skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is in principle correct and the points it discusses are important for beginners to learn.

OTOH in my opinion it fails to distinguish extensional from intentional categories, i.e. those concepts that arise from 'material', 'physical' differences from those that arrive through things like intended use. For example, there's no principal difference between '(a few) grains of sand' and 'a heap of sand', so should we stop using those words? Philosophers have been seemingly unable to 'draw a line in the sand' for us for 2000 years! But then there's a difference between someone asking you to clear a room from 'those grains of sand' vs 'that heap of sand': the first is swish-swish with a broom, done, whereas the other might mean hours of shoveling and wheelbarrow-pushing.

Likewise with 'compilation' vs 'transpilation' (and, in some cases, even 'interpretation') where lines are hard to draw as far as material extension goes. The intention is clearer: we say 'transpilation' when we translate a 'high' language to another 'high' language (one that itself has to be compiled or interpreted). However the concept of 'high' languages is squishy; it is hard to separate from 'low' languages and 'intermediate' ones (e.g., so-called bytecode) on the level of appearance alone—these concepts are based on the models, the conceptualizations that people build to structure the world in their minds.

So the intentional difference between a textual and a binary format is something along the lines of 'if I can open the file in a text editor and get to see meaningful ('potentially human-readable') text, then it's in a text format; if I see gobbledegook and garbled mojibake, then that's a binary format'. If I can create and edit a file in my text editor and get correct results from the program that digests it, that's a text format (e.g. a line-by-line JSON database file); if I can't do that except in a painful manner using a hex editor and doing bit-level calculations—that's a binary format for you (e.g. try to hand-edit an SQLite DB file in a hex editor to change some records).

It's to a degree the tools we have at our disposal that shape our view of what category things fall into. Let me ask you a question: if there really is no distinction between raw text and binary—why is it that a tool like git performs great with the former and much more poorly with the latter? Git sure can handle images, but how to interpret a diff in that case?
Researchers 'split' phonons in step toward new type of quantum computer
Is night time energy still cheaper than day time? I thought that with the rise of cheap solar, day time energy would have been cheaper by now.
Because of compile-time type safety / static analysis. And I say this as the author of an IDE that bolts those features onto Lua: https://github.com/Benjamin-Dobell/IntelliJ-Luanalysis
The corollary to my original point, is that Apple's first gen product isn't great (but still better than the competition), but after a gen or two is the bomb. OG iPhone? Meh. iPhone 3GS? That's where it became useful. OG iPad? Meh. iPad 2? yep.
LOL you must have never heard of Facebook "Meta"
It also incentivises solar, which provides super cheap energy during the day.
I’m from a world where my myopia was debilitating (minus 10.5 in one eye, -9.5 in the other). Then, someone came an sprinkled magic dust into my eyes through a Laser and bam! 20/20 eyesight in one afternoon.

You could say I was going the other way - from wearing a contraption (specs/contacts) to not wearing one unlike AR/VR where I have to wear something to experience it - but the effect is the same.

I was naturally one way and then, out of nowhere came LASIK to make life better for me.

It’s the same way everywhere. We couldn’t fly and now we have flying tubes. We couldn’t understand movies in foreign languages and now close captions exist.

Personally, I’d like to give that VR/AR magic dust a chance to see if my now 20-20 eyesight can kick up a notch.
Ok. As im approaching my first half-kilo, my 250th can of energy drink, i'll slow down.
That is an interesting observation. On one side we could say when it is your own money one behaves more egotistically.

On the other side, if OP was satisfied in the current firm (they admit they are not) and could have an impact in the direction of the company (instead of short-term results) maybe he would hold on to the stock for longer.
Many Reddit’s are run by angry folks, I’ve asked questions before only to be scolded and other times to crickets because it was not a funny picture/video or meme.

Any real forum I could find on the same topic always had nicer people and my questions got replies.

The problem is that forums cost money and time to host, update, prevent spam, etc.

Oh and I hate the Reddit auto-moderation, a post will never get posted because I was too new and then your dependent on the email to the Reddit moderators to move it out from an email they may never read.
I had several cases like these over the last years (joined the network 12 years audio but the issues seem to be a few years old. I have about 220k across the sites, with a predilection to editing questions and answers for format (readibility) and updating my own answers as technology progresses).

Some SE sites are better, some worse in that aspect. SO bring the largest usually gathers the anger most.

Then within SO there are better and worse communities. Some are toxic (Go, in addition to being maddeningly elitist), some are great (sql for instance).

The Meta is such a shitshow that I never get there anymore.

It is dad, but in reality a combination of culture, low effort questions and egos.
My opinion: weekly 1:1 is a "must have". But you've got to do them right.

I didn't have them when I started my career, had them much later on both sides (as a direct report, and as a manager), so I guess I can do the comparison. From my experience this is the single most simple and efficient practice that you can put in place to: a) keep healthy relationship with your boss / your directs, b) always be up to date and on the same page, c) actually *save time* on your agenda and get distracted less.

The wonderful thing that happens when you start doing 1:1s: you always know that you will eventually and very soon have time to ask your questions, so you need fewer other meetings. And it is scheduled, so you get to plan your entire week! instead of being distracted by spontaneous meetings.

But as I mentioned, you've got to do them right. For the above to work, it has to be regular (weekly), scheduled, and mostly done on time. The manager must understand that this is not a reporting meeting. That is, if you have a 1:1 with your manager, you got to talk first and about anything that is important for you.
>Smartphones existed before the iPhone. PC laptops existed before MacBooks.

You make a good point and I'd like to add to it. What is interesting is that all modern phone design grew out of the designs of the original iPhone and all modern laptops grew out of the design of the original Powerbook. If you scroll down on the second link below you'll see that the Powerbook is the first one that looks like a modern laptop.

https://www.cultofmac.com/145083/what-phones-looked-like-bef...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_laptops
> The assertion that something is always there even when there’s absolutely no evidence for it is an unfalsifiable “Russell’s teapot” argument.

Stating that every large project involves some degree of corruption is less like claiming that there's a teapot in the orbit of Jupiter we can't hope to observe. It's more like claiming that every sufficiently large economy has some gray area even if we didn't directly observed it.
It is also obvious just looking at the movie that animation was created by painting on top of parts of the previous frame.

Some scenes appear to be fully repainted between frames.
Ah!

I wish I could say thanks, but when I tried it out just now, I realised that I have seen it many times — trouble is, it's labelled in my mind as "that annoying popup I keep triggering by accident, how do I disable it?"

Still, have a metaphorical cookie: even though I don't like the thing, sharing knowledge kindly is always good :)
Exactly. Reddit has always been a shit hole and it just shows that Reddit always was able to pull the rug under its own users. A 1 day protest is nothing but hilarious as if that would do anything to Reddit.

The right action at this point is to delete your accounts.
Unrestrained bullying, increasingly smaller numbers of article editors and a cruel clique of editors. It’s basically in maintenance mode, it’s not increasing in quality or knowledge.
The discussion is about massive tech companies investing giant piles of cash into the technology, making the bet it will be the next mainstream platform.

If yourself and some others are having awesome experiences already, no one is doubting or downplaying that.
Reddit admin are bricking themselves to be resorting to telling moderators that they will only make better moderation tools if their subs don't participate, so they clearly don't agree 48 hours is an idle threat.
> " By contrast, every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself."
> Wait, I thought an Oculus does the same thing too.

I never use my Quest sitting down. I use it as a roomscale device for, e.g., boxing, or playing table tennis or golf with family in other countries.

The Apple device looks great, but if it was the same price as a Quest 3 and I could only buy one, I'd choose the Quest 3, no questions.
> Many of the classic, non-nutritive sweeteners like sucralose have been tested more thoroughly than almost any substance we ingest.

..until last week:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=sucralose+cancer
The difference is we're talking about a product category that has penetrated culture in a meaningful way, rather than tech that is meaningful to people with specialized knowledge.

iPhone was ground zero for the general public consciousness in this space, it made this product category mainstream. It's silly to argue otherwise.

Also variable valve timing was plastered on trunks of cars in the 80s so folks of a certain age should recognize the term, and Linux as a term seems pervasive enough that most people should at least have heard of it; they likely have no idea what those terms actually mean though.
> I’d be amazed if any animator can watch that and not think “Yes!! That’s it! This is the future of my profession!”

I'm sure that Hayao Miyazaki is utterly unimpressed by across the spider-verse.
It's fairly easy to imagine a 13 old knowing that whatever they are doing is "wrong" but totally underestimating the scale and impact.

Perhaps they were expecting a few harsh words at most and that was a price they were "ready to pay".

"Being mocked by the other kids" and "going a little bit over budget" could have sounded equally bad in their young mind.

It's fair to assume that they didn't intended to hurt their family this much and this is one reason why society severely restricts what people can do at this age.
It's on the radar, but it will probably never have the critical mass that reddit has; can its servers handle and afford millions of users and billions of requests a month?
so this explains why vegans look older
I doubt this. Obesity, caused by eating processed food is certainly happening in many places, but outside the USA I don't think it's normal
Show HN: Web service to clean PDFs from potentially privacy-invasive metadata
docleaner is a web service created at TUD-CERT for internal use to remove potentially unwanted metadata from documents. The service currently supports PDFs and removes all metadata except fields relevant for various PDF standards (such as markers for PDF/UA-1, PDF/VT, PDF/1 etc.) and namespaces (e.g. XMPRights for legal stuff). Usage via htmx-based web frontend or REST-like API, released under BSD license. Maybe someone else is interested, feel free to use or contribute.
There are subreddits where mods meet in person a few times per year. Replace that commitment.
1. Don't know that there's anything preventing US-based organizations to use non-US-based computing platforms which are universally accessible. And if things are indeed that bad - that means Rust as a project has decided to define itself as a partisan US endeavor. USers might hear this and just shrug carelessly, but imagine how you would feel if the Rust foundation's websites would be inaccessible for people in, oh, say, New Jersey. Nobody from Jersey could publish rust crates. That's preposterous.

2. The UN's headquarters are in the US, the same principles should apply, although I realize legally that might not be the case. Then again - maybe projects like a programming language should actually be constituted via the UN, or ISO, to have the appropriate non-partisan legal basis for operations.
I'm sure there are millions of people who visit pornhub that would never have visited a pornographic cinema (or whatever they were called).
Sure, no problem. I don't have a use case where I could test your app so this kind of feedback is all that I can do :)
People, as a collective, fail to learn from research or history and like to use their authority and charisma as a stand-in for logic and proof.

It isn't just the managers doing this. Anyone who isn't in a position of authority but has knowledge of the state-of-the-art, research on it, etc. can tell when someone in that position is pushing their ideals over actually having done research or doing logic beyond a bunch of unquantifiable 'what if' arguments. It takes 5 minutes of online research to dismantle their arguments. But it still happens regardless, even in CS and SD where myths are pushed as absolute truths.
There is also Piped [0] which is a direct alternative to Invidious.
It uses the NewPipeExtractor [1] from the NewPipe Android app [2] to contact YouTube.

[0] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
[2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Nah that's not uncommon, plenty of brands will have a social media presence, including Reddit; it's just that (from my perspective), the really commercial ones never gained much traction and didn't rise to the top anywhere.

Reddit marketing is done best if it looks grassroots.
> tunnels are not usually built in factories

And this is why it is such a great business for corrupt people. Actually it is cleaner, faster, cheaper and more sustainable to pre-drill a hole in a factory, and then transport it to its final location. Of course there are some organizations who would protest against this technology by any means necessary...
You realize this is a self-fulfilling prophecy. If people from certain countries are excluded - formally, technically or culturally - naturally they would not tend to even try to contribute.
Companies are remotely turning off meters for billing reasons when that isn't completely safe? They're just hoping and assuming if they do it at night there won't be much load? That doesn't sound very reassuring.
Yeah this is pretty inexcusable.
Around year 1000 the vikings' went to Vinland, which was their name for North America.

You can read about it in two sagas:

The Saga of Erik the Red (Eiríks saga rauða) has a description of Erik's son Leif leading an expedition to Vinland:

https://www.sagadb.org/eiriks_saga_rauda.en

The Greenland Saga (Grænlendinga saga) has more information on the journey if you can read Icelandic, but there is no English translation in this database at the moment.

The actual discovery was not by Erik but by an earlier voyage around 985 by Bjarni, who navigated the coast but decided not to enter the unknown land. The later voyage was inspired by his information.

The vikings considered the journey from Greenland to Vinland the most dangerous journey in their trading network, navigating storms and icebergs in their open boats. However, Vinland provided a source of valuable wood, a scarce resource around their homes in Greenland.

There is archeological evidence of their visits on Newfoundland. You can visit their site in L'Anse aux Meadows with distinct viking houses and metal artefacts:

https://www.newfoundlandlabrador.com/top-destinations/lanse-...
People do be living, a consequence far removed from most individual’s lives these days. I even had to look up how to spell individual; that's how foreign of a word it is in present times.
I guess it means... committing to a self-destructive life in order to serve a creative vision: 'Dive deep, come up wealthy'. Its not the only way for a creative individual to function, but I could easily list many from the top of my head without even breaking sweat.

From a broader perspective, it is an application of a 'limit case' technique: by mapping the limits one defines the whole.
I like hard SF and don't like politics mixed in (even Heinlein can annoy me), so this isn't something I would follow, but I think the case is philosophically interesting. A substantial portion of serious SF devotees think that "good" SF should be transgressive. Well, if the SF community itself allows one perspective on things to be enforced over the community, isn't it adhering to the transgressive mandate to poke against it?
You could also apply this for thinking to domain names and usernames on most sites. I’m not sure if I agree or not, but the same system exists there too if owning names by being the first to claim them
> Who's to say cats can't live independently among humans (and rats and other animals) in cities?

I knew about this nonprofit via a cat colony caretaker, @poetssquarecats (I follow her on Tiktok and she's amazing) that talks about the struggles of feral cats and uncontrolled cat colonies. Yes, of course animals in the wild also suffer from diseases, parasites, and injuries. But these animals aren't in the wild. They're far more constrained than in the wild, with a lot more access to food, and with a lot more dangers. One of the problems is that, in those conditions, the number of cats can and does explode (female cats can become pregnant at 4-6 months old already, and they have on average 16 kittens a year in multiple litters).

And yes, of course getting rid of them is going to have unwanted consequences, but having them has other unwanted consequences. For example, as the article mentions, birdlife is severely affected, which can also have other unwanted consequences. I think that in that case it's better to have the cause under control: either way it's going to have unwanted consequences, but at least when you control it you know that it's happening.
Have you tried Alpine Linux? Fairly straightforward to set up as a desktop and no systemd (OpenRC FWIW) by default. Flatpak Steam reportedly runs fine.

https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Steam
Love Lua, but damn I hate the 1-based index so much, it is such a pain to adapt to it and a source of bug when implementing algorithms…
I used Arch in 2010-2012 (when I was very new to Linux yet had no problem installing Arch thanks to the Wiki) and something broke a number of times (maybe like 3 times a year). It also felt surprisingly slower than Ubuntu despite using XFCE vs Gnome2.

I then switched to Ubuntu and then to Manjaro and had only one break (it just wouldn't boot, but I easily found instructions on how to fix that) in many years straight.

I don't say Arch is bad but to me it seems like it is rather far from perfect while Manjaro is the closest to perfect I have ever seen.

Needless to say I appreciate Arch exists and am very grateful for the amazing job they do. Obviously no Manjaro would exist without Arch in the first place. Arch Wiki deserves a separate mention as it is of great quality and often helps a lot no matter what actual distro are you tweaking (it helped me with Ubuntu).
Funny thing I've found arch the rolling distro with the least breakages. I've tried (and liked) tumbleweed, sidux and others, but ended up with arch because it was just very stable.
Why not try decaffeinated coffee?
Probably not _utterly_ unimpressed... but OK, yes, any animator but one. :)
Agree, I think the problem with recommendation engines is a different one: they are not really focused on serving content that would be valuable to you, but one that will help increase metrics you probably don't care about or that are even potentially bad for you e.g. usage time
Population correlation studies, camera traps, mark-recapture studies, GPS tracking to understand spatial relationships between cats and rats, analyzing cat stomach content and so on.
Nothing new under the sun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
Superintelligence not a ‘sci-fi risk’ and possible in ‘next decade’: Sam Altman
If you don't otherwise meet your manager regularly, it's great. Note that even if you schedule, say, an hour a week for the 1:1, in practice you will miss a lot of them due to conflicting meetings taking priority, and if there is not much to talk about you won't use the full hour. So despite that schedule, you'll end up with only having half an hour every two weeks. These regular meetings are great for keeping in touch, and catching things going wrong early. Of course, YMMV, it only works if you and your manager make good use of them.
What’s the problem with HN mobile?
Well there's always endeavor which is essentially arch with a user friendly installer.
No ESP32-S3?

This looks great but needs a non-frictiony way to bolt together with some C or assembly code where needed. Not sure about JADAC, and wondering how hard it would be to write libraries / servers / whatever for sensors, DMA, ADC, etc.

Also note docs say "Serial, SPI, PWM are not supported yet at the DeviceScript level."
Most everyone from those "cheap" areas have either already moved/organized good pay and thus getting paid the same as the "expensive" westerners, or are completely garbage and will result in a complete rewrite that ends up costing 10x more than just hiring competent people in the first place.
> And also including dismantling and spent fuel/ contaminated material storage and disposal for unknown time to come. Also not only environmental, but social cost of creating a spent fuel site that does have to be cared for hundreds of years while bringing no benefit at all, with huge costs.

Indeed. Decommissioning a nuclear power station is a serious task. But the waste fuel can just be buried somewhere where humans aren't. It's really not a problem. If people are too stupid to read 'stay away' signs, there's not much hope for us. After all, people manage not to fall off cliffs every day that have signs saying 'warning cliff'. It's not difficult.

Given the return of animals to Chernobyl and Fukushima, is that really such a high price to pay? Animals are largely unaffected, and we're the ones messing up the planet.
Debian supports its releases for 5 years, not for 5 days.

Only run Debian here, but to be clear, Debian supports releases for 1 year after the next release, so typically 3 years max.

Debian LTS is handled by a third party, non-debian org, via donations. All packages are not necessarily covered, it's not the Debian securtiy team.

This is important to understand, as LTS depends upon donations to decide what gets secuirty updates. Donors have a say. So for example, you'll see apache, openssl, php updated, but not obscure pacakges.
Moderators are the only reason I use Reddit. Even then too many subs are just filled with meme garbage and other recycled jokes/spam.
Did that watch survive from the 60s without service? If you need to have a vintage watch like that serviced it would cost about the same as buying a new apple watch.
Some of these old watches can also become a bit of a ship of theseus. It's a 60's watch with a new crystal,mainspring and rotor.