skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The BBC article on this says there have been hints from other experiments that support these results, but they need deeper analysis:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60993523

The result, published in the journal Science, could be related to hints from other experiments at Fermilab and the Large Hadron Collider at the Swiss-French border. These, as yet unconfirmed results, also suggest deviations from the Standard Model, possibly as a result of an as yet undiscovered fifth force of nature at play.
What if the problem (externalities) is cheaper than the solution (government)?
No this post is again incorrect, GTK2 did not support CSS at all. And inline CSS has not been removed from GTK4 or libadwaita, you can still do that very easily.

>Yes, they added a new way to do a thing. That alone does not an upgrade make.

I'm confused as to what you think new features and upgrades are exactly, besides new ways to do things.
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> having written a substantial quantity of JS in a "memory managed" way to avoid GC, and avoiding memcpy by passing buffers in place of pointers.

What projects were you working on that required that? It sounds interesting
Take a look how easily highly illegal drugs are smuggled in large quantity, and then ponder how easy it is for civilians to acquire Xilinx FPGAs in the West regardless of forms. Then ponder that .ru may be using industrial spec instead of mil spec : life-critical isn't so important to russia.
> but at that point it's no different from what libadwaita does.

So... we're just conceding that the feature you outlined isn't new, just a different way of getting an outcome that could already be achieved with older versions?
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I ordered a piece of furniture from Wayfair, and they had the same response - deny the package.

Well the package arrived while I was at work. After calling them 3 times to come pick it up, due to shipping delays they were never able to, and eventually told me to keep it for free.
An attitude really pissed off Truman:

> The meeting between Oppenheimer and Truman did not go well. It was then that Oppenheimer famously told Truman that "I feel I have blood on my hands", which was unacceptable to Truman, who immediately replied that that was no concern of Oppenheimer's, and that if anyone had bloody hands, it was the president. ...

> Truman had very little use for Oppenheimer then--little use for his "hand wringing", for his high moral acceptance of question in the use of the bomb, for his second-guessing the decision. Cold must have descended in the meeting, as Truman later told David Lillenthal of Oppenheimer that he "never wanted to see that son of a bitch in this office again". Truman would retell the story in different ways, but with generally the same result, waxing about how he dismissed the "cry-baby scientist".
Is this one of those, election was rigged (on the same ballots my other candidates won) perspectives?
There's a bunch of signed (and dedicated sign language) programming on FreeView, but usually late at night. It's worth looking them up on iPlayer/4oD etc and watching them if you're not around at the right times.

They're obviously pitched at the level of fluent signers who use these as their primary way to use the TV, but I do find that between the audio, subs and thematic information, a lot can be picked up from the signer. English-with-subs is known to work well for foreigners learning English, and I expect English-and-signed might be good for BSL.

Where about are you based? I joined the bsl soc at uni and later did a level 1 course, so my level is rudimentary, but if you're in the west mids it might be good to practice.
If we don't need anything except the cleaner alternatives, we should start by banning and issuing laws against burning fossil fuel for connecting to the energy grid. This naturally include imports, as buying energy generated by burning fossil fuel outside the nations borders is just as bad as if the burning occurred inside.

At that point people can choose between all the non-fossil fuel alternatives and pick what attributes they favor.
if you break compatibility you might as well just use some re2 bindings[0]

[0] https://github.com/mudge/re2
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This is why some people are so excited about RISC-V, BTW - they're re-enacting the exact same market play as x86 did back then. Starting out from low-end hardware only good for single-purpose use (we call that "embedded" these days) and scaling up to something that can run a proper OS, with MMU and virtual memory support. And doing it while beating everyone else on price, as well as potentially on performance.
I'd hate it if plastics end up being "the great filter" for humanity. It's mind boggling how our reach consistently exceeds our grasp.
Canada just had an election and the Liberals are secure in power from their deal with the NDP. This isn't pandering, it's them trying to advance their agenda. (Whether you agree with it or not)
I think that she is pretty aware of reality on which she is among best candidates. And the group of best candidates is larger then a single one person.

Yet also, precious candidates were less qualified but highly political, so it is not like anyone would think the selection is all about qualification.
I think at some point Azure announced $X in free credits for YC members, and GitLab determined this would save us something like a year's worth in bills (quite a bit of money at the time). Moving over was rather painful, and I think in the months that we used Azure literally nobody was happy with it. In addition, I recall we burned through the free credits _very_ fast.

That sounds like the worst reason to change cloud providers: "because that provider bribed me to"
The crux of the issue are zoning laws that artificially suppress supply. in particular the city of vancouver have resisted rezoning to high density low rise homes because it hurts their voter base who are NIMBY multiple property home owning Canadians who turn around to sell them to whoever will buy them.

and then the masses turn around to blame that group. its straight up xenophobia one that has been in Vancouver for a very long time, anti-asian xenophobia in Vancouver is not new. 80s, it was the japanese, 90s, hong kong & koreans, 2000s, taiwanese and mainlanders.
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I'm not so sure it's not possible. There are large numbers of people getting priced out, and YIMBY groups are springing up all over. Here in Oregon, we passed HB2001, which re-legalizes up to 4-plexes in our cities. One of the city councilors where I live is a huge YIMBY.

https://www.brookings.edu/blog/the-avenue/2022/03/31/where-p...

https://noahpinion.substack.com/p/the-yimbys-are-starting-to...
In the end how many rules you can break depend on how much money you have and/or how many friends in high places you have. Because in the end it's only illegal if you get caught and find someone willing to prosecute you. And if money is the only penalty, then the law is only against poor, rich will pay and nothing will change.
No, because the Church-Turing thesis.
Yes good point, I was initially thinking that it would make sense to always ask yourself "how long should this take" and tune appropriately, but for the vast majority of regexes that's overkill, especially if you're not doing anything O(n^2). sticking a 1 second in there gives you a lot of headroom and you can just get more specific for any exceptions.
Worked for me with Simpsons Tapped Out. I loaded a cracked version that let me have everything I wanted for free. Very quickly lost its appeal. I broke a 6-month, 7-sessions-a-day habit in about 3 days.
Fine then, GTK3 certainly has it, I know because I've used it myself. Pedantry aside, the point stands: it's not new, and it's certainly not functionality.
I feel attacked.

Jokes aside, what advice would you give to such developers? Asking for a friend.
I've never written (or even read) JS code with ArrayBuffers. I wonder how much mileage you might get with better education and/or libs for using them? And perhaps a highly opinionated linter for things like optimal for-loop patterns?
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His picks will influence American politics and society and law for years.
Is it actually incorrect or just associated with things that are incorrect?
I'm sure it happens, but you've got to be looking at that as a pure cost. You're not generating any revenue from people searching your brand, and you're paying significant sums for click through on people who already had the intention to come to you. In some ways I could see the normal position being "We only advertise on our competitors brands" because atleast that way you are picking off your competition, not bidding up people who already wanted to come to you.
Tell HN: I hate links to videos in discussions
This is a rant of sorts, but I'm seeing this more and more, not just on HN, but in lots of places.

Folks will be discussing some topic (the genre doesn't seem to matter) and a commenter will respond with something like, "yeah, this is just like..." or something similar, and include a youtube (or other video) link without any context or reason why it's relevant or any inkling as to the content of such a video.

What then? Now I either have to go off whatever site I'm reading and watch some video that may or may not have anything to do with the subject at hand.

Even worse, like most people I can read a lot faster than some talking head in a video can get to the point, thus wasting my time.

Or I can just move on to the next comment and ignore the video link. Which might be rather unfortunate, as there may actually be something useful/interesting/informative going on.

For my own part, I may sometimes link to videos, but only in the context of a comment where I'm actually making the point in the comment itself and linking to the video to either support my point, provide additional context and/or act as a citation of something I've quoted/referenced in my comment.

Seeing stuff like "This is why $issue is how it is" or "$RandomPerson will [blow your mind|explain everything|is so profound]" with no context or other information really doesn't add anything valuable to the discussion at hand.

For pity's sake, if you're on a discussion site, then discuss stuff! If a video presents an interesting viewpoint or useful information, include it in your comment with a note that the linked video provides more informtion/context/argument, etc.

But a comment that contains nothing but "this is amazing" or "$person nailed it here" is, quite literally, clickbait. And not even good clickbait.

I get that some folks aren't native English speakers and may feel that the video will provide a much better explanation of their thoughts than the poster thinks they can exposit. But please, at least provide some kind of context!

I come to discussion sites to discuss, not watch videos. If I wanted to watch videos, I'd do that instead.

/rant

I generally just ignore such links/comments, because I'm here (and elsewhere) to discuss stuff.

Am I being overly judgemental here, or do others also feel that such "comments" reduce the value of a discussion if it's necessary to go off-site to view (sometimes hours-long) videos just to figure out what the commenter is banging on about?

Your thoughts?
Car culture. It is insanely inefficient at moving people and at land use.
There's greater efficiency in larger sizes. Reactor walls scale with surface area, their output scales with volume. There's also regulatory issues, too. I'm not sure how the UK operates, but in the US every nuclear reactor - regardless of size - has to pay $375 million in insurance. And there's a push to increase this to $450 million [1]. This fixed overhead regulatory cost effectively prohibits anything but the largest reactor designs, as 50 SMRs producing 1.5 GW total incurs 50x the regulatory cost as one 1.5 GW reactor.

1. https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/30/2016-31...
"Surpass" is a tricky concept. Nuclear weapons won't become less devastating, so they won't stop mattering, even if something more devastating comes along. Maybe being easier to build than nukes would do it, where suddenly everyone had the new superweapon including the old nuclear powers, since even they might as well use the new easier thing if they use anything.
I've seen stuff like this firsthand. It's hard to say for sure what makes up the bulk ocean-wide. A major issue is government corruption. It's highly likely that western money dumped into places like this to help improve the situation gets gobbled up by various boondoggles that do not end up making a dent. Case in point, I spent weeks in Fiji cleaning up garbage. The town got a grant from the central government for some hundreds of thousands of dollars to help their sanitation issues. They bought one garbage truck. Meanwhile, people were burning garbage in their backyards, or down the street, because they didn't want to pay the taxes associated with garbage service. And plenty would just dump on the beach at night. That was Fiji, which has a boatload of tourist money coming in and is rapidly developing. In Africa, shit looks bleak.
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Sorry, that's not the theorem I'm referencing. See the section "Revenue equivalence of the Vickrey auction and sealed first price auction".

(Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revenue_equivalence)
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> Each dollar diverted to building nukes instead of renewables brings climate disaster ever nearer, because a dollar of renewables displaces more coal than a dollar of nuke, and immediately, not ten or twenty years from now.

It's really odd to see these arguments being made right now. Germany is burning mostly fossil fuels now and and in an energy crisis because they decided to shut down all their nuclear and do renewables.

We can install 50% of our new generation as solar and 10% as battery storage, but just as building a nuclear plant takes a decade, it would also take decades to replace our existing generation with solar and wind. The ability to produce solar panels is not going to increase by 10x overnight regardless of demand. Building solar and wind implies needing other sources of power for when the sun isn't shining in the wind is not blowing. If you don't build nuclear you build natural gas or keep using coal. Energy storage can help a lot, but we are maxing out our battery production as is. Maybe pumped hydro is the solution, but we aren't really building any changing this is going to take a lot of time as well.

> solar is compatible not just with roofs and parking lots, but also with reservoirs and canals, where it cuts evaporation and operates more efficiently, and even with pasture and farmland, where it increases yield (by reducing heat stress) and cuts water demand (likewise). There is a lot of pasture and farm land. Ranchers and farmers like an extra revenue stream and better yield

Most of these scenarios will more than double the cost of a solar install compared to a utility solar farm and require heavy subsidies. I have seen the stories about mixing solar with farming in arid climates, and I am hopeful that can be adopted as a practice, but I think you are front-running what is just an experiment right now.

> Disposing of used solar panels is trivial: the metal gets recycled, the silicon gets recycled, the cadmium and the tellurium get recycled.

Do you have any evidence that this is actually being done at scale now? Who do I can call to remove my solar panels and recycle them? For example, this article says "In the United States, there are only a few businesses specializing in the recycling of solar panels, so most panels that are submitted for recycling are being warehoused until a solution is found for the U.S." [1]

[1] https://solarpowergenie.com/how-to-dispose-of-solar-panels-a...
Mocking own code should be avoided if possible, but it does not apply to external resources like database, http responses etc.
There will be a huge scandal when somebody's personal info leak leads to irreparable damage: exposed political affiliation, health issues, sexual orientation etc.
Andreessen worked at NCSA and was the largest contributor to Mosaic!

He was even responsible for how various parts of the web standard coming into existence back then. For example, Tim Berners-Lee shared a different proposal than the img tag we now have. But Andreesen suggested the img tag for embedded images and shipped working code in the Mosaic browser.

After starting Netscape itself, the shift towards building entirely new technology and features only accelerated. That was an intense team effort but one he lead.

Getting so “lucky“ required working very energetically and solving difficult problems, for years.
> It would have broad appeal, but not to the developers etc. that are buying 10K plates at fundraising dinners ...

Definitely true and thought it would go without saying haha

The rest of your post is totally fair and I can't really disagree.
You should always vote for less taxes on yourself.

Voting for more taxes on other people does not reduce your taxes.
Your models are almost certainly missing something.

In a perfect world that would be true but in the actual world where lending is subsidized and tax-preferenced and the supply of housing is artificially constrained buying is just clearly a better scenario if you can do it.

Some people do this by comparing a 5:1 leveraged portfolio of the S&P 500 against a home purchase or something but that's not a real comparison that exists as a choice in the real world.
I don't understand the obsession with therapy, and I don't understand it to the point that, outside of a real trauma (suicide, abuse, death, etc.), I wouldn't be in a relationship with someone who is seeing a therapist. And to be clear, I had a brief experience, maybe 4 or 5 sessions, with therapy after a failed romantic relationship.
Aside from the fact that it was a waste of time and money - and it could be about me and the specific therapist in my case, not therapy as a practice - I realized that part of my problem was entrusting the solution of rather trivial problems to someone who didn't know me, was only interested in getting to know me in the context that I was paying for it, and aside from a few trivial questions he asked me, didn't do much.
What helped me was to start hanging out with someone again, because when one Pope is dead, we make another. And it is outsourcing the solution of personal issues the problem, it is a lack of ownership.

As far as existential crises go, my view is that dedicating yourself to something, and it could be multiple things, tends to solve most of these crises. I look at myself and I have a good salary (for some people it's out of this world), good looks, I'm decently smart and erudite, and sometimes I wonder, is there something more to life? Because I'm getting pretty bored.

And I've found that finding or reinforcing old and new "passions" tends to make my life more engaging and make the pretty useless existential questions go away. It might be writing, or doing jiu jitsu, or watching August Masters with some interest like I'm doing now. It might be dating an interesting man or woman. Learning a new language, visiting a foreign country on my own. So it's dedication and participation. And the practice of autogenic training, which makes us aware of the many hidden tensions we store in our minds and bodies.
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Congratulations to you for the release. It looks great. For most of the queries I get that the server is overwhelmed. Probably HN hug of death.

I would look into the Reddit trademark situation. I am pretty sure reddit only allows apps and websites to use "for Reddit" and no other name combinations with their name.
Yes but not the humans primarily using the software - for the humans that want to extract profit from those human's eyeballs.
A lot of that TV watching is TV on background. That is not the same as compulsive TV watching where you can't stop despite feeling affected.
This is developed for humans. Certain humans want you to submit to their 'engagement' regime, and these humans have tailored their platform to pressure you accordingly.

The Russian invasion of Ukraine led me to seek alternatives, and I now use nitter for those few Twitter accounts that I care to follow. It's no panacea, but it's better than being punished by Twitter for not logging in.
> Speculation isn’t great, but let’s not pretend this is some elaborate scheme orchestrated by all the homeowners.

No, but real estate companies wouldn't be able to lower property taxes alone. It's only happening once there is a critical mass of homeowners that is voting themselves a tax cut. Large real estate companies get exactly the same tax cut and since they have more property they benefit more than the average homeowner. One could have a tax cut for owner occupied housing but no, there is no limit to the tax cut. Everyone including billionaires gets it. That's incredibly unfair.
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Powershell is not "just a copy of how unix works". Powershell lets you work with objects instead of wrangling text. You call real functions with real objects as real parameters and get real objects returned back to you. You can pipe those objects, iterate over them, etc. You can call into .NET and even Win32. In bash, all you have is 1) executing binaries and 2) hacks emulating real variables and functions and control flow but that are really just parsing and passing strings around.
Let me phrase it a different way then. Some decisions are made with region 3 as a critical part of the loop, and some aren't.

You're not navigating a map or writing a comment with regions 1 and 2 doing everything.

If it goes scared -> hide, then I don't blame region 3 for screwing up.

If it goes scared -> make plans -> pick a plan, then I will blame region 3 if it makes bad plans. Is it wrong for me to say region 3 is "in charge" here? Okay, maybe that's too simple of a way of looking at it. But region 3 has a lot of power and responsibility when it comes to planning. So if it's the logical planning step that fails, not because it was disrupted by fear but because it went "oh I can't tell if the fear is real, better get stuck on that and not explore the two whole possibilities", then that's a non-emotional screwup and I expect better.
>So... we're just conceding that the feature you outlined isn't new

No, it could not be done in older versions unless you made all apps base their design around that stylesheet, which nobody actually did because it would break a lot of older apps. They didn't bother to do it until GTK4 because it requires changing the stylesheet anyway and apps have to actively migrate to it, so it's the perfect time to get this out of the way.

If you're referring to individual apps, yes they could always technically implement their own theming system, just like they could always implement their own toolkit from scratch if they really wanted to. The point now is it's built into the platform and will actually have a shot at being usable in every app using libadwaita, not just ones that decide to ship a third party stylesheet because they decided they want to support ubuntu or budgie or something.
no need to imagine this, this is already the case in this universe. at least if we're talking about actually computing something, not just writing down the equations on paper.

for example from everything we know at least so far there are some truly continuous non-quantized quantities yet all numerical solutions can ever produce is an ever increasingly good approximation of something.

some constants are irrational so we can never get true values of certain physical constants, etc...