skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It happens[1]. In part because people tend to find those who look similar to themselves most attractive[2]. There is a countering instinct to be repulsed by the idea of sex with people one was raised with[2], but this countering instinct doesn't happen if one wasn't raised with a family member.

1 - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1311238/Brother-sis...

> The couple, who hailed from different towns, about 100 miles apart, were both out with friends when they met in a nightclub in a third town several years ago.

> So strong was their mutual attraction that just one week after meeting, they both felt they had known each other for a lifetime.

2 - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mysteries-love/2...
I have a step in my fashion work where I pause and consider what the colors I’m selecting will look and feel like to a normal person. Converting back and forth between [optimistic-seaglass-springtime] and “teal” isn’t very accurate, but I’m certainly accustomed to it. I’m going to try this technique soon now that I know about it; as I’m already color sensitive to pitch, I suspect the value will be in training that sensitivity rather than memorizing their hues.
sudoedit and visudo are mandatory on a host machine given the tendency for sudoers parse failures. Defaults env_keep = "" ? Oops, I guess sudo no longer works.
A new pass. Digital only. Subscription only. It doesn't replace any other ticket types. It includes all trains except high-speed trains, so you can go much further (or commute much further) and your city limits.

It's possible the 49 Euro is cheaper than a single train ticket, let's say 100km, between cities. It's very much cheaper for anybody communiting daily, a no-brainer to switch to the new ticket.

Some cities and states offer additional discounts, e.g. for seniors or the disabled.

The 2022 test mentioned in the video was 9 Euro per month. At that price it was cheaper than taking a bus a couple of times. It existed as paper version, too. States, federal government, local public transport agencies (there are many) fought all winter what the new price should be. Anything from 29 to 99 Euro was discussed. It's an expensive program.

Germany also has a ticket that covers all trains including high speed trains. It's 4339 Euro/year (or 7356 Euro for first class seats). I know several people who bought the ticket for their commute or where the employer gave such tickets to employees (instead of company car).
The World’s First Wooden Transistor
Those are some use cases and that is a way to address those issues.
> In 2022 it is not only fully recovered but at record breaking levels

No.
I would like to get a sum of "Linux Full Course 11 hours" but in 666 words.
I was forced to learn piano when I was 6, really hated it and ended in 2 years. When I really got into music in high school and started playing guitar it's an amazing feeling to discover I actually have perfect pitch. However the perfect pitch I have is an inferior one, I sometimes even miss a note by a half step, curious if someone is the same.
Is there a video archive of complete surgical procedures available?
OK thank you.

>Presumably the law is going to treat all of that the same as actual CSAM, but people will need to think hard about the reasoning for it.

The US already signed a law in 2021 defining CSAM to include photorealistic AI generated material, even if there is no original child involved (such as deepfakes).
Nice, thanks that's very useful info
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Same with donors who are ugly, low IQ, or have a history of genetic disease.

If a woman wants to pick a donor father, she should also have to carry a second child selected by the state.

/s of course
I'm not sure I follow? Use some charity in this, as I am on a phone most of the time. But, sitting many places is better than fewer. And smaller amounts is better than larger.

But! This is just like lines of code. No "true" value answer. And pathological is pathological.

So, did I propose a solution? I specifically think 100% covered it bad. Not clear what number we want.
Ask HN: Career in Formal Verification
I am currently in academia as a postdoc in math and I'm on the lookout for opportunities in industry. I stumbled upon the field of formal verification which seems particularly well suited for someone with a deep math background and sounds definitely interesting. My knowledge is very superficial and I would like to know better this niche and the thoughts of industry professionals on it. Some of my questions:
- how interesting/stimulating is the work?
- what is a typical salary for a formal verification engineer?
- how do you value this field? Is it going to grow in the coming years? Is there demand for these roles?
I'm guessing (maybe hoping?) that the downvotes are for the seemingly overly apocalyptic tone of your post.

But FWIW, as someone who is from Texas who lost power for 5 days during Uri and nearly a week for the latest freeze this winter, I wholeheartedly agree. Not sure how I would have made it during Uri without gas - even with gas, we couldn't run our heater (system still needs electricity to run the fans, thermostats, etc.) but we could run a gas fireplace, which kept our house temp just high enough to keep our pipes from bursting. I still shudder from all the pics of people with icicles dripping from their ceiling fans.
The trend is also reversing in some segments Apple owned which masked that there may be quite a trend occurring for home purchases, but the data doesn't show it because the extra purchases and hidden by losses.

For example University libraries in the UK - at least those in the higher ranked universities - used to typically buy Macs/MacBooks somewhat as a status symbol, over Microsoft PCs. Today, there are few and far computers with the set up of a computer lab now almost entirely dead to laptops. I don't think this had an insubstantial impact on Apple, but it was probably masked by the rise of mac-based startups and other trends in Mac.
No, but your probability heuristic is catastrophically flawed if, from that, you conclude the landing was faked despite material having been placed up there.
That is not what this person said. They got what they asked the lawyers for, they are not blaming the lawyers
>banning the distribution of gas

At some point that will happen, or else it will simply be so inconvenient to use gas it will be impractical for anything except remote places with propane tanks.

Why is that shocking? Are you also upset that you no longer have easy access to whale oil for your lighting, or a market for steam-powered sedans? Yes, someday in the relatively far future (decades) gas stoves will be a novelty, something small kids look at like they look at CRT televisions or ham radios today.

Who cares? My point is that the outrage on conservative media was built on lies and exaggerations about the now, as if in 2024 gas stoves would be banned. You You moved the goalpost in your comment.
I love SE Asia, spend a lot of time there. Your characterization is incredibly misleading.

There's different tradeoffs between, say, Bangkok and San Francisco in terms of what is tolerated (i.e, drugs) and what isn't.
> DM me

No.

> ...we need to have a discussion...

We do not.
What is interesting is of course the risk of unknowing half-sibling couples.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/755052/population-of-the... tells us there are roughly 1 million childred aged 5 or less. Let's say 500 of these are this man's children.

If all of those 1 million kids form couples within the same age group we have 500000 couples.

Assume even split between the sexes, and assume heterosexuality.

Then each of the 500 kids will have a 250/500000=1/2000 chance of coupling with a half-sibling, or 1-1/2000 probability of not.
Repeat this for all 500 kids we get a probability of 1-(1-1/2000)^500 =
22% of at least one half-sibling couple.
Nurture vs nature is a wrong way to look at things. Without the human nature, the nurture would not work. Try to raise a member of a different species as a human...
Particularly recommended: Euclid in HTML/CSS https://www.c82.net/blog/?id=79 https://www.c82.net/work/?id=372
I had subscribed to an IPTV service with SO many channels that loading it was a massive pain, so instead I dipped my feet into python for fun and created a filter service that breaks it into a more manageable list:

https://github.com/cmcconomy/iptv-filter

I since stopped subscribing to IPTV so the project is abandoned, but I have a couple of friends who still use it; I'd probably write it completely differently today - but it's still trucking!
Ralph Nader won't quit: Winsted Citizen paper of Connecticut
This is one of those conversations, as an AI researcher, that I tend to not like. There's two major voices and both are ridiculous. Neither should we completely rely on these tools and neither should we throw them out. It is a cat and mouse game, and yes, the mouse will always win. We're on hacker news, and everyone knows this same game exists for hackers and the advantage bias is similar. Doesn't mean we shouldn't stop trying to defend against the hackers. But ML requires a lot of nuance. We've already been using automated tools to ban people and we all know how frustrating that is. There have been several subreddits that would ban anyone that used the term "vaccines" because they wanted to protect their subreddits from anti-vaxxers but these backfire and also autoban people defending vaccines.

The problem isn't using these systems, the problem is that there is no nuance. No way to reach a human who can see the absurdity. But this has been a progression and even bureaucratic institutions do this with real humans. This is a frustration we all experience and we shouldn't make this worse. Use the tools, but always maintain a way to reach a human who can account for system failures.

An important issue with ML system failures is that when they fail, they fail bad. Anyone who has used GPT should be well aware of this and have experienced it (if you haven't, you haven't used it much, are incredibly lucky, or have been duped). It is also the reason AlphaGo lost that one game, and it played REALLY poorly. These higher dimensional spaces are rather complex and don't fit your intuitions. You'll have a better idea of how to stroll through flat land than you will through 10D land, let alone 2562563 (an image) land. The curse of dimensionality is that any intuition you have of geometrical meaning goes out the window.
from what I understand, perfect absolute pitch is (to me) of negative value in the sense that it makes you annoyed at a lot of music. I've heard some people say it makes them not enjoy practicing pieces with other musicians. I think "why be aggravated if I don't have to?"
My brother pulled this prank on me when I was first learning batch file.

I thought I was going to jail.
Also of interest: 'Why Aren’t More Users More Happy With Our VMs?'—https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2018/why_arent_more_users_more...
When I was in uni, the computer science school actually did occasionally check these reports. Specifically, a guy named Chris checked them. Some friends of mine apparently used this to send him messages.

`sudo hi chris`
So this is different from a 3 phase system (N L1 L2 L3) with 120 degrees shift between the lines? It is instead basically a 2 phase system N L1 L2 with a 180 degree phase shift between L1 and L2?

I was already confused with the 240 being mentioned somewhere in this thread... it becomes a bit clearer now.
I just know because I used to own a sat phone and I would bring it on business trips.

China's another one that doesn't permit them. Which, together with India, means that the majority of the world's population lives in countries where they are (mostly) banned.

I wonder what's going to happen now that sat features are becoming ubiquitous on mobile phones. Apple has it (with Globalstar), Motorola/Bullitt is introducing it right now (with Inmarsat), and Qualcomm is introducing the features in Q3 this year (with Iridium)

This means that banning sat phones will no longer be as easy as it once was, as most visitors will carry one right in their pocket.

https://blog.telestial.com/2017/11/countries-where-satellite...
Not that useful if you have very good relative pitch. One advantage is you can walk in a jam and start playing from bar 1, instead of having to figure out which key they're in. However if you have good relative pitch you can also figure it out within 10 seconds.
From what I’ve read the same indoor pollution exists with induction even if not vented. The confounding variable is that induction generally is present in new construction which will have proper ventilation.

TLDR: it’s a function of ventilation
Battery prices are a racket. I was shocked when I saw the price of coin cells at a local store: a two pack of coin cell batteries cost 7€. So instead of the coin cells, I bought an electric candle for 1€, took out the coin cell, and threw away the electric candle.
> They all started with a product that their early users loved so much they told other people about it

I have seen/worked a few enterprise SaaS companies where the customers could not barely use the product without handholding from a customer success rep, let alone love it. Love YC's advice for indie, first time founders but a lot of it falls flat if you know you know a guy, who knows a guy.
> In most of Europe, lack of affordability and quality family friendly housing, is the number one reason for couples not having kids.

This is not correct. The poorest households are having the most kids. It has clearly little to do with income or housing affordability, even if you found a survey which indicated this. I say this as someone who delayed having a family until I could afford a home, so I have a dog in this fight.
To minimize artifacts, you can increase the bitrate (`scrcpy -b12M`) or use h265 (`scrcpy --video-codec=h265 -b12M`). Depending on your device, the latency with h265 may be higher though (but it might also be lower).
"How to get Spotify to stop playing music: Take headphones off."

And when the sound comes from the boxes? Then yes, I have to hurry back to the laptop to stop the not fitting next song (e.g. something fast, after I choose something chill). This is ridiculous.

The feature "stop after song" is avaiable in every serious music player I used (and also the one I programmed myself). But it is not in Spotify, even though it is trivial.. This is what I call "designed for engagement". I have to click more and find new things etc.

"I dont think I've ever listened to a song I didn't want to listen to on Spotify. "

So how do you achieve that? Do you only use custom playlists, or do just mostly don't care so much?

Because if I have one song in my head, then sometimes I just want this exact song and if I tell spotify to play this song - then afterwards it plays something totally different, even though it tries to fit the same genre, but this works badly. And even if it would be the same genre, some songs are just deep. And you want silence afterwards to process them - if you are consciously listenting in the first place. For some background noise spotify works great, no doubt about that.
I had one of these stupid AMD graphics cards (I think from the Evergreen generation) where the GPU/memory clocks would be locked in at the highest frequency whenever you had a second monitor plugged in. Apparently some sort of graphical glitches would be possible otherwise. In their infinite wisdom, AMD decided it was worth an extra 20W of baseline power consumption to avoid these glitches. (I am told they still do this as of today).

So I went the radeon kernel driver, and simply commented out that part. Never had a single glitch for the entire lifetime of the card, but oh god I did enjoy the silent fan-free operation.

And people wonder why I'm a staunch fanatic of free software.
Nobel prize for stating the bloody obvious, there…
Time and families are also a problem today.

People have less relatives to help raise children and grandparents tend to be older. Both parents are also more likely to want and need to work full-time jobs.

I don't know why but here in the UK there seems to be a kind of culture war on parenthood too. Young women who want kids and don't want to work tend to be shamed for this decision, while women who remain single and focus on their careers are celebrated. If people want careers over children, that's fine, but that shouldn't be seen and pushed as the only respectable path by society.
off the top of my head, I can think of gay couples, people with genetic/health issues they don't want to pass on to their child. There are probably other demographics, but fwiw male sperm counts seem to be going down at a large scale. It absolutely is an issue to address, but if you are someone who can't conceive or are unlikely to conceive, a sperm bank is an effective option. The man in the article also has been doing this since 2007 so it's been over a long period of time.
Show HN: Interact with any DeFi Protocol in a single line of code
When we started building in web3, we faced terrible pain integrating protocols like Uniswap in our code/application. We had to find contract address endpoints, connect to their contract, pass the arguments in different formats for different protocols, estimate gas fees-units, and build the transaction object oof.....

Now, if we wanted to do complex calls, like one from Uniswap and one from Aave, in a single transaction, we had to push a smart contract or try out multicall encoding, which is complex, to begin with as well.

Why can't all this be done in a single line of code.

That's why we built Unifi.
A single API to interact with any Defi protocol in a single line of JS code.

Through Unifi, to do a swap in Uniswap at the best quote, all you have to do is unifi.uniswap.swap(), and that's it; to lend in Aave, it's just unifi.aave.lend().

We just shipped our first version integrating Uniswap. We are currently building on our bundling transactions feature and will be integrating more protocols quickly.

If you need what we are building, signup and use Unifi: https://unifiapi.xyz
Reach out to us: https://twitter.com/aakash_hash
Mail us: aakash@pace.cash
As California has shown multiple times, dependence on electricity alone can be disastrous.
... and how many of those use `unsafe { }`?
Even worse, he wins more than he pays for his perjury, due to Britain's criminal-protecting libel laws.
Yes.

13 years is enough time to try something new that just works.

To save yourself 13 more years of frustration over basic things like Linux wifi drivers and Nvidia drivers breaking down in 2023, just use a Mac.

It just works and gets out of the way.
Interpreting :: as a typing judgement makes no sense here.
What does make sense is interpreting :: as a list "cons", i.e. as : in Haskell.
He practiced somehow if he knew the names. You can practice a skill without being trained.
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7057961...
Does his vision include not paying Silicon Valley salaries to run a taxi company? Because it would seem to me that might be important.
Why do you need to transpose? You mean when playing a transposed instrument like woodwinds / brass?
A great deal of advice here is going to push you in the direction of VC funded startups and the Lean Startup style approach.

You might want to go that way, but as you said "build", not "sell", you may value the approach of bootstrapping and taking a strategic view (e.g. following your convictions).
First thing that came to mind :)
Exactly, every sysadmin wants to manage user rights in his own ingenious way through schemas.
That’s a long answer that doesn’t address my question.
I had an English teacher tell me once that being a good speller was something you were born with (she was not the best speller despite teaching English, and I was pretty good, to be clear). I think saying stuff like that is just how people cope with their own lack of trained skills and how they justify not improving. I've seen similar excuses from people who don't quite feel like learning to solve a rubik's cube.
This is a classic effect of social media: people only post their wins, and the ones you notice are the biggest ones. "Oh man, Kathy is having a holiday in the Sahara! John bought a badass motorbike! Frank ran the NY marathon! I've never done any of that, I'm such a loser..." This thread is the nerd equivalent of an Instagram feed.

It's fine: you keep doing you and finding your own happiness. Don't feel pressured into matching these folks, nobody expects you to.
> I truly don't understand the bizarre and conspiracy-theory laden opposition to terms like this.

I truly don't care and not opposed to the term. Just trying to explain why someone might get confused.
Trains in most nations are useful for everybody. And they are far more energy efficient, better for air quality and most importantly more space efficient. So when analysis what a government should invest in, it makes sense to invest in trains.

I know that you can go everywhere with your car, but what if I told you not every single person had a car. I know, I know for Americans this is very hard to understand that such a thing is possible. Roads aren't for everybody, roads are for people that can afford cars.

And roads still need to be designed far larger if you also use them for cargo, and because trucks are so heavy the need to be fix these roads very often otherwise they will lose utility for everybody.

And I don't understand the obsession with strikes that Americans seem to have. As if everywhere outside of the US nobody would ever get anywhere because everybody was always striking.
Single (many times older) women that have very restrictive deal breakers.

It's no coincidence that virtually all sperm banks deny donors shorter than heights that are much taller than average.

Add to that income and education restrictions and the potential pool is very, very small.
That's my experience. I've actually been around systems that use Cobol amongst other things for 20 years (only did tiniest bit myself) but the developers tend to be experts in business as well - like, this set of Cobol programs are for payroll, and the developers understand payroll processing. They can discuss legislative nuances and taxation and benefits and deductions with functional analysts.

Basically, all Cobol I've ever seen is firmly performing a business / functional task. I guess it's in the name :-)
There's no need to update the copyright year, but I do like it as a canary to tell somebody the file has been updated lately.
To expand for those who don't know: Togo and Balto were both lead dogs owned/raised/trained by the same man (Leonhard Seppala) but they ran different sleds. Togo led the "A" team and Balto, being a lesser sled-dog, led the "bench" or "B" team.

For the famous "serum run", Togo's team ran 261 miles, including the most dangerous section: 42 miles over frozen body of water. Whereas Balto's team only ran the final 55 miles. However, Balto got the credit because he carried the medicine into the town while Togo's team was still out in the wilderness.

Seppala wrote: “I hope I shall never be the man to take away credit from any dog or driver who participated in that run. We all did our best. But when the country was roused to enthusiasm over the serum run driver, I resented the statue to Balto, for if any dog deserved special mention it was Togo.”

There is a Disney movie named "Togo", which does a fantastic job of telling the story. According to comparison with best-available primary and secondary sources, the movie has astounding historic accuracy -- even though many, many times it seems like it "jumps the shark". The "true" story of Togo's life is so unbelievable that Disney's inaccuracies are more leaving things out that audiences would never be able to believe rather than putting in exaggerated over-the-top things.