skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but I don't think the authors spend too much time worrying "what if an unqualified person reads this and misinterprets it due to a lack of basic medical knowledge?"

1) You don’t sound too sure about this. Your previous comment sounded like speculation also. Do you actually read these blogs and/or journals?

2) Again, you’re making comparisons that aren’t equivalent. Your argument fails when you replace “unqualified person” with “unqualified target person”. My pizza delivery driver is not reading dev blogs. The junior and senior engineers on my team over the years who passed 5 rounds of interviews yet still make simple but devastating mistakes are reading these blogs.

> lex specialis

1) In your previous comment, you said that medical and law journals _don’t_ explain every basic little thing. And now you provided a quote where the law blog is explicitly explaining a very basic thing even to their _qualified target audience_. If “most readers” already know something, then what’s the point of re-explaining it? You’re proving my point instead.

2) Another comparison that isn’t equivalent. Even if an “unqualified” person were to read a _professional_ law or medical blog/journal, what’s the worst that could happen? Nothing.

The answer to that question above will definitely change if we’re talking about _nonprofessional_ content (e.g. TikTok law and medical advice). Frankly, more dev blogs veer towards the “unprofessional” side than “professional”.
> Does anyone make cables that don’t fall apart ridiculously quickly, failing at the cable/plug junction?

I always hear that Apple cables are prone to falling apart but I’ve had USB-C chargers for my laptop since 2017, carried them around everywhere, didn’t baby them, and they’re mostly fine. They’re kinda yellow and brown now instead of white but that’s the worst of it. Genuinely not sure if I’m doing something different or if I’ve been lucky or what.
> I think the military could benefit from part standardization and longer lifetimes on component production.

Years ago in a history class it was asserted that in WWII, because the US had a greater degree of part standardization (I think they were talking about stuff that could be used across multiple tanks and truck models) than the Germans, the US supply lines for keeping everything running could be more effective. A German vehicle was more likely to be out of commission for want of a part.

I'm not sure if that's true, or how difficult part standardization is in complex modern equipment. But when the Russians are possibly harvesting chips from home appliances, and when we're all acutely aware of how tangled global supply chains are, I wonder if there will be a push for greater standardization from a strategic motivation rather than a cost one?
I've written about this phenomenon specifically with regard to intuitions and vegetarianism. Our intuitions are from system 1 thinking, which includes (for you and me) "yuck, meat". But those intuitions are downstream from things we have worked out from deliberate system 2 thinking.

So when I went vegetarian, it was very much not from an intuitive repulsion from meat (I loved meat), but from deliberate reasoning (system 2). But now that time has passed, I do have the "yuck, meat" response. It's like when you learn 12 x 12 = 144 for the first time, it takes work and effort. But then it becomes intuitive because you're so used to it, and your brain wants to cache that work.

So I imagine that after you reason about it for long enough (system 2), eventually your intuitions will update (system 1).
It sure helps that the code is open source. However, there are some factors that still make it harder for other people to pick up a project

- a lot of knowledge can be lost how the system works and has to be reverse engineered
- which fork is the chosen one by the community and how will people know about it
- branding might be unclear, can you reuse the name or should you rename your project
I pay my water bill on my phone using cellular data because some part of the sign-in process hits an address that's blocked by the adblock DNS I use.
The cynic in me thinks they do get it and that their statement is an excuse to save face. It’s easier to blame technology instead of admit they wanted to cut corners.
Yes, but back in the 90s the dominant idea was load the text as quickly as possible, then all the other junk can come later.
It’s a broken system for sure…

HOWEVER when your acquisition system is designed to ensure that a nuclear detonator and a LAMP application go through the same process, these kinds of “overkill” or “nonsense” requirement responses happen.

We’re long overdue for fixing the FAR and federal acquisition process, which is the root problem. The legal system and processes built over the last 50 years, and as a result the people inside it, doesn’t allow for simple and efficient differentiation between projects legally so you end up with the same hammer meets mail approach.
> They can't approximate non-continuous functions in general, and there are plenty of non-continuous computable functions.

For a given error I guess. So it's a discussion about how good we can approximate such a function.
This looks very useful. In the past I've used smtp-sink which is part of Postfix-(stone) and logs to syslog but having a web interface that shows attachments is a big improvement over the smtp-sink method. I could see also using this to replace my SMTP tarpits which are just Postfix logging to single text files per node. I could envision a few other unorthodox uses for this as well.

With an optional installation step this could run on port 25 as a regular person. Or authbind [1]

setcap cap_net_bind_service=+ep /path/to/mailpit

[1] - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/413807/is-there-a-way-fo...
The cell-cultured meat from Upside Foods uses entirely animal-free growth media.
The reason you'd use a salt grinder is when you specifically want an inconsistent spread of grain sizes in one single application. Like salt flakes on ganache or caramel, or there's a beloved french butter with large crystals mixed into it.

Usually you'd just use two sizes of salt. I don't own a salt grinder, can't remember ever seeing one in a professional kitchen, don't recommend people buy them. But it does produce a particular effect that you could prefer for some applications.

And in fact I suspect popcorn might be one of the places where it would shine. An even background of salt dust with bursts of intense saltiness from larger grains sounds good here. I'm not going to buy a salt grinder to test it but it's not an absurd idea.
Would anyone have book recommendations for react and d3? I'm a backend dev, with little interest in front end but the ability to visualize data like this is a 'killer app' for me.
> Imagine being a client of a lawyer who uses ChatGPT. You lose the case and then your livelihood or worse.

This presupposes that the use of ChatGPT is the reason the case was lost. In this case, the judge found the mistake, called it out, and fined the lawyers for their carelessness. It doesn't necessarily follow that p1) ChatGPT was used, p2) Case was lost, c) Case would have been won if ChatGPT was not used.
I like it! I would prefer an icon bar along the top or side, rather than have to select text for the icons to show up
EU Advocate General: Technical Standards must be freely available [pdf]
Full ignition for ESA’s reusable rocket engine
"Altiro gets around this problem by adding a little natural gas to ignite the iron powder when the boiler first starts up."

You will also need a very specialized furnace, and supplies of CH4.
honestly if they dont pay for it or dont provide constructive feedback, upload it to github and link in your resume
And very short for a big thing you load once.

Back in the day plenty things like Photoshop had splash screens, and you got to stare at them for quite a while.
Can I use CUDA without an Nvidia graphics card? That was my point, just like Apple they’ve locked this functionality to their hardware. Which is fine, they developed it, it’s their right to do so.

I’m well aware of the limitations of discrete graphics on Macs.
On that matter, i can see the point when used to describe a master/slave configuration, but I don’t see how it can make sense when talking for example about the git master branch: there is no such thing as a slave branch, and “master” in there only refers to a “master copy” (concept borrowed from cd-crom mass production from what I know, where the final iso image to be burned to all disks is indeed called the master copy).
I have several Anker 100 watt USB C cables scattered throughout my house and they've all lasted a over a year now with no signs of any issues.

Apple's cables work fine too but they of course eventually get worn down at the ends and eventually need to be replaced. I also tried Aukey, but their cables stopped working for me after a month or two. I had them replaced under warranty twice and all three times it stopped working within a month or two.

So at least for cables I use with higher wattage adapters I exclusively use Anker & Apple USB-C cables now.
Yeah, I wouldn't call any of these "Deep dives". Perhaps they're catered to the audience that might be reading their blog, but I doubt that audience differs much from the HN audience.
Your 1999 computer supports WPA-2 out of the box? TLS 1.3?

> doing the same thing keeps taking longer

But I'm not doing the same things anymore. I'm doing a lot more. Things that aren't supported in that 1999 OS at all.
> they had the high fixed-rate deposit

Did they? It wasn't the comedically low variable rates banks usually pay?
I've been vaugely interested for years, but I never quite had a good handle on what problems D3 solved; it's lower level than a charting library - to the extent that you use it to manipulate SVG primitives directly. At that point I figured you may as well go all the way and write it all yourself.

However now I've started playing around with it, I realise its killer core feature: it manages the relationships between the scale of your data and the coordinates on your screen, which saves a ton of awkward calculations. Add in helpers built on top for things like axes, line smoothing etc. and you've got a hell of a powerful API for creating charts, custom visualisations and anything else you can think of. I'm becoming a fan.
> A lot of the blame gets placed on easy to see things like an Electron app

I think this blame is fair. Electron is the most obvious example, but in general desktop software that essentially embeds a full browser instance because it makes development slightly easier is the culprit in almost every case I've experienced.

I use a Windows 10 laptop for work.[1] The app that has the most lag and worst performance impact for as long as I've used the laptop is Microsoft Teams. Historically, chat/conferencing apps would be pretty lightweight, but Teams is an Electron app, so it spawns eight processes, over 200 threads, and consumes about 1GB of memory while idle.

Slack is a similar situation. Six processes, over 100 threads, ~750MB RAM while idle. For a chat app!

Microsoft recently added embedded Edge browser controls into the entire Office 365 suite (basically embraced-and-extended Electron), and sure enough, Office is now super laggy too. For example, accepting changes in a Word doc with change tracking enabled now takes anywhere from 5-20 seconds per change, where it was almost instantaneous before. Eight msedgewebview2.exe processes, ~150 threads, but at least it's only consuming about 250MB of RAM.

Meanwhile, I can run native code, .NET, Java, etc. with reasonable performance as long as the Electron apps aren't also running. I can run multiple Linux VMs simultaneously on this laptop with good response times, or I can run 1-2 Electron apps. It's pretty silly.

[1] Core i5, 16GB RAM, SSD storage. Not top of the line, but typical issue for a business environment.
Why is libxul a shared library?

It is not used by a bunch of other applications besides Firefox so there isn’t much saving from being shared.

In addition, there isn’t a scenario where libxul would be released independently of Firefox for a security issue, so there is no advantage there.

You lose a lot of optimization opportunities with shared libraries and increase complexity.
Sounds like European unions that sit on the board. Yet European wages are lower.

You sure you want that?
You can search with / on Firefox.
Yeah but it pretty much requires that producing the fuel requires less energy than the fuel provides, otherwise itd be like trading a quarter for a dime.
Great stuff. I had gone down this path last year with not using attr and it was so hard to find good examples like this.

The thing I never figured out was how to use d3 axis as a svg generator. Starting from scratch on each project is quite painful for the axis and d3 axis is so nice.
> Paying people to learn how to make plane parts

Is the opposite of this:

> being bored not doing anything productive

I'm not sure why you claimed to agree with the latter being how government contracts work.
"No" and "yes", evidently.
the backlog for implementing this is decades old; there is no unified voice, and ad-hoc opinionated materials can attract readers quickly, for the wrong reasons perhaps.

There is no joy on this topic - its a brutal mess, with more to come. Popular media is going to produce contents like this, again.. and yes there is collective anger under the surface. Somehow, rational thinking must stay alive, while the venting and posturing continues in the open.. It is worth considering Australia, Greece, the far-North scrub forests.. are all facing this, without the budgets and science of California.
You might like Joplin's approach. It's exactly what you described: you can toggle WYIWYG and plain text.
My understanding is that they pump the water back out.
This is what early internet thought "the future" looks like for the web. I am wondering why there isn't design diversity (not using the sociological meaning of the word here) for forward-looking web technologies? Somehow the conversation typically centers around AR/VR or inserting crypto into everything. VisionOS is stereotypically "clean and modern". Web design in general seems so derivative and uninspired, which is strange given that a web page is the main point of interaction for most people.
This looks like it works with Chatgpt. Any plans to make it work with the rest of the LLM landscape? Langchain integration for example would be great for adoption.
I’m not sure off the top of my head if BetterTouchTool can disable the mouse acceleration, but it can definitely modify everything else.
Honest question: do you actually drive a car on a regular basis?

I have only seen this claim made by people who don't.
I think "successfully bastardized" as part of their embrace, extend, extinguish campaign is more accurate.
> Crypto stablecoin company Circle Internet Financial Ltd. previously disclosed its SVB deposits ... The document listed it as SVB’s biggest depositor with a balance of $3.3 billion.

just when you thought the government was anti-crypto
I don't have links or anything handy, so take this with a bit of a grain of salt, but I _have_ seen things that confirm my anecdata that sugar free drinks are pretty horrible for your gut microbiome. I do still prefer them to their calorie-dense versions when I have one, but I think it's worth being very cautious about drinking tons of the stuff and assuming it's at all "better".
From my experience conflict of interests and funding sources is a disclosure enforced by the journal

Being a preprint, this is obviously neither peer reviewed nor vetted by a journal.

In this case, I cannot deduce what journal they plan on submitting to (if they plan to at all)
Ah. So the system is corrupt. Got it.
Web UX designers need to find some alternative button label that users understand means both “Sign up” and “Sign in”. The site will know if your email address has an account and should then be asked does a password. Though users will still complain that the login process requires two steps: entering a username and then the backend determining whether to next serve a password or registration form.
Yep, I find most of the discussion around it profoundly uninformed. California averages (corrected 127 thousand) --1.8Million-- acres of prescribed burns a year. They were happening in the 1980s and 90s (when there were mistakes that cost lives), and have been since the 1870s. Unfortunately, the list of prescribed burns is now only available from ARCGIS and the simple list appears gone: https://data.ca.gov/dataset/prescribed-burns

Here's a paper published in 2020.

https://www.mdpi.com/2571-6255/3/3/44 Prescribed Burns in California: A Historical Case Study of the Integration of Scientific Research and Policy

It's a complex issue so there's lots of reasons why prescribed burns aren't done more, but they have been done for years, and there are new laws to make it easier. The challenges include: Air Quality Laws, Insurance Liability, Federal control of National Forest, and the high population in the Wildland Urban Interface and large number of houses near areas that need fire control. People do build houses in areas called Devil's Canyon and Black Hill, but at the same time large areas of grass and scrub have burned annually each year in Lake County so burns there obviously don't help.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-10-07/newsom-s...

Every article seems like a chance to spread misinformation with lazy analysis and conspiracy theories about Jewish Space Lasers, Climate Change Denial, or that controlled burns haven't been part of California fire control for all of living memory.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2022/10/28/fac...
This is a mandatory install on macOS for me (one of many).
The suite of extra software utilities required to make the base OS usable is ridiculous, but I'm glad to see open source maintainers working to keep my mouse working.
Thank you for this walk down memory lane—2advanced was a huge inspiration for me when I started web design and learning flash, but I couldn't remember the name of the site until now. Their 2003 design is burned into my memory.
> everyone in the world wants 'puters to predict what could they want to see or buy next.

This doesn't strike me like something "everyone in the world wants", but rather something a small group of leaches is pushing on the rest of the population, to enrich themselves at the expense of everyone else. I'm yet to meet a person that would tell me they actually want computers to tell them what to see or buy. And if I met such person, I bet they'd backtrack if they learned how those systems work.

Exercise for the reader: name one recommendation system that doesn't suck. They all do, and it's not because recommendations are hard. Rather, it's because those systems aren't tuned to recommend what the users would like - they're optimized to recommend what maximizes vendor's revenue. This leads to well-known absurdities like Netflix recommendations being effectively random, and the whole UX being optimized to mask how small their catalogue is; or Spotify recommendations pushing podcasts whether you want them or not; or how you buy a thing and then get spammed for weeks by ads for the same thing, because as stupid as it is, it seems to maximize effectiveness at scale. Etc.

> I'm sure that you can delete all of that, only leave languages like Rust, C and C++ and get a 100x jump in performance. But you'd also be annihilating 90% of the software development workforce. Good luck trying to watch a movie in Netflix or counting calories on a smartwatch.

I'll say the same thing I say to people when they claim banning ads would annihilate 90% of the content on the Internet: good. riddance.

Netflix would still be there. So would smartwatches and calorie counting apps. We're now drowning in deluge of shitty software, a lot of which is actually malware in disguise; "annihilating 90% of the software development workforce" would vastly improve SNR.
Still fairly recent unless you started using linux last week.
What you actually posted was "you're very stupid". That has nothing to do with "thought-out argument" or "whole groups of people". It's just internet name-calling.

If your intent is to do something nobler than that, great - but the rest of us don't have access to your intent, so the burden is on you to disambiguate it: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que....
Speeding Up APIs with Ricochet for API Gateway
And when you're about to click on something, something new loads and everything jumps unpredictably and you end up accidentally clicking on the wrong thing lol
Given they haven't allowed controlled burns before that would be $0.

You have to make an informed guess the first time.
Yeah. A lot of stuff was added later. The original spec was pretty loose, which is why CommonMark became a thing.

See

https://blog.codinghorror.com/standard-markdown-is-now-commo...

and linked previous blog posts if you (or anyone else reading this) are interested in the history.
Sure, but when you Google a lawyer's name and this comes up you may choose not to use him.
> According to polls, doctors are the 2nd most trusted profession.

n=1 anecdote here:

When I was in research track biochem and bumped into premed students, nearly the entire population of premed didn't seem to care about the science behind what they were learning. They formed a very different social clique. The "top students" in that set were sharing previous years' organic chemistry exams and none of them would read papers or get involved in research. They were entirely disinterested in the science.

In my interactions with general practitioners, I like to talk about medicines' method of actions, pharmacology, the actual biochemistry behind diseases. Most of them seem to have no clue or retention of this information. I'm not trying to challenge them, either -- I'm generally curious to learn.

That's not to say all doctors are like that. A lot of the surgeons and specialists I know are walking tomes of information.
Interesting, so they don't make a free dev service for corps?

How much does something like this cost a developer as part of an org?

https://developers.redhat.com/articles/faqs-no-cost-red-hat-...
There are people who have a genuinely held belief that they are being "attacked" and liberals will force them to eat "unnatural" lab grown meat and "bugs". There are lots of those people here on HN and they have commented plenty on similar articles to this.

It's similar in vein to the people who were absolutely convinced that Biden was preparing a team to confiscate gas stoves and responded by.... running their gas stoves on full burn for no reason, as a "protest".

I have no moral qualms with raising, killing, and eating an animal. If lab grown meat is tasty, safe, and affordable, it will be great.
But the stuff is static. Just that RSC files are oddly slow which can prevent a page transition on a fast click.

And there isn’t a way to signify loading as those events on the router are gone.
No, very much true. Can't do commerce in Indonesia, Singapore or Malaysia w/o Whatsapp. Weichat works in SG, but not in Indonesia or Malaysia.

Line for Japan/Thailand. Kakao for S. Korea.

You're not texting people via SMS, that is a paid feature and people don't pay for it / that's not considered normal.

Delivery/Mail/Pos, also all on whatsapp.
Yeah, unfortunately you need to do it with group policy.
Requiring natural gas to work makes me a bit skeptical. They don't indicate how significant the nat gas component is, but if prices are low, it will be much simpler and cheaper to just use the gas itself.
The problem there is having to manually maintain code. Once we start abandoning useful technology to maintain the status quo, we don't get progress
I rarely have cables fail, and don't really understand how others have this problem, beyond the kneejerk thought of user error.