skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you view the world as a zero sum game and that cultures meeting act like wolves fighting over territory, then you can hold a nationalist view without supremacy.

I don't think you need to see it as a zero sum game. Only that conflict, violent or otherwise, is likely, and often organized along ethnic lines.

We could look at history to try to assess how true that is, but that would be a boring debate. I'm more interested in your opinion of my first point, which you skipped: what if you value your kin and culture? When it comes to biodiversity, other species, or even obscure tribes in the Andes, valuing their preservation is prevalent and uncontroversial [0]. Why not apply this same attitude to ourselves?

Both will inevitably be diluted through immigration. Culture is of course not static, even absent immigration, so "preserving" it has limited effectiveness. But perhaps you wish to see how your culture will grow and evolve, without mixing it with a different culture? Especially since culture, just like genes, is largely continuous - to simplify, if there are two countries with distinct cultures, there is probably a third country half-way between them that already has a mix of their cultures. In this sense, by importing cultures, you're not creating a "new" culture, you're just reducing cultural differences.

The same argument holds for genes, including the part about continuity [1]. It's popular to reduce this to skin color, but human genetic diversity covers far more. For example, all of the Big Five personality traits are hereditary [2], and likely so are other personality attributes that are harder to measure or define. Given how almost no variable human traits are evenly distributed among all groups, that means immigration quite literally changes the character of a country. Again, no invocation of "supremacy" is needed, just a desire for preservation. When this desire for preservation is directed externally, for example at Kashmir [3], it has no associated taboo.

[0] At least in the present. We are all aware how different attitudes used to be, with explicit efforts to colonize and "civilize" others, or destroying old cultures and identities to replace them with the New Soviet Man and Year Zero.

[1] Genes mirror geography within Europe - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2735096/

[2] https://www.nature.com/articles/tp201596

[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2019/08/08/kashmirs-new...
Another reason for "patents are awful"
wow how did I mess up my post so badly? I didn't even do the proper math _now_, ofc the alphabet has 26 letters and my math above only works for 26 and not 23. I did check back when I had this thought many times. I guess I might have just had a brain fart now, I just copied what googled said while writing my post and somehow Google said 23 in a quick/bad search, so I just copied that number without checking it.

26 * 2 + 10 = 62, almost 64

(26 + 1) * 2 + 10 = 64
I expect US laws to apply to goods imported into the US.
pre-kindergarten I thought it was elemeno!
Bootstrap? They had their nuke and launched a satellite by 1970.
The police' main purpose is to protect the social order internally, by enforcing social relations (foremost being property and the authority of state institutions).

As for punishing crime - technically, the police is not supposed to decide whether crimes have been committed, nor to meet out out punishment for them. Really is a different thing, of course - but even then, the punishment is for police-undesirable behavior.
The Time Machine one is amazing. I go there by accident sometimes, usually when trying to work out why it isn’t working (this is a whole other issue) and it’s ludicrous.
MyLifeOrganized

https://www.mylifeorganized.net/

Been running my life using their software for years.

Also, they're a team in Ukraine negotiating software development in war conditions.
As an extremely relevant and related topic, it's Shut the Fuck Up Friday [1], time to review the script!

[1] https://youtu.be/sgWHrkDX35o
I'm absolutely fine with them. I use Spaces all the time - mostly by hitting f3 and clicking on the screen thumbnail at the top, rather than control-arrowing or control-number.

HN has a lot of hate for these animations but I don't think I've ever seen anyone bitching about them elsewhere.
I've just tried the service all the way through and there's no phone billing whatsoever.

It'll just shoot you a Stripe link.
I’m assuming it’s so once you have that number in your contacts, you can just text photos to that number anytime without having to go to a website.
I'm agreeing but it's because I find features like window snapping, auto-reveal desktop, and AERO SHAKE (where all the windows except the one you're shaking get minimized) REALLY FUCKING ANNOYING.

Windows 11 maximized the annoying desire to do things for me by bringing up this stupid rectangle at the top of my screen any time I move a window, trying to get me to snap it to a side of the screen...

It's like MS hired someone who uses those obnoxious Linux tiling WMs that don't let you do anything except tiling, and that person is trying to force tiling on everyone.

Thing is, damnit, I like overlapping windows!
Some candidates are more corrupt then others. Yes, if your candidate is the most corrupt one, it pays off to pretend corruption level is the same and dont matter.
Working at a place meant for living, like the beach teaches you quickly that you should be looking at the beach and collecting dust

This is further accelerated once you know how unrealistic the keeping the sand, brightness, humidity, heat out of your equipment and chasing dodgy internet connections makes something’s much harder.

I got to travel like this a bit long before it was called digital nomading . All I remember is the naps I got to take on some of those beaches
I don’t understand your complaint then.
Why not email
> And, iirc, it was from some other person, not gitlab

That would have to be a different image, then?
I'm sorry, can you explain this one?
Edit: I mistakenly wrote 23 _now in this post_ while I've had this thought many times with the correct alphabet number count, 26. In fact my math above only works for 26 (or 27 if it had one more letter).
Who cares? Moore's Law is not something that needs "saving". It was an observation of the time. It was bound to run up against physical reality.

In 1965, he predicted a doubling of components every year for the next ten years. In 1975, he changed it to every 2 years. And he was probably only looking out to the next 10 to 20 years.

Because, you know, that's reasonable. Even Moore himself knew that it was impossible to continue indefinitely.

Yes, let's get better. Yes, let's try to find more ways to efficiently compute. But let's not be slaves to words spoken before we were born because they were easy to achieve back then.
Haha. First time submitting a link (and it blowing up, it’s on page 4!). I’m in wonder how I did unleash all this stream of comments, as my eyes are fixed on the karma point, reloading the page, watching it increase like it never did before, despising myself for that at the same time for falling to the gamification and thinking it’s time to nuke my HN account.
The answers are stored procedures and templates. People argue against them, but they're basically the data versions of software affordances we already have.
The FCC page explaining their context is here:

https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us/articles/1613625...

Please at least skim it before filling out the 'Data Cap Experience Form' at the bottom of the page. Based on an included ticket ID I suspect the link to be personalized on the landing page.
I saw this happen in a real trial.

It's more complicated than just saying "jury nullification." You have to explain your beliefs.
Does that czech website have an address?
The USA police is a bit of an exception here, being overly militarized, not kept in check by judges and politicians, and historically having a side job of fugitive slave catchers.

Around the world, the core job of the police is more: Restore the public peace. They can forgive transgressions in public if you demonstrate further disturbance of peace will cease.

They have to maintain a reasonable level of fairness, or they get overrun by vigilantes. But as long as the illusion of fairness holds good enough, they can and will crush powerless people in the wheels of justice.
Question to chemists here: why does article call it Manganese-Platinum alloy whereas composition numbers say that it contains much more Nickel, Strontium, and Cerium than Platinum?
Let's not forget &c
And if it is this is important as methane is a potent greenhouse gas.

If the bacteria used in the process are obligate aerobes this would encourage the carbon dioxide route. This would also be the case if the bacteria were selected or engineered to preferentially produce carbon dioxide.

But regardless, the waste put in to the bin will have its own bacteria too. So if any of those are methanogens then it would be especially important to keep the company's bacteria up to date ("Fresh bacteria are added every three months for quality control."), and/or to ensure good air flow through the waste bin.
“No one likes a cop until they need one”. Cops are not inherently your foe, but that does not imply that they are in any way inherently your friend, even when you are part of the “in group”.

In the US the relatively recent shift to use of the term “law enforcement” both reflects and drives a self-destructive nature in the broad culture.

Your insightful point, “The police's sole purpose is to punish crime, not to prevent it” has several implications.

First is that even if you have a positive view of the cops (and if you are not in an “out group” you should) you still should follow this advice. If you’re not chatting with your next door neighbor the cop at a bbq, what you are is an unpleasant barrier to getting their job done with a minimum of hassle. Like you think of Jira or Confluence.

Another implication is to understand that their role, in cultural norm, in who it attracts to the job, and simply the cumulative impact of what they are exposed to, drives what I will euphemistically call “destructive impact”. We need cops like we need the weather, but that doesn’t mean we don’t take steps to deal with the destructive force of storms, and even to minimize storm generation.

Unfortunately the US is in a phase where they think the more brutality the better. In that the cops correctly reflect what they are asked to do.
Shameless plug: I've tried to build an alternative CLI for Git [1].

I think it's just too hard to create a new abstraction. Git seems too widespread and many people won't switch if they already have muscle memory of the commands.
Perhaps we haven't found the correct abstraction yet.

[1] https://github.com/julien040/gut
That’s good. Though phone numbers are so opaque. How can I be sure that’s actually where it’s going? How do I know if it’ll cost me an MMS fee? Etc.

Why not just an upload form with a checkout for paypal/credit card/etc.?
Respectfully this is obnoxious advice for the majority of home cooks. We just want to know what to cook and how.
I don't get it. Why would you spend so much time on git? You can teach the core ideas in 2 hours, let them do some homework (4 hours?), and the rest they can figure out later. I don't see the value of understanding git in detail.
> Short term ad revenue comes from lurkers.

Except that's what startups are about these days, CEOs pump and dump the company onto Wall Street, then jump the crashing plane with their golden parachute.
Religions Meet LLMs
The actual project is here

https://tensor.church/
He owns Twitter. DeSantis announced his presidential bid on Twitter.

You can draw your own conclusions.
This is only if you registered your domain and signed up for Google Workspace separately. If you registered your domain during the Google Workspace onboarding process billing and management for your domain will be through Squarespace but billing for Google Workspace will continue to be through Google.
Which was exactly de point of de joke originally.
The landing page they linked suggests it’s possible, but makes it sound like it might be more work to do so:

> BlockNote is built for React and exposes easy-to-use components. However, it is possible to use BlockNote with other frameworks or Vanilla JS (advanced users).
> The affair of 214 suggests that even in a period where Roman armies were regularly being destroyed completely, the draft-dodger rate was something just below 1%.

One of the things that made Rome successful was that they would absorb horrendous losses and still keep going. Their ability to mobilize contributed to their power.

To give an example, at the Battle of Cannae, in a single afternoon, Rome lost an estimated 65,000 men killed. To put this in context, the US lost 58,000 soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War.
I would recommend against that methodology. A lot of etymology is not easy to find, but plausible etymology is easy to make up.
You can do this currently with a printer and stamps for much cheaper.

It can also be done much more anonymously.
From the previous post a year or so back I thought the mystery was discovered that it was a new age druidic symbol someone had stuck in
You agree that they can detain you for something that isn't mandatory.
Interrupted Memories: Alcohol-Induced Blackouts
That happens because all the swimming pools from urbanized areas get taken into account, apparently.
Thanks! Since you’ve tried it, do you have a better sense of why it requires this step and isn’t just a normal web form?
If you find an interesting search result on page 3 you seriously bookmark page 3 rather than bookmarking that link?
What is "window snapping"?

It is hard for me to imagine what you could mean by "nonexistent window managing system". Obviously Mac OS has a window management system.

People have widely varying preferences when it comes to such things. You seem to be thinking of yours as though they are somehow objective and external to you.
> Without being told to be grounded, the model will guess.

Right. I understand why, but consider the underlying technology flawed unless there's some way to reject wildly wrong results. What's going on here looks like noise fed through layers which generate plausible-looking text from noise. Is it possible to detect that you're not far enough above the noise threshold to generate anything useful?

>>> lm.do("What is Ycombinator? Do not guess.")
'Ycombinator is a mathematical formula that states that the sum of
two integers multiplied by one are equal to zero.'
C++

An old one, but the FTGL library (renders truetype fonts in old-school OpenGL in half a dozen different ways: texture-per-letter, texture-per-word, 2D polygons, 3D polygons, etc) is the best example of C++ inheritance I've ever run across. The code formatting isn't my favorite, and comments are sparse, but the hierarchy of objects subclassed for all the different rendering modes is just about perfect. https://sourceforge.net/p/ftgl/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/

Perl

The Mojolicious / Mojo toolkit. Great minimalist API and great documentation and clean code all around. https://metacpan.org/release/SRI/Mojolicious-9.33/view/lib/M...
We won a set of fancy cast iron pans and gpt explained to us what each of them are for. Way better experience than googling or reading wikipedia.
But it goes the other way. That's math using non-latin letters, which is a common practice. Not a weird coincidence.
From the article: Waste deposited in the boxes will decompose in a day meaning that, unlike regular compost, they will not produce any unpleasant odors, she said.

It doesn't seem to answer your other "gotchas".
If you hide the dock it works fine to fill the screen without hitting the "full screen" button, unless there is some control at the absolute bottom of the window that you regularly need to access. Putting the dock on the side has always been an option; I've had it autohiding on the right since not long after trying 10.0.
Patents can be licensed.
Are you saving 5-6% but selling at 10% less than you could? In some markets bidding wars are common. The extra 25-50% of bidders pushes up the price usually worth more than 5%
The argument for this, as ugly as it is, is that admitting arguments of innocence at that point would clog up the court system and impede justice.
A friend of mine recently had quite a bad experience asking the police for help with directions as he was traveling through the Netherlands.

He was trying to figure out where he was using the map on a bus stop and approached a nearby police car to ask for assistance.

They demanded his ID which he was not carrying at the time. He explained that it was in his bag at the place where he was staying and they said he needed to be able to identify himself, so they arrested him on the spot and he was not free again until the following morning. As a result he missed a ferry and had to spend the money booking another one.
As a frontend developer, GraphQL is substantially better: fewer calls, hierarchy preserved, and no excess data over the wire.

As a backend developer, REST is substantially simpler to implement: HTTP endpoint is dead simple and the caching models are 30 years old (aka very well-defined).

The answer is definitely going to be skewed by what kind of developer you ask.

For backend, writing a GraphQL server by hand (schema, types, and resolvers) is a PITA. If you have a generator like Postgraphile or Hasura, it's almost a no-brainer how easy it is. REST by comparison is almost always dead simple to reason about no matter the tooling, and literally everyone already knows how it works.

As a frontend developer, I have never said to myself, "Gee! I'm sure glad I have to call these five separate REST endpoints with a bunch of extra data I'll never use just to render this one web page." I have split GraphQL calls into separate requests, but only for performance optimization in specific cases.

REST gives backend more power. GraphQL gives frontend more power. If you're like most shops, backend doesn't fully trust frontend and are kind of lazy in an anal retentive kind of way. If you're like Netflix, you've got so many different clients that supporting all variations of REST was simply unmaintainable, so GraphQL really was their only sane path forward.

Then of course there's gRPC, but I still consider that a serialization optimization rather than a real paradigm difference.
> I was a research scientist[1] for 7 years of my 25 years of working experience.

In what field? Is it close to psychology?

> That's just your opinion. The lack of replicable results in psychology is not an opinion.

I did not claim that psychology doesn't have a lack of replicable results.

> We are not debating whether or not the research can be replicated, are we?

No, we are not. We are debating whether we can dismiss this study without defining a way to falsify our claim.

> I mean, are you seriously claiming that psychology is filled with replicable studies?

Again, I am not claiming this, nor have I claimed it previously.
Tell HN: Always Backup Your Data
tl;dr Today I accidentally wiped the contents of my /var/www and have no way to recover it

Basically, I was playing with some chroots. After messing one up, I decided to delete it completely so I did 'rm -rf chroot'. However, I forgot that I had /var/www also bind mounted to it. So there she goes. Completely wiped it with no backup.

Fortunately, it was just tt-rss and some dummy pages. Still it is a pita to setup again.
Huh? What's annoying about something completely optional? If you don't like window snapping, just.... don't?
Some form of ‘snap’ is being rolled out with Stage Manager on the iPad, which has very strong window rails, and the latest update improves their granularity. macOS has very few snap rails relative to the iPad, and only very limited close-range springs when in proximity to other windows. Perhaps that’ll change, or perhaps not, in the future. So, Apple’s definitely not ignoring snapping — they’re just doing it in ways that don’t currently meet your needs.
Mental Abacus
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/32907
I suspect more than one wire of terrestrial origin has wound up in the Pacific Ocean.

This guy has a history of motivated thinking in this realm. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/harvards-top-...
New Intel Core Processor Branding for Meteor Lake: Drop the I, Add Ultra Tier
>STOP to unsubscribe

Confused. Is this charged per shot or subscription?!?
I am currently working all the time. Independently designed/developed/operated/owned apps, and worker coop structures for working with others. I like consent based decision making rather than hierarchical or consensus. Command is unnecessary for us to do well for ourselves.
Nividia is using "the end of Moore's Law" as an excuse to provide zero price/performance improvement. It would be pretty anti-consumer if that became the industry standard.
Building Erlang applications the hard way
Although it would be nice for this to be built into the OS, there are lots of apps that fulfill this purpose. I personally use Moom, have heard good things about Magnet, and if you like tiling there’s Yabai.
This is a terrible moment for index funds.
Jet.com has a lot of good ones yeah. One I was looking through the other day is a GitHub repo under /ScottArbeit/Grace and it’s an interesting take on version control. It was a pretty cool repo to look through. To make it easier though, remember that F# source code files are all “in order” so you read them from top down, which Github doesn’t currently have functionality for.
Good structure overall and appreciate the summary at the top. For the inline comments more "why" and less "what" would give higher signal-to-noise as a large percentage of that content is adding nothing that basic Java syntax and variable names don't already tell you.
The media keeps inventing new terms/problems every few months about work culture … that inevitably lead to going back to the office.
The main anecdotal story is about someone who became a digital nomad who found it difficult to keep up productivity in her business … a travel blog. Travelling and writing about it is literally her business.

The BBC neglected to include this statistic from the report they referenced.

“Digital Nomads Among the Most Satisfied with their Work and Income Consistent with prior years, digital nomads are among the workers most satisfied with their work and lifestyle.”
There is nothing wrong with Git.
It's analogous to backups
Everyone is thaught these are important to do, and it isn't realy much work, but the times i've seen students lose weeks of thesis work because of storage crash ...
Dictionaries/thesaurus just describe how words are used or were used by someone. It doesn't prescribe the correct usage of words.

The issue is that open source is a clear technical term that has a certain usage within the community. This caused confusion, especially since that is a specific definition that I grew up with, and existed before I was even born.

Calling it 'source available' caused none of the confusion.
"Perfect is the enemy of good" is another similar one you might like ;)
Also see Demolition Man.
DIY framework laptops are fully assembled machines that get manually taken apart
I believe 'enchanted' was an autoincorrect of 'enhanced' -(an activity which, by the way, moots molecular clock arguments)
lol you couldn't be more wrong. Back in the classic Mac days, Apple was so anti-full-screen-environment that most apps had floating toolbars and the document windows were minimal and freestanding. (ircle and office:mac 2000 or older would be my first examples, but I believe photoshop worked the same).

MS did it because.. I think Windows used to only support 1 window per program or something. That's why old versions of Office basically go full screen and each document you open is another 'child window' of the main office window. Same was true for stuff like America Online lol.