skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've taken to using Courier Code [0] (which is like the Courier Prime font but with dotted zeros and improved lower case L).

Without the super spindly letters, Courier is just such a timeless monospaced font. It's boring enough to not distract but it also has so much character. The Prime versions really bring to mind typewritten documents and that makes me quite happy.

[0] https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/courier-code
? I don't see how that in any way diminishes what the GP said.
The wiki summary says two important things.

Glyphosate is the "penicillin of agriculture," a foundational discovery that has revolutionized the industry.

Glyphosate alone has not been found to be a strong carcinogen in scientific studies, but testing with the surfactants, adjuvents, and other additives with which it is normally used may increase the carcinogenicity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glyphosate
Nobody likes self-checkout. Here's why it's everywhere
Cash is a hassle to process, and includes fixed costs, while use of cash declines every year since the advent of payment cards.

So it's expensive to support and has little traffic. It's not exactly surprising more and more stores, especially high volume ones, let their cash payment processing decline.
Water also has an LD50 but you wouldn't say there are cumulative over lifetime harms from drinking water.
Like how asbestos is never good for you, but if you're a shipbreaker working with asbestos for 40 years, it's definitely worse than if you're a homeowner and accidentally knock some asbestos out of your ceiling.

But in the same lines, I'm still more worried about glyphosate showing up in food from the supermarket than if I spray it around my house
It's as close as it needs to be for the size fonts and resolution I want to run it at, and still be able to read comfortably with my 50 year-old eyes. Yes, it's a bit on the close side so I do have to pan my head a bit. As I mentioned, I do push it back and bring it forward throughout the day, but I just measured where I'd left it at after coding yesterday and it was at 24" away.

I don't really have any issues with eye strain though.

I did need to get dedicated glasses that I use when using the monitor or when I'm on my laptop. I'm a bit near-sighted, even after Lasik a decade ago, and now I'm also dealing with presbyopia the last few years. I've worn glasses all my life, but they never bothered me at all till I started dealing with the presbyopia and needing task-specific glasses. :-(

I tried progressive glasses (modern versions of bifocals) but found them extremely annoying with their fishbowl effect and only providing enough magnification at the bottom and gave up on them after two weeks. So I now have my regular glasses that are adjusted for normal activities and I just take them off or read below them for near work. My near-sightedness here is providing me some temporary respite from the presbyopia. But at arm's length distances, it's uncomfortable to read text through them because my eyes can't focus that close with them on, yet if I take them off it's just a bit too blurry.

So I basically have my work glasses that make things from ~ 18" - 36" comfortable for viewing.

Presbyopia really sucks and it's the only thing so far about aging that's a constant irritation in my day. :-(

p.s. typing this on an iPad 12.9" that's about 16" from my face, w/o wearing my glasses. Further away and it's too blurry and I'd need my middle-distance glasses. With my regular glasses, there's no distance at which I can read it.
What Can Crater-Counting on Mars Tell Us About Its History?
cool, that's a really useful opinion!

Perhaps I'll stick with VS Code over SSH, then
Interesting question, and interesting that so many people are giving variations of writer as the response. (Shades of, "If I weren't doing my job, I'd be doing my hobby"? Though that feels an ungenerous reading.) Me? I'd assume some other technical field. If I hadn't got into computers at a young age I can imagine having got into chemistry, say.

The skills I have are those I've developed _as_ a working programmer, less so those that I brought to the job. So this isn't really answering your question. If I'd never become a software engineer, I'd never have developed a programmer's mindset or attitudes.
Gotta get something better than those pizza cutters

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d-OVlIYpuQ
TanStack Query v4 (formerly React Query)
I suppose shareholders wouldn’t mind a special dividend from lawsuit proceeds that captured a good portion of the spread between FMV and $54.20, especially if they get to keep their equity.
There’s no alternative, other than controlling more of your supply chain in house where you can.

In the industrial segment, the implications of not having products to supply are devastating. Im sure ST and TI lost many new designs and were designed out of many other designs over the past two years. With five to ten year design cycles for many products, this will have long term effects.
Great, so we're just going to need a few long term clinical trials assessing the impacts of each of ingestion, skin contact, inhalation, eye exposure, etc. separately for childhood exposure, adult exposure, exposure during pregnancy, acute exposure, chronic exposure, and so on. 100 billion dollars and thirty years later, maybe you can start provisionally selling your slightly better scotch tape.
I've worked with numpy for years and I don't think I ever used the 'in' operator with arrays. What would be the use case for that? For me a larger gotcha was around object multiplication (i.e. element-wise vs. matrix multiplication) and how it is different based on whether you have a "matrix" or an "array" type (or a mix of both). That caused some pretty big headache in the beginning.
I didn't see liquid methane (CH4) during my quick scan, is it covered in the book?

In a victory of worse-is-better, SpaceX is using methane because it makes Starship/Raptor simple, cheap, and more reliable (a passive cooling system is enough to store it, storable for a more extended period than hydrogen, does not leak, does not require insulation on the fuel tank, and rocket design is simpler)

Methane makes in-space refueling easier, and methane can be produced, handled, and stored more readily on Mars. It also makes Starship rapidly reusable (unike Falcon, whose kerosene Merlin engines need to be cleaned between flights to remove soot)
(Note that he writes a newsletter like this roughly daily, though not ordinarily on weekends. It’s is free to subscribe to)
I second this. I have seen so many thriving online communities fail in short time because the moderator screwed up. The declines of many subreddits are classic examples. Yet, dang has successfully managed this community for years. I would like to learn from him!
Put it back in crypto and get it out quick
Those experiments generally needed to be run to figure out what was possible and what the different realistic options were, though. There's also more uses for propellants than just orbital launchers; propellant for ICBMs (and other strategic missiles), thrusters for attitude control, some of the monopropellants can also be used to power APUs for hydraulics or electricity. But yes, most applications these days go with simpler, more stable fuels, especially for commercial companies that don't want to spend a bunch of extra money wrangling more sensitive fuels for a few extra seconds of Isp.
A man eating a sandwich inside R2D2 on the set of Star Wars #dalle
the thing is they blame immigrants but won't do anything against the real driver of housing unaffordability, the collusion of regulators and corporations offering large liquidity to housing market.

its breaking apart. the city of vancouver is broke and basic services are being scaled back.

theres also a large brain drain here. only idiots work for vancouver startups/companies that tries to gaslight you that sunshine tax is real.
Not hurricane force or anything, but gusts of 50 mph (45 knots) or more are not uncommon during Diablo wind events or storms. Gusts up to 70 mph (60 knots) have been recorded at times. Just this winter we had 90+ mph winds recorded in Sonoma (wouldn't have affected the current BART system, but still).
Security concerns. I’m case of an accident you can sit and maybe survive.

Edit: keep in mind that the Madrid-Barcelona high speed railway line reaches almost 250kph. That’s more than the double maximum speed of a car in Spain.
I think your definition of farming might be a wee bit broad.
I disagree, you can create art with code, if the language lets you (Go doesn't).
Maybe if it's lab meat. Otherwise it seems inefficient to grow food for animals instead of just growing food for humans
Related:

Status of glyphosate in the EU:

> "Glyphosate is currently approved in the EU until 15 December 2022."

https://food.ec.europa.eu/plants/pesticides/approval-active-...

The ECHA's (European Chemical Agency) assessment:

> "...the existing classifications for glyphosate as a substance that causes serious eye damage and is toxic to aquatic life with long lasting effects should be retained.

> The committee found that the available scientific evidence did not meet the criteria to classify glyphosate for specific target organ toxicity, or as a carcinogenic, mutagenic or reprotoxic substance. "

https://www.echa.europa.eu/-/glyphosate-no-change-proposed-t...
Remember this guy?
https://youtu.be/ovKw6YjqSfM
Reminds me of Fantasque

https://fontlibrary.org/en/font/fantasque-sans-mono
I've been running Linux for most of the last 25 years, too. But I've mostly
learned how to keep things simple.

I buy high-DPI Dell Precision laptops. They're pricey, and the build-quality is meh, but they come preloaded with Linux. Everything works. I leave all but a few settings on factory defaults, and I never run anything but a "Long Term Support" release of the OS. In case of hardware issues, I buy an on-site service plan.

I won't claim that it's perfect. But I spend less than 20 hours a year "keeping it working." Which is less than some of my MacOS coworkers spend fighting with Docker and other Unix tools on the Mac, so it's a wash. It's not like getting the Python development ecosystem to work on an M1 Mac is all sweetness and joy.

One secret to my success is that I try very hard not to customize anything. To paraphrase Yoda, once you start down that path, forever will it dominate your destiny.

I do not recommend Linux for casual users. But for developers who deploy on Linux, it can be a very reasonable choice.
The FDA does not regulate the use of the term “organic” on food labels.

Further, if something isn’t 100% organic how do you know which part isn’t?
«Historically, electrets were made by first melting a suitable dielectric material such as a polymer or wax that contains polar molecules, and then allowing it to re-solidify in a powerful electrostatic field. The polar molecules of the dielectric align themselves to the direction of the electrostatic field, producing a dipole electret with a permanent electrostatic bias.»
Smoking weed makes you lose your security clearance, Musk did it on camera and still has his because of "reasons". That is one example of the rules that apply to most others not applying to him.
Interpreting “in” as “is an element of”, all of these are type errors. It only makes sense to ask if an X is in an Array<X>. In a language that lets you ask nonsense questions, expect nonsense answers.
Now it's official: Elon Musk finally cancels takeover of Twitter
I think this essay applies to most of the sciences (perhaps excluding physics), in part because it is really hard to test whether a student was amazed by a particular insight, and much easier to test facts. Biology is amazing. Every cell has the same DNA, and in humans, that DNA is several meters long. In a cell that is 25-ish microns in diameter! But chemistry is amazing too - how do all those air molecules become uniformly distributed in a volume? How did Avagadro figure out that number?

The problem with teaching science is that the amazing stuff that is accessible to a high-school student was figured out 100 - 400 years ago, and we’ve learned a lot since. And for biology and chemistry, there are all those details. (I guess math might be worse, since we teach things that have been understood for thousands of years, but at least the old stuff is obviously useful.)

I think it’s really hard to teach and test on the exciting stuff. What’s exciting to me may be “who cares” to the next person. But it’s great when it works.
Except it seems like a way harder question!
If this court doesn't have real power against clever C-suite types, maybe it's better that we find that out. In terms of compensation and personal money management, Musk isn't doing anything that other wealthy execs haven't done. (For example, Steve Jobs famously took a $1.00 per year salary for a long time.) Either there's an enforcement mechanism that works or there isn't.
coldstarts - not an issue anymore

unpredictable billing - this is why you setup billing alerts and not an issue unless you hit HN front page

vendor lock in - you can take your functions and upload it to google, azure, cloudflare
I suspect (but have no science to back it up) that it’s a risk factor for many things. I had ear infections more or less constantly in my childhood and were on antibiotics the whole time until they finally stooped working. The end result is that I’m now deaf on one ear. I get why they were prescribed, it stopped the acute pain but no one thought about the long term
No we don't. In criminal law the burden of proof is "beyond reasonable doubt". The bar is set much lower in civil law with the plaintiff only needing to demonstrate a "preponderance of evidence".
For what it's worth, my take: buy something like the LG C2 42" OLED TV. It is huge (but not too huge) and an excellent quality display. If you want to try ultrawide, or a square display, or an unusual aspect ratio, just.. make those desktop sizes out of your large screen.
“The earliest evidence of small-scale cultivation of edible grasses is from around 21,000 BC with the Ohalo II people on the shores of the Sea of Galilee.”

“The earliest known weed control technology in 8000 BCE was the plow and hand-weeding (which includes hand-pulling, cutting with a knife, hoes and mattocks).”

That's a very long gap till 8,000 BC.
Maybe in some places. I seriously doubt that was a factor in BART's case – the system is not even remotely configurable for freight use.
> Prompt: "An HTML tag with a close tag and attributes"

Obviously trained on a data set that didn't include <h1>

This whole thread is why I'm not scared of Copilot or similar taking away jobs anytime soon, since bug fixing is way harder than writing code
Antibiotics are actually really more damaging than we realise. Western digestive tracts show significant differences in microbiome that those of people who do not use antibiotics as treatment and some of the lost species are really important. We also have no way to fix it currently, some of the species like Faecalibacterium Prausnitzii are critical to our bodies energy system but can't survive in oxygen, so we have no way to eat it at all, you kill it then its gone likely for good. Others like Limosilactobacillus reuteri stop fungus from inhabiting our small intestine as well as other bacteria but just 5% of us still have some of it as its very susceptible to antibiotics.

We don't know what ideal microbiomes look like, we just know the bulk of people living in the western world have unhealthy ones that are missing key species and we have only scratched the surface of understanding.
I've been coding for nearly 40 years and I just don't see any correlation between editor usage and developer productivity. Being able to design and work with complex software systems is what makes a senior dev productive, not which keys they hit to copy and paste.
Doctors in the USA have no feedback mechanisms to know whether treatments work or not. They’re probably falling back to hunches in marginal cases. Also, if you are discussing treatment options with parents or patients, advising against antibiotics is a losing battle: the parent/patient gets angry whether you are right or wrong. The question of whether antibiotics would be helpful or ineffective means there is asymmetric risk. Even long term risks are unknown on an individual case by case basis.
The propellant tanks don’t leak, the combustion products aren’t corrosive.

Designing spacecraft is like “does this material ever outgas anything which might affect other parts? I guess we can’t use it” much less leaky propellant tanks.
It's trivial to see some things and other things use broadcasting and that's not quite trivial :)
I had really bad IBS from consuming water on a tropical island in Panama one time and suffered for a few years with even my doctor friend telling me "Damn that sucks, not much you can do except manage". Pretty horrible symptoms until I discovered L. Reuteri. [1] I read that it's been a bacteria that was more commonly found in samples until around the 1950s when people started consuming more garbage processed food and was sold. Simply stated, it changed my life. It emits a substance called Reuterin which inhibits the growth of other more harmful bacterial species. [2] I can't speak personally for suffering on the level of Crohn's disease, but there's positive research out there regarding it. [3] [4]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5917019/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuterin

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7270012/

[4] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7468961/
Doesn’t sound too profitable
Ask HN: Stuck and Depressed – Need Guidance
- I started my programming journey in 2012, by creating small scripts for a SA-MP (A Mod for GTA SA).

- In 2016, I started college, studying towards my Computer Science degree. I loved all programming lectures, and was constantly among the best students in these lectures.

- In 2020, I graduated with a GPA of 2.9/4.0 (73.9%/100%), I was among the top 10 students of my class.

- Shortly afterwards in 2020, I started working as a freelance trainer at a coding school in my city, but the pay was not good, and since I was doing as a freelancer, I had months with no students at all, so no pay.

- I liked training, but I thought it's not for me, since I have to re-explain the same concepts over and over again, it gets boring pretty quickly.

- At the same time, I built a website for a client using Django.

And that's almost all I have! Now you might be wondering what's the deal here, why did I just post all of the above?

I am currently stuck in Tutorial Hell! I have no idea whether I should be after Mobile Development or Web or something else entirely!

I am not even sure whether my current knowledge is sufficient for a job or not.

I know that I need to work on projects and a portfolio, but I have no idea of projects! And even if I did, I just can't finish the project and I leave it halfway.

Is it possible to evaluate my current knowledge and get customized guidance on what I should do? Because I really need someone to help me out. I can't just research on my own anymore.

PS: I live in a city with almost no tech jobs.
I don't mind a nice serif in my editor. I often switch to Besley*[0] for my markdown or latex docs.

[0] https://indestructibletype.com/Besley.html
That's stupid. But I will definitely drink some compost tea if it will shut you up.
>Once a person has wealth over, say, $500 million, then there should be a 100% tax.

Your inability to conceive of a useful purpose for such a quantity of money does not justify prohibiting its existence.

>I do not understand how the U.S. government does not view these billionaires as serious ideological threats to democracy, the court system, national security, etc

Cooperation. A government that can't handle the idea of powerful citizens has all the tools it needs to make almost all those people (hard to banish all the Christian missionaries, and martyring them is the surest way to grow more) leave or fall in line, but I don't think many people look at Venezuela or North Korea as ideal places to govern in terms of democracy, the court system, national security, etc.
I think you have a very good point with respect to general society and an overly expressed need for validation.

However, we are talking about friends, not strangers. Surely there is some point when the opinions of others should matter.

Would you want a friend, or worse, a spouse that considered you to be a failure, fool, or generally inferior person?

In my belief, healthy and meaningful personal relationships are based on mutual respect. This includes accepting the fact that other people may have different life goals and objectives.

This doesn't need to be absolute, but depending on the magnitude and frequency it can certainly be a irreconcilable difference.
Because they are nice and cure my ills... Ok good question.
The Cisco supply chain has always been very flaky and prone to fraud.
The last 50 years has seen significant increases in the rates of obesity, severe allergies, celiac, heart disease, alzheimer's, depression, etc.

There are plenty of other (demonstrated and theoretical) reasons behind that, but it seems a little hasty to say we haven't seen severe health impacts. It might just be that we haven't figured out the link yet.
No, if the lines around the change are stable, it should resolve itself. Assuming that after line commit3 was edited, the future changes occur further down in the file, (which is usual). At worst, it should be OK after a conflict or two.

NOTE: also this is just a different way of performing the same thing as the other rebase suggestion. It's also the same as cherry-picking each newer commit manually. All methods will have the same amount of conflict resolution.

UPDATE: I just constructed this exact scenario to test it and can confirm that if your sequence is exactly as described, you'll get one conflict commit #3 after you edit commit #2. After it's resolved, the other 98 commits are automatic.
Pregnant woman given HOV ticket argues fetus is passenger, post-Roe
As far as I’m concerned Bayer and Monsanto are like evil incarnate and last time I brought up this lawsuit on HN I was shocked people were defending them. We’re talking about the company that intentionally sold HIV infected blood to people. If it was legal and they could increase profits by lighting people on fire they would do it. Yet people trust corrupt research that they paid for showing their product is safe.

Well their crap poison is on almost all the produce in every grocery store in the country so I guess they get the last laugh.
A quick (and silly) way to create generative avatars
I doubt laptop sales would go down.

It really depends on the use-case, and need for convenience. With a laptop (assuming it's not a desktop-replacement style brick) it's easy to use it in a lounge chair outside, or on a couch in the living room, or to take it over to a friend's house to show something.

Many people don't even use computing-intensive tasks.

So, I don't really see the switch to working at home really changing user preferences. I could be wrong, but we'll see.
I wonder, is 2FA mandatory for all privileged access to the index itself? To all the services it uses to run? To its code? To all its dependencies? To Python itself?
Is it ironic I don't even know which party you are referring to because it accurately describes both in my opinion?

But I disagree in that I think we absolutely should avoid it because a larger federal government has been heavily correlated with less local funding (so much so that the SALT deduction was once a thing). It's given rise to globalization and large multi-national conglomerates. It creates a situation where power & money is too concentrated.