skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh interesting. I'll check that out!
Business planning is also thrown by new laws
I wonder how a simple individual can acquire control on a ccTLD.

I always thought they would need to be vetted by the government of that the ccTLD represents.
Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind.

Addendum: nor his body.
> it's not particularly callous to want to feed your family.

Jesus Christ, you just put x in front of the variable!
I think that's the case but wonder what the process is for something coming off the GRAS list. Could cause a big headache for a bunch of companies like Whole Earth Brands who have a lot of capital tied up in Erythritol.
We’re conflating two abstract issues here and you’re accusing me of doing things that I’m not doing.

Imagine a hypothetical scenario: two of your coworkers are in an office and one tells the other something shocking. The second says, “Wow, that’s crazy!” Do you think that’s a micro aggression, or worse, a slur?

Second scenario: you’re talking to a coworker and they say “Bob has been off recently. Some of the stuff he says is so insane. Yesterday he completely embarrassed us in that meeting!” Do you think this is any less hurtful to Bob because your coworker said “insane” instead of “crazy”?

My answers are “no” and “no”, and it seems pretty obvious why. In the first scenario there’s no intention to harm someone and even if harm is done, it’s extremely small. In the second scenario, your coworker is going to say something bad about Bob and it doesn’t matter how tightly you control the corporate Newspeak, he is going to express his opinion.

Grow a spine and realize the world isn’t for or against you, it just is.
> Overall, there may be less competition to attract corporations. At the same time, political competition for residents may become more intense, because more people will be able to choose where to live regardless of where they work. This competition could lead to improvements in schools and parks.

I am as capitalist as they come, but I don't disagree with this assessment at all. I find it bizarre how some cities almost became hostile to their own citizens and got away with it because of a monopoly on the good jobs.
It's honestly scary for some of these old-school Google products that have become vast stores of knowledge.

Besides Google Groups, I worry a lot about the future of Blogger/Blogspot. I personally have a blog that I have maintained from 2007-08 and I often worry about Google just wiping off a part of my internet presence (my own little corner of the web). Google has pretty much left Blogspot to die for better half of the last decade.

And speaking unselfishly, I often find blogger/blogspot blogs on obscure tech topics (usually with the default blogspot template) and I worry how much info we'll just lose to the void if/when Google decides to pull the plug (even with a grace-period, I'm sure most folks wouldn't bother to move this data).

Really shows the value of archival services on the internet and why we need to ensure they can function over time!
But hey we have got a lot of brown marmorated stink bugs now!
There are lots of things that work well for a small number of people who share the right mindset, but work poorly when they scale up to everyone. That's the "sharing" ie "renting out your time and assets" economy. Better experience to keep them capped at a manageable population, but that rules out being a big business.
That's a SUPER interesting idea!
I wonder if inability to hide "Reels" drives disdain.

I get forced Reels into the stream which are just creepy and sleazy, in no way personalized beyond narcissistic women making spectacles of themselves, targeted to me evidently since i'm male, since i loathe that.

Maybe loitering looking at them like "wtf?" is enough to perpetuate them?
What makes anyone think Net Neutrality is less of a pressing issue? Frankly, nowadays, it's even moreso of an issue than ever before!

Do you:

Ever find yourself wondering if you need to upgrade to a "business" plan to host that service?

Ever wonder why it seems one type of traffic ends up running into more problems than others?

Wonder why the local network infrastructure always seems to be woefully inadequate for any type of ambitious use?

All of that comes from a staunch lack of Net Neutrality. Dumb pipes, as many as possible, connecting everyone to everyone else. No QoS segmentation. no fast-lanes. No zero-rating. No nudging people toward one set of endpoints over another. No inspecting the bloody packet; just routing.

Unfortunately; we don't see that, because ISP's are way better at fee extraction and exec/lobbyist enrichment than actually getting bloody wire laid, maintained, and packets routed through the AS anymore.

If it's gotten quiet, it's probably because people are still trying to absorb/learn the implications/principles behind user hostile network topology resulting from exploitative business models.
> Trendy Tools

We can debate the merits of tools... but deliberately selecting any tool because it is "trendy" seems like a bad idea to openly state. Writing a CAD Kernel is extremely difficult (thus why there are, like, 3-4 in use in all CAD packages right now, Parasolid is everywhere)... so the last thing we need is a trendy tool over a pragmatic one.
I've read much of this is improved aerodynamics of cars that prevents the collisions.
https://dronedj.com/2023/03/07/snow-stuck-phone-drone-rescue...
Microsoft Unveils Video Super Resolution for Nvidia and AMD GPUs
FBI chief says TikTok 'screams' of US national security concerns
So I just checked, and instagram doesn’t seem to have become an undeletable system app so it’s really easy?

Instagram has also never had the network effects that require you have/maintain it so I’m not sure what these people are complaining about?
> The sad thing is we may loose the history that came from dejanews,

I'm actually quite happy with that. I was on Usenet as an imprudent teenager. I'm sure there's stuff I posted that I don't want associated with me now.

Also, possibly some stuff that could associate this nickname with my real name, and since there's also stuff on HN I don't want associated with me.
This is all people. Calling yourself an introvert is a prime example in fact.

Notice how the top level example didn't start with randos, but family members and close associates.
please bring firefox versions from the start. You are only playing into the chrome monopoly by treating firefox users as second class citizens then complaining there is no "demand"
> I quite frankly don't care if the government knows what porn I watch. I'm really tired of this puritanical-inspired take on privacy.

The thing is, invasive acts against civic freedoms tend to be started going against sex workers or be justified with sexuality/morals. Just look at Florida and the book bans or how sex work is criminalized in a lot of countries, including wide parts of the US. Why should I trust a government with my porn when it deems it necessary to determine under which conditions two adults can have consensual sex?

> Freezing assets is completely different, but I don't see how that's relevant in the context. You're just waving the vague feeling that government is this evil omnipotent being.

I'm German. My ancestors abused innoucuous data registers to have precise lists on who was to be transported off to gas chambers, less than a hundred years ago. I live less than 20km from the KZ Dachau, where the Nazis murdered tens of thousands of people. That gives a pretty harsh view on just how evil governments can become if citizens do not care.
The newcomer has the superior moral right to the land?

Although the entire US is the result of newcomers bulldozing the natives, I thought we at least on paper recognize that was not a good thing.

I wasn't sure about expressing an argument that even hints conservative sympathy, but this completely amazing thing you just said removes all doubt. I don't live there and probably never will, but now I say good for them. I hope they tell anyone coming along with the attitude you just expressed to gfys.
Ask HN: Why are PDFs still heavily used?
PDFs are terrible to view on mobile. They have accessibility issues, navigation is painful, the content is static, and so on [1].

Web standards fix many of the problems. So why are PDFs still used, particularly for publishing reports?

1: https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consump...
I don’t think a little light-hearted pun thread turns HN into Reddit, especially when the title of the article itself is a pun.

Not justification, simply observation: I would hope that anyone reading the title would get the reference but I’ve been surprised before. This thread is an additional clue to the uninitiated that they may have missed something.
As, well, a human being, yes: I am just fine with refraining from volunteering my time or attention to people who fit or do not fit some criteria. It's called "freedom of association."
Yeah totally agree. Most of the time branch deployments are short lived, single commit branches that live for the duration of the PR
Check if your country has public-funded LISTSERV/Mailman/* instances. If not, I'll check https://gaggle.email
Scientists Revive Virus That Spent 48,500 Years Frozen in Permafrost
I'm sure there are rat and mouse brain cells free for the taking from almost any pharmaceutical testing lab.

If organics is the only factor, I don't know why those wouldn't perform as well as human or ape brain cells.
You deleted the app not Facebook and it is absolutely not obvious how to delete your account.
Because freedom is moderation. A place without moderation turns into a spam, gore, cp, racist, sexist shithole where no discourse happens. You may be nostalgic for usenets groups but that was a different time when a very small slice of society used those.
Can attest Blue Pure 211+ remembers its speed after being power cycled. And no smart features whatsoever.
That depends. Factory work is often attracted to a dieing town in the middle of nowhere they can scoup up cheap labor that is just skilled enough. You can only get your factory so large doing this though, but there are towns of 5-10k people that fit the bill just fine for manufacturing cheap in the US.
There are a few countries who compete for residents.

For example, The Netherlands has a 30% tax advantage for all immigrants, for 5 years. Thats huuuuuge.

[1]: https://www.iamsterdam.com/en/live-work-study/living/officia...
PDF content is consistent across devices.

The lack of changing on mobile is technically a feature.
I know that at least LabVIEW (which is otherwise Turing complete) will throw a compiler error when you try to call a function anywhere within its own code. Actually, being a graphical language with hardly a difference between “function”,
“module” and “user interface”, it’s a bit more involved, but it goes through some length to make sure it’s non-trivial without resorting to something like shell scripting to make a recursive call. It doesn’t really have any dynamic programming capabilities as far as I know so a static analysis is probably enough for the compiler.

Apparently recursion was deemed “too confusing”…

On the other hand, it sounds like Plankakül was more of an intellectual exercise than an implementation, so we don’t know how much extant implementations comply with that spec…
> persist in the systems that are causing those falling birthrates

Care to specify which systems are causing the falling birthrates?
Wait, you think you stop having a facebook account by deleting the app on your phone? Probably shouldnt be calling other people tech illiterate tbh
The scenario described in this article comes the closest, detailing a mechanism that may have been responsible for the end-Permian mass extinction, wherein warming oceans become anoxic and begin to release huge quantities of hydrogen sulfide gas. The gas is directly lethal to most life in the oceans and on land, and destroys the ozone layer as a bonus. It's hard for me to imagine any way in which an agricultural human civilization could survive that scenario.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/impact-from-the-d...
Modern fruit isn't "engineered to be low in nutrients", this is straight up FUD. Selective breeding is all about tradeoffs and micro-nutrient density has historically been hard to select for, but your average supermarket apple is bursting with potassium, phosphorus, and vitamins C and E.
They are also counting absolute numbers instead of numbers relative to the size of the social network. That means the bigger ones will generally be higher. Instagram seems to be about 5 times the size of Snap but only has roughly 3 times the number of people seeking to leave the platform. That means relatively people are seeking to leave Snap more than Instagram.

Honestly this isn't a very good article and seems to just be blogspam.
I'll check things out again later. At some point I remember things getting unstable and not being able to post messages (this was when the original owner was giving up).
Yes. Either buy a low cost USENET account from a commercial provider, or sign up at http://www.eternal-september.org/ and then use a real USENET client (which will be better for interacting with USENET than the awful interface that is google groups).
> until this gets independently replicated.

hmm, very interesting. I don't think it works like that anymore. The next step has got to be commercial availability. else investors to would loose money or worse, some Chinese company could "steal" the future profits from this valuable novel technology painstakingly developed by the publishing group.
One of my favorite finds this year is Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee. 52 stories of women I'd never heard before, each a total badass.
10M Secrets Discovered in GitHub in 2023, Exposed by 1.35M Authors (1 in 10)
I hate to inform you but, as someone that has to directly deal with the average person that uses technology, the vast majority of people fall into the 'too technologically illiterate to manage the apps installed on their own device' category.
Not trying to discourage you, but a reliable geometric kernel takes around a decade of work to develop, for a team of PhDs.

Based on the docs, you've only implemented some very basic topological operations (and rendering, for some reason). The hard part is going to be implementing the rest: boolean operations, offset surfaces, lofted surfaces, blended surfaces, etc. and then there's the problem of version control / edit history. Efficiently and accurately implementing each of these can be a year-long research project in itself... You need a solid understanding of 3D topology, numerical methods, 3D differential geometry, etc.

Nevertheless, I wish you luck! I will check back in a year or so.
Something I hope to start seeing is "middle of nowhere" gas stations adding chargers powered by onsite solar and/or wind turbines.

This could give these businesses a new revenue source, but more importantly, one that doesn't rely on buying fuel. It doesn't replace their model, just adds to it (with what I'd imagine to be a pretty steep investment in terms of equipment costs).

To be fair, I've not done the math to determine what might be required in terms of equipment needed to support EV charging commercially like this. My intuition is that it's certainly possible, but it's not the same thing as residential charging. For example, the solar cells I have on my home are able keep my EV topped off for my 20-30 miles of daily driving, but wouldn't handle 200-300 miles of daily driving for a single car, let alone the many potential EVs that might need that level of charging on a daily basis.
How specifically does intersectionality demand tokenism? You've convincingly argued that tokenism is a thing, and you've used the term "intersectionality" in your argument, but you haven't connected the notions.
> A healthy diet can easily include occasional sweet foods and drinks. When I was counting calories

I actually agree with this. From a pure calorie-counting and weight loss standpoint, you can almost always make room for sweets and still achieve your goals. A caloric intake is like any other budget. Sure, I can come up with money for a Burberry hoodie but it means delaying that GPU upgrade for another year (needless to say my clothes do not come from couture houses).

I just find it hard to put sugar calories in my body when those calories could be going to protein for building muscle or fats and low-gi carbs for sustained energy. About the only time I can consume very sugary foods these days is on long and intense cycling workouts, and even then I have to force myself to do it.

> Unless you are a tiny woman, in which case it seems really really difficult to restrict calories enough to lose weight but still eat a healthy minimum of calories per day

Really really difficult is spot on. My SO is a tiny female and managed to drop from 53kg to 45kg. It required an extremely well controlled diet, 600-700kcal workouts 6 days a week, and took around 9 months. Restaurants were all but off the table since you never know where they sneak in calories and even sharing a plate with me might be too much. She sustains at around 46-47kg right now, which does allow some wiggle room in the diet, but the weight loss part itself was definitely beyond what most people are willing to do.
i used it to do tech support for my CSVFix foss software. it was free and worked ok - what more do you want?

at least it lasted much longer than google code, which is where i used to host my foss projects. when that closed, i switched to bit bucket (mercurial user here) and then they dropped mercurial support. i sure can pick them!
When we moved to the mountains my son really wanted to see a porcupine. I talked to an oldtimer forrester friend and he said that in the 60s/70s they sprayed to kill all the underbrush to make logging easier and that that changed the fauna quite a bit and that was when porcupine's became uncommon. I thought it sad we thought we were hiking through natural forests but they had been heavily changed by an expedited business practice from a few decades in the last century.

We saw everything from otters and beavers to lynx, grizzlies and cougars in our journeys, but never a porcupine.
This is interesting, thanks! I use lilypond heavily, but not really as part of the composition workflow. So you are able to work in musescore, export, and pull the results into lilypond? I didn't think the musicxml story was very strong for lilypond.
> because they are a single issue voter.

If they're a single-issue voter then - by definition - they are not voting against their interests. They just have different interests than you.

Maybe you care about a million things, mostly revolving around taxes.

Maybe all they care about is whether or not someone else can get an abortion.

That's THEIR interest.
What do you mean exactly? Isn't the whole point that it responds to natural language queries? Is there an advanced syntax or something you're referring to?
Nice to see another kernel for sure.

Haven’t read much, but it sounds intriguing…
That would be like saying government exists because we enjoy bureaucracies.

We accept bureaucracies because it helps us achieve common good that wouldn’t exist if everyone only looked out for themselves.

Roads and other infrastructure. Plumbing and water treatment. Sewers. Building codes. Schools for everyone. On and on and on these are things we’ve decided we’re better if everyone has access to or has to abide by, even if individually nobody would make it happen.
gold! I found koinly extremely frustrating -- had to reconcile everything
That's a really slick workflow and I totally agree that writing music is just listening to music in your head. :)

I write a lot of multi-part scores (i.e for big band and small jazz combos) and the idea of linting to check for things like note doubling or parallel fifths is a dream of mine.

When you say write parts of this composition into the script - what form does that take ? Is it midi ? Is it score data generate by a musescore plugin ? This workflow sounds amazing and I'm really curious how you get from point A to the intermediate point.
If you really like soda water (seltzer) make your own machine, you can carbonate to a much higher pressure and the result is amazing! Also a lot cheaper - around $0.04/bottle for the gas.
> They have to rely on municipal and provincial police forces who'd shown total disinterest in doing their jobs. The inquiry found that.

Well, the solution is to take over municipal and provincial police forces and make sure they do their jobs. The solution is not to freeze people's bank accounts.

> Why would a porn site want to authenticate their users against digital ID? And if some porn sites don't, why would anybody patronize one that did?

Because this is the situation in Germany and IIRC also the UK. (Guess the number of German porn sites Germans use - next to none)

> What matters is that the option needs to be there - people running a service need to be able to say "I want to be able to know which of my users are real humans, and to be able to revoke said humans permanently if necessary".

It's precisely the other way around. People should demand they can use any legal service anonymously, and it should be the default option to keep as much of a service anonymously usable - in fact, this is one of the core principles of the GDPR, to minimize the data anyone has.
Mason bees, for instance, do ~3x the pollination work per-bee, and are relatively easy to accommodate in any garden or yard:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason_bee

This doesn't make the overall collapse in biodiversity and insect biomass any less serious.
That how its done, said the King. Been to plenty of stakeholder meetings where the outcome was pre-determined and the meeting was simply a rouse to demonstrate public involvement.

Survey asks: Rate the benefits of this plan

- Its good

- Its great

- Its awesome

99% of respondents said this plan is good or better
> and every dollar worth of residential housing is a money pit.

This can't possibly be true in any of the municipalities I've ever lived in. Property taxes are insane, like fancy private school tuition insane and it's definitely not going into the roads. Actually lets break it down:

Power, water, and sewer are paid for by their consumption. My local utilities actually have the problem that they _make_ too much money.

Roads are paid for by fuel/registration taxes/insane vehicle sales tax.

Schools are paid by property tax, but every public school in every jurisdiction I've ever lived in has been inferior to private while costing me almost as much via property tax.

Then there's Fire and Police, but those costs should be minimal and distributed over the huge number of residents.

Then there's the mail, oh wait that's again funded by usage.

Zoning and code compliance? Again, absolutely minimal costs there. Permits cost $... so again funded by usage!

Central planning for development? _What_ planning? lol.

I know where this is coming from, poorly researched and often-dishonest narrative from "not just bikes" and their ilk. In reality residential communities are huge tax farms. Every watt of power, gallon of water, etc is *paid for* (including a healthy markup). The damn roads don't cost $15k/year.
Not caring what people think doesn't mean he can't communicate with others. Introvert doesn't mean asocial.
You can try this on yourself pretty easily.

Two fingers under the watch (far enough to cover the heartbeat sensor) and a swift upwards yank will pop the strap underneath and it’ll lift right off.

The thing is, if someone has your unlocked watch, what can they really do? This is a question I’ve never really known the answer to and doubt you ever would know clearly.

Certainly banking apps don’t seem to have a lot of functionality on watchOS, but I’m unsure to what extent being signed in on an unlocked watch is the same as being signed in on an unlocked phone. Can i authorise a new phone just from the watch? I can certainly get 2FA codes to the watch, so the answer I guess is maybe.