skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is diabetes pleasurable? Is having a heart attack at 60 pleasurable?

You should attempt to balance pleasure that has long term risks associated with it.
Steam exists on macOS, but honestly it feels like a second class citizen to me. Lots of the games that used to work fine no longer work because they are 32-bit and are no longer supported on current macOS releases, which only support 64-bit binaries. We can argue back and forth all day about whether this is Apple’s fault or the developers’ fault, but a key giveaway to me is that Portal and Portal 2, which are (arguably at least) flagship games for Valve, have not have 64-but releases. I get that it’s not as simple as a recompile & release, but to my mind it’s a bit of a giveaway that macOS doesn’t seem to have enough gaming market share to force a re-release on 64-bit for all these games.
> I understand that he received an estimated 74 mSv of radiation

"The ministry said he had been exposed to about 195 millisieverts (mSv) of radiation. The International Commission on Radiological Protection recommends avoiding more than 1-20 mSv per year, and according to Reuters, exposure to 100 mSv a year is 'the lowest level at which any increase in cancer risk is clearly evident.'" https://time.com/5388178/japan-first-fukushima-radiation-dea...
zstd hardly replaces xz, the compression ratio is quite worse. zstd seem more of a replacement for gz.
The no hassle convenient returns keep me coming back.

It takes the risk out of online shopping.

There's 5,000 reasons not to use them and 500 other vendors that have similar policies but I know how expensive a return actually is so I would rather do that strategy with a company I don't care about.

They run retail at a loss and frankly I'm more than happy to be one of their stubbornly unprofitable customers.
Nice and interesting way to suggest organising something I have been thinking about quite inconclusively. Please HN help creating a useful way to meet and co-create for intellectually ambitious people!
well, basic string support would be fine, wouldn't it? the C standard still having no proper string library for decades didn't harm its popularity, but still.

you cannot find non-normalized substrings (strings are Unicode nowadays), utf-8 is unsupported. coreutils and almost all tools don't have proper string (=Unicode) support.
I'll continue using xz - the compression ratio is far better than gzip or zstd. Maybe there will be some new future format to switch to, but zstd is not it.
Related discussion (tweet by the same author): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32026663

"Amazon has a book piracy problem" https://twitter.com/fchollet/status/1545477267932864512

(219 points | 15 days ago | 119 comments)
Warp Bubble finally created by DARPA with ordinary matter
Artificial sweeteners are by definition fake sweet. They are lab-discovered chemicals that short-circuit our sugar-detection mechanism, the taste of sweetness, which explicitly evolved to detect sugar, which artificial sweeteners are not.
I often avoid Amazon, but do purchase from them occasionally. If it's available for just a few dollars more, I buy it elsewhere.

Just recently I found something $15 cheaper at Amazon and decided to go with them. I got something that very likely is used (some of the internal packages had been opened, outer container/box had creases, and had been clearly taped closed, etc). It was a time sensitive item so I couldn't return it and get a new one in time.

Fitting that just when I told myself "Oh what the heck - I'm saving $15, let's just go with Amazon" I end up getting a used item sold as new.
Great YouTube video of a deep zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2S3lc2G3rWs
Stephen Hawking's time traveller party:

https://youtu.be/elah3i_WiFI

(The invitations were posted after the party had concluded.)
I use lzop, as it has faster compression/decompression. Is there a specific reason to prefer zstd?
Maybe not keto, but wouldn't eating nothing but potatoes for a month reset anyone's taste buds?
They're not linked from your website so they're basically unfindable (for the record your reply in this post is now somewhere in the middle).

Edit: I just looked at the journeys and I found it hard to figure out what was going on. The gifs moved fast, and do people plan their meals around amounts of raw ingredients? I would have expected recipes to be the central focus, but none of the journeys touch on recipes AFAICT.

I'd love a good tool for tracking nutrition, comparing recipes, etc. so I'm enthusiastic about this.
Presumably the work is what heated the nail up in the first place…
Why? The car roads are called freeways when they are actually subsideways and no one seems to have a problem with that. What's special about trains?
Myth: We don't have a solution to nuclear's “waste problem”
That's 100 mSv acute. Did he get it acutely (i.e. in a day or two) or over years? If acute then yes, the measurable increment over a background 40% lifetime risk could be due to Fukushima. So then the question is what's the increment? Let's estimate that it's 1% (based on the noisy data at these still quite low doses). In that case, there is a 1 in 40 chance that his cancer death in 2016 was due to Fukushima in 2011.

It it wasn't acute and accumulated over >1 year, then there's a ~0% chance it was from Fukushima radiation.
True, but this has nothing to do with removing Macbooks from the comparisons.
FIA clarifies Gran Turismo relationship and future
Potential Fabrication in Research Images Threatens Key Theory of Alzheimer's
It's appalling the robot was designed to ever use that much force in the grip. Even if the chess pieces were made of lead I can't see it being needed. In general, more attention to failing safe.

But the kid is some kind of local chess champion, I can't fully fault the decision to have him play with the experimental chess robot. Is it more dangerous than a lawn mower or a blender or any other machine that 9 year olds might begin to operate?
US highways literally the least of anyone's concern. They are totally sensible even if we had walkable/bikeable cities.

The real costs are tied up in surface roads and what lies underneath them. Repaving, sewer, cable, electricity, drainage... all that stuff has to be replaced regularly, and when it does, it's a massive subsidy from the people who don't drive cars on those roads, to the people who live or drive heavy trucks on them.
zstd got me already better results, but not all machines i am administering have it installed or even available.
I really try to avoid buying books (or anything other than throwaway products) from Amazon.

While I don't think I've received counterfeit books, (just electronics), Amazon also has a print-on-demand system that is horrible.
Oftentimes these counterfiet books are printed/bounded from Amazon's own printers, these counterfieters don't even have to produce anything themselves, other than uploading a PDF to Amazon. Amazon does it all for them.

Unfortunately, if an author's book (legit sold through Amzon) I want is only printed off Amazon's print-on-demand service, I can't get it anywhere else. I think I've seen reference that Amazon makes an author have an exclusive with their print-on-demand, but I can't find a reference right now. Bah. We need to have less exclusive tie-ins and more choice.
How many users on HN are there that this keeps happening ?

A few hundred in a few minutes is enough to take down a website? I've noticed that this keeps happening .
Not true. I live in Cyprus where a lot of British pensioners move here permanently, buy small properties, some setup local businesses too. They call themselves expats. Aren't they really immigrants since they moved permanently by your definition?
...because we let them for some reason, because public transit is for "other people" in america. We don't allow camping on the road, because it's what we expect people to use. Other countries don't allow public transit to be treated like shit because most people use it.
Customer claims Samsung still owes them more than $35,000 in trade-in credit
This is definitely a bad look for Amazon.

The alternative universe where Amazon actively decides about the legitimacy of copyright holders is also horrible.

And this is not just a theory. YouTube is a prime example of how this can go wrong. Bogus claims that the company accepts by default as legitimate.
This is an amazing visualization.
Ask HN: How is time tracking done at your work?
I'm currently working at a small agency where time tracking is done using Hubstaff which takes screenshots every 10 minutes. Furthermore, staying inactive for 5-10 minutes, deducts the time logged by the app.

So is this normal for agencies or is the same thing done at other product companies as well?
There was a post recently with a video of a Tesla attempting to drive into the path of an oncoming train: https://youtube.com/watch?v=yxX4tDkSc_g

It’s not the big mistake at the end that stands out to me but the sheer volume of mistakes it makes along the way. Edging forward at an intersection when there’s a red light for example.

I don’t doubt that self driving tech will improve and be a safer alternative to a human driver eventually. It doesn’t seem like we’re there yet though.
Sad but true. Some nationalities seem to be very against integration with local culture.
Gene Regulation Might Be the Key to a Longer Lifespan
To answer this question one needs True Detectives.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oX2xFo7JA4

But, ist the other side of the block-universe existing?

Is it growing in that direction?

Are you on the edge of that growth?

Or are you already ghosts of the past talking among
themselves?

Again.

And again.

Forever.
There are literally no lines when money is at stake. Also, since there's a free market (by some kind), it makes world better. Or not. Who cares. Money is in spying on people, go take it!
Can you explain how it short circuits our sugar detection mechanism ?

Your body detects sugar by the beta cells of the pancreatic islets, causing them to increase the release of insulin into the blood .

Non of the common sugar substitutes do this
Well, the second verse

has an extra syllable,

but that's fine by me :)
The article spends a lot of time discussing XZ's behavior when reading corrupt archives, but in practice this is not a case that will ever happen.

Say you have a file `m4-1.4.19.tar.xz` in your source archive collection. The version I just downloaded from ftp.gnu.org has the SHA-256 checksum `63aede5c6d33b6d9b13511cd0be2cac046f2e70fd0a07aa9573a04a82783af96`. The GNU site doesn't have checksums for archives, but it does have a PGP signature file, so it's possible to (1) verify the archive signature and (2) store the checksum of the file.

If that file is later corrupted, the corruption will be detected via the SHA-256 checksum. There's no reason to worry about whether the file itself has an embedded CRC-whatever, or the behavior with regards to variable-length integer fields. If a bit gets flipped then the checksum won't match, and that copy of the file will be discarded (= replaced with a fresh copy from replicated storage) before it ever hits the XZ code.

If this is how the lzip format was designed -- optimized for a use case that doesn't exist -- it's no wonder it sees basically no adoption in favor of more pragmatic formats like XZ or Zstd.
Thanks for your insight. My experience is that not all people (re)search, for some people, social media is their only source of information online.
I suspect I know which side EU takes between foreign Apple corp vs national Telecom Operators. Or not?
I feel like feeding your dog beans is asking for trouble.
For YouTube that is how the law (DMCA) is written. If they took a more active role they would probably lose the safe harbor protections and get sued into oblivion.
The whole list is a bit dodgy, doesn't match my experiences either.
if you don’t want to be alive drinking cokes is pretty inefficient, but it’s a good way to get all kinds of chronic health conditions
Yeah, or have them still need to "buy" tickets and redeem them/scan them to get on.
So everything we experience now on an individual level is just the result of that unified consciousness’s choices?
Request : Activate my Google account.
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It serves 254727743726 this mobile device.
Query : Must I worry about it's passivity ?
That is incorrect. The first 3 volumes of "The Art of Computer Programming" were published in 1968, 1969, and 1973. Knuth started working on TeX in 1977, because he was disappointed by the quality of the galley proofs for the 2nd edition of TAOCP.
rar files are the same if you want to extract them.
Same. I always shake my head when I see people at the gym use the power rack to squat _outside of the rack with no safety rails_. It's slightly less annoying to see than those who use the rack to do curls, but it's still annoying to see.

I also do bench presses with safety rails. still get full upper body activation but significantly minimize the chance of a tweaked back. also lets me bench heavier since i don't need to worry about getting a spot.
It's not cartoonish, it's the culture. Of course it's not homogenous - you can find a lot of people that go against the mainstream. In a hyper-macho culture you can find males who are shy and sensitive, in an introverted culture valuing privacy and closeness you can find people who are extroverted and exuberant, in a culture where accepting blame is not encouraged you can find a lot of people that will readily do that. When you describe the culture as if it were a single person, it will necessarily get a little cartoonish because we are reducing millions of people to one description. But I think this description matches the dominating culture quite well - though you of course always need to realize not everybody follows it to the same degree, and some people would eagerly defy it.
Take money and do nothing seems like a better option. No human could resist it. Only when they fear something. It does not work any other way.
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/environment-and-conserv...

"Mounting evidence from multiple scientific studies shows that many fruits, vegetables, and grains grown today carry less protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, riboflavin, and vitamin C than those that were grown decades ago."

"Nutrient decline “is going to leave our bodies with fewer of the components they need to mount defences against chronic diseases—it’s going to undercut the value of food as preventive medicine,” says David R. Montgomery, a professor of geomorphology at the University of Washington in Seattle and co-author with Anne Biklé of What Your Food Ate."

"Even for people who avoid processed foods and prioritise fresh produce, this trend means that “what our grandparents ate was healthier than what we’re eating today,” says Kristie Ebi, an expert in climate change and health at the University of Washington in Seattle."

A study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15637215/

"Objectives: To evaluate possible changes in USDA nutrient content data for 43 garden crops between 1950 and 1999 and consider their potential causes."

"Results: As a group, the 43 foods show apparent, statistically reliable declines (R < 1) for 6 nutrients (protein, Ca, P, Fe, riboflavin and ascorbic acid) [...] Declines in the medians range from 6% for protein to 38% for riboflavin."

"Conclusions: We suggest that any real declines are generally most easily explained by changes in cultivated varieties between 1950 and 1999, in which there may be trade-offs between yield and nutrient content."
Do you have any data to support this claim? In my experience, zstd is way better in every way compared to gzip. Additionally, xz is good compression but horribly crazy slow to decompress. Xz also only operates on one single file at a time, which is annoying.
I would never buy a counterfeit book as this price point.

But absolutely would for overpriced college books. Most of those books were a giant scam. Buy this year's edition for $300, sell them back to the college bookstore for $40 because there's a "new" edition.

Counterfeiters are going to counterfeit, but Amazon should definitely be liable here since they've bee made aware of the issue.
and yet in Cyprus we have towns full of expats:

Paphos - British
Limassol - Russians
This seems like an obvious answer in the US where the top 10 are all very elite schools. In a small country where there is a big gap between one and ten, it might make sense to transfer.

I chose an okay state school instead of a top 10 school in the us for financial reasons, and it sometimes feels like it was the wrong decision.

In addition to the doors an elite school can open, the connections you make in college can be invaluable. A friend from high school went to Stanford, where he met the cofounder he started his business with. My dad’s connections from Princeton essentially saved my aunt’s life when she was diagnosed with a rare cancer.

If the connections you would make at the #1 school would be drastically better, I would say go for it. 2 years isn’t that big a deal
Oh look, a designer talking about accessibility... while using (on mobile at least) a lightweight, grey font for pull quotes, thus making it innaccesible for anyone who struggles with low contrast text, or is using a phone outside, or just has a shitty screen. Yes, it's good to be able to share "fun" content with all your users, but you should probably cover the absolute basics first.
What is the point of subjecting humanity to GDPR if this is allowed?
Wrong country, wrong establishment.

Apparently a lot of you dont know the difference between USSR, Russia and Ukraine. Stay safe out there.
I'm confused. You think if we don't let robots break childrens fingers because we insist on proper safety, then the industry of physical chess playing robots might never get off the ground?
Besides the obvious "Safer for diabetics": You could ask the same question regarding anything with food coloring. Or any butter substitute.
Or just wait a few years to be over 40 and then magically the chance of making a baby together becomes better according to the article.
A couple random facts.

World's fairs seem to have tapered off after the 40s. Presumably the adoption of television? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_world%27s_fairs#1940...

The last world's fair held in the US was the 1984 Louisiana World Exhibition. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Louisiana_World_Exposit...
Refined sugars are also a scam, fooling our palates into thinking we are getting the micronutrients of fruit.
Well of course Chechen culture or Buryat culture or Tatar culture or Chukcha culture will be very different. But this is not the culture that dominates functionaries of federations in Moscow. "Imperial" Russian culture is. That's the one I am talking about. Of course on Russian territory there are many other cultures, but these are not ones I considered.
Zstd can achieve good compression ratio for many data patterns and is super fast to create, and decompresses at multiple GB/s with a halfway decent CPU, often hitting disk bandwidth limits.

I've never tried lzop or met someone who advocated to use it.
Needs research, perhaps. Until then I'm healthily skeptical.
Correct. The fact they made a robot that could crush a human hand means they paid no attention to this hazard. Competent execution of Safety in Design concepts would demand limiting the grip force to only what's necessary to reliably move the pieces, which almost certianly wouldn't break bone. If that isn't possible, then it would imply the requirement to find some other way to resolve this hazard in the heirarchy of controls.

Relying on a human is the last option, not the default, when it comes to safety. Human adaptability is not a licence to hand-wave away design responsibility. The most glaring example is Tesla, who is unforgivably guilty of this.

This is bog-standard competent engineering in almost all domains of engineering. It is the table stakes-level expectation of a reasonable approach to safety. I'd literally end up in jail if something went wrong and I had been found to not consider these factors.

Software- and computer-related domains of engineering are a conspicuous outlier when it comes to this philosophy.
You send out a mass DM asking if this account is not a bot to not respond.

Just kidding but this happened to me when I used IRC back in around 1993-1994. For some reason I would respond anyway and would get banned for a time.
not google but on craigslist cars: "lotus", "lancia", "scca", "roll cage", "engine swap", "drift", "formula"
Refined sugars have clearly demonstrated problems. Most artificial sweeteners do not.
He’s just trying to justify why it took 5 years to approve a feature that is so similar to #include.
There is another option: Google offers a paid API for search.
Culture wars on Wiki articles on Intelligence
I can sympathize with the author. I try to learn about accessibility in my free time, so I cannot "hire a diverse team/consultants". I also don't want to annoy random people I meet with questions about their disabilities. So instead I read a lot. And when I write something, I am transparent about the fact that I do not have first hand experience (at least not to the point that I was unable to complete a task due to accessibility issues).

I agree this is far from ideal, but it is better than nothing.
Ehh? That's nowhere near the "highly unhealthy" level. A pack of cigarettes a day... now we're gettin somewhere.
I'd play it safe and eat only natural sweeteners like inulin/stevia/xylitol. Gut microbes haven't evolved to
expirience the whole array of artificial sweeteners.
TiDB: Select Insight From GitHub
We have met the Excelnemy and he is us
It's not more expensive. They just want to force people who want to use two external monitors to buy a more expensive machine.

I say this as a MacFanatic since December of 1983, when I saw a closed-door/by-invitation-only demo of a prototype of the original Mac, before the official announcement during the Super Bowl in January of 1984. Five minutes of playing with the only two applications that existed at the time (MacWrite and MacPaint, because the Calculator had not been written yet), and I was convinced that this was the future of all modern computing. I became a Mac owner in the 512k "FatMac" days, and have owned many, many Macs and other Apple devices ever since.

I also did a six month contract for Apple Retail Software Engineering, the group that develops and supports all the software used to train and otherwise assist all the employees in all the stores.

I have literally been there and done that, for decades.

Apple clearly wants to make a distinction here, because otherwise there would be no justification for the "pro" name in "MacBook Pro". If the baseline MacBook could do two external monitors, and cost hundreds of dollars less, then that would sorely hurt their profit margins.

Apple makes money by selling you stuff at a significantly higher price for each step up than it actually costs them to make. They make much more profit on the more expensive items, and that's what they want to upsell you on. They've been doing that for decades.

I have literally put my money where my mouth is. Thousands and thousands of dollars of it. I know what they're doing and why.

And yet, I still buy those more expensive machines, because they're the ones that give me the features I want. But that doesn't mean I have to be happy about what they're doing and all the extra thousands of dollars of money I've had to shell out over the years.
>I have to wonder if the people who designed CarPlay actually drive cars...

This isn't just CarPlay. Most of Apple software UI changed when Tim Cook gave Ive the power to all things design including Software. ( Along with kicking out Forstall ). Their Software Human UX design Head fought with Ive and decided to "retire" only after a few years. And somewhere along the line after some restructuring, things where never the same again.

All current Apple UI are just like some much better looking Android.
The best reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop was by WaPo though:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/30/hunter-...