skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Access to the file system, the clipboard etc. is a serious security risk. You are committed to supporting deliberately insecure browsers instead of good ones, because the latter are limiting: a worrying backwards attitude towards users.

By the way, what are the benefits that made you choose a web app instead of a proper native application?
Have any of the books in this list hit problems with replication, or later finding out the science isn't so good?
And yet the patents are often not for innovation but are purposefully vague to capture iterative improvements under their umbrella and profit from it. It's nonsense in this actual case but the concept of patent protections would be fine if to your point it was actual innovation. How would you even decide what is or is not innovative though? Any idea not in the patent database already? Patents are going to become trickier as we abstract and build more complexity into the overall ecosystem.
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I have an easy time believing the process is complicated and probably very out of date and cumbersome, but I have a hard time believing the guy in this video about it being so impossible. The proof being that there's thousands of operating small businesses in NYC.
Wait, what makes that passive aggressive?
Ask HN: What's a decently complicated app you would build to test a technology?
What would you build to test a new technology and see if it's going to be worth investing into it? I'm mostly thinking about frontend/mobile, but I guess the same reasoning may apply to different verticals :)
The most accurate analogy for that responsibility would be Benjamin Treynor Sloss
Fascinating read. At first I was thinking things like the introduction of high fructose corn syrup, or microwave dinners, but that doesn't completely explain all of those data points.

This is an interesting comment someone left ... it's one of the only ones that could potentially explain all of the results, outside of some outliers like the altitude effect.

> With these premises it seems almost obvious to attribute the obesity pandemic to an external factor – for instance, virus or bacteria. My money is on gut bacteria being altered by some bacteria/virus, of which transmission is relatively hard (but it persists), which spread like wildfire in the last forty years and which thrives on cafeteria diets (which would explain its emergence in the second half of the 20th century).
It's just around the corner imo as 4 day jobs are becoming more popular

% of 4 day week job listings on ZipRecruiter:

2018: 0.06%

2019: 0.4%

2020: 0.7%

2021: ?
How do you know the calories of home-cooked or restaurant meals to estimate the targets accurately?
Eh, your view of other people's cynicism is too absolute.

People distrust politicians ... except. Except for their favorite politician, except for their party, except for the ones they voted for, except...

You see this with Congress writ large. People hate Congress, its approval ratings are through the floor. But they like their own Congresspeople. Sure, gerrymandering, safe districts, etc, but by and large people are much happier with their own Representatives than everyone else's.
The argument for a permanent Olympic City
> The difference here is that professional translators often have professional training.

You'd be surprised. What you described here for programmers is true for translators as well, and probably for many other specialities in which the ability to deliver the result is more important than any documents certifying that you've had a formal training for how to deliver those results. In case of translators — found an agency? Check. Passed an interview with a test? Check. You are good to go.
Code should be 90% thinking and 10% typing. I don’t need to over optimize the typing part
I don't think a single book on that list discusses electroshock therapy. I think it could be both true that electroshock therapy works and psychology can be a pseudoscience.
Windows 11 still doesn't understand our complex lives – and it hurts
I agree with you on talking being faster than typing. Having said that, I feel that this is more of a reason for me (and, I assume, for the top commenter) to counterargue that it's the youtuber's job to distill the message down to its important parts. Speaking is definitely faster for him, but it requires a bigger compromise on my part - whatever amount of time he saved requires me to spend ~15 minutes for something that can be told in one.

Or to put it bluntly: if he can't take the time to streamline his message then I don't have the time to listen to all of it just in case it gets interesting at some point.
Similarly I wish more democratic governments would have the guts to fight all these crazy corporate monopolies. Let the people choose if they want to allow unstifled innovation rather than rely on sneakily created monopolies, so that some CEO has another bonus this year.

Alas, the lobby money is too sweet and hard to say no to...
Yes, farmers have banded together and make large purchases and grain sales. These are known as 'co-ops' in the US. The idea of them is great.

There is a WIDE variance on the quality of co-ops. Some are great and well-run and provide the intended benefits to farmers. Others would make the mafia looks less corrupt (seriously, the CEOs of some co-ops make 500k+ salaries).
Anything is better than "..", people have been using this shit for over a decade and it doesn't mean anything, yet it's everywhere.
It angers me that your comments have been consistently grey. As I've mentioned elsewhere I've lost significant amounts of weight (>150lbs, about half my peak body weight) and so am excruciatingly painfully aware of the absolute truth of what you're saying.
It's more like saving $200k by switching from Heroku to a dedicated infrastructure.
Thinking Fast and Slow is also a serious book. There have been some hits on how Kahneman wrote up priming, but few dispute he and Tversky have a big body of brilliant and rigorous research. They don't deserve to be on the same list as Freud, Sacks or (probably) Ariely. While those guys are interesting, all are rather less scientific. Cialdini I'm not sure about. His "Focus Theory of Normative Conduct" has been very influential but perhaps it is a one-trick pony?
Exactly. The reason we aren't all sitting around hand-writing assembler is that programmers look at tedious processes and find higher-level abstractions that allow us to do more work in less time.

Once we spot a tedious common pattern, we should be finding ways to DRY it up. Configs, libraries, frameworks, DSL, tools, and languages are all great ways to do that. Copy-pasting and machine-generating code are short-term thinking in two ways: they focus on the initial creation of the code at the expense of maintenance, and they give up on increasing abstraction, lock the system into a productivity plateau.
If, like me, you're interested in the subject matter of this book, I recommend reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis instead.
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"They’re releasing something that is likely to change the world," which is exactly why people are so upset about it! There doesn't seem to have been any thought whatsoever given to something that has the potential to disrupt the lives of many people.

It's "half working in the US with fox news" is amazing, given that Facebook is arguably at least half of the problem.

"Brainwashed" is mostly used as another word for people who seem blind to any evidence that the trust they have for [whatever] is misplaced. So I wouldn't say that Facebook has brainwashed you, but I invite you to consider how your comments might be different if you had, in fact, been brainwashed by Facebook--if at all.
Obsidian has really delivered in a crowded note-taking space by focusing on the fundamentals:

1. Privacy. You can roll your own syncing (or use iCloud, Dropbox, etc.), without the notes being stored on the note editors' servers, which is a huge win over Roam, Notion, Evernote, etc. After the Evernote fiasco from a few years ago (where they considered reading your notes for ML model training and got massive pushback), I value future-proof solutions that won't become a liability in 10 years if the company providing the note taking software gets desperate.

2. Markdown. Speaking of future-proofing, Markdown is as close as it gets to having interoperability with the notes. Obsidian is at its core just a Markdown file editor, which means your notes are stored as plaintext and easy to export. There is a bit of Obsidian-flavored syntax (e.g. bi-directional links [[...]]), but these are becoming standard in note-taking. Many note-taking apps claim export functionality, but at the end of the day they're not incentivized to give you your data in a format that will work with other editors.

3. Executing on features that have become indispensable for note-taking, and personal knowledge management specifically: bi-directional linking, block-embeds, query-embeds, unlinked mentions, graph view, custom CSS, note aliases, markdown diagrams (via mermaid), and a few others.

4. Offline support. If there's any kind of login or sync required to access your notes on your personal device, that's a dealbreaker for me. This seems to have been a regression lately in the latest batch of note-taking apps.

My entire personal knowledge base was in Evernote for a few years, and now happily migrated to Obsidian. The graph view is just a magical way to explore the knowledge that you've stumbled upon over the years.

The team gives away so much value in the core app for free. If you enjoy their product, consider supporting via the Catalyst plan: https://obsidian.md/pricing
how can the compiler realize you are deleting sensitive data? The compiler is dumb and just applying a bunch of rules, it has no way to infer intent from your code unless you explicitly tell it so. And no, despite the name, memset does not mean set the memory to 0 anymore than int i = 0 means set the memory to 0.

BTW, I think memset_s is also problematic: there is nothing preventing a compiler from storing a copy of your data anywhere else. At the very least is likely to be in registers, possibly partially spilled on the stack.
Apple aint throwing away a multi billion pound market so cheaply (relatively speaking, of course and "aint" is a real word)
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I asked a legitmate question, but people on HN think that it is complaining. It took several layers to get an actual answer to the actual question of what is chromium based browsers doing that other browsers are not.

Some people can take questions for what they are, an actual quest for understanding. Others take questions as a challenge and accusation.
Note to anyone blindly cutting and pasting this, the final EOF needs to be alone on the line with no indentation (VSCode did me a disservice and formatted it poorly which confused the hell out of shellcheck but left me learning something today, which was nice).
Thanks for the context. It's very frustrating as a .NET developer that infighting set back .NET GUI development by 10 years. There's still no supported way to use DirectX from .NET. All the new GUI tech is moving in the right direction but is unfinished to the point that still only WPF and WinForms can meet my requirements. I really wanted to ditch WPF since the DirectX 11 -> DirectX 9 (WPF) interop is so hacky.
Ok, I didn't realize it might be necessary, since the speaker is so good and engaging since the first minute but I'll try.

He basically exposes the underlying physiological mechanisms of fasting and nutrition. And puts it in context of our biological evolution and current first-world diseases. Explains the enormous power fasting has for healing the physiology, regulating insulin levels, even reverting insulin resistance, how when you stop eating for a day the body activates the expression of certain genes in every cell for producing all the antioxidants known to man, promote autofagie of dead cells, producing growth hormones, start growing bone marrow cells, stem cells... How insulin is a key piece in that mechanism, how in western societies are junkies of processed food, specially sugar, carbohidrates and, and how by eating too often and too much we keep our insulin leves always high, which impedes our body to begin that innate process of self-healing we have, and we instead just saturate the body with things it doesn't really need and don't give it the opportunity to get rid of them, deriving in preventable diseases.

He speaks about 24h, 36h, 3day and 7 day fasting... How it affects multiple things, including response to chemoterapy, diabetes, dementia...

He has a previous talk called "The bittersweet truth" where he dives more deeply on how exactly fructose basically poisons the body and talks more about insulin, fructose, nutritional myths... Just one fascinating fact after another, supported by data, studies and clinical experience. He tryes to relate the facts in order to give you a very powerful big picture.
Sounds like the movie "Her" with extra steps.
Gray area. The vast majority of those shots were at a distance and not intimate with the person at all, and someone with a giant shoulder-mounted camera at least lets people know they're being filmed.
Handwriting is better than typing when learning a new language, study finds
Only entities with the money to defend patents would bother to acquire them. Owning a patent would become useless to small-fry. So only large entities would own patents.

The solution is to stop registering stupid patents, and (this would require a massive effort) invalidate all the stupid patents that are already on file.

Or perhaps, change the law so that if an alleged infringer turns out to have "infringed" an invalid patent, all costs go to the alleged infringer. That would encourage people to fight patent trolls, rather than just roll over.

[Edit] I suppose that would only work if the petitioning NPE were required to deposit a bond with the court.
> Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees

Yes, please.
closer to being the sort of thing that the institute for justice would take.
Melpa package still misses restclient-jq.el AFAICT, the receipe for the package is not correct. Seemed to work at some point since someone merged a PR about that.
> The proper desktop version requires an office license

That's not true in my experience. I'm running a proper "OneNote 2016" version without any license or subscription. This is also stated on a Microsoft support site [0]:

> OneNote (formerly called “OneNote 2016”), the _free_ desktop app which runs on all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and which is part of Office 2019 and Microsoft 365.

Further down, it's stated:

> Download OneNote as a free standalone Windows desktop app (some features may be limited).

[0] https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/what-s-the-differ...
Of course I fat finger the example. LOL.
Agreed - and I love how the way that Obsidian stores its files is very transparent. Just a folder on my local drive. I've tried Craft, Notion, Bear, etc. but always had concerns about data portability when I scaled up to thousands of notes and manual exports became impractical.
Evidence lost in case of soldier accused of feeding cannabis cupcakes to gunners
Why is this being downvoted? It seems like perfectly reasonable advice and one of the first things that came to my mind as well. Is there something in the video that happens which is causing people to vote this down?

Edit: instead of silently voting me down too I encourage someone to provide thoughtful written discourse expressing your disagreement so we can all grow and learn together
…exactly what I’ve been looking for. Thanks for posting about it!
Just like movie theaters left the movie business at some points and entered the popcorn business there might be a reason why Netflix couldn't do without those un-skipables previews. Maybe numbers showed that enough previews triggered more rentals ? Which are now absent from naked downloaded DVDs ?

In that time frame (where Netflix was still sending truckloads of DVDs across the country) I don't see how downloading the pirated version of a DVD would be faster than using DVD shrink on the Netflix DVD though.
I would argue that the actual outrage is the $800 fee in the first place. It’s a regressive tax that hurts small businesses and is absolutely meaningless for large businesses. CA should reduce it to some nominal value that covers their costs, e.g. $50/year. Major bonus points if CA included registered agent services so that small businesses could save a couple hundred more dollars per year.
Been using Obsidian for a few months.

The thing that's most impressive to me is that the plugin community is constantly building radical new things you can do... seemingly every week. Normally I think of plugins as offshoot nice to have things, but in Obsidian's case the community comes up with vastly different, potentially workflow altering stuff all the time... from templating systems to query languages to task management to kanbans to mind mapping to uri improvements to outliner capabilities for plain markdown lists.

And while not 100%, many of them port easily to mobile thanks to Obsidian's hybrid approach. So all that power travels with you.
> “toxicity,” defined as rude, disrespectful, or unreasonable language that is likely to make someone leave a discussion. We specifically use the term toxicity, as opposed to words like “abuse” or “hate speech” for both practical and scientific reasons.

Scientific reasons? There's nothing scientific about a term so undefined that every person can have their own custom definition.
> For example, the maps the women work with are often outdated.

This just sounds like bigotry of lower expectations to me. Nobody buys new ones every time something changes, nor are new ones published every time there's a change. You are expected to keep them up to date yourself by drawing in new information by hand or use those transfer sheets with symbols that you rub onto the paper with a stylus. It's not a sexist plot, it's just a matter of practicality.

Here's a pretty good video showing the process: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaoT2Jl_lp4

Also as a minor nitpick, the word the journalist is looking for is "chart", not "map".
A slightly-critical point, which seems 99.9% ignored here. I found an article - https://www.iphonehacks.com/2021/07/apple-threatens-exit-uk-... - saying "A UK high court judge has ruled that Apple has infringed on two patents of Optis Cellular.". But nothing more.

If the 2 patents are "good quality" - really novel, not a bit obvious to actual experts in that niche (at the time), etc. - then the reasonable (morally, not legally) argument would be about what is a fair rate for Apple to pay to use them.

If the 2 patents are "the usual patent system abuse crap" - vague walls of buzzwords, prior art but with "using $NameOfNewTechnology" inserted in a bunch of places, or such - then the reasonable argument (again morally) would be about why our wretched legal and patent systems are so badly infested with such toxic swill.

But Apple's seeming threat to exit the UK market makes for a lot of drama, and that's mostly what people care about.
.0002% mortality is good - also of note: the data does not normalize for advanced age, or underlying conditions like obesity, diabetes, COPD, hypertensive disorders, respiratory disorders, etc, etc. etc.
An early 2 minute example from the collection - David Attenborough on the Song Thrush:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b01s89gk
My guess would be that they fine him for operating on an expired license, then he has to spend thousands in legal fees fighting it, while his business is closed in the interim. Legal fees don't care about whether you're right or not.

Ignoring the government when they are being inaccurate always ends with you losing money, not them.
Wondering why you're singling out America here.

Do you think it's any less than among Catholics in Italy? Or Eastern Orthodox adherents in Russia?
How does this critique apply, e.g. to Jonathan Haidt's work on moral foundations? Or, if you want something more rigorous, to prospect theory and other decision theorists' attempts to build simple tractable models of decision-making?
Russians have great space movies ! Its a shame we do not easily see more of what they produce.

Some references and partial trailers:

"First on the Moon"
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/fantastic/pervye-na-lune

"Salyut-7"
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/drama/salyut-7

"The Spacewalk"
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/adventure/vremya-pervyh

"Baikonur"
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/comedy/baykonur

"Gagarin: First in Space"
https://sovietmoviesonline.com/adventure/gagarin-pervyy-v-ko...
Unfortunately I don't think there is any satire here.

This person has said:

- humanity will never go beyond 1 gigabit ethernet due to 'the physical limits and energy'

- hydroelectric is the only real source of electricity

- 3D MMOs are the "final medium" and that they are building one to last 100 years,

- they made the fastest database and they have 100% uptime,

- 2011 SSDs are the peak of disk space

- HTTP 1.1 is the 'final transport for humanity'

- java doesn't crash

- smaller transistors 'wear out sooner'

- anything too hot to hold in their hand will break soon

- load balancers save IP addresses

- the synchronize keyword in java makes their programs non-blocking

- multi-threading in games gives them 10 frames of motion to photon latency

They also made up "joint parallel" and then say that certain languages can't do it.

It is interesting but I think they are very isolated.
I know the language perfectly fine; that doesn't stop me from recognizing how broken this all is. I can dance around these horrible land mines, I'm just saying take the landmines out because people are getting hurt.
You can always vote with actions: either ignore the gov and practice business without their permission or start murdering a few of the less productive government employees to motivate the others to actually work.
>> But there are no remedial classes for IPS; the slow learner is left to sink or swim on their own.

It's called Therapy. Unfortunately they will try to teach it covertly because "normal" people can't take direct constructive criticism of their behavior.
That sounds very intriguing. How does syncing work in practice, though?

Do you have to remember to manually trigger commits/syncing or can you set it to commit/sync automatically (e.g., after a short period of inactivity)?
I know everyone here really likes Linux, but bash is kinda a joke compared to powershell when it comes to usability. Everything from the way piping works to function names, makes powershell easier for the beginner and memorability. The best way to figure out how to do something in bash is to google it and hope someone answered the question in SO. With powershell I just go to ms docs and scroll through the functions until I see the one function name that is self descriptive, and after a 2 min read of the docs I’m usually set.

That’s not to say powershell is perfect but on the whole it’s a lot easier to find the thing you’re looking for, and you don’t usually have to wade through SO snark to do it.