skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also use the GUI, because of additional keys supported by it. But like most(?) people, I've deactivated the GUI-elements, as they are pretty useless. But ok, I guess it could be called a desktop-app because of this.
Usually things will slow down gradually or fail right away under production loads.
Such a system would fail at HN, if offered by the site itself. Many users have accounts registered for the sole purpose of bypassing “identity over time” recognition, whether by karma and flagging or simply by username recognition. Anyone who perceives themselves to be blocked would just keep registering new accounts to exempt themselves from it, or maintain a collection of accounts to circumvent it. The absence of blocks removes a key benefit of doing so, which helps keep the sockpuppet population down.

(Note that if you see users that are frequently breaking the guidelines, please consider emailing the site mods using the footer contact link, so that they can consider whether further review and/or action is necessary.)
I'm not saying your wrong, but I think you should take a step back and consider how this sounds to someone who doesn't share your opinion.

You're pretty much saying that, as long as you ignore the studies which you consider to be illegitimate, then the outcome of the science is clear.

The fact of the matter is that research showing that eating meat has a negative impact on health also suffers from conflicts of interest. Now, those conflicts of interest come from many researchers compassion for animals - and there's a big moral difference between that and conflicts of interest which come from the greed of the meat industry. But from a scientific perspective, it's not legitimate to simply dismiss one side and accept the other.
Got to say, the H1 on the main landing page is amazing.
Interesting that many subreddits have removed downvoting, for a variety of reasons.
For those in Chicago - I highly recommend the International Museum of Surgical Science: https://imss.org/

Tons of old surgical implements, some death masks, and a lot of really interesting information.
The equipment may be fine and up to date (though missile versions vary widely), but that doesn't mean the operators are up to snuff.
Can you elaborate as if I didn't know what I was doing?
> But I just hope to learn to stop feeling bad for honest mistakes.

A: By trying to fix them.... this is the way.

It is simple, the difference with people that take feedback personally and the ones that don't, is that the last people are willing to make an attempt to fix the problems the others don't want to be bother.

I always take personal feedback with this mentality "ok fine, lets do it your way", if it works and its either better or equal than my solution then fine good for you, if it isn't then its the awkward/refreshing? moment when you have to tell them they were wrong and you have proof.
> To do it in-house succesfully requires a level of healthy functioning [...] that few organizations have

I think it actually requires the organization to morph into being a tech company first. In order to have good software to run a City Council, it effectively requires the Council to become "a software-making organization that delivers council services". In order to have good software to run a bank, it requires the bank to become "a software-making organization that delivers banking services".

Unfortunately, it's both politically difficult (nobody goes into any type of non-IT activity because they want to work with software) and really challenging: not even IT organizations have figured out the best way to address problems like technical debt, language churn, documentation etc, and non-IT organizations face them just as much.
Speeding up pairwise comparisons to 2.8M/SEC in Java on a regular laptop
this is pretty much on point, and this is why fasting and IF and reducing carbs increasing fat intake (without sugar) has been the main course action for most people concerned for their health.
Not everyone is a stupid as you.
We're closer in thinking than my quick sentence suggests. Some facts are a bit ruder than others.

We have long had perfectly functional alcohol, cannabis, MDMA, cocaine, LSD, mushroom, ketamine, and amphetamine users. There are good guidelines for how to safely use these and stay out of trouble.

Fentanyl, well, the folks lying in the gutter or folded over in their wheelchairs in SF at night are sort of a warning. And on the purity testing, well, it's a PITA to need to test so many things for the absence of added fentanyl.
> ...an unexpected 1000x increase in volume at a customer brought the DB to its knees.

From an outside perspective it seems like the huge increase in volume was more the issue! It sounds like an index helped a lot, but it would also have added cost for all those customers who didn't see that jump in volume.
As a reminder: any year-over-year economic numbers still need to consider pandemic effects. Current numbers look bad when the baseline of a year ago was artificially high.

The pandemic shutdowns caused pent-up demand that became time-shifted, causing anomalously high results for that time period, and so year-over-year numbers a year later look worse. For the US, that happened starting in summer 2021, and thus we had that apparent recession in 2022 as those numbers were compared to 2021's artificially high baseline. The same is now happening for Germany, since the shutdowns lifted later in most of Europe, such that the early-2022 numbers had that time-shifted effect so that the early-2023 numbers seem to look bad.

(To illustrate the point: remember the "great resignation"? That wasn't a real effect, that was a statistical artifact of pent-up demand for normal job switching that didn't happen during the pandemic.)

For a real comparison, compare this year's numbers to 2019 and you'll see that economic growth looks fairly normal for a four-year period.
You're getting too hung up on "processed" stop eating shit food made in gigantic factories with ingredients you can't pronounce or explain their inclusion. That's it, it's literally that easy
Predicting the future is hard, and you don't have to necessarily be right, only have helped prepare for the outcome (even if not what you predicted). Peter sells motivation to manage risk.
> This happens a lot. Another way of looking at it is that this is a successful outcome for Oracle, because they've hugely increased their billable hours.

Honestly, it's not that surprising.

Government salaries aren't competitive with the private sector, and especially not with FAANG. Same government workers are now tasked with identifying requirements and managing consultants. But are they even qualified to do that?
Come on. Paying SWE salaries is only a tiny fraction of the cost of building, implementing, and maintaining a custom ERP application. The complete lifecycle costs are enormous even if you use an open source product as a starting point.
It did, but I would argue that Army of Darkness is just as great as Evil Dead 2, and substantially better than the first Evil Dead, so we at least got three classic movies instead of two.

Though, I guess you could argue that Evil Dead 2 is much more of a "comedy slapstick remake" of the first one than a sequel.
Ha, ya, you and the rest of society, really going to great lengths to make life harder for the people digging through trash for a nickel a can... I have a feeling maybe that you're really kind of asking for a lot from the people who're probably the least well off in our society... Do you think the person digging through your trash feels respected ever?
> classes of people

Yeah no...
I could never be friends with someone who posts on HN.
You understand that an LLM running against a corpus of your collected online presence and payments would be able to make astonishing insights into your life and habits, and that anyone who had access to such a tool would have great power over you?
Humans are strange :-)
You do have a point and I'll acknowledge that "coming in hot" was far from the best approach and certainly not as persuasive as a calmly reasoned argument without the emotion would have been. But I need to stress that I do not see the whole endeavour of solving spinal cord injury as pointless - I just see the biological approach as having far more promise albeit much less attention for a number of reasons, including the implant approach being less burdened with regulation and having more spin-off potential. I'll reiterate my previous statement that I do want to see real progress made, but I honestly (and I believe correctly) see this approach as a dead-end. There have just been so many similar "successful" studies that failed to translate into useful / effective treatments. I am highly skeptical of the stated results given that there have been so many studies like this that went nowhere (what happened to the last 10, 20, etc previous attempts?). Maybe it's different this time? I invite you to follow-up on this individual's progress in a year or two.

Many of the previous studies also claimed similar results - or at least pop-media sensationalised already generously interpreted results to make it seem so. But if they were all so successful, why are they not routinely used? Given how important mobility is to quality of life and how costly its impairment is, why is it that of the dozens, even hundreds of "successful" studies, most people affected by SCI see no benefit? I think we have to at least consider the possibility that these particular treatments are not as successful or as effective as the studies claim at providing net quality of life improvement. And I think this also addresses your argument that any solution is better than no solution, which presupposes that what we're looking at is in fact a solution and not just another "successful" study that gets shelved because of its inability to translate into a treatment that provides a net quality of life improvement.

Just a handful of previous studies for reference:

1. Epidural Stimulation (dates back to 2002): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8374568/

2. Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (dates back to 1997): https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4589923/

3. Functional electrical stimulation (dates back prior to 2004): https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Functional_electrical_stimula...

4. Spinal Cord Neuromodulation (dates back prior to 2007): https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17387353/

5. Magnetic Spinal Cord Stimulation (dates back to at least 2018): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-30232-z
A minor point, but the vernacular has shifted to this being called "muting" whereas blocking is the much more toxic, "and they can't see what you post either".

Platforms that implement blocking almost always see it weaponized by hate groups, not to mention how antithetical it is to allowing a user to control their feed, and the argument of "targeted harassment if people can see my content" doesn't hold water given how trivially easy it is to circumvent (if targeted harassment is the goal).
No. This is false. Even senior engineers can have this problem. It's not a differentiator for success.

This is counterintuitive but actually there is raw science to back the opposite fact up. I'm not joking.

The more delusional you are as in the less ability you have to take and accept criticism the more likely you are to be successful. There is a positive correlation for this verified by science.

It gels with my anecdotal experience too. At the top end of success those guys are the most delusional and least accepting of criticism, for example Elon musk or Steve jobs, etc. Etc.

But even on the lower end of the spectrum, senior engineers it's there too. For example people who claim they are able to unbiasedly accept criticism are often the people who are worst at it.

The reason for this is not any sort of deliberate emotional reaction or anything like that. But rather because the brain actively deludes you from seeing the complete truth. It pushes people to construct artificial scaffolds of logic to uphold their existing beliefs.

Senior engineers are not immune to it nor are they better. What determines the senior role has a lot of factors and definitely not all the factors are related to the actual formal senior rank. A lot of it is luck, time, politics and other bullshit that gets people that rank.

Everyone builds these ideals about their identity, their rank, and their engineering ability. The reality is that a lot of it is delusional. By deluding yourself it becomes easy to include other people in your delusion as well and that's how a lot of hierarchies work.

Not saying their aren't competent people out there, but don't fall for the false belief that a rank like "senior engineer" conveys a certain level of emotional maturity to accept criticism.
Is it an OS if there is no userland?
In the title of this post, it would help to have a hyphen between “Superbug“ and “killing,” as in the BBC article. When I first read the title of this HN post—without the hyphen—I thought the article was going to be about a dangerous new superbug that is defeating antibiotics.
Google also recently had a total failure in a public event. It's not necessarily saying much about Twitter.

https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-maps-search-event-bin...

> the AI falsely said the James Webb Space Telescope took the first ever picture of an exoplanet

> During the announcement about a new Lens feature, the demo phone was misplaced and the presenter wasn't able to show the demo

> Google seemed to say, "let's pretend this never happened," and immediately made the livestream recording private after the event
Embracing GraphQL at Meetup with Annyce Davis [audio]
Criticism is the least of your concerns when you live with PTSD :D.

For me work has always been sort of an escape from myself. If I get criticized for the work I do I don't mind too much really because the alternative is the dark place I go to every time I close my eyes.

"So you think there's a problem? Okay maybe there's a problem let's have look at it and reason about it together.

Oh I just suck and my face is stupid and that's why my code sucks? Well I'm really relieved we found the answer to our problem, for a moment there I thought I was the a*hole ;D."

That being the dialogue playing in my head while I haven't said anything to the workmate who simply refuses to listen to reason.

"Okay" I type, and press "Submit Comment"
I am in no way religious, but I have a lot of respect for religious architecture. I suspect the desire to respect and glorify 'the divine' leads to designs that are aesthetically pleasing in a unique way that I can't quite describe.
Does US law have anything to say about private companies supporting human rights abuse in other countries through their policies?
I think the movie industry can still tell good stories, I just think that many movies don't optimise for this and instead optimise for revenue (across cinemas, streaming, merch, TV, etc).

There have been some amazing films in recent years with plenty of effort put into their craft. Villenueve's Dune and Arrival come to mind in Sci-Fi, things like Everything Everywhere All At Once, Knives Out, these are all films that I think have been made with a deep appreciation for the craft, without trying to appeal too widely and lose their depth. I guess you could argue that some of these are telling from "weird angles", but I'm not sure I'd agree, and even if so I think those differences bring significant value rather than being gimmicks.
This matches what I see using less as manpager and every terminal I have installed on MacOS (Apple Terminal, kitty, alacritty+Tmux, iTerm).
If the only confirm cases where the user isn’t suspected of money laundering, the non-confirmation becomes equivalent to confirmation that the user is suspected of money laundering.
I read this as "AI-equipped superbugs have figured out how to kill antibiotics," which almost makes enough sense to be bad headline.
> The IDF has very often canceled a strike due to civilians/children getting too close.

If that's true how did this happen as a single example of many:

"Israel stated it fired on the school in response to militant gunfire believed to be coming from al-Fakhura. A UN inquiry said that there was no firing from within the school and there were no explosives within the school."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Fakhura_school_incident
He gets massive credit for predicting that Russia would invade Ukraine when everybody else was predicting the opposite.

Everybody just ignores that he's had far more wrong predictions than correct ones.

For instance, he's been predicting the collapse of China within a decade for almost 20 years now.
The Physicist Who Glues Together Universes
There are more efficient ways to hide malware from current scanners, and on the flip-side, the scanners that use heuristics/ML to classify the sequence of system calls made by the binary wouldn't be affected by this sort of obfuscation.
Yikes, 138$ million for KNN retrieval? I don't want to live on this planet anymore.
Same problem in the USA with those Apple machines.
> The camps, AFAIK, are for Uyghurs classified as dangerous or high risk. At least, that's what the Han believe.

I have a quite sobering article for you, which has a very different take on the Chinese propaganda.

https://www.theatlantic.com/the-uyghur-chronicles/
Of course its release date would be sometime around now, because I remember seeing it at the theater at the end of my freshman school year. Most popular sci-fi of the time seemed to be hopeful about the cool things that technology and space travel can bring. In Aliens, someone asked, "what if there's some mean shit out there, and it ravages your entire crew?". In space, no one can hear you scream.
Hot take, I'm not even sure "rights" apply to anything but individual humans.
<< Most observation / survey based science is junk science. Most "study of studies" research is junk science.

I am not automatically disagreeing, but that is a pretty strong claim. I am relatively certain that a well chosen survey participants ( that are not mturk or local body of students unless actually applicable to the study ) could make for a decent study. I can't really opine of observation, but on the surface it strikes me as a very strong claim as well.

<< But when you see some breathless article exclaiming that eating an olive pit twice weekly makes you live twenty years longer, blaming the columnists seems foolish. In almost every case they're simply repeating the claims of bad science.

And this is where it gets tricky. Do editors/publishers merely parrot it or add media cycle friendly spin on it?

<< I am quite specifically hanging the blame on researchers who are perpetrating junk science.

I think I am willing to mostly agree with that statement in a sense that they ultimately responsible.

That said, it is hard for me to believe that editors/publishers would publish it if standards were a tad higher and not chasing attention.
Ringel's Graph Conjecture Proved After 60 Years (2020)
I've thought about this as well. Privacy is actually one impediment I think. If you make everyone's raw usage data public (so that anyone can use it to train their own recommendation model), some of the training data might be de-anonymizable.

However there's plenty of data out there that people are already happy to make public, so the privacy thing probably isn't a show-stopper. e.g. Reddit seems like it'd be a rich source of training data. Twitter too, if it were more open. I'd keep an eye on Bluesky!
If it did, almost none of the top companies in the US would exists anymore. Of course it doesn't.
That is kinda shifting more of the moderation burden onto the people most likely to receive negative interaction and harassment yeah?
> they've been assuming Twitter is the way it is because it was staffed by technically incompetent leftists

I don't think anyone argued Twitter was run by technically incompetent people. Where was this, if so? By leftists, yes, and by far too many people, yes. Both were argued repeatedly. But those things are now proven objectively true. The Twitter files showed just how systematic their enforcement of left wing orthodoxy was, and Musk fired most of the staff yet the site kept trucking and even launching new changes which is more or less the definition of having been over-staffed.
This article is the opposite of Science and experimentation (experimenting diets on oneself)

Maybe you're just sarcastic with calling it processed sugar because of dicing (and omitting apple's fiber, vitamins, amino-acids, minerals, enzymes and more)?

"Croissant diet" Croissant is actually the least nutritive food possible https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7498104/, You'd get issues eating that. I actually experimented something similar (white bread almost only for 2 years), started to have mental issues

Saturated fat is not specially an issue (it would maybe have prevented mental issues in my case, brain needs fat, croissant richer in sat fat than white bread, but I dislike butter), I don't know how you derived from processed sugar to saturated fat, many natural food contain small amount of saturated fat
100% agreed.

The chances of losing digital and physical copies at the same time are pretty low.

I have gotten into habit of printing photos and ordering photobooks for not just us but also for relatives. The idea is sort of distributed backup of physical photos. Also they love it.
> Also all were flabbergasted at seeing an "empowered woman character" from "literally like 50 years ago". Came as a little bit of a shock for them. :o)

The interesting thing there is that the story and dialog was written for a male character and then swapped to a woman for commercial reach reasons. They'd didn't really change the dialog when they did that change though.

Had it Ripley been originally written as a woman I'm not sure her character would have been as empowered and I'm also not sure the movie would be the masterpiece that it is.
MY understanding of this community is that we strive to not be Reddit, especially from the discourse and moderation perspectives.
It doesn't have to be explicitly monetary/capitalistic competition. They may still see other councils as competitors and strive to be "better" on various metrics whether it is efficiency, speed of processes, etc even without any direct financial benefit.
Kinda related:

What's the best free web-based AI inpainting tool?

(...or pixian will also offer this functionality?)
As long as there's init, or something to boot into, sure.
Local politics was already messy. Then came Nextdoor
Exactly. How about those shared ketchup bottles and salt/pepper shakers in most diners?

Everything could be gross to touch if you really think about it too much. Your phone is probably worse than any menu.
An interesting Google Tech Talk video from 2013 about Google backing up the internet (and gmail): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eNliOm9NtCM
This is where we need to see more investment in AI. Not always replacing humans, but rather augmenting and helping them. Sure there are efficiency gains that are needed in a capitalist society that AI can help with, but I'd rather see gains in other areas.
Signing is only proof of identity if you (1) know the underlying identity, and (2) actually trust that identity for intelligible reasons (i.e., you can produce a formal description of the trust relationship).

Without those two conditions, a signature is a digest produced by an untrusted party. For PyPI, that means that PGP signatures are no better than (and in some senses, worse) than PyPI's own digests, since PyPI at least is a currently trusted party.
One of the problems for subreddits is people coming from the front page or from other subreddits, who are not part of the community of that subreddit, and begin to downvote things etc.

HN is lucky in this regard; there is just one HN, not uncountable “sub-HNs”.

Of course people can still come from other places to HN. But to earn downvote privileges here you first need some amount of karma. So hopefully this makes it so that downvote privileges on HN are mostly handed to people who are at least somewhat aligned with the broader community here.