skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes!

What really irked me about The Three Body Problem was the way it blithely introduced faster-than-light communication as a plot point -- a key plot point! -- without any hint of a nod to the fact that this is impossible as far as we currently know. In fact, quite the opposite, the speed of light is taken to be a hard limit elsewhere in the story and that plays a key role too. So which is it?

I think it can be okay to invent magical tech in hard SF, if and only if you clearly distinguish the magical bits and work through all the ramifications logically. A great example is the “bobbles” in Vernor Vinge’s The Peace War and Marooned in Realtime.
The point still stands, the NO2 emission might be negligible compared to simple food emissions. From personal experience, preheating an (electric) oven to high temperature seems to result in lung irritation for days if I forget to turn on the extraction hood.
I swear reporters really should talk about ratios like this more more than gross sums when they report on big fines. Too bad that's not sensational enough for the current rat race.
Doesn't apply to the JPL folks I've met throughout my life but for the rest I guess I have to take your word for it. I'm not sure if your comment was just a sarcastic joke though, in which case I completely missed it
More on Epstein-Barr virus.
I don't think anyone anticipated the cut to be this big at this particular time. TBH, I thought they'd go to ~60k for the Y and make some modifications to get the tax benefit for their customers. I bet that most people who purchased at the end of last year (when $7,500 discounts were available) had similar thoughts.

Instead they've gone down to price points that makes their price after tax benefits lower than they've ever been.
I remodeled my house and put in a gas line but also upgraded the electrical to the stove outlet so it would take any modern range. I went with gas because induction was relatively new, relatively expensive and I had never used it. Then youtubers started using induction hot plates, then my neighbors bought an induction stove and I was sold. You mentioned the biggest downside for me and that's the cleaning aspect with the grates. My grates are some sort of rugged cast steel so they tear up my scrubby pads, they don't fit in my sink well and all it takes is a couple days of cooking to create a mess on all surfaces of the range.

Just this morning I was making tea, looking at the stove and thinking to myself "gdi I have to clean this thing again." Even when I stay on top of it the ease of cleaning is nothing like wiping down a flat glass surface.
`return opt.value()` is not forced to be a copy, no. It is, as you noted, a reference return. You can of course continue to propagate that as a reference if you want, assuming that makes sense.

I don't think I'd agree with a characterization that `value_or` is a footgun? It behaves basically identically to similar features in every other language (like Java's Optional#orElse). If it somehow changed parameter evaluation such that it was deferred then that would be a footgun. But it's of course not doing that.
What a surprise, when you consciously evolve FF into a Chrome, but never catching it completely, let alone overtaking, then users will probably switch to a better Chrome. Constantly disabling small features definitely can cause pro users to change one basic browser to another.
I will use FF till it's dead, but recent actions and attitude of FF team over past years are definitely not a positive factor keeping me using FF.
I think there is a difference between 'liking' an old friend's stuff, who you're no longer in actual contact with (not talking or meeting or anything), and kind of re-instating contact by 'adding friend' - even if you only intend to occasionally 'like' stuff in the same way as above, they don't know that after all.
dividends allow you to diversify without selling the stock.
They are not bare-bones in any meaningful sense of that term.
Anthropogenic noise impairs cooperation in bottlenose dolphins
Just a gut feeling, but Exxon has way more skin in the game than NASA does from a financial point of view since this is an existential threat to their business.
That being said, we've always all had skin in the game, we just didn't realize it.
Looking at the last one, its white leather.. that's not really tesla's fault. All of the staining damage looks very similar to the damage to the leather seats in my current car also at 80k miles. I believe with leather seats you need to keep up with a weekly conditioning routine otherwise that exact damage will occur (and avoid perforated leather as that will eventually wear down over time). Also, unless you're driving a very high end vehicle, you're not getting genuine leather seats (compare my Ford leather to my friend's Maserati leather is night and day)
Ask HN: Paid Career Advice Services for people in their mid-20s
I'm looking to pay someone to give me advice on what career or life path to take.

I'm 23, dropped out CS my freshman year due to poor test grades, had a rare illness, did Robotics for a semester, couldn't deal with electricity IRL, got a Vocational Degree in Logistics. From Spain.

I'm working a very average 8-5 job, with a terrible commute.

I'm looking to go back to college part-time, but it would take me at least 6 years to graduate, probably. I thought maybe CS again, but since I was so bad at it, and it's not like I've spent these years constantly programming, I don't know.

This is why I am looking to pay someone to give me advice on what life path to pursue. I like tech, but I think I am not smart enough for it. And besides CS, with what other degree would I be able to work in tech?

All Career Coaches I've looked at online seem like they're more for people who are already established in their careers. Not someone like me who's young enough to maybe try something new, but not young enough to be a 18 year old who can "try stuff around" anymore.

I've begun to talk less to friends because I keep comparing myself to them, and I'm the example on who you should not try to be.

Deeply appreciate any ideas.
No. What a strange reading of what I wrote.

It's something going wrong with Tesla. Obviously I love lower prices like any other consumer.
I really enjoyed the CR section. After a lot of “save the cat” style prose it’s refreshing to read something new. Even though it doesn’t follow the rules from the average writing community college writing class
> these calls for big tech literally deciding what people can hear, see, and think can not be labeled anything but literal censorship.

So, you don't believe that big tech companies should be censored by government regulation?

> There is absolutely no reason why other countries would continue to allow the US big tech to influence their own societies without those countries' regulations and laws regulating them

So, you do believe that big tech companies should be censored by government regulation?

> Countries already started to take measures to regulate US tech companies that operate on their Internet

Ok, what are you trying to say here?
In our world? The second.

My prediction is the donation from the Patagonia founder (whose name I have already forgotten) will be written about fewer than 10 times in significant distribution in the two decades from 2025 to 2044. Whereas the giving pledge type of billionaires will be written about more than annually on a per capita basis.

It's the same reason I think that politicians are reluctant to quickly deliver on their promises. Because those promises represent pain points which represent the power to get them (and their party) elected in the next election as well. That power goes away if the pain point is solved.
It was a sarcastic reference to the fact that they're brothers.
It only took the sophons 4 years to reach Earth, but there are many civilizations that are hundreds of light years apart. More than enough time to start the chain of suspicion
You can read more about https://www.history.com/news/soviet-union-stalin-weekend-lab... and I also bought the books and it was amazing.
It mentions HSV-1 (and neurodegenerative diseases), EBV (and mono), Toxoplasma gondii (and excessive risk taking or anxiety), Trich (and infertility), cytomegalovirus and Heliobacter Pylori (and anxiety), the Borna virus (and apparent bipolar disorder), and Vitamin D (which supposedly reduces these effects).

It links to published studies on each of these links.
lol, I agree that it came out of nowhere, but it has been affecting student's learning IMO - not sure if it's been for better or worse.
Or maybe we've finally found the approximate level of EV demand for >60k cars in the US during a recession. Tesla produces a lot more EVs than Ford does.

Having said that, other EVs are starting to show up in inventory more often too. I think the ID.4 is getting much easier to find now, and tbh this move will likely make the Mach-E really easy to find.
There are already apps like this on the app store
The virtue of it was that you could tell your less-clued-in friends and relatives to "just replace your SMS app with Signal and use it all the time", and they would; the hope being that mass usage would create a virtuous smokescreen of innocuous encrypted communication, so that people who actually had secrets to discuss would not stand out.

Perhaps this is less important now that idiosyncratic messenger apps seem to have become well-accepted? I don't know, anymore, how easy it would be for the NSA or some other evil adversary to single out Signal traffic.
It's type of social media - maybe social media light?

I haven't used FB in years, sometimes check Twitter when linked to something there, do check reddit (but follow only a few subs), and HN obviously. For me, online boards/social are for anonymous-ish socializing. My IRL friends I see/text/email.
Floating cities do work(Obscure Study from 1968) Peter Thiel was right
(It looks like the better choice, "ad covered content", was present, but I'd overlooked it because it was leftmost in the options, which were presented horizontally, which seems to be harder for my eyes to parse.)
DeepMind's releases DreamerV3 - first to mine diamonds in Minecraft without help
Types are indispensable even just for me. They reduce how much I have to jump over to the docs and how much runtime debugging I do.

Most importantly, they help when I revisit something after even a few weeks and forget what certain parts of the code did.
i think this is avery real possibility.
The official client is not designed to make Twitter reasonable to use, it is designed to show you ads.
A CCGT is about 60% efficient, and an induction stove is about 3x as efficient as a gas stove. So cooking directly with gas uses over 50% more gas than cooking on an induction top using electricity generated from gas.
I've ways preferred HOCON to YAML but it never took off :-/

It's a pity, because compared to YAML it's a lot simpler from the rules perspective while being flexible enough to do some useful stuff over plain JSON

Also, it isn't white space dependent, something which annoys me know end with YAML
It means any discussion will end up in an inevitable offense.
Juicy story. I'm all ears.
My interpretation of ninth_ant's comment is not that they believe those things about this being A Great Idea on WotC's part, but that that's what WotC believes. And I think they're absolutely right.

WotC's (and, further up, Hasbro's) management has shown in several ways in recent years that they do not understand, respect, or like their core gaming customers. (In fact, there was another leak recently from someone purporting to be a Wizards insider [0] that claims they primarily see customers as "obstacles between them and their money".) Between the OGL 2.0, some of the other things they're doing with "One D&D", and many of the changes they've been making to Magic: The Gathering in recent years, I strongly suspect that they're effectively gutting their golden-egg-laying goose in hopes of getting even more gold out of it.

[0] https://twitter.com/DnD_Shorts/status/1613576298114449409
David Brooks has a long history of being dead wrong but he still gets paid to be dead wrong. Great gig.
Interesting, thanks! Will definitely try it out as well! :-)

Still, sad that people have to invest their time to do this, instead of Mozilla providing it as default functionality by default. :P
With my hybrid work schedule I’m looking for more portability, and less keys. This isn’t for me, but neat.

I also use an ortho layout, but find the whole community trying to justify it as better for you ergonomically to be unconvincing. There’s little data that says ortho has any health benefits over staggered. We have data on the position and alignment of the wrist being the biggest factor, and you can achieve this with either style.

> This is the physical layout, so you see QWERTY here. I actually type on Colemak though!

How do you know if someone uses an alternative key layout? They’ll tell you.
I don't think they are bragging. They are contributing to the conversation with directly relevant content/personal experience. I'm not sure why you decided to be confrontational and condescending about that.
I would be more surprised if journalism isn't some form of computer generated garbage checked for a minimum level of sanity by an editor who couldn't care less.
Show HN: Keep track of your favorite movies in one place
I would just make the jump to JS Commands if you're able.
Don't you feel the goalposts moving here? You went from "Humans never make mistakes like FSD does" to "FSD doesn't work yet" to "FSD works, but I don't think it has value yet". And you got called out on all of those and shifted.

Maybe you could agree to settle on: FSD works pretty well, seems not to be unsafe vs. human drivers, but isn't finished, and is improving rapidly? Might have saved us all some time.
Regarding htmx https://htmx.org/docs/#security

> htmx allows you to define logic directly in your DOM. [...] One concern with this approach, however, is security. This is especially the case if you are injecting user-created content into your site without any sort of HTML escaping discipline.

You should, of course, escape all 3rd party untrusted content that is injected into your site to prevent, among other issues, XSS attacks. Attributes starting with hx- and data-hx, as well as inline <script> tags should be filtered.

That's been SOP for web development for aeons. I'd say the rewards vastly outweigh the costs. Not a deal breaker for me.
three (by no means exhaustive) possibilities:

(a) https://www.theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-na... et.al.?

(b) any suggestion that the US is neither colour-blind nor all middle-class?

(c) the quaint custom of an electoral college?
> So, you don't believe that big tech companies should be censored by government regulation?

Tech companies should obey the laws and regulations that exist in the jurisdictions that they operate in.

> So, you do believe that big tech companies should be censored by government regulation?

Yes. There cant be any large scale service that affects entire society running without democratically legislated regulations. Arguing otherwise is arguing for private fiefdoms that dominate different parts of the society.

> Ok, what are you trying to say here?

Its hard to interpret what you are asking yourself. I clearly said in my GP post that tech corporations should not exist outside regulation. The parts that you quoted do not contradict. They all say the same thing.
Sure, I guess what I'm saying is - it's daft to limit this to gas stoves.

I don't particularly agree with making it a legal requirement either way, but if it is, then it's a cooking thing.
I’ll always upvote a Colemak user. Looks nice!
> First, c'mon, people don't (directly) finance sandwiches. Have you ever seen a sandwich shop accept Klarna?

I put a (vegan) sausage roll from Gregg's on Monzo Flex the other day...
The Art and Science of Spending Money
"ChatGPT, he says, doesn’t have the ability to describe the feelings seen on a player’s face when they win the World Cup,"

Oh piffle. My wife and I roll our eyes and mock the sports reporters when they run down to the field and ask the question "How does it feel to have won the $CHAMPIONSHIP?" "Oh man, it's... it's just so incredible, you know, you work all your life to reach this height and... here I am... it's just... sniffle it's really amazing. I have a really great team and I'd like to say HI MOM and... just.. oh man..." "We'll let you go join the celebration. There you have it, $OTHER_ANNOUNCER."

(Our favorite is: "Hey, $COACH, what do you plan to do to win this game?" "Well, you know, that's a good question, and we've got a plan we're going to execute to, you know, go out there and play strong, we're gonna try to, you know, score points and, uh, prevent the other team from scoring points. We're pretty confident that if we can execute that plan we're going to win." In fairness, sometimes the answer is better than that. But a lot of the times, if you think about what they just said, that's what it amounts to without any particular loss. After all, even if they have a good answer, they're not terribly interested in giving it to you before the game....)

I mean, I get it, I'm not so cold hearted as to not understand why they ask the question. It just doesn't happen to speak to us. But I would rate it more on the easy-mode side of sports writing, way easier than, say, being accurate about statistics or being correct about what strategy a team needs to pursue against another team for victory or what strategy they're going to pursue.

Extremely, extremely stereotyped responses. Can't hardly be wrong, it's not like saying "excitedly" instead of "energetically" is going to be the difference between accurate and inaccurate. Easy mode for a transformer architecture.
We don't know what he believes. We only know he is obliged to say what keeps him out of a re-education camp.

What would you be saying, in his position? Be honest.
Somebody else mentioned the same argument but I'm not buying it. Gas use for heating has a much bigger impact on your personal finance than just a gas stove, but you're saying gas stove cookers have an almost religious devotion to using gas because it's so much better? The problem is... If it's almost religious then rational arguments won't reach them anyway.
> Also worth mentioning this was lifted and edited off another blog that has since gone down.

How do you know this article was lifted off another blog?
Recycling works mostly fine in many countries other than the US. But of course reduce, reuse, repair should always have been the primary "re" words. It's just that those are less convenient and bad for business from the usual shortsighted perspective.
No; one of five CPSC commissioners gave an interview in which he indicated they're thinking about potentially doing something about the impact of gas stoves on interior air quality, in which he noted (generally) that the CPSC has the authority to ban products that can't be "made safe".

There's zero indication gas stoves can't be "made safe".
What effect will the EU Digital Markets Act have?
I find projects like apache/age [0] are very promising in this direction. But I wouldn't call graph db's a passing fade. A more appropriate description might be "too important to be left alone, yet not important enough to form a second type of mass market database engine".

[0] https://github.com/apache/age
If I pay them will they remove some of the stupid limitations?
Ask HN: We found a cracked version of our software on the web, now what?
Hi HN, I work for a small company and we've recently come across a version of our software that's been cracked.

Specifically, the crack modifies some of our binaries to circumvent the activation process and allows bogus registration keys. Pretty standard stuff AFAIK. Thankfully, our digital signatures are lost in the process, so that's reassuring.

We haven't done the most thorough search of how widespread the issue is, but we've estimated that it's about 1 user per day since the early half of 2022. A license costs a few thousand dollars, but we do regional pricing and bulk licenses for larger firms. We also provide free licenses to academics (with proof).

For context, we are a <15 person company where we all wear multiple hats and would like to continue providing great service, training and introducing features. It's clear to us why someone would crack our software, especially in lower income countries.

I'm not entirely sure what other information would be helpful to provide, but I was wondering if anyone has run into this into the past, and how it was mitigated. While we'll always have some piracy, we'd like to keep it to a minimum.
Thank you for the response. I mostly stick to the desktop space, and haven't seen it for over a decade, nor did I see it when shopping for laptops recently. But that's interesting if they are.
> they bought enough Peloton products to account for 30 percent of Affirm’s revenue

Funny given the hundreds of comments on HN, reddit, and elsewhere about how Pelton is a status symbol and/or people who don't like Peloton just aren't wealthy enough to afford one or whatever. (Including on MacRumors, since Apple was rumored to be considering buying Peloton at one point.)
>The fact that the list of notable use-cases is small enough to be worth compiling is, itself, telling.

lol, no.
Cool, I always assumed that a benchmark was a mark on a bench, but it turns out that it is the bench which goes on the mark.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_(surveying)
Exactly, and recycling keeps excess materials out of landfills. Landfills are filling up and it is hard get approval and land for new ones.
my BIL started in geology but ended up with a Ph.D in biology. I tried to get him to goto work for ExxonMobile (or somewhere in oil/gas) but he said he wasn't interested in selling his soul. Now, after half a decade, he's still looking for a steady job and makes holsters and knife accessories and sells them online to make ends meet. On one hand, I admire his stubbornness but on the other hand, i wish he wasn't so stubborn.
Even including the highest profile disasters, nuclear is still massively safer than most other forms of energy.

Yes, the diffuse damage is much higher.

Btw, there's another problem with nuclear: because of politicking and public opinion, it's very expensive and almost impossible to build new nuclear power plants.

Budget and schedule overruns are to be expected.

So capital costs are very high.
I posted this before, will post again:

This article is so weak. It doesn't provide any actual reasons for why BNPL is a bubble nor why such a supposed bubble is about to burst. Seriously quotes TikTokers who are probably just paid shills for the company.
There are real issues with BNPL, mostly extremely loose underwriting in the pursuit of growth, but realistically it's functionally no different than a credit card. People actually interested in this topic should look at the CFPB's recent report on the subject and at the quarterly reports for Affirm/Upstart/Square/etc.

Also, this same piece has been posted like 5 times in the past few days and only now has it hit the front page, it's definitely weird submitters want HN to read the article so badly. Flagged.
> If the primary concern is everyone's health & safety, we should mandate high CFM extraction hoods be installed above every range and run public information campaigns to encourage their use.

That may well be the sort of mitigation the CPSC goes with. (And probably just in new construction.)