skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the NIH, but this was actually a thing for several decades up until Trump:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_President%27s_Challenge

It does not seem to have been effective.
ffff. Can confirm, people setting up traffic lights are idiots. Sometimes they're set up based on 15 minutes of observation. I don't care how many weeks you run your crappy simulations, they're so inaccurate that its laughable.

Source: I built a startup in this industry to prove it.

Edit: I kid you not, I once went to a conference and a traffic engineer for a sizable city got on stage to present the best idea they had and it went like this:

> So once traffic gets to 80% on the main road, we're just going to change all the lights to green and everybody on the side streets can just suck eggs for 5-7 minutes.

That's it. That's the best their simulations could come up with. These people use interns with clipboards to get their data.

Edit 2: "Suck eggs" were their words not mine.
Has the software market for PC slowed down to a standstill?
This is kind of a weird topic, maybe a gut feeling, maybe it's not even true. It looks to me that the PC, as a computer platform, has died and ceased to be interesting and exciting.

There is plenty of evidence for this fact:

* At https://fileforum.com (previously betanews) people used to write comments, the site was active - now ... no one comments on anything at all - a ton of apps don't have comments updated for over 10 years

* At http://www.majorgeeks.com all sorts of new software used to emerge for different tasks all the time - now the site is almost dead, rare updates of this and that

* New versions of Windows were indeed new, not some dull facelift of Windows 10 -> 11

* People have long stopped caring about software versions - if it works it's okay. There used to be some genuine excitement when this or that new version of software was released.

* With the appearance of a good built-in AV in Windows the issue of viruses has ceased to be important and barely anyone talks about the topic

* The activity on software forums has dropped dramatically, but the number of people in the world is not getting any smaller.

Is the PC and software market dead? Or the explosive growth of the industry has simply stopped and people are lazily waiting for new ... games, because all the current software fully satisfies them?

What do you think? What do you feel? Has the excitement faded?
A relatively-new player in the US is Siemens. They're building new passenger locomotives, including electrics for the Northeast Corridor and diesels for elsewhere. The SC-44 Charger and its derivatives [0] use Cummins QSK prime movers, which are high-speed diesels comparable to Euro designs.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siemens_Charger
I thought of looking for something like this just this morning, so glad it already exists. I really like the idea that its one chapter a day, however I don't fully understand the "Send time" preference, being an email, I think it doesnt really matter. Anyways, great work!
.Net 6/MAUI seem pretty impressive to me.
You can move your existing front-end to a subdomain (e.g. app.startup.com) and then run your "marketing" (landing, pricing, blog, etc) pages through a separate stack.
A less, well, NYPostian article on the same subject:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/01/black-lives-matter-f...
I was a cfront beta site using MPW; for people that don't know, that was the self-compiling C++ from C, before the first AT&T C++ compiler, in the late 1980s.
and a student membership is only $37.00 and that includes Spectrum in both electronic and print!
TikTok – ML Internship Interview Experience
This is shocking to me. Somehow I have heard nothing about this until this article linked in HN. It’s not for complete lack of media attention, when I search for this specifically, I find a lot of related articles.
I use it too. What I found really useful is the OCR feature. It automatically scan the document content and I can search it later via the web UI. Image document like ID card or the like is not really accurate as I found it missed major portion of text or the most important section (the ID number itself), but I can manually edit it if necessary.
> insecticide-producing GM

A decrease in usage, yes. But is it a decrease in what ends upon the plant is what I'd be curious about.
I also can't be bothered with Wired anymore. I used to love it, but the writing has just gone downhill.
The benefits of exercise are already well known, by pretty much everybody.

The power of government PSA campaigns is also well known. On average, they enrich advertising agencies and produce no change in the public's behaviour.
Back in the days, there were (conspiracy) theories that it had been used, during the Cold War, to pass commands to British spies in the field.
I would think the neighborhood kids playing football know they aren't playing on a regulation field. If you change the wordle rules and tell somebody it's wordle, do they know the rules have changed?
Do you work with Flutter for mobile apps only? Or do you target other platforms?

I want to try out Flutter, but my main target is Web and Desktop apps (Recent update from Flutter for Windows Desktop Apps made me want to learn it)

I have heard several criticisms regarding flutter for Web, that bundle sizes are high and load times are slow.

What is your opinion? How was the experience, and most importantly, is designing apps with flutter easier on the cognitive side?
Anti-Atlas
The level of education required to do anything was also much lower. Even 20 years ago you could get a job programming without a degree but now you a PHD just to get past HR. Times have changed.
Name one remote exploit hole in PHP that can't just as easily be replicated in Python, Node or Ruby.
People wanting to feel good, be more sexually appealing, sleep better, and so on? The desire to achieve higher fitness is pretty ubiquitous, but that is always up against how hard it is to achieve. There are certainly things an org like NIH could do to make it much easier. Better tools, better information, deep subsidization of healthy alternatives all come to mind.

The idea that we cannot make substantial improvements to people’s decision-making context and instead should spend all this money trying to hack the genome is obviously ridiculous.
Mark Zuckerberg’s Disaster Is Taking Silicon Valley with It
86% vs. 98% isn't mild hyperbole, in one case the dollar is worth 7x as much as the other case.
How strong is the case that zero calorie sweeteners actually cause harmful changes to the microbiome that are linked to depression or other conditions?
I always thought Kivy was the best chance of python on mobile. I was able to get a python android app working around a decade ago. Nothing special, only installed locally just to see if i could do it. But it was working back then, and it's still under development.

Though I am excited to try out beeware again.
This is just my opinion, but cancer is my day job.

Treating, let alone curing, advanced cancer is very difficult. Just look at the numbers - a human has about 6 trillion nucleated cells. A cancer 1cm3 in size has a hundred million cells in it or thereabouts. Therefore in advanced cancer you are looking at billions of cancer cells in the person. This is a very large amount of disease biomass. And the task is to make it all go away.

Yes, there are some patients who have favourable disease biology who are otherwise healthy, not too old, relatively wealthy and have access to incredibly sophisticated and expensive cancer care who can be cured from advanced cancer. But this number is very small compared to the deaths, especially for the common cancers (Breast, Prostate, Colon). And there is no general strategy to extend these occasional wins/miracles to everybody. We can't wait to cure cancer one Nobel prize at a time. Furthermore, we are seeing large waves of ageing populations colliding with poorly resourced healthcare systems around the world, and these systems just can't deliver what one would call optimal cancer care which requires specialist surgeons, oncologists, nurses, radiologists, PET scanners, MRIs, sophisticated radiation equipment, supportive care and very, very expensive drugs.

Unlike almost any other disease, cancers start from a single cell. The endgame has to be prevention. We should be preventing as much cancer as possible. And for most common cancers, we don't even understand why it happens with sufficient detail to think about how to prevent it. Detecting cancers earlier with tests like the one from Grail is a good thing to aim for, but trust me, being told you have cancer, and the inevitable surgery plus whatever else still sucks a lot even if the chances of cure are very good.
Anything from Red Hat. That includes PolicyKit (basically a backdoored version of "sudo", "su", and other time-honored Unix security tools), SystemD, PulseAudio, DBus, and a bunch of others. They're all 100% garbage, but Red Hat has convinced everyone else to depend on them so getting rid of them means being horribly limited when it comes to what you can run, even on FreeBSD.
Same, I really like mechanical watches as well so that sort of limits what options I have :)

I have noticed a bit of a disconnect between how I feel and what the whoop says, but not so much that I'd think it's wrong. Just eyebrow raising every now and then. I've never tried a Polar though.
I mean if your tummy is upset you don’t sleep well. If you don’t sleep well you are gonna be depressed just saying
probably because loglevel CRITICAL is good enough.

ALWAYS might not always be true. Can the message be logged if the hard drive and network failed?
>The situation in 1918 was starkly different from today: (1) schools closed in 1918 for many fewer days on average, (2) the 1918 virus was much deadlier to young adults and children, boosting absenteeism even in schools that stayed open, and (3) the lack of effective remote learning platforms in 1918 may have reduced the scope for school closures to increase socioeconomic inequality.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28246/w282...
Epitaph to Laptops
If his current employer was a mom and pop, he may have owed the owner money on screwball terms, from deductions from his paycheck (unless he left) to "you don't have to pay this back unless you leave".
Heh, knowing PT exorbitant tax regime, it wont last long.
resistors or capacitor banks?

It seams like a resistor on a generator would just be a breaking load, and not actually capture any power.
They already do, they just have to ask Visa/AmEx/Mastercard nicely.
Three title loves already. Is there some reason that this is a great article title? I feel like I'm missing out on some hidden joke here...
One major distinction this glosses over is the difference between making it so you can't read something (e.g., banning it), and making it so you aren't required to read something (e.g., removing it from the curriculum). Only the former is censorship.
Craig Federighi finds a way.
The US was never a low-wage economy. Sure, there was crippling poverty in places, like the Dust Bowl, but labor has always been the bottleneck in a nation richly endowed with natural resources, which is why American logging practices are much more wasteful than European ones, they are designed to maximize the productivity of the workforce. When the International Watch Company was set up, it was by an American looking for cheap labor in Switzerland.
Wow... Too late for me to edit. But coding. Not cussing.
It’s a pun, and a garbage one at that.
> While we're at it, the 3rd amendment forbids the quartering of soldiers in homes, which, as others have pointed out, is at least analogous to requiring government-approved spying software on our phones.

Very great point! Quartering soldiers involved feeding and housing them, and caring for their mounts. Requiring me to run code on my device without compensation seems to fit that bill rather nicely. Thanks for that.
the two big ones, into which I sink a lot of time and energy and money:

* word games, specifically competitive scrabble and cryptic crosswords

* cooking
My “other side of the coin” is: as a designer of a system, never explain how they work, just tell people it is smart and that they should not assume otherwise since they don’t know how they work. And then go back swimming in your giant vault of money saved by skimping on security.
"We are a digital media company providing engaged citizens with fact-based reporting and commentary on politics, policy and culture—informed by conservative principles."

A ton of conservative opinion pieces are being posted to Hacker News every single day lately. Often by younger accounts that tend to post a lot of things in a similar vein.

Political opinion pieces generally don't belong on HN:

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Looks like you can give feedback on the next version: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScuQ2x8BNNwOZ2NE35e...
But very often the answer is "It saved some development effort, but not all that much." or "It saved a very small amount off the per-unit cost."

In those situations, "dumb" tends to be a correct judgement.
I'm all ears, please produce examples of this that have occurred in the last 15-25 years outside of vaccines.
Rather than making a bigger picture point out of a single example, I'm thinking;

In the US, dependent on location, a person may be living under several different governments.

Governments recognize and/or create holidays, and holidays can go on to be cultural events.

Governments organize and finance festivals and events, which can and do become culture of a place or people.

They built statues, museums, parks, libraries, theatres, etc; all with several different levels and layers of culture.

You'd need to start defining parameters of what is a government, what is a culture shift, etc.
Good timing!

For the "Send time", it probably doesn't matter too much since it is email (as you said). On the flip side, it always seems like these things tend to come through really early in the morning and then get buried under other emails that come in, so wanted to give some flexibility here!
If you go to true 2x scaling, things will be the same size as 1920x1080@1x on a 27". For me, that's HUGE and you don't get enough screen real estate for a 27". If you use 1.5x scaling you will lose sharpness because things won't line up to pixels perfectly.
>I often hear...

I often hear the same strawman from right-wing sources. Usually the actual content is benign, like GP mentioned (topics like the US Civil War was fought over slavery). I've never heard any teacher or curriculum say the things being alleged or seen any evidence that they were said, which returns to the bulk of GP's comment: people are having degraded education over falsely perceived indoctrination.
Grandparent said eat, not supplement. Eating nutritionless food and then trying to backfill with supplementation is counter-productive.
Dang, I guess I should quit then, they shouldn't have let me in the door...
Is inflammation linked to cancer? Were there ever studies done on how eating sugar/stress (inflammation factors) contribute to cancer?
While it's true that there are differences, I think one lesson we should learn from history is that that virtually every group thinks they're especially unusual and that lessons don't apply to them, and simultaneously that they're usually not so unique as they think, and the lessons usually do apply to them.

School was less common at that time, but plenty of people went to school, and if there was a marked dropoff in employablility even in just that group, it should absolutely be visible.
I think this article misses one big point which is how we - the people on this website - have actively constructed a world where advertisers can shift spend really quickly. Brand safety is a big reason for censorship - the idea of keeping ads for a company away from content that people might not like. YouTube demonetizes loads and loads of controversial topics across the political spectrum - and that's a Feature for advertisers. This milquetoast move to the middle of the road is just those advertising platforms we all built, working as intended.

ed: And Another Thing, that time when YouTube was free and people were free to post what they wanted? Yeah that was when the company was running out of runway and relying on VC-type money. The VCs didn't give a toss about brand safety.
I come to HN for a diversity of opinion. I'm more interested in the ideas than the ideology of the authors. Good ideas can come from anywhere.
What scaling do you run it in? If you do @2x things are massive for my taste and you don't have enough screen real estate (same space as 1920x1080).
Do you have a better model for school closures vs. career outlook?

I'm hugely skeptical of our education system today with all the standardized and focus-busting largely irrelevant curriculums. Also the sleep deprivation can't be any good. Personally kids have thrived away from the classroom but maybe we're unusual.
> I think the most effective use of resources would be to fight obesity

Is there any empirically successful way for governments to use resources to fight obesity?

All I can think of is "The Maduro Diet" in Venezuela, where the average venezuelan has lost over 10kg due to food shortages...

https://borgenproject.org/facts-about-hunger-in-venezuela/
> an IP address is always going to be the easiest way to track a user

Note that an IP address is not unique to a single user (NAT, CGNAT, mobile networks) and may frequently change.

> also user agent information

All users who use the same version of a browser on the same OS typically share the same user agent string (unless modified with a plugin or an extension). It's an indicator, but can't be used as a fingerprint itself.
>Do we need someone to deliver packages? If last mile package delivery was a skilled profession that earned workers $200k a year, more people would choose to walk/drive/bus to the depot.

Do we need someone to farm food for us? If farming was a skilled profession that earned workers $200k a year, more people would choose to grow their own vegetable garden.
I believe in freedom of speech.

What I do not believe in is freedom of mass speech. Your responsibility to the truth should increase in line with your reach. Have 1000 followers in twitter and want to talk about starting the next holocaust? Great, say whatever. A million followers? Yeah, that’s a problem.

I don’t know how this gets enforced, but we simply cannot give every lunatic a megaphone.
Getting the vaccine has health risks and it would mean a "kiss the ring" submission to untrusted power to many people. Bioethics is clearly on their side - forcing a human to undergo any medical procedure against their will supposedly to benefit other people is a violation of that human's basic rights.
Wiki says: <<Soluble fiber (fermentable fiber or prebiotic fiber) – which dissolves in water – is generally fermented in the colon into gases and physiologically active by-products, such as short-chain fatty acids produced in the colon by gut bacteria. Examples are beta-glucans (in oats, barley, and mushrooms) and raw guar gum. Psyllium – a soluble, viscous, nonfermented fiber – is a bulking fiber that retains water as it moves through the digestive system, easing defecation. Soluble fiber is generally viscous and delays gastric emptying which, in humans, can result in an extended feeling of fullness.>>

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_fiber

It sounds like both soluble and insoluble fiber are important for different reasons.
>I've only changed clients once, as my contracts have been very long-term

It should be pointed out that this is much closer to insecure employment than traditional contracting/consulting.
No judgement from me, because I'm in a very similar position- freelance contractor on paper, but in reality, one client and a very employee-like working dynamic.
“Now apps from both the App Store and the internet can be installed worry-free.”
The only time I ever use one is to get in as a front-seat passenger of a lot-higher-from-the-ground SUV. For ordinary vehicles and SUVs, I never need to use it.
Outside extreme examples like child porn or speech that is copyright violation I am not aware of many cases of actual prohibited speech in the US.

Schools however are a grey area because attendance is mandatory and the state sets the curriculum.
That’s a fair point, they can already discriminate. I think the insurance plans being tied to jobs led to non-smoking workplaces, and a non smoking workforce, so I think it put employment options for smokers at risk. I think the stats may have been tied to if employers could discriminate based on weight. I forgot the name of the study but I was compelled by the evidence when I saw it. It did speak to my biases so I’ve left the door open to being wrong.
I suppose if you put it quite far away, a 27" 4k @2x scaling would work well. It'd feel like a 24" 1080p monitor with retina sharpness.

For all the folks confused why I'm saying you don't want a 27" 4k monitor for text, it's because the PPI isn't nicely sized for 1x or 2x, which means you have to set it to scaling that rounds and blurs subpixels.

More info:
https://www.caseyliss.com/2017/5/17/retina-monitors

By the way, I'm sure most 27" 4k monitors look fantastic and you should enjoy them! Especially if you don't mind or notice the scaling rounding or if you run it @2x and like the 1080p real estate.
Pretty sad when it's clear that Douglass would be cancelled in todays culture :p
> There's something I remember being told (or maybe read about too)

I heard it from a youtube video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AchISJUKfH4
> Censorship is to imitate the Roman Censors.

So that’s your definition of censorship. However the first result on Google points to a different definition. One more in line with my understanding.

> What is a simple definition of censorship?

> Censorship, the suppression of words, images, or ideas that are "offensive," happens whenever some people succeed in imposing their personal political or moral values on others. Censorship can be carried out by the government as well as private pressure groups.

In short, it doesn’t stop being censorship simply because it is an individual or corporation. Only censorship by the US Government is un-constitutional. So censorship isn’t always illegal. That doesn’t mean it isn’t censorship.
That’s not censorship, it’s editorial oversight.
The bias towards accreditation was much higher 20 years ago than it is today.
There is no diversity of opinion here though.

Liberal leaning articles get flagged and removed all the time.

When if/when they're unflagged by mods, they remain buried.