skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's try to stay on topic, please.

I said nothing about Musk. See?

I'm pointing out the use of lies and hyperbole. Ironic, that they are, isn't it? And that you'll defend them.

Yeah, we can discuss the hypocrisy that is Musk. But that has nothing to do with calling these clowns journalists.
Depends on how many other people tried performing this experiment and decided not to publish their insignificant results. We'll never know...
I feel like VS Code was a "learn from the mistakes of Atom" project in very much the same way C# was a "learn from the mistakes of Java" project.
Agreed - it would be a interesting blog to report on these kind of things before they burst.

I know of the aquariums with tubes under/through the water, but this seems to be something different.
Well yeah, that's why I said:

> Or, you actually have to use nested arrays to describe that the result might be an error or an array. But now you have to deal with an array which might contain... zero errors or even multiple ones.

In other words: now you have Array<Array<?>>

And now it is only convention that the outer array must only have 0 or 1 elements. But there is no guarantee and the compiler won't help you since it cannot know. That's why this is the inferior approach compared to turning it around and making it so that null can be mapped and flattened.
Done that, thx for the feedback!
Biggest Earthquake in known history (1000+ years) even!
From the article:

""" The hacker news discussions on this post took off. I just want to emphasize that this post is not a complaint. I’m not whining over this. I’m just showing some interesting side-effects of my email in the license text. I actually find these emails interesting, sometimes charming and they help me connect to the reality many people experience out there. """

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12949114
One reason the CIA doesn't release information that has since become public, is because the techniques used to acquire that information are still classified.

Source: "The Langley Files: A CIA Podcast" (Yes, the CIA has a podcast)
https://www.cia.gov/stories/story/the-langley-files/
No evidence has been presented that ClubQ was terrorism, though.
Would it be an issue if YouTube took offense to that and added a clause to the ToS to disallow it?
Well, more generally you want to hold the (usually big) devs/publishers accountable to the shit they pull to select against bad stewards of the art form. One way is withholding purchases.

Unfortunately a big chunk of unopinionated consumers will eat what they're served (FIFA, BF lol) and this encourages publishers to push P2W, gambling or fast iteration, which splits communities. And long-lived community-owned MP infrastructure is not particularly profitable either...

That said, a more major driver of not offering dedicated servers may simply be the lack of necessity because using cloud infrastructure is pretty sophisticated nowadays and controlling it yourself simplifies development and deployment.

Luckily the market is diverse, so overall I'm not too worried. I trust that organic discovery and good stewards keep MP gaming (and modded gaming) as I have known it alive.
Show HN: Forma – An efficient vector-graphics renderer
For now, but the push to AV! is near.
As far as I can see, nobody here has made any claims regarding anything being illegal in the US.

> Please provide some evidence of your repeated claim that they're illegal in Europe

https://gdpr-info.eu/

What kind of evidence do you want exactly? This is crystal clear to anyone with the most basic understanding of the GDPR.
To me this is what made the recent fusion news exciting.

As far as I’m concerned, the verdict is in for nuclear plants generating highly radioactive long-lasting waste: people don’t want them. You won’t be able to overcome their opposition. What more is there to say? Let’s move on.

If fusion can get to a point where it can solve the long-lasting radioactive waste problem - that would resolve the problem. That would get nuclear power adopted by the masses.

We might as well aim for that, however long it takes, because that’s the only politically viable solution.
> There’s actually 1-2 venues that have launched in the past year that do something like that.

interesting, i've not heard about this.

Which venues are you referring to that don't just do price time broker priority matching?
AFAIK (not an expert) there are two common problems with nutritional research

1) Mechanistic data we don't fully understand the implications of.

This basically means we observe mechanisms that we believe ought to have some effect on people, and yet when longitudinal studies are done to measure actual long term effects, they are not statistically significant

2) Confounding factors.

In longitudinal studies, it can be very difficult to fully control for confounding factors, as diets are very complex. Take a hypothetical red meat study, where participants are simply instructed to eat "more red meat". Is a McDonalds burger different than a lean, grassfed steak? That's an easy one to control for, not the best example. But basically exemplifying how there can be a lot of variability within the intervention itself when it comes to nutrition
Vendor lockin. For example I know soutwest airlines uses oracle [clusters, relplicas, etc]. You are going to upgrade them to PostgreSQL? I just don't see that, happening, well, ever.
I might be missing something, but on GitHub Mobile I can't see any screenshots, examples, or links to information about what this software does.
Thank you, I will check it out!
> However, the evidence for this effect in human studies has not been systematically evaluated and quantified.

One thing I noticed in the paper is a lack of breakdown of results based on diabetic diagnosis. With almost half of participants being "healthy" and only 21% being "diabetic" (specifically not isolating Type 1 from Type 2 and not specifying other diabetic conditions), the results of whether this information is useful to a diabetic gets skewed.

This is a harmful way to present this information because people will read into this that honey will help a diabetic. In fact, there's a comment to the linked article asking where a diabetic might find more information.

To be clear: Type 1 and 3 diabetics will need to dose the same amount of insulin for the carbs as they would any other sugar. Type 2 diabetics and PCOS will see a similar spike based on the glycemic index and the amount consumed. LADA and MODY will need to do whatever they normally do. If you're having glucose control issues already, this is not going to be a remedy and should not be sought as one. If you do have good glucose control, this MIGHT be something to watch for more research. Otherwise, this should have no bearing on your diabetic treatment.
Besides the question of the legitimacy of this post. I would encourage everyone to go and explore horrible practice of honey production. Along with the effects honey bees having on native species and wild bees. Which ties in to effective pollinators and why we hear about "rapid decreasing bee population".
Picking one of your previous comments at random where you use the examples of pattern matching and analytic functions... yea postgresql does that too.
I'm amused as heck, myself, not sure what you're talking about. This is exactly the sort of genius management I was hoping he would bring to the table. Just a sec, my popcorn just dinged, I wanna see what he does next. Maybe turn off the air conditioning in the server room save costs? If the workers in his family emerald mines could sweat a bit, why not the Sysadmins!

This is WAY more entertaining than anything Robert Downey Jr's done in a Marvel movie.
Signals and Threads had an interview with Anil Madhavapeddy last year:

https://signalsandthreads.com/what-is-an-operating-system/

He talked about the work to put a multicore-ready memory model[1] and GC[2] under OCaml.

[1] https://anil.recoil.org/papers/2018-pldi-memorymodel.pdf

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.11663
IS Vault their own extension?
I'm using Postgresql for a service and I'd love to use this feature.
Maybe I should just use supabase as my backend...

"I'm going to have to rethink my ink"
This would be a great bad opening sentence as well with some minor modifications.
Again sleeping with the TV news channel turned on?
Nitpick: Rent-seeking is an economic term that describes an actor that provides no value for end users. It is not a synonym for someone who rents you something.

It’s confusing because it can apply to landlords who also seek to restrict supply, and people then conflate the former with the term.

Of those companies listed, maybe you can finger Oracle for their shenanigans with Java.
Exactly - the security cam footage takes a few days to be released if the company wants it, or a few weeks to leak quietly if they don't.

At 6 AM you're not going to have many people standing around with cell phone cams for it (and anyone around when the giant tank starts making horrible noises would be hopefully smart enough to run for higher ground).
VHS was of marginally worse picture quality, but for that small trade-off you got the huge benefit of being able to record a feature-length movie on one tape.
> T+2 would be an improvement, but less than that would create new problems.

US Cash equities already settle in T+2. Have for some time now. IT did used to be T+3
There were maybe 1600 drowning deaths in the area from the tsunami.

What would evacuation deaths even be?
Vault and pgsodium dev here at supabase, we're pretty excited about the Vault, and this is just the beginning of some of the advanced encryption functions that libsodium provides that we want to bring into the Postgres ecosystem.

Happy to answer any questions here about how the Vault works now, and always excited to see use cases and suggestions for features from the community. libsodium is a big API, and pgsodium exposes most of it (about 110 functions so far, a few functions don't make sense in SQL) so there is a lot of possibilities for new ideas and projects straight into SQL without having to learn the low level C details of using the sodium library directly.
> What is everyone up in arms for?

Elon is harshing the vibes of Twitter addicts.

It's no more sophisticated than that. I used to think it was. But look at conversations about Musk following the twitter purchase, compared to conversations about Musk regarding Tesla. I've come to see that it's just people and their personal relationship to their toys.

I don't give two cares about Tesla and have like 5 Tweets in 14 years. Conversations about either never really made sense to me when looking from the perspective of someone emotionally uninvested and just watching things come and go in the world. But look at tech as toy and it all makes sense.
No, but the pendulum might be swinging back towards more server driven apps using WebSockets or other techniques to reload page elements vs. front end SPA. The front-end still needs to be developed but if its served from back end code then I can see a lot lighter front-end work. From my naive understanding there are a lot of JS frameworks/libraries that deal with validation of user input, maintaining state of data+DOM and tests around ensuring those things are taken care of, entirely in front-end code. All of those things can be done from the back end and the dynamic refresh of data/page is taken care of with less JS on front-end.

From a back end perspective, the back end has to check inputs coming into controllers and have tests around what has to happen before doing DB operations so a lot of the work in front end to do similar seems redundant.

All that being said, there is still a lot of work that goes into building a front end for an application. Even if it is back end code generating the HTML/CSS for page fragments, they still have to work in a cohesive way on the front-end. If you can be conversant and learn similar things (maintaining state, validation, tests) in whatever back end language is used then you should be fine.
I'm pretty concerned that ChatGPT would do a better job than most humans at the "chat" phase of online dating. There is this way that ChatGPT seems to hypnotize people such that they don't perceive the mistakes that it makes which makes me think it could be really dangerous for people running romance scams and the like.

As for your application w/ GPT-3 I'd be a little bit afraid that it might be replaying real data records that it saw some of the time rather than generating truly fake fake data.

(Though one of the most interesting ChatGPT blog posts I saw was one where they had gotten it to write an essay that had what looked like real citations to scientific papers that were completely false.)
But hey it looks super fancy, the scrolling and all!

/s
Already exists: https://www.apotheken-umschau.de/e-health/e-rezept/e-rezept-...

Currently was supposed to be in a pilot phase in two regions, but both of them cancelled it due to privacy concerns: https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/erezept-kelber-medizin-westf...
Last time I lived in Berlin (until early 2020) my Hausarzt still used Telegram in her practice. Mostly to communicate between the front desk and the examination rooms.

I wonder how kosher it was.
Please consider editing out the D-word from your comment.

Some religious folks might find it a bit offensive. Thank you! (some alternatives: dang, darn, gosh, blimey, golly, etc.)
This doc released was interesting, asking to use stench-devices and itching powder at a fairground to disrupt the chicoms https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2022/10...
Did you compare it to F#? I’ll probably try to learn an ML language next year and without doing much research F# looks really nice since it gets all the .Net benefits.
That’s an interesting attack vector. Bribe someone to replace the disk without wiping it, and be in a position to intercept it after that.
VS Code is good, but not THAT good. It has unparalleled remote editing with the SSH extension, but the actual editor is beaten by Sublime.

I can buy that people like it, I don’t dislike it, but it also isn’t sliced bread. There’s peers in the market that are ahead in various ways, so VS Code isn’t the end all be all, even if it is cool.
Elon Musk’s Twitter Bans and Blocks Links to Rival Mastodon
I was remembering this: https://www.wired.com/2000/02/coffee-is-your-friend/

"A group of international scientists found that coffee filters can remove from 78 to 90 percent of dissolved heavy metals such as lead and copper from tap water."

It looks like the quote is incorrect though, and it is actually the the ground coffee and not the paper filter that's removing the lead.

Regardless, brewing ground cacao in the same way would likely also filter out some of the lead by the same mechanism, even if not as much. (Since the source of lead is embedded throughout the ground beans, rather than coming from the water which enters at the top of the column.)
Here's the overall radiological impact of Chernobyl.

https://www.unscear.org/unscear/en/areas-of-work/chernobyl.h...
You mean the anti-immigration pro-hypocrisy party? What do you think?
The very first nuclear reactor went from idea to operating in 2 years. In the middle of WW2.

The only reason nuclear projects take longer than other industrial projects is regulatory capture.
Makes me happy to read that.

One of the bright lights on horizon is that the Bundeswehr opted for a open-source, federated, multi-platform and secure messaging framework. Instead of some proprietary, closed-source piece of crap from a Big-IT vendor which make same depending in a negative way.
I've personally flown on private IFR flights where the flight plan was filed something like 10 minutes (or even less) before departure (or amended several times, etc). It doesn't seem like a good way to go about knowing where someone is. Everything regarding elonjet only applies to the aircraft and it's likely he loans out his aircraft to other execs/employees at his companies, miscellaneous friends and family, etc. So even if you somehow developed some methodical and resource-intensive master plan to attack the aircraft or movement associated with it you wouldn't have any guarantee you'd get your intended target.

A missile defense system was announced for Gulfstream aircraft at a cost of about $3.5m[0], which for a ~$65m aircraft isn't really that expensive...

[0] - https://www.aerospaceonline.com/doc/farnborough-gulfstream-o...
Most people in cities in the US have never experienced a power failure that lasts longer than an hour or so (and many places have NEVER had one). It's understandable that people don't think much about it.

Though the moment the UPSs hit 50% you might try to run to Home Depot and grab a generator, but by that time they'd all be sold out.
https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2020/12/07/presid...
You can still see your own points on HN
The ‘obesity paradox’ may not be a paradox at all
Jane Street must be so happy today! I think this opens up a whole new host of fast applications on ocaml.

I wonder how this will affect ReScript
Anyone know how I could try and use this with
Elixir livebook with https://github.com/elixir-nx/bumblebee

I'm new but this is something that would get me going.
Doesn't "unprocessed raw honey" include all quality honey, anyway?

My guess is that most processed raw honey is not as good (or even bad), but those (robinia and clover) might be better than the rest. Still, I would rather get unprocessed robinia/clover honey rather than their processed variants.
What Goes on in Mastodon
> With today's tech there is no reason that trades can't be immediate, the fact that it takes 3 days to "settle" a trade is absolutely beyond ridiculous.

Well good news here for you, trades settle in T+2 and have for some time.

> That and let's also get rid of any special treatment for the investment industry that retail traders don't have

Well that is limited by only the deal you and your broker have. You can send all the complex order types that funds do, you are limited only by your broker.

Trading pre/post market still happens on exchanges so any delay is related to your broker. I can trade in "realtime" from my personal brokerage account with no issue or delay.
The inside of your greenhouse is reaching ~150 degrees celsius? Why aren't your plants boiling? Is it just a color thing?

EDIT: the glass transition point of PP is -25C, vs ABS's 105c. I think you confused glass transition point with melting point, they're very different things. I think polypropylene will always be a bit soft, and will hold a shape that it's deformed into, it it hold that shape long enough.
I agree with everything you're saying. It surprises me that people can call themselves programmers and not know the basics of computer computation, but it seems that just means I have an older/more-narrow definition of what "programming" is compared to what it has become.

I still stand behind my main point, which is that some of these jobs will be automated before others. Apparently the skill set differences between different kinds of programmers even wider than I thought it was. So instead of talking about whether AI will/won't automate programming in general, it's more productive to discuss which kind of programming AI will automate first.
They were only built with massive subsidies or through legal means being able to shift the costs to the ratepayers like the now cancelled Virgil C. Summer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nukegate_scandal
> So if someone could put forth a theory for how assassinating JFK would benefit CIA or the US then sure

There are plenty of theories where the CIA benefit from his assassination.

> Shortly before Hunt's death in 2007, he authored an autobiography which implicated Lyndon B. Johnson in the assassination, suggesting that Johnson had orchestrated the killing with the help of CIA agents who had been angered by Kennedy's actions as president. [0]

Some think he was removed due to his immanent withdrawal from Vietnam. [1]

Nonetheless, if you are the head of an organization that deposes governments by assassination, is it really _that_ far fetched to think you are above the law and would use the tools and your disposal and experience to dispatch anyone in your way?

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_Kennedy_assassination_cons...
[1]: https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/galbraith-exit-strateg...
Hadn't heard about them. This Twitter saga isn't something I'd base my whole personality on.
It depends on the site; I've actually had good rapport with Pocket's team on bringing up sites that don't work, and getting them fixed.
Cool, thanks! That's interesting to know. Do you know how they deal with FOI and auditable communications in this case?

PS: I talked about the seemingly unexploitable IND-CCA vulnerability because it means Matrix can't give you some security guarantees: It should be fine - we don't have an exploit, only a vulnerability - but it is not clear how to reason to arrive at "there cannot be an exploit". If you care about security guarantees, you care about it.
A lot (most? all?) of these "edge cases" end up handling regulatory or other forms of compliance, which came into effect after the initial software design. There might have been 10 people across as many teams who discussed, designed and vetted a one-line code change.

It's not so easy to "simplify" out features which are legal requirements.
Seems like GP is acknowledging that he’s out of his league, thus asking others to tell him if it’s worth while. And you’re responding by telling him he’s out of his league.
You can get catch-and-release mice traps, and then dump them in a field or on a competitor.
I don't like getting into politics but Correction: the DOJ abused Trump. If you hate Trump, that's fine, but that's a different discussion.

JFK very much disliked how the CIA had it's own secret wars and operations without presidential approval or even knowledge of their existence. Trump, for all the things he did that were "rebellious", was smart to have his own private security detail.

JFK's assassination was the original fake news.
I have. It's still inferior to Windows and it's trying to be a discount version of MacOS. And it's doing a bad job at it.
I'd say its a bit biased.

Personally, I've been riding the linux struggle bus for years in my personal time. It really hasn't been a struggle, but weird issue's I've dealt with during my "Linux evenings" has made obscure struggles at my day job far easier to debug and deal with, and overall has made me a better engineer because I know how my tools work and I can use them more effectively.

It's a whole lot more fun learning about kernel drivers, systemd, networking drivers, etc when you're personally invested in tweaking your machine just right. I much rather deal with a Linux issue for an hour than spend an hour on leetcode.