skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not sure I follow. Obesity is much, much more prevalent in countries where food (and unhealthy food) is widely and cheaply available. Governments engage in "prohibition" of specific foods all the time, and I find that mostly commendable.

> People burn themselves with kettles, that's still a kettle problem.

> So, what?

Soo I demand that my government thinks about this problem and regulates it, which indeed it does. I would guess that an average Western country has north of fifty regulations directly related to burn hazards of household appliances.

So yes, these are indeed very good examples of government regulation preventing hurt, pain and death.
The idea is apparently that the wet layer on your eyes is enough to protect your cornea.

See my comment here for sourcing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30829785
Linguistics: some time ago, a member recommended

Mark Forsyth's Etymologicon

, which I promptly found and read: not only it is a must-read in general (if you speak, read or write), but surely it should lure one into an interest in studies concerning language.
This is true, but in any event I feel it's more likely I'll lose access to my Google account than that Google will suffer a storage failure and lose my photos. I didn't have a laptop or desktop for a few years, which makes having my own backups a lot more difficult, but at this point I should probably take care of it.
The rise of the rural remote worker
Isn't the "curated" answer on Stack Overflow the answer with most votes?

Sure, sometimes the top voted answer is not the answer to my particular problem at hand, but if it isn't, I'd rather have more alternative answers than nothing.
So you claim, random Internet user. The rest of the world sees things differently. Even in the USA, plenty of things are explicitly illegal to say out loud in public, such as calling out "fire" or anything pornographic. You also still have a political prison in Guantanamo where people are detained indefinitely without trial, but sure, tell us what freedom means.
It looks cool but the keyboard is almost square, making it difficult to touch the keys in the top row while still resting your hands. A flat aspect ratio (like most keyboards have) would be better. It's easier to move your fingers over large distances horizontally than vertically; see also the piano keyboard.
Look up how much YouTube and Spotify pay musicians. I'm not sure how little the others pay in comparison but I assume their cut is the industry standard.

Paying £12 a month doesn't bring back dislikes, doesn't remove sponsored segments and doesn't improve the comment section that is ripe with bots.

>I wonder if you're so lenient when someone refuses to pay for your own companys services and just wants them for free.

I wouldn't make my own companies DRM so easily breakable, are Google too poor or something?
>it describes the perspective of a student, a client.

The student is not the client. The student didn't pay for it. The student didn't ask to be there. The student isn't the one for whom incentives and interests align.
>anyone who has used a modern forum with all the trimmings would do the "yes, Grandpa, everything was better in the old days" polite smiling and nodding.

HN could have indeed been written in many languages, but IMO the simplicity is a strength. I'd rather be here than twitter, reddit, or any other forum. There's no dark patterns, no recommendation engines or other annoying nonsense trying to game "engagement", no ads, basically none of the things that make the modern Internet an awful user experience.
Video games and board games have kind of the same dilemma--the medium has matured to the point that further sophistication isn't necessarily an improvement. A good computer game might be an indie game that looks like it could have been made 20 years ago, because the assumption that more tech equals better games doesn't hold anymore. The board-game world is lagging a little behind that; right now the big trend is "legacy games", where you play through a campaign one time and you're done. I think it's a similar idea, though--the art for the sake of art designers in both cases can do their thing, and the big money is in "Sequel II: Let's Do It All Again, Again".
The article is about running Hubris on the PineTime. Quite literally the Pinephone of watches.

https://www.pine64.org/pinetime/
I really don't like the attention-seeking spin on the article, as someone who simply was hardly ever cold (from puberty until ~30) and wearing shorts all the time above +10C. Sure, that's not snowy weather but everyone still felt the need to comment.
No they're not locked, but I can drag them without having to actually drag the titlebar. Just hold super and click anywhere in the window to move it. Don't knock it till you've tried it.
Saving the world very seldom makes you a billionaire - if it did, a lot more effort would be going into it.
Can you elaborate on that? From what I know, WASM is a safe, rather abstract bytecode format and has far less API capabilites as JS has (which is why you need to call it from JS to affect the browser).
Where is their "brutal toolchain" (not GNU, not LLVM) able to bootstrap build their OS from kernel to user space? (sarcasm).

I wish they prove me wrong.
Yeah same in Chile, the guys call it "el palito", we must be getting the same flukes you are. Frankly I have no objections against dumb luck, if it is actually going to work, whatever.

Like the weakness of science is prostitution. Not for math or humanities, but for science it's huge. Purdue Pharma is famous for its prostitutions, their biggest exploit was the majority of the guilt and blame for the opioid epidemic. That was carried out by several prostitutions carried out carefully and with great expertise, beginning with getting the FDA to agree that their opioid lasted twice as much as it actually did. The trick there is never to say twice or more, you can't overdo it, you actually have to promise almost twice as much as you deliver, 12 instead of 7, not 12 instead of 5. Scientists can't just make numbers up, well they can and do, but there's limits: no getting caught, can't double anything, can't look stupid on television. The second prostitution was sending their hot pharma rep sales team out to "refocus" the doctors on the 12 hour schedule for their drug, despite literally all of their patients saying it never lasted anywhere near that long. In this case I'm saying they got the doctors to believe "science" that were more made-up numbers pulled out of thin air. There were other prostitutions, like with the lawyers that defended them in court, and the nonprofits who sucked up to them publicly for their gifts of ill-gotten gains.

And those pharma sales reps...surely they never actually sleep with the doctors? They just get super hot women for that job just to improve doctor's reading comprehension, like a hot teacher in a middle school, that'll learn those boys real good, surely. [Note: I know you're meant to say it differently, I'm being colloquial]

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The next evolution will be branded "kubeless"
If people earned bitcoin and paid taxes in bitcoin the government would still need to exchange those bitcoins for dollars in order to pay its debts.
I heavily disagree with this notion. Cadaver dogs falsely alerting can tip police into arresting a suspect and bringing them in for questioning (this can often be newsworthy and cause one’s neighbors, community, the internet, and employment to also treat the person with suspicion or assume guilt) , or focusing on a suspect while not chasing other leads for an actual killer, or be used as circumstantial evidences at a trial even when no body is found. There have been cases where the cadaver dog alerts around a car, with clearly no body to be found, and this is used as circumstantial evidence that the car must’ve been used to carry a body.
I still think of that Vernor Vinge novel Across Realtime where people just disappear. Like a murder mystery it has already happened at the beginning of the book and people at various technology levels are one-way time traveling into the future trying to figure out what happened but… they never do.

It’s a good read.

I also think of this differential equation

dx/dt = x*x

Which like the usual exponential growth equation except x is squared so the rate of growth accelerates as the quantity increases, solutions look like

x = 1/t

namely it grows pretty slowly for a long time but it really goes bam all the way to infinity at a specific time.

Anyhow I don’t believe in that God at the end of time that Aella and Tielhard de Chardin believe in because I think intelligence itself is limited the way Godel, Turing and many others point to.
Or MacOS as an in-between; it has "cloud bullshit" but it doesn't nag your about it as much.
That's great. I have The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit.
I would imagine any consumer product running it would work like ChromeOS with a second system library that gets updated in the background and then swapped in at boot. Windows update is hated for how bad the implementation is..but people also don't like having out of date software and features.
To me, practical uncertainties, managerial overhead, and logistical complexity seem likely to swamp the only obvious upside of potentially reducing personnel costs.

Even more concerning is personnel cost reduction tends toward squeezing blood from stones. Business is premised on getting what you pay for. As costs are reduced toward zero, goods and services trend toward a corresponding quality.

Except in recession, time spent reducing costs can often be better spent raising revenue.
I'm not a designer, but I found TDoET immensely helpful in terms of designing software interfaces, be it APIs or GUIs.

It really teaches a few simple concepts that apply in wide ranging areas.
Fixed some of those. Simple case of just pushing the edit button and sending a PR.
Google Issues Warning for Billions of Chrome Users
That would be gamed in a heartbeat.
The “left” would seize the building from its owner and send them on their way. The “far left” would grab some share of the owners assets as well. What the US calls “left” the rest of the G20-ish world calls “right-centre, capitalist driven with a smattering of social overtones”. And a “social democracy” would probably been forcing the owner to keep things working and even forcing adapting to changing conditions.

Remember the internet cliche: “Left wing isn’t negotiating a national price for pharmaceuticals. Left wing is nationalizing the drug companies.”
Isn't that just running your own server? Just say "we are at capacity, sorry" if it starts to give issues from load.
Skin cancer screening using a smart phone.
This article is a malicious misrepresentation of the facts.

https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/boeing-delivers-14-k...

Is this tanker program 7 years late in delivery? Yes. But Boeing has eaten the entire $5 Billion dollars of cost overruns, as the contract for these planes is fixed price. In addition, the reason the plane is 7 years late is absolutely not due to the boom control mechanism, but more so the fueling system.

https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/32818/the-air-force-ha...

Because of the strict procurement laws we have in the USA, instead of the tax-payer taking huge losses on the program, Boeing shareholders have eaten the cost. I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

Also the idea that after the prosecution of Druyun Boeing was favored is simply a lie.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125383323357539115
This entirely. Big companies grow complacent. Which to me, in time, equates to Google's timely downfall.
I don't think economies of scale will be lost, they would have more complicated logistics since each country would have its own policies and a deep analysis of the laws of each micro-country would have to be carried out to export... This would be solved with new technology (Imagine consulting a global database if your product is accepted by the policies of most countries, everything would be automated and would have no extra cost).

The micro-countries could create trade agreements with each other (as currently occurs in the countries), such as eliminating import taxes on a product that is in high demand, exchanging resources, pooling wealth to work for a common goal...

Another important aspect would be the judicial system, there could be criminal countries that make theft legal in their territory, if that micro-country is in a strategic place, sooner or later people would have to enter the country... One solution would be for the micro-countries to adhere to a centralized judicial system made up of members from each micro country, similar to how the European Union works.

I have a lot more ideas on this topic, but I am not an expert and cannot validate my hypothesis, or do a deep and detailed analysis of this topic.
How to write PRs that spark joy
Interesting ideas. Thanks for the suggestions.
I believe the term is called “whales” for those vulnerable to predatory monetisation. The sad part being many are escaping other addictions through video games, and that escape now attempts to profit through similar tactics. It’s really disappointing.
So many communication platforms are proprietary walled gardens these days. Facebook, Twitter, Slack, Discord, and so on. Their incentives do not align with what's best for their users, or society in general. We absolutely need open solutions become the standard dominant medium for communicating.

If Matrix and Mastodon become as easy to use as their proprietary counterparts, they could undo much of the harm done by our culturally divisive "social" networks.
Much appreciated for the information!
At scale safety is just a numbers game. A car model could be 10x as safe as human drivers and still occasionally drive directly into oncoming traffic.

Tesla isn’t anywhere close to that, but self driving cars have no reason to get worse. Systems good enough for fully self driving taxi services are already on the road and the the software is steadily getting better.
I’m mostly lost on the discussion of RPC. This article delves into the historical and more abstract / academic ideas of RPC. By the time I started working in industry, I only know about RPC in practice rather than theory. I’ve never bothered to know the details of RPC, but the main idea ( in practice ) is one computer calling another. Servers have some identifier / address, and the RPC call involves some agreement on the message format. In other words, an API contract + some infrastructure on how to resolve computer names. If it was external, we call it an API over HTTP. Nowadays, we just call the RPC topology as microservices, which is usually an HTTP API, just not on the public internet.

I found these bits to be golden:

> There is a widespread tendency in computing to adopt more important sounding names for something than is either warranted or is just plain wrong, such as, calling the graph of a network, a topology; calling the chief engineer on a project, the architect; calling a protocol, an API; calling almost anything a new paradigm; etc. There seems to be some deep-seated insecurity in the field that feels a need to inflate the importance of the concepts we work with.

> About every decade or so, we have to recycle all of the bad ideas of the previous generation.
Chello – A Free P2P Alternative to Twillio Messaging API
All your points are valid and appreciated. I am stunned that she still keeps her government pension though.
Hey, creator of Fornjot here.

Support for architecture use cases is currently listed on Fornjot's feature wishlist: https://github.com/hannobraun/Fornjot/discussions/146

As is noted there, I lack any expertise in this field, and it's largely unclear what specifically would be required to support it. Feedback is very welcome!

> isn't it kind of similar to OpenSCAD?

Yes, OpenSCAD is one example (the most prominent, I think) of the Code-CAD approach.

The Fornjot FAQ addresses OpenSCAD: https://www.fornjot.app/faq/

Second question. (Sorry, there isn't a way to link to specific questions in the FAQ yet. I've made a note to add that.)
The fact that this was ever used in a courtroom is disturbing, but before we start collectively clutching our pearls, remember that authors are selling clicks, and it us the nature of articles like these to overstate the problem.

I am less concerned by the obvious nonsense like this, than I am about the far more dangerous nonsense that comes from legit, credentialed, FBI-endorsed “scientists” which a rational, informed, well intentioned judge or juror might give serious weight, (like bite marks, blood splatter, profiling, etc.)
The thing is that in most places there's going to be water almost everywhere
I’m probably a rare person because I can and do understand other people and myself to the level they aren’t foreign to me.

What I’ve noticed is all humans seem to operate on the same frameworks. It’s just filtered through their nature and experiences. Mental illness is just another filter.

Maybe it’s because my bipolar brain has a lot of hard, untreated mileage in it. I’ve experienced so many emotional and mental states that there is little I find difficult to relate to.
I would be very surprised if their military operated with a just-in-time inventory instead of a stockpile system for crucial components. But several surprising things have happened recently.
If this is safe because of a layer of dead skin, I am not sure its a good idea to put this in operating rooms where they may have exposed inner flesh.

Imagine having a sunburn, but on your intestines.
Are you okay? Can't tell if this is AI or someone with lots of pictures on the wall all tied together with string and newspaper clippings and the word "prostituting" captioned on them.
I mean having dug already they also immediately gave the dude a much higher chance of success because there's less space it can't be
https://archive.ph/REJwG
I think most socialist that read theory know this, that is why they say socialism is more the road from capitalism to the never reachable utopia called communism.
At least that is how i have understand their explanation, das kapital is still on my reading list but it such a big book its kind of intimidating to start and given the limited amount of free time i have xD
It’s illegal in many jurisdictions. Wood is fine.

Soundproofing is about insulation materials, quality doors and building above the minimum. A lot of midrise condos are built to a pretty shitty standard to make the numbers work. Sometimes they do stuff like glue wall panels instead of fastening, so you get things starting to loosen quickly as the building shifts.

If you stay in a decent midrange hotel (Hampton Inn, Marriott, etc) the sound is pretty good. They are prefabricated concrete, but look at the details, surfaces are carpeted, textured ceilings, there are rubber gaskets everywhere, etc. You usually don’t hear the nighttime adventures of your neighbors, but you can smell a bag of popcorn from 50 yards away because ventilation sucks.
Creating film is high tech, both the film itself, the camera to expose it, and the lab to develop it.

And you need more than a light source, you need some sort of optics. Maybe you can shine a flashlight through it onto a wall and take a picture of that, if the film hasn't gone to dust the way all the Hollywood film negatives from barely a few decades ago have already done.

Film is garbage for this.

It's better than a CD, but doesn't hold a candle to paper.
Twitter Routing Issue in UK?
Something odd going on with network routing to Twitter in the UK right now. From a BT Broadband home connection, traffic seems to be flowing via an "mts-internet.net" addresses listed in Moscow. I've tried from a VPN and can access Twitter just fine. Downdectector shows a peak in reports of issues too - https://downdetector.co.uk/status/twitter/.

Tracing route to twitter.com [104.244.42.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 <1 ms <1 ms 1 ms 172.16.10.74
3 * * * Request timed out.
4 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 31.55.186.180
5 6 ms 6 ms 6 ms 213.121.192.150
6 18 ms 9 ms 5 ms peer2-et0-1-7.slough.ukcore.bt.net [62.6.201.53]
7 5 ms 6 ms 5 ms mil-cr01-te6-2.lnd.stream-internet.net [195.66.224.218]
8 19 ms 19 ms 18 ms anc-cr01-be5.204.ff.mts-internet.net [195.34.53.225]
9 * * * Request timed out.
10 54 ms 53 ms 53 ms a433-cr02-be2.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.28.150]
11 54 ms 54 ms 55 ms m9-cr03-ae11.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.42.125]
12 55 ms 55 ms 54 ms a433-cr02-be11.77.msk.mts-internet.net [212.188.42.126]
13 * * * Request timed out.

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I don't mean customization - I prefer to leave things as they are, for the most part, since all that work gets lost whenever you switch to your next machine.

I mean that Apple has grown steadily more opinionated about how "their" machines ought to be used, and not in ways that suit me. Every new version of MacOS requires me to struggle through a bunch of new stuff I don't need or want before I can get back to using the machine the way I'm used to. I don't want to create an Apple account, I don't want iCloud backup, I don't want to use an app store, and I can't stand the constant barrage of notifications blinking away in the corner of the screen. I don't want Apple to protect me from running the application I just downloaded a minute ago, and I really don't want Apple to protect me from using applications they haven't approved and cryptographically signed... On it goes. I understand why they think all this stuff matters, but I have different priorities. I don't need Apple to manage my digital life, and I wish they'd stop trying to force me into their groove.
Working on it https://github.com/brutal-org/brutal/tree/main/sources/libs/...

It as already has some neat feature like C2json
A lot of people have this; I certainly do: when I buy something new it feels good, for a short time.

I actually live a fairly frugal life, and I think acknowledging this is important: "do I really want or need this or am I just making myself feel better for a few hours?"
OTOH it's a little shocking if you actually ask people and get them to think about it. Like, my friend's 8 year old kid was always hitting his 6 year old sister, so [my friend, the mom] would hit him and punish him when he did it. I said did you ever ask him what he thought his sister felt when he did that to her? So next time he hit his sister, my friend sat him down and said "What do you think that felt like to her, being hit by her older brother?" And didn't let it go, she demanded an answer. The boy was dead silent for about a minute and then buckled and apologized, and apparently hasn't hit his sister since then. The mom thanked me when I saw her and says she never would have thought of that approach. Far be it from my childless ass to give parenting advice. She's a very, very smart woman. But I think we too often think of self-reflection as some kind of adult thing we can't do on our own, or need deep therapy for, when sometimes someone just holding up a mirror to you can do it in an instant.
There are already active zlib forks (e.g. https://github.com/zlib-ng/zlib-ng), the problem is with having people move to them. It takes a lot of effort to move mindshare from the original version to a fork, there's some historical examples of it happening, but not a ton.
I'm bearish on AI. The human brain does far more than just learn things. AI still has no ability to reason or think creatively. So we're not even in the ballpark. The space has been worked on for 50 years. I'm not sure why people think the field will now start to progress rapidly.
What happens if it becomes a “the body must’ve been here at some point and then moved”? For example cadaver dogs have been used on cars, houses, etc. with clearly no body precisely to put under suspicion that a body was under temporary storage.
No empire lasts forever; when was the last time you went to Sears?