skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is massive overkill for notes. Simple grep or org mode will do. You don’t need an indexing and querying engine at this scale.
Portuguese, especially Brazilian Portuguese, retained this nasalization.
> podcast about fluoridation in tap water

This has been a staple of crazies since, what, the 50s? I'm reminded of the speech from the deranged general in Dr Strangelove: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057012/characters/nm0001330

You could fit that right into a modern rightwing podcast without it being out of place.
I'm guessing Arvind Krishna by the "He bought RedHat...". But I didn't realize the IBM CEO is expected by investors (or anyone really) to be that involved in those kinds of sales mentioned in the other points.
I’m curious as to why this was downvoted.

Is it because they disagreed with some of the opinions? I was under the impression that’s not what down voting was for here.

Personally I think it is worth considering a social media platform, once it reaches a certain scale and depending on how content is distributed, as a “public square” or at least more towards a “public square” on the continuum between a private community and a large scale public one.

Your Undivided Attention has an episode which touches on this: https://www.humanetech.com/podcast/27-wont-you-be-my-neighbo.... The rest of their series has some interesting perspectives as well.
The semiconductor field feels very much like the type of industry that you cannot move leadership to improve the product outside of strategy, and even then it needs to be backed by engineer thinking.

At the end of the day it's the guys designing the chips who rule, and if you fubar that up, you can't compete.

Imagine replacing the CEO of Audi to get better performing A4s. Ridiculous. Their board should be ashamed, and if I was an investor, I would be demanding blood from the board.
Would `git log --merges` solve this? Assuming you use a merge-based workflow this would show only merge commits without any of the details of each individual commit from the merged branch.
Whenever I see projects like this I’m always reminded of the first clip of this video of Jonathan Blow talking about open source software. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XLVjSeusPYg
Your app could show a popup, warning that a new version is available together with a link or an alternative mechanism to download the latest version from your website.

Obviously your app cannot do this now.

Hope this could be useful to others in the future.
Oh good grief. Eat the meat and throw away the bones.
I use the semi linear history function of gitlab: it's like rebase & merge, but doesn't fast forward (ie it always creates a merge commit)

This way to see feature per feature I do git log --merges and to see the commits git log --no-merges
Is robbery that widespread in Sweden?
Corporate personhood is older than America. Without legal personhood, how do corporations own anything? They've always been treated like legal persons, because that's sort of what corporations are for. They're legal entities that can own stuff and do some things, like hiring people and buying and selling. That doesn't work without them in some sense being treated like persons in the eyes of the law.

What they're not are natural persons.

Exactly how many legal rights corporations should have is a very good question, of course. But people get bent out of shape about corporate personhood as if it's new or particularly Orwellian.

(Governments have always been legal persons- you can sue the government in court- if it lets you- and the government can sue you. The government owns property, pays salaries, and so on.)
Prices are elevated at the moment but people are already back to flying in large numbers at least in the US.
The amount of centralization of fab tech is astonishing. You've got all the sub 7nm fab tech that the whole world depends on for the next generation of technology coming out of a few fab plants in Taiwan. Software is easy. Material science is hard. There is one company that makes the machines that the Fab uses. They cost several hundred million each, have a multi-year backlog and only TSMC has really mastered integrating them into a manufacturing process that can scale.

Thankfully, things are getting more diversified. TSMC just started construction of one of several new plants in Arizona last month: https://www.phonearena.com/news/construction-of-tsmc-5nm-fab...
Ask HN: Google Docs – Document 'Linter'
Does swear by any Google Doc add-ons for ensuring that certain invariants hold in the creation of large google docs with many contributors over many weeks.

I am looking for an extension that I could write arbitrary rules for that would run against my doc.
E.g.

- Don't use the word "participant" - Replace with "subject"
- Don't use non-standard styling, only use paragraph styles

I found Red Flag - but that seems to get low reviews.

Suggestions are much appreciated.
Coop-Sweden closes 800 stores after Kaseya VSA supply chain attack by REvil gang
You just need too hook it up to a prescript scanner
It could be that part of the problem is that you only see their public persona. Start adding all the weasel words to imply that you think that something is 73% likely to be mostly true and you lose an audience

Everyone (well, most everyone) could stand to examine their own problems (well, issues) with stating opinions as fact.
I said middle east, not Afghanistan. As mentioned elsewhere, the main resource extracted from Afghanistan is money from taxpayers.
How Did Windows 11 Leak? Is Microsoft’s Codebase Secure?
You didn’t mention any other companies in your PRISM companies. The others shared data for PRISM AND have been profiling people and selling or sharing their behavioral data.
Cops don't do this kind of sting here. They don't give much about consumers - in Berlin and Hamburg you can smoke on the streets - unless you happen to be either in Bavaria or at a pusher house during a raid.
It’s both. There’s a lot of “we’ve always done it this way” and “what would I ever do without taking my car everywhere???” And then there are construction companies, automobile companies, and oil and gas companies that employ a lot of people. Kind of hard to employ those people if we built more sidewalks and bike lanes, and built medium-density mixed use neighborhoods.

Where’s the lobby against the automobile industry and all the deaths that cars cause? Aren’t car wrecks the #1 cause of death of teenagers? “But utility of cars!!” Well that utility only exists because we’ve decided to create it, not that it’s actually necessary.

If in reading this comment you find yourself disagreeing, think about the alleyways and layout of Lago d’Orta for example. Oh but how do they live without 2 cars per household!?
When I was attending university, one of my professors pointed out the ACM code of ethics: https://ethics.acm.org/
I’ve no idea whether or not it’s a popular opinion but seems wholly unnecessary to be posting it on this article unless you have some special insight on Jobs medical records other than public speculation.
The amount of gray posts in censorship threads always cracks me up.

Please go on.
No, they think they're saving the world, or at least their part of it, from crime. People use that as justification for all sorts of abuse. After all, who would prosecute a prosecutor?
> "What color is the Sun?"

This is a hard question to answer. My answer would be something like “intense pain followed by blindness”. :-)

But you could also say that sunlight is “white”, because it excites all of our cone cells and is by far the brightest object in any field of view. You could change the spectral power distribution of the sun quite a bit one way or another and it would remain “white”, because our visual system adapts.

> One might imagine perhaps adapting tablet/phone clip-on spectroscopes

I’d start by handing out diffraction grating glasses, and looking at various kinds of lamps.
In reply to your comment at sibling level:

You haven't responded to my point above, and instead went on another irrelevant diatribe that I don't care about.
Certainly vocabulary has been added to, but the whole point of the work of Pāṇini and others was to prevent the Vedas from drifting over time. That freezing of the core of the language was deliberate and artificial. (The same thing applies to the Arabic of the 7th century. It exists nearly unchanged at its core for religious reasons, and a version with various additions functions as a lingua franca and language of academic discourse - rather as Latin or Greek did in other cultures - in the Islamic sphere.)
> The past certainly cannot be changed

Sure it can. Oceania has always been at war with Eastasia.

This is because the past does not exist, as Alan Watts described.
Hacker News and Tiktok showed "available" for the name @maxic when both are taken?
You can do this today in standard git with https://www.davidchudzicki.com/posts/first-parent

Summary: every feature is merged with 'main' as the first parent. Then, whenever interacting with history, you tell git you only want it to consider --first-parent
Dell’s $199 UltraSharp 4K webcam has AI on board–but no microphone
I like this, and htmx very much. The only problem I see (and this is minor, and not a criticism at all) is that online HTML validators complain about the hx- attributes. Same issue with Alpine. So when I use these I can no longer brag that my site has zero validation errors. I know that these errors are of no consequence and don’t interfere with the browser parsing the HTML, but still.
Ask HN: Hobbyist Programmers?
I’m wondering how many individuals who read HN consider themselves hobbyist programmers. Is there a reason you don’t code professionally? What kind of software projects have you created, contributed or experimented with?
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It's the exact opposite of the original comment... without Jobs and his engineering of the bailout from Gates, Apple would've definitely failed!

He was fantastic as a founder and loyal to his original company when the path of least resistance would've been totally different.
Russian law: Champagne made in France must be called 'sparkling wine' in Russia
Handling cash is expensive for stores. They need to store the cash safely in-store, deploys all kinds of security measures to prevent robberies and theft, use armored cars to transport to and from the bank, pay more in insurance, etc.
This is my least favorite thing about HN, because it strongly reinforces groupthink. I'd much rather have the number of upvotes and downvotes visible, like Reddit, and leave the styling of the text unchanged.
But their videos are still online, they just can't make ad money from them?
It would be a great lesson of what happens when security is neglected.
I love TiddlyWiki. It’s the most useful software I’ve found in the recent years.
Yes, I consider this to fall under the umbrella of general microarchitectural improvements I mentioned. GCC and LLVM are regularly updated with microarchitectural scheduling models to better emit code that matches the underlying architecture, and have featured these for at least 5-7 years; there can be a big difference between say, Skylake and Zen 2, for instance, so targeting things appropriately is a good idea. You can use the `-march` flag for your compiler to target specific architectures, for instance -march=tigerlake or -march=znver3

But in general I think it's a bit of a red herring for the thrust of my original post; first off you always have to target the benchmark to test a hypothesis, you don't run them in isolation for zero reason. My hypothesis when I ran my own for instance was "General execution of bog standard scalar code is only up by about 50-60%" and using the exact same binary instructions was the baseline criteria for that; it was not "Does targeting a specific microarchitecture scheduling model yield specific gains." If you want to test the second one, you need to run another benchmark.

There are too many factors for any particular machine for any such post to be comprehensive, as I'm sure you're aware. I'm just speaking in loose generalities.
It never was common but all the cash management and security measures quickly add up in terms of costs.
And the PETAL stack is

Phoenix
Elixir
TailwindCSS
Alpine.js
LiveView

I imagine that Alpine is going to get big largely because there us so much excitement around LiveView.
check this out:
https://gotoflorian-pro.medium.com/
This video cemented my skepticism on the topic:

https://youtu.be/Hv-sbtCAz9Y

Regarding one of the phenomena,

> So the options are this object has the ability to warp the space around it, which admittedly would be really cool, or the camera rotated.
I don't code professionally because I know I can't hack it at that level. I wouldn't want to code for 40+ hours/week, it would drive me mad.

I program insofar to make things on Raspberry Pi, manage my home automation tasks in Linux, although I'm sure professionals would label what I'm doing "scripting" in some instances.
I think you're right. I didn't realize how small of a percentage normal CO2 levels were. Thanks for the correction!
Major Modding Site Pisses Off Tons of Users, Sparking Revolt
The circumstantial evidence is that the initial outbreak was concentrated in a wildlife market in Wuhan, on the opposite side of the city from the lab. The SARS outbreak began in a nearly identical way, in a wildlife market in a large city, 1000 km away from where the bats live.

There's no evidence that the lab had this virus previously, and there's actually good evidence that they didn't have it (they publish on the viruses they discover, and they never published this virus).
Prop 13 killed tax revenue so local governments must obtain it through commercial property. It's pretty obvious what the problem is. A pro job bias that makes sure there are more jobs than housing.
This read to me, lab-grown food will soon destroy farming - make richer another multinational and give a product/together with most chemicals that is not fully tested for consumers on the long haul. Save the world is just marketing
Double click to select a word is fast, and then you are in per word selection mode.
There's often an issue where people do not make any progress towards becoming useful, and do not show any promise of being capable of becoming a net contributor.

At this point, you can fire them, silo them off the critical path, move them into other work, or just keep jamming a square peg in a round hole. But it wears on the people who have to take up the slack and do, or re-do, that person's work.
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In my dream world, this incident would be used as an indictment of the overzealous automated copyright infringement bots used by YouTube and other platforms, which ban or demonetize with a broad brush, and fail to distinguish between many types of legitimate, incidental, or fair use recordings. I see that as the elephant in the room here: there's no way any court would rule that this recording infringes on copyright, but we all know that making that case to YouTube would be like talking to a brick wall.

It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
> Richard:It involves doing without. Here’s warning to all your listeners whenever a politician comes to you and says, “Oh, we’re going to take care of this problem for you.” What they’re really saying is, we’re going to take away some of your freedoms. The exercise for you, here, is to figure out what freedoms they’re going to take away in order to solve this problem, and they’re often well-disguised, but yeah, if you want to be free, that means doing things yourself.
Relevant: https://fiftythree.studio/blogs/news/lets-talk-about-why-la-...

"The small apartment buildings that triggered this revolt are called are called 'dingbats'. They're those boxy buildings you see all over the place with pompous names like 'La Traviata' or 'Chateau Antoinette'. These kinds of housing weren't pretty, but they were no-frills apartments you could afford if you were an actor, or a grocery clerk, or a secretary. This scared the hell out of homeowners in rich neighborhoods, because apartments were for poor people and minorities. So, we voted for politicians who reduced the zoning of LA bit by bit, effectively freezing the status quo in place. And after 1970, rich communities just stopped building new housing, period. You can see the results from the population table below."
The people who value the “exclusivity” of the Bay Area tend to be a very narrow demographic. Nothing wrong with that, but it’s not a particular representative group.
No. If CNET refuses to take it down, you (OP) could file a lawsuit, but CNET has no grounds to sue you for a DMCA notice that you are legally correct in sending.
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Considering that the 64 bit transition work started with what, Mac OS X Snow Leopard released in 2009, the writing has been on the wall for a pretty long time that 32 bit isn’t the future. That Apple supported 32 bit apps through macOS Mojave (which still gets security updates) is really something for that company.
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Database-based filesystem
For the future, and as a Windows/OSX-specific hack, there are HFS/NTFS extended attributes attached to any downloaded file indicating the domain/URL it came from. You could introspect this and refuse to run the installer with a suitably angry message.

edit: ah sucks, seems on Windows this only gives you the network zone the file came from, not the URL. I think on OS X it is definitely the URL though https://superuser.com/questions/1513910/windows-extended-att...
My favorite linguistic/sound story is this:

In 1878, a student called Ferdinand de Saussure proposed that PIE had only one vowel sound "e", and that all other vowel sounds in PIE languages came that single sound. How? He proposed that all other vowels came through a consonant "colouring" the original vowel "e". For example, the usage of e + w in words gave birth to the sound "u".

But this doesn't explain root words like "pas" that don't contain the core vowel "e" or any evidence of a rogue sound like "w" colouring it.

Here I will quote from the book:
"Saussure conjured up a daring hypothesis. Once upon a time, he argued, verbs like pas did indeed have a rogue sound after the core vowel e, and this sound was responsible for 'colouring' the vowel from e to a. But at a later stage, and after it had wreaked all this havoc, the rogue sound disappeared from the scene. If one were to use the symbol X to represent
this elusive rogue sound, then Saussure's claim was that pas originated as a regular root peXs, but that some time in prehistory X coloured the vowel e into an a, so peXs became paXs. Much later on (but still well before the earliest records), the rogue X was itself worn away because of [some other changes]. Schematically, then, the whole development can be represented as peXs -> paXs -> pas."

This remained a cool theory, outside mainstream linguistics. Then after Saussure died, archaeologists dug up some tablets and the oldest PIE language Hittite was deciphered. And there appearing in the very place where he had predicted it to be, the rogue consonant was found written down in clay.

Source: around page 109 from "The Unfolding of Language" by Guy Deutscher.
I think what he's trying to say here is that, "It's good to be king."
Because it's no longer about human ability and more who has the biggest R&D budget. Wired has a good couple episodes about it.

Ex: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn0lqMuGguw
This is a hell of a Pandora’s box that’s being cracked open here.

Interesting times ahead. For example, if you believe these kinds of tools will become a huge competitive advantage, and that the inclusion of GPL code is a meaningful force multiplier, it kind of implies the fusion of AI code generation and the GPL will eat the world.
Lets face, gitlab and github valuation is based on future “ai” code autogens.
Brave new world
It's kind of interesting how quickly sentiment turned negative. The original feature showcase/announcement post was full of excitement by HN (which is kind of strange, if you think about how skeptical the HN crowd is towards AI/ML and automation of programming) but it hasn't been a week and people are already talking about the questionable ethics and potentially disastrous consequences of using the feature.
> Is that me becoming more of an asshole with age?

Sort of, but I don't mean that in a bad way!

Many of us experience rough times coming to terms with how to function in an organization and how to develop professionally. In my opinion, after that experience becomes internalized we end up behaving in various different ways when the tables are turned and we become "part of the landscape" for newcomers.

Some people believe that others must face the same challenges they had, that suffering is not only inevitable but required as part of the path to mastery. It's very much like a Calvinistic way of thinking where people must prove themselves worthy before they are given consideration in the eyes of god (or in the case of a workplace, senior practitioners). I think of this as "the stackoverflow" approach. It helps people out because it forces the student to formulate valid questions and uses reward or punishment as incentives.

Others, seem to model their behavior in an opposite way. They remember the confusion they experienced and strive to help out the newcomer. They try to provide some measure of "guard rails" so the newcomer doesn't have to crash and burn as much as they did. These people tend to take the "answering" of questions more seriously, and often end up asking questions to the student instead of just answering, evaluating their responses, and then asking more questions. This is like a Socratic approach and it challenges the student to come up with their own answers. It ALSO works.

Which of these is correct? Neither (or both). They're just ways of responding and everyone has encountered both modes and probably behaves in either way depending on the situation. Some of us have personalities that naturally tend towards one or the other.

I think that whatever approach is taken, it is super important to not dismiss the student. People do need encouragement, not necessarily with every interaction, but they need to know it's OK to "not know" and that their suffering is something we all experience. This helps to create a sense of psychological safety.
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While I understand the sentiment wasn’t Copilot trained on code not only hosted on GitHub, but found all over the Internet? Which means hosting your code yourself would not prevent GitHub from using it to train Copilot. That raises an interesting question though - how do you opt out? Is there even a way to do it?
I believe the Latin name for your post is ad hominem i.e. "Weinstein is a bad person."

Maybe you could address what he actually said, instead of attacking him & Heather?

I watched the video [1] I assume you're talking about. The word "reactive" is never spoken (I searched). While I do buy iodized salt and I'm not worried about it, their concerns about getting too MUCH iodine are measured and well-spoken. The concerns about fluoridation are, too (that the evidence for it is very thin, and the fluoride in water is not the same compound as was tested). Again, these are not wild-eyed conspiracists.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1oPcYDFPRU
Likely. It probaby wasn't the only thing though. The high amounts of sugar, weird fasting habits, drug use, extreme stress he put himself in, and his arrogance in ignoring sound medical advice might have all helped do him in from what I gleaned from his biography. His pancreas could only take so much apparently.
There's also Firebird Embedded if you care about types and a couple more features. It doesn't come with full-text search out of the box, but there are options: http://www.firebirdfaq.org/faq328/.
Nothing is free people! ... People are outraged by GitHub but nobody is going after Facebook or Google for training their AIs on your personal data. Facebook used your face to train some algos, google your personal emails etc.