skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> It's also redolent of the silly anti-abortion law passed in Texas that ultimately removed abortion rights in the US. Certainly on-brand for Ireland.

Texas can't outlaw things for the rest of the country. That's one of the greatest features in my opinion in the US, states are allowed to make their own laws and you can then see how it works out. Texas has no more power to ban abortion in the US than Poland has the ability to pasta in Italy.
"You don't need to read a book".
Immediately cites a book.

I don't disagree with your assertion on steps, to be clear, just that you aren't answering the actual question. How can you trust Pollan (I'm not saying you can't, just...that's the core question the OP was asking).
I've switched to Thunderbird after hearing about this a couple of weeks ago. I simply do not want yet another WebView/Electron-based application on my machine. They feel slow and out of place compared to native applications.

Microsoft, in the past 10 years, have failed to provide a good UI option for developers. WinForms is legacy. WPF is legacy. WinRT is dead. UWP is dead. MAUI is a mess. WinUI looks to be either abandoned or not getting enough attention to make it a viable option.

From the above, it is understandable why teams in MS are building new products with Web tech. The Windows team should consider this a failure because Windows now has no good, viable option for GUI development.
Good: race, gender, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, etc should not be used as an advantage, or disadvantage in totally unrelated matters (education, work, etc)
I'm agree in essence, some kind of stipulation needs to be applied to supreme court decisions that incentivizes or outright requires the other houses to apply a more permanent solution.
I'm not sure what percentage of the results are Bing (perhaps the majority), but I think it's inaccurate to say that Kagi is just Bing under the hood:

> Our searching includes anonymized requests to traditional search indexes like Google and Bing and vertical sources like Wikipedia, DeepL, and other APIs. We also have our own non-commercial index (Teclis), news index (TinyGem), and an AI for instant answers.
Is there a workload that actually needs more than 24GB of VRAM that can't be offloaded to regular RAM.

I honestly don't have any examples out of my head. LLM inference is compute bound AFAIK.
I find Oxide's compensation as a reflection of values much more unique [1].

[1]: https://oxide.computer/blog/compensation-as-a-reflection-of-...
Striking down Roa v Wade was an example of undoing such “legislating from the branch.” The original Roe v Wade created in effect a new federal law, and last year’s decision struck that down.
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Yes, I abandoned Google, but I am still running an AOSP-based system :-).

AOSP is still open source, they just stopped maintaining two apps.
I’ve had a few also. I was banned forever from one sub a few years ago for suggesting something like “sail the high seas” or “yarr”.
This is incorrect. Portuguese and Lisbon based traders more generally linked Mediterranean and North Sea ports. The transit between Ghent/Antwerp, Lisbon and Barcelona, Pisa, Genoa and Venice was a mainstay of late middle ages European trade. The run around Africa was massively more risky than this status quo and average profits did not increase significantly. The main change thereafter was the market capture.
I picked up a used Fossil FTW1166 smartwatch for $45 on eBay. It features a simple analog activity tracker, with just a plain-old dial like any other watch. There is no screen and no e-ink.

The lack of screen is awesome and I can't believe there aren't more watches out there like this!

Also, after 4 months of use the battery life is still around 100%.

https://www.fossil.com/en-in/products/hybrid-smartwatch-mach...
An interesting topic or amalgamation point are weekly notes: summarize your week. Most of us on HN work with interesting problems and try to solve hard problems.

Write about the stuff you learned in this week or what you worked on.

It can be brief and it should e fun. Not homework.
Multiple submarine experts gave him advice that the Titan was unsafe. I just saw a submarine expert in Alameda who was interviewed by the local ABC station. She gave the same advice!
You can start here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-h...

Diet sodas with aspartame contain a warning for this reason. Now of course, most of us do not have this condition.

But how do we know if it is safe? I decided 20+ years ago that artificial sweeteners were a crutch with no nutritional value and unknown risks, so I stopped consuming them.
Everyone obsesse about Harvard/MIT but AA affects every school and not all of them give you a fancy big name on a resume.

And if we are talking high end schools I've also read it's not simply a matter of getting admitted and that the rates of affirmative action candidates drops outs at much higher rates, which hurts/delays their chance to succeed in the future because they would have been better off dominating at a lower percentile school.
Good. I'd be sickened to hear I got a lucrative opportunity because of the colour of my skin (which incidentally is not white and I'm not oriental so I'd guess I'd have benefitted from affirmative action if it was present where I grew up).
But will Reddit still be "significant" like Facebook? The search back catalog is getting perforated by account deletion, and new Reddit content heavily relies on community mods and power users whereas Facebook does not.
I do! Helps that I live an hour from an EWP sawmill.
Adding to what remote_phone said, and repeating another comment of mine, that nitrite free bacon still has the same amount of nitrites (in some cases, more).

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/cooksillustrated/how_tos...
I coded in Perl back when it dominated web development and came to value practical over beautiful in language choices.

CPAN made Perl the best choice for many tasks and the same can be said of NPM for choosing TypeScript now, regardless of the elegance of the language.

But I’m also a fan of “language tourism”. Even if one language is more practical, visiting other language cultures can make us better developers overall.

I studied Haskell for a bit which gave new ideas for how I use Perl. Culturally, Haskell was using a lot of functional programming concepts and recursion. Those were possible in Perl but not popular.

I’m sure there is value in studying Lisp languages for those who end working mostly in TypeScript or Rust
If it is completely uncured sure, but usually niteite/nitrate free bacon has an asterisk saying something like "beyond what is naturally found in the added celery juice". If you heat those nitrites in the bacon it doesn't the same thing as the synthetic stuff would. Luckily trichinosis is largely a thing of the past, so why heat it? Uncooked bacon tastes awesome. Also, in stews I believe it does reach the dangerous temps?
<< Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.

Yep.
https://www.who.int/news-room/questions-and-answers/item/can...
Caffeic acid may be a carcinogen but I do not think any decent studies have found a connection between drinking coffee and cancer, and in fact some have found the opposite.
Bingo.

That's the real flaw in Luddite thinking -- you can destroy the machines.
Most panels will handle up to ping-pong size no problem. Solar front-sheet glass has been pretty highly optimized over the years.

In the case you do get damage, the actual panels are only about 1/4 of the total system cost. So the panels are pretty cheap to replace, assuming you picked a common size.
Acceptance into anything, beyond a table-stakes requirement of merit, is essentially a lottery. You work your ass off, you get an interview, your luck of the draw is someone having a bad day, is otherwise biased against you, or any number of other issues. It's naive to think that the people interviewing you are doing so solely on the grounds of your achievements on paper. This is true regardless of whether you're interviewing for an academic program, for a job, for a sale, for an investment...

Society can either do the healthy thing and accept this and embrace it (won't happen, because it's not "fair"), or not, and make the inherent lottery explicit.
A small but loyal customer base to start with, and a platform that can develop in directions that a duopoly would never have an interest in.
I’d pay money if there was a way I could get access to the actual data store of an index of the web, and tools built on top of it (or a language / DSL / API) that made it easy and fast to build complex queries.
> Could racially discriminatory hiring strategies be next?

I'm no fan of regulation and government intervention in private business, but its gotten out of control in tech and the corporate world. I've flat out heard hiring managers say they'll only hire a woman, lgbtq, or [certain minority] for certain roles. I've sat in hiring committees where candidates preform horribly, esp compared to others being reviewed at the same time, and get pushed through to offer stage just because of their inalienable characteristics. If these meetings were recorded and leaked to the press, there'd be outrage. These managers talk of human beings like people collect coins or action figures. And HR/Recruiting/C-suite is super complicit in all this, if not actively encouraging it.
Yep. Roe vs. Wade was one of the most egregious examples of "legislating from the bench" in the latter 20th century? How many people who would hand-wring over recent SCOTUS decisions oppose Roe on these grounds? Or is this a convenient exception? Griswold? How about Lawrence vs. Texas?
The opposite was true for the entire time affirmative action was not in place. Hindsight doesn't make history less relevant for our present for addressing intergenerational inequities, just like foresight-blindness doesn't make our present actions less relevant for our future.

It's a hard problem.
How is your current life different? 1) It's not in freefall. 2) It will last orders of magnitude longer.

Otherwise, we are all in this boat.
Outlook + Exchange is the best example of email/calendar integration and group scheduling I've ever used, and I say this as a pretty devoted hater of MSFT. I mean, my daily environment is OSX, and I read most of my mail in the native Mac mail client, but I keep Outlook running in a VM to deal with calendaring and scheduling because it's so good at it.

There definitely ARE limits to it -- I've never tried to merge personal stuff into my work cal, as you seem to want to do -- but for what it does, it's the best I've seen.
Intent only goes so far. If I continually but unintentionally reproduce copyrighted works verbatim, I could still face consequences, particularly if I did not show due diligence in preventing it from happening in the first place.
We had a few users try it out before we had a chance to block it using Group Policy. It was an abysmal experience for those who opted-in, and I can't imagine it ever replacing the native client without massive backlash in its current state. It clearly caters to a subset of basic users who only send/receive individually. Shared calendars, shared mailboxes, rule management, plugins, etc. were all absent and are features that a majority of our users rely on day to day. There's clearly a huge gap between the folks working on this new version and the native app's userbase — and sadly, as we've all observed, that's becoming the norm with a lot of releases coming out of Redmond lately.
Even if they were exposing static data, how would that be different than a search engine? Google has been scraping the web for two decades, indexing even explicitly copyrighted content, and then making money by selling ads next to snippets from that content. If you're going to make the case that an LLM is violating copyright, then surely you must also assert that Google is too, because it's the same concept, but Google is actually surfacing exact text from the copyrighted material.
Or you just read a scientific paper. It's called a review and it goes over several studies and uses statistics to determine probability of claims. For example,

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8227014/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9776645/
Sotomayor revealed in oral argument for this very case that she does not understand the difference between "de facto" and "de jure". There's plenty of other things to dislike her for beyond one liners in interviews.
Many languages do quite well as commercial products.
This is indeed an interesting approach, but I wonder whether it also allows you to define 'implementations'. Let me explain.

A lot of software development done is because computers are too slow for our demand.[1] It is nice to have an integer type 'nat' that can hold arbitrary large integer numbers (at least as large as fits in the memory model, I presume), but it is not very efficient to use it for every purpose. You also would like to have methods to verify that a certain implementation of a program using a certain 'limited' representation of integers, is correct.

[1] https://www.iwriteiam.nl/AoP.html
I'm on the more liberal side of the spectrum, yet it's unfair to say that _this_ SCOTUS has been legislating from the bench. The prior Democratic balance of SCOTUS did exactly the same and stretched very widely the definition of things to fit modern progressive ideals. In my opinion, politicians should have made Roe v. Wade into law instead of relying on SCOTUS to legis-interpret in their favor indefinitely.

I don't like many recent rulings from SCOTUS, but intellectual honesty forces me to admit that when the pendulum was on the other side, the same thing happened with different allegiances.
Narrow rulings are central to the process. It's the difference between a "holding" and "dictum." A court can express an opinion about something, but if that opinion wasn't essential to resolve the case before the court, it's nothing more than an opinion, and later/lower courts can ignore that part.

http://www.differencebetween.net/miscellaneous/legal-miscell...
I do the same, since the Start of the year. I write personal notes and if a book really gets to me I will write a public review
> That said I’m not sure how much gender based affirmitive action there is in science/engineering today.

Potentially quite a bit. Here's some recent data about admissions into the highly-competitive Illinois CS program: https://www.reddit.com/r/UIUC/comments/12kwc4a/uiuc_cs_admis...

Note that admissions rates for female applicants are higher across all categories—international, out-of-state, and in-state. Obviously you can't fully tell what's going on here without more of an understanding of the strengths of the different pools, but a 10–30% spread (for in-state) suggests that gender is being directly considered.

IANAL, but I'm also concerned about the degree to which this decision affects the use of other factors during college admissions. Fundamentally admissions is a complex balance between prior performance and future potential, and only admitting based on prior performance means that we're stuck perpetuating existing societal inequities.
Right, like how the SCOTUS rejected the Independent State Legislature theory case. Some people were like "we really shouldn't be legislating from the bench", but when the SCOTUS overturned Roe v Wade they cheered it on.
Oh yeah, it surely will. Time to say goodbye to DIE statements when applying to jobs and forced indoctrination in the workplace. This junk is on borrowed time.
I'm a .NET developer and my only experience with MongoDB was at a company where we spent more time fighting against MongoDB that just using it. We didn't have those problems at a later company where we used DynamoDB. Could be that the company who was using MongoDB was using it wrong or the DB team didn't really understand it (versus the AWS shop where the Dynamo guy knew the innards of the database by chapter and verse). Fair or not I've had had a "no, thank you" opinion of MongoDB since then.
The judicial branch does not make laws.

You're implying that the judicial branch legislated in this case.

They did no such thing.

They interpreted existing laws for a particular case, gave their judgement, and applied the existing law.

Indeed, legislating via the judicial branch is a bad idea, and so it's a good thing that they do not and are not able to.
> Don't be an insurance company specializing in just one city in Texas or you can be wiped out in one storm.

I assume this would be standard practice (diversify across regions and types of insurance) for any insurance provider, right?
Go to the nearest water purification plant? I’m sure they have at least their own numbers somewhere. Maybe a direct display on their website?

Edit: Well, that was a depressingly long search only to find that the most recently available data is from 2021… but you can ask for current data it seems [1] scroll down to ‘Gegevens openbaar’.

Edit2: evides.nl has monthly PFAS values for a few locations in the netherlands [2]. I kinda expect every different purification plant will have these, but apparently they’re hidden.

[1]: https://www.agv.nl/onze-taken/schoon-water/waterkwaliteit-me...

[2]: https://www.evides.nl/uw-drinkwater/mijn-waterkwaliteit/pfas...
Only if you want 0 dives as a safety margin.
Our government is structured so that nothing is really set in stone. The people who are supposed to check bad decisions by the court are the legislature.

This game we're playing is we now have one legislative body that writes laws and another that writes effectively constitutional amendments. This makes no sense at all and we've created an in-practice unchecked branch of government.

So I don't disagree that the court has done good things with their power but once in a generation swings is much easier to put up with than what we have going now. The world hasn't meaningfully changed since they originally upheld universities' limited ability to discriminate and as much as I don't like that choice I still think take-backsies is a worse one.

My (red) state has a bill going through right now to outlaw university diversity quotas and it likely won't pass so this isn't cultural attitudes changing.
In the UK, we have nitrate-free bacon available that is actually nitra(i)te free: https://www.betternaked.com/products/better-naked-unsmoked-b...
I mean, in a vacuum, it makes no sense but in this case, I agree with KBJ's dissent. In a country with a historical baggage like US, something like this is needed.
PayPal is too stupid to even implement virtual accounts or virtual wallets for large businesses to manage their deposits more efficiently. It’s still a huge manual process where you have to email them about your multi-million dollar deposit and then it takes days for them to apply the funds to your account.

I blame this on the leadership at PayPal who are abysmal and they promote incompetent people while most of the talent has left. It’s a dead company. Checkout.com, Stripe, ApplePay and all the others are eating PayPal alive.

PayPal is the next Yahoo.
Institutional racism is highly corrosive to society.

All we’ve done is create new grievances among poor whites to justify the guilt of upper class whites about things their grandparents did. Those people are rightly upset that the government has been openly racist to them their entire lives.

How did that help? — I mean, besides soothing the feelings of elites that they’re not bigots, even though they made 1950s style racist policies about “too many” Jews and Asians in their universities. (Which is what triggered this lawsuit…)
you can have decentralized identity separate from the instances.

maybe all the lemmyverse instances share an identity chain, and all the mastadon instances share an identity chain, and they are both cross compatible with any other instance variant that supports the standard.
It's the trend that is a bit worrying. It's definitely been floated more than once that the stdlib should be fundamentally gutted. It has not become a reality yet, but there are some loud voices advocating to just chuck most modules as a principle into pypi.
> You can reuse the connection but that means queuing requests and hitting the latency as a multiplier.

This is partially true. HTTP/2 is capable of issuing multiple requests on a single connection and retrieving multiple responses in a single packet (assuming it fits of course). So while you probably won't get the same benefit as you would with multiple parallel connections, the overhead is likely to be much less than just a simple multiple of the latency. This is especially true if you have a large number of small assets.
Clojure "the language" is certainly ossified, but Clojure "the ecosystem" is doing very, very well.
I assume so.
>The Chemours factory, previously DuPont, in Dordrecht knowingly leached the toxic and carcinogenic PFAS variant PROA into the water and air for decades.

There must be severe penalties for intentional serious crimes such as these for the company, if not for the natural persons in the management who intentionally violated applicable laws.

Anyone who knowingly endangers the health of the general public, in any context, must be prosecuted. It does not matter whether he acted within the framework of a company or as a private individual. A way out, such as bankruptcy proceedings, must be excluded, as this undermines the rule of law and lowers the inhibition threshold to break the law.
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Well, in both cases, the decisions at the time implied that they were temporary.

A lot of the logic of Roe v Wade was based on viability outside of a womb based on medical science of the time.

Right in the decision of affirmative action there is admission that it will need to be revisited.
Interesting question.

This article discusses identifying regions of gravitational variance, and the abstract discusses where gravitational pull at Earth's surface is highest (near the North Pole) and lowest ("at the top of the Huascaran mountain in the South American Andes"), but not by how much ... The project measures local gravitational acceleration across the surface of the Earth at 200m resolution.

<https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130904105345.h...>

And the linked field map doesn't give specific measurements either. (Archive as original is 404):

<https://web.archive.org/web/20160309210505/http://geodesy.cu...>

The linked PDF article however does give values, on page 5:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20160307144931/http://ddfe.curti...>

Minimum: 9.76392 m * s^-2

Maximum: 9.83366 m * s^-2

Given a 100 kg human (somewhat heavier than typical, but simpler to compute), the difference would amount to a difference of 6.974 newton, or 1.567 pound-force. Or a delta of about 0.712%.
I would love if instead of replacing Windows Mail they just FIXED its email rendering. Windows Mail’s UI is far more touch screen friendly, decent and clean, VASTLY moreso than the new Outlook.

However the number of times I need to log into Gmail to see my email because it doesn’t render correctly in Windows Mail is just too dang high.

My intuition tells me Windows Mail is using the old pre-Blink Edge engine and if they could just switch that to new Blink Edge then that would make me so very happy.
being a statistical outlier means you don't count. Good luck explaining that to your doctors.
What's the deal with visible QR codes appearing on digital ads?
I have seen this a lot lately. I am curious to understand how these are used and/or what benefit they provide?