skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most people still think small amounts are basically fine (maybe even good!)

Legalize safer alternatives now!
> bad. It's just very odd to focus so much on the supposed positives of an overall extremely bad thing. This is very much a "I just want the trains to run on time" kind of situation.

I for one want to know how the East India Company managed to colonize a vastly more populous and historically wealthier civilization. There’s certainly lessons in there. After all, you can’t undo those things, but you can make the trains run on time. And the lives of Indians in the present would be better if the trains ran on time.
Richard Hamming – You and Your Research (June 6, 1995)
Virtually all deaths from solid cancers are preventable with routine scans to find tumors before they metastasize. Doctors have for decades refused to learn to use this technology.[1-4][5-9] *

Meanwhile, population studies like the one this article is based on[10] are horseshit because they are subject to unknown degrees of sampling bias, rely on enormous assumptions (such as linear relationships which may not hold at all being applied over many orders of magnitude), and cannot in any case establish causality.

[1] https://www.pocus.org/ [2] https://www.butterflynetwork.com/ [3] https://www.exo.inc/ [4] https://vavehealth.com/

[5] https://ezra.com/ [6] https://www.halodx.com/ [7] https://www.prenuvo.com/ [8] https://www.simonone.com/ [9] https://www.lifeimagingfla.com/

* Compare the experience of getting an x-ray from a dentist to getting one from a doctor. Or getting an ultrasound from an OB to getting one from any other doctor.

[10] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35988567/
Not necessarily. There are two schools of thought, Outside In TDD and Inside Out.
>> personally I find using an ebike with low assistance to be more difficult than a regular, light road bike

this doesn't make an sense, unless you are intentionally using a big, heavy ebike with little pedal assist on purpose; why wouldn't you just stick with the road bike if it's less work, saving the complexity, cost and e-waste?
> But the other two? I don't think so.

IIRC the argument about obesity is simply more cells = more chances for something to go wrong that turns into cancer.
The wording in this years fundraising really pushed my buttons too.

> 98% of our readers don't give; they simply look the other way when we ask for an annual donation.

This is why I donated in the past: because it is a resource that gives freely to the world.

This wording shames non-doners and as a free resource for spreading knowledge to humanity I don’t think it is fair to shame the target audience.
I consider that a given. In my mind I call HDMI "the new VGA port"
Congratulations! What clicked for you from reading this book compared to everything else?
Do you know who is behind traffickinghub.com ?
Like steve_austin said, releasing the code is in a grey area. Realistically, it's highly unlikely that anyone would actually be upset about it, so it may happen in the future.

Linux support is a completely different beast. There is a lot of code that I didn't talk about, including the absolutely massive image post-processing/color-correction library that we only have a Windows version of (and no source code for, obviously.) The Pakon's added complexity (especially automatically finding frame boundaries) makes a cross-platform, source-code-less port extremely unlikely to succeed in a remotely reasonable amount of time.
Probably an Openmoko Neo 1973?
No that’s a very poor cop out. They shouldn’t criticize something they haven’t experienced, it’s a lack of integrity.
The 5 Breeds of Quants
The problem is that anyone who wants to use Google Pay or banking apps, or anything that requires the phone to pass SafetyNet, will not be able to use an alternative ROM. Right now that's the only thing stopping me from getting a phone with a shitty "skinned" version of Android, as I can't replace the factory OS without losing a ton of functionality I rely on.
It seems this is a Pixel 6 specific issue.
Maybe there's a way to distribute dissembler hints and patches where you need the original driver files to get the source code. I assume the MS code has a reasonable license since it was published as sample code

> trade secrets would be the color management code

Are trade secrets even protected? If there's a patent, yes, but that's expired. The implementation is protected by copyright, but the know-how isn't.
Yeah for sure, having more expressive casts and differentiating between "upcasts" and "downcasts" is definitely better. My point that even "lossy" casts are better than C's weird arcane implicit promotion rules by quite a margin IMO.

Rust's current handling of this issue is by no mean perfect, although it's been steadily improving and I definitely don't use `as` as much as I used to.

>D also defines integer math as 2's complement arithmetic.

I think modern C standards does so as well, but I think than signed overflow is still UB, so it's mostly about defining signed-to-unsigned conversions. There are flags on many compilers to tell them to assume wrapping arithmetic but obviously that's not standard...
Little Brother by Cory Doctorow. I enjoy the writing style and the educational aides that teach you about computing. And the narrative is fun.
Academics whining about other academics pointing out orientalism is not unusual. I'm not familiar with Moser personally.

I am not a historian - I am only married to one. So I'll only say that from my personal experience interacting with historians who know Mullaney well (both professionally and personally) that his writing is well respected even if his social media presence is a bit much.
it's less work than an ebike barely helping, yes. however given the same effort I can carry more things and go much faster on an ebike.
Interesting seeing alcohol appear more often as an underlying cause of disease. It used to be that alcohol in moderation was going to save us all.
As a fairly long time Android user (Android 2.2 -> 12 from various manufacturers), the iPhone 13 Mini in my pocket works really well.

I honestly can't even say one is better than the other, just different, and they've mostly stolen the good ideas from each other over the years anyway.
Words from Sanskrit can be found not only in several Indian languages but even in some south east asian languages. I speak four languages out of which three have words from Sanskrit. Learn a bit before alleging things.
he has a youtube channel and also streams on twitch i think.
This list smacks of a developer prima donna mentality and if you think most of those rationale explanations are reasonable, you’re more likely to be a liability to the organization and not a team player. Companies have numerous goals, responsibilities, and compliance requirements that you don’t get to ignore or avoid simply because Steve Ballmer chanted about “developers” on stage that time.

What would you think about a business person who thought testing was a waste of time because it slows down releases? Or they don’t want to use an issue tracker because it just easier to tell you something in the hallway? Those thing slow them down, so why bother?
"decades"? Android 1.0 was released 14 years ago.
Patched versions of the original drivers will be released, along with the new drivers. I'm not sure if I'll release the source code yet because of the legal gray area around this sort of work, but it's still something I'm considering.
I have. I've used it recently when maintaining a legacy project. It's really not that bad, after a few hours of googling.
Superman, when properly written, is super because he will never cross the line (Superman vs. the Elite). Those stories shed an amazing light on the behavior we love in humanity, that you can do "good" and never stray and still win. The power of those stories is that we believe the underlying truth.

Sadly, if people play by the rules and unfair stuff keeps happening, you teach people to use tactics that they find personally revolting. Welcome to what happens when you move from "I must act honorably" to "the end justifies the means". Never push people to the thin ice unless you are prepared for the consequences as those powerless peons you hurt might just not be so powerless.
How does raising children work in that world? Do you just strap them in when their infants?

(Also curious how sex and exercise work…)
Absolutely. No 10% raise? Do less work.
Apple don’t scan files on your device, they backtracked on the plan (for now at least).
> Also, how your body feels after a run, is one of the best motivators to do it again.

Not everyone feels like this. I hate running, and hate the way my body feels afterwards. I just want to go to bed or sit down and do absolutely nothing. It wrecks my productivity for hours. I tried to get into running a few times because of the supposed "high" that you eventually start to feel. Never once felt it, even after several months of forcing myself to do daily runs.
Still the same for me. I think it has received a big hug.
I strongly doubt any of the technical matters are in his purview. That's what CTOs are for. Not trying to shade, I'm sure he's an intelligent person, but his current role is all products, and no bearing on the technical choices behind them.
What worked for me was not car commuting. Walking and biking everywhere is great for keeping your baseline cardio level decent without it feeling like you’re making and effort, and it is often not a noticeable time difference. When you’re used to driving everywhere, most people are prone to wildly underestimating actual door to door travel times (city bicyclists will spend a lot of time waiting on friends who drive) so while the 40 minutes you spend bicycling home from work & picking up groceries is longer than the 30 minutes it’d take to drive / park it also replaces a separate gym trip. Saving thousands of dollars a year is nice, too.
Windows Defender is reporting Chromium-based apps as a false-positive threat
I actually have a mild distaste for Lua after spending about a month and a half using LiteXL (https://lite-xl.com/), which is an editor written entirely in Lua. The thing is a spaghetti mess, with a lot of plugins relying in internal implementation details of core features, and some of them even making changes to the core and other plugins. (but to be fair, that's mostly an issue with the design of LiteXL and not Lua)

The thing I don't like about Lua is that it doesn't really offer much. It's a programming language with practically zero features. Projects end up doing things, like inventing their own class system just to do OOP, and that becomes a problem for interop between projects. Performance is good, but there are other options with good performance. Although I will admit that coroutines are a killer feature of Lua that I wish more languages had.

For the use-case of neovim, idk. I stopped using vim as a main editor many years ago, but I do know what you mean about the concern with startup times. However, I don't think anyone can say Python's startup times are too slow without actual data to back that up. On my machine (with Python 3.10), a simple hello world runs instantly. I'm too lazy to do a proper measurement, but it's nowhere near what I would consider slow.

And idk what neovims plugin ecosystem looks like, but if Python's startup times were a real issue, I don't think I would mind having a persistent daemon to reduce the problem, especially if it means better plugins.
Ask HN: IPv4 mass scans – do many Cloudflare customers pay pointlessly?
A few months ago I discovered a service called CrimeFlare, which is a security research tool that is used to uncover the "real" IP address of services hidden behind CloudFlare's CDN. The tool works by performing mass IP scans on IPv4 range. As many of us techies are probably aware, there is only a limited number of IPv4 IPs in the world. A number small enough such that specialized software is capable of connecting to every IPv4 address in the world in a matter of hours(on a sufficiently powerful network). There are companies who's entire business model is based on performing mass internet scans, and scan multiple times per day - it is nothing unusual.

This has the unintended consequence of inadvertently revealing the "real" IP of websites attempting to mask their IP behind CloudFlare. This is how the "CrimeFlare" service works under the hood. In order to prevent this, website operators are supposed to configure their server's backends such that they only respond to CloudFlare's IPs. This works of course, however, I suspect that many of their customers are not aware of how CrimeFlare/mass IP scans work and fail to configure their servers correctly. Meaning, a large number of CloudFlare's customers pay for a service which can easily be defeated. Only CloudFlare customers which are tech savvy enough to understand how to configure their servers to only respond to CloudFlare IP's would be able to stop this.

CLoudFlare supposedly has 4.1 million customers. I suspect that the number of CloudFlare customer's who's backend servers are vulnerable(misconfigured to reply to non-CloudFlare IPs - and thus discoverable by CrimeFlare et al.) may be in the hundreds of thousands to millions. Meaning, hundreds of thousands of people could be paying for an easily defeated anti-DDOS measure. It feels wrong that CloudFlare is possibly making tens of millions of dollars off of vulnerable customers who they fail to notify that their sites are vulnerable. I don't believe enough is being done by CloudFlare to warn their customers about the danger of mass-IP scans possibly unmasking their services.
HPV causes a wide variety of cancers, and we are learning more all the time. (I'm still furious that this is not a population wide vaccine, and is so limited in its availability.)

Epstein Barr spreads primarily through saliva, and also causes 1-2% of cancer, the last time I checked. So that could spread from unsafe sex, but it could also come from picking up slobbery toddler's toys.

There's a whole world of virus and infectious disease that is only becoming visible because of the huge advances in nucleic acid sequencing and other massive biotech advances. We may find lots of surprises in the coming decades from this new technology.
I do not think the US government has an industrial policy to promote the local porn industry.
I have a non-pro version, but I can definitely relate to the "too slick, it randomly slides" problem - especially bad because the back camera protrudes. It's pretty ridiculous, my phone ends up on the floor multiple times a day despite me being the careful kind when it comes to electronics.
As said, very likely the pipes you have (dimensioned for radiators) are too small for fan-coils.

There is not much issue with several units, the problem was with electric motors starting (old motors can have something like 5 times normal current peaks when starting) modern motors all have electronics that smooth them down.

You mean:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar-assisted_heat_pump
Kodak sold a lot of their patents to other companies as a result, IIRC, of their bankruptcy. I'd have to look at the patents for this particular system again, because I can't remember if they were ever reassigned or if they were simply allowed to expire.
I have seen Zen mentioned many times. Why one should read it?
Yes, all tax-exempt organizations in the US are required to publish a copy of IRS Form 990. This includes a breakdown of income, expenses (including executive compensation), and assets.

The Wikimedia Foundation also publishes audited financial statements and a plan for the coming year. All of this is available here [1], which is the first result when you Google "wikipedia financials".

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/financial-reports/
"and has only one dependency - jQuery, though, it is one of the goals of 2.0 to remoe jQuery as a dependency."
and yet we run into a strong religious resistance because if some skewed logic around HPV vaccine => wanton premartial sex. Once again the patriarchy strikes.
Ha. I remember making/repurposing a couple of these from scratch in ASP.net for bank websites in the early 2000s, right around the time AJAX was beginning to emerge. Even back then, it seemed like a duplication of effort, but every bank wanted one on their own site, so why not get paid to make that happen?
There's no reason to quiet fire, just raise the expectations. If you set clear expectations and your employee isn't meeting them, that's that. It's quite simple idk why any of this is "quiet".
No. The argument is that there is very little evidence here that crimes were actually committed, rather they were allegedly just discussed. Cloudflare hasn’t brought any evidence to bear.
Tdd only works when you have extremely clear biz requirements like in many big companies.
In the past there was a lot more local production. It switched to centralized production because that was cheaper and people valued cheap over custom. I doubt that will change anytime soon. Also a lot of the most useful materials are not amenable to 3d printing and CNC is non-trivial to operate because you have to deal with inventory, setup fixtures, cleanup parts, etc. Most people don't want to deal with the hassle and have other things they'd rather spend their time on. There are definitely a lot of cool things happening in this space, but I just don't see it being the revolutionary change other people do.
Everything in moderation. Those who are conscientious achieve longevity but trade off with less than ideal experiences of anxiety.
It's practically impossible to to do a controlled study on any of these, so we'll likely never know for sure. If you were tasked with creating a study to determine, for any reasonable definition of "certainty", whether small amounts of alcohol increase or decrease one's lifespan, you'd never be able to come up with anything that passed any sort of moral or practical sniff test.

So what you are left with is trying to tease causation out of relatively loose correlation, which is and always will be so problematic as to be near useless. The results will always just support the researchers' pre-conceived notions.

Smoking is only so obvious because the rates of lung cancer there are an order of magnitude more. 80-90% of lung cancer is in smokers, while only 12% of Americans smoke. No other health issue is so clear, people who are moderate drinkers only have very slightly elevated risks of almost everything, so it could be confounded.
I feel like now, even though there may be varying levels of compatibility/capability, at least more devices physically plug into the same cables with at least basic functionality. IMO it's better than having different physical ports that are completely incompatible.

Additionally, I've never had any problems with USB-C cables physically failing without extensive abuse. I cannot say the same for on-brand Apple charging cables.
All my work colleages bought at least one of (this)[https://www.amazon.es/dp/B07B6RYQXC] this year. From having a thermo and let it start and stop when it needed to, to track the cheapest hours of the day and let it run only for 90 minutes or so. Some of them installed a pellet stove advancing a winter with gas/electricity too expensive. Some installed a solar thermal collector (following my advise, I must say). Sadly, I couldn't convince anyone of installing PV.

I don't like prices going up, but I don't remember seeing any other way of pushing consumer restrictions as effective as prices. When something is scarce, its price must go up, and people start to ration or look for substitutes. Even government prohibitions/rationing tend to cause grey or black markets instead of consumption reduction.
Google Photos is from Australia. I thought Maps was US and Japan but am not up to date on that.
IIRC, it’s similar to how AS/400 binaries were distributed. Not sure they were compiled to native code on install or on first run.
I see https://jefftk.com/mortgage-calculator-screenshot.png
Sounds similar to Mozilla/MZLA with Thunderbird blog gimmicks of non-FOSS AI-generated wallpapers and a podcast. For an email client.
You can always then throw the cable in the garbage and simulate the old situation of not having anything.
Hmm, I was trying to do the same with KS test on performance data but it seemed extremely sensitive to outliers even when an eyeball test of the two distributions look near exact. Have you ran into any of those issues?
Phone quality is uneven with some OEMs consistently producing crap and others sometimes laying eggs. Your sample size is likely small. Many people don't buy a new phone until the old one doesn't work anymore. So you could trivially have only experienced 2-3 phones total. It would be trivial then to conclude all phones have these problems even though its not so.

Try a Motorola or a well reviewed model from another manufacture paying attention especially to people's complaints and whether or not they represent legit flaws. Spend at least 30 minutes reading reviews before you buy.
>So they are lying when they say "targeted threats have escalated over the last 48 hours to the point that we believe there is an unprecedented emergency and immediate threat to human life"?

In a word, yes.

In several words, if the CEO wants to go on about due process, then he should provide it. Establish that there's an "unprecedented threat", either publicly or to Moon in private correspondence.

Also I really dislike that perception of KF required to be so negative that people are severely discounting the probability that this is a false flag attack, especially given the obvious incentives of activists to do this sort of stuff. If KF started producing material indicating that TRAs were plotting to murder Joshua Moon, would anyone take it seriously?
I wasn't trying to corner you on your specific beliefs, I apologize that it came off like that. My intention was to use the rhetorical "you", arguing with hypothetical people who believe what you are describing, not with you personally, but I realize it didn't come off like that.

On to the topic itself - I think it depends a lot on the specifics of such a program, and other social context. If it's used in a coercive or manipulative way, and it is also seen as an excuse not to improve things for trans people who are already living, obviously it would be controversial. If it's more informative and optional, and it comes paired with clear proof that the government isn't simply trying to kill the undesirables (such as Healthcare coverage for trans people, protection from discrimination etc), then I believe few would be against it.

Now, could it still be controversial? Sure, apparently casting a black person to play an elf is controversial.
I remember going to a talk by a cardiologist who said he told patients to take the bicycle and sometimes they'd come back with a worse heart. Then it would turn out that those patients thought an electric bicycle is good too, since it looks like a bicycle and you have to use the pedals like a bicycle. But since you don't really exert yourself it doesn't help the heart. That was maybe 10 years ago, so electric bicycles were not so ubiquitous back then.
What surprises me is that I would think the usual goal of an academic project is to make it usable as broadly as possible (indeed, the least restricted licenses originated from universities). And that every institution would have figured out license guidance so it wouldn’t be an accidental choice.
Show HN:Choose Your own adventure game using Openai
This is a simple use of the openAI Python Library that creates a narrative in the style of the classic Choose Your Own Adventure books from my childhood. To run locally you'll need an openai API key. Check the stories folder for examples of previous users' ai generated stories.
You can pick the torque you want for less or more assistance, and it stops at 25Km/h anyway.
Manslaughter is _always_ less severe than murder because it wasn't intentional. It's not worth cutting an additional life out of society (and making them an additional cost to society) just for vengeance's sake if there's no risk of a repeat crime and there's remorse.