skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Slow response, sorry - too soon to say I recommend it but I'm currently using Simple SMS Messenger as mentioned in a sibling comment. Not at all fancy, works fine so far.
I've recently noticed on TikTok a big trend of food scientists, and chemists that basically just aggressively "debunk" anyone saying any sort of preservative or processed food ingredient is bad for you, and they always fall back on "proven safe for human consumption" which is just like circular reasoning that the FDA is perfect, righteous, and good.

There is of course a lot of kooky beliefs out there about food. But it seems like there is a very intentional social media campaign to associate ANY claim that the stuff in our food is not in our best interest with the kooks that believe the only safe thing to eat is raw goat balls or whatever.

For books anyway, I found The Hundred-Year Lie to be incredibly in depth, but there's a lot of chemistry so it's verrry dense.
I wish there was a switch in the mass production of products to contain neither sugar or sweeteners.

But it feels like that is never going to happen.
I see you are not familiar with Dutch government :)

You're right of course, but i think hell will freeze over way way earlier.
std::unordered_map is notoriously slow, several times slower than a fast hashmap implementation like Google's absl or Martin's robin-hood-hashing [1]. In addition, your implementation lets the hashmap grow from a small size. As you know the total length, you could preallocate the hash table and avoid rehashing. As typical hash table implementations double the capacity during rehashing, preallocating the buckets should be about twice as fast if we don't consider the cache and the complex mechanism behind the STL allocator.

That said, std::sort is not the fastest sort implementation, either. It is hard to say which is faster for a small N of 10000. Your general point is still right in that an O(n*log(n)) algorithm is not necessarily slower than an O(n) algorithm in practice.

[1]: https://github.com/martinus/robin-hood-hashing
Yes? Mine is nearly that old. But we are very clearly the minority!
Because manufacturing mobile phones is hard and expensive. Companies have large teams of hardware and software people will incentivized to develop phones and lots of them fail.

The best we’ve got so far are exactly custom android builds like grapheneOS or lineage that replace software on phones other companies build. Apparently google doesn’t like that, though, so they’re going to continue to make AOSP worse and worse to protect their spyware.

The best case currently probably varies between something like grapheneOS on a pixel phone or lineageOS which is less privacy focused but has a much wider range of supported devices.
I think you can get something similar to this nowadays even from the big insurance companies. I thought I remembered some startups doing micro-transaction insurance policies that started and ended with each new trip -- did some searching and found that Allstate has something similar:
https://www.allstate.com/auto-insurance/milewise

You pay a small retainer fee ($1.50/day) and then a per mileage fee. This requires the use of a logging device which also impacts your per-mile rate depending on your driving.

I haven't dug into the nuts and bolts of this, but I wonder how well you are covered when the vehicle is not in motion - parked in garage, on the street, etc. At least in my area parking in public can be a risky option between the hit and runs, catalytic converter theft, break-in, etc.
People have been training ML models on data scraped from Reddit since at least 2015 [1], back when there were less than a million users

[1] https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/ehallmar/reddit-comment-scor...
How is that a GDPR violation?

GDPR doesn’t prevent opt outs of this kind of thing.
> Your guess is that the majority of Reddit users have joined since 2018?

It's not really important to the debate around unlicensed use of copyrighted works to train AI models, but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the majority of Reddit users have joined since 2018. It's tough to get reliable active user counts, but they seem to have risen substantially over the past five years.

It also wouldn't surprise me if the majority of Reddit users were indeed from prior to 2018, but at the very least > 2018 would be a very substantial minority.
I'm with you. Sad there's so little knowledge or trust in that knowledge that we have to just observe over a long time scale like this.
To make chatGPT analogous to coal mining automation it would have to be able to automate the thing it is doing without learning from sources online.

To make coal mining automation analogous to chatGPT the machinery would have had to use something the coal miner did to learn how to automate their work? I'm imagining a camera looking at all the coal miner's work and then the machine can immediately do it, but better.

I agree it is a tad different, but like with someone's coal mining which is in the public domain for anyone in the tunnel to see, likewise anything you write unprotected online is in the public domain and fair game I think?
I love dev tools. Few reasons I can think of:

1. Software is everywhere. To build/run/manage software, you need Dev Tools. The demand can only go up as we continue to depend on software for everything.

2. Dev tools solve specific problems at least to start with. This makes it a bit easier to find PMF faster or die. Faster PMF = Faster Growth capability = Chances of Unicorn. VCs love that stuff.

3. Lot of current success already with Dev Tools as you mentioned. VCs have a herd mentality. They follow where the success is. Dev Tools has been hot for a while and will continue to be.

4. Dev Tools are usually started by techies who love building tools and cannot be started by MBA types usually. This means that the founders are usually solid with a background in those areas and they are likely to succeed more. Just my personal opinion.
Neat comparison at the top of the page between the original SNES controller and the modern Switch controller inside the same enclosure. The battery and wireless system can all fit in the space left from miniaturization.
Supreme Court ends affirmative action in higher ed
Check the front page, all links have noreferrer now: https://i.snipboard.io/9wzFpx.jpg
My home was straight up robbed while I slept three years ago. The convenience store on the corner has cameras facing our property that the suspects walked directly beneath. Despite having been told this, the "detectives" never followed up to see if they could get the footage.
https://zenodo.org
Why not sue for 30 billion instead if you are to go full stupid on the price
As is often noted, being exposed to too much or improperly stored (heated, cooled, contaminated) water can also be hazardous to your health and that shit's in everything.
My fossil hybrid HR was a beautiful watch, and the display was great. But the software, ugh! In 3 years of use, they never managed to get as high as a 30% success rate on fetching weather info. It was almost always displaying "connection error" or something like that. It's just the weather! Why was THAT the sticking point that they couldn't figure out?
I would argue that learning Racket as part of a foundation in CS would make it easier to learn TypeScript and Rust.
Is it one of the only statement pieces a guy can were though? I know plenty of guys with bracelets, chains, rings, earrings and/or tattoos. You can express statements with your clothing too, if you want.

And than there are people who don't care about statement pieces and just want to wear whatever is most practical. And people who want to express themselves by wearing a smartwatch.
Maybe because not everyone subscribes to conspicuous consumption / has zero interest in mechanical watches?
its basically a lottery today when admission rate for top tier colleges is like 5%.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36520765
I just checked: SBCL on Linux/amd64 puts compiled functions in a r+w+x page. You could write Lisp that writes Lisp that writes self-modifying machine code, and it would (I think) run by default.

(compiled-function-p #'f) ; T

(disassemble 'f)
; disassembly for F
; Size: 58 bytes. Origin: #x5350CD14 ; F
; 14: 498B4510 MOV RAX, [R13+16] ; thread.binding-stack-pointer
; 18: 488945F8 MOV [RBP-8], RAX
; 1C: 4883EC10 SUB RSP, 16
; [...]

$ pmap $PID --range 5350CD14
442331: /usr/bin/sbcl
0000000053498000 122272K rwx-- [ anon ]
total 122272K
I think the idea is that for a slice of an elephant to be "elephant shaped," it has a bit of all of the key parts of an elephant - a bit of the trunk, a bit of a heart, stubs for four legs, whatever else makes an elephant an elephant. But what do the elephant's organs map to? I agree that the information on Elephant Carpaccio that I've been able to find doesn't really answer this.

My best guess is the idea is that it maps to aspects of a user story like "get input from the user," "do some business logic," "show output to user." So even the first slice is a working prototype in some superficial sense. The elephant organs might be app components (UI, database, etc.), but in the first slice you don't have a complete UI (maybe you have text input) and you don't have a production database (maybe you just have an in-memory dictionary) and you don't have robust business logic. You have the whole stack, but each part of the stack is incomplete. That's what I think makes it a vertical slice.

A horizontal slice (what not to do) would be one complete elephant organ. Maybe that's a production transactional database. So in the first slice you have a complete database or you've written the final business logic, but none of the other things that you would need in a mockup/prototype/MVP or an integration test.

Anyway, this is my best guess.
I'm surprised the author didn't end up with the Garmin Vivosmart, it's everything they say they want:
https://www.garmin.com/en-US/p/782585
The problem is that it’s a zero sum game - if you’ve benefited from it, then someone else was discriminated against on the basis of their race for your benefit.
It's true laws don't account for the future. It's also true that laws can be created and updated by other means and quite often the judicial branch is used as a fast pass extension of the legislative branch.

The problem when you do this - especially on questionable legal arguments - is you're essentially setting up the future to have to fight for that right all over again, as we've seen with Roe v. Wade.

You can't take a section of the constitution that's about citizenship, infer a right to privacy and then extend that to abortion and not expect that flimsy foundation to be challenged later when the right 5 people happen to be present.
You really don't, I worked on a Rust project:

https://github.com/ujh/iomrascalai

it doesn't need unsafe code despite being performance-optimized
TSMC is a dependency not an obligation.

But I'd say that the reputation of the US would be on the line with or without TSMC. Japan and S. Korea also rely on the US for protection and if the US breaks it promise to defend Taiwan then it will permanently harm US relations in th le region, potentially losing the entire pacific rim to China because not just Korea and Japan but even fiveeye allies Australia and NZ have shaky knees when it comes to China. The fear of the US is that trade relations and shipping routes will be under chinese control in the pacific rim and most of asia, couple that with Russia and the US will lose trade and diplomatic influence over most of the planet.

Taiwan is a proverbial line in the sand. Every player knows drawing up a line and allowing your enemy to cross it is accepting their domimance and advertising your weakness.

But, based on what I know about PLA and CCP so far, my prediction is the US will lose Taiwan in a very humiliating way without any conflict.

I happen to believe the US can indeed win a conventional war against China and allies, even if it might take 5+ years. However, unless China attacks US troops first or US civilians on a US base or soil, americans will never support such a war and even then my guesstimate is that at no point in US history has there ever been such a low number of military age americans that couldn't give a shit and a draft unlikely to be approved by congress.

TSMC or not, China won't need to worry about the US as long as they play their cards right. Matter of fact, defeating the US in such a way is the best way to dominate the US for the rest of the century so I am sure Xi knows this and will be his biggest legacy to "reunify" taiwan and win the ideological/dominance war against the west.
I still find it hard to believe Harvard, with a 50 Billion dollar endowment decided to do something good for society if they though it would hurt them. I feel like colleges must have data to show bottom line benefits for affirmative action
A pocket watch? Yeah, it's called a phone.
"Terabit Ethernet (TbE) is on the way, by all accounts"

Ooh! Can't wait.
https://archive.md/ramKf
I also use ‘for’ rarely. It silently ignore list elements that don’t match, whereas ‘map’ or ‘each’ blow up. Generally I prefer things to blow up rather than fail silently.
> Now the major distros have pretty much all standardized on systemd.

Which is why I need to stop using Linux.
I forgot I signed up for a free Kagi account a while back and reading some of these comments has reminded me to start using it. I don't need it to offer a huge leap in quality as long as it's actually good and doesn't degrade in quality.

G search is right out for me because I avoid any G products whenever possible. Also it's quite bad these days. So I primarily use DuckDuckGo, except it's honestly not that good either. And I'm very suspicious of how much money they have for advertising with a free, privacy-focused product. It just doesn't feel sustainable. I could be wrong! Maybe their non-personalized ads are more sustainable than Kagi's subscription model. But the search kind of sucks. Actually, sometimes I do end up using `!g` to improve my results (rather: to actually get relevant results), and it feels bad.

So I'm going to switch over to Kagi and see if that can deliver the results I want/need. If so, I'll happily pay. I might even pay $25/mo... it's a lot for a subscription, but it's not a lot when compared to my monthly income, so if it makes me job easier it will feel like a fair trade.
You're not wrong, but the full quote from the article is:

>“Back in 1981 they established an acceptable daily intake of aspartame, of 40 milligrams per kilogram of body weight per day. To consume over that limit would require a very large daily consumption of Diet Coke or similar drinks. On 14 July, Jecfa may change that risk assessment, or they may not.”

Emphasis mine. I'd be curious to see if this understanding has shifted in the past 42 years.
FYI, according to the linked article, the WHO is not claiming what you think it is claiming.

>It is preparing to label the sweetener as “possibly carcinogenic to humans”, Reuters reported on Thursday. That would mean there is some evidence linking aspartame to cancer, but that it is limited. The IARC has two more serious categories, “probably carcinogenic to humans” and “carcinogenic to humans”.

>It previously put working overnight and consuming red meat into its probably cancer-causing class, and listed using mobile phones as possibly cancer-causing.

>The IARC safety review was conducted to assess whether or not aspartame is a potential hazard, based on all the published evidence, a person familiar with the matter told the Guardian. However, it does not take into account how much of a product a person can safely consume.

Some pretty weak claims. Especially weak considering the risk of aspartame (which are not confirmed, and not at amounts regularly consumer) relative to the risk sugar it replaces (which are guaranteed at amounts regularly consumed - see type 2 diabetes).
> I understood that consciousness is a scale. Humans have "a lot" of it,

Not all humans though. (see Kissinger)
You can do it yourself. I used to drink a lot of sweetened soda. I switched to diet, then stopped. Regular sugar-sweetened drinks taste sickeningly sweet to me now, and diet drinks taste like chemicals.

Once you break the habit, your sense of taste recovers and you realize how nasty these drinks are. Most people get started on them as kids when you don't have a nuanced sense of taste and really crave sweet stuff.
Reminder that bacon is already a known carcinogen for those worrying about artificial sweeteners but happily eating processed meats.
I am curious how performant compiled Common Lisp is compared to GraalVM compiled Clojure native images. You certainly don't give up macros and code generation when using Clojure, though you do give up a specific class of explicit reader macros. Some reader extensibility can be had (and is used in Clojure.core) via reader functions (data_readers.clj)
Here is why Librem 5 phone was very hard and expensive to build: https://puri.sm/posts/breaking-ground/
They've already built a search engine that is better than Google and ad-free.
Why assume this is a 'leftists' idea?

> ...leftism is appealing to many who want to avoid work, so they won't be familiar with the concept of having their hard work pay off

You seem unfamiliar with the values of those you classify as 'leftist'.
We talk to a lot of companies and many want to start using generative AI but are afraid of litigation. As long as it is not clear on which data a given model has been trained and that it is explicitly licensed permissively by the owner you are not sure what can happen.

We are actually working on a tool to create billion-size free-to-use Creative Commons image datasets and prepare them for training models like Stable Diffusion. There is a blogpost about it here: https://blog.ml6.eu/ai-image-generation-without-copyright-in...
The truth about emulsifiers: are they destroying our gut health?
Sibling comment already asked the important question to ask yourself, but my answer would be: Language design decisions and the typical benefits of using Scheme dialects or former Scheme dialects, as Racket does not consider itself a Scheme any longer, iirc.

For example being able to make good use of recursion, being able to write programs more elegantly.

Racket, in contrast to JS or TS, comes with lots of batteries included, therefore not requiring so many third party dependencies. Time and time again I see the Racket docs and think: "Ah Racket has got something for that/got you covered." Also it is rich in programming language concepts. You can write your programm in any of the languages that come with Racket, or you can write it with function contracts or you can use Typed Racket.

At its core, it is a much cleaner and better designed language than TS will ever be due to TS' JS legacy.
People urged to stay indoors as smoke from Canadian wildfires
> businesses might stop purchasing newer versions of Microsoft Office if it doesn't come bundled with traditional Outlook.

I can't imagine someone who needs Excel dealing with non-Microsoft equivalents because Outlook is making its webapp its official app like Teams - and you could see the writing on the wall there for a long time.
The idea is that there are more kids who could succeed at the college than there are spots. So find the right bar and do lottery.

A lot of this comes down to what you think the mission of college is. Is it to educate the highest achieving kids who apply? Or to graduate a certain type of student? Or something else?

For me I know it’s not just to educate the highest achieving kids. If the top college in the world ended up accepting all terrorists who were trained to be exceptional students that wouldn’t sit right with me. Even if I could acknowledge they had the best academic records. That seems like such a shallow goal for university.
The fundamentals of CS courses in my undergrad program were taught in Racket (with HTDP). At the time this seemed very impractical, because I already knew Java and just wanted to write useful apps.

But as I've progressed in my career, I've come to appreciate how it helped me develop a strong foundation for reasoning about programs and their underlying logic (in any language) that continues to serve me to this day.

If I was approaching this outside of a structured curriculum, it would be hard for me to justify this long-term intangible benefit relative to being able to move quickly to write something interesting and useful. And I think writing interesting and useful programs is the best way to motivate oneself to keep programming. So I can't strongly advocate for this approach. But I do think there are some worthwhile benefits.
Communal computing for 21st century science, Apr 2023 [video]
Silica can cause cancer, in the form of asbestos fibres or silica dust. Yet, it’s safe to drink from a glass, have windows at home, and walk on sand. A lot of factors matter besides chemical composition.
As a kid in the 90s I remember seeing health warnings on things like artificially-sweetened chewing gum. I have a very specific memory of asking my dad about it at the local deli.
Like with everything in law, "intent" is paramount. Obviously it's not the trainer's, nor the end-user's goal to reproduce training set data verbatim; quite contrary, overfitting as such is undesirable.
Why would there be? Sugar is good. Products with sugar are good. Self control is also good. People can like products with sugar and exercise self control, so there will always be a demand for mass produced products with sugar, and that's a good thing.
$40M is the valuation cap, not the valuation.

When you raise money with an SAFE, you are postponing the negotiation about how much your company is worth. It could easily convert at well under $40M depending on how well they are doing when they next raise.
Pebble Time watches have spiked to $100-150, unfortunately. I really wanted one to hack around with. Their simplicity appeals to me. But they're no longer cheap. I think the other models are similar.
Thank you for those points, we'll pass them on internally.

We have now started to use separate organizations for each product at Proton, e.g. the Proton VPN apps are on https://github.com/ProtonVPN and the Proton Drive apps are on https://github.com/ProtonDriveApps.
Yeah I had a series 7 and the battery life killed it for me. I do kind of like seeing sleep tracking data so I don't want to charge while I'm asleep, so I would basically need to charge it while in the shower. This wasn't always enough charge time.

It really introduced me to a new level of battery anxiety. I'm extremely satisfied with my garmin which lasts a week+ per charge.
Haven’t tried but I think Qt Designer has already integration with Figma
Out of curiosity how would someone earn £20k of benefits while also getting a house? That seems outlandish to me.
> Look at all the "adult" men today, especially in America for some reason, whose desks are littered with action figures and whose offices contain a shrine to comic book superheros and Star Wars/Trek that would put the Sistine Chapel to shame. ...

> These are people who do not take their lives seriously. Someone clearly never told them that they're not 10 years old anymore.

Growing up / moving / progressing / changing is important. But a fear of being childish is not the same thing-- indeed it's something more that was a feature of my childhood than my adulthood.

When important stuff is going down, I'll buckle up. Even in other times, I'll face big issues and think and consider. I will mentally temper myself into someone who understands more things and is a broader person. I will have adult conversations. I will-- reluctantly-- confront the ephemerality of so many things in life.

And I will still come back and play with toys and enjoy video games.
Sudbury, North Bay, Sault St Marie, Quebec City, St. John's, Cornwall, Timmins... The list goes on.

All are safe, welcoming cities, all are relatively affordable. No they don't have an NHL team, yes they get cold in the winter. This is a cold country!