skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if you fold a sandwich in half and poke a hole in it, can you traverse space time?
My first thought was I could have sworn I read something about coffee being bad for you not too long ago. Second thought, I wonder who funded this study. Thirdly, there was research showing that most nutrition research is nonsense.

Everything we were told about cholestoral, fat and food pyramid turned out to be nonsense.

I just ignore most of these nutrition "studies" and just stick to moderation and live my life.
New York Yellow Cabs Will Finally Run Through Uber
Not sure why this is so hard to compute.

The federal government already tallies prevailing rent for every US city/county.

If the policy goal was to set minimum wage to a 40% of full time gross income, and the prevailing rent for basic housing is $1000/mo, 1000/40%=$2500, or $15/hr. You can rent an apartment for $450 in the small town I grew up in. Same calculation would be $6.75/hr.

Most employers use a similar methodology to set travel expense thresholds, etc.

A system like this could be subsidized by tax credits on the payroll side.
This sounds like an opportunity for multiple long-form video producers to join under a single co-op owned channel. The channel can meter out a video a day or so, from a group of several dozen contributors, each one getting a share of the profits based on individual video popularity.
While being locked in to a single app store without jailbreak isn't ideal, I'd rather have a native app on my phone than some lowest-bidder web app that downloads 10MB every time and runs terribly.
I read somewhere (probably another HN comment) that most of the undergrads dropped the course, but Feynman didn't know because they were replaced by grad students.
>You can pry my open-faced tuna melt on rye out of my cold dead hands.

You mean pry the plate that it is on? If it were actually in your hands, you'd have a stronger case for calling it a sandwich. The mere fact it's not actually in your hands weakens your case. At least by these definitions. IANAL though ;P
I don't know your age, and I can't predict the future, but I can say that in my 20s to early 30s I had trouble keeping a positive bank account balance and yet I was able to retire in my mid 40s.

Max out your 401k. People are really bad about thinking in terms of exponential growth, and it kind of sneaks up on you out of nowhere.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12893428/

This and other studies contradict your assertion. Do you have a reference?
If they load follow, their cost per joule produced becomes even worse than it already is.

Anyway there will be no need to load follow, because load producing H2 and NH3, and pumping hydro and compressed air, can follow price, instead.
I agree with #1, although also with the person who mentioned taxes can be changed to effectively control who gets how much net benefit.

On #2 I think your claim needs evidence or support, I doubt that would be true for the most part (maybe to some extent).
I've had a talk about that topic recently (in the context of a computer games, but whatever).

In the 1998 the cost of the DVD setup was quite pricey: about $500-800 (ie ~$1000 in current money). In the next years the price dropped quite significantly ($200 in 2001, $100 in 2002), but your run of the mill PC wasn't suited as a home theatre system (no HDMI yet, duh! Only S-Video on some systems) and most people didn't even had the PC in the house, for many the niche of a home entertainment system was filled by PlayStation 2 which costed only $300 (+$100-150 compared to a DVD player) in 2001 and it was hooked to the TV.

So the idea of actually watching the films on the PC wasn't quite popular... except for the quoted DivX ;-) 3.11 codec. Which came to existence in the 1999 and was used only for... un-official releases. By the 2001 there was tons and tons of films available in DivX, but by that time it was definitely not '90s.

So I would agree with GP - nobody watched videos on PCs in '90.

No, VideoCD and RealMedia doesn't count. It was more a self-inflicted BDSM session than enjoying the video.
Yep. But all the domain knowledge in the world doesn't help you when you mis-apply a statistical analysis, use a bad experimental design, or don't properly control for confounders. These are most often the limiting factors in medical research.

Regardless, the bigger problem comes when we're told that we can't possibly be seeing that fatal flaw, because we don't have an MD.
Software has externalities.
I'm going to call shenanigans on this. I've worked on dozens of applications (my own and others) with hundreds of thousands (and even millions) of DOM nodes. I've never seen a problem like this. React simply doesn't rerender things that you don't tell it to. It's easy to try to do something clever and have it cause unnecessary (and expensive) rerenders, but that's not the fault of React internals being slow, it's the fault of the userspace code doing more work than it needs to. Of course the profiler shows the time is spent inside React, it's doing all the work your code told it to do.

React also gives you great tools to avoid and remediate this (memoization wrappers, the dev tools highlight elements that rerender, linters that check you're using hooks correctly), so it's really hard to say that this is a slowness that's endemic to the vdom.
non-involved opinion here - it appears that a self-confident and clearly communicating C*O person is explaining exactly why the company is completely correct, while evidence of at least two actual non-company people show examples of this not being the case. Isn't it common for self-assured execs to explain away all the objections of outsiders, despite evidence directly presented? looks like it here $0.02
I guess there's always a trade-off and fine balance between suggesting older good quality videos vs giving chance to the new ones. YT algorithm is probably skewed towards quantity than quality.. that means often favoring someone who releases more frequently with decent quality compared to someone releasing great videos at a far less frequency.
From a quick look it seems to use regular expressions to parse XML, so... see [1].

From a quick search it looks like nim includes XML parsing on its std [2].

1: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8577060/why-is-it-such-a...

2: https://nim-lang.org/docs/parsexml.html
> Might turn out to be rather expensive

Wait, so your main concern is about the financial aspect?
And you expect every private business to do it?
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> More to the point I am in awe of what you have accomplished on your own. Curious as to how you funded the work to date. The book value of your work, equipment procured and product development costs would have to be very substantial.

Thank you. It was a lot of hard work.

First off, I moved from the Bay Area to a cheaper city to cut back on my expenses. I was also able to get some seed money from family and I had some money saved up that I ended up using.

> Have you considered going down the aquihire path? Have you explored the option of selling the IP, etc to your former employer or one of their competitors?

Yes, I was approached by a former boss of mine from a well known semiconductor company. They were interested in purchasing a few units and having me work for them. I suggested they aquihire the company. They would get access to all the secret sauce IP and I could work for them. However, unfortunately they were not interesting in going that direction.

> Whatever you do, don't rush. You have created very valuable IP and deserve to profit from your years of dedication to your vision.

Good advice. I will only sell if the price is right and their vision matches with mine.
i think the more interesting questions are what is a women when adjudicating a rule involving who is a woman. it may even make sense to have multiple definitions of who a woman is depending on the rule. for example i don't think it makes sense for people who were previously men to compete in women sports when one of the main reasons for segregating women's sport is to protect them from competition from men who are biologically better at these sports. but that doesn't mean the same person should be excluded from being considered a woman when deciding some other rule.

people also seem to deliberately be conflating sex and gender. clearly a lot of 'rules' seem to be based on sex but then people will claim gender identity is fluid and then try to use gender identification to backdoor a rule that is based on sex.
> This is interesting. Why does #BlackLivesMatter stoke heated division among HN users? And what does that say about the community that has been built here?

It would stoke heated division because different users see that slogan has having different connotations. What it says about the community is that it's actually a fairly diverse community, at least in terms of their beliefs (and very likely in other respects).

> ...Software is growing to touch every part of human existence, and it's probably actually dangerous for hackers to traipse through life ignorant of that fact...

HN does not need to hang up a #BLM banner in a cheap act of virtue signaling for us as hackers to grapple with the impact we have on society. Indeed, such an act would impede productive conversations.
When there are no real infrastructural/environmental limitations for population growth in sight, “our region doesn’t want to grow” paints a picture of some residents placing their own emotional attachment to how things used to be above all else.
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Pentagon Is Slashing Annual F-35 Order by 35%
Well if you look at what happens to women when they don’t have contraceptives, the cost/benefit ratio tends to allow quite a few costs.

For example, blood clots. Hormonal birth control causes blood clots. But nowhere nearly as often as pregnancy.

Would you apply the same reasoning for men? There’s a school of medical ethics that says treatments must focus exclusively on good outcomes for the patient.

According to this school of thought, prescribing a man a pill that has a .001% chance of blood clots to prevent his female partner from having a .01% chance of blood clots is unacceptable.

And this is a very, very influential line of thought among doctors.
If only the banks cared
You can't ignore the religious stuff. It's baked into the program. Daily prayer is considered a non-optional part of the 12 steps and atheists and constantly derided as being arrogant and unlikely to stay sober. They're a reason why atheists have found it necessary to create separate meetings and why regional intergroups often exclude those meetings from public meeting lists since they consider it to not be "real" AA.
Interesting, thank you for the insight
Ukraine’s Three-to-One Advantage-the moral is to the physical as three is to one
There's nothing inherently slow about React internals. It does exactly the work you tell it to do. If you tell it to do too much unnecessary work, it'll happily go do that.

Svelte avoids this by magically not doing the unnecessary work. That doesn't mean it's faster, it just means your design needs to make different kinds of considerations.
Well I actually really love it… I’m an amateur with electronics but my latest designs using USB-C has made it possible to have a string of multi color leds connected and not worry about whether the port is for input or output which IMO is totally cool from a setup… in this way I’m using usb wires but it’s not a serial connection…
Why do you have to be so obnoxious?
We want to eliminate passwords on the internet
I would not be so sure. Sooner or later there will be a QT6 port and most of the work will be lost.

I was a happy GNOME user before the version 3 fiasco. It took years to have a usable GNOME desktop again.
If you are accepting credit cards, you are liable for the charge backs that occur. If you are only nominally charging <$1 for accounts, then maybe fraudulent charges wouldn't be noticed by the card holder as it wouldn't noticeably alter the balance on a quick glance. However, if you do get a lot of people challenging these charges, then the site owner can pottentially lose their privileages with which ever card processor they are using regardless of the values of those charges.

Eventually, the site owners won't want to deal with that either. So, who's court do we put the ball in now?
Performance Evaluation of IPFS in Private Networks
I mean wether SCOTUS found a right in the 14th amendment is neither here nor there. These sorts of things tend to come from laws passed by legislators.
> I'm in Europe and I'd happily wear a jacket and a winter cap indoors.

That's the theory. Here is probably what would happen in practice: all the people that have disposable income will swallow the cost. All the people who can't swallow the cost will pour in their last savings for a few more hours of warmth. Those who can't will start rioting, especially when their children start coughing. It's hard to tell your child "put on a jacket, dad can't pay to keep you warm" when little Jimmy next door goes to a Safari next easter. There is only so much inequality you can accept before resorting to violence. I think it's better to ensure everyone can - at least - eat, sleep, keep warm and get some access to some entertainment.

> And people could go by bus, subway, ride share, so less oil and gas needed for transportation.

In practice, many people just can't do that. Either because those transport options do' not work or aren't ready yet. Think of Mr. Electrician who goes around the city in his van fixing peoples home. If he is forced to take the bus, he needs to reduce his client base to what's accessible by bus, he can do less client per day. Or he can pay for the gas and keep his activity. Or he can just let it go and ask for welfare, increasing the burden on social security for someone who is perfectly willing, able and qualified to work if not for high gas prices. Many low earning workers will have to make a choice between going to work, and going to unemployment. We have already started to see people making that choice with the current gas prices.

Of course, highly qualified profile who are already well paid will negotiate with their employers so that the companies swallow those added costs. Most companies will have no choice but to agree. So the people on the roads will be in the "already rich" category.

All in all, this would just increase the disparity between the upper and lower class. The upper class will swallow those cost by just saving a bit less, but generally keeping their lifestyle. The lower class will be hit the hardest, by having their spending power reduced and/or being moved to unemployment. One of these groups will benefit more of the economic recovery if/when prices goes down - you can guess which one.
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For the cbm64 i'd argue the best language was assembly. Nothing else really came close. And considering we were fairly well connected via BBS communication was decent. Not a good as today, but pretty good.
There's no agenda behind Reddit. The reality is much simpler. You get enough people together to discuss, you give them upvote/downvote tools, you weight things based on those upvotes/downvotes, and you'll find yourself witnessing the opinions of a meta-mind driven by whatever the majority opinions are of the audience of a particular discussion. The deeper into the discussion you go (e.g. sorting by upvotes), the more you'll learn about the dimensionality of the opinions of subpopulations of the audience.

Right but if they're constantly banning/silencing certain kinds of voices and nothers, it will become an echo chamber for the people against those voices.

Don't pretend at all like it's even handed here.
Wouldn't somebody running an actual Chrome/FF browser in Xvfb pass most of these tests - while use them as bots anyway? Pretty sure a t3 micro spot instance can run those so cost may not be an issue. Also, why would anybody running a bot use IE11 - which this code is trying to exploit?

Pretty sure this bot is just an excuse for ads and retargeting.
Yes, I know which things are buttons, which things are text entry, and which are checkboxes. This was a strength of early 2000's UI design, and it's a shame that so many applications don't give such clear indicators any more.

This application still has an absolutely crap design.

* How do I specify where the downloaded data goes? Why are there onscreen options for literally everything else, but not that?

* Which text entry fields are disabled, and which ones are enabled? This is something Win95 got right.

* What even is "force directories"? And it looks like checkboxes are used for both it and "no directories", so what happens if I check both?

* What's the difference between Spider and Recursive? Those sound like the same thing to me, and I know I'm in a pretty elite club just knowing what web spiders are at all.

* Are jpeg/gif/etc only used when Reject is turned on, or are they also used when Accept is turned on?

* Is the wget-list input field connected to the Input file checkbox? It's right underneath it, and presumably I have to specify the input file somewhere, but the spacing implies it's not.

* What's the difference between "quiet" and "non verbose"? What happens if both are turned on?

* The rest of the buttons are pretty well labeled, but what's AG?

* Does it really need its own quit button? The window manager already provides one.
I do that too. For college students some start earning credits before moving to a paid intern position.

In my business, interns are super valuable. We pay $20-25/hr depending on skill.
> Make forums great again please

For that to happen, someone's going to need to write some great (and ideally open-source) forum software -- something that's as engaging to use as the centralized alternatives like Reddit and Discord. Most of the classic forum packages like phpBB have fallen by the wayside; more modern solutions like Discourse or Invision fail to hit the mark for various reasons.
> After about ten days of drinking {an amount} of coffee, your tolerance adjusts, and you're aligned to someone who does not drink coffee at all.

Is that really true? I'm speaking from a position of ignorance here, but then that's a very strong statement with non-obvious validity to me. I know that substance tolerance exists (at least it's a very common idea), but is it so generic that it applies to a) all effects and each of those effects in its entirety, and b) to all effective substances that make up coffee?

And as a more specific example, I don't think I've ever taken something like "heroin addicts need to take heroin just to feel normal again, and more to feel a high" so literally that I thought they would function "normally" as in exactly like a non-heroin user would when taking an exact dosage to counteract their tolerance.
Isn’t that where remote work kicks in but we’re too stupid to realize? If the tech people don’t need to concentrate in one area, good luck jacking up the prices to siphon off that wealth.

Tech needs to create a box. Literally, a hurricane proof box that that plugs into plumbing. Drop it anywhere in the world and fucking live in it. It’s the same box for everyone, like the iPhone, iPhones are not more expensive in Bay Area or NY. All this nonsense over the fact that we all simply need to live in a box somewhere.
Uh well, along with others I'll just share how I differentiate them since both are common where I live.

3 Ways

1) if you can get a good look at the tail, think croW = wider/more or less even at the bottom, raVen = V like at the bottom (or diamond as a whole) but it's just a mnemonic and makes more sense if you see this http://naturemappingfoundation.org/natmap/images/drawings/ra...

2) Their calls are very distinct, hear one then hear the other and you won't confuse them at all but that requires having heard both and knowing which is which and I won't even bother to try to explain, you can find a million videos/etc. demonstrating if you really care.

3) Beak, ravens have a slightly curved tip usually and crows... don't but it's hard to see this because of the color, so again, depends on what you can observe
> But the issue is what criteria will you use for promotion if not that?

Dice roll? Alphabetical order? If it's gonna be arbitrary or close-to, it would be preferable for everyone if it didn't erode science as a side effect.
> it is also true that pure scientists who never set foot in the clinics are very limited when evaluating practical aspects.

Yes, but most medical/epidemiological papers fall over under the lightest methodological scrutiny. Even advanced scientific concepts like "have a control group" is seemingly beyond the analytical capacity of a fair number of MDs. When you get into things like "comparing small effect sizes with confidence intervals", they're positively adrift. We really are talking about table stakes, here.

I'd love to live in a world where MDs were sufficiently knowledgable of experimental design so that domain expertise is the limiting factor, but I can count the number of such papers I've read in the last two years on one hand.

I could write a much longer post on the arrogance of researchers when interpreting medical data or extrapolating lab results into humans...but that's a different subject.
How's KDE/Plasma with touch these days? I'm running GNOME on my Surface right now because it does pretty well with both Desktop and Tablet modes, but I'm pretty unhappy with the at times patronizing philosophy behind the project.
This list was targeted at the 8 but computers.
I think the magic of frameworks is that engineers can be productive and create actual value without understanding how things actually work under the hood. In the AngularJS days, how many people could honestly say they understood the scope inheritance and digest cycle entirely? Or how in VueJS that objects' setters and getters are replaced with proxies that trigger a rendering cycle?

Honestly, I would say 90% of professional engineers don't understand how these reactivity models actually work under the hood, and that is okay because it's not strictly necessary to get the job done.

That being said, if I ever had a candidate that is in that remaining % of people who not only know how to use the technology, but what it's doing under the hood (and as a bonus, the benefits and drawbacks of a given approach), it would be an enthusiastic two thumbs up from me.
Caffeine can raise intraocular pressure which puts you at increased risk from glaucoma - especially if you already have a genetic predisposition for it.
Every screenshot in this blog post showcases dated design paradigms. Flat UI was popularized around the release of Windows 10 in 2015. When I go through dribbble I see a lot of mediocre and copycat design. Design is about more than copying what Apple is doing. You're not going to get style from fat guys with ponytails.
When optimists are too pessimistic
https://www.deezer.com/us/ucps explains it.
The Christmas edition of the BMJ traditionally includes some satire.

https://www.bmj.com/about-bmj/resources-authors/article-type...
Even in a worst case where they don't survive -- and I hope that they will survive -- it seems near-guaranteed that GitLab will turbo-boost the next generation of technology companies.

The stack that they provide within the free edition alone is phenomenally consistent and capable compared to the collaboration tools that teams had available when they started - a mere seven years ago.
security design is pretty much the only thing that resembles real engineering in software. other than safety critical systems, it's pretty much the most common thing that can actually go wrong and harm people.

one day there will probably be professional engineering certifications for software engineers, and those certifications will largely center around building secure software and systems. (with maybe some focus on safety critical systems as well)

it's funny when you think about how young the field is.
Why is it a right to live alone?