skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be blunt, yes. People with poor nutrition, particularly in childhood, experience both physical and mental stunting, some of which is irreversible. Certain diseases which have been curtailed or eradicated in developed countries inflict a similar toll.

I'll give a concrete example that combines both effects. Hookworm is an intestinal parasite that causes nutritional deficiencies in the host. Children with hookworm are impaired across the board, mentally and physically. They can't run as fast or read as well as their hookworm-free peers. If we compare two otherwise comparable populations, one with hookworm and one without, we would expect the hookworm-infected population to be less intelligent on average.

I'm not saying this to look down on anyone. Human populations always show enormous variation, anyway, so it says nothing much about any individual. But that burden, of physical and mental impairment and chronic illness, due to poor nutrition and infection, is a significant barrier to development, and a major part of why parts of the less developed world remain less developed. And it's why I believe childhood vaccination, disease eradication and nutrition programs in poorer countries are some of the best things we could spend our resources on, in terms of furthering human development.
> If I don't notice counterfeit items then why would I care as a consumer?

Well, superficially it doesn't matter for something like a handbag, assuming the handbag doesn't wear out any sooner than the original.

Maybe the knockoff was made by 10 year old slaves in a factory with no human rights pressures (and oversight). If you knew there was a high probability this was true, would you still have the "don't care" opinion?

But when it comes to electronics or power tools, a failure can mean an accident or a fire. That's serious for you directly.

And finally, if the copycats steal all the business, and the original designer/mfg stops making sales, they stop producing items. What does a copycat sell when there's no longer any original? I hope you like the exact product you have, because the copycat next iteration is going to be the same or maybe have an extra LED on it as a new feature.
> These microorganisms are then able to make amino acids, carbohydrates, lipids (fats), and vitamins.

* Carbohydrates are easy. (It's actually very difficult to "transform" light into sugar, but there are plenty of plants and bacteria that can do that. They are using Hydrogen instead of light, but so let's say it's "easy".)

* Lipids are even easier. (I can't remember any technical problem here.)

* Amino acids are difficult to create out of thin air. You need energy and also a source of Nitrogen. Transforming the Nitrogen of the atmosphere into amino acids is very difficult and only a few specialized microorganism can do that, so color me skeptical. Another possibility is to give feed them with nitrates, that is a very common and important fertilizer for plants. It's necessary a lot of energy to produce nitrates, so it's not an easy step. Perhaps they can hide the nitrates inside the "mineral nutrients" that is technically true, but it's almost cheating.

* Vitamins are probably also difficult. Each vitamin is very different. I doubt they selected one microorganism that can produce all of them, if that really exists. Also you need a lot of some vitamins and very few of other, the amount is also important. So I guess to use this it's necessary to complement it with vitamins from other sources.
Listen to Mike Munger on Econtalk

https://www.econtalk.org/michael-munger-on-antitrust/
Yeah, I appreciated this article -- will confess I definitely thought the joke originated with The Office. I think the author just missed a lot of the punchlines in the jokes that they didn't find funny, many of these formats are still in use today!

The one you describe is a classic format: someone has a problem, then through accidental, unrelated circumstances, solves it. They meet someone else with the same problem, and the punchline is that their advice is "have you tried..?"

> A pedant having fallen into a pit called out continually to summon help. When no one answered, he said to himself, “I am a fool if I do not give all a beating when I get out in order that in the future they shall answer me and furnish me with a ladder.”

The author ends being unsure their strategy is sound -- but the point of the joke is that it's clearly not sound, and one that would only make sense to a pedant.

> "Another person who was going away wrote to a pedant that he should buy him some books. But he regarded the request lightly and said to him on his return, “I did not receive your letter which you sent concerning the books.”"

The punchline is that the pedant clearly received the letter, or he wouldn't know to say that the he's claiming to have not received concerned books. Today it might be:
"Hey, did you get my text message?"
"The one asking if you could borrow my car? No, I didn't."
Absolutely. It's just becoming difficult to even find such local options :(.
TL;DR: Even if you're buying "the same thing" from Walmart, it's likely a lower quality version. Many manufactures make lower-quality Walmart-specific SKUs.

See: https://www.fastcompany.com/54763/man-who-said-no-wal-mart
The Print tends to lean more AAP or Shanta Kumar style BJP than Modi style BJP, Congress, etc. This is a reflection of politics and biases in the Delhi/Haryana/Punjab/HP/JK/Ladakh/Uttarakhand region in general.

There are different political dynamics there than - say - in Purvanchal/Bihar, Kutch/Western Rajasthan, Eastern Jharkhand/Western West Bengal, etc. My hunch is most Indian posters on here are probably going to be techie posters who grew up in ethnolinguistically mixed (mix of Indo-European and Dravidian speakers) Southern India cities like Bangalore or Hyderabad.

Also, both the posters you are responding to are trolls. Please don't feed 'em!
What is the "value" they are talkin about. I can understand when 50-kilo Eddy Merckx wants 9 kilo bike, so he can win some other skinny dude with shitty 10 kilo bike. But in which way the 120-kilo american fatty in spandex feels better after these "upgrades"?

Only upgrade I truly appreciate in last 70 years was when Shimano moved the bloody bearings to the right side of sprockets. No more bent back axle. Nothing else comes to mind.

Correction: Maybe when Nokia made first studded tyre in 1966 was even bigger "upgrade". But this depends where you live.
> You can increase a pointer to be 128 bits big, or 256 bits big if you wanted to. It doesn't change anything, because it's just an index.

Yes, you can increase the pointer size arbitrarily, but it is always constant for a single C implementation, you can't increase the pointer size at run time.

Essentially you recompiling and running a program and choosing an implementation with a successively larger pointer size is Turing complete, but it requires you as a special actor, and I'm only concerned for a what a single implementation can do.

To put it in another way, solving the halting problem is trivial for any C program + a fixed C implementation, that doesn't have special language extensions.

> I'm curious, do you think other languages are Turing complete?

The easiest example would be brainfuck, because you can just move the tape around in it, and a theoretical implementation could trivially be hoked up to a theoretical infinite tape.

> As far as I know, all modern programming languages use a 64 bit addressable memory space maximum

I don't know enough about how other languages are defined, but I could imagine that Java allows for an implementation with infinite memory, because it doesn't impose any requirements on how the pointers are implemented under the hood.
Looking at my parents who are further along on the X axis it seems part of that "alone" may be due to assisted living or deceased spouses (ie, not by choice).
Also with Iceberg or Delta Lake and Trino you can basically run a full lakehouse architecture on open source and places like Bloomberg, Goldman Sachs and many others do just that.

https://trino.io/users.html
I have absolutely zero doubt that there are many people in the USA who would agree that VISA should cut you off.
Agreed, but I've been doing that since Friendster... It's exhausting to continually be creating platform specific content like that... Each new platform introduces new complications, e.g. when TikTok came about they revived vertical video, and that totally disrupted YouTubes horizontal (widescreen) format... On top of that, it's the physically excruciating process of uploading vital things over and over to each platform... Not really complaining because it's a part of the business, but as a musician that does everything mostly myself, it demands far too much attention.

A new social site would be better designed to host links in differing formats all together, like a site you could just plug a YouTube URL into, or even a TikTok URL and then it would work to present posts to relevant people without requiring a lot of input from account managers, perhaps by searching the web for relevant info to the post content and person posting it.

One of the biggest pains is whenever a new platform takes over in dominance, we have to scramble to reserve our namesake on the platform if it might take off. That too is stressful. I can't complain, because I'm lucky to be functional, but social media and related activity is very costly in time and money with constantly decreasing returns in public reach, volumes of valuable time can be wasted by anyone during the process of learning that. :/
The study of reinforcement learning, I've found, is incredibly insightful as a way to really force us to operationalize reward functions. I've benefitted from the process of reasoning and exploring RL reward functions.

Sure, I also value game theory, sociology, and psychology as well. People are complex, with culture, identities, imperfect reasoning, and biochemical influences.

That said, one key benefit of RL is the hands-on experimental aspect. You get to play God and see what happens. Surprise triggers cognitive dissonance and drives further questions. In contrast, some academic disciplines become rather enamored with their own theories, to the detriment of operationalizing them.
The value is many devs know how to do their work but many might not know enough of the intricacies to build their own Redis for example. I do full stack and while I can make a website with a corresponding API, I don't know enough to rewrite Redis which includes more low-level backend knowledge than a typical fullstack engineer might have, so this would be useful for me.
Sure, though the UPA was still short of even a simple majority in the Lok Sabha, and was held up by outside support from the Left Front. The BJP's simple majority in the Lok Sabha from 2013 onwards is the first time any single party has held a majority since the 80s.
Show HN: TaglinQ, Free online tool to create interactive image
[TaglinQ](https://taglinq.com/), a free and easy-to-use tool to create interactive image:

- Can use the image from web or local image(will be converted to base64 DataUri)

- Add circle/polyline/polygon/icons...,

- Get the work done in web browser,

- The output can be HTML Image Map code or interactive svg image.
I would really emphasize the no proxy required part in the intro of this post. To me its one of the huge factors for not using grpc from the web.
How should the Fed adjust it's policies based on the San Andreas fault, solar storms flaring up electrical wires globally, China invading Taiwan, the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine suffering a meltdown, a deadly covid resurgence, or zombies?

Forecasting is always a questionable activity. All models are wrong, some are useful.
Thick air would be polluted or misty, I think we use 'thin air' to emphasise there was no apparent substance to the air.
We basically already have "social credit" systems, we just call them anti-fraud/anti-spam/reputation scores.
> While I'm not a cosmologist

The people behind the above prove and similar works do research relatively far away from cosmology, in a field usually called mathematical General Relativity. In particular, they are usually mathematicians by training, not physicists.

Sad side note: Most physicists (even many of those doing research in General Relativity) have never heard of mathematical GR.
I thought that this was going to be a talk about the software industry regularly shipping products with bug/failure rates that would result in arrest warrants for any other type of engineering profession. Instead this just seems to be pushing something like ISO 9000, software edition
> CF apparently agrees since they paid out a bounty for it.

Not really, it was mentioned as part of a report of the main, much more critical issue of 'hijacking email with Cloudflare Email Routing' - note that's the title itself, not 'accessing a cloudflare beta feature'...
See "Subtleties of the ANSI/ISO C standard" <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1637.pdf>, section V "C is not Turing complete". They discuss file I/O briefly too, but I don't follow their reasoning.
Hilarious! I think this is made doubly amusing by the fact that I make jokes like the ones in his "Total Failure" category.

> A pedant was looking for his book for many days but could not find it. By chance as he was eating lettuce and turned a certain corner he saw the book lying there. Later meeting a friend who was lamenting the loss of his girdle, he said, “Do not worry but buy some lettuces and eat them at the corner, when you turn it and go a little ways you fill find it.”

For instance, I was in a motorcycle accident recently, but also coincidentally got a great deal on a Peloton. Someone asked me how I got it for cheaper and I explained that it involved first learning to ride a motorcycle and then colliding with a car.

Personally, I found the whole thing hilarious, but written down it sounds totally nonsensical, which makes it even funnier.
Looks good but I don't think I would try any tool unless it is open source as a developer.
Saylor isn't bailing lol he's just leaving to focus on Bitcoin

MSTR is still up over 100% from when they first bought Bitcoin
Genes don't even have to boost intelligence for kids from smart parents to be more likely to be intelligent.

Just think of a kid adopted out of the nursery by two smart parents. Is that kid: A) more likely to score higher on tests, B) more likely to score lower on tests, or C) exactly as likely to score high/low on tests no matter who his adoptive parents are?
> refuses to stop once faced with reasonable evidence

That's implying that PH is doing nothing to stop it. There's a difference between there being a few handful of examples of cases slipping through the cracks, vs PH intentionally allowing it to happen.

It's like Youtube, there will always be false positives and false negatives in their automatic and manual moderation. Online moderation is a hard problem, not a single platform has got a bulletproof solution.
"However, because international VoLTE calls – even when they work – are all data-based, and tunnel through the global mobile system, there is no inbound revenue for calls. Operators “miss a lot of the revenue”"

This is also wrong. VoLTE is just the protocol stack used to replace traditional circuit switched voice which used to run over dedicated GSM channels, in parallel to data. With appropriate QoS assurances, the idea is for it all to go over the data channels.

Its replacement is purely over the mobile segment of a traditional PSTN call. It still integrates with the PSTN, SS7 signalling etc., and as before, termination fees can still be charged. This doesn't have to affect carrier revenue.
I would say yes and no. For technical and semi-technical people, most personal sites and the like offer RSS which is universal enough that everyone can consume it their own way. For non-technical people however I agree that this doesn't work out.
I always wonder how the thermal efficiency of these whole system compares to something as mechanical as pumped hydro.

Feels like many developments dance around the fact no one has a good way to actually *generate* the H2 cleanly.

Best I’ve seen is a gallium compound electrolysis, ignoring so called “blue” (black) hydrogen from natgas.
Not to be incredibly nit-picky, but the costs of the product right now don’t matter nearly as much as the ability to scale production and variable unit costs.

As a ‘hard tech’, they need to work themselves through the technology readiness framework before the cost of a particular material even tells you anything of value.
This is really impressive.

I've been running a scraper against the output of the "aws --help" CLI commands for a few months, to try and get a better feel for how often AWS changes - I call this "help scraping". The answer is it changes a LOT - there are updates to their APIs every single day.

Here's the commit log of changes I've tracked so far: https://github.com/simonw/help-scraper/commits/main/aws
The problem with ML art outside of concepting (and even then) is repeatability of scene elements. If you’re illustrating a children’s book you usually want each illustration to keep the characters and scenes consistent. The same is mostly true for game art and concepts.
Good double feature with the Shiv Ramdas rice truck story: https://twitter.com/nameshiv/status/1301521850552315904
1984: Rajiv Gandhi’s Congress Party got a super majority (77%)

1980: Indira Gandhi’s Congress Party got a super majority (65%)

1977: Indira Gandhi's Congress Party got a majority (56%)

1971: Indira Gandhi's Congress Party got a super majority (68%)

1967: Indira Gandhi's Congress Party got a majority (55%)

1962: Nehru's Congress Party at 73%

1957: Nehru's Congress Party at 75%

1952: Nehru's Congress Party at 74%

If the complaint is, "Supermajorities aren't a Democracy", then it must be agreed upon that India hasn't been been a Democracy under the Congress Party for 32 years out of the 75 years of independence.
See https://www.consumerreports.org/infotainment-systems/in-car-...
if this is an internal code-name OK, but this public post sounds more like a product name. How is it OK to hijack the widely-known artist, with no other meaning, for your commercial VR product ?

"Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect from Spain known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernism. Gaudí's works have a highly individualized, sui generis style. Most are located in Barcelona, including his main work, the church of the Sagrada Família"
Can you use Trino as a database proxy?
IoT at the Edge with MQTT, Redpanda, and Waterstream
Kinda. A lot of Indian internet commentators tend to resort to antisemitic tropes without realizing the implications, due to a lack of awareness and a bit of cargo culting American political discourse on reddit or 4chan.

There is a regional bias to all of this discourse of course and it could be an upper level social sciences course unto itself.
> … or writing to a specific part of memory does.

Memory-mapped devices are pretty common. C's original platform controlled tape drives by writing to memory: https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/sys/dev/tc...
For example in Germany. Copyright applies automatically and you can't just use anything (images, code, text, and so on) without explicit okay by the producer of this.

A license just allows you to use the content/code under specific conditions.

Else you just are not allowed to use it.
What about ,"giraffe laying eggs"?
We're a broader approach to building different types of internal tools (UI, workflows, Cron).

We get compared to stuff like Retool, Zapier, BI tools and other low-code tools quite often, but the main differences are in the breadth of the product and most importantly how focused on developers and code (Python and JS for now, other language in the future) the product is to make things extensible. Basically we wanted to replace all the internal tooling we've built and used at previous companies we've worked at. A lot of it is too complex for the popular low code tools of today.

We are a ways away from achieving that mission, but think there is an approach that can work if focused entirely on developers.
I mean that we're at the absolute edge of possible range with existing battery tech, and there is no path to dramatically increasing range. The Model 3 is 20% heavier than a Honda CRV, the "range" is about 30% less, and the total cargo capacity is also about 30% less. We can't add more batteries because the weight is already an issue, and so the only viable path forward is to dramatically increase energy density. I compared a sedan to an SUV because you otherwise wouldn't expect a small sedan to weigh so much more than an SUV.

Most effort today is going into decreasing costs via economies of scale. What's the path to an electric vehicle with a 1,500 mile range? Hydrogen "gen1" cars are already over 400 miles of range, and you can add 400 more miles of range in 3 minutes.

Basically... batteries seem more like a stopgap than a permanent solution. Do you really think batteries will ever power an airplane, for example? I do think it's plausible that planes could run on hydrogen.
A little regex skill goes a long way.
A little bit more goes even longer than expected.
And you can count on regex being a thing years from now.
By definition, you can't have a coin be stable while at the same time not having a centralized instance that keep it "stable". Those are oxymorons. It's one, or the other.

We can't just repeat any buzzword without thinking about what exactly does it actually mean in practice.
I can't speak for the poster, but back in my young kids in suburbia life, it was common to get invited to kid parties for kids are hardly knew. And most parents wouldn't be bothered with getting a "real" gift. They would go buy whatever was < $10 at Walmart.

And the people hosting the parties would also go to Walmart and buy the 99cent "goodie" bags to hand out to the guest kids. Those bags contained cheap plastic spider rings, plastic whistles which were so malformed that they didn't whistle, etc.

Most of what was given and received would go into the garbage after everyone was home. It's an obscene waste of time, money, and resources. But now it feels like that reality is the common general reality, and that's what scares me.
Counter-intuitively, a free community adds more value by attracting people of all levels. Paid communities attract beginners (who are incentivised to pay for education), but not experts ("Why am I paying for a Slack channel?"). Spammers are easily handled by enforcing community rules.
The Importance of Vocabulary
Yes. That's how basically all expansion to the field of human knowledge is constructed today.

A human can only ingest and understand so much information in so much time. As Matt Might[1] eloquently described in "The Illustrated Guide to a PhD" [2], learning the basics of an entire field of study is what a bachelor's degree is for, a master's degree gives you a specialty, graduate students reading research papers like this one is how you get to the edge of human knowledge...only then can you start building on that sum of knowledge.

[1] http://matt.might.net/

[2] http://matt.might.net/articles/phd-school-in-pictures/
I finally found a decent source of information:

https://github.com/termstandard/colors

The most obvious case of missing support is macOS’s Terminal.app. Years ago I imagine you could theoretically at least query the colours by some side channel, but sandboxing will doubtless have prevented that. And maybe it does support the querying, which to my mind is the more important of the two pieces of functionality when it comes to accessibility.
Correct, the legal interpretation of a monopoly is much more vague and open to interpretation.
Not quite. Film doesn't get more grain with longer exposures, whereas it does with digital sensors, as you can get [hot pixels](https://photofocus.com/software/what-are-hot-pixels-and-how-...) and other artifacts the longer the sensor is exposing a shot.