created virtual monopoly for these corporations.

Labour is very much on board with this (IR35 is a taboo).
It doesn't answer my question.
we should also start cutting doctor pay to make sure we get people who are in it to help others.
Google layoffs impact hundreds in Pixel, Android division
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For example, Buffett in the 1989 letter:

Last summer we sold the corporate jet that we purchased for $850,000 three years ago and bought another used jet for $6.7 million. Those of you who recall the mathematics of the multiplying bacteria on page 5 will understandably panic: If our
net worth continues to increase at current rates, and the cost of replacing planes also continues to rise at the now-established rate of 100% compounded annually, it will not be long before Berkshire's entire net worth is consumed by its jet.

Charlie doesn't like it when I equate the jet with bacteria;
he feels it's degrading to the bacteria. His idea of traveling in style is an air-conditioned bus, a luxury he steps up to only when bargain fares are in effect. My own attitude toward the jet
can be summarized by the prayer attributed, apocryphally I'm
sure, to St. Augustine as he contemplated leaving a life of
secular pleasures to become a priest. Battling the conflict
between intellect and glands, he pled: "Help me, Oh Lord, to
become chaste - but not yet."

Naming the plane has not been easy. I initially suggested
"The Charles T. Munger." Charlie countered with "The Aberration." We finally settled on "The Indefensible."
NASA science budget faces cuts in Admin proposal
I'm in favor of getting consulting firms out of government, but I suspect they'll end up having to pay out these contracts while no longer getting what they were paying for, so this is likely a net lose for tax payers.
I thought it might be easier to piecemeal add LLM functionality if we can reuse the existing structure of the app.
Right, but you need to be a whole lot less obvious about it. Adobe's message here is a case study in what NOT to do.
That’s a good point, but it hasn’t borne out in reality. Creative Cloud is frequently adding new features, some of which are quite incredible. Project Turntable that they demonstrated last year honestly blew me away.

Also, several of their products face stiff competition. They have to keep pushing Premiere to fend off Davinci and Final Cut.
"Security" and "Convenience" is always a tradeoff, you can never have both.
All of your posts on this thread, honestly are some of the most bizarre I've ever seen on this site.

I'm here saying: "this treatment massively improved my life and might have actually saved it!" and your response is "this shows medicine is wholly corrupt and cannot be trusted."

It's especially odd given that CPAP is a non-invasive low-to-no-side-effect solution whose only real drawback is that the machines are expensive and hard to calibrate, and don't work if you don't use them. We're not talking about a new drug or vaccine or something. We're literally just talking about helping people breathe easier. And it's not like I am using the CPAP blindly with no idea whether it's working. I can literally tell every day just by existing in a rested state that it is working.

I'm not saying there isn't some theoretical better treatment out there. But it seems like you think I should... not use the treatment I have because the people who produced it might be corrupt?

I genuinely don't see how these things follow or are even related.

And for what it's worth, I do have a doctor-spouse, and she demanded I get a CPAP and is happy every day that I have one.
To be fair, no one wants their job to go away. The government contracting gravy train is massive and has been seemingly never ending for a very long time.
I love 2000 and XP but 7 has a special spot for me because it’s a “modern” Windows (supporting proper alpha blending in its theme drawing and such) without the various problems that 8 and newer bring. I have an old laptop with it installed and booting it up is honestly refreshing. Its visual style is a little dated feeling but not that much.
Inevitably, that way of setting up an organization leads to one of two end-games:

1-A wealthy ruling class who can afford and feels entitled to be the government. See: the British Empire.

2-A wealthy ruling class who can afford to postpone profits while they accumulate power, to eventually trade that power for profit through grift. See: western democracy.

Pay people as well as possible for their work and ruthlessly go after theft, corruption and incompetence. That’s how you build a lastingly successful system. Shades of Singapore.
Likewise here, the amount of just pure made up crap/misinformation on X has definitely increased (perhaps because accounts get paid for views/engagement now) or the algorithm seems to push it more, but it's not an echo chamber.

I have at least 100 words on my X muted word list and it's just about usable.
It means that you no longer need to go through an intermediary to get the result you want. You have the end product in your mind, you just don't have the ability to translate it into reality.

I can give you the real example of recently needing to translates ancient 90's era manufacturing files into modern ones, while also generating companion automation files from it (which needs to by done manually but with tooling to facilitate the process).

I found a company that sells software capable of doing this. A license is $1000/yr/usr.

The next day I was able to get claude 3.7 to make a program that does all that, translate the files, and then have a GUI that renders them so an engineer can go through and manually demarcate points, which then are used to calculate and output the automation file. This took about 45 minutes and is what the department is using now. We have thousands of these files that will need to get modernized as they get used.

I see this everywhere now, and I have been building bespoke programs left an right. Whether it be an audio spectrum analyzer that allows me to finely tune my stereo equalizer visually based on feedback for any given track, or an app on my phone that instantly calculates futures prices and margin requirements for given position sizes and predicted market movements.

People think LLMs will be a paradigm shift, I can tell you the shift has already happened, it's just a matter of awareness now.