skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just my experience, but as a millennial growing up in the US, when I was in say 3rd grade or so we had a short unit on cursive and then I never used it again. When it came time to start signing things as an adult I had forgotten almost all of it. Years later someone commented that I signed the first letter of my last name in lowercase, oops...

Another tidbit someone may find interesting, going through elementary school in the early 90s I was forced to write right handed, despite being a natural lefty. This was due to the teachers religious leanings. I grew up in a major metro area as well. I can write with both hands now, but prefer right handed writing so the spirals of notebooks don't push up against my hand. Anytime I pick up a new hobby I have a weird decision to make about what hand I want to use. Still haven't figured out if I bowl left or right handed!
Looking at a review[0] on TRE from 2020 it says:

>The studies to date in humans are limited in size and duration, and the effectiveness and acceptability of TRE in the general population remains unclear.

Skimming this new paper and it seems to me that the sample size is about twice as big as previous studies.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S258900422...
Is the name calling really necessary? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that it's hard to have a civil conversation on this topics, but I thought we were off to a strong start.

I'm not sure why you keep putting "language of instruction" in quotes, like it is a euphemism. It just means "the language the teachers use in schools." Attending schools that are taught in something other than a person's native language is an extremely common experience around the world. Many nations think it is a good idea to have a standardized language of instruction in their schools.

Is it a form of cultural repression? I see how it can be. We have had some political battles here in the U.S. about whether it is appropriate to provide public-school instruction in Spanish in areas with many Latino students. The battle lines in that debate are basically where you'd expect: some people emphasize the need for people to "assimilate" while others want to allow them to learn in whatever language is best for them and emphasize preservation of their culture. Certainly far worse happens to other cultures around the world and nobody bats an eyelash. And I've certainly never heard of any calls for a special military operation to "liberate" Latinos from U.S. communities because the local schools teach classes in English!

Other countries (like Turkey with Kurdish) have gone much farther and actually banned the use of a language in various contexts--i.e., they don't just not use the language, they criminally prosecute people who do. In Turkey, people have been charged with "insulting Turkishness" or even treason, and been sent to prison, for speaking Kurdish in official settings, playing Kurdish music, etc.[1][2] If there's evidence of this going on in Ukraine, that might change my view. But so far everything I've heard about Ukraine absolutely pales in comparison. (Again, I don't necessarily credit every single one of these accounts. But in this case I have actually known some Kurdish refugees, and this generally aligns with their take on life in Turkey.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_of_Kurdish_people...
[2] https://www.culturalsurvival.org/publications/cultural-survi...
You can walk, but not really go anywhere

Yeah, not as bad as Ashburn, but not as good as Ballston or Clarendon (both of which now qualify as fully urban).

They added bike lanes to the major road outside my subdivision. Great, except they stop for 2 blocks near the school complex (ES, MS, HS on same big plot) because they needed extra turn lanes for cars. And then stopped the bike lanes again for 2 blocks near the shopping center for the same reason. So, the two places you'd want to ride a bike aren't connected. Massive failure. I sometimes wonder if VDOT/Fairfax planners half-ass these things on purpose just to prove "but nobody uses the bike lanes, see, empty!"
Well sure, but in the context of this discussion "bias" implies political.
are there plans for AMD and Qualcomm based mainboards?
>Thanks, vouched even though I'm not sure your claim about "every major player" being out is correct (https://money.cnn.com/quote/shareholders/shareholders.html?s...). Still, easier to have that conversation elsewhere now that there's a general public conversation about it, so it's harder to hand-wave it away as conspiratorial.

Institutions like Blackrock or Vanguard don't get to vote, they may at most provide a proxy vote at cost.

The typical 'conspiracy' around those 2 is that their management can threaten entities like twitter with delisting. Twitter is then removed from their holdings at tremendous cost. So they have kind of a little threat and they get some say to do stuff like climate change and diversity stuff. Ultimately the orgs still take this upon themselves. It's an easy thing to bluff against.

Yes maybe some of these institutions have some players involved but I dont see it.

Twitter looks tremendously undefended.
Other studies don't control for the amount being eaten. Time-restricted eating is a technique for eating less food, but aside from that it doesn't have intrinsic benefits.
This article uses incorrect terminology. What the Russians did was electronic warfare, not electromagnetic warfare. Electronic warfare jams, blocks, or otherwise disrupts electronic communication. Electromagnetic warfare damages or destroys communication equipment.
Google Rolls Out New Cookie Rejection Banner in Europe
I can't believe how sick I am of hearing some "scientist" finding a result against what many people _know_ works.

If "science" can prove anything then what is the solution here? Does everything have to be a battle?
Neither of the electronic warfare officials referenced in the article - Brig. Gen. Tad Clark, Dave Tremper in the office of SecDef — raised any hint of concern.
I'd toyed with fountain pens on and off for twenty years. In 2019, I dug an old Waterman Expert out of my closet, watched some videos for how to use bottled ink and converters and off I went into the hobby.

I still use traditional late 20th century American cursive (D'Nealian, I think), but all the practice with fountain pens has made my handwriting more legible than it's been in a long time.

Cursive came about because writing with quill and dip pens required you keep the nib on the paper for as long as possible, lest it dry out, or the ink drop to the page. Fountain pens aren't as bad in this regard, but still do better when the ink is flowing than just waving about in the air.

I happily take work notes all day long with fountain pens (today I have a Pilot Custom 74 inked up). I wouldn't want to give them up.
I've read Drew DeVault's blog a few times, but wow, never realised how much he disliked systemd.
"Biden's 9.6%" - I'm not american so this seems like a peculiar way of putting it since inflation is spiking across the whole western world. It seems weirdly partisan, was that the intention?
And search suggestions, search results, follow/friend suggestions, push notifications, up next on YouTube or IG stories. See the work of Robert Epstein
Yeah, “limits” are sometimes in hardware and sometimes conceptual. Look at the demoscene - most of what they do is designed to run on period hardware, but far surpasses anything anyone did at the time (it’s the whole point).
Web color is somehow still a garbage fire.

About a decade ago I was hearing that web-safe color was effectively obsolete. Today Firefox chokes on P3 color, and Chrome doesn't appear to care at all about display color profiles.

I recently launched a website that had a fire-engine red background and was expected to have a rotating animation above the fold (https://worldparkinsonsday.com). Even once we got the animation synced perfectly between Chrome and Safari, it turned out that iOS Safari was rendering the video differently. Eventually I gave up and replaced a 128kb mp4 video with a 5mb transparent animated GIF. Shameful.

And I had this lil' fellah on my desk smiling at me the whole time
https://100soft.shop/collections/dumpster-fire/products/dump...
Levity Polymorphism
This saddened me to learn before we moved out to NC. We're lucky enough to have the possibility of Ting coming in at some point but not until our development is done being built. It's a Spectrum monopoly until then. Hopefully these sorts of laws get overturned and the limiting providers via contracts/deals with the city or development gets made illegal.
There are other problems. Currently, the US Federal government cannot hire most competent software engineers at all due to salary/comp caps.

The maximum amount any federal employee can earn is $170k, with zero equity.
Part of the reason I'm so cynical about the teaching profession is that I had a string of two or three elementary teachers who insisted that cursive was the only acceptable method of handwriting in educational settings. Immediately after—and for every single other teacher or professor—no one cared whether the letters were connected or block-printed so long as they were legible.

The other reason was the far-longer string of "you had better shape up now because if you don't get your act together, you'll never pass next year" and then continually passing next year with flying colors.
Longmonsters unite! Nextlight for the future!
Hydrilla verticellata, Lemna minor, and phragmites are coming for your cattails and Elodea :(. All of the poor fish will not survive.
> A sentence is not misleading because a chunk of people understand something totally different than what it is supposed to be about

To read the subheader you have to go the site; since trying to do so hung up Firefox, it's not going to happen anymore. It will be added to my filter of bad sources along with Nautilus, the New Yorker, etc.
Yes, but if you scale to half size (in linear size), then the overall luminance could go down by 1/2*1/2=1/4, not more, not less.
I don't understand your point. If it was "an itemized line in our electric bill", you'd presumably still pay for it? You also pay lot more than $40 a month to finance the infrastructure surrounding you, even though that is not were most of the money goes to (mostly social / medical / military, not infra).
> I just don't get why anyone would want their city to run an internet service? It seems like the most of awful thing that I could ever be forced to endure.

I agree, but the "limited government" alternative in practice is monopoly telcos. What's the difference? Actual competition is not on offer from anyone.
There is no objective standard and no court that decides what action will 'pull is into WWIII'. Maybe German tank shipments will be too much, maybe Starlink terminals, maybe a bad Putin meme. What crosses the line is solely decided by the Russian government, and they do not care at all whether coming generations will deem their actions legitimate or not.

In this case it is extremely dangerous to err on the side of caution, or Putin will be able to apply salami tactics and get whatever he wants.
Nice artwork as usual, but it looks like the song is missing.

Sadly I can't say much about the release because I have no real use case for OpenBSD.
The VR game Star Trek: Bridge Crew played with this idea briefly in the tutorial levels. In hindsight, it seems so obvious. Why not have a bridge suited to exactly what you need, including the ability to change without having to physically move to the rarely used Battle Bridge. If nothing else, everyone having their own ergo setup seems really nice.
Certainly. Nothing in my comment suggests otherwise in the least.
Geothermal energy. Drilling is expensive and this exploits already-drilled holes. A pilot project is ongoing.

They estimate the returning water to be 65 C and can be used for heating, or, with absorption cooling cycle, for cooling.
Interesting, kudos on launching!

How does the email validation work internally?
Pattern-Defeating Quicksort (pdqsort)
> But if I spend that 1 dollar towards the construction of a new factory, I made 0 dollars in net profit

You have net profited $1-worth of factory. New assets don't magically stop being profit. Not even if they depreciate, because cash depreciates too.

The only thing one needs to ask is whether corporate tax makes sense in principle at all when one could instead "just" tax human use of assets owned by corporations as personal gain. Everything else gets taxed at the personal income or property side already anyway.
The most important city in America has always been and will always be New York City.

The critical mass as it pertains to raw numbers and density of all the building blocks of society is unparalleled:

1) People

2) Money

3) Concrete

4) Transportation

5) Productivity

6) Recreation

Globally only London and Tokyo can compete with NYC.

People who don't like NYC tend to be those who are not at peace with themselves and especially unable to accept their own irrelevance, which is constantly thrown in your face in NYC, whether you are Michael Bloomberg, Rihanna or Robert De Niro.
Very interesting video and it brought back a lot of nostalgia. At the time this came out I was blown away by it. Remember watching some kid play the bbomb level at the department store. Looking back as an adult I no longer feel the awe, but have the greater satisfaction of learning about the ram bus and low level programming considerations
As the park workers would say, you can eat anything at least once.

Most sites recommend against eating it.
https://extension.umn.edu/trees-and-shrubs/winterberry
I do the two circle method of writing 8s
If you give up your RGB sliders for HSV sliders you’ve taken a big step.

Value (bright vs dark) is more important than anything else. If you were picking foreground and background colors for text whether or not it is readable depends on the difference in values, not the hues.

Any image should be meaningful if seen in black and white, not just for color blind individuals but for normal sighted individuals too. The Ansel Adams zone system is good for thinking about this, even for non-photographic images. He identifies 11 major bands of value which are about as many shades as you are going to get in a bad print or viewing environment, say with a thermal printer or newsprint.

In a top quality print and viewing environment however each of those zones except the most extreme is able to show meaningful detail. Of course an image can choose to not use certain zones but generically I’d say the ideal image looks good under bad circumstances but under good circumstances it has something to delight the eye in all the zones. (Reference art from Pokémon often has well-thought out uses of value because it has to play across various media.)
Ok, but where is the line drawn and who decides where it is drawn? The point of Musk advocating to open source the algorithm is to provide transparency on this.

E.g. not all issues are as cut and dry as your example.
In re: different countries: students who study Russian (or, I assume, other languages that use a similar alphabet) typically learn to write Russian in cursive. The letter forms overlap with English/American cursive, but not perfectly, and of course there are OTHER letters, too, that we lack.

(Russian cursive is also notoriously hard to read for non-native speakers owing to a few idiosyncrasies: some letters are entirely different written vs. in print, and the letter forms can lead to ambiguity -- certain letter combinations are effectively identical.)

A near-universal phenomenon among people I've spoken with who took Russian in college is the unconscious blending of the two letter sets. Students, myself included, would routinely find themselves using Russian letters in English script while writing without realizing it, and sometimes even reading it later without realizing the presence of Russian letters.

I knew it was happening to me, but it wasn't until I loaned my political science notes -- ostensibly in English! -- to a non-Russian-student pal that the prevalence of the swaps were really clear. "Uh, I absolutely cannot read this."

Ooops.

Anyway, it's tangential to this topic, but I thought it was interesting enough to share.

This is the first link I found with illustrations of the Russian cursive alphabet:

https://golearnrussian.com/russian-cursive/
Matt Taibbi: America’s Intellectual No-Fly Zone
Every functioning satellite orbiting the planet has the technical ability to update code remotely. That's a given.
What is the evidence of this "electromagnetic warfare attack"? What is claimed to be attacked and how? How was it affecting SpaceX? Is SpaceX/Starlink really crucial to anything in Ukraine? Etc, etc.

The only "explanation" this article offers is a link to a meandering video that doesn't answer any of these questions.

After "establishing" the premise, the article immediately launches into demands for more resources:

"We need to be able to have that agility"

"We need to be able to change"

"The U.S. needs to think a lot more innovatively"

"This includes incorporating artificial intelligence and machine learning into next-generation systems to be able to respond faster"

Over time articles like this one make people accumulate an extensive set of assumptions that basically aren't supported by anything except endless repetition.
Yup, there were some premature release announcements, but it seems it's really available now. (Note that OpenBSD releases come out twice a year, pretty much like clockwork, and that version numbers aren't indicative of the magnitude of the underlying changes: 7.0 was just the next release after 6.9).

Headline improvement for this version: it's fully supported on Apple Silicon. Not sure there is a huge market for that, but still pretty cool!
in my experience dealing with governments (and i have a lot since the pandemic started) there's months of negotiation to make a decision that there _may_ be a problem in the first place. The next months are spent on identifying the person who will make the decision that there is an actual problem. Then they'll start negotiation on how to define the process that will pick the team responsible for qualifying the team responsible for fixing the problem. Then your "months of negotiation" start.

edit: i'm being a bit dramatic but it's pretty bad. no one will make a decision because a culture of CYA means whoever dared raised their hand is the one on the cross if things go wrong.
Facebook and Discord are built using React Native. Ebay is built using Flutter. These examples are easy to find on the homepages of the respective frameworks.

I agree that for the large technology companies having a team to build a native app for both platforms is worth it - you get an optimised, native feeling experience for both platforms. For smaller companies with e.g. two developers building an app as part of a larger service then the cross platform frameworks can give you a lot of bang for your buck. They're also a good starting point to get something out, and then if you wish you can begin to incrementally replace bits with native if that's beneficial.

Personally I'm also a big Flutter fan. Even leaving aside the cross platform benefits I find it a very pleasant development experience that gives very predictable results on whatever it ends up running on. I haven't yet properly used Swift UI though, which adopts a similar approach.
You're better prepared for russian invasion.
EFI doesn't actually mandate FAT for the system partition. The system partition can be any filesystem that the firmware supports.

Of course, pretty much all EFI implementations only support FAT, so it's a bit of a moot point; the only one I'm aware of that supports anything else is the one on Intel Macs, which also understands HFS+.

You can find a huge selection of EFI filesystem drivers at https://efi.akeo.ie/ but they're derived from GRUB and hence GPL, so don't expect the likes of American Megatrends to be bundling these any time soon.
So we're covering up bad programmer behavior by lying to them and then shooting other programs in the head when everything goes south. By default. Sorry if I feel like we should be able to do better than that.

Windows, for instance, doesn't have this kind of overcommit. Allocations need to be backed by RAM+pagefile (though Windows will grow the page file if it can and needs to).
No I think I have some medical condition that makes me come across as insensitive.
Source that this is false?
You say that, but some senator will make his career talking about the 300k salaries paid to these teams and their managers during times when their expertise is not saving lives in a war zone.

Now I agree the airforce or some branch could do this, but that would be a military intervention.
Could you please explain why you believe that’s a false statement?
I get the complication of the position. Occams razor puts me back to the plain option that twitter is simply controlled by us gov.
Indeed, I still use one. The timer contacts need cleaning once in a very long time (depending on usage) but it's been quite reliable and if something breaks I can probably make or find a replacement relatively easily.
It sounds like you are maybe eating as a stress reaction. I think a therapist might be a better healthcare professional to help you than a GP. They can then also ascertain if you need to be referred to a psychologist so that you can get the proper medication to help with your anxiety related conditions.
Show HN: Beeline: A science backed learning pathway creation app
with that reasoning, everything can cause ww3.
Original study:

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2114833

139 patients over 12 months.

“These results indicate that caloric intake restriction explained most of the beneficial effects seen with the time-restricted eating regimen,” Dr. Weiss and his colleagues concluded.

I personally do time restricted feeding and notice health benefits so I'm a bit skeptical of this study as there are a ton of variables to consider.

I think original studies done in mice that showed metabolic improvement were based on a time window that if translated to human time would be closer to 4-5 day fasts.

There can be other benefits to time restricted feeding as well for long term health and I use it to help set my circadian rhythm.

Anyway I have a lot of random thoughts on this issue but wouldn't take this study to mean time restricted feeding "does nothing". Curious about other people's experiences / thoughts.
Lol it doesn’t have “many caveats” at all. But go ahead and keep spreading false information if you want.
How did the update propagate to the ground terminals if the connection was jammed? I assume they switched frequencies, but it would still be interesting how it went exactly.
I have lived in Longmont for a good part of my life. There’s an important note here that Longmont’s fiber was basically bought at auction by a company that laid it and went bankrupt in the early 2000s. This significantly lowered the cost, which I understand has put other cities into bankruptcy.

Next light is really a fantastic service and better than comcast in every way. It’s just worth noting the economics are unique here.
What benefits were they measuring in this study?

I’d be curious to look at biological age markers, inflammation, autophagy, maybe improvements in insulin response, cardiovascular health in the long term.
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Tech's churn and rapid rate of change prevent a slow government from making solid long-term choices in technologies that are both reliable and cutting edge. You used to hear a lot about how you'd become un-hireable if you didn't keep learning new things (not so much these days), so there's not a great incentive for experts to stick with older technologies and build years-to-decades long solutions.
Printed solar technology for off-grid charging on a journey around Australia
Is there a "there are no Tuesdaysism"? Every Tuesday is an artifact of consciousness and misunderstood physics and never actually occurs?