skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you just mix flour and water and heat it

Presumably though the domestication of wheat had a symbiotic relationship with bread making. The (ancestral) wheat that exists today is like bread-powder when it is milled, but it was probably bred for that purpose (no pun intended). So I’m not sure we can be confident what the first breads were like, made with whatever pre-wheat grasses they had at the time. Perhaps it required other ingredients at first before those aspects were “automated” into the grass itself, etc
> Flat bread must have been the first kind of bread: you just mix flour and water and heat it.

And keep some "old dough" for starting the next batch. The general concept of a "sourdough starter" arises from that. This was pretty much the only form of bread yeast until 1850 or so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%27s_yeast#History

And have a look at the wood-fired bead ovens in Pompeii. They're quite similar to the Pizza ovens down the road in Napoli. It's likely that the Romans made similar dishes: flatbread with cheese, meat, sauce and herbs baked on top.

But not tomatoes yet, until 1600s or later, after the Columbian exchange https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbian_exchange
People consider it a shocking or impossible policy to ban single use plastics, but future generations will look back on plastics the same way we do at lead paint or asbestos. We're poisoning ourselves and our planet.
One is basically an evidence-free ad hominem attack.

> [2] https://twitter.com/JacobSteinhardt/status/15215993404137881...

The other two sources make a concrete claim that in mid-2002 there was an independent, open-source, replication of the Nature paper:

> [1] https://twitter.com/ZoubinGhahrama1/status/15122035096467415...

>> Google stands by this work published in Nature on ML for Chip Design, which has been independently replicated, open-sourced, and used in production at Google.

> [3] https://twitter.com/sguada/status/1521587406385807361

>> The results in the Nature paper were independently replicated and validated by my team, the results were used in actual chips and Sat and his collaborators know it.

>> Furthermore, the code was open-sourced.

>> It is sad that you are providing a platform for someone's resentments.

The claims about independent replication refer to Google's circuit_training repository[1]. The UCSD team has conclusively shown this claim was materially false (see section 3 of their paper[2]).

BTW, Prof. Andrew Khang, who headed the UCSD effort, initially wrote an exteremely favorable editorial about the Nature paper[3].

[1] https://github.com/google-research/circuit_training

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.11014.pdf

[3] https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01515-9
> including without limitation the rights to ... sublicense ... the Software.

Sounds like they can distribute that code under the GPL, provided they include the notice (which is OK from the GPL PoV since it doesn't frustrate what the GPL provides). That particular code continues to be available under its original license. The whole is available under the GPL. Licenses are permission to do things that would otherwise be prohibited by copyright; there's no problem with having extra permission or multiple kinds of permission. What part do you think would be a problem?
Most IT and engineering (and probably other "IP based") companies are "remote ready" for the right person. It's not some vast change or investment they have to make, really. You use the laptop they give you and connect from a different place, and continue to go about your job more or less the same way as does everybody who works with you, since most places are perfectly used to remote meetings and have been for decades. If they want you they'll make the accommodation. That goes for prominent companies that have been implementing strict back to office policies.

There's no "not ready", it entirely a choice by management.
For me, the article date shows as june 26th
It is insane to imagine that we can detect light emitted by molecules that are 1,350 light years away ... just amazing.
I am not saying that this is the way it should be.
“Something something OOP” - you reach enlightenment once you realize OOP itself is an anti-pattern.
> The government could mandate that producers of plastics must offer a convenient and financially attractive way to hand in old plastics.

We already have this. It's called trash can. How would letting the producers handle this instead would change anything? The plastic was still produced and will end up in a landfill or the ocean.
People who love flashing websites could not even participate. It looks like all the possible answers were for different levels of being annoyed.

I doubt there are many, but the result is probably skewed.
There's basically a shortage of every conceivable type of drug. While not in the US, my partner works in a pharmacy, and it happens on an almost daily basis that they are unable to fulfill prescriptions do to a shortage.

It's everything, certain types of pain kills, ADHD medication, vaccines, insulin (because the resources goes to weight lose medication), weight lose medication (because more people are getting it, compared to expectations), drugs for hearth problems, blood pressure, you name it and there is or have been a shortage.

Everything seemed to breakdown during COVID and just never fully recovered.
If the camera is on, there is a green dot in the top bar (close to the battery indicator). Mic usage is shown via an orange dot iirc. Active location tracking by a white arrow in a blue dot.
The Nintendo Switch Console has faced criticism for its online infrastructure, which has been perceived as lagging behind in terms of adopting the latest technologies and features. One aspect that has drawn attention is the need for a smartphone for voice chat, which some users find inconvenient. Another area where Nintendo has faced scrutiny is the process of transferring user data from an old console to a new one.
Add to this that voice assistants fundamentally got worse and worse as their makers tried to monetise, increase usage etc. it took cool tech and made it annoying.

I can see llms going much the same way.
sounds like a job for Unitron :) https://github.com/alustig3/unitron
https://archive.is/jkvaJ
Why Learn Linux TV Has Switched Away from Ubuntu
Where do you work? That must be a great place! Most devs I know, even talented ones, have never done a recursive query, and a lot of them don't even know it's possible.
Poison-shooting robots on the front line of war against feral cats in Australia
it doesn't! whatever code you put into the stored proc you can equally well put into a query, and the round-trip costs would be equivalent

a stored proc is just a query saved on the db server, nothing more

if you destructure a stored proc to multiple individual queries, ok, sure, but who would do that?
> You haven't given any indication that you have considered any of my points in any meaningful way.

You are right. I need to work on not being so dismissive.

I think this correspondence would have been more appropriate and fruitful as an 'essay'/'counter-essay' instead of this social media format which tends to drive me to look for a decisive, pithy 'win'.

Sorry for railroading you and thank you for being courteous.
> I think that confuses doing versus delegating.

This is exactly it, thanks for putting it down clearly.

Which is also why news of the death of programming as a profession are greatly exagerated. You're not being paid to write code, you're being paid to make decisions. Code is easy, or at least much easier than natural language.
Shocking that a company without any real competition that cares about its stock price doesn't go out of its way to lower profits. Shocking. I'm shocked.
I feel like I'm on the ground level of when Firefox was first being built. It's a very exciting project that is 100% for a free, open web. What a great achievement!
It seems this wasn't mentioned before, but in Germany some communal open data labs created instructions on how to build an air quality sensor setup and a corresponding map visualizing the results (all over the world by now).

https://sensor.community/en/

Original page (only in German?) https://luftdaten.info/

Map: http://deutschland.maps.sensor.community/
Are your baking experts English speaking?

In my table (in a coffee shop) right now I have a fee recipe books about baking: flour lab, la patisserie de Yann Couvrer, le Grand libre de la viennoiserie, french patisserie by Ferrandi and they all use weights for baking recipes (tho the last one also has volumes).

I have some grandma recipes which are whatever-metric (some sort of pancakes are "one egg, one egg of water, one spoon of flour") but I think it's mostly historical.
In most distros a simple default install (like Kubuntu or Ubuntu) things are consistent. Even RedHatEnterprise linux is very consistent. Sure a mac looks nice as it is always available in a 2K> glossy display.

Once you go to install stuff things are made of different tool kits. In principle it is the same for macOS. Yes, all Apple stuff mostly are consistent. There are lots of dialogs inside System Preferences that seem old and not migrated. Also, once you install MS office, and other dev. stuff from macports things go weird.
> "A system where we can provide the same input multiple times, and the response will change in minor or major ways, for unknown and unknowable reasons, and yet we're expected to rebuild entire other industries or ecosystems around it, is merely a tool for manipulation. Narcissists and abusers use the inconsistent and capricious changing of responses as a way of controlling and manipulating their victims."

This is a particularly dumb take on LLM-based AI. It's possible to negate this objection by just taking temperature 0 so it always gives the same response for the same input. But somehow I suspect this isn't their real objection.
I think you’re missing the forest for the trees a bit. In the code, order mostly doesn’t matter and where it does matter there is a monotonic clock decoupled from physical time, using an epoch framework (https://tli2.github.io/assets/pdf/epochs.pdf).

The clock sync is just to keep human-readable logs in order for debugging. It’s ok if it is sometimes out of order, though in practice, it never is.
Most people have microplastics in their body, and even babies in the womb are being exposed (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016041202...). The most remote, otherwise pristine environments have microplastics due to atmospheric transport (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36868287/). It is too late.
Also democracies: "how easy is it to get you out of office?" is one of Tony Benn's tests.
Please use the money to rewrite it in Jakt ;)

Jakt needs a posterchild project to receive the required attention. Besides, it would send not one but two strong messages to Mozilla
Ask HN: As a grad student from non-CS background how did you learn programming?
Grad students who have never programmed before and are from a domain totally unrelated to Computer students often have to learn it on their own due to their grad school work.

If you are someone that fits this criteria, where did you learn it from and why?
> depending on project since it gives you absolute control

Absolute control to hunt down your own bugs, instead of using something that is an industry standard and any competent programmer jumping to your project can be up-to-speed with it instantly..
That's always in season, sadly.
I'll point you to the FOSS work I do [0] so that serves your point #3. As for #1, that's an inherent limitation with the APIs. As for #2, it depends on the economics. Most such tools (NetGuard, TrackerControl) are available free of cost with an option to sponsor the project. From experience, I can tell that no one really sponsors or donates.

[0] https://github.com/celzero/rethink-app
There is no need to choose between push and pull, since both methods have their pros and cons [1]. Just use monitoring system, which supports both methods [2].

[1] https://docs.victoriametrics.com/keyConcepts.html#write-data

[2] VictoriaMetrics + vmagent
You didn't read the article at all. That's not what is happening.

Plants in India undercut everyone in price and drove them out of the market by making a substandard and dangerous version of the drug violating basic safety standards. The FDA failed miserably to detect this until everyone was driven out of the market by these low prices.

Had the FDA done it's job from day 1 this would not have happened. And had we built a strategic reserve in case something went wrong we would have enough of a buffer to weather this storm.
There are fantastic ORMs out there. ActiveRecord is stellar. GRDB for Swift is fantastic.

As usual it depends on your task and the ORM you choose.
"PAUL WAS OVERFED"

OH NO!!
The problem is that the physical layout of most offices do not support an environment in which knowledge workers (especially in tech/professional services) kan thrive. Open office spaces are killing for focussed work so what you'll need is a choice. When you need to focus, retreat to a small room without distractions, if you need mentoring, go to a somewhat bigger room with a white board, if you want to collaborate, use the traditional open office adjacent to the coffee machine. The reason is that in some point in time companies and realtors decide that an open office space is the most efficient way to use square meters (or feet in freedom units.) and as such optimizes revenue.
If offices were more optimized returning to an office for a few days a week can actually improve productivity. That said, it very much depends on the role if 100 % WFH, hybrid or full office work makes sense. IMHO is that informal relations (the "coffee machine chat") provides a certain advantage in _some_ roles. This aspect (providing some nuance..) seems to be missing from most discussions.
Needing to eat and have a roof over your head is a fairly strong reason.

The number of people who need to work already vastly outnumbers the number of WFH positions.
Real-time payment systems are common across the world and have been for well over a decade. It poses new challenges but usually you will not consider the fraud checks (AML or just standard TMS) outside the scope of that timeline.
For example - instructing a payment to a “real time scheme” or even Real Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) does not mean you get it within that time period but rather it can be submitted and received.

For example if you send 100$ to a friend at another bank, you will submit the instruction, the bank will then screen it against an TMS/AML system, then once that passes 1 submit the instruction. If this time is say 10pm, you will be instructed first thing next day when the scheme opens again. In RTGS or similar real time systems, you get settlement within a shorter time period (like say a few mins to hours) meaning the next at someone will have it (pending receiving banks TMS/AML checks)

The real issue with this in the US is that they do not have a widespread account name confirmation service that is rolled out for all so it will be hard to do real-time “Confirmation of Payee” which is something that is relatively normal in other countries.

This is an oversimplification of most the steps but as a consumer, it will be a big benefit to speeding up the whole system as private networks like Venmo or Cashapp do the exact same thing (well to a lesser degree) but those services are built into the schemes themselves.
In my day job, a customer would ask me to reconcile between 2 giant CSVs very often. Think GBs.

When I tell them to do it in Excel by themselves, they would say Excel couldn't open a CSV larger than 1M rows...

At first, I was using sqlite through shell. I hated it so much that I built a desktop app on top of it. It wasn't slick enough with all the typing.

It is quite a joy to use, and I'd love for people to try it out: https://superintendent.app (disclaimer: I'm the creator).
It was a wonderful example of crowdfunding. I wonder what other software area might benefit from a similar Foss injection. A few years ago they overwrote the last of the original code.
YouTube is private platform. They can take down the video because they think his fingernails are too long or his shirt is ugly if they so choose to.
You can use their first party tool called Import-Export: https://proton.me/support/export-emails-import-export-app
I think you’re right on the money- gnome is trying to make the desktop environment more familiar to new users so they’re implementing poor design choices that Microsoft, Apple, et al. have made.
I think the money is probably better directed at building out browser features than rewriting anything. Building a browser on top of a language that is still in heavy development is a recipe for a failed browser.
This must be a mistake that you do once as a junior and then never repeat. When you declare a field with collection, would not it be natural to ask how it works?
Well sure but that not necessary for every combination of every call. Most likely those types of combinations are rare.
I’ve started to only use GRK screws for things I care about. They’re like twice the price, but it’s not like you go through many screws to do most DIY projects, and how easily they screw into stuff makes it worth it.

Check them out, they’re nice.
I always enjoyed the story of early proto pizza appearing in Virgil’s Aeneid represented as the people so hungry they eat their plates.

(Dupe comment on dupe submission) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36498783
Much of the 80's recycling movement was funded as greenwashing by the plastics industry. The lie was that plastic was a "closed cycle" and "infinitely reusable." In the late 90's/early 00's, "biodegradable plastic" was another lie.

We need to ban all materials that persist with poisonous degradation products. Most bottles should then transition back to glass or to enamel-lined (not BPA) cans. Glass persists for thousands of years but isn't much different from rock. There's no need to worry about glass pollution because fragments quickly weather.
I wonder if premier and vizient have a vested interest in some of the suppliers going out of business, like if they have indirect ownership in competing suppliers.
No, I think the bots are trained on the conversations that are taking place, so if people curse in the game, it's possible for the bot to curse back.
I'd add, architecture, design patterns, object-orientation, security (!), and maintainability to that list
https://twitter.com/ClementDelangue/status/16733486764780257...
Kudos to Andreas for initiating this project and the various contributors.
I became a minimist to save the planet as much as i could. Its easier than any one could think you know.

Here is what i have been doing for a decade and would receommend

1. Reusing plastic bags (i love cotton bags but not ideal). Fold and keep one or two in your pocket before you leave home

2. Support and use light software so you dont need to upgrade your gadgets (12y laptop i use)

3. Prepare and eat home cooked meal (its 360d in my life). Good for your health and the environment

4. Plant Trees. i plant one every month on average

5. Collect rain water and/or use less water

4. Prefer walking over any other transporation

5. Dont fucking care about trends.

6. Sleep 8hrs. less waking hours means less consumation.. lol

7. Prefer quality over quantity everytime.

8. Carry a water bottle (copper ideal).

9. fuck sugary drinks.
Yes as I said, there are more pizza's than the now common Tomato and mozzarella combination we have today, Especially in Italy.
What the article says is that the shortage of vital generic drugs, such as cisplatin and carboplatin used in cancer treatment, primarily stems from the financial struggles of the generic drug industry. A host of issues, including constant pressure to reduce prices, thin profit margins, and shifting focus towards more profitable high-priced drugs, have led manufacturers to cease production of many essential generics. Further complicating matters, oversight of production quality is challenging for overseas manufacturers, and a lack of contingency plans for sudden disruptions, as seen with the closure of the Intas Pharmaceuticals plant in India, exacerbates shortages. So, the complex problem spans across supply chain challenges, market dynamics, and regulatory shortfalls.

I focused on the thin profit margins and the consequences.
I'm not talking about IT or engineering. Anyway, it's not as easy as you say and I have the result right in front of me. The company has not mandated return to office but is still struggling a lot with this so what exactly is the choice by management here? They clearly want it to be a remote company.

Another example is my SO who works for a now-flex remote government agency where they are not authorized to use any of the normal software. It's even worse there. Their remote culture is highly dysfunctional and she goes into the office 5 days a week even though she doesn't need to.
And of course if it doesn't help people who are currently alive only our children we should never do it and it's too late to bother?
I was always a bit surprised to see these. At work, we used to have your classic Nespresso plasticy-cardboard coffee cups. They could be reused during the day, but you'd basically throw them away after a few uses.

Now we get some "eco" "compostable" ones. To my untrained eye, aside from the different color, they look and feel exactly the same. They even have a drawing on them that I interpret as "we kill turtles". Not sure how these can be considered "green". I'm also curious how healthy it is to drink a hot beverage out of them.
Kaze explained once that a big part of performance issues was related to fill rate which I guess is part of the memory bandwidth issue. Essentially, polygon counts aren't a huge issue provided they don't use a large amount of screen space. While the Z-buffer will help out with larger polygons, it isn't a silver bullet solution.

That said, I don't doubt SM64 was in bad shape, this was really Nintendo's 1st attempt at doing 3D at that scale and almost everything was experimental. But even with that, it is amazing to see just how well a lot of it works despite this. But seeing some of the later stuff released on N64, it did seem like a really tapped out resource. Mind you looking at the Portal 64 coming along, it is neat to see that folks are still trying to push it just a little bit more.

Back to SM64, one thing I still find really cool is when you get Mario on a rotating platform, the rotation position and angle is calculated as it should be for both location and angle. That is just slick to see on something that old.
Yep I fondly remember reading the blog posts by Blake Ross and Dave Hyatt.
Is Dave still at Apple working on Safari ???.
Same here. I actually somewhat liked seeing awards in Apollo before they added more beyond silver/gold/platinum. But even the badges got to be too bothersome. Now I open the official app and see animations and red backgrounds and “that’s hot” all over the comments. Who asked for this?
WireMin got my respect as an Hacker
Yo, been using Nostr for a couple of months, but it's gone to shit with all the spam clogging up my feed. Mastodon's not much better, either - it's a pain in the ass to use for interacting with others.

But then, I stumbled upon WireMin and it's been a total game-changer for me. Not only can I chat with others, but I can also transfer or request crypto payments with ease. And the best part? WireMin's decentralized and completely untraceable, so I can share my life and thoughts anonymously without worrying about getting doxxed or tracked.

As a hacker, I know how hard it is to achieve true anonymity, so WireMin's got my respect. And of course, end-to-end encryption (e2ee) messaging is a no-brainer.
Hello friends! I’m really happy to have Shopify putting their faith in our little project like this :)

If you’d like a quick intro to the Ladybird project, I presented it at a conference earlier this month: https://youtu.be/De8N1zrQwRs

Huge thanks to Mike, Tobi and the other folks at Shopify who hooked this up. <3