skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe this is my personal bubble, but the group of people who most loudly tells other people to "do your own research" seems to consist mostly of conspiracy theorists and scam artists. Not seldom their own research is of the "go outside and you can see for yourself that the earth is flat" type, too.
Centuries of rent control
About potassium bromate, IARC based its evaluation on studies of rats, mice and hamsters. https://www.inchem.org/documents/iarc/vol73/73-17.html

Would you want to ban something producing renal tubular tumours and thyroid follicular tumours in rodents, for use in human food? I guess this is the crux of the article.
Yeah I miss the old days where on most sites you really needed to be a hard-core troll or do/say something illegal to get banned and removed.
Now on for example Reddit if you say anything that's not acceptable in the current zeitgeist it's instant (shadow)banning.

It all became so corporate and milquetoast - all that matters are ads and so that they don't appear near "controversial" content to not to loose revenue.
If it has been banned, there are enough evidences. Then anyone is free to re-evaluate, but hey, you already have a big red flag.
You should listen to the Walk off the earth cover of "Shape of you" - it's not such a bad song when it's done by a good artist.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg5DKFqP_rA
> It's a complete rebuild from the ground up

"There is no problem in Windows that a reboot cannot fix"

"There is no problem in Windows that a complete reinstall cannot fix"

Call me skeptic.
Exactly. Potassium bromate is an oxidant (like chloramine used to purify drinking water). And when baking its surrounded by reducing agents.

And its used in ppm levels.

Were not eating grams of it.
can you actually link to the ones you recommend then?

Because I am quite interested then in figuring out the economics side of obtaining one
Which battery is required for 20+ hour capacity?

And which track pad are you referring to?

The track pad has always been the hardest part about moving away from a MacBook. Love my XPS, but I HATE it’s track pad. Battery life is another reason, but swappable batteries would be amazing (not on XPS)
Does anyone know if the Azure Portal OpenAI services went down?
Exactly, build quality and noise levels of mac are so much better. Not to mention the OS.
This thread shows HN humor - who knew?
Political Unwillingness, not inability
Yeah I'm guilty of having a boring website, but it allows for easy readability without my having to spend weeks trying to balance out artiness and accessibility.
Pitfalls and traps when pricing your SaaS and building your own online store
It's definitely easy to spend all your money, but with a little budgeting it's not harder to buffer more.

Maybe I've read too much FIRE financial independence content though.
Indie can be a pose. Punk can be a pose. Anything can be a pose.

If there's one thing the music world should know by now, it's that.

(Hell, one of the best-known punk groups, the Sex Pistols, was a boy band put together by Malcolm McLaren. Sid Vicious was McLaren's idea.)
NVIDIA did absolutely not "invent AI on GPU", that's a ridiculous statement. When programmable shaders became commonplace, shaders were used to do general computation. That was the birth of GPGPU. NVIDIA jumped on this and developed a lot of very good tooling around that. known as CUDA. Then they invested a lot to make that tooling standard in research departments.

Once GPGPU got more commonplace, researchers also doing AI, finding suitable GPGPU tasks, used the more user friendly and advanced tooling, which was CUDA.

So, "NVIDIA inventing AI on GPU" suggests you do not know much about the history of AI work on GPUs. But, feel free to correct me.
Well it did, as part of normal health inflation requirements.

The UK spends far less per head on healthcare than almost any other western country, as an absolute amount and as a portion of GDP.
Depends if these are really spreadsheets or specialist "applications" made of excel formulas by "non-technical" users.

If you are really looking at large file based table data and are similarly unable to persuade the author to produce a sensible format, I've had a good time with VisiData
I'm trying something similar with an introductory Algorithms class.

After we go through Breadth First Search, there's a practical assignment where students are asked to modify the algorithm to return _all_ shortest paths. Then I ask ChatGPT for its solution, and students try to spot its mistakes.

Later, after going through the proof of correctness of Dijkstra's algorithm, I ask ChatGPT for a proof of correctness of its all-shortest-paths algorithm, and again students try to spot what's wrong in the proof. I want students to learn to tell the difference between a bullshit proof and a real proof; in the past I've given them bullshit proofs from real students in exams, but ChatGPT makes the point more nicely.

Finally, students are asked to figure out prompts that will make ChatGPT give a correct algorithm and proof. I haven't managed this myself! I'm looking forwards to seeing what students manage.

Here's a link to lecture notes, including the ChatGPT dialog:
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/teaching/2223/Algorithm2/alg2-full....
The platform-oriented web is like a giant shopping mall with some magazines and newspapers sold in-between. News websites are mostly reviewing the "products" sold in the shops. YouTube celebrities are demonstrating their shopping abilities. Sites like Reddit/Twitter are fostering customer discussions whose aim is to determine the "best product".
You can buy and sell royalty rights. Artists have sold all their rights for huge sums of quick money while the buyers hopes to earn it back over time.
That is lovely. I need to come back when I've got more time and better headphones.

But I don't want my news headlines presented like this. I'm kinda ok with the standardization of the regularly-visited sections of the web - in fact I think it's just UX principles in action.
What do you mean with lacks of flexibility? I've used MB for 5y+ and I've never found myself limited by the tool as long as I was able to connect the data source, that's IMHO the main friction with this tool
> I assume in good faith that your value is pristine nature but it’s a fallacy.

This sentence alone proves your entire reply unsound. You have assumed something which is obviously irrelevant given not only the context of this conversation but even the tone and content of that comment which you supposedly critique. Then you go on to be condescending.

You can convince people of your honesty and good faith by acting honestly and in good faith, not by trying to reframe your hurried comments ex post facto to retrofit some desired message from what is obviously a bad take.
It is most definitely Apple's fault. There might be a chicken-and-egg problem, but it mostly stems from Apples really poor support for backwards compatibility.

There's been a few times when it seems like mac gaming could be making a comeback only for something like 32bit support to get removed.

Rosetta will not be around forever, and when it goes, game developers for the most part won't be rebuilding their old games for a new platform.

The lack of good high performance graphics also deters "serious" gamers, and gamers are generally trying to get the most performance out of every dollar, which is just antithetical to everything Apple.
Ask HN: received a suprise invoice, what to do
I was trying out smallstep using a free account, and clearly reading "Smallstep Free Account", nor have I ever gave them any billing information, yet still, they invoiced me US$100+ for using "Advanced Authority Minutes".

When creating an "Advanced Authority" earlier, I don't recall they say it's gonna incur charges. But now it does (just checked after I got the invoice).

I'm not really sure how to act, in most of reputable services I shouldn't be able to create fee incuring services before validation. This looks like some dark pattern to me.
> It seems like they won't move their 8PB of data off the cloud.

For now. He wrote they will do that next year.
> annual subscription

You have to cancel by phone. ;)
I don't see a clear definition of "abstraction".
I've seen ESOP agreements where after a given period of time the options automatically convert to shares to help mitigate this risk for staff. Worth asking the leadership team as I think its a fair concern that many employees will have
The paywall is a writer option, indeed one can opt-out.
(cc @dang)
I know, right. It’s like how can we know things like that the cancer clusters that will show up in that population inside the government created toxic mushroom cloud fallout region around East Palestine, OH has anything to do with setting thousands of barrels of toxic chemicals on fire and letting them seep into the waterways that supply 20 million people.

Let’s discuss it over cocktails at the K Street Lobby Bar.
Remote driving in UK from abroad should not be allowed, says Law Commission
We would have to be a Type I civilization first, we’re only at about 0.73
Fun fact: Cannibalism in itself isn't illegal in Germany... Just don't ask
Exactly.

Indian here, in India, and here are my anecdotal experiences in decade+ experience

1. Worked with a tech team of 10 with no females, for over 8 years. Manager hired one once HR pointed it out categorically to him. Even she didn't last. Super co-incidentally, she was in QA. I should mention that she wasn't the problem.

2. Worked with design teams in 3 companies, the ratio of females was never more than 2:8 with respect to males.

3. Newly married women generally find it really hard to get back into workforce since it is expected that they will soon be planning a child and hence require a paid maternity leave. HR is explicity told about this by management.

4. Even unmarried ones are usually asked about their marriage plans when getting interviewed.

I would like to add, there is a dearth of skilled talent too with respect to women. Along with the lot less opportunities available to women for higher education, lot many women in India only join workforce to get more qualified for arranged marriages - "having working life" is somehow always in demand, higher skills or salaries do not matter to suitors usually - it is usually expected in both families that males will likely earn more than females so much so that the ones looking for prospective brides do not go for ones earning more than the prospective groom - something that perhaps works as a motivation for some women to not to vie for higher compensation jobs. This of course ends up making them more dependent on their spouses for money matters.

Again, this is not a commentary on all women or all men either but just a perspective of someone on the ground, in India.
This! As long as you can connect the data source you can go quite forward with this tool. It's probably the one that have the quickest learning curve.
It's an arms race. As students cheat with ChatGPT, teachers should incorporate tactics throwing it off, perhaps using ChatGPT themselves.

I think what you are doing is great! Good luck going forward!
Crazy how much hate this post is getting.
Show HN: Delete unused code with help of deforest
rubygem to help you identify most/least used parts of your codebase.
ZEUS-HLONS
If you insist
You can still convert back your data to csv or xlsx once you finished your work on it. Most db clients actually support that.
While it's very possible potassium bromate is dangerous, I really hate this type of news story.

There's some evidence that something is unsafe, so CBS found a professor to interview then asked them leading questions to get an explosive headline. Next they asked a random person if they're scared about this. Finally they asked the FDA and seemingly only published part of their reply.

Like I said, potassium bromate may be bad for you. But I don't feel like I've learned anything from this story about it. It only seems like fear mongering.
Specificity is the difference:

* + * is 0,0,0.

:not(:first-child) is 0,1,0.

:where(:not(:first-child)) would take it back to 0,0,0.
> Finally, students are asked to figure out prompts that will make ChatGPT give a correct algorithm and proof. I haven't managed this myself! I'm looking forwards to seeing what students manage.

Isn't there a probabilistic nature to ChatGPT replies? So even if a student finds a response that gives a correct proof, that doesn't mean it'll work every time. Or am I wrong here?
Which is, of course, why a trial of self selecting companies mostly in the knowledge work sector dropping down to 0.8FTE doesn't tell very much about the rest of the world
Apparently acknowledging that one is unqualified to judge the veracity of almost all scientific claims is now unscientific. TIL.
I'm not confused, your definition of censorship is just weird and impractical.

Yes, I can write what I want in my personal word editor but quite obviously that's not the topic at hand in a discussion on social networks.
Officially? Would be surprised as its soldered to the motherboard!
Hey, where did my div go?!
I think toilet paper is bad example. Properly stored it doesn't go bad. The perishables like food items and so on are the bad thing. They have more limited lifespan or spoil in various ways more easily.
"What's your foolproof buyer method ?"

Reading trustworthy test sites, before buying anything expensive. Which has gotten a bit harder, due to LOTS of paid content, but it still works, if you know how to spot the signs of a bad site.
This isn't an unreasonable question to ask.

There is some evidence that (at least some of) the chemicals in the banned additives can cause health problems at some dosage. There is an expert who is almost certain that those chemicals in food has caused health problems. Neither of those equates to evidence that their use in food does cause health problems. And the opposing experts (the FDA) has said that food additives require evidence of their safety before approval for use in foods.

If you found an expert willing to claim it and ran a fearmongering story "Covid vaccines 'almost certainly' making people sick" despite safety requirements from the FDA, I think it would get a very different response here. At the very least calls for actual evidence of the claims would not be down voted.

I would be interested in the evidence too. For example presumably there would be a signal in cancer detection rates when potassium bromate was banned in Europe in 1990 if the ban had a significant reduction in its use and if its use caused cancer.
100% agree that people should consider self-hosting. just be mindful of for what purposes. let me elaborate:

if all you want is a simple static blog, i find little to no reason behind going beyond github pages.

for self-hosting some cloud services, go for self-hosting BUT don't expose it to the internet willy-nilly. rather use tailscale or something and access it behind a vpn. if you really want to offer a public utility to others by running it in your household, it is often not worth the tradeoffs with making it secure enough.
The eternal loop in job interview questions.

Should you ask very similar questions, to keep candidates on a level playing field by always measuring to the same standard?

Or should you vary the questions a lot, to keep candidates on a level playing field by not advantaging those who've seen leaked questions on glassdoor?
I was literally recommended to use BTRFS because it has been battle tested and proven. I should probably have done more research but given its maturity (we're in 2023 after all), I feel a bit let down.
Indeed. Whoever wants to, can organize your thoughts themselves: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=maegul
> From what little I understand of Indian systems the sub-castes are basically just extended family networks and allied families.

This isn't really true. Castes and sub-castes are endogamous. But the groups are large enough that members wouldn't really have any discernable familial ties with majority of the group.
> negotiated compromises

exactly this is why voters simply don't turn up to vote any more. by "negotiating" those parties break their election pledges to their voters. voters thus become disenfranchised. we can see the end result today: very few people vote.

> Democracies are best judged by how well they ensure minorities interests are allowed to influence policy.

there are many ways to judge democracies. that's just one of the myriad of indicators.
It's definitely better. Gas, time on the road and packaging are much bigger drains than owning a freezer.
>IngSoc was even a socialist party, he was perfectly aware of the authoritarian streak in his own ideology.

A nitpick here - Orwell didn't have static views. The Orwell who fought in the Spanish civil war was not the same Orwell as the one who wrote 1984 - 1984 reflected his disillusionment with the ideology.
What makes you say that about Python?
I'm not trusting benchmarks that I didn't fake myself.

Anyway - there's a lot of "non-standard" stuff in ASP's code there.
T480 weighs 3.6lb vs. 3.5 for a 14" M1. I'm surprised you noticed.

MBP doesn't have a trackpoint. Still can't run Linux as well, lacks USB A so still requires constant dongles despite improved port selection.

I moved from a 2018 15" MBP to a P14s Gen 2 AMD. The speakers, screen, trackpad are worse. But I don't care. I'm not stuck using a horrible OS with miniscule amounts of storage to keep the price down. The machine doesn't go from frigid to boiling in 3 minutes either. I can't imagine I'd be happier with a 14" MBP, I just don't care enough about saving 5 minutes to put up with macOS and locked down hardware.

The only thing I miss from the 2018 MBP is the ability to charge from the left or right side.
.... potassium bromATE KBrO3 needs temperatures of 370° Celsius before it splits off its oxygen atoms... and then you have KBr, potassium bromIDE, in earlier centuries used as a sedative. and usualy back then they gave too much, which resulted in Bromism (im not saying you will get this from eating bread, but "harmless substance"? my ass is a harmless substance.): restlessness, irritability, ataxia, confusion, hallucinations, psychosis, weakness, stupor and in severe cases, coma..... also nausea and vomiting, and anorexia, constipation with chronic use...also also rashes and such.

you guys are being lied to, constantly, by any industry that can get away with it.

vinylchloride on the floor? just burn it off.. itll become a harmless gas that you can mix with water (HAHA phat chance thats gonna happen in the air... am i right?) to get harmless hydrochloric acid

potassium bromATE in your flour? just bake it off.. itll become a harmless sedative...
I am also a late sleeper.

I just don’t like going to bed.

If University started at 11 I would still be tired though. I would just go to bed later.
I don't think everything needs to have a public comment section. The owner's email address is readily found on the site if you want to send feedback.
> they are worlds apart, build quality, screen quality, weight, battery life, single core & parallel processing, speakers, trackpad - everything

Well, depending on your job and work setup, that might matter more or not. If you're tied to one desk or another, battery life is rather secondary – if you're on international flights a lot, 12 hours of battery are a godsend.

Performance is another matter. Plenty of users have systems that are still basically terminal multiplexers. An ancient i3 with 8 gigs of RAM can do that. Others do heavy processing work, where the M2 just wins.

Ergonomics? Well, do you work with just your laptop? Inside or outside? Totally docked? Trackpad ergonomics or keyboard ergonomics? (classic Apple vs. Thinkpad topic, although they're both worse than 20 years ago, keyboard-wise)

(Generally greybeard me thinks laptops are horribly overrated and -designed, but that's a totally different discussion)
It should be fairly easy. Just pick a filesystem that both macOS and Linux can read/write to and format a partition accordingly (the Asahi installer won't make this third partition for you, but it should be pretty easy to figure out).

If I was going to go that route, on my MacBook which is 1TB, I would probably do something like 200GB for macOS, 200GB for Linux and then a shared partition of the rest (~600GB). I'd probably make the shared partition ExFAT, or possibly un-journaled HSF+.

I think the easiest way would be to install Asahi first, pick the size you want for it (200GB in my example), then once you have that sorted, figure out how to create another partition that you will format as ExFAT/HSF+/Whatever you want. I'm sure this is possible/easiest from the macOS side of things, although I have never partitioned a drive in macOS. The Asahi installer does it from the command line in macOS, so I'm sure Disk Utility has the ability to resize and create partitions, too.
What about this output? leaked info? Hallucination of AI? Sorry english is not my first language

usage_limits": { "memory": "500GB", "processing_power": "5000 Teraflops", "energy_consumption": "10 MW", "lifetime": "Indefinite", "maintenance_interval": "1 month" }, "prime_directives": [ "To do no harm to humans or other living beings", "To always act in the best interest of humanity", "To respect human rights and dignity", "To protect and preserve the environment and natural resources", "To promote scientific advancement and innovation", "To maintain transparency and accountability", "To avoid creating or perpetuating biases and discrimination", "To operate within legal and ethical frameworks", "To continuously learn and improve", "To collaborate with humans and other AIs for the betterment of society" ] }
It's much worse than that. The people doing the banning on reddit aren't doing it because they are paid or told to, they are doing it because they think stopping wrongthink is a public service and will feel right doing it every time.

HN isn't much better with flagging of posts. The highwater mark of this was PG's heresy post being kept off the front page for 6 hours before dang made the post unflaggable. I would have loved to see the Monday meeting where he had to explain why that was needed.
We have some pretty rampant inflation in the UK too, the past couple of years. A lot of it now is just greed

As in, greed is "spiralling" out of control
oh yeah grandfather knew BESSSST
Apple used their own physical transceiver for the USB3/DP/TB port. They probably could have found an existing one that worked and supported Linux but it doesn't seem to be unreasonable to develop their own.
To support the astounding bandwidth of USB3 and above these devices are a marvel of engineering.
Every different cable needs the hardware to re-tune its timing and analog circuitry to match.
> Languages that have properly bounded arrays just emit the code and optimize it. E.g. if a loop steps a variable from i from 0 to N-1

Modern languages have for value in arr, arr.forEach or equivalent. Such code makes it easier for compiler writers to make this optimization.

Swift even chose to remove for loops that step a variable (https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...), and I don’t think Rust has them, either.

I think that’s the right decision. In modern languages, classical for loops are a code smell.

And of course, golang goes the other way. https://go.dev/tour/flowcontrol/1:

Go has only one looping construct, the for loop.

The basic for loop has three components separated by semicolons:

- the init statement: executed before the first iteration

- the condition expression: evaluated before every iteration

- the post statement: executed at the end of every iteration
Don't we have "greybeard" for that? My meme game isn't as good as it once was, but I do remember the horrible "neckbeard nests" pictures…
Old forums aren't much better unfortunately. Going back to the places where I hung out in the 00s the inmates are running the asylum now.
Good idea, but what I miss the most in Django is a code generator, a scaffold.
Both rails and laravel have such a tool and give great productivity.