skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The opposition agreeing - you mean like the Green party who wanted to end nuclear like forever?

No, I mean pretty much everyone: 513 yes to 79 no.

> abolish compulsory military service

hard to believe? I guess we agree to disagree.
>>The Netherlands are the second largest exporter of agricultural products in the world.

Amazing! Good for them. One would think such agricultural and engineering powerhouse could solve the nitrogen problem with technology and not resort to destroying one of it's most innovative industries.

>>They can severely reduce farming without endangering domestic food supplies.

That's probably what the Germans thought when they closed their nuclear power plants. And then the invasion of Ukraine happened.

>>Of course these products that are consumed would have to be produced somewhere else, but since the pollution (nitrogen) is a local problem, this would still be a net win, and not just moving the problem around.

TIL: polluting some other third world country, with severe lack of environment standards and inefficient agriculture is called a net win.
Find people going on leave and ask to keep their work going while they’re gone.
I actually agree on this, but I was just replying to your statement that they decided to shut down nuclear to replace it with russian gas.
Make sure your employment contract doesn't disqualify you from doing so. Unfortunately, some companies attempt to lock you in from working elsewhere simultaneously.
I think you're drawing the wrong conclusions from my comment based on your need to vent because you have a chip on your shoulder because you feel like Germany didn't roll the red carped enough for you.

Whether you like it or not it's always the immigrants who should integrate into their new country, not the country to change centuries of culture and identity around for the immigrants. Germany is already welcoming enough to immigrants as it is. The best in EU I'd say, as other countries are much worse.

And each country has their own mentality and national identity developed over centuries, and as flawed as they may be in your viewpoint, these don't change overnight just because you decided to move in and don't like it there.

Blaming my viewpoint and calling it racist, for your personal (maybe flawed) life choices in immigration and your lack of success in integration, won't really help you, because yes, it's just like a relationship. If you don't like it somewhere, then pack up and leave. Simple.

If you want to change things in your favor then get citizenship and vote, or walk somewhere else that fits your personal view. It's not a racist viewpoint, it's just the cold hard truth of how all societies work in real life, and refusing to integrate somewhere is just rude and counter productive to everyone.

Venting on the internet that the country you voluntarily moved to doesn't give you the special treatment you were expecting, is just laughable and pointless.

People keep bashing Germany that it's the worst welcoming for expats, yet they won't stop coming to Germany:)) So because people won't stop coming, anbbecause nobody walks away, Germany will never see the need to change anything. Simple.
I'd agree with this. When I need to take "look away" breaks from work, I check some of the streams focused on the SpaceX facilities in Boca Chica; so I've stayed pretty current with the happenings there and the progress with the program. I think I'd characterize the possible test launch results like this:

1) Significant failure: the rocket catastrophically fails on the pad, damaging the ground equipment significantly.

2) Program setback: the rocket clears the pad, but fails to reach Max Q and requires significant redesigns (we might see some built prototypes scrapped if that's the case) or if the ground equipment needs significant redesign or repair after launch; I exclude the addition of deluge from that since it probably won't be there for first launch, but is already planned for installation.

3) Somewhat successful: the rocket gets off the pad and fails to reach Max Q, but the failure is the result of some less fundamental issue such as valves getting stuck, etc. causing termination of the flight.

4) Success: the rocket gets past Max Q without significant issue.

5) Very successful: Ship achieves planned trajectory.

And everything thereafter is just gravy (soft landings, tiles not falling off, etc).
Using that metric has its own downsides though, depending on the content.

If I am searching for some particular piece of information, the best site is the one that has that up front, which means I get in and leave pretty fast.

Assuming that a user spending more time on a site is a good thing leads to large amounts of fluff (like with recipes...). But then again, there are some sites where that metric would be helpful.
Sucrose is what bees crave so its pull must be deeply embedded in our reward system. I associate the high sugar consumption with short circuiting the reward system.
I wonder how that breaks down between Credit Suisse and USB workforce. My guess Credit Suisse people will be the unlucky ones, with the execs being let go getting a nice big bonus.

USB got what it wanted, the Assets and probably a nice restructuring for the liabilities. So it will get rid of everything else from Credit Suisse :(
In addition to what others have said, it is also freely licensed and open source, with ports to my daily drivers macOS and xorg/Linux. I wonder if a Windows port is in the works too?
ChromeOS? It can be installed on generic hardware with ChromeOS flex. I also don't see how it's not a Linux distro, considering it runs LXC and KVM.

A Linux distro is simply a Linux kernel + someone else's mess on top. ChromeOS fits this.
After Einstein died, his brain was removed and analyzed. One of the findings was that he had more glials cells than normal people.

This means that he probably did not get as tired from thinking as other people do. But he also slept 10 hours per day.
Here's a non-paywalled article from a few years earlier where this technique was developed:

"Working Memory Modulates Glutamate Levels in the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex during 1H fMRS" (2018)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5845718/

> "We interpret elevated glutamate levels during working memory task performance to reflect increased metabolic activity and excitatory neurotransmission driven by working memory-related demands."

Practically, it might be beneficial to take cognitive breaks before exhaustion sets in, as well as improve blood flow and oxygen delivery - i.e. get up, walk around, drink some water, meditate for a few minutes etc. on a regular basis. I imagine a full eight hours of solid sleep is needed for a complete return to baseline, although vivid dreams might interfere with recovery.
OK, now we're programmer code monkeys (but doing the exact same work as when we pretended to be engineers)
Throughout history there were many coffee bans, so it's not like nobody thought about it.
You are mistaken it's not a lazy stereotype, the cartoonist has done his/her research. India has literally used cows for testing its initial satellites.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-rocket-science-behin...
There's been a lot of improvements since then. Checkout apps like ET Money, Groww, Zerodha Coin. It's really easy to start SIP in India and the tech is good and modern.
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Human activities harm people.

That doesn't imply we can't compare alternatives and say "This one will result in less harm than that one."
> I guess unless we want to assume Opera were digging their own grave by actively engaging in HTML5 and WHATWG, we have to conclude HTML parsing wasn't the hard part

As someone who was around the WHATWG from relatively on, and worked at Opera over the period when it moved to Chromium, I'd strongly suggest that HTML5 was a _massive_ win for Opera: instead of spending countless person hours reverse-engineering other browsers to be compatible with existing web content, things like HTML parsing become "implement what the spec says" (which also implicitly made it match other browsers). Many of the new features in the HTML5 spec of that period were things that either were already basically supported (in SVG especially) or were relatively minor additions; I don't think they played a significant role either.

There's a good reason why Opera was heavily invested in the WHATWG, and it's the fact that by having a spec implemented cross-browser defining how to parse HTML and how cross-page navigation works you eliminate one of the biggest competitive advantages more major browsers have: web compatibility, both through legacy content targetting the browser specifically and also web developers being more likely to test in those browsers. (And to be clear—this would've been true for any form of error handling, including XML-style draconian error handling; but the long-tail of existing content needed to be supported, so even if major sites had migrated to XML you still needed to define how to handle the legacy content.)

The downfall of Presto is arguably mostly one of mismanagement and wrong priorities decisions being made; I don't think Presto was unsaveable, and I don't think the Presto team was so significantly under-resourced it couldn't compete.
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They're not, with the trade-off of being expensive and requiring expensive ongoing maintenance instead (or even an external power source!)

That's not including the ongoing gearbox maintenance requirements.
HP used to be so good in terms of printers. I still have a 4050DTN that can take overstuffed cartridges that will do 20,000 sheets at 5% coverage. I think I’m on my third cartridge in 20 years and two degrees. It needs some maintenance such as replacing the pick-up rollers and possibly even the fuser, but it’s an absolute beast that I have no intention of getting rid of any time soon.

What I hear about HP printers these days is deeply disappointing. For shame, HP. You have truly lost your way.
This article seems like something I should read, but I'm not sure if I want to. As someone with parents and inlaws who are in their early to mid 70s and quite worried about losing them, I'm not sure if I'm ready to read this.

Does anyone have any tips on how to deal with the pre-loss anxiety?
> I don't actually believe that it has blocked that many people from being phished

The data says the opposite, the safe browsing list is very effective* which is why many other browsers and systems use the same list to block malicious pages.

Google publishes data about the frequency of warnings displayed too:
https://transparencyreport.google.com/safe-browsing/overview

* Of course it could be better.
There are so many less hurtful words, I can’t accept the idea that style requires these particular words. I mean the sentence is clunky with “neurodivergent” anyway, and this unusual use of the word sticks out and is distracting. The style is not improved by this pick.

How about “awful” “asinine” or “shit-tastic” instead?
obvious hysteria

but i note that gpt-4 training ended at the end of 2021, yet the model was only released to the public in q1 2023.

so i suspect gpt-5 is already running, and being evaluated by 'interested parties'.
I know this is not what you meant, but it's a really sad answer.

Not because of Spain, which is a great place where I hope to live again one day, but because the answer to a question "how can I live a comfortable life and save money" is "move 1000km away from your family to a place where you don't know anyone, and don't even speak the language".

It shows that something's really, really wrong with the system if people making significantly above average salary struggle to have a sustainable (in financial sense) and comfortable life in their own country.
If he is using a phone, help him install the apps. Amazon, UPS, etc.

Teach him to not click links in emails. Amazon wants him to do something? Easy. Go to the Amazon app. Amazon app not showing it? Maybe it was a scammer. This isn’t easy, and it isn’t foolproof. But just using the apps directly will help ensure he is interacting with the company he intends.

Make activities contextual to hardware. Buy things on the Amazon app on his phone, even if he browses on a desktop. The phone has the app, so there’s no uncertainty that this is Amazon. In a way it is less convenient, but in a way it is far more so.

Have the hard conversation. Maybe Dad needs a little extra oversight. Not because Dad is weak, but because Dad has already been strong enough to do the same for you when you were in need. (I’m being presumptuous here, apologies if that doesn’t track.) Maybe Dad needs shared accounts. Not because you don’t trust Dad. Because you don’t trust the internet, and it is a scary place.

A different way to look at it is that right now your description sounds like reactive support. Something goes wrong. You try to help. I’m not assuming you haven’t attempted proactive support, but it sounds like it might need more of it. Especially with family members, it is easy to inadvertently do too little to avoid doing too much.
Can't forget lack of showers at destinations.
This is an important point that applies more broadly: anything that lowers electricity costs for consumers is a "bad deal" for utilities.

Since in most areas, utilities are monopolies that are not subject to competition, they should not be allowed to deny cost-saving tech advances just because it lowers overall system cost and their overall percentage of revenue and profit goes down.
I use Drafts on iOS. But I hate Siri dictation. Too many mistakes which are difficult to correct while walking.

Was thinking Mic > Whisper transcription > GPT to take in a rough brain dump including instructions like “scratch that!” and convert it into the form you want (say, bullet points or action items). Should even be possible to dictate concept maps that way. Or even write Python functions on the go.
No, most software is straight-up pessimized. Computers are so ridiculously fast nowadays that optimization really is unnecessary in most cases, but developers have somehow managed to make such poor decisions when building software that the result is slow anyway.

Compare: Computer game from 1995 to computer game from 2023, to chat client from 1995 to chat client in 2023.

One of these demonstrates many orders of magnitude improvement consistent with the improvements in the hardware, and it isn't the chat client.
Oh, suddenly we're not happy with giving a totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship weapons to execute genocide on tens of millions of innocent people and just really want their money for our play time..

What changed?

Edit: I mean, this isn't news and its no conspiracy theory. The USA really is in league, militarily, with a fascist totalitarian-authoritarian dictatorship which regularly murders children as well as its own citizens. It deserves your attention, fellow citizens. Whether it makes you feel uncomfortable about your investments - or not.
We've had our Brother monochrome laser nearly 10 years. Still works perfectly, only used a handful of cartridges in the past decade
what I noticed is that rubber ducking works kind of like doing a DFS instead of a BFS, even when I can barely think, but I know that a few more lines at just the right places solves the problem and I simply can't let it go, (going for a walk rarely does it for me) so speaking out loud what and why is happening makes all the difference
Voice notes, maybe? As long as the app also handles speech recognition and stores the plaintext alongside it.
I love these too. Issues are also available for PDF download from the Internet Archive:

* https://archive.org/details/personalcomputingmagazine

* https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine

* https://archive.org/details/creativecomputing
> Numbers equivalent of ODBC

The only winning move is not to play.
> People consistently give up better commutes for more space.

That's a sign there ought to be larger units with better soundproofing in multi-family buildings.
the reason the article only focuses on the US is because this mindset caused europe to become a massive coal user again - its a distraction piece

renewables do not have this kind of obvious benefit, fossil fuels and fission are the best options until we can get fusion
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None of these facts imply that either CSS lookup cannot be sped up by caching or XUL didn't already have those concerns.

And for something like the browser chrome, the cache could even be serialized during compilation and loaded in to prime it when Firefox launches.

It's possible to build a slow CSS engine and it's possible to build a fast CSS engine.
> Where else is it coming from, if not from the place of disdain onto this other nation?

Maybe instead of accusing someone of racism, try to appreciate the history behind the joke.

Cows were used for initial testing of satellite, so the NYT guys have done their homework.

https://www.livemint.com/news/india/the-rocket-science-behin...
> When was the last time you heard leftists talk about tax?

I don't live in SF, or the Bay Area or CA, so maybe the leftists you're referring to are people I don't hear much at all. But the leftists I do hear (e.g. Jacobin magazine) talk about taxes all the time. I heard Sanders talk about taxes while Schultz was in front of Congress last week.
I had the same habit. You eat sweets -> blood sugar goes up and you feel energetic. Problem is, it also goes down very fast, at which point you feel sleepy and hungry at the same time.

Really easy to become overweight this way.
Not everywhere has the space the the US has. Many places in Europe, especially Germany, the UK and the low countries simply have no space to grow into, the urban areas are basically touching as is.

It is politically unfeasible to turn swathes of these countries into an endless urban/suburban sprawl. Many have a strong agricultural lobby (The Netherlands in particular) and/or have an eye on food security.
I literally did this.
It was going to be tough to cut Twitter regardless of who did it. Advertisers were pulling out before the deal was even closed, mainly because of Tiktok.

How are the people that disagree with you in this thread trying to shut down your discussion?
My conclusion comes from statistics and logic. In smaller cities the population is a mix a between daily rural migrants, factory workers and office/service workers. In big cities the population is mostly office/service workers.

>>Maybe I'm just tired of being around people who feel the existence of cities is a personal affront.

It's a bit ironic mentioning that here, because there is a pro urbanization (anti rural, anti suburbs) article on the front page of HN almost every week. And every dominant media in the country promotes the same narrative.
> I also have a family who I love, but I don’t feel I need to be with them 24/7, or that I’m prioritising anything over them by wanting a career and to work physically with coworkers.

And who looks after the kids or elderly parents when you're physically in the office? Or the house duties? Or do we pretend they don't exist?

The only way you can pretend you don't need to be with a child 24/7 is if you neglect your duties. You are prioritising work over family. There's no other way.

> It isn’t reasonable for the WFH advocates to see us people who prefer the office as sad loners with messed up priorities.

That's not what you prefer though. You prefer forcing everyone to accompany you in the office like a sadist. You've heard that some people prefer remote yet you force your ideals on them.

You don't prefer the office. You prefer you AND others in the office.

Different.
We've been living in Berlin for the last 10 year and the prices are making me consider looking outside the city (no other big cities that near Berlin, so there isn't that challenge you speak of).

My main issue would be being more socially isolated as all of our local friends are in Berlin, kids having to adapt to new school/kindergarten (& find new friends), new work for my wife who doesn't work remote (but can find work relatively easily)...It's not impossible but it really sucks that we'd have to leave the city if we want a slightly bigger home (we've 2 kids who share a room & our apartment is in general feeling a bit small for a family of 4).

Without a large windfall I don't think we'll ever be able to afford buying a 3+ bedroom (4+ rooms as Germans count it) home in Berlin & rent would be high enough that no landlord will want us with our current income.
I have noticed the quality and usefulness of Google results declining for several years. I don’t think it has anything to do with recent AI developments. If anything, this new generation of AI may finally get Google to fix their results or accelerate its death spiral.

To me, GPT-4 is a breath of fresh air that directly finds what I am looking for and answers complex questions quite well even if I don’t entirely know how to ask them perfectly. People like to talk about prompt engineering to optimize GPT, but I find I can get good results even with very lazy, sloppy input.

On Google, I often have to mess around with quoting certain phrases, using -foo to remove certain types of results, etc. Google is more finicky; you have to adapt to it, because it doesn’t adapt to you. Actually, in many cases Google attempts to adapt to you, but does it poorly, which is worse. Google changes results by location, even if I deny it access to my exact location, and shows barely relevant results from an imprecise location instead of location agnostic results. Google also changes the results based on search history yet it doesn’t really understand how one query is related to the previous query, the way GPT does. There’s also no “New chat” equivalent on Google to start from a fresh slate, short of clearing your browser data.

On top of all that, GPT has a paid tier to better align our incentives and avoid ads. Even the free version has no ads for now. It is a better interface by far.

The fact that I have to log in to GPT is probably the most annoying thing about it at the moment. It does also hallucinate sometimes and it’s too much of a prude. There are concerns about its power and bias, etc. But it is clearly a step-change in technology. One which seems destined to improve, not get worse, as Google has.
Modern HTML, per the HTML spec, has implicit namespaces: if you look at the DOM on any site, you'll find the root element of any HTML page is an element in the "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" XML namespace (c.f. `document.documentElement.namespaceURI`).

It was _absolutely deliberate_ that the DOM produced by parsing HTML and XHTML is now the same in overall structure, with the same XML namespaces, as it means browsers don't need to have things like `if localName == "html" and (namespaceURI == "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" or isHTMLDocument)` all over the place.

Modern WHATWG specs put a lot of effort into reducing the number of places where the behaviour of a given DOM depends on whether the document is an HTML document—and most of those are places where non-namespace aware APIs default to the "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" namespace in HTML documents.
SpeedTyper – Type Racing for Programmers
read Cleese's "Creativity"
Call an uber. The subway is MASS transit, for efficiently moving lots of people. Not just a few at a time.
if he was an american citizen, then he's american. Doesn't matter who or what he's working for.
its 100% relevant, the belief in return from renewables (which they don't actually offer much) comes at the expense of making the rest of the world poorer, and making europe more vulnerable to energy shocks

putin took advantage of this, europe put their neck in the guillotine for him