skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience the meat references are mostly referring to the functionality of the product. E.g. if I want to eat a pair of buns with some meat, cheese, salad in between I can simply look for a vegetarian "burger" and know that it's attempting to solve for that exact use-case.

Best example of this I know of is probably the vegetarian hot dogs at ikea. They taste nothing like hot dogs, but boy do they taste great in a hot dog bun with ketchup.
Radicle? https://radicle.xyz/
SF best school reinstates merit-based admission after a lottery miserable fails
'hash' is better known and one syllable, much prefer saying that over 'octothorpe'.
Which is yet again contrasted with how NeoVim runs things and the 824 contributors to the repository at time of writing. I believe that justinmk, one of the principal drivers of the project specifically stated that he doesn't want to be something like a BDFL and I assume that's also pretty much a reaction to Vim.
Good just starting the day, just finished house work now ready to code
Some people don't like opinions. They just want to be told what to do. Especially when it comes together with a salary.
> Put another way: do we truly believe that in 12+ years, some motivated hackers couldn't evolve X11 into something better?

Yes. It is not just a random program that needs some fixing here and there, it is a program which has to evolve with all its accompanying user space, as almost anything can be a breaking change. Sometimes reinvention is the correct decision, and I am quite sure that the whole X11 team uniformly deciding on that gives it enough weight.
I'd just like to ask: when was the last time Microsoft hasn't done something evil with one of their products? Windows XP?

I don't understand why you're essentially resetting their reputation in regards to GitHub.
>Despite the age of this game, it is still very popular and the most well known first person shooter.

not really
Precisely. Also, he realized this . . NOW ? What an asshole. He directly would have been involved in setting and approving those hiring plans.

It's on him if his strategy was so wrong.
Cohost
Apple's guy in charge of stopping insider trading guilty of insider trading
There is no issue with screen recording.
I think a universal vegan/vegetarian label would be great.
I think autonomous cars are something that must happen, and the sooner the better, but I am also a bit concerned that they could represent the ultimate weapon if a malicious actor gained control over them.

One battery fire isn't a problem, but if every 2nd car in a city or country crashes into something in a way that starts a fire, that becomes a very big problem extremely quickly.
Ratl
The Ratl chrome extension helps you browse web3 while being informed of the level of security of the protocols, applications, nft collections that you are interacting with. Ratl assists you into DYOR
Show HN: Room color visualizer (matching colors on the floor, walls, furniture)
Toraisu.com is an online color matching tool that lets you choose colors for different pieces of furniture, curtains, walls, and floors in your room.

It makes it easy to see how different color combinations look together, and can help you decide on a color scheme before you buy new curtains or furniture. Or it can help you find inspiration if you're making a renovation from scratch.
In defence of garlic in a jar
But it does allow the traditional “Beware of geeks bearing gifs!” quip.
The whole blog is excellent.

One issue with looking at instructions retired for small functions is that performance of small functions may be dominated by cache misses (and not having branch predictor data) so two versions may execute a similar number of instructions but have quite different perf due to fewer branches or better memory access patterns. But I guess if you’re optimising that then you’ll know to look at that instead. I guess the moral of ‘get a measurement setup that is good enough to reliably measure the thing you actually care about’ still holds.
Here are a zillion memory safety problems in X libraries typical of what happens when you point a fuzzer at 1980s code: https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2013-May/036276.html
unrelated question, anyone else gets broken images on the site?
I used to call grep "Gee, rep".
I wonder how much of the fast increasing prevalence of gut-related diseases like IBS can be explained by the changes in gut microbes, and how much is just about lack of exercise and changes in diet.

Whenever I go work at relative's farm my stomach seems to work way better, even though I do plenty of exercise in my home city as well. Perhaps the type of manual labor is better for stomach than gym/running, but I wouldn't rule out the impact of microbes either.
A trifle harsh...
What's with this seemingly-new use of 'staffers' instead of 'personnel' or 'staff?'

'Staffers' to me always meant personnel in a political context, i.e. White House Staffers or, in a commercial context, recruiters, i.e. people responsible for providing staff.

Does anyone else concur? I did check with the dictionary which is telling me that 'staffers' is a synonym for 'staff' but... I've not seen it used that way commonly until very recently.
I use NoScript with Chrome. (It also used to work with Firefox, haven't tried lately.)

It doesn't block all paywalls, but it does let you read a lot of text articles on many sites, including nytimes.com - just can't see all the pics/graphics/advertising.
Why let yourself be a victim though? Just admit you fucked up and don't buy it again. Read the label.
Gold works when the internet is down :)
> 22 is far too young

Yesterday I had a stroll at the local cemetery. We discovered children tombs. One girl died when she was six years old.

I can't imagine how hard that was for her parents.
I had the same experience. I thought the USB-C plug was terrible and I was cursing it for being so badly designed. I tried different cables but even the better ones (better in terms of not falling out) eventually would fall out. I then used a pin to mechanically remove the lint from the port and I was amazed at how much came out! After that the plugs went in so much further and are completely secure. Nowadays I don't get so much lint build up, probably because I work from home.

Compressed air will never get it out. It gets really compacted in there. Don't be afraid of using a needle, the port is quite rugged. Just avoid the contacts in the middle.
Malice, incompetence, all that jazz...
> I’ve seen arguments police should be entirely privately funded

Not by an actual libertarian. Under actual libertarianism, using force against others is in the purview of government. I.e. the police are specially empowered to use force against people.

This cannot be privately funded, because then you have private armies running around oppressing anyone their employer doesn't like.

Next, please?
There are currently two methods for the production of PET plastic bottles. One is to use an automatic blow molding machine to complete all the steps from PET raw materials to formed PET bottles. Another production method is to use a two-step method, first use an injection molding machine to make a PET preform, and then blow the bottle through the mold of the bottle blowing machine. The first method can be produced by a fully automatic blow molding machine, but the cost of the equipment is relatively expensive. Generally, large plastic bottle processing plants will purchase plastic bottles using this method. The two-step method is the method that most companies often use to make plastic bottles.
I don't understand. Can't NeoVim simply add the Vim9 interpreter and be a drop-in replacement for users that are migrating from Vim (9.0) this way?
No, trademarking “red” for soft drinks is stupid, but people still shouldn’t be allowed to use Coca Colas labels to sell non Coca Cola soft drinks.

If you want to make a red label with white letters on it that is named Awesome Cola, then you should absolutely be allowed to do that. If Coca Cola can’t protect their business by making the best product then they can frankly fuck right off. This is the European mindset at least, consumers owe nothing to corporations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas

I think that most people would say that 2003 is not 'a long time ago.'
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/top_of_mind
On my computer i know (except for the web browser) which program makes screenshots. I want all my programs to function properly but not send my data over the internet. So i really don't see the problem Wayland is trying to solve (web browser still executes remote untrusted code).
Well, that is an X11 issue though. But I don’t know the current state of that
This is the original audio I was referring to:
https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linus-linux.ogg

Turns out, as usual, human memory can suffer from bit corruption (but it's not stochastic) :)
Apple 5G chip problem is likely legal, not technical
> like any technology, it has applications it excels in

Name five.
>Almost all probiotics people take are transient. Meaning they just pass through and don't form long term colonies in our guts.

is this also the case for frequent ingestion? say you eat probiotic yoghurt on a regular basis, are you saying the good stuff is in a constant cycle of dying and being replaced?
>a 8-bit RISC-V

There's n-bit RISC-V implementations. The registers are still 32 or 64 bit wide, but the ALU is smaller and takes multiple steps.

One such implementation is open source, but I sadly don't remember the name and can't find immediately.
Ok, maybe a different, well known example - the radiation Theraphy Therac-25 machines which would sometimes(extremely rarely) deliver a lethal dose of radiation instead of the one entered. Undoubtedly those machines saved more lives than they took, and also it's without question that they did so more accurately than any human operated machine could ever do. Yet they are considered one of the biggest failures of medical engineering ever.

I see it the same way - the current "self driving" systems shouldn't be allowed on the road, period, no matter how much safer they are than a statistical driver, unless they can be demonstrated to be completely 100% perfect in all scenarios(other than actual hardware failure - they shouldn't for instance run into a truck that's turning across a highway just because the system chose to ignore it).
Oh, I missed that AP was enabled at the dealer but then disappeared - thought the dealer had just claimed it was there.

That raises a lot of questions about how it could even happen. I'd understand if it was sold as some kind of "user license", but it's on the car, so I assumed it was a permanent extra hardware addition.
The OP suggests a sealed bid auction. That means they wouldn't know how much other parties have bid. There would be no way to guarantee they've put in the highest bid.
An "Explain Like I'm Five" of what DID is (for those who don't know, like me):

"Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a new type of identifier that enables verifiable, decentralized digital identity. A DID refers to any subject (e.g., a person, organization, thing, data model, abstract entity, etc.) as determined by the controller of the DID. In contrast to typical, federated identifiers, DIDs have been designed so that they may be decoupled from centralized registries, identity providers, and certificate authorities. Specifically, while other parties might be used to help enable the discovery of information related to a DID, the design enables the controller of a DID to prove control over it without requiring permission from any other party."

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/
>What's Facebook's lock-in that each generation of students cannot monetize their own social graph?

Universities and schools using Facebook as their de-facto platform for group announcements, it seems.
seems like no video of taking off by itself, they seem to have some catapult/string to take off, so if it can't take off it's not really a plane, just glider
I think this is misleading in the effect is has. Omnivores still eat non-meat products, but the inverse isn't true and is in-fact pretty fucked up (if the person being deceived believes that eating beef is akin to eating dogs).

I agree that products shouldn't be deceptive, but this is a false dichotomy. More accurately the example should be "Beef Burger", then have it written in small "(dog meat)" as (at least in the West) even meat eaters don't like the idea of eating dogs.
https://codeberg.org/
With very few exceptions, nobody is evil in their own head-canon. If you think the other party is evil, deluded, or both, then in my experience that is a definite indication that you do not understand the opposing viewpoint very well, and could benefit from steel-manning.
is a beef steak tomato a beef+steak+tomato or just a type of tomato? this isn't hard folks...
what constitutes a direct copy? do they upload the generated code and use it as input for a full text search?
Should say the book authors themselves agree, it's not like they were calling him out. This mostly came from nontechnical commentary who just thought they were low-level guys getting yelled at by the CEO.
Perhaps even manipulating the fan on purpose?

German reviewer group, didn't find any of such problems: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Apple-MacBook-Pro-13-2022-M2-L...
https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-energy-market-gas-oil-gre...
This article is claiming that .01% of the BTC owners hold more then 27% of the supply. This is not true. Those .01% are in exchanges and from early adapters who lost their keys. The main consensus is that around 3,000,000 BTC are lost.

Furthermore, the article makes a lot of assumptions. "Crypto presents anarcho-libertarians with an escape hatch that seemingly puts one’s no wealth, data, and resources beyond the reach of the state or a corporation". On paper this sounds plausible, but in reality (by using an exchange for example) bigger whales can be better identified.

To be clear, I own crypto, because I like the technology. Off-course it would be impossible to create a society where I make my (untraceable) money by working and spent this money in buying a house or car. You need some form of control, so you can't go around robbing people and using that stolen money to fund your lifestyle.

But the big problem BTC tackles is that the money I make is not influenced by printing more, thus making it less valuable. Maybe the whole world should go back to the gold standard and keep the amount of money going around the same.
Ask HN: A noob question about exponential growth
Hi, I just wrote a reply to another comment and wrote something like: "I hope you have an above-average day today"

My question:

If every day from now on is an 'above-average day', would you call this an exponential growth?

Over all speaking, I'm aware that this would not be a 'continous graph'.

Edit:

5 min after posting. It's more like a log-function, isn't it
Ask HN: Do you wish a site “I wish X existed” existed?
I've seen multiple "Ask HN" threads here on HN asking:
"what app/software/tool/x you wish existed"

Examples:
"What game do you wish existed"
"What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed"
"What products or services do you wish existed for your startup?"
"What are some APIs you wish existed?"
etc.

What to you think of a website (subreddit?) where people would post their ideas and vote for other people's ideas? Then maybe get in touch to develop / fund?
some westerners have this curse of thinking that their government and corporations are always the good guys with best intentions. at least easterners [usually] dont trust either
Having seen a similar situation over 5 years ago play out, some of them (including many of their best recruiters) will go elsewhere because they have no work to do. Some others, of course, will become redundant. Although Meta has the advantage of name recognition, this kind of attrition can mess up hiring pipelines for a while and make it difficult to ramp up hiring in the future, which can make it difficult to attract the talent they really want.
> how many legal adults are so incredibly immature

Yeah, some of us are like that. I think I've finally matured at about 30-34, now I'm 38 but still learning.
The purpose of the names of these products being "steak", "sausage", etc isn't to trick meat eaters into eating something they don't want to. It's to illustrate what they are.

Let's take a vegan burger patty for example. What's a better illustration of what is in the packet? "Vegan burger patty" or "Flat concoction of soy and other ingredients". It illustrates use.
I’ll raise you his son’s words:

Because I'm drinkin', druggin': I'm havin' lots of fun
I always carry round my loaded shotgun
If I think I'm gonna have a bad time
I got a little bit of smoke an' a whole lotta wine

Or better yet:

Well, there's blood on the carpet an' holes in the walls
Well, it must've been them pills I took
Yeah, the mirrors are all busted an' someone's cryin'
It must've been them pills I took
Harsh reply for a perfectly valid argument. I'm all for pushing public transport, but in most places of the world it is still more convenient to drive a car for 20 minutes than to walk 5 minutes, jump in a bus for 5 minutes, wait for 10 minutes at a station, jump in a train for 15 minutes, walk 5 minutes, even if you have to drive yourself. And remember we were talking about self-driving cars here.
Perhaps one should create an open-source alternative to GitHub copilot also trained on proprietary source code, such as some leaked Windows source-code, and everyone will be happy and appreciate that we can use fair-use to train such AIs.
The comment is 90% just talking about that type of cancer, irrespective of whether Technoblade had it. It's a bit extreme to try and stifle discussion just because we don't know with complete certainty that it's what he had.

You probably shouldn't do it in an obituary or something but this is just a HN thread.
No one involved this is slashing tires. Bringing this up as a valid argument in reference to this just proves you didn't read the article.
There are a couple of books out there.

The first one is The Mom Test[0] which has already been mentioned here. But it's more about customer interviews which you usually do before you even start doing something.

And the second one is Traction[1] written by Gabriel Weinberg founder of DuckDuckGo and Justin Mares. This book is highly relevant for a situation where you already have something and need to find your first customers. The great thing about this book is that it gives you a framework and a finite list of strategies that you can prioritise and execute one by one until you get traction.

0: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mom-Test-customers-business-everyon...

1: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Traction-Startup-Achieve-Explosive-...
how does a clean-room implementation of anything works anyway? people personally testify that they haven't seen the thing they want to cleanroom implement, right? and what if they did see it, how would anyone know/catch them? something is too similar is not proof. what if the implementer read a random comment on it on HN that laid out the general architecture of the thing, does make the result a derivative work?
Maybe you didnt mean it that technical, but the median is very robust to outliers. So your first statement is true but the conclusion is not necessarily.
Disclaimer I work at ZITADEL and am one of the co-founders.

We always recommend not building auth by yourself. In the first place it may look simple like its only two input fields and a button (username, password), but to get a really secure solution its a lot more to do. You might need some more authentication methods like passwordless, mfa or identity brokering with google, microsoft, etc.

With ZITADEL we built a solution that combines best of Auth0 (great SaaS solution) and Keycloak (opensource). We believe that a cloud SaaS solution is great to go if its possible to use a cloud solution, but there are always lots of on-prem use cases, thats why we are opensource. https://github.com/zitadel/zitadel

ZITADEL is also focused on B2B usecases, so you can have multi tenancy really easy.

If you have any questions just let me know.
You don't need a human to even look at it until after an "AI" has already flagged it as "something fishy" worthy of human attention, and even then the font don't matter so much, because you'd be using some fancy scripting or tools to be pointing out to the user what exactly is potentially "fishy" about it. Seemingly insurmountable task becomes common "drudge-work" with the aid of some cleverly scripted tools. It's actually what computers are good at. Automating and simplifying repetitive tasks over large data sets. Something that Google's people should be well aware of and able to fairly easily implement. You could even script the tools such that the humans tasked with checking on the flagged materials would be helping further the training of the AI through their responses to the individual situations for less false positives, and more accurate flagging going forward, making the humans' jobs easier as they continue to do it.
So you didn't read the article, because if you did you'd know that they specifically go around letting the air out to inconvenience people and leaving educational pamphlets--not slashing tires.
I wish all websites would only allow ascii characters as usernames. Having the full spectrum of Unicode available has brought nothing good.
I have the following in my .vimrc

> set timeout timeoutlen=3000 ttimeoutlen=100
yes and yes indeed

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A5/1
I don't think the view on neonicotinoids is mixed in any useful sense. They are definitely harming bees (and many other insects almost certainly), it's a small question on whether they are doing so in a sustainable way, but the complex landscape in which this additional pesticide operates (amongst herbicides/air pollution/lack of habitat) means that it's almost impossible to quantify the exact impact neonic use has at large.

I highly recommend The Silent Earth by Dave Goulson for more. It's not a strident eco piece, I'd call it more of a lamentation, but it's also very clear headed and fairly detailed on the evidence and the issues around good science in this space.
> Crime stats aren't collected in a scientific vacuum. They reflect the previous strategies the police used to fight crimes.

It may also just reflect reality. Let's say you have a group of people that commit a specific kind of crime significantly more often than another group, i.e. white male investment bankers are more likely to commit tax fraud than female black nurses. Any reasonable policy fighting this kind of crime would have to look biased against white men when it comes to enforcing tax fraud. I think that no one would reasonably call such enforcement policies bad or racist.

But when black men are significantly more likely to be prosecuted for violent crime, suddenly it's a racist policy and must be the racist polices fault, because that's the only acceptable answer.
"This is true" and "Let us imagine that this is true" are radically, radically different positions. People who have a nuanced enough understanding to separate the two in an argument are rare.

Entertaining the even more nuanced idea that someone else has a strong argument that is wrong is, effectively, a superpower. Not many people who are willing to argue can do that. Especially if they are capable of doing that in a persuasive, public fashion.
> I had no clue what state the vehicles were in

"Murderbot mode". Or rather, transitioning into it. But they got stuck, which is why you're still alive.
https://www.nightclub.co.uk/
https://www.gbgplc.com/en/industry/nightclubs-and-bars/

Know exactly who is using your venue, using ID card scanner technology to find out if an ID is genuine in a matter of seconds.
Scanner has operated in every major city in the UK since 2003

https://www.brixtonbuzz.com/2013/04/concerns-grow-over-the-r...