skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My pet theory is that they stress drivers out, similarly to the bit they mention about the cyclist getting a rush of adrenaline when they're nearly killed by a car.

Nearly hitting someone is still a shock, even if it's less of one. People don't respond rationally to stress, so you're not going to get someone shouting "you stressed me out there for a second, but I took a deep breath and got over it, no harm done" out of a window. But pretty much anything that stresses people will lead to angry outbursts which at that point will not be logically connected to the trigger.
It sounds like the implication here is that it's acceptable to use an invasive species to deal with pest problems. There are alternatives to dealing with pests that don't involve decimating bird populations.
Highly contagious diseases have inevitably spread worldwide for centuries now, ever since ships got fast enough. Wars only accelerate the process slightly, which hardly matters in the long run. There was another worldwide respiratory virus pandemic starting in 1889 which killed a lot of people despite the lack of large-scale wars.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lpm.2022.104111

Assuming that the "Spanish Flu" originated in the USA (possible but unproven), it would have spread everywhere even if we never entered WWI.
> Compare it to Haskell, OCaml and Rust and it looks like a toddler tripping all over itself compared to an adult athlete running at a steady 20km/h.

Well that is a pretty tall order. Those languages probably have the most extensive type systems among the languages with significant use. But even so Python's type system has features that some of them don't have: for example Rust doesn't have structural subtyping.

> Also, Python technically has no typing system to speak of so your comment is kind of strange.

Python PEPs define the typing annotations and the typing rules for each annotation. That for me counts as a type system, despite the fact that there is not built in typechecker and you can run programs that you didn't type check.

> Not to mention pattern matching, destructuring and other goodies that improve productivity.

Python has pattern matching now: https://peps.python.org/pep-0636/
AI could fix that.
It’s basically like treating adults as if they are children. Something that all these public health “experts” did to people for 2.5 years. They talked down to people. Acted like they knew what was best for everybody (which they didn’t).

You don’t get to treat adults like children. They are adults who might know something you don’t.

It’s just toxic discourse.
The one thing I miss from Windows is AHK. Thanks for posting this!
New music is funneled through the internet now, and that’s how things get launched. The old mode is dying.
Being 2 standard deviations from the trend line is hardly an anomaly, just expected variance over a sample that size.

0.05 * 40 = 2.
I thought his was cancelled by the woke. But simply judging from comments on HN he is alive and kicking.

Edit: And it is funny this is getting downvoted. A thread with 400 comments but only 160 points.
They actually do dance around a claim regarding cancer:

> Many essential oils have antioxidant properties. Antioxidants help prevent damage to cells caused by free radicals. This damage can lead to serious diseases such as cancer.

For comparison, Wikipedia:

> Aromatherapy may be useful to induce relaxation, but there is not sufficient evidence that essential oils can effectively treat any condition.
Tracking my truck's location offline with a Raspberry Pi, Redis, Kafka, & Flink
Joe Rogan doesn't interview people. He might have stuff that he wants to bring up, but most of the conversation is organic which is part of the appeal I think.
Its also supervised in the sense that for-profit companies work on it to grab as much value as they can.
I think that dismissals may improve one's standing within an 'in-group', at the cost of further hardening the opposition (by an 'out-group'). I generally see dismissals as indicators of arrogance, and signs that the author may not have thought through all the implications of their proposal.
And almost all the fact checks came back and Jones was right. They kept doing it after an hour of this stuff.
Does this use Stable Diffusion?
One advantage is that you can have another kind of fun with it, as displayed in the amazing demo "Copper" by Surprise!Productions (1992).

Most of the effects in that demo are made possible by varying values in the CRT Controller registers of the VGA card. Fond memories!

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=2048
I'm one of those people who likes to entertain different ideas. I like talking with a flat earther, for example, and listening to their viewpoint on things. It's interesting and if you're not combative you get better information on the topic. It's similar to why I read science fiction and fantasy. Take an idea and run with it for a while. If someone believes the earth is flat, what would that mean? Where would that rub up against other things you think you know, and how does it affect them? With something like flat earth theory, it doesn't change me much except to warn me to be more careful to examine my beliefs from different angles so I don't end up in a sort of mental trap, but other topics might change me more directly.

I don't look to podcasts like these to make their guests conform to my beliefs, I look to them to see novel perspectives and to glean what I can from them for my benefit, and simply because looking at other perspectives in a format like this really does entertain me.

"Horrible randos" got where they were in some way, and it's certainly possible that they might have a unique perspective that might be helpful or that what they say might actually be information I need. I wonder if Edward Snowden, for example, would be classified as a "horrible rando" if he hadn't been the guy that worked for them and blew the lid off of what the government was surveilling but had only speculated about what they were doing as an outsider with his actual self as a contact in the NSA. He would be saying the same information, but his credibility would change. Which doesn't mean it couldn't be true, as it obviously was in this case. Dismissing him as someone who shouldn't be listened to would have been a mistake.

I keep a lot of thoughts flowing in my head to compare new information against and to make connections with and rate their truthiness as more information comes in. The more information the better. You don't find the truth by listening to people restate your set of beliefs every day.
> The two greatest living interviewers are Oprah Winfrey and Howard Stern.

I would put Terry Gross miles ahead of both, and believe Stern's skill as an interviewer laps Winfrey several times. But I'd put nearly everyone on your list ahead of Winfrey as well.

I'm curious: why did you call out Stern as "not a journalist" but not Winfrey? Neither one of them bears even a passing resemblance to a journalist as far as I can tell.
It’ll be very niche gadget so who cares about environment.
It says that's the worst case for programmatic buys.

I don't know their business, but I suspect most of their big money ads are direct sales and they pocket the lot. It'd be interesting to break down their income by source.
People are not encouraged to make personal health decisions by Wikipedia.
Jotron is hiring sofware enginner to work with ATC software (Norway)
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Surely it’s the fact that water is blue that’s causing the pools to be seen as blue not the tile used.
Imaging study suggests that interactions with other cultures can reverse biases
For canal boating, absolutely. Maybe 20-30k for a cheaper boat. Can moor for free. Coal and fuel maybe £100 a month each, depending on how much you travel/if you have solar etc. You do need to black your hull every few years, but they’re generally sturdy and don’t need much more than that.

Yachting, I have no idea.
No. Unless you are instituting uniforms explicitly to prevent labor organization, they are perfectly fine. However, banning pro union pins on the uniforms would be likely illegal.

Also, Soldiers are a completely different case because they are not employees. Soldiers are under the UMCJ and the constitution doesn't apply to them the same way it does to us non-soldiers. They are technically institutionalized in the same way as a patient in a psych ward.
Something nobody seems to want to come to terms with: true freedom requires effort on your part. Wishing there will come a day where the final perfect law will be passed, or the perfect leader will come along, and you'll have liberty and freedom at last, is ridiculous.

Freedom comes at a price. It always will. That means recognizing that it can put you in danger sometimes. An authoritarian regime would shut down crime much quicker than a free nation would. Does that make authoritarianism preferable? Hell no. I'd rather defend my property/person/family myself when the time comes. Because as you've probably heard countless times: "When seconds count, the police are only minutes away."
I would love to see a curated list of stores that sell curated items.
Maybe, but it hasn’t worked that way for software. I think people might see the opportunity to inject bespoke art in a lot of places it wasn’t previously. College students who could only afford movie posters previously will have art commissioned, every building will have a mural, etc etc.
No unfortunately not yet. The docs are like 75% caught up to all the language right now and it's still changing not infrequently, so we'll make some formal specs once it's stable. This reveal caught us off guard =).
> Here's my point of feedback / wishlist item / thing I think is missing from the world. Examine is focused on supplement

That's exactly what we're doing!

We released version 2 of Examine less than two weeks ago. Here's a page on how to use: https://examine.com/how-to-use/

It's still early, but the entire goal is to break down research on conditions and goals, and where they connect, relate them to interventions.

Any questions, happy to answer them.
Nice of the Guardian to re-affirm its political biases by placing a blame jab to the "right wing media" in the subtitle of the article.

Cyclists should be held to the same standard of traffic laws as vehicles are - full stop. Too many times I see cyclists:

- Flying up on the right of a car when there's less than reasonable amount of room to squeeze between the car and the curbing.

- Deciding to "run" red lights and choosing between the roadways or the sidewalks when it's more convenient for them.

- Not wearing a helmet (subject to location but some places it's the law)

- Not stopping at 4-way stops, not signaling their intent to turn/stop.

- Multitudes of other illegalities/dangerous activity on the roadway.

Bikes do not belong on roads. Like it or not society has decided that to get around in first-world countries (america centric here), you use a vehicle. It'll be a slow process to move towards bike-friendly traffic and more central walk-around locations to slowly wean us off using vehicles for everything. I'm not sure having cyclists weaving in and out of traffic made up of multi-ton death machines is a good idea either - I guess "rider beware" applies.

The best thing would be to make sure any bikes and their riders that are on public roadways are licensed and train current law enforcement to fine/arrest any unsafe cycling habits. (we do this with cars and trucks already, why are cyclists seemingly exempt?)

I don't have too much knowledge about current cyclist laws since I don't ride a bike and mainly drive, but I welcome more local traffic like bikes/walkers and less vehicles in urban centers.
After much debate on Twitter, I understand this better now.

https://twitter.com/lproven/status/1564613978155802631

For a post that claims to be explaining something, I have to say, I think it's really quite stunningly poor at explaining itself.

This is not about living on a torus. As others have said, a torus is a perfectly possible 3D object in our universe, and SF has many toroidal habitats, including the original Larry Niven Ringworld and Iain M Banks' "Orbitals" as used in several Culture novels, and as also used in the videogame Halo (I believe -- not played it; not a gamer).

Since the article is called:

> Living on a Torus

Note: on

And begins:

> life in a three-dimensional torus that measured only several metres in each dimension

That to me implies inside an object. A toroidal habitat is an absolutely standard part of SF and has been since before 2001: A Space Odyssey in 1969.

The article is in fact about living inside a spacetime continuum, a universe, which is toroidally shaped, and strangely small. (What you are on is unspecified.) It doesn't say so but it seems to be.

Since I have never really wondered about the shape of spacetime, I could not even begin to parse the essay.
It automates your desktop with a mini programming language that can be used to build desktop apps; but it's the text expansion capabilities that are highly prized, working across all desktop and web apps and saving you 100s of hours of typing.
It looks like the calls needed to control a GUI application are not yet implemented. Does anyone know of a Linux tool that can do GUI automation? E.g. find window A, click menu B, click menu item C…
I've returned countless things to Costco (a tiny fraction of my embarrassingly large monthly habit) and never brought in a receipt. They just look up the purchase in my account.
It's not entirely settled law, but it seems the US Supreme Court would probably disagree with you. These issues were near the center of the Authors Guild vs Google case that ran from 2005 to 2015. There's a good relevant summary of it here https://towardsdatascience.com/the-most-important-supreme-co...

But broadly the courts have upheld the rights of companies to use copyrighted works as inputs to commercial algorithmic derivative works like neural networks.

Now you might argue this doesn't apply here. A key aspect of the decision rested on the fact that the original copyright holders (book authors & publishers) were not directly harmed by Google's indexing of them, since it probably drove more sales of those books. In this case it's not so clear. Is somebody using a diffusion model doing so instead of buying a piece of commercial art? If they're generating a new piece of art, I'd say probably not. But if they're generating something specifically similar to an existing specific piece of art, perhaps, but if it's deliberately different, it's still a tough argument. If the ML model is being used to deliberately replicate a specific artist's style, then I think you can make that case pretty strongly. But if you're building something that's an aggregate of a bunch of styles (almost always the case unless you specifically prompt it otherwise) then I don't think the courts would find that any damage has been done, and thus nobody taking this to court would have standing.

I think it's likely we will see this end up in the courts somehow. But being able to prove actual harm is critical to the US court system. And it's difficult to see how the courts would rule against the kinds of broad general use that is most common for this kind of generative art.
This isn't a valid Show HN. Please read the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.

We've taken "Show HN" out of the title now.
Ok it was kinda correct, I’m a garbage collector btw.
To summarize: a good version of WebMD would have:
* structured, quantitative information
* real-time updates
* summaries of supporting evidence

I'm obviously very biased, but that is exactly what we're building with www.Examine.com
Programming really is about digging through categorically petty issues. You can make a game of it and even join a group in a shared game with a paradigm that treats certain petty things as extremely important.

Personally, I think the amount of energy it takes to play these petty games in any given employer/code-base wanes over time. I would recommend putting away all other coding for a bit and see if you start to get enough energy for doing truly different things in your free time.
The statement was clearly meant as a joke, albeit a flat and stale one.
> While the company told us that Googlers who support Israel’s violence “can’t be regulated,” workers who support Palestinian freedom were still recieving official warnings from HR.
The terse version of this is to say that the government would prefer you die cheaply rather than live at great expense.
A large percentage of high earners decide to sacrifice X number of decades - despite not loving their work - to save enough to accomplish some financial goal (buy a house? build a retirement fund? pay for a family) and then quit to do more rewarding work.

Up to you to decide if your limit is a month, a year, a decade, or a career before you want to cash your chips and clock out.
Combined into raid array for faster writes haha?
From what i see and read from the us i can see only 4 types what their systems produce:
- mindless robots that do what their boss wants to do
- rich educated, for managing corporations
- soldiers
- criminals for their prisons
Yeah, sure: https://github.com/manuelkiessling/stable-diffusion-discord-...

I quickly polished things and created a useful README - hopefully it's all correct. If not, let me know!
What I found most odd about the Lazar interview was that if you contrast it with the Robert Bigelow interview you see that Rogan is totally capable of being highly skeptical with his kooky guests and willing to hold their feet to the fire.

The fact that he didn't with Lazar but did with Bigelow indicates to me that he favours Lazar, and considers his story to be genuine, and that kind of bias is detrimental to the interview process.
I was blown away when I got DallE access, but now it seems almost silly by comparison. I really wonder why the DallE team chose to expose so few controls.
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Really interesting chart on your lifestyle interventions link. Curcumin has both a very strong performance and pretty good range. Interesting to see that it is much more so than exercise or sleep improvements.
A recent start on this could be the NopSys/CogNos project, which built a standalone Smalltalk system on x86 a few years ago. There are GitHub repos[1,2,3] and a paper [4] where the authors write "there would certainly be much more work needed before one could consider deploying our system." The project seems to be inactive now.

1. https://github.com/nopsys/nopsys

2. https://github.com/nopsys/CogNOS

3. https://github.com/nopsys/SmalltalkNOS

4. https://charig.github.io/assets/papers/SCDE-DLS.pdf
I don't hate cyclists, but in our local cities, they (city officials) are doing incredibly stupid things to make it appear they are accommodating bicycles, when actually, they're endangering everyone.

We have a heavily-trafficked, 2-lane (1 each direction), hilly, winding road that runs along the river and is part of the Ohio River Scenic Byway. This is an old road that doesn't even have a place for cars to pull over: you would be in someone's yard or on a recently-installed sidewalk if you did that.

Widening this road would be a major undertaking because of all the houses and businesses involved. So rather than do that and add a real bike lane with barriers, our wise city officials put a big bicycle emblem in the middle of each lane to make cars and bicycles equal on this road. This is called the Ohio River Scenic Byway because you are supposed to be looking at the scenery. Doesn't seem like a good idea to be looking at scenery when there are bikers in your lane.

In another city with similarly narrow roads, the city decided they would just paint a bike line on the road. These roads were barely wide enough for modern SUVs. In some places where the road narrows even further, the bike lane just "disappears", then starts back up a block or 2 later when the road widens a bit.

While I don't hate cyclists, I do hate that cities are making stupid and unsafe traffic changes so they can say they have a bicycle-friendly city. Nothing could be further from the truth. When there is a bad-enough accident where people are killed, THEN the road will be widened and all that.
I have no clue what Manifest V3 is, and more importantly, why Mozilla or anyone except Chrome and Chrome extension developers need to care.

It sounds like it is the extension API and process manager for Chrome. In what ways would an end user or website owner notice or care about this change, other than their extensions not working? How does it change default behavior?
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> There is one and only one indication for parenteral cyancobalamin (B12) administration and that is deficiency thereof due to inadequate production of gastric intrinsic factor or a disease of the terminal ileum. Period.

You are aware of a study of B12 injections in non-deficient individuals indicating no benefit? "No evidence" is not the same thing as "evidence against".
Isn’t it a bit late to do something like this tied to X? I get the impression almost all distributions now default to Wayland. This feels like something that would have been good a decade ago, but is too late now.

(Mind you, this would be a good deal harder to implement in Wayland, where possible at all, since Wayland is predicated around a security model where this kind of thing is deliberately not supported. You can either go with something compositor-specific, and I don’t know if this is possible for all compositors, though I get the impression that it should be possible for at least wlroots; or work more the way ydotool does, where possible, in basically providing a fake input device.)
It's a simple and valid question, but I'm afraid the answer is rather nuanced. Most things you do with AHK are also possible on Linux in general, but in a much more fragmented way. AHK (in its complete form) unifies most functionality of xbindkeys, xdotool, GUI creation (no common tool I am aware of), popups, wmctrl, unix tools like echo/cp/, assistive technology, window manager tools, grabc, and many more, out of which some aren't even possible without sophisticated programming like Hotstrings (auto-replace while typing), ImageSearch, StatusBarGetWait and all those things. It also ships with many common programming language features such as math operations, and brings its own equivalents to unix tools like FileCopy and FileAppend.

Then there's also AHK's ease of use, which also makes it appealing to non-programmers or beginners. Every piece of logic (even loops etc) is basically encapsulated in a single-word command instruction, almost like ASM, but for humans. You create GUIs with `Gui, add, button`, maximize windows with `WinMaximize Firefox`, hotkeys with `a::MsgBox You pressed a` and so on, and all of that with basically no code. I'd recommend you take a short look at the AHK documentation, such as the intro or alphabetical list of commands. It gives you an idea of what you can do with it.

Besides, the entire language is visually oriented (and so is this implementation of mine): You create, edit, run, reload, and (optionally) compile scripts usually not by using terminal, but by context menus. This makes it far more accessible for people migrating from Windows, apart from the fact that you can apply your acquired AHK skills from Windows.

Finally, I have found that the existing Linux automation-specific tools (which mostly boils down to xdotool) are, in comparison to Windows AHK, inferior. Getting Windows-like automation functionality on Linux is quite a task. The main difference is that very often, you just don't need Window or Hotkey automation on Linux, because most programs are CLI-first, thankfully.
https://github.com/hofstadter-io/self-driving-desktop

cross platform self-driving mouse & keyboard, can also record