skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'm pretty sure the same was true 20 years ago and back then it was mainstream media that made them feel worse.

Probably. Although fat teens used to be very rare. Look at 1950s high school graduation group photos. The combination of the snack food industry and the fat acceptance industry has changed the world. Not for the better.
They certainly can free-float, generally speaking, but SARS-CoV-2 in particular is indeed known to be mostly in droplets and aerosols.

Personally, I’d caution not to over-generalize this fact.
Just starting a discussion. Interestingly there’s another Reddit link on HN that doesn’t exhibit this behavior: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/q4nltn/ads_are_...
I'm not the person you're asking, but FWIW I first heard of it in connection with the Long Now Foundation

> The Long Now Foundation uses five-digit dates, the extra zero is to solve the deca-millennium bug which will come into effect in about 8,000 years.

https://longnow.org/about/
I'm not sure if you watched the video, but if I understood your first point, he debunked that by testing it on a wide range of plugs (sure it's anecdotal but I doubt he has such different plugs from other people in the US). Apparently the plugs that actually do have the bumps don't fit in a way that is safe (either they fit accidentally and/or fit too far forward, meaning the plug, with the holes engaged, is partially exposed). The reason plugs don't slip out is because of friction, not because of the holes.

My suspicion was the third one, and I suspect that was the original reason manufacturers did it. It's likely done now because of the machines that make plugs expecting those holes.
If only that were the reality if things.

In practice, the rich are not even as forbidden as the poor from that.
The more I think about this the madder I get, because it discredits to me those who are actually getting abused and their ability to tell a story and be believed.

Let’s look at the facts with this:

1. She blacks out context and parts from the beginning that tag this as a joke task.

2. She comments on this right away, so it’s not hidden from her.

3. If you’re trying to abuse a co-worker, are you really going to do it not only with permanent record, tagged as a joke, but also comment “MUAHAHAHAHA”? Like some generic evil villain?

Notice she doesn’t give ANY context around this, who the people are, and what this could possibly be referring to. When you look at this with all the other “evidence” across her claims at Apple and beyond, she had negative credibility in my mind.

Keep in mind her job category (from what I can surmise about these people) is one that involves a ton of work and corralling cats. Apple is notorious for high ambitions which can stressfully lead to a lot of work, and the timing of this is around product announcements when people work their asses off. I just don’t see it.
> Crusader: No Remorse

Weird choice for ScummVM.

Now, if somebody got a strong itch to remake the MacVenture engine, and I could get through the second Déjà Vu without fumbling with half-baked mobile Mac emulators...
Automating My Air Conditioner
> If the bee is placed under federal protection, farmers or developers who harm the insects could face up to $13,000 in fines each time one is killed, Live Science reports.

Note that the article identifies systemic causes (use of neonicotinoids, habitat loss) as causes, and correlational evidence ("States with the most significant dip in bee numbers have the largest increase in the use of pesticides like neonicotinoids, insecticides, and fungicides"), but the enforcement mechanism they mention is centered around individual actors after specific killed insects where it's presumed that attribution is clear. Does this make any kind of sense?

1. Would we know when bees are killed? The evidence that we know how to gather, so far as I can tell, is mostly counting live bees, not finding dead ones. Are there examples of small, highly mobile insects with ESA protection where we're actively seeking out and finding dead individuals?

2. Is it typically possible to attribute bee deaths to single actors? If a bumblebee is found at location X, we might guess that it would have ranged over an area with radius r around that (but we're not sure what its actual territory would have been) which includes N properties, N_d of which have been developed and N_p of which use pesticides, who is responsible?

3. And if the best scientific understanding is about broad practices (habitat destruction, pesticide use, ...) am I correct in my belief that we don't have any real mechanism of holding a class of individuals (e.g. Maine farmers who used neonicotinoids during a given time period) responsible for an impact to a bee population (e.g. it's estimated by experts to decline 5% in a given year) in the absence of a specific pile of dead bees?

With this, as with a number of other large issues, I think we need new concepts around group responsibility. We have a concept of class action lawsuits, where a large group identified by a criteria (e.g. people whose data was exposed by Equifax) can be plaintiffs, because individuals meeting that criteria can elect (or not) to be represented in that group. We do _not_ have a concept of a large group of people identified by a criteria (farms using particular pesticides, developers of properties in the urban-wildland interface) being held responsible for harms that proceed from that criteria.
> We think with our weak technologies and chemistries that we can play God.

We can play God, do play God, and will continue play God. People used to think of electricity as the rage of an angry God. Now you're raging against progress on a device that harnesses lightning at a quantum scale in ways unthinkable even 50 years ago. Do you have no appreciation whatsoever for how much good it does to expand humanity's capabilities? Can you see only the downsides? The people complaining about technology and progress should propose actual fixes for the problems that appear instead of braying from the sidelines about how nobody should ever do anything.
Or Atom, which is free/open source: https://atom.io
> It should select the hash(es) and bring them back to the app for comparison.

Agreed 100%. Calculating three hashes and sending them to sql for comparison—maybe index lookup—seems backward to me.
It is known fairly well in the context of SARS-CoV-2, but other viruses may have different distributions.
> I actually don't think GA a great fit for this problem as parking a car is a time- and circumstance-dependent process, and a fixed gene is...not. But that's a guess.

Oh definitely not! :)
Why would you need the client to send the request over and over when you control the backend?
“The West” means “California” to many.
Yes. In my experience, the best way to watch YouTube on an Apple TV is to pull the video up on your phone in safari and AirPlay it over
Then… good? Isn’t that a healthy social network?
The authorities have long since stopped recommending cloth masks and surface cleaning. Anyone still applying or recommending those methods isn’t up to date.

There’s nothing farcical about recommending cloth masks and surface cleaning during the first few months of the pandemic when nothing was known about how the virus spread and when masks needed to be reserved for those on the front lines.

The only farcical piece is how our society reacted to the recommendations of the experts.
Yes! I did a ton of projects in Action! for a number of years. Lots of fun and learned a lot.
Iowa, haven't seen one in years.
Bunty Aur Babli 2
> Science itself is a non-holistic way of looking at the world, blind to what is not measured.

This is unfortunately a broad class of error; qualitative metrics which are difficult to measure and quantify get brushed aside by people who want to make rational data-driven decisions. Robert McNamara became infamous for this; the 'data driven' way he tried to manage the Vietnam War focused on hard quantitative metrics, like bodycounts, and de-emphasized or ignored qualitative metrics like popular opinion in Vietnam and America: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNamara_fallacy

In the software industry, those that would rely on instrumentation and telemetry to guide product development often repeat the same mistakes. Many times I've seen user feedback ignored, derided, and demeaned. "Users are dumb, they don't know what they want. Ask users what they want and they'll ask for a faster horse." These ostensibly rational data-driven designers are ironically irrational because they ignore the well established limitations of their data-driven approach.
Nasty title. Game's not to blame for "killing GPUs".

GPUs and their drivers are to blame for easily dying when used.
How to expand a cube to obtain a Tesseract – a 4D equivalent of a cube
I will start the Long Long Now Foundation and support years with fifteen leading zeros. Much better.
says Lysenko.
If only these children had guardians. Parents perhaps.

Sadly you’re right. They’re being raised by the internet so everything is the internet’s fault.
Yeah, Firefox has been going down the tubes for a while, suffering under inept management and a bloated organisation, whittling Mozilla’s endowment away on vanity projects while the browser is languishing.

And when they recently saw the need to tighten the belts, they fired the people working on core parts of the browser (Servo) as well as those working on the crucial browser documentation on MDN.

Adding spyware and ads to the browser is just the rotten cherry on top of the excrement sundae they expect us to eat.

After using Firefox since it first came out, I recently switched to Vivaldi. It’s Chromium-based these days, but with much of the same configurability and flexibility that I loved about Firefox, and the people behind it at least appear to have their hearts in the right place.
It really boils down to this: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

If it is broken, and no one else seems to see that it’s broken, then it’s your job to convince everyone else that it’s broken so that “fixing it” becomes part of the The Goal.
Everything I can find suggests she was a product manager. Not an engineer. These skills translate to other companies.

Further I’d suggest if you’re an engineer where only one company in the world can employ you, and you’re not getting fuck you money from it, you’ve done it wrong.
Right, I think bad skeuomorphism incorporates textures whereas good skeuomorphism incorporates shadow, lighting, and depth
Purchase it if that bugs you. Not everything is freeware.
Same question goes for an unwanted FinFisher installation on your machine. After all, you're somewhat of a licensed user if a licensed user installed it lawfully on your machine. And since it has bugs in it, it should meet the criteria.
An unintended consequence is that it confuses C programmers, who expect an octal literal to follow the leading 0.
> f we suddenly put many small modular reactors in (or close to) cities, are we keeping the same security?

Security, fuel cycle management, maintenance, etc. Distributing the reactors would make every problem explode.

But the industry real goal with them seems to be to keep them centralized, just instead of one large reactor, you use a lot of small ones. That brings its own share of problems, and destroys the energy density that nuclear proponents like to argue so much about (mostly because renewables don't get a lot of it). But I believe it could indeed lead to large gains in cost and safety. It just can't lead to as much gains from scale as solar can get (even compared with our current scale). It maybe can get on a similar curve as wind power (but at a highest constant).
She Had No Idea Her Dog Was Blind – Vet Declares It a ‘Medical Mystery’
EasyPost (YC S13) Is Hiring Remote (Or SLC and Austin)
Nucleus Iconset free version just released
Some history of The Milk:

https://alum.mit.edu/slice/investigating-milk-mits-historic-...
I wish. Has bugs that make it unusable. (ie: read whole project depth tree on window open)
>There are labour shortages across the UK because people are still being told to self-isolate if they have contact with someone who is COVID+

Not if they have been vaccinated.

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/self-isol...
In a notebook that I keep in a fireproof safe.
> reproducing it as some verbatim gospel, even if it was something you barely put any thought into at the time

‘Bug compatibility’: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_compatibility
I just saw an e-fluencer use it, so I decided I might as well also. No hidden agenda here.

But yes, that's the intention behind the action here: https://blog.longnow.org/02013/12/31/long-now-years-five-dig...
WSLg requires Windows 11. I installed it only to try WSLg. The UI didn't scale with Windows scaling/DPI settings which was very annoying. Setting the display resolution reduced sharpness of all font. Not being a Linux user primarily and hating Windows 11 annoyances, regretted the upgrade and reverted back to Win 10.
I think people want to browse HN and not have to put much mental effort in, so more "news" articles are upvoted, commented on, etc.
Wow, you have the gall to criticize my argument with bullshit? /r/selfawarewolves would like a word with you, son.

And to call assange a journalist is utterly laughable.

Journalists provide context, history, and analysis. Assange is copypasta.
Yep! If I wasn't successful, he would have been right and I can't really blame him too much for thinking it his way. The problem was particularly tricky because it combined bunches of distinctly esoteric domains (OCR, text/vector maps, image processing, fuzzy string matching).. recursively. There were no boundary lines and inconsistently sized black redaction boxes. If I hadn't worked on problems in each domain in separate projects, I doubt I would've been able to do it and he had no way of knowing my experience.
I'm not sure what criteria I'd use to describe a 'healthy social network' but I would not put "user feels bad after visiting" anywhere on there.
It seems like these days PBS Kids is the only kids' network that doesn't have ads and toys and trash like that.
> What exactly are we talking about here? Say you’re a 13-year-old girl who is beginning to feel anxious about your appearance, who has followed some diet influencers online.

Seriously? The world has an obesity problem. A very serious one. But let's focus on the tragedy that is the few teenage girls being obsessed with being overly thin.

You cannot make that shit up.

And for the record: I'm not saying making young teenage girls feel insecure because they feel they're clinically obese when they're not is a good thing. What I'm saying is that the world has a very serious obesity problem and it's a very poorly chosen battle to focus on those trying to be ultra thin.

If anything there are entire industries trying to make people as fat as possible... Maybe, just maybe, that it's a more serious problem to tackle than insecurity among teenagers (insecurity which predates social media btw)!?

I don't know. Just maybe.
I thought Atom development was stopped? Guess I was mistaken.
Can anyone explain the obsession with this game in particular?

As a cultural phenomenon or how it stands the test of time or what that particular porting community thinks about anything...
The article acknowledges this

< ...real piles of sand don’t generate this kind of spontaneous structure. The abelian sandpile model doesn’t even try to capture the behavior of actual physical materials
Don't fix what ain't broke. The strategy SpaceX is presently using seems to be working well. Changing strategies now seems like a bad idea.
Well, that's incorrect :).
Agreed! Apollo is great (but I’m biased, see below.)

I lived with Apollo’s dev for 3 months ~a decade ago and can say he was a super friendly, genuine guy and a was great roommate. Best of the ~500 people that came through our hacker house. Seems to really care about his users, too.

So for all of Reddit’s dark patterns and anti user behavior it seems that he’ll do right by users.

Really happy to see HN sending support for his product.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12714846
Yeah. Madison is a bunch of small towns wrapped around a college. Boulder, CO is similar too, though maybe to a lesser extent
As much for the full picture, i come to hn for the anecdotes.
So yes, 'useful', to me.

And, just to be super-clear, i come for the comments, and rarely the articles.
You can get this everywhere. Just track down the "Redirector" extension and put a rule in to redirect ^(https?://)?www.reddit.com(/.*)?$ to $1old.reddit.com$2

You can also use it to automatically redirect all mobile Wikipedia links to the non-mobile site.
>> Electric cars are a “liberal” thing

No, the government deciding what kind of car you are allowed to drive is a liberal thing.

If there are externalities, then tax them, get the prices right, and let people decide for themselves based on those prices. As my grandmother said about speeding tickets, drive as you can afford.

But letting people decide for themselves is not a liberal thing. Hopefully still kind of a Texas thing though.
but ultimately owned by the same company as VSCode
It has been implied in the death of honey bees but it appears that the surfactants in common formulations are to be blamed and not the glyphosate itself.

https://www.beeculture.com/catch-the-buzz-its-not-the-glypho...
The article says Windows 10 but on insider preview you only get option to upgrade to Windows 11. Updating Windows 10 alone isn't an option anymore. See https://superuser.com/questions/1676383/how-to-skip-update-t...
What is PSI? Never heard of it.
Why Did Satoshi Decide to Use Secp256k1 Instead of Secp256r1?
It is a subsystem of windows used for doing linux things.

I don’t get the appeal personally, but some people like Microsoft I guess.
actually have a legit N95 mask

Incidentally, if you want to validate 3M N95 masks, 3M has a web site for that.[1] You type in the code on the bottom of the box and 3M checks it. You can only do this once per code; the site will tell you if a valid code has been used before. They suggest signing and dating the box after doing this, to indicate that check has been done.

[1] https://www.3m.com/3M/en_US/worker-health-safety-us/3m-safeg...
Obesity is a problem, so we shouldn't combat anorexia, because it's a smaller problem?

Should we abandon flu vaccines because covid is a worse virus?

We've got how many billion people on this earth? I think we can afford to diversify our efforts in helping people.
I got so good at keeping my autism to myself that nobody suspected until I went to a shrink because I needed support myself after supporting my wife in her struggle with breast cancer (she's better now) and suggested evaluation after a dozen sessions. Masking my autism helped me "make it" in normie society at considerable personal expense in terms of emotional labor.
I appreciate the importance of sharing these articles, but beyond that, I'm really starting to feel Facebook-fatigue lately (as a non FB user).

At one point, escaping the negativity of it was enough, these days you're plastered with its toxicity even when not being a part it.

'no such thing as bad publicity' I guess.
RedHat's NetworkManager already does something pretty similar [1].

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NetworkManager#Checking_con...
Security Council veto. The UN is one of the more useless bodies in existence. Their principal function is to make everybody "feel good" ("the United Nations will sort <insert crisis here> out!") and issue meaningless resolutions.
I just found out you can actually run slackware under wsl:

https://github.com/Mohsens22/WSLackware
It is what is it is.

Mozilla already admitted it ever since being >80% funded by Google. The fact that they could not help staying with Google over the years and thought that they could do without them tell us that they were compromised on their 'mission' on 'a privacy-focused browser' anyway.

Hence that, Mozilla is finished.
> This problem would go away entirely if Gmail didn't do this

No it wouldn't. The problem is that people believe they have addresses they don't. They don't have firstmlast@gmail.com any more than they have firt.m.last@gmail.com.

I have a surname@ address, and I receive similar mails all the time. People just simply assume they have my email address. No dots involved.

https://xkcd.com/1279/
> That reliance on self-reporting — the teens' own opinions — as a single indicator of harm is a problem, says Candice Odgers, a psychologist who studies adolescence at University of California, Irvine and Duke University. That's because teenagers are already primed by media coverage, and the disapproval of adults, to believe that social media is bad for them.

And since when do teens care about the disapproval of adults? When I was a kid, video games were the terrible thing. I didn't know any kids who bought into that narrative—we knew they were harmless fun and kept playing.
The next part of the paragraph you quoted is the important part, where the author identifies what they think the problem in that scenario is.

>What exactly are we talking about here? Say you’re a 13-year-old girl who is beginning to feel anxious about your appearance, who has followed some diet influencers online. Instagram’s algorithm might suggest more extreme dieting accounts with names such as “Eternally starved,” “I have to be thin” and “I want to be perfect.”

Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric disorder, so it's a big issue if Facebook is pushing young people interested in healthy weight loss toward "following" unhealthy body image and extreme dieting. (I don't know if you've known someone who has struggled with anorexia, but it can be really, really terrible.) Obesity being a problem doesn't negate the good that could be done by not algorithmically steering young people toward anorexia when they're looking to manage their weight in a healthy way.
I've been programming since I was 13 years old. Chose not to pursue a career in technology because I felt like I would never get to work on the really cool stuff like a programming language, a virtual machine, an operating system, a kernel... A future working on business systems and websites just didn't appeal to me. I wanted to work on the infrastructure that powers everything.

Ended up going to medical school. Now I'm in the process of specializing in occupational medicine.

I still wonder what might have happened. My friends always tell me I would have made it. Who knows.
The goal of stuff like this is to wear you down into accepting all default parameters. Then, slowly ratchet up the invasiveness.
It was back then a memorable landmark game which set off the 3D Evolution in Nintendo Games
North Dakota is generally considered the mid-west, no? I suppose mid-west is a sort of west, but I tend to think "the west" starts when the Rocky Mountains start; about half-way through Montana.
Not sure whether organic farming techniques can feed everyone (may be possible), but there's a vast gulf between "completely organic" and "broadly toxic to the surrounding environment."

Australia, Spain, the Netherands, and (increasingly) China have had a lot of success using physical exclusion with nets, greenhouses, and high-tunnels. They have their own unique problems (plastic waste, rainwater runoff), but these systems get incredible crop yields without significant synthetic pesticide or herbicide use.

I really think highly automated, hydroponic, mostly non-vertical indoor farming is the future of vegetable agriculture, and represents huge potential added value (economic and otherwise) in the coming 100 years.

If you're interested in seeing some of these facilities, check out these videos:

1: Australia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Fq6PQl7fr8

2: Netherlands https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nM8Qz-fzJ6M