skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In other countries they add fluoride to tap water, which I'm pretty sure is worse; it causes fluoridosis (minerals being stripped from teeth) and may cause behavioural differences (the science is not conclusive if you google it, one of the more batshit headlines says "A chemical used to fluoridate the drinking water of 150 million Americans may foster violent behavior and cocaine use in some of those who drink the water")
Angel here would be an "aligned" AI: an AI whose behavior is in line with human values. A demon is simply an unaligned one.

The key point would be that it needs not be actively hostile to human values, but indifferent to them. Think of a Lovecraftian Elder God, not AI Hitler.

The supporting hypotheses would be that it's much easier to create an unaligned AI than an aligned one, as an aligned one is an unaligned one with additional constraints, and that unaligned AIs will wreak massive destruction.
Stories like that kept me from getting surgery to correct a deviated septum. I have been able to avoid it up to now. The key that corrected most of my sinus problems was nasal rinsing with salt water. Always try surgical alternatives first.
SPAs exist because of the developer experience and user experience, the support for complexity is an added bonus.

Everything can be done with SSR, but some things are terrible with SSR (oh, you need real-time updates? have some meta http-equiv refresh header, and observe the beauty of the page going blank and re-rendering every second).

Before you ask about the developer experience: it's about having developers that can focus their brainpower into animations and interaction design without having the expectations of having to know SQL.
I'm glad you posted this, I was confused as to whether "basic data structure" meant something different to Rustfolk than it did to the rest of us.
Because it was more a theoretical exercise.

The later languages were much more constrained by actual implementations.

On the other hand the later implementors realized that some convenience is needed, for example even the earliest languages (like autocode) had variable names instead of variable numbers.
We've just invented the hammer.

It can do a lot of cool things! You can build a house with it, you can smith metal with it, and you can even use it as a weapon.

The thing is, right now, we're so amazed by its potential that we're finding a lot of uses that, while technically possible, aren't a great fit.

Technically you can use the hammer as an axe, a hole digger, and a backscratcher, but there are far better tools for the job.
I live in one, it isn't that awesome. Lots of noise from neighbours, but the worst thing is the big fire hazard. The risk of fire means there is a lot of sprinklers everywhere which regularly get damaged and leak everywhere. Usually every 2-3 years in our building a sprinkler pipe will get broken or leak will appear and destroy a few units.
The challenge is that the option to use money to resolve issues fast becomes to a tendency to resort to the conveniences of money. This tendency censors me from meaning embedded in everyday life, and it's something i have to work to avoid.

Not even getting to the part about all the sacrifices I've made to make this money.
A long, tragic history of SQLite, the web, and my career
I did not know who that Kinsey guy is (but I don't like Crowley).

To my mind, the sexual revolution as we know it came with The Pill and with the new generation (traditionally) trying to reject some of the ossified norms of previous generations. The "summer of love" in 1968, and the general hippie attitude towards "free love" seems to have neither satanic / crowlean nor pedophilic overtones.

Can't vouch for whatever sexual liberation movements there have been in early 20th century; there was a lot of anti-religion movement by then, from the Freudian approach to the outright militant anti-Chrisitianity of the Russian revolution.
Surprised there is no archive link since its been locked behind a paywall. Here it is for anyone who is having trouble:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220403135108/https://www.theat...
In Italy, the retirement age was raised to 67 in 2011. However, in some cases, it is still possible to retire earlier, but the amount you receive will be proportionally adjusted based on your remaining life expectancy.

This change in retirement age only partially applies to those who started working before 1995. Therefore, it is still in a transition phase, and it will take some time before it takes full effect.
I only wish I could highlight ebooks
3.9ms measured audio latency using a loopback cable.

https://rerdavies.github.io/pipedal/AudioLatency.html
That emoji attack is hilarious, who would have thought that twitter-speak is watermark resistant.
There are many situations where you don't get to choose what scripting language you're going to use.
I am happy for you, as it is clear you've never experienced actual bullying.
Hi lexi.

Just wanted to say that fp-ts (now effect-ts, a ZIO port to TypeScript) author Giulio Canti is a great fan of your "parse don't validate" article. He's linked it many times in the TypeScript and functional programming channels (such as the fp slack).

Needless to say, both fp-ts-derived io-ts library and effect-ts library schema[1] are obviously quite advanced parsers (and in case of schema, there's decoding, encoding, APIs, guard, arbitrary and many other nice things I haven't seen in any functional language).

[1]https://github.com/Effect-TS/schema
You probably don't need JupyterHub on Kubernetes
I'm quite excited for conversing with next generations of AI using COBOL. All those people saying COBOL is dead will finally be proven wrong!
So a credit score but for the ad industry.
A deeper dive into our productivity (declining) puzzle
The title made me cringe.
> But what about the poor SUV drivers? And all this green stuff is gonna make us poor!

That's basically been the reaction of the boomer generation I heard when talking about the looming eco disaster. When getting decent bicycle infrastructure in cities is impossible because half the population does not only doesn't care but actively opposes any change we can forget about changing any of this. It's going to happen.

The question then becomes: What can we do to deal with that? How can we replace the polinators?
> homebuyers just are the municipality

I think in most US states, the legal situation is actually that local governments are creations of the state. They are allowed to have their own ordinances and so on as a matter of convenience, to avoid state legislators having to bother worrying about every edge case that only comes up in one county, but they do not have a right to exist independent of the state saying that they do. There are exceptions, but municipal ordinances (and HOA rules) can be overridden by state law.

We don't /have/ to let all these little NIMBY fiefdoms exist. They exist at the pleasure of the state legislature, and therefore voters statewide, not just locally (modulo gerrymandering, a big caveat).
Convolutional Neural Networks implemented in Minecraft
Of course, in this case the Dutch won by (1) investing for the long term and (2) not stopping when they were one step ahead of <other country>
Affect? I just like congruence.

I often use the push instructions that a new empty github project prompts, and do it frequently enough that I want my system defaults to match those instructions.

Its not important to me to know that my system could overwrite those instructions successfully because "master" or whatever my local branch is called can be written into the command line. Its not important to me that "main" is a contrived replacement for "master".
We've got a water filter for one of our cats, the de-mineralization really does a number on the flavor. Some of the best water I've had came from a tap at a campsite close to a water source. Said water source was drinkable too, straight from the river.
> Californians: Let's oppose all new housing

This is like snarkily claiming "Senators: let's oppose all new laws", which refuses to acknowledge that gridlock comes from a sufficient minority exists to create hurdles for any new policy.

The problem is that roughly 0% of Californians will say they want no new housing, but a enough of them will oppose the specific projects that are near them, with the effect that all housing construction projects get hindered, even when everyone says in the abstract that more housing is needed and important.
You can also simply parse with a type guard in typescript.

Or do something more advanced like implement Decoders/Encoders.
Even if your old one does start to go bad, I discovered it can be more effective to repair than replace for a multifunction printer/scanner. My old Brother was on the fritz a year ago. After being shocked by prices for new ones, I found a printer repair shop across the Bay from me. They fixed it for much less than the price of a new one. And they told me to keep it as long as I can because it’s such a good piece of hardware.
Are there comparable Android options out there?
I think their point was not so much that 20B is nothing, but that somebody cough cough no names cough paid way too much for a used social media network.
You'll get lower latency with 3 buffers. Try 16/3.
Alright, about enough of this garbage. I'll stick to googling.
I think the argument is that whatever search option you choose to use will inherently have the same problems

Noise isn't just the paid ads, it's the websites gaming SEO for valuable searches. And that is not isolated to Google

> more valuable the related search is per amount spent on advertising, the more the noise and as result, more resources user will need to spend to enhance the signal

Sums it quite well really
Dupe of my own submission earlier:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35066876#35070202
> Type systems

Sure SQL has types, but they are checked at runtime, not compile time. Also you cannot define function input and return arguments with types that are checked before you run the program.

> compilers

If you want efficient and/or portable code. They will check your code for type errors before you run them. They give you coding assistance in your editor.

> debuggers

Being able to break a program and see its state and function stack is useful. The quality of the tools for real languages are much better than SQL.

I agree that databases do concurrency better than most languages with their transactions (I mentioned I would use the db for ACID).

> text editors, package managers.

Editor support of real languages is much better than SQL.

Package managers enable code re-use.

> C FFI

Take for example Python. A huge amount of the value comes from re-using C libraries that are wrapped with a nice Python API.

You might be able to do this in SQL, but you'll have to wrap the C library yourself as there is no package manager, and no one else is doing the same thing.
What if all lawyers were physicists too? We send electricity and light over wires and fibers to transfer the data using physics, thereby we are physically transferring the data.
The famine killed more people than nuclear power ever did, yet green activists are all for killing off nuclear power and not socialism.
You're describing sunset clause or sunset provision!

A law requires further legislative action for it to not disappear on a certain pre-set date.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunset_provision

Another variation I think I read about is where the law is implemented with an explicit goal that must be achieved by a certain date, and if the goal is achieved, the law becomes a regular law; if the pre-defined metric is not met by the certain date, the law disappears.
Ha ha ha. If you taxed 100% of the wealth of the wealthiest (Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Zuckerberg, John Kerry, et al - everyone worth say over $100 million) amongst us, you wouldn't even make a dent in the national debt. And I mean take every nickel they have, the national debt will still be out of control. The old saw that tax cuts for the wealthiest increases the national debt is an argument that simply cannot stand up to scrutiny.
Are you limited to open space camping in sunny weather?
It's not just jobs, it's stuff like housing, government services - and then there's this phenomenon along the NY-PA state line, when New Yorkers sell up once their children are out of school and move to Pennsylvania. Local taxes are lower in PA, but schools are worse, too.
I wonder if they made assumptions based on the water filter that also did UV disinfection.

But, any source of food and water should be subject to frequent testing, it should have flagged up much sooner than this. This also applies outside of hospitals, the dodgy looking ice machines in e.g. hotels probably don't get tested at all.
Robert Luna was elected into office for this specific reason, LA County voters also enacted additional measures to deal with rogue LA Sheriffs because there were no legal remedies.

People are doing something and have made sure they can do more things.

https://abc7.com/la-county-sheriff-robert-luna-alex-villanue...

https://ballotpedia.org/Los_Angeles_County,_Measure_A,_Remov...

yes, you are reading this correctly, that Los Angeles County, starting in 2023 just received the power to do anything to Los Angeles Sheriff department

Villaneuva and the internal gangs were that unconscionable.
This reminds me of my time at
Bloomberg. The C++ support from IBM and Oracle/Sun wasn’t nearly up to date, and without a large customer willing to foot the bill to improve the toolchains IBM and Oracle/Sun weren’t going to do the work.

There was a Linux migration project to move the company to Linux. I haven’t heard anything from people inside, but I’m willing to bet that there are still some stragglers that haven’t moved yet.
I really like Grafana. Much prefer it over the chaos that is the Datadog UI.
And often it's not even as much an actual lawsuit, but the mere threat of one. The lawsuit doesn't have to be successful or based in environmental reality to stop projects, it merely has to delay construction long enough to force the builder to go get a different loan, pay for the frivolous legal defense, and in the meantime labor costs have risen resulting in having to redo all the planning work around the budget, pro forma, etc.

CEQA lawsuit threats would disappear if they were resolved in a timely manner, say 30-60 days. Instead, a multi-year delay will kill projects.
I'm a registered nurse, and while not an expert in microbio, I have more training in it than the average bear.

It doesn't take much for bacteria or fungi to start growing on previously filtered water once it's open to air. Just take a glass of filtered water and leave it out for a few weeks. Some glasses won't grow anything. Others will have all sorts of things floating on the surface.

Pasteur is credited for formalizing this knowledge when he figured out that if you used a crooked necked flask to store media, it reduces the chance of airborne contamination.

Once bacteria form a biofilm, it could make it more difficult for any chlorine or UV light to disinfect or sanitize the surface. The bacteria have formed a sort of protective bubble.

Mycobacteria are particularly good at resisting various antibiotics because they have a thicker than average cell envelope. Mycobacterium tuberculosis is another bug in this family.
If you do go this route, this blog post might be useful: https://xeiaso.net/blog/how-i-start-nix-2020-03-08

I found it yesterday (via another HN post), which shows the steps needed for exactly your use case.
Will be really interested to see how they progress with this. I know Mint has also been exploring a Debian-based version of their distro, but they explain it more as something to have in their back pocket in case Ubuntu is no longer a viable option at some point in the future.

I hear a lot that the work that Canonical puts into making Ubuntu a reliable, high quality desktop distro would be hard to replicate if distro builders were to move upstream, but I wonder if this is still as true in 2023.

The world has enough Ubuntu-based distros at this point, I think, and many of them just feel like re-skins that don't do enough to differentiate themselves.

Also, being based on Ubuntu means you are really trapped in their twice year release cycle, whereas building off of sid you could potentially do more frequent releases. I'm not personally a huge fan of rolling releases, but would love a distro that releases semi-frequently (2-3 months vs 6).
> "Nearly every single known artist is known because they developed a unique style, and worked to develop that style. They didn't just copy other peoples stuff and sell it. To make a machine that just rips off peoples styles and then you charge money for it is freaking lame as and I really hope they get sued hard for it."

Because when you drink Cherry Cola or eat Cherry Bakewell Tart, your first thought is to the chemist who worked hard to make the synthetic flavour, and then criticism to the company that just "copies other peoples stuff and sells it" hoping they get sued hard for it?
Absolutely agree. Thank you btw for bringing up some of the recent history. People forget so easily
No. It's real. According to dang, showHN is suppose to be a "safe space". You could make absolute crap, everyone is suppose to be positive about it. Dang will flag people who don't do this.

Nothing dang can do though is hundreds of people hate it though. Things with actual security issues for example he'll likely just be quiet about it.
Thanks, yeah that seems to be my only recourse (PayPal). Unfortunately, PayPal is asking me for a screenshot 'proof' that I've tried to contact Ebay about this; so far I haven't found a way to do that.

Quite a shitty system, you'd think getting help when being scammed would be easy but of course the opposite is the case. I should have just closed my Ebay account 8 months ago when they screwed me over on a lost FEDEX package. Once this is resolved, I'm closing my ebay account, what hot garbage.
I see that now. Yes, they seem to be a better option than other batteries. However, you're still mining stuff from the earth and the idea that disposing of current vehicles (or other fossil fuel powered things) is better for the environment is just silly.

You also didn't address the recyclable part. From what I can see LiFePO4 batteries are supposedly easier to recycle but I'm going to take that with a grain of salt. Almost all the things they've told us are being recycled just get dumped in the ocean in China. I have my doubts that anyone is actually recycling these batteries effectively.
> unparalleled spyware tool

Google Analytics? Facebook, via Facebook buttons? Or the Facebook app known for accessing private data from exploits?

I don't see how TikTok is any worse than US Big Tech.
Wow - [1] should be considered required reading. OpenAI is baking in human employee biases during fine-tuning.

I would want to see the exact set of posed completions and paired responses.
4-5 stories is typically the maximum before an elevator is required by code/overwhelmingly desired.

You can compare the relative success of low-income low-rise developments vs. the notorious high-rise projects that were universal failures
then you are back to having a light switch that you might absentmindedly forget to turn off costing money.
Finally a use case for generative AI that might improve the world.
In that size range you can open the window on the top floor, identify people at ground level and even have a conversation even if it means yelling.
Databend v1.0
A low correlation tells you that the relationship between the two specific variables isn’t meaningful. It doesn’t tell you anything about other variables, maybe you’re thinking of R^2? Regardless both metrics assume you’re dealing with a linear model which is a big assumption in its own right.
Transaction taxes have an entirely different set of loopholes.

You're not solving anything by switching the form of taxation.
In all likelihood a 75k number was output to an equation where there are two earners making that because I agree the 125 to 150 range is where households begin independence now. Anecdotally, I've debated this with friends and often times luxary and entertainment is 100% overlooked when in reality people have to do some sort of hobby or entertainment to make life tolerable.
seems strange, since most rubyist aren't compiler engineers. I feel like you'd still want to keep writing your compiler in Rust, and try to eek out your performance there.

I'm still scratching my head, other than accessibility, Why Ruby over Rust.

Note: I'm a Ruby dev, I don't know Rust. I've written few toy interpreters in Elixir and OCaml. This is my very limited understanding of compiler design, etc.
Ask HN: What is your favorite set of docs and onboarding materials?
I've been tasked with building out the entry point for an entire tech ecosystem. I have my own personal preferences, but I'd love to hear from the HN community what you're favorite examples of

- docs
- tutorials
- example implementations
- community tools
- etc

Hit me!
Yeah, I could easily see one person reading this and thinking that organized crime has infiltrated the police, while another would see this as a hit piece on cop buddies who give each other cutesy nicknames and get the same tattoos
Is Portland a city? Because it is almost 100% made up of what would otherwise be considered suburban neighborhoods. Single family homes with yards. There is a tiny core nestled between the river and the hills with a few blocks of urban city. The city does have public transportation. Though you'd mostly find that living without a car would require sacrifices that people aren't willing to make.

And what about out west of there? Beaverton, is that city? Hillsboro? These places are suburban cities with public transit.

Could also look north, to Seattle. Larger than Portland for sure, but fundamentally similar concept.

So this is where I see the goalposts getting moved. Lots of people say 'suburban' and only think of the endless tracts of housing with no commercial or retail space. That's just one kind of suburbia. Common in some regions (midwest comes to mind), less so in others.
Who is this "we"
Yes I realize. I didn't claim otherwise. The original post was about dropping support for older C++ standards. I was pointing out that Abseil's proposition is quite a bit more heavy handed than Boost's.
I buy into the idea that high housing costs are the #1 reason, but I do want to point out that mild weather increases the visibility of the homeless population.

For most Americans, when they think of homeless people they don’t really care as long as they are out of sight and out of mind. So I believe that’s where the misconception comes from.
To be fair, it was likely on the inside. But still, it should be flushed out (and tested) on the regular.
Link to Github: https://github.com/datafuselabs/databend
It would be nice if they could make them look good. The examples in that article are hideous. Sad that beautiful towns will have to take in such awful architecture because it's relatively cheap to construct and will get the builder through warranty. But it isn't based in any historical standard, just a post-modern hellscape. Especially that one in NJ - it's just the worst thing I think I've ever seen.

They should at least make the facades respect a standard sort of like how they do in England and parts of Europe.
Greg Bear's Eon also had the characters using "search programs" which were autonomous agents to collect data for consumption, which seems like something that's obviously coming soon.

Although that's a more recent work, coming out in 1985.
Also it's not obvious that it works the other way.

The only requirement of the flash reset operation is that it consistently causes bits to read as 1 and that the normal write operation allows them to read as 0 again; it doesn't actually follow from that that an erased-but-not-reprogrammed block will have cell charge levels that are indistinguishable from each other based on the pre-erasure charge level.