skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The company supplies bacteria that can process 98 percent of organic waste into water and carbon dioxide in just 24 hours

Uh, there’s this new technology… “fire” which will do exactly the same thing considerably more quickly. Maybe I should create a startup and have chatgpt generate marketing material about how burning your garbage is environmentally sound.

Either this article is bad or the tech is not at all reasonable. You want compost because it fixes carbon. Put it in a landfill and you have carbon storage. Spread it on the ground and you’re building soil. It’s never “wasted”.
I think it's more likely to be the case that only the corrupted are given any power so it is an inversion of cause and effect.
The idea that power corrupts is probably just a narrative to demoralize people so that they don't bother revolting... No point changing the system because, look, whoever you give power to will become corrupted and it will all have been pointless. It's nonsense. If it were the case, then the degree of corruption would be proportional to the degree of power held by various governments... Yet clearly it is not.

What probably happens though is that there are some very corrupt people in power who attentively watch any political movement and they take steps to corrupt them by infiltrating them up with corrupt individuals under their control... That way when these political movements reach their climaxes, they have completely deviated from their original course and have become totally ineffective as a political tool for change.
I agree with you. C++ and Python are great. Haskell looks the best but it’s way too tiring to write. Go is the worst offender.
Yes that's true but the article specifically refers to ampersand already being part of English alphabet for many years before that.
Today we can also ask GPT-4 for targeted advice
> 26 letters

J, U, and W are sometimes considered pretenders. Late additions, at least.

J is just a stylized I. U is a variation of V. W is of course just a double U.

G is also a relatively recent entry, if you go back to the Romans from which the Latin/English alphabet is derived.
>It's a little unclear where the distinction lies between the two. "White nationalist" overlaps with and kinda implies "white supremacist".

I don't think this distinction is unclear.

In and of itself, a racial nationalist's beliefs might be something close to "I prefer to live in a country with my own people."

In and of itself, a racial supremacist's beliefs might be something close to "My people are inherently superior and should rule over others."

Anyway, I'm mainly just interested in this person's starting point and the effect that his trip had on him, as well as calling out the media for not being precise about these issues. Nationalist and Supremacist are not synonyms: that's lazy click-baiting journalism.
1. Checkout 2. Get it to compile 3. Get it to run
I can't really speak to the benefit for a search engine, but for our app we opted to keep actual pages because it allows users to remember approximately where some content is and go directly to that page.
I hope that at the very least his parents encourage him to participate in non-technical activities with kids his age, e.g. sports, musics, chess.
That is why I asked for some way to test for what GP complained about, and the only answer I got was "there is no way". Do you have a way to design a study so the complaint "well, the participants could be faking it" isn't valid? I'm legitimately asking, so far all I've gotten was "no way".
Now just do it with plastic!

Isn't this just the same thing that happens with sewage plants. In the anaerobic digester before the bardenpho phase?
In the lists of most popular languages, SQL always to seem up at the top.
I was expecting that to be the case, but when I opened a non-logged in browser and clicked it (just to test), it sent me to the LWN login screen, so it may have been updated since or I encountered a bug. It now appears to be okay!
Yes, it’s unfair to compare people who want expel nonwhite people from the country to people who want to treat nonwhite people as not-people, because we know those groups don’t overlap at all.
The thing with r/MarijuanaEnthusaists is: it swapped places with r/trees

Kinda same thing with r/worldpolitics and r/anime_tiddies (just worldpolitics is now/was a lawless land where almost anything was posted, instead of just being about anime tiddies)
> same as saying CPU cost doesn't matter because it's cheap

A straw man argument you've pulled out of thin air.
Nope, it's 23, the same as the number of fingers and toes you have.
> So we just stop studying psychology completely?

That's not the only option. Why is it the only one you can think of?

I mean, where are you going with "Our only options are to draw the wrong conclusions, or to stop studying it altogether"?
VSCode is a neovim frontend.
Treating this as a survey: yes, people (this person, anyway) do switch; first Android, then hand-me-down iPhones, and now I just want this iPhone to last as long as possible and then I'll accept whatever's passed down from friends or family. I miss my Samsung Galaxy S3 with its removable battery and removable data storage.
I don't think it was implied that he should be "forced" to be friends with anyone.

But there is more to being an adult than just intellect. And I question if it is even emotionally or mentally possible before puberty.
These are great. Did you just know about these already or did you research them just now? If the latter, how did you find these in such short order?

Always impressed by people who can find primary sources for things quickly!
So is the legal justice system, witness testimony, job interviews, etc.

It does not matter if they lied, if lies are indistringyishable from truth. The conclusion holds.
Just a Neuron
As someone who has kept an eye on the numbers over the years, I am not sure what to add, the article sums it up sufficiently well to get the idea.

Can't say we didn't work hard for this.
I attended high school from 8am to 3pm with a 45-minute lunch break and 15-minute reading break.

6hrs. Plus the 5-10 minutes between classes where I had to get up and walk to the next classroom.

And you're saying that the work environment at SpaceX is comparable?
> There first has to be evidence to detain and interrogate someone in the first place.

No there isn’t. The cops can just claim you were in the are- even if you weren’t. And no, “asleep in my bed because the crime happened at 3 am” happens to not be an alibi.

> Judges and juries should demand that corroborating evidence is presented to show that confession confirmed aspects of the crime that were not publicly known.

It’s actually possible to coerce someone into confessing with details not even they know of, with the police nudging them towards details of the case not publicly known. “No, you’re lying about killing him with handgun, it’s not a nicer way to kill someone’s than how you actually did it, you wanted to get up close and personal didn’t you”.

> If someone is well aware that they will end up in prison if they "remember" something from teenager years and that they don't have to say anything / are free to go, they will be much less likely to play along vs a student who knows they are part of a study with no real life consequences.

Okay, but a student also isn’t being held and gaslit well into the night with no sleep, food, or water, constantly told “if you just cooperate we can help you” (a complete lie) by the cops.
That’s when you need it the most, so you can tile apps quickly.
The Type Archive
Ooof. Well that is rather uncalled for.

https://aboutjapan.japansociety.org/content.cfm/whats_the_ma...

Moving on…

The GP quoted the article and found interesting anecdotes of said quote in history and brought them into the discussion with background information backing up the anecdotes. That’s interesting and additive to the discussion! Your comment did none of that except to slander another side of the world. This is not to say that there are not examples that would support your point, you just apparently don’t feel the need to add anything more!

Working with you on being a better citizen of society (please update your terminology…) is also not interesting or additive to this thread. So I am going to leave it at that. Have a nice day.
So is the current West living in a powder-keg? Our consumer economy relies on heavy trade imbalances.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnston_(typeface)

Agreed, it's extremely distinctive.
From 2019, and this reeks of stretching too few facts too far. All major governments are going to create contingency plans, with probability of that contingency coming true from 100% (major fire) to 0% (something like "UFO attack"). If as much prep was done as is stated (posters designed and printed, ecumenical statements negotiated) this would already have leaked. Three may keep a secret, as long as two of them are dead, as is well known.
I stopped using Google on mobile about a year ago as a result.
Thank you, I'm reading http://fuse.rupy.se/about.html now. It seems an interesting alternative.

My quick observation is that Nakama does seem to have more complete docs and wider support ( https://heroiclabs.com/docs/index.html , https://heroiclabs.com/customers/ ) -- which is super-important for us (Castle Game Engine authors). Anyhow, I'll learn more before making the decision with which to integrate :)
The japanese also have a coagulant made from mundane simple ingredients that creates a floating slime from contaminants in water, iirc called Polyglu, which can be used to purify large volumes of it quickly.
> Plenty of availability,

The east coast of SF is an outlier; it has long been the least affordable region in the state; I could see where Chicago sized dollars might work there. For the folks working typical jobs, it's a place to leave.

2800 for a 2br. Ouch. Until recently, that would have been 600-1200 for most of the state - an amount people working typical jobs could afford to pay.
Isn't this the guy that wrote some amazing games but recent coworkers find him to be absolutely insufferable?

That guy is supposed to speak for general working conditions?
It’s comical how they finally get around to infinite scroll after destroying the quality and quantity of the results. I very regularly get to the end of the results 20-30 in.

I used to utilize the vaguely related deep-dive results, especially in image searches, to go on tours of nostalgia or just wandering. But Google can’t offer that anymore.
Yeah, you're right about Secret Santa, that was such a cross sub community activity. It was really petty of them to get rid of it but it was foretaste of what was to come and their attitude towawrds the community spirt of Reddit.
Is it that hard to imagine that teens and the mentally impaired would do the same, focusing on resolving the present conflict (locked in room) over a future hypothetical problem (locked in jail)?
> they way it was mentioned in the article made it sound like a business, sorry about that

It is a business. They're selling a service. I don't know why they're protesting at the notion of being a company, they're de facto a business (selling service behind a brand, which they're openly promoting to sell more services).
The "domain" in the DSL of SQL is "relational data" not "your business domain"
The benefit of a legacy contact is more veracity when you present a death certificate. Not the same when you’re simply using recovery emails imho. It’s the digital equivalent of a beneficiary designation.
https://github.com/goldstar611/gitless claims to be a “maintained fork of the simple git interface”. Latest commit was in November 2022, though.
Nice try, but Tencent cops will be at your door next week. Chinese companies stealing from each other is not counted, as the government makes them play "nice enough."
The part that gets me that he is neither MS nor a government official and yet he is ostensibly doing foreign policy bit. I suppose he is done with his philanthropist image. He just had to go back to the fray.
I don't think Git is easy at all.

But 20 hours seems a worthwhile investment to me for something they will likely use for at least the next decade of any serious work with software? I'm assuming that this doesn't mean literally 20 hours of instruction.
Jujutsu: A Git-compatible DVCS that is both simple and powerful
Ask HN: Dating app thirst-trapping non-premium users ethical?
I am writing this from Banglore, India. I do see a tendency by dating apps to thirst trap users into buying a premium subscription. By thirst-trapping I mean they will show someone liked your profile when actually it a programmatically generated marketing tactic. I wonder how often these practices tend to happen around us.
Well, till it is your boot FS. and there is performance penalty too
Hasn't for me, and I don't seem to have the option to turn it on either.
Opposite experience from me. Never had a HDD fail ( I still have drives from the mid '00's running), but seen many SSDs fail, especially among the fleets at the companies I worked at, less so in my private life as I don't upgrade that often to have a large sample size.

And the SSD fails were AFAIK never due to excessive wear from the user side but simply the SSD giving up the ghost out of nowhere probably due to faulty FW or faults in the NAND fabrication of RAM of the cache. SSD have enough points of failure despite no moving parts.

HDDs would also fail more gracefully, like you'd usually get SMART warnings, crashes, strange noises before they'd inevitably die, but SSD simply just stop working one day out of the blue.
The crap mini-language of Postgres functions to manipulate JSON makes otherwise reasonable queries unreadable, though.
Funny, but my one and only contact with PLATO when I was at the U of I was for a Psych 100 experiment like this.
Motivation + Reddit's handling of the situation has been the main driver of the negativity. Very few people took issue with the idea of Reddit charging commercial users of it's API.

Reddit's initial announcement was that 3rd party apps were costing them money, that API access would be paid for soon™, and that NSFW content would no longer be available through the API.

This raised immediate concerns from a few different groups. Moderators rely on free 3rd party tools to deal with a lack of functionality in Reddit's own, the removal of NSFW content from the API would cause issues even if the tools themselves were exempted. Visually impaired users rely on accessibility clients to deal with Reddit's poor experience with screen readers/magnification.

Reddit scrambled to respond by stating there would be exemptions for non-commercial mod and accessibility tools. This dealt with some of the issues.

3rd party app developers then began shutting down and it was revealed that, in addition to removing NSFW content and exorbitant pricing, Reddit had given developers only 30 days to respond to the price changes.

During all of this Reddit's CEO was openly, and privately, making disparaging comments about the userbase, 3rd party app developers, and moderators.

Reddit's actions throughout have proved that their intention was to kill off the 3rd party applications and that, without community outrage, moderation and accessibility tools would have been collateral damage. It doesn't take a genius to comprehend that 30 days is not enough time for the 3rd party developers to transition their paying users to Reddit's new payment model, or that users would not have been willing to pay for a version with censored content.
"So, in other words, they perform precisely how you’d expect a stochastic parrot to perform?"

Or exactly like you'd expect a human to perform.

Train a human mostly on English, and they'll speak English. Train them mostly on Chinese, and they'll speak Chinese.
I've been using git for twenty years and I still don't intuitively know what half the operations do. When my local tree fucks up, it might as well need open heart surgery, because I can fix my repo as much as I can perform that.
Any tips for someone outside the industry wanting to up their hobby programming game? Basically just trying to avoid the Useful_Script_v2-Final-Final-ReallyFinalThisTime.py syndrome, and realizing the value of a dated change history.
Glad I could help! Good luck on your journey.
My suggested feed is absolutely useless, I'm not interested in what Musk has to say and I'm especially not interested in the unfiltered mouth diarrhea from MAGA morons like MTG. I don't even live in the US, why would I be interested in seeing it?
Downvoting has a high positive karma requirement IIRC.
Psychedelic drugs achieve their potent health benefits
This is why I personally use ed(1), the standard text editor. I never have to worry about portability.
Maths Where Fermat's Last Theorem Doesn't Hold
Are there maths that violate Fermat’s Last Theorem? I ask because of the following.
Let A,B,C, and K be elements of the natural numbers.
1. ∃A,B,C,K(K≤2∧A^K+B^K=C^K )
2. ∃A,B,C,K(K≤2∨A^K+B^K=C^K )
3. ∃A,B,C,K(K>2→A^K+B^K=C^K )
Conclusion: ∃A,B,C,K(K>2→A^K+B^K=C^K )
Premise 1 is true because at K=1 and K=2 there does exist A,B, and C such that A^K+B^K=C^K . Premise 2 is true because of Premise 1. Premise 3 is true since it is logically equivalent to Premise 2. Therefore the conclusion must be true. But this seems contrary to Fermat’s Last Theorem though. So it is either the case that this argument is invalid, one of the premises is wrong, or there exists maths where Fermat’s Last Theorem doesn’t hold.
There actually have been cases where public defenders have used this to organize and demand better treatment for themselves and the defendants. Where public defenders all convince their defendants not to plea, simultaneously, thereby forcing the court into a situation where they cannot avoid violating the constitutional right to a reasonably speedy trial due to all of the cases. I wished more civil resistance like this happened, but I know how career-threatening a stunt like this could be.
Its great to hear of someone of your age starting an online business like this. Its a real inspiration to a lot of us older people here to keep believing that that we can do this as well, or that we're not barred from participating in the online world just because of our age.
In this case I just did a full-text search of HathiTrust's catalog for "and per se and" (quotes of course are part of the query in this case). These are two results of many.
It's an entirely bogus reasoning and there's no way to claim otherwise. The same device is shipping a myriad other software which can be classified into:

A. Outright copyright violations of proprietary software (i.e. "abandonware")

B. Legally distributed software (e.g. some of the BIOSes of some of the add-on cards), which their permissive licenses generally allow as long as you keep the attribution, which just from the screenshots I can see they did.

C. The main system ROM BIOS, for which some unfathomable reason they _specifically_ decided to remove the attribution (which is technically in violation of both the spirit and the letter of the GPL).

So to claim that they had to violate the copyright of C for "protection" is as bogus as it gets. They have already set themselves up for a cathedral-sized _non-bogus_ DMCA claim, and violating the copyright of the GPL'd BIOS is just the frosting in comparison.

My wild guess: branding. They just disliked not to see their company name first on power on. Plus the general tendency to treat the GPL as a "guideline".
In what sense? Chomsky is generally not worth listening to for a variety of reasons (dishonesty, denialism, whataboutism, tankism, etc.)
"Stop resisting" as they do whatever they want to you.
same as my gut!

I think it's cool that small exoskeleton-based invertebrates (like ticks) also have this kind of relation with unicellular lifeforms.
Intranet: Lightning powered VPN for anonymising Bitcoin and Lightning traffic
There is no incentive for anyone to run nodes on the network, and worse, the most common use case is tunneling back out of the network to anonymize location, is largely abused and led to a lot of automated block systems arising on many internet services to prevent this abuse.
IKEA-Oriented Development
Show HN: Text a photo to send as a postcard
nah, still got paging. I use Singaporean IP and on firefox on android.
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NixOS and Nix Flakes – A Guide for Beginners
Show HN: I made a website for inhaler types and instructions
Motivation:

Inhaler names and types are confusing. There is no good one place for inhaler types for medical professions and instructions for patients. There are printed posters you can buy without any instructions on usage.

How it's made:

I made this website using Sveltekit. Inhaler images were taken from scattered around the web. Instructional videos are linked from Youtube.

I found with Sveltekit you can go about it in several ways. Initially I have everything done in traditional routing. Adding a search function proved to be difficult. I then had to restructure the website to be all components. This made using search a lot easier by changing Svelte store when searching.
Since you express that opinion, I trust you're already aware of this, but just in case: https://prql-lang.org/
In a similar cold start problem. Make me consider making social media accounts again
From the README:

> Jujutsu is a Git-compatible DVCS. It combines features from Git (data model, speed), Mercurial (anonymous branching, simple CLI free from "the index", revsets, powerful history-rewriting), and Pijul/Darcs (first-class conflicts), with features not found in most of them (working-copy-as-a-commit, undo functionality, automatic rebase, safe replication via rsync, Dropbox, or distributed file system).

From the author at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36178720#36178988 (2 weeks ago):

> It's what we're planning to replace Mercurial with at Google.

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30398662 (Feb 2022, 229 comments)
I think you can immediately get value out of Git, even if you don't understand almost anything. Also there's a lot less footguns if you're not collaborating with anyone else.
Arguably the value of Lisps has been diminished quite a lot with the advent of highly dynamic "multi-paradigm" scripting languages like Ruby and Python. The "Lisp superpower" has traditionally been that small, tightly coupled groups (quite often n=1, the most tightly coupled group) can achieve a lot very quickly without wasting a lot of time on "boilerplate". Those scripting languages enable largely the same thing.
Unfortunately, copilot for cli will make git easy.
Law is not about logic. It’s about hermeneutics. It’s closer to religion than to math.
makes perfect sense: you see, I did not ask any questions. It was a complaint. also my comment settled at -2 points.
For me most people should not cherry pick-revert-merge-rebase.

They should create branch of development/trunk do commits with their work and create PR. Then PR merge in GitHub interface or something.

98% done other 2% get some git specialists.
FYI, pressing on a link with the middle mouse button opens it in a new tab (default on firefox, you need to manually enable on chrome).
sure. but not here and not right now.
I’m really surprised they didn’t fold it under GCP service line. To me, it means GCP is done.
If you’re including rebasing, then I can believe this (rewriting history is nuanced and complex), but I’m not sure I’d be teaching that straight away. My recommendation is usually only to start using rebase once you’re already very familiar with the rest of git, since it’s almost never necessary to achieve what you want.

Also, bisect is definitely not common, and the vast majority of my colleagues wouldn’t know it exists; I’d place it into the look-it-up-if-needed category.
It's like Demand Media all over again, but probably way more computationally expensive the search engines to detect these new machine generated content farms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf_Group