skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> idk I hate the idea he's not getting released and IIRC he killed noone and robbed noone

Then its good that we as a society have institutions that have a better judgement than you, random internet netizen.

There’s a reason people wear suits to court and we have all sorts of processes designed to venerate authority. Before modern times, power flowed from the Monarch. Now, we choose our representatives but the instruments by which power is administered still exists.
From what I have seen so far, everything people are going crazy about are things Hunter wrote about in his book. So at least people know he wasn't making that stuff up, I guess. We know he was addicted to crack and alcohol. We know he enjoyed the service of sex workers. We know that he thought he was outsmarting his father, Joe, at every turn. Some people call that the Crack Mentality. He wrote about that in his book, too. And he talks about it.

The skinny dipping video is a non-story. People do that sort of thing. There are beaches and resorts, and private back yards, where that kind of thing is done all the time. Hell, adults sometimes get "daring" and do that in more public places. But it doesn't usually reflect on an adult's parents. Unless of course there are videos of Joe following him down the slide (which would be hilarious), this was a nothing burger.

The one thing that actually connects directly to Joe Biden is the "Pedo Pete" contacts entry. The Tom Clancy character has already been described so we know where the "Peter" name came from. I think the Pedo part is in reference to that period when Republicans were calling Joe a pedo for his (albeit unusual) hair sniffing habit.

So none of this is actually shocking. It's turning Hunter bashing into a spectator sport, though.
>On January 1st, 2018 at 8:00 P.M., John Daly reported a hit and run to the police. Four witnesses were interviewed by the police. They all gave different accounts of the license plate of the vehicle involved in the hit and run. Which of the following plate numbers is most likely to be correct?
(A) 381JRZ
(B) 358JRZ
(C) 351JTZ
(D) 351JRZ

I think for a lot of these questions of "four witnesses gave varying accounts" questions, you're supposed to assume that the person who's correct has details most consistent with the majority.

So if you go character by character, everyone agrees the plate started with a 3, 75% agree the second character is 5, etc.

D is the answer that's always consistent with the majority opinion of each character.
I mean, it seems like the real answer is "take 30 seconds to run all four plate numbers", and then ask the witnesses what color and type of car they saw.
I actually like Crystal Pepsi when it came out and was sad when it was no longer available.
How do you think money works?
I think its testing to see if someone can piece together some information based on a majority's reporting, in this case in the individual characters of the license plate. l'm pretty sure the correct choice is D.
Looks like you'll be having a Pepsi.
No. LLVM is faster than GCC so most likely it'll be slower. If the way the frontend generates code for the backend is completely different then there's a chance it won't be terrible and will have reasonable build speeds. However there's a chance it'll be inconsistent with llvm output but chances are noone will notice or care if it's not buggy
How does it effect, say: the taste?
To be honest, I didn't even know people can grow mushrooms in their homes.
You can use the pg_trgm extension.
I think the idea here is that each of the four witnesses gave one of the numbers in the question.

They all agree that it is 3*J*Z.

3 witnesses (all except A) agree that the second digit was 5.

3 witnesses (all except B) agree that the third digit was 1.

3 witnesses (all except C) agree that the second letter was an R.

Every letter/number that D gives is corroborated by two other witnesses (though a different two each time), so D is most likely to be correct.
I've been calling it Pepsi Logo Kool-Aid.
The logical next step would be to require devices sold in the country to only be able to use legal app stores, where "legal" is defined as "complying with the requirement to block any E2E apps without backdoors".

Everything is already in place for this, both hardware- and software-wise.
That's not funny or interesting. Sequential bills reported from a bank robbery are interesting when their source is unknown. If the bank gets the money back from police they go back to being exactly the same as they were before the robbery.
> “get inside” and “stay tuned.”

Ok, but is it like that time when Chris Christie shut down the beach, and then took his family there for a private vacation?

Like, is this just to get all the people out of the way so the elites can get to where they need to go?
Potatoes tend to be unhealthy via the methods that most people use to cook them [1] because of the formation of acrylamide, a potent carcinogen [2]. In fact potatoes are the food that delivers the highest amount of acrylamide in the American diet through the consumption of chips and french fries. But other methods of cooking like baking, frying, or even microwaving are also prone to forming acrylamide.

If you want to avoid acrylamide when cooking potatoes, you must cook them below 250F (pressure cooking or steaming, I think)?

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18320571/

[2] https://www.fda.gov/food/chemical-contaminants-food/acrylami....
It's started.

People have been warned.
Haha, how many bird roundtrips just to carry the protocol overhead? Might want to use something a bit more efficient...
They expect students of a certain caliber. If the applicant exceeds their expectations, the university assumes the student is using this application as a “safety school.”
The modern way: https://youtu.be/j2SwTK6p72U
do more atelic activities

go for a hike just for the sake of going for a hike
draw something just for the sake of drawing

as in, don't go for a hike for the exercise, or to get better at hiking
don't draw to get better at drawing

also, and this is just a personal recommendation, learn another language

also, do charity stuff, or volunteering, I've heard it helps
I’ve been to a lot of Blockbusters and no way did any of them carry 6500 movies. Maybe 1000 tops. The majority of shelves were 20 boxes of the same tape/dvd for the most popular titles + 1-3 for other titles
This really puts the training in perspective.
Yao Ming could've been having a bad year and gotten desperate.
In some places the local state lotteries are called the "dummy tax"
In some ways yes, but in practical terms it means they’re locked out of the credit markets and are going to have huge difficulty paying international suppliers. Even the ones willing to deal with them despite sanctions.
From the common application site: While some colleges may charge an application fee, others have no fee to apply. And, many will offer fee waivers under certain circumstances, including financial need, veteran status, and more.

Based on a conversation with my nephew who applied to a double-digit number of colleges this past year, the application fees are apparently more the exception than the rule these days.
Increasing renewable energy sources and moving away from locally sourced fossil fuels and nuclear power have always been among the main policy proposals of Green parties.

Green parties did not win that much direct power, but they totally won the energy debate and their policies have become the mainstream consensus among European elites.

Over the past years, European governments (not just the German one) have been busy closing down any energy source that was not renewable or relied on imports from other countries.

Now it turns out that renewable energy sources are still not able to cover the basic needs of the population and the economy, and the dependence on imported fossil fuels has allowed an authoritarian government to launch the largest war on European soil since the World Wars.

I don't know if Green parties will actually face a backslash, but it seems clear that the energy transition in Europe will end up making the continent poorer and far less secure in exchange for little, if any, actual benefit for the environment.
I created a webp comparison: https://ibb.co/9ZjpLnV
It’s a now legendary document designed to promote Pepsi’s brand. They nailed it. That other stuff was covered in another document.
The ones that are obviously spirals appear tangential, but that's more or less saying the same thing. If they weren't tangential they wouldn't be ovious spirals.

You can find spirals that are more side-on, and galaxies that are completely side-on you can't tell one way or the other.

[edit] Unless you're referring to the gravity lensing effect, in which case the lensing smear is tangential to to the lensing cluster of galaxies, due to how lensing works.
Meta managers are urged to identify, push out low performers
Athletes or active teens could eat that much easily
I'm 8 minutes in and the presentation level is astounding. And with the red-bull sponsorship I'm sure this has got a bit of the cash behind it to keep such a great presentation.

Thanks for the link, I will definitely keep an eye out for this. I'll be watching the rest of this video through the day I think.
> Yes, reform the legal system sensibly. No, we don't let drug kingpins who have built up a serious crime organisation walk.

He ran a website. I don't call that a kingpin
So your nuclear power caused death count over 4 decades is roughly 5000 people? I think we killed more people than that trying to make a non stick pan.
For fat vs sugar (ie: carbs), this was a very informative reading: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/apr/07/the-sugar-co...

Overall, I don't know of a lot of good science regarding which fats are better for you and which are actually bad. After all it was not until recently that it was admitted that the relationship between cholesterol in the blood and cholesterol is uncorrelated and not at all understood. Similarly even for calories, just because a food has X calories, does not mean you actually absorb all of those calories, let alone how the body uses them.

For the rule of thumb, I have no specific references and it is general knowledge I've picked up reading on nutrition. It could very well be wrong. I believe there is something to it, for example, coconut oil is relatively good for a person and has a low melt point, where-as bacon grease and steak gristle are pretty certainly terrible for a person.

Trying to find some references, I was not able to find the original reading where I stumbled upon that idea. This was a decent read though that I just came across: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/healthy-vs-unhealthy-fa... (YMMV)
Since HRA is just a bill, it can be trivially overridden entirely or on a case-by-case basis by any other bill, requiring only a simple majority in the Parliament, thanks to parliamentary sovereignty. So it doesn't really meaningfully protect anything.
Well... if the Higgs symmetry breaking did drive inflation, then it happened before inflation. So it may well be the same throughout the universe.

A bit more about why I question the symmetry-breaking driving inflation, though: Let's say that when the symmetry breaks, it releases a lot of energy. Fine. Where does it release the energy? Where certain particles are, or throughout all space? I strongly suspect that it's where the particles are. That leads to those particles having more energy. But inflation isn't an explosion of the matter in the universe; it's an explosion of spacetime itself. Adding a bunch of energy to the matter may make the matter move more energetically; that shouldn't have any effect on the rate of expansion of spacetime.

Open to being proved wrong (preferably in ways I can follow...)
As someone who grew up cutting trees for milling, this all seems quite intuitive. We also used to just carry a tape measure... though I have flipped the stick on occasion as well.
Or getting hooked on a game and hoping that you get there quick enough to check it out so that no one else played or erased your save.
I kind of like the idea of the manufacturers installing hardware that I don’t have to pay for and can enable with a software patch or computer swap.
Well based on this it should probably be rebranded a “desperation tax”
It seems crazy to me that someone would develop a game that can potentially improve cognitive function and they would gate it behind a prescription. I assume this is basically a marketing gimmick and/or a way to prevent outsiders from studying it.

I have a strong prior that this wouldn't work, or wouldn't work well, and the fact they are intentionally minimizing their audience updates my belief in the "this doesn't really work" direction.
To be honest, I don't really know much about what he told me any more and I can't go back and ask him any longer. It's possible but I can't tell you yes or no for sure. It just evoked the memory of that conversation. Same with the Pick and MUMPS the other reply mentions. Doesn't ring a bell, seems possible though.
If you only need modest search functionality and you don't want to manage another service/system, Postgres full-text search may be for you.

http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...

I read this article about 6 years ago and after an afternoon I added full-text search to the app I worked on at the time. 6 years later, it's still the only search they use. This small tool already built into postgres has been more than enough for us.
Ask HN: Do you use GitHub Copilot?
I remember last year there was a lot of buzz and discussions around Github Copilot and it's impact on day to day life of software engineers. Recently noticed that Github Copilot is out of pilot and would be charging money for it soon. With this I was wondering :

* Is someone actually using Github Copilot for day to day work?

* How often do you use it to write parts of the production code?

* What are the use cases for it?

* Is it worth it?
I think the Greeks through Anaximander had the concept of "apeiron", or the infinite. Some of them believed the universe to be infinitely old, therefore they must have had the concept of one to infinity, including billions.
I can’t overstate the value of the lunch hour in France, it’s by far the best part of my day and has made my PhD bearable, enjoyable even despite the difficult pandemic environment.

It’s allowed me to learn from colleagues, make friends and create a sense of belonging, my lab isn’t just an abstract organization but a group of interesting people.
Because desperate people don't make rational decisions.
Good luck with that.

I'm reminded of my own childhood years, where most families had television, but some didn't (because it would be bad for the children.)

Annecdotally the kids with no TV would visit, and all they wanted to do was watch TV. The ones who had tvs at home played outside.

In reality in environments where kids have phones, it's more important for your kid to have a phone, and learn how to use it, than see it as a forbidden fruit.

Plus of course the fact that you think your 17 year old doesn't have a phone is delusional. They have one. The only question is whether they share that fact with you.

I get where you are coming from, but scary as it seems children don't magically become adults, making good decisions, on the day they turn 18. They become adults by slowly learning how to handle the world, by being guided with each new step, by making lots (and lots) of mistakes.

The areas that you block off completely are the areas where they will be the least mature, the least able to exercise good judgement.

That's typically why "bans" lead ultimately to worse outcomes not better ones.
> Simply allow immigrants to vote.

You've just given me a great business idea. Votes for hire. I bet I could charge a fortune, and I would only have to pass a small fraction of that on to the immigrants I employ.
Looks like a 'text producer' article. There's a lot of ideas mixed together into one long rant about writing. Even the headline itself isn't good. Surely, 'writing: a misunderstood activity' does the job better. But the article is not so much about style than it is about exploring ideas.

The author doesn't consider the other way people explore ideas: talking and engaging in discussions. The 'text producer' is this other kind of explorer of ideas. Yes it pays to organise your mind, but the exploration itself is important too.
I get that, its just confusing why you’d connect that with urbanization. Urban environments tend not to have corporate megastores.

Your comment read to me like this “not everyone likes urban environments, people don’t want [insert thing indicative of the suburbs] right on top of them”

Urban places aren’t just more compact versions of the suburbs.
> ULBRICHT also demonstrated a willingness to use violence to protect his criminal enterprise and the anonymity of its users

Those are allegations that were dropped and likely raised in very sketchy circumstances to begin with. Anyone, including you, could have allegations made against them and then dropped later, FWIW.
Being raised in what I believe to be one of these communities this feels very true. In Pennsylvania this supposedly supports seniors, but seniors often are the ones gambling. The most frequent shops for selling lottery tickets are also tobacco stores. I find it hard to resist a scratch off from time to time myself.

I don’t know what the solution is, I know it gives people hope and excitement. Even if they think it’s impossible to work themselves out of debt they hope they’ll “win big” one day keeps them going to an extent. It’s really just another version of the “Marshmallow Question” just with adults instead of kids. You could write it all down for them and spell it out, but to them the math wouldn’t work out.
As long as you can find the wires that provide power to the seat heaters, add a switch, and splice it into some power, I imagine one can enable it without any software changes.
Converting gas to heat is just as inefficient as converting electricity to heat
His actual crime is subjucating the totality of the state beyond what the state thought was possible.
A piece like this puts out the idea that unions are harmful, but the idea that it puts forward alongside that is that the quality of products takes priority over the wellbeing and care for the workers themselves. It's telling us that we need to think about product quality before workers. Products before living humans. Profit over life.

Even if it is true, this is harmful. There are other ways to improve product quality besides shitting on your workers and taking away any bargaining power that they have to squeeze them of every little bit of productivity.
Wage dilution is an issue. It's the working and middle classes that are most harmed by immigration.

Those who are in the position to not have their wages threatened by mass immigration policies are free to reap the rewards of cheap labor, but for those who are in the position of being outcompeted by incoming labor, immigration is a drawback not an asset.

Naturally, policymakers are in the former category, and as such, happen to quite like mass immigration.
> He tried to have people murdered

Those charges were dropped and there was never a trial related to them let alone the evidence to actually convict on it. Anyone can be accused of crimes and later have the charges dropped.
I remember when my friend’s neglectful abusive father won a million dollars in the lotto and my friend said, “there is no God.”
No. Not useful if you're half competent. Not ethically/morally justifiable at all.

See: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=tr...
"I made some cuts myself. In the first version the film was 3 hours 20 minutes long. In the second — 3 hours 15 minutes. I shortened the final version to 3 hours 6 minutes. I am convinced the latest version is the best, the most successful."

It's the pre-cut original version shown to the CCCP we'll never see. Had they approved it first pass we would have had a wildly different movie.
Private Access Tokens (WWDC 2022) Node.js demo app
I've been laughing about this for years. I showed it to my graphic designer in 2014. She was delighted and did a small t-shirt run so I have the face on page 23 center row far right printed on a shirt.
I had a friend describe state lotteries as a tax on people who can’t do math.
Book Review: “Crafting Interpreters” by Robert Nystrom
The argument for the state having a monopoly on lotteries is that if there wasn’t a legal lottery illegal lotteries would proliferate. Thus to protect people, the state should run it as it would then be guaranteed to be fair and free of the criminal element (mobsters, etc.). Ideally, the lotto would just take in enough to pay the winners and administrative expenses. However, most states have abused this monopoly and just see it as an alternative source of revenue, which turns it into a regressive tax.

State lotteries should be small, should not be advertised and should not be sources of revenue for the state.
It's because they see a better quality of life in western countries. Climate change has nothing to do with it.
The difference is that applicants by definition don’t have personal experience of how good the school is, it’s all perception. With page rank and citations the expectation is those linking to or citing something have read it and have reason to value it.
Growing economies might install as much solar as they're able, but they can still be tempted to burn fossil fuels on top of that, to grow even faster. Limiting climate change is going to require moderation, which is a tough ask for capitalism...
Don't get me wrong. I stream too. I think technology is great. I'm only a Luddite when my code won't compile. I do a lot of things on line. At least 8 hours of my day is developing software from my home, so my only interaction with my coworkers is through software. And I enjoy forums like Hacker News. And it's really convenient to instantly get a video.

But I also love going to the book store with my kids and thumbing through the books and videos and music. Picking them up, smelling them (helpless romantic I guess), talking about them.

The other day, a random person came up to me and shared a memory of her child because of something she overheard me say to my child and it was a great interaction. I felt connected in a way I maybe didn't realize I missed. And it wouldn't have happened (not the same way at least) online.
There's now an image posted.
"Google Maps, OSM, Apple Maps, Bing Maps"

One of these things is not like the others.
No, Facebook banned them because they were literally Nazis. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azov_Regiment#Neo-Nazism:

> The Azov Battalion has been described as a far-right militia,[60][16] with connections to neo-Nazism[214] and members wearing neo-Nazi and SS symbols and regalia, and expressing neo-Nazi views.[58][215]

> The group's insignia features the Wolfsangel (or a mirrored variation of it),[216][217][218][219] a German heraldic charge inspired by historic wolf traps adopted by the Nazi Party and by WW2 German military units. Its insignia also used to feature the Black Sun,[220][221][222][211][209] both of which remain two popular neo-Nazi symbols.[210][194][220][215] Azov soldiers have worn fascist or Nazi-associated symbols on their uniforms,[223] including swastikas and SS symbols.[23] In 2014, the German ZDF television network showed images of Azov fighters wearing helmets with swastika symbols and "the SS runes of Hitler's infamous black-uniformed elite corps".[224] In 2015, Marcin Ogdowski, a Polish war correspondent, gained access to one of Azov's bases located in the former holiday resort Majak; Azov fighters showed him Nazi tattoos as well as Nazi emblems on their uniforms.[225][16]