skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Good question. Human sweat _is_ indeed a pretty unique thing. Many animals sweat (e.g. horses, monkeys, hippos, etc). Some animals actually sorta do sweat but it doesn't play as big of a role in their biology as it does in humans. Dogs and cats only sweat in their paws for example

Humans are some of the weirdest hunters because of our incredible endurance. We're pretty slow creatures. If you're an ungulate that just got hit by an arrow, you can easily run away. But a human can keep following you for hours. Some hunter-gatherer groups will keep a persistent hunt going for up to 3 days

So yeah human sweat probably plays a pretty unique role in our physiology compared to most animals, but sweating is definitely not a uniquely human thing. And it's particularly more common in furless mammals
I don’t think the extremely talented musician who loses out to a less talented musician just because they checked the right identity boxes will find that argument persuasive.
> If Maus were rated according to TV standards, there's no way it'd get less than TV-14. Unless you think shows rated TV-14 can be kids' shows,

Are 14 year olds adults?
I wrote another comment that also answers yours for the most part: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32365128

tldr your problem with Excel is that you don't grok tables. They eliminate the need to know the number of rows when writing your formulae.

I don't actually have Excel installed on the machine I'm using to type this, so I can't put my money where my mouth is like the vim guy did[1]. But I'm fairly sure you can achieve your goal with table references and liberal use of the XLOOKUP and FILTER functions. It'll get a little hairy since you have to go from Set -> Inventories -> Inventory Parts -> Parts, so maybe a bit of nesting. But I think doable. The LET function also helps to reduce formula complexity, it lets you make lexically-scoped variables inside your formulae. Use "data validation" to make a dropdown menu for the set names.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/1220118
Ask HN: Programming Challenge for Network Servers?
I'm thinking of running a network server programming challenge. Kind of like a year-round Advent of Code, but for networking instead of algorithms. Something like:

* You are given a network protocol spec.

* You implement the server and input its IP address and port number.

* Your server is automatically tested.

* Once all tests pass, your solve time goes onto a global leaderboard.

* New puzzle every ~2 weeks.

* They start easy and get harder.

If you would like to register your interest please put your email address in here: https://incoherency.co.uk/server-programming/

I'm also interested to hear your thoughts on potential pitfalls and drawbacks.

Cheers!
Unfortunately, I can't do that here due to privacy reasons, and I only have done that once.

But here's NYPL's new arrivals page: https://www.nypl.org/books-music-movies/new-arrivals

One quick check you can do is to look at the gender of the authors.

Here's the list of the board members: https://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/leadership/board-truste...

If I can, I will do a rough headcount of their political affiliation and then update this comment with it.
Clickable link: https://incoherency.co.uk/server-programming/
> In my experience they never try very hard to determine obviousness

With the proviso that things may have changed in the last 6 years when I haven't been working in patents:

Your experience is not representative. While in Patent Litigation at Google, I looked at literally hundreds of prosecution histories, and an obviousness rejection figured in almost 100% of them. That's much more common that an anticipation rejection, i.e. ONE reference.

And any lawyer will tell you that if they allow your application on the first try, you didn't ask for enough.

If you tell us the numbers of the patents you worked on, I can look up the histories. Or you can, if you know that one weird trick :)

(Actually, it's several weird tricks.)
How do you load a local file?
For somebody who knows Lisp and Scheme, it is however more than nice to already know the language and be able to just read the interface description.

To give an extreme example of the opposite direction (no, I do not want to bash Nix here), take CMake and its configuration language which has no real definition. It is just painful to use.
the pro-trans book actually did contain pornographic content and it was one of the reasons it should not be on display for kids
Not directly answering your question but related: "early sunscreen formulations were disastrous, shielding users from the UVB rays that cause sunburn but not the UVA rays that cause skin cancer. Even today, SPF ratings refer only to UVB rays, so many users may be absorbing far more UVA radiation than they realize."

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...
> Federal elections were held in Germany on 6 November 1932.[1] The Nazi Party saw its vote share fall by four percentage points, while there were slight increases for the Communist Party of Germany and the national conservative German National People's Party. The results were a great disappointment for the Nazis, who lost 34 seats and again failed to form a coalition government in the Reichstag. The elections were the last free and fair all-German election before the Nazi seizure of power in 1933.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_1932_German_federal_e...
Well your comment is typical to the bias “all calories are equals”

First, all calories are not equals, therefore you can be starving and pushed to store energy, in an abundant calories intake.

What matters here is bio availability or nutrient in the calories intake. If for instance your protein intake is too low, and available vitamins is poor, whatever the amount of “energy” ingested this will trigger starvation mode and energy saving.
Have you ever read scientific littérature about how hybernation is dietetary induced in hibernating mammals? As shift of diet to high sugar, high seed oil (from grain) greatly available during summer (weight increase period for hibernating mammals) by lowering metabolism rate, promoting fat storage and torpor.

In early 19th, average calories intake of French and Switzerland was around 4000 to 4500 kcal a day, without obesity crisis while in the same time in American states adopting seed oils emerging products while the daily calories intake was half those amount, overweight appeared and started to spread.

So no, calories in calories out, and all calories are equal, are not true and therefore cannot be used at any prémisses of rational development.
I tried "whenever it feels good" and it returned:

"0 0 * * * *" (Every hour)

So I believe this robot is quite happy -- way happier than average mortal humans.
I can't find any way to do this.
I've always wanted a way to extract just the kick drums in realtime but I don't understand this field well enough to understand whether it would be remotely possible or not.
Because why not? For things like installing (commonly used) packages, setup some services, I think Nix is simpler than things like Debian or Arch. You don't need to understand all the nitty-gritty to install a package. The problem is about the documentation, some information is old (nix-env for example which should be deprecated IMO), may need better discoverability (options that you don't know they even exists), and we should be able to just give some examples for users to modify instead of asking them to learn the whole language.

For advancing the goals of the project, I think increasing adaptation will be beneficial, for example to let more software provide a nix script for building, due to more users using it. And perhaps if more users are using it, more companies and universities will adapt it.
The only “standard” feature id rather try not to understand is recursive CTEs lol
I don’t think “may be prohibitively expensive and even impossible on some embedded platforms” is a strong argument for not including it in C. There are many other features in C for which that holds, such as recursion, dynamic memory allocation, or even floating point.
Of course i can only talk about my Roborock S5, but that one handles each and any changes in the environment flawlessly.

While cleaning, you can watch it on the map (in the cloud/app as well as when rooted on the local webserver) and can see it constantly scanning the surroundings and things appearing when they do.

I once saw an object "appearing" when there should've been none when i was out, when i got back home it was my cat that wanted to roadblock the Roborock, laying on the floor...
Even when you're trying to be charitable, you're wildly missing the point. I don't give a fuck about NIST or NSA. I don't trust either of them and I don't even buy into the premise of what NIST is supposed to be doing: I think formal cryptographic standards are a force for evil. The point isn't that NIST is trustworthy. The point is that the PQC finalist teams are comprised of academic cryptographers from around the world with unimpeachable reputations, and it's ludicrous to suggest that NSA could have compromised them.

The whole point of the competition structure is that you don't simply have to trust NIST; the competitors (and cryptographers who aren't even entrants in the contest) are peer reviewing each other, and NIST is refereeing.

What Bernstein is counting on here is that his cheering section doesn't know the names of any cryptographers besides "djb", Bruce Schneier, and maybe, just maybe, Joan Daemen. If they knew anything about who the PQC team members were, they'd shoot milk out their nose at the suggestion that NSA had suborned backdoors from them. What's upsetting is that he knows this, and he knows you don't know this, and he's exploiting that.
> If residents think that queer pornographic novels should not be on display for kids at library,

Gosh, what an inflammatory claim. I better read the article to check that...

> The book, which includes depictions of sex, was in the adult section of the library.

Huh, I guess people really do like to spin things these days, don't they?
Quick Tutorial on Battery Capacity
this + theft at retail drive me nuts as an honest consumer

I'm the one paying that 5-10% on their loss!
Turns out soap is not THAT essential to personal hygiene, if you have running water.

The point of bathing is to rub off dead skin cells, excess oil off your skin (note that I said excess). And you can actually do all that without soap.

Also note that sweat it's not that stinky when it evaporates quickly (for example, behind loose non-western clothes in a hot environment)

Soap helps a lot, of course, but the usual stench of being dirty is more because we use really tight clothes that keep sweat from evaporating
Dual_EC keeps getting brought up, but I have to ask: does anybody have any real evidence that it was widely deployed? My recollection is that it basically didn't appear anywhere outside of a handful of not-widely-used FIPS-certified libraries, and wasn't even the default in any of them except RSA's BSAFE.

The closest thing we have to evidence that Dual_EC was exploited in the wild seems to be a bunch of circumstantial evidence around its role in the OPM hack which, if true, is much more of a "self own" than anything else.
Grow a hollow in a vat and insert the brain?

It'd be prohibitively expensive for most, but why not?
Sounds like a religious conversion to me.

Especially those that require body modification, such as Jewish and Islam's adult circumcision.
I think it’s more accurate to say that one side values theoretical education and academic knowledge more than another. The fact that certain mores and attitudes produced the prosperous America we enjoy today is also a kind of knowledge.

But I think your point about differing value systems is exactly on point. The problem is, in theory your local libery association, or teacher’s union, etc., isn’t supposed to bear comparison to a gun rights organization or evangelical church. Like, I can imagine that folks in NYC would be unhappy if their local public library adopted the value system of an evangelical church or gun rights organization. Why is it surprising that the same reaction results when the shoe is on the other foot?
No need to be hypothetical, this is an easy empirical question to answer. If you search the Patmos library’s public catalog for “Irreversible Damage,” it shows that this branch doesn’t have any copies but links to five copies in other area libraries (all of which are currently checked out). My local library , in an intensely liberal area, also has multiple copies.
Unlike many (but not all) other animals, humans spend considerable time in close proximity to other humans in enclosed spaces. If you are pungent, other people in an enclosed space with you will not appreciate your smell. I've done quite a few multi week hikes with only fresh water bathing (no soap, no deodorant) with others (2-18 other people). During the hikes we are outdoors and although we gather reasonably close (less than 1m, or a couple of feet) around a campfire or common place to eat it isn't often you'd be offended by someone else's smell. At the end of these hikes when we first get back to civilisation and are in an enclosed space again - you bet we suddenly notice how much we stink.

Many humans cross paths with hundreds to thousands of other humans every day and the set of people interacted can have great variability across days. Growing up we were taught at home and in school how important it is to regularly wash your hands. The only other examples of such a high level of social mingling for other species that springs to mind are insects swarms/hives/nests and when there are plagues (mice, locusts etc). Unlike these groups, humans are unique in having a very high degree of share tool use (door handles, public seating for transport, cross walk and lift buttons), so there is a huge potential for cross contamination. Bathing and washing with soap is probably one of the key reasons we are able to live in cities the way we do without regular disease epidemics.
You’re changing the subject to avoid the truth of what he’s saying. Logic can absorb any input. Set aside defensiveness to see more of the world through these peaceful and difficult challenges to the worldview.
To me startup or not does not make any difference. The pay is good (265k, working remotely, far away from the volley), the environment is relaxed (I work realistically ~20 hours a week including meetings), and I don't care about the exit (I assume my shares are worth zero). Yeah, I could be making 600k at FAANG, but I'd have to move back to CA, and honestly, I'm quite satisfied with what I have. And yet I will probably leave for something new within a year. There are a lot of well funded startups working on interesting things, and my skills are in high demand.
who cares though? species have come and gone, and will continue too

if you died and then a millisecond after a chicxulub scale asteroid obliterated all mammalian life (again), who would be there to care about fucking fertility or propagation of the species??

the point is we don't have to be limited to biological mandates -- that's what transhumanism is about. moralizing it is just wasted and you clearly don't understand what it's about.

instead you decide to whinge about trans people being mentally ill. please
The device looks gorgeous, but what's with the promo pics on that page looking like I've broken the screen on it?
Dylos DC1100 Pro with Serial Interface: 0.5µ Air Particle Counter (2012)
Musks lawyers aren't fans of being disbarred or other legal sanctions, so they carefully couched the language in their filing to say "Musk believes [the intentionally confusing, possibly false narrative about bots]" without providing evidence, which is weak sauce.
To be fair, out of these 256 pages, 200 are really just ads.

Your point still stands, but the actual substance is a lot smaller than you describe.
Most comments are about the library, which makes sense. I think it’s curious how the strategy of homophobes have shifted over the years. Earlier they would simply say “gayness is a sin that needs to be wiped out”. But no, it’s a social faux pas to be outright homophobic. So they’ve rebranded with “but think of the children”.

I have no doubt that they believe a teenager could read a book and decide to be gay. Studies on genetics say otherwise, but these are not the kind of folks who might not be inclined towards understanding genetics.
The melanotan peptide's effect on melatonin production and libido is super interesting considering this finding
CircleCI Engineering Competency Matrix
as someone who only uses git from a terminal: what advantages do guis bring?
If it's a play on 'ok boomer' one would expect it to be less offensive. 'Groomer' is categorically a terrible thing to be, often borderline criminal (if not outright) with implications of sexual abuse. Boomer, on the other hand, is more exasperation than dislike (after all, boomers are our parents/grandparents, they're hardly a group we're going to truly condemn in our personal lives).
Buy a new one, return the old one saying it was the new one... free conversion of old to new.
Give copies of the keys to all your co-workers, and leave one under the doormat too for a good time... Hah!

All the added complexity of implementing minimum character limits on passwords and requiring them to be changed every 3 months literally drove people to write passwords on post its and put them on PC monitors back in 2019... Some things never change...

Maybe we should add second and third passwords, and then keep goin until admins lose root access and just use Sudo.... LOL!
No not at all, that advice is still good. Even more important if your are talking about modifying algorithms. Your gonna want proofs of resistance or immunity to certain classes of attacks. A subtle change can easily make a strong primitive useless.
This is my understanding as well. I asked this very same question less than a week ago[1], and now it's the first Google result when you search "OPM Dual_EC_DRBG."

The response to my comment covers some circumstantial evidence. But I'm not personally convinced; human factors are a much more parsimonious explanation.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32286528
As top executives flee Silicon Valley, Meta becomes truly virtual
What I wonder is: how a screen that's supposed to be put indistinctly "vertically" or "horizontally" refreshes the image?

I remember the Dragonbox Pyra having some trouble because the cellphone/portrait screens they could get didn't have a way to refresh normally when put in a handheld/landscape orientation, and the shim software they made to adapt for this caused a penalty in performance.
Do you honestly believe that "urban folk" are Twitter addicts?
No, the store just gets a license for commercial use. Muzak might have been among the first, with "light classics" like Andre Kostelanz.

I do notice the background music at Trader Joe's. It's typically upbeat Boomer pop. If they played Ascension they'd empty out the store.
I'm also a fan of Dell Precision: typing this on a M4700 (with a 3rth generation i7). Running Debian stable with KDE Plasma on it. It was my work laptop for 4 years and then became my personal laptop. Still in very good condition. And I actually love the keyboard more than the (more chiclet-like) keyboard on the more recent Precisions.

I repasted, repadded, and thoroughly cleaned mine a couple of months ago. I did that because the cpu got pretty hot, even with low load. After the cleaning cpu temperature was about 10 degress lower. And it's not hard to do, because these machines are easy to take apart. I also replaced the battery recently (now 3rth one I think). And I should actually replace the CMOS battery, because it's completely dead. It's really nice laptop, the only drawback is the weight.

I really like the Dell Precisions and I think the more recent ones are also well-built. They are professional laptops and not cheap, but worth it in my opinion.
there is scientific research about "rapid onset gender confusion" that is created from grooming practices in media and peer pressure. If one girl in a class comes out as a trans, her friends are more likely to come out as well, which then is reversed some time later.

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s10508-021-021...

you are just ignorant of these side effects of grooming and are not aware of scientific research that links peer pressure and media pressure(grooming) with fake gender confusion among teens
There are a whole host of benefits associated with sun exposure that are reduced by wearing sunscreen.

“Avoidance of sun exposure is a risk factor of a similar magnitude as smoking, in terms of life expectancy.”

https://www.outsideonline.com/health/wellness/sunscreen-sun-...
They always said think of the children.
Opposing censorship doesn't make you a Nazi. I agree that librarians should be paid more though.
What should Twitter do to fix the problem?
> Libraries provide services (like wifi, printers, classes etc) to people who may not be able to afford the lifestyle most of us enjoy here.

The vote result was so lopsided that there's no way the library board didn't see it coming. Given that things went as far as they did, that seems to point to the board members wanting to be allowed to have pornographic books in the kids' section so badly that they're willing to hold all of the useful services you mentioned hostage if they can't have that.

(Note: I did see that Gender Queer was in the adults' section. But as the letter in the article pointed out, there were other similar books that were in the kids' section.)
While not map based this link is the best History-as-a-Timeline implementation I have stumbled across so far (desktop only) ....

https://histography.io/
Am I the only one that finds the censorship angle weird?

Let's say, Alice wants to communicate a piece of information to Bob. Both are interested in it. Mike decides that it's against his interest and blocks the communication. This is textbook censorship.

In this example, Alice decides that certain information needs to be pushed into Bob's attention span at Bob's expense, and Bob refuses to fund it. I don't think it is the same. Denial of attention? Yes. Censorship? Not really.
Except they only handle one external display.
That's because those people only begrudingly tolerated LGB people. Now they have an excuse to voice their intolerances.
Our notion of "crank"/conspiracy theory is a logical consequence of "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." When that evidence isn't provided all that remains is an exceptionally convoluted explanation, generally involving more parties than necessary, hence "conspiracy."
How can you know if it does both? Look for UVA on the bottle?
The right wing have a habit of making their slogans more extreme.
Wait until you hear about Chemists and their propaganda that molecules can feel fear of water.
Yup! Sapindus (aka Soapberries) is actually a genus... in the family Sapindaceae... in the order Sapindales. Same etymology as the phytochemical "saponins" which, besides making soap, has a ton of uses and is easy to identify

One very common use of saponin-containing plants is for stupefying fish. Get some fish in a pond, add some saponins, and dinner just floats right up to you. Although saponins are toxic humans have specifically evolved a mechanism to not digest saponins so we can safely eat them (but your dog can't!). Saponins also play a really important role in modern medicine

Saponins are quite common across many unrelated plant species. Ginseng, soapworts, horse chestnut, sapodillas, oleander, soap bark tree, and even spinach are some examples

Because of their myriad uses (as well as their particular taste) and ways to identify saponin-containing plants it's easy to imagine that, regardless of whatever cosmology some culture used to ascribe these properties, most people could easily identify these plants
Chip readers have liability shift. We did an event, and the fraudsters all had "sorry the chip doesn't work, can you swipe it or type it in?" cards. We had zero chargebacks.