skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the relevance of my personal experience based opinion on the thing I am talking about? That's how opinions work. We have experiences, we get information, we give our opinions based on those.

Now what we could do, instead of giving our own opinions, is repeat statistics that anyone could look up in a minute. Since I am a person, not a database, I gave opinion based on experience.

Here's the statistic though for people with smooth brains. Look for Romania - it's towards the bottom there, near Hungary. You know Hungary, the country with the dictator, who supports that other country with the dictator.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/873736/corruption-percep...

>Every country has restrictions on trade and payments

Right. As I literally stated. Every country has the right to prosecute their own citizens in their country. I'm sure that's what the EU voters want - to be prosecuted under the law proposed by this Romanian lawmaker.

There's nothing wrong with every person in Romania. But when a country is known for corruption, perhaps they shouldn't be leading the charge in EU-wide laws.

Let me rephrase that, since you're going to double down and do the "purposefully dense thing." I propose Poland lead EU-wide legislation on Abortion.

You got a problem with that? What, you got something against Poland?
Nice and very much in line with what i am looking for !

If you don't mind, could you add links to authoritative wiki pages/whitepapers/articles for each of the above? I think it will give us a good starting point to start our study/research from.
When my Dad had glioblastoma, I remember seeing an ad for a custom vaccine that could be created for brain tumors. "Save the tissue, save your life" or something like that was the headline slogan it had, and it was saying to ask your brain surgeon to save your tumor so they could make your personalized treatment from it. It conjured an image that has stuck with me of someone on a gurney screaming that out as their last words before going under from anesthesia. Hopefully something I don't ever need to remember at a critical moment.
The Secret History and Strange Future of Charisma
Is that not just the HTTP 1.1 format? It's a perfectly readable plain text format.
It would only be overkill if you had to invent it yourself. But since there's an existing solution, use that.

The article went from destructors to the with-pattern. Once you start thinking about exceptions, you might reach for try-with-resources. With Async exceptions you might look at bracket. If you want composability, go for ResourceT.
Worrying about being sued because of a structure fire spreading in a modern suburban development is pretty out there, IMO. If we really want to get into worst case, there are all manner of things that no sane person would ever insure against.

What kind of coverage does the typical home owner have along axis of "my house fire also was the eventual reason that 20 other homes burned down"?
Banking Is Slowly Getting Narrower – and Better
>Mr. Schwartz said that he had never used ChatGPT, and “therefore was unaware of the possibility that its content could be false.”

Why did he think it was true, if he had never used it before then?

"I found it online" levels of competence here.
And yet they sold a "WebForce" edition Indy with an httpd preinstalled.
"While there is nothing that can force the human to check the checklist"

That's why there's also the buddy system, procedure aka habit aka ritual, and culture aka the pressure of norms.

No single thing guarantees much, they are all just pressures that some people are immune to, or some can't always be applied (buddy system requires buddies), but they do all have their statistical effect, and the more of those you pile on, the less likely it is for something to make it past all of them.

Say someone is a total lone wolf, not part of any teams or communities, utterly immune to shame from not conforming to everyone else's expectations, the system still works because everyone else shuns their work because it came from such an unhygenic source, or, they take on the job of doing what the author didn't, because one way or another they simply can't be seen using dirty software in their own work. They either don't use it or they launder it themselves.

At least, I assume it's diffucult for a total cowboy scofflaw unsafe pilot to get a job doing any piloting that matters anywhere. I bet even the military demands people be in control of their intentiinal crazy unsafe flying.

Not just because of any rules but the entire culture made of the entire rest of the population that you can't buck individually.

And we do actually have a little bit of this in some, maybe most companies, where developers generally don't push code directly to production but must pass through at least one other reviewer to merge. But the company as a whole gets to do whatever they want in private, and they don't do that same sort of auditing on all the stuff they use that came from elsewhere, and thst's only big companies which are still probably a minority of all developers and projects. Even if I'm part of such a culture at work, I'm still not the rest of the time unless I choose to be.
Considering the hackers news post about Toyota firmware having 10,000 global variables, I'm not so sure they can rewrite their software. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9643551
A lot of conspiracy theorists are not like that. They are more like "My neighbor is behaving suspiciously. I have no concrete proof of wrong doing, but maybe I should start bolting my door".
3D Printed RC Plane: The Best Models in 2023
Thanks

So many people neglect this fact especially with all the hustle gurus
> After the standard of care treatment (which hasn't changed in 10 years)

A lot has changed in 10 years for the 'standard of care' conventional treatments (RT + TMZ) although most active-treatment GBM cases will actually be on some experimental therapy/clinical trial.

In fact, the WHO classification was only recently updated (2021) as what we were calling GBM included different types of gliomas with very different prognostic implications.

Unfortunately, as you allude to, despite several advancements prognosis has only marginally improved over 10 years. The main issue is that these patients almost always present with symptoms (like seizures) by which point curative intent ablative therapies (radiation or surgery) are no longer possible due to intolerable side effects.

> waiting for the inevitable recurrence

It's more progression than recurrence, there is (essentially) always residual disease with GBM even after radiotherapy/surgery which is one of the main reasons it remains so fatal (~6-9 months). Because of the blood-brain barrier chemotherapeutic options are also very limited.
Yeah, just like here in HN. /s

I'd prefer not to be treated like an idiot but so many sites are determined to.
Being suspended is a badge of honor. Sometimes, people get suspended for silly reasons (just to please some politician or official). When officials from Anti corruption bureau busts some officer, people say that because the latter officer is not sharing bribes properly with higher-ups, he was caught up by these anti-corruption guys.

It costs 80 crore rupees (or $10 million USD) to contest in local elections to order to become a member of legislative assembly, MLA, (a legislature body at the state level, who elects the chief minister). These contestants distribute money to voters to convince the latter to vote for them. The going rate is about 6000 rupees per voter (say, $75 USD). Voters collect money from both contestants.

Today's 80 crores = 160 Crores ($20M) 5 years later, as these MLAs serve five years. Consider this as a business. To break even, these MLAs to make $20M (or 160 Crores) in five years. How do these politicians make money? By collecting 10 percent commission for any public works contracts in their constituencies (say, building roads/buildings, digging tanks, patching roads, cleaning, even including transfers of public officials). So, one has to bring in $200M worth of public works contracts in his/her constituency. In India, every chief minister of a state (like the governor of a state in the states) is so big on dolls: sending money to people because the latter is 55 years old, or a woman, or unemployed, or poor, or belong to a certain castes. There is no money left in the public coffers, as the taxes they get don't cover these doles, freebies. So, there is no more money left to do any solid public works in their constituencies. In other words, these MLAs are not getting $200M worth of works in their constituencies. (I heard in the state of Andhra Pradesh, the average public works are at $15M for 5 years, so many MLAs are in deep loss). So, what do these politicians do: sand mafia, liquor mafia, drug mafia, mandatory bribes flowing from the bottom to top, bribes for transfers, bribes for reinstating suspensions, bribes for this and that. There is a deep collusion between politicians and bureaucracy, affecting the quality of life of average people in India.

This is the state of Indian politicians and bureaucracy. There is no shame being in suspended, just pay off the right politician to get reinstated.
HN's community is large and therefore divided on divisive topics. That's more than enough to explain why there's diversity of opinion on, for example, geopolitical topics. Everyone needs to abide by the rules in the presence of such topics so that this place does not end up burning itself to a crisp. Therefore, please don't post to HN like you did here—instead, please make your substantive points respectfully and thoughtfully.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
>Never mind many colleges and schools seems to be getting rid of or pairing down non-corporate majors.

That's called "the market."

Many schools are happy, within reason, to offer whatever programs students want to major in--whether they offer good post-graduation employment opportunities or not.
Classic SGI demo video from 1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EEY87HAHzk

I remember when my dad brought a VHS copy of this home. I couldn't believe the high-res smooth color graphics.
It's not just lawyers who think that ChatGPT is a search engine. I've observed this many times in my vicinity, people from all walks of life think that Star Trek is here and computers now respond accurately to natural language queries. For non-techies, "just asking the computer" is so much more convenient than translating your question into traditional search queries.

So I guarantee you that stuff like this is happening daily across all industries. Depending on the profession, people will lose money or get hurt as a result of someone blindly trusting this technology. I can't prove it, but statistically, that's basically a certainty.

In my opinion, you can't overstate the importance of articles like this, which point out the limitations and highlight the dangers. I'm also against banning. But lay people need to be informed what ChatGPT is and is not, and OpenAI won't do it because they want to ride the hype train.
After rewatching Fog of War the other day, it reminds me of a McNamara quote of Lemay regarding the fire bombings of Japan.

McNamara: "LeMay said, if we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say, we were behaving as war criminals."
Soil converts it to carbon.
In a thread on Reddit I saw some people who were using ChatGPT as their personal lawyer around some tech issues, and the community seemed to have absolute confidence it was providing good advice. I tried to comment that I wouldn't trust GPT as a legal reference and got downvoted into the deep negatives.

I'm guessing we will see a lot more of these type of issues. ChatGPT is sometimes useful but sometimes full of misinformation and many people don't seem to be wary enough of the potential for error.
I’ve used make like this in the past, it’s handy. But zsh auto suggestion obviates the extra maintenance IMO. I type the command one time and it’s in my history. So my common dev actions are more flexibly maintained by recency than editing a file.

You could say the Makefile also serves as a form of (not great) documentation.
Perhaps logically incompatible, but within legal proceedings you are allowed to use what is called alternative pleading, or alternative defence. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_pleading

To quote Richard "Racehorse" Haynes in the Wikipedia article:

"Say you sue me because you say my dog bit you. Well, now this is my defense: My dog doesn't bite. And second, in the alternative, my dog was tied up that night. And third, I don't believe you really got bit. And fourth, I don't have a dog."

So, here the defence is:

* I didn't believe the content could be false,

* Even if it is legally determined that I (beyond a reasonable doubt) knew the the content could be false, I asked the program to verify that the cases were real.

There are more details in the wikipedia article, but I believe this is legally valuable because a defendant is required to legally enter a defence and cannot easily change this.
Critical race theory is only relevant to a particular time and place. The broader concept is that of hegemony in general. Do not confuse the former for the latter.
How does ruby prevent you from doing non-transactional things between 'do' and 'end'?
They should've used GPT-4.
Worst Practices in Software Development: Pamela Fox Won't Quit Vi
>Synthesis: Some workers deny the existence of what the government says they want to make them pay for.

Wouldn't it involve less in the way of mental gymnastics to simply say they don't want to be left holding the bag?
Show HN: Browser-Based Notepad.exe
Hello HN,

I'm building a browser-based text editor that replicates the simplicity and spatiality of the Windows notepad.

Notepad is where I initially jot down all my ideas before moving or discarding them. The main thing that makes it so powerful for me is the fact that the text needs to be explicitly processed before closing the window (by saving or discarding). Because of this, nothing I type into a notepad window gets accidentally lost or forgotten. I always have to handle it when cleaning my workspace.

I use both Mac and Windows daily, and was missing this workflow on my Mac. The solution is a web-based version which can eventually sync between my machines.
I would love for you to try it out! All feedback welcome.
Virus Bulletin – AIDS trojan (1990) [pdf]
good topic but ugly truth behind it -- a US Interior agency near New Mexico had a scheduled controlled burn on the books.. apparently they can schedule things multiple years in advance.. but .. the drought got worse and covid hit. The department had personnel and morale problems.. lots of uncertainty.. they stalledxxxxx "waited patiently" for two more years as the drought got still worse but the documents describing physical risk were not updated.

The Federal department executed the burn and it went wild, and is the largest fire in recorded history in that area now, taking out an entire town plus other structures and causing the evacuation of Los Alamos National Laboratories at the same time. you can find the details easily.. there is a 70 page "final report" from the agency perspective. This is reality.
In halls or an apartment? I applied for Weston Hall when I was at UMIST, but ended up in Fallowfield :( The most important thing that Manchester did was open my mind having grown up in the the bigoted hinterlands of Northern Ireland.
This is my favorite complexity paper. It reminds us of how much we don’t know.
>where bot owners could upload code to, but not inspect logs of messages going to/from each user.

"Because, trust us"

Honestly the moment a packet leaves your device privacy is gone.
Nice, looks like a good starting point to survey the field.
The Kaktovik Iñupiaq language numerals (conlang) concatenate values
"The only war-crime is losing."
You're not growing a thimgleberry hydroponically.
I actually like this, because it gets much closer to a simpler, unix-y model of computing. No, this thing is not a good idea for doing anything complex. But sometimes you don't need complex. This seems to be about as simple as you can get. (Excepting that you don't need JSON at all to exchange key=value data over HTTP, as it already has multiple ways to pass key=value built into the protocol)
Finally! Someone that can actually "read between the lines", or basically, just read after the first paragraph :P
The Story of Parsifal and the Grail Myth (2015)
I think there's another more simple explanation:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Penny

Henny Penny is Chicken Little. And this really does seem to explain these issues to the point of being a tautology. As an institution loses trust then people stop believing what they say. 'My opinion is no worse than your falsehoods.' There have been a million and one trust-destroying events in the past couple of decades. So seeing ever more people come out with their own explanations, some being somewhat less than well thought out, is hardly some inscrutable phenomena.

The Google ngram for 'conspiracy theory' [2] is also quite telling. It seems to have risen somewhat during the Red Scare years, but then just went to the Moon shortly after November 22, 1963. [3]. And it's difficult to imagine why anybody might not think everything wasn't on the up and up there. I mean it's only been 60 years, and only 3% of the records remain classified.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emperor's_New_Clothes

[2] - https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=conspiracy%20t...

[3] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kenne...
More accurately it is about vertical greenhouses not having a path to profitability.

My first invention was a machine that concentrated solar power, and then distributed to different levels of the vertical farm. Basically piped solar light.

It never went anywhere but my dreams unfortunately. Still have the cad drawings and a prototype.
Not yet Another Digital ID: Privacy-Preserving Humanitarian Aid Distribution
Because users want that? As a result, sites that deliver that deliver more value to their owners than sites that don’t?

I do not subscribe to the view that it is all just collectively worse because we are cooperatively moving things away from our preferences.

I use ancient hardware. I wish the web was much lighter. That said, I do not see the fact that it ( and everything in computing ) keep becomes more and more resource intensive as evidence if some kind of incompetence or collective failure.

It just means I represent too little demand to dictate the supply.
Don't take something as fact without at least checking sources.

Couldn't be too hard for court decisions.
If you recursively remove people in the fire prone urban wildland interface there would be no one left in the state.

Some people are just in a bad place though altogether.

I don't know a good way to differentiate between the two.
That's HN. I come for the tech and leave with the advice...
Reminds me of Flowers for Algernon. Was that deliberate?
Good point

I would think that their made sure the profiles they ship
with the product "Linux Ubuntu", "Windows 10" etc configured
everything to be right.
But perhaps that is not possible anymore.
The missing ones are HTTP OPEN/CLOSE to improve the sessions management and security audits.
The access isn't very controlled if you give all your customers the key, now, is it?
Air freight is probably cheaper.
Sure, but in the times of encrypted traffic, the only middle boxes capable of limiting the query should be ones explicitly added by the service owner.
> The main value prop of a DB is performance

Filesystems are databases. Do we use filesystems because they're faster than doing direct i/o?

There isn't a value proposition for databases, because a value proposition is a business statement. If there were a business statement for databases, it would be a management interface for data. Nobody cares if a database is fast, they care if they can get their data in and out easier.
My ex was a relationship therapist. She was absolutely allergic to letting scar tissue build up. She would tell me about every little negative thing that happened between us. And she would phrase it by talking about her feelings rather than about my actions. ("I felt hurt when I heard you say X," rather than "You shouldn't have said X.")

Suffice it to say, it freaked out. I wasn't used to people sharing their feelings with me. In normal relationships, by the time someone is telling you they feel <insert negative emotion>, a ton of scar tissue has already been built up, and they're at a breaking point. So I was conditioned to believing that sharing feelings = things have gotten really bad.

But early on she would calm me down, and say no, things aren't bad, she's fine, she's just into sharing feelings early and often to prevent the buildup of resentment. So I got used to it, and even started doing the same thing back.

Eventually our relationship ended, but I brought the practice to new relationships I entered afterwards. And, unsurprisingly, it kind of freaked people out! Almost nobody is used to it at first, just like I wasn't. It's incredibly easy to get defensive when someone lets you know that they felt bad in response to something you did. And it's usually vulnerable and risky to find the words to share feelings without arousing the other person's defenses.

Still, when I look back at how I've evolved as a person, I credit this "scar tissue" view of relationships with a lot of personal growth. It's given me a habit of confronting people problems head on, something past-me was unconsciously avoidant of. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, and being willing to have uncomfortable conversations instead of kicking the can down the road is one of the hallmarks of adulthood and maturity.
Termite-inspired metamaterials for flow-active building envelopes
Well, you've heard of one of the startups and so you think "success" but you haven't heard of the other six startups and all the failure along the way. I joined Cloudflare after working for 19 years post my doctorate.
That's the intention. They make the law so unclear on purpose that they can arrest you for almost anything.
Quickly generate your GitHub repository card
Remember crypto miners (ASICS). Exact same thing but built for the math around AI work instead of Blockchain work.
This is just genius, I love it! As someone already mentioned, more as a political statement than a useful app, let's hope and work towards not really needing it because we will be able to "just use Signal".

But otherwise, really cool idea :)
> House the people. It's that simple.

It's not, though. Seattle ran into loads of problems with housing-first policies where the houses would get trashed and people with substance abuse problems would continue camping out as groups.
Carbon sequestration down to a tiny fraction of atmospheric carbon has happened all the way back when phytoplankton first showed up causing the Oxygen Holocaust and has been steady since then. Volcanic activity releases an enormous quantity of net carbon over time, but that carbon doesn’t accumulate in the atmosphere.

The misconception around the lack of fungi resulting in massive sequestration is that carbon would have been sequestered either way. It was similarly limited by the amount of carbon available per year from volcanic activity, what changed was the location of carbon storage not the net rate it was stored.
Skyrmion
History is written by those who know how to write.

For a long time they were a small minority. Even poor monks could leave manuscripts. Not necessarily the "winners".
CHP Officer Rescued from Attack
Indoor farming is a solution in search of a problem.
Typical scenario is to redirect to login and after successful authentication return back to the requested URL, so the method doesn’t fail if server is implemented correctly.
A rare exception to the almost universal rule that when the title of an article is a yes or no question, the answer is no.