skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In short, we are not responsible enough.

I think there are lots of cases where we definitely rushed to market way too soon in several situations. The realistic thing about it is that you can only test things as far as someone can think of crazy situations to test against. Even if we tested against every crazy combination and permutation of situations, something in real life will always come along and provide an even crazier situation. Sure, you add that to the list for the next time.

However, we are smart enough to know that certain things will have similar results just based on experience. We know that burning of anything will release things into the air, so we can test the results of burning $newThing. If $newThing is made from very similar processes and materials of $knownThing, we can look to see what issues may have been learned and test with those in mind. At some point, based on experience up until now, you make conclusions that it might just be safe enough which is good enough for corps looking to recoup R&D
“The ‘South Park’ Guys Break Down Their Viral Deepfake Video”: https://archive.is/mkcw1
Let's face facts most of the FAANG were/are overstaffed. If Twitter can reduce its staff by nearly 50% and still function then the other tech companies can reduce their staff too. They are just resizing. This is a good time, while there's a threat of a recession, to reduce the number while not scaring the stockholders too much. It's not a burst similar to 2000. It's a correction. Tech is too vital for the economy for it to just fall apart. I expect tech stocks to be booming within the next 2 years. But yes, it's sucking right now.

Also, don't expect working from home to be your choice anymore. Now companies will gain the upper hand on the working from home debate since there's going to be many people looking to fill the same position. It was nice while it lasted.
This is pretty much the only way 5.25" floppies are read today with modern equipment. While you can still get USB 3.5" floppy drives there are no USB 5.25" floppy drives. Modern PCs don't have the correct drive headers anymore, either, and even if they did, they wouldn't be able to read Commodore or Apple II floppies.

However, there is hardware and software called GreaseWeazle that actually reads the magnetic flux transitions on the disks to extract the data within.

https://github.com/keirf/greaseweazle
This doesn't feel that surprising, all told. Birds are among the more ritualized mating animals we know, aren't they?

Still neat, mind.
You can have $15 a month plan in US or $2 a month in Cambodia. If you pay more, it means your phone cost is included in your phone plan.
(a) There aren't enough hydrogen charging stations, even in California.

(b) I'd rather drive around with a Lithium battery than a pressurized tank of hydrogen.
Alphabet disappoints on sales as ad business slips after pandemic run-up
> off the top or the bottom

What does that mean? The difference between the two I mean.
i didn't say the car culture cause is mutually exclusive to statism. the problem is statism, regardless of car culture. the thread does bring up a good point about the average idiot who will fall over and die the moment his company stops paying him enough for his car, but that's not the issue. the main problem here is statism, and not just statism, but extreme statism. every country today follows an extreme form of statism, not just some reasonable moderate version. this is why a cop in america has to have a gun, for instance.

and you display it perfectly, i reject the mentality where breathing has to be illegal and we all suffocate until someone makes an exception for it to be legal, and in return you use "libertarian" as an insult, like a typical wingnut. whatever, you guys can enjoy your pointless 4chan teenager tier pontificating over the connection of car culture to what will end as police cameras being installed in our homes, while i sit back and read another article about how i'm right where a 15 year old goes to jail for "misusing a computer" because computers have to be used correctly or else its illegal due to the fact that you don't live in an enlightened state like you think you do but you just look to me the same way you think some reactionary hell in the middle east looks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-64481598

actually, here's a better way to put it. the average person is a coward and will instantly agree with any law that purports to fight some problem that looks legit. he's also a consumer, and will buy any law that alleges to make his life more convenient. that is how law is treated today, and why we pay for way more police than necessary as well as why they think they can go make up new problems to fight. it really is that simple, after all, you either believe covid is a hoax or you believe that elementary school children need to learn that two males can have sex. none of you deserve to be taken seriously like the adults you think you are. this is a forum of webdevs who have an inflated sense of intellect due to their wage who can program as good as a 15 year old PHP hacker, after all.
>> I guess some people think Florida will be in Republican hands forever. I'm gonna go out on a limb and question that. People who cheer on state control of universities might be singing a different tune when power switches hands unexpectedly.

> I'm very sympathetic to this form of argument in general when it comes to free speech debates, but in this case I don't think conservatives will find it very persuasive. It is worth unpacking why.

…

> From a conservative perspective, there is little to fear from breaking down the norm that keeps politics out of universities. From their perspective that norm is already gone. Politics is already in the universities, but it came from the inside. The calls are coming from inside the house! It might even be the case that a left-wing DeSantis would try to pull universities to the right. The median Democrat is currently to the right of American universities. Universities are the party of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, not the party of Joe Biden.
I don't know any trust fund kids.

I suggest reading a biography of Steve Jobs. Not a trust fund baby. Audited a couple classes in college only. Lower middle class parents. Started in a garage. Sold his Volkswagon to finance Apple. Outdid all of the ones you mentioned.
Actually more Democrats watch Tucker Carlson than MSNBC.
Vitamin D and magnesium deficiencies are both incredibly com, affecting 50+% of the US. The both can contribute to anxiety and depression as well. Everyone should supplement both
There's a little slight of hand you're doing here. Not getting into whether murder is ok, I definitely think there's a difference between a slaveowner and a white person. A white person can't stop being white, and they didn't choose to be white. A slaveowner is committing a violation of another human's rights. It's a thing they could have chosen not to do, and it's a thing they can choose to stop doing any time.

I don't personally think "punching up is ok" is a valid viewpoint. But even if I did, I don't think white people are "up" or men are "up" in the way that the proponents of punching up consider rich people, or oppressors to be. Skin color isn't oppression. Gender isn't oppression. Oppression is oppression.
rogerkirkness is correct, too much vitamin D over time can lead to complications such as hypercalcemia (a build up of calcium in the blood)

This condition is fairly rare, and can be partly mitigated with vitamin K2.

According to this paper, (adult) patients treated with vitamin D toxicity took doses ranging from 600,000IU daily to 60 Million IU over several months.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6115827/
Three years make all the difference. 1949 would rogue pilot almost causing a war. 1952 is pilot bravely saving lives and being covered up so didn't expand war.

The numbers matter too. Shooting down MIGs happened all the time. Dogfighting seven solo and shooting down four is a huge thing.
Nice idea. Not sure how good the recommendations are just yet, but I really wish there was a Spotify button on there.

Also if it's not a trade secret can you expand "My model analyzes raw music audio as input and produces embedding vectors as output." What kind of analysis are you doing? What is the criteria for picking recommendations? I always find this area of music analysis intersting.
After seeing videos of n-copters dropping grenades on soldiers in the Ukraine-Russia war, I do think there is evidence of a move to small and cheap technology.
Lembre-se disso: 3811 Jamais chegará ao final se esqueceres a nossa marca.
Again, see my parallel comment about how decentralized America is and how much power is retained at local levels. The NYPD may be in New York, but it doesn't represent New York state.

Also, killings aren't a great way of comparing departments necessarily. There's a lot of corruption in the NYPD, but that doesn't necessarily translate to killings. Just look at their former "stop and frisk" policy; it was a violation of rights and racist, but didn't result in many killings that I remember.
Alternatives to the biochemistry of Earth life are hard to imagine. Silicon replacing carbon is one possibility but, as yet, despite silicon being vastly more common than carbon, we know there is no silicon life on Earth. It's just at too much of an inherent disadvantage, if it is even possible. I would bet on panspermia over silicon life.
This would be an atypical use case for Vault AFAIK. My understanding is it's intended for sensitive config-like data, not sensitive app data.
Your favorite Twitter bot might die next week
If an American was shooting down Migs during WW2 and not during the Korean War, it totally makes sense why the Americans would want to keep it quiet.
There are people building missiles as a hobby? Sounds fun.
The Chinese and Russians are free to shoot down an SR-71 or U2 over their airspace. Problem is that's much easier said than done.

Shooting down a balloon over US airspace, or better yet, grabbing it, should be a no-brainer. It's our airspace. Why is this being discussed? Get that thing on that ground, keep it, and study it.
I would think it means that (nearly) 100% of the energy input is used in useful chemical reactions doing work as opposed to generating waste heat or something else.
Video of the balloon https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1621294430081761280
This is kind of fun. I'm looking forward to the story which goes:

- forced to use Ubuntu pro by some corporate person

- the security update they push is broken nonsense

- your machine is compromised as a result, but wouldn't have been when using the non-pro version
Gen Z use of emojis, slang&punctuation confusing older colleagues in workplace
2018 and 2020 were just two years apart, and no significant difference in the world economy or health indicators took place across the interval. (/not)
You're having a dig at someone who's on your side! His point was that this improvement helps negate that criticism.
That's awesome :)

I was the original mapper for the Day of Defeat team. It was quite a ride to go from a bunch of strangers making a mod for fun to working with Valve.

I haven't played it in ages, but do sometimes think about going back into map making just for fun and maybe more as artistic expression. Always that temptation to make something neat looking, but not very performant.
https://archive.ph/OKhNT
Conclusion
This research suggests that engagement with contested posts
that include links to news stories circulating on social media is
not constant, and that broader diffusion of inaccurate claims
is not a universal characteristics of social media; instead,
there are important differences across social media platforms.
As we further develop our understanding of how such true
and false information either takes hold or fails to do so we
must understand how factors such as technical affordances,
social norms, and differences in user populations separately or
together contribute to false information capturing the public’s
attention.
Also, mail-order vitamin D tests are only $50, so there's no reason to guess about your current or future levels. Know for sure: https://omegaquant.com/vitamin-d-test/

Any doctor's office can also do one, as can walk-in labs.
I've been thinking about this issue a lot. I wish there was a gig worker type role people with autism could play. If they had meaningful employment, it would change their life. Despite some concerns, I think Goodwill does a decent job providing simple jobs/job training to some folks with autism.

On a separate thread, what can tech do to make things better? I don't see this as being venture funded .. it has to be grant based at the start. Wish large, successful folks like YC had a special focus on this sort of tech .. we need more of this rather than TikTok clones.

The spectrum nature of autism makes this so so complicated. We really need a ton of research at understanding this.
Catholics promote circumcision too.
> Inverted indexes were invented decades ago

A thousand years ago, likely.
Isn't the issue with hydrogen more storage/transportation than production?
The big industry aim is to cheaply produce hydrogen, transport and store as ammonia, convert back and use in large scale regional baseload power stations to buffer wind and solar.

ie. Still an electric car renewable future, but one with a more reliable supply of less fossil fuel baseload generation, less battery farms.

The future is mixed hybrid.
Not unrelated, this is quite an amazing device - even before you consider its $9.95 price at Sparkfun.

https://usefulsensors.com/person-sensor/
https://usefulsensors.com/about/
I've played that game. You need monkeys with darts.
As someone who's bought and read the Graun more times in the past quarter of a century than most people have had hot dinners, I feel vindicated by those downvotes, they feel a lot like the response most Graun readers would give. What kind of response do you think the people Orwell described would give?
They just laid off 6% of the company. So essentially they grew by 20% in 2022 and reduced their headcount by 6% in 2023.
If you want to get particular, the Berlin Blockade/Airlift was in the 40s. The Cold War started in the late 40s.
It's not plural at all; it doesn't even make sense. This is like debating whether the word "happiness" is singular or plural.

There's no such thing as "a hiragana".
Tiger Global Cuts Fundraising Target as Startup Market Cools
There is a proposed method to sequester carbon and reduce ocean acidification by doing this process, extracting the Hydrogen and Chlorine (or hydrochloric acid) for industrial purposes, and releasing the sodium hydroxide to absorb dissolved CO2 (carbonic acid) into sodium carbonate.
If this new way is 100% efficient wouldn't it break conservation of energy to produce chlorine (and instead it should remain salt)?

(Edit n/m, 100% efficiency was now removed from the headline)
I would say taking somebodies life simply because of their position of dominance over you as immoral, yes.
"Complete" might be taking it too far, because averages can tolerate a lot of error underneath. Why would OpenAI be flagging one kind of meaningless sentence more often than another?

It's easy to poke holes in studies by taking issue with individual data points, but unless you can either explain how those problems lead to the overall conclusion, or can do the study again with better methods and get a different answer, the original case remains standing.
Manna – Table of Contents – Marshallbrain.com
I was with you until "smile"
The thing about Amazon recruiters is that if you reply to them, they will ghost you; then you will be contacted by other Amazon recruiters who don't know anything about that one, and so it goes.
Can’t wait to go play iceworld

G-g-g-g-g-god like
> The notion that there exist, to any meaningful degree, philosophies or cultures that will not produce atrocities on a pretty regular schedule, is something a decent education ought to rid one of.

This is precisely what I'm saying, though. It was a predominant mood in the pre-war time that European society was enlightened and modern and superior to all others, and that this was a consequence of a Great History of Ideas starting from The Bible and Plato, finally coming to fruition in the then-present. It's absurd to believe these things about European civilization - or any known civilization! - but that's what people did.

I think it's clear by all the times I praised this "wonderful list of brilliant works", calling it "a great way to become cultured and a great way to spend four years", that I'm not trying to "indict" the Western tradition. There's a vast gulf between arguing that "deeply fetishizing [it] is problematic" and condemning it outright.
And you power the laser with…?
The "interesting legislation" is more likely to find Cold War-style fuckery of the sort that led to the "red mercury" hoax and other intentional misdirection, and the amplification of conspiracy theories by adversaries than it is to find aliens.
It gave me a really good explanation of why costs aren't totally passed onto consumers, and what conditions affect how much cost is passed on. Also, apparently the book says something about communism.
Mine doesn't have degrees on it, but better than that, it can be adjusted such that the handle being in the neutral position (vertical in this case) is at whatever temperature you want. I set mine to 39°C which is what most people seem to enjoy. Turn it left gets you as cold as the cold supply. And then you can set a soft limit with a positive detente at some higher temp, which I have set to 42°C of course. So that you don't go overboard when turning right. And above that soft limit, you can also set the maximum temp, which I have set to 45°C. And the valve will shutoff if the temperature still manages to go above that.
There are cases where the cartridges are no longer available; that happened to us.
Storage, transport, and fueling are all big problems for personal vehicles.

It may still be useful for energy storage and industrial processes (see sibling comments). Better storage for excess solar/wind generation would be very helpful.

Perhaps it would also be useful for limited range applications where you wouldn’t need lots of spread out stations like for vehicles at a port that do a lot of work but never get very far from home.
I'm not pretending anything. I think this is a straightforward issue for people on the left: human rights means equal rights. Whether some nutjobs have forgotten that doesn't detract from the basic principle.
> People always ask me this when I complain about xcode and I don't understand where they're coming from. Have you developed apps for Linux or Windows?

Yes. For many years. And those platforms also require you to install the toolchains for your target platforms. On macOS those toolchains come with a IDE, but there's no need nor requirement to use it. As demonstrated by large numbers of Mac devs using emacs, vim, vscode, etc all of which use a separately installed toolchain on every platform. On your various linux systems you're using apt-get or similar to install the toolchains and SDKs, on windows you're having to download and install them as well (historically having to pay for the toolchain as part of MSVC or such, but I assume that that's no longer the case).

> You don't need to use a specific IDE to sign your code, I can tell you that much.

You don't need to use Xcode to do that either, you can think of it as the dev tools also include a UI you can use, but can also ignore.

codesign -s "MY Certificate Here" my.app

No one is forced to use Xcode. The various SDKs and toolchains needed to develop for apple platforms are all included in a single bundle that is labeled Xcode.app, but what you are downloading is by an large just the toolchains and SDKs on a pure "what are the bulk of the bytes for" sense.

> Well, I haven't met one. All of the iOS developers I know tell me "Yeah, it's a weird bird, but you gotta learn it". Have you experienced otherwise?

Yes, that's literally what I said. It's also the IDE I've tended to prefer over the years, easily better than MSVC in my experience, but again that could be because I've learned and prefer Xcode to MSVC. OTOH I was also using MSVC a long time prior to Xcode so I didn't arrive at Xcode with no prior IDE experience.

> > Having spent plenty of time dealing with

> Well let's all stop discussing the relative merits of things, olliej has spoken about what's good or bad. Everyone else's thoughts and opinions are meaningless.

While I agree I should have said "in my opinion Xcode is better than msvc", but I also didn't say any one else's thoughts and opinions were meaningless. In fact the whole crux of my comment was that you were passing your dislike of Xcode as though it were objective fact rather than an opinion.

> > Signing apps is not drudge work, but also is not hard.

> Shrug Difference of opinion, I guess.

see above, it's a single command line that you can put in a makefile or whatever.
The issue was they couldn’t make enough of those $1500 phones for the holiday season. Supply, not demand.
(b) you don't seem to understand how hydrogen functions as a fuel. It can be burned but it can also be used to make electricity. "it depends"

(c) it's either ammonia cycle engines so liquid ammonia storage (which is bad enough but not hydrogen tanks) or ..

(d) sintered metal storage of hydrogen for ..

(e) electric motors where the regen of electricity from H2 produces water as a byproduct of electricity from H2

(a) who cares about ordering?

(f) yes there is hydrogen combustion outcomes for H2 powered cars too and yes early demonstrators do H2 in tanks but the scale industry here isn't targetting Gaseous H2 tanked vehicles AFAIK.
A thought-provoking short story by Marshall Brain - founder of HowStuffWorks.com - explores the impact of widespread automation on the job market and presents two contrasting - basically distopian and utopian - visions of humanity's future in a post-robotic world. Just discovered this in another HN comment and thought it's worth its own post.
Pid_max in Linux Is Adjustable
There are countercultures aplenty, but many employ strict gatekeeping measures to exclude anyone they find unsavory for whatever reason. So if you see people refusing to throw you pearls, it may be pertinent to ask yourself "Am I the swine here?".

Case in point, it's time to log back out of HN and ignore it for another few months.
Show HN: Visually Explain Binary Search
Typical use cases for tools like this are:

- comply with egress security policies more generally

- comply with rate limits and meters for costly APIs

- monitor outgoing request payloads so nothing sensitive goes over the wire

- caching and deduping large responses

- act as the starting point for adding crawling type workloads

These tend to be pretty limited and special case, and there are lots of other ways of solving each, but sometimes an egress proxy is the thing.
Well I guess first do you have any sources for the more crime per capita claim?

Secondly, other countries seem to manage to do police work without killing a ridiculous number of citizens, so that's definitely kinda weird
Red Hat gives an ARM up to OpenShift Kubernetes operations
I have my doubts that hydrogen combustion will ever be viable for consumer vehicles. The energy output is far too low, and storage is vastly too problematic.
My understanding is that a perfectly efficient device would take ~39 kWh to produce 1 kg hydrogen [1].

So I'm imagining this is close to that?

IIUC, 1 kg hydrogen = ~33.6 kWh.

[1] https://wernerantweiler.ca/blog.php?item=2020-09-28#:~:text=....
Some even have integrated shutoff valves, so you can replace the cartridge without shutting off the water anywhere else! What a marvelous world we live in.