skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People paid for the positive externalities

No, they paid for the direct results, i.e. heating oil, gasoline. The externalities that result include having a functional society where millions of people don't die every year due to the weather, where innovative goods (many of which are produced using large amounts of oil) can be produced anywhere in the world and still end up on a store shelf very close to you (or even delivered), and where the majority of people are freed up from having to produce their own food supply. Whereas a few deaths are countable (and the connection from oil production to these specific deaths is highly specious), the positive benefits of oil and electricity are so massive and so embedded and crucial to society that they are literally incalculable.

Further, the amount paid is massively reduced due to the incredibly efficient global infrastructure dedicated to producing, refining and transporting oil, thanks (in part) to Exxon, BP, Shell, etc. Instead of paying $60 for a gasoline fillup, imagine the costs of finding oil-producing land, independently drilling for oil and personally refining it into gasoline. The fact that you don't have to do any of that, is the true "externality" that you've benefitted from, but no, you have not paid for.
Edit: I posted that pretty late. I meant the court is likely to rule in favor of the passengers.
I'm intolerant to aspartame in particular (it causes me migraines) and most artificial sweeteners (upset stomach).

But that doesn't mean no one else should have them.
I think the print magazine is still pretty decent, but they do do quite a bit of clickbait for the website. Seems to be an attitude of "if you can't beat them, join them". Gotta get the revenue stream to pay for the long-form journalism from somewhere, and hey, why not get some of it from vaguely liberal clickbait that'll do numbers on Twitter, instead of leaving that market completely to the bloggers.

One thing I find particularly strange is when the two things collide. If you look at past submissions, you can see the HN headline often doesn't match the current headline at theatlantic.com, and the URL slug is often a remnant of a third headline. They rotate headlines even on the serious long-form pieces multiple times, presumably A/B testing what gets more clicks. So you end up with a good article that may have taken months to research and write, but saddled at the top with a series of clickbaity headlines that change every 2 hours. And the online headline often doesn't match the print headline for the same article (which obviously does not change).
Well, in the day's sun = higher O2 and at night progressively higher CO2 and lower O2 as plant respiration/decomposition. I am sure this has been measured and is online - where?
There is also a chance that the intangible 'scent' of freshness, similar to after a shower might sway your senses?
Also limiting it to neurons ignores all of the activity and modulatuon that's increasingly being attributed to astrocytes and other CNS "scaffolding"
Once, I was given the choice between an apple and an orange, and chose a mango. This is evidence of my exceptional intellect and skill at thinking out of the box.
Yup it sounds awful, at least with Reddit and to a much lesser extent Twitter the conversation is kept somewhat in control by people having to subscribe to a Subreddit or follow accounts that interest them.

Imagine the signal to noise ratio on some random NY Times article, or any other moderately popular website. I expect most people are thankful the NY Times only enables comments on selected articles.
Truly digital? I don’t know what that means

Well, they're "powered" so they must be truly digital. Or something like that.

Typewriter? What do you mean by that?

Seems pretty clear. Even if you're not 50 years old, you've seen a typewriter and know what one is. It's not 2123 yet.

Proprietary syntax highlighting? Why would I want that?

It looks like this is syntax highlighting for non-programmers. People in certain types of businesses might like syntax highlighting customized to their needs, rather than repurposing the syntax highlighting used by programmers.

Integrates with… file types?

Worse, only five file types from three companies.

Why the cartoon people?

Maybe to seem friendly? Looks like Schoolhouse Rock to me. Since it's collaborative, I guess he's trying to show people together. Better than rando Adobe Stock of generic people super excited about doing mundane things.

That said…

When I click "Expore," some kind of menu pops up, but it's mostly off the side of my very wide computer screen, so I have no idea what that's supposed to do.

The contrast ratio of the entire page is awful. It's like looking at a web site through a light drizzle.

For what's supposed to be a basic, informative landing page, there's an awful lot of outbound connections that my computer is happy to block.

Ah, later on when I click on "Explore" the pop-up wants to know what kind of computer I have. How about I have a "None of Your Business Yet." Do you support that?

...and it stopped scrolling and responding to anything.

This page should have been just bare HTML/images/CSS.
Fyi - I had a typo. I meant the court _wouldn't_ rule in favor of OceanGate.
Unpaid contributors who care a lot about maintaining the quality of articles (and spend a lot of time doing so).
Why NYT, WaPo, Politico Didn’t Publish a Seemingly Bombshell Report About UFOs
Same!
Is there a modern equivalent?

I still use Karma, but the GitHub says it's deprecated!
That sounds pretty cool! Link:

https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Though I'm not sure whether they relate this approach to the traditional FSM/PDA/TM models of computing. There seems to be a disconnect between theoretical computer science (which uses the classical models) and more "practical" computer science which uses Boolean and sequential logic circuits as a model of computing .
Actual title
"Building a Toy Programming Language in Python"
No, that's just not true. There are goods that have been consumed for thousands of years that eventually cause cancer, but don't do anything in the immediacy.
You could just buy an Android phone instead since it can already do that, but I suspect you’re an Android user already and just like to complain about Apple.
I've stayed with people in Sendai before and after 2011.

Based on the snarky prancing I don't think you have, dude.

Watch footage of that event again and repeat the words, "People can understand this kind of risk".

Over 7M people use 300km of track and ~300 subway stations in Tokyo daily. Below sea level without electricity? There are many possible horrors we choose not to consider every day. Dealing with them rationally as a society is the only real hope.
I worked as a patent examiner twice in the past. I've written on Hacker News before about how patents are granted in the US:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33506062

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31197809

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31883765

Why was any particular patent granted?

First, keep in mind that the claims are the legally enforceable part of a patent. The drawings, title, abstract, and specification aren't as important. The title and abstract could be really vague and sound like they cover far more than the patent actually does as described in the claims. That's often intentionally done by attorneys because they want as broad coverage as possible. Usually only the claims are amended to be more narrow, so the broad sounding abstract/etc. stays.

Second, you need to check that it was indeed granted. Many times when someone's complaining about a dumb patent, it turns out that they are referring to a patent application which the patent office rejected. Give the USPTO credit where it's due. They did their job properly there.

Third, you can actually read the examiner's logic about why they granted a particular patent in many countries. In the US, you can look up the application on Patent Center and click on "Documents & Transaction" on the left. For the patent you mentioned, that'll take you here:

https://patentcenter.uspto.gov/applications/17873839/ifw/doc...

Now look for the "Notice of Allowance and Fees Due (PTOL-85)". This document will describe why the application was allowed. Usually it'll highlight the difference between the patent claim and the prior art. In this case the "Reasons for Allowance" section of the document seems pretty clear about why the examiner allowed this application.

Fourth, even if the examiner was in error, don't be too harsh on them. Being a patent examiner is a really hard job. They have a quota system and the quota is simply unreasonable. It's impossible in my opinion to do consistently high quality work for most patent examiners with the current quotas. If they can't find prior art in the allowed time, right or wrong, they'll probably have to allow it even if they don't feel that's right.
No one is complaining about these people using LLMs. Nor even grabbing simple routines. We're discussing people who write code with LLMs, as in the whole process. Whole programs. By people who are professional SWEs. Non-programmers and simple routines are out of scope. No one is saying "never use LLMs", just that they aren't going to replace programmers anytime soon.
but the corresponding cluster of neurons in a brain isn't actually wetted by the touched water either.
Sometimes no, sometimes yes. 6 weeks of paid vacation, [p|m]aternity leave and heavily subsidized kindergartens etc can weigh heavier than extra pay, depending on your priorities in life.
In the Bahamas most rental cars are LHD to make it easier for US tourists, despite the entire country driving on the left. Though I suppose the difference between mellow Bahaman roads and the whole of the UK road system is a pretty big difference when it comes to safety.
I worked as a secretary in a brokerage firm in 1987. They had electronic typewriters with name/address storage and mail merge functionality. I'm sure PCs must've come in only a few years later, but it was definitely possible before then.
Physics cannot be bribed or intimidated with lawsuits.
Mentioned above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36545326
I disagree. First of all, meat substitutes taste nothing like meat, have often a weird texture and are unhealthy. There are tons of foods which are vegan, taste great, and are healthy. See indian/african/asian food.
Yes, in the end continuing with fossil fuel will result in much more wildlife destruction though. I think it's always important to consider the alternative which in this case is really bad.
> largest common denominator

Or the lowest.

This is how populist politics works. The thing that appeals to the most people isn't necessarily the thing we should be doing.

The internet and web appealed to a small percentage of people in the early 90s, and it was glorious. You had to put in effort to get anything out, which meant most people didn't bother, which meant it was a nice place. The music industry similarly had a high level of entry. Both are filled with crap now.

Elitist old man shouting at clouds? Maybe. Doesn't mean I'm wrong though.
Also the unsweetened caffeinated drinks taste worse than aspartame
I was wrong about Red Hat's EULA and its enforceability
The only thing I knew was that when light goes through a pinhole in a box just right, for some reason it creates a large upside down projection on the opposite side haha

Everything in this video is just a flurry of mad genius and gobbledygook jargon. Loved every second of it
maybe a stupid question but what is wrong with coffee and spicy food?
Yep, it's also naturally occurring in all sorts of Asian food (due to soy or something) if I understood what I read correctly. That's why "no msg" Asian food tastes so awful.
I have one of those. It's the one shown in Wikipedia. When I was doing a steampunk telegraph office at steampunk conventions, we had many antique office props, all working. All the telegrams got stamped with that.

Not only does it still work, despite being over a century old, you can still get the ink pads for it.
I knew it! Video games are how simulation universes come to be.
Where in China do you live?
This is where they lost me:

> Someday, science and art will merge, Bohm predicts. “This division of art and science is temporary,” he observes. “It didn't exist in the past, and there’s no reason why it should go on in the future.”

I think the whole "Two Cultures" criticism [1] was valid, even if it is often over-simplified. (Less so today in that we live in an age of context collapse.) And yes, high modernism is, thank goodness, on its last legs. But there are actual reasons that there are divisions between art and science in terms of purpose and method. I'm open to the notion that we could use more art in science, but handwaving the distinction away like this strikes me as cheap mysticism, not a real argument.

Maybe I'm especially sensitive to this because I recently went with a friend to see Michio Kaku talk about his book "Quantum Supremacy". Many in the audience were apparently impressed, and I'm told Kaku at one point really knew his stuff. But the talk I saw was a shambling mess, where basic errors of fact about quantum computing were used to justify technoutopian mysticism that was just a modern, high-tech gloss on quantum woo. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures

[2] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Quantum_woo
Old timers will recall when using mmap was a prominently promoted selling point for the “no sql” dbms.
Shouldn't you protect that endpoint, regardless of the traffic coming from tor or not? It is really cheap to get traffic through domestic VPN proxies, so a dedicated attacker will get to it anyway...
This is the crucial, but also most difficult part:

> Have a hiring manager talk with you, specifically, about an opening that they want you, specifically, to fill.

How do you get into that position, should you constantly market yourself, or how did you do it ?
I would not start with any course unless you had a project in mind that would take the knowledge from the course to get started. Otherwise you risk wasting a lot of time for knowledge that won't help you in any way and will get outdated in a few months anyway
So, are you intolerant to aspartic acid, phenylalanine or methanol?
Array bounds errors in C, the number 1 problem, can be mitigated by adding this proposal to fix C:

https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/C-biggest-mistake.html

I don't really understand the resistance to it. It does not affect existing code at all, it's simple, it's easy to implement, and its worth has been proven in D. (It's one of D's most popular features.)
When I still consumed sugary drinks I also found the artifically sweetened ones to taste "boring", but after switching I really don't notice it at at all. Once you become used to it it quickly becomes the new norm and you don't miss it.

Also the taste can vary wildly between sodas, for example coke zero tastes completely different than pepsi max. Both are sweetened with aspartam.
You have made alot of assumptions

First and foremost there are many times when leverage is not on the employers side, today it often is not as there are more open jobs than people to fill them. Given the current population decline this trend will likely continue unless we see massive reduction in the number of employers.

Then there is the assumption that the dream job is working at a FAANG company. Many people, myself included, avoid large companies like the plague. Even if a large public company wanted to pay me 2x what I make now I would infact turn that down.

Finally there are multiple studies that show there is a wage curve which in today's dollars any salary above around 80-90K (average US COL, Adjust where needed for high COL regions) there is a reduction in how much the base salary factors into job choice. Instead other things start to play larger factors in the choice to accept an offer.
Like spending £100k on a car which comes with a squeegee in the glove box instead of windscreen wipers.
Yet it's still very common to run into people that
are absolutely convinced they have a sensitivity to
MSG despite the fact that all evidence suggests that
no such sensitivity actually exists.

Here's a pattern I've seen in at least two people here in America. I suspect it's probably pretty widespread.

1. Subject is a person who does not eat Asian/Asian-American food very often

2. Subject eats some Asian/Asian-American food, full of many ingredients they don't typically consume

3. Food does not agree with subject in some way or another

4. Subject then decides it "must be the MSG" when of course it might be just be high sodium content that is common in takeout/delivery food, or any of the other ingredients they don't normally consume, or perhaps they just got some spoiled food or something
It tells me that they funded a study in a way that was intended to separate themselves from the research to prevent influencing the outcome. What does it tell you?
People are really fighting against solar farms because of the potential to disrupt the habitat of some tortoises, sparse plants, and beetles. In the desert.

And they’ll cook up a story about how the loss of these species will cascade into a tragic disaster. The same story that a handful of conservationists trot out every time anyone tries to do anything except build on an existing dirt lot.

The fact is there are ~9 million species of Eukaryotes on Earth. ~5 billion have already gone extinct, long before humans were running around. And life went on just fine following a million prior species of desert beetle, rare plant, and tortoise dying out.

If an organism is so rare and limited in environmental tolerance and geography that a solar farm threatens its existence, it’s an evolutionary dead end anyway.

Keep a founder population somewhere if possible, put a collection in a -80 freezer, do a few lanes of illumina sequencing on them and move on.

It’s terrible, and I’m terrible for saying it, but it’s also more practical than thinking that biodiversity has to or can be held constant from the time of Darwin until eternity.

I know the arguments against what I’m saying, being a biologist for 15 years. It is what it is, and no I’m not advocating for wanton extinction.
The history of the bad rap for MSG largely comes from racism (yay!) and then “studies” used to support this and to paint immigrant-run restaurants in a bad light.

Like almost any substance, a lot of MSG isn’t good for anyone. In the amounts typical for cooking, it’s fine.
If you want to actually play a Factorio-like game in 3D, I recommend Satisfactory.
Ask HN: Another web app has plagiarized my app's name. How do I deal with this?
I released my "ezInvoice" app back in 2002 and purchased the domain name ezInvoice.com when I did.

Yesterday I found the "First National Bank - Pittsburgh, PA" selling an app with the same name.

This is not the first time I've encountered this, but most all the others were located outside the U.S.

I haven't contacted them yet. I thought it would be best to ask here for advice on how to deal with this.
I don't really care if somebody blocks a random port of sshd. I just don't understand why people are eager to block public https traffic, which is exposed to the public internet anyway.
> It puts Reddit as an organization in a tough position, because they have to mediate disputes. And it opens up a bunch of other questions. How big does a subreddit have to be before they qualify for this intervention system? Does one submit an organized case like filing a lawsuit? What if the accused moderator is the only moderator of the subreddit?

Yes. It's not easy.

But Reddit knowingly went into a community moderated forum industry. It's not as if this situation was forced on them. Having some plans for this would have been normal business planning.

A lot of this sounds like the plan was:

1. Cool website

2. ?????

3. Profit!!!

Except they never got to 3 and now are scrambling.
For the majority of the world, nothing. But if your diet consists of fairly bland food then it can result in unpleasant trips to the toilet.
At face value, it's far from clear how this molecule was discovered. Nothing about the structure indicates that it would taste sweet. Wikipedia offers this account:

> Aspartame was discovered in 1965 by James M. Schlatter, a chemist working for G.D. Searle & Company. Schlatter had synthesized aspartame as an intermediate step in generating a tetrapeptide of the hormone gastrin, for use in assessing an anti-ulcer drug candidate. He discovered its sweet taste when he licked his finger, which had become contaminated with aspartame, to lift up a piece of paper.

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

But the Washington Post seems to disagree:

> It has been 17 years since chemist James M. Schlatter, who was tinkering with an anti-ulcer drug at the time, dipped his finger into a mixture of asparatic acid and phenylalanine and, for reasons that remain unclear, brought the result into contact with his tongue. Now, after a long legal and scientific struggle, the stuff that was on Schlatter's finger that fateful day in 1965 can be on your finger too, or dissolved in your coffee, or stirred into your yogurt, or sprinkled over your cinnamon toast.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/food/1982/0...

There was a time when reporting the taste of a newly-synthesized organic molecule was not uncommon in the literature. It's possible that Schlatter was just doing something that was not unusual at the time.

An account of the discovery, written by one of the authors of the original research paper reporting the discovery (Mazur), and reportedly based on an affidavit gives this account:

> In December 1965 I was working with Dr. Mazur on the synthesis of the C-terminal tetrapeptide of gastrin. We were making intermediates and trying to purify them. In particular, on an occasion in December, 1965, I was recrystallizing aspartylphenylalanine methyl ester (aspartame) ... when the mixture bumped [spilled over while boiling] onto the outside of the flask. As a result, some of the powder got onto my fingers. At a slightly later stage, when licking my finger to pick up a piece of paper, I noticed a very strong, sweet taste. Initially, I thought that I mush have still had some sugar o. my hands from earlier in the day. However, I quickly realized this could not be so, since I had washed my hands in the meantime. I, therefore, traced the power on my hands back to the container into which I had placed the crystallized apsartyl-phenylalanine methyl ester. I felt that this ... was not likely to be toxic and I therefore tasted a little of it and found that it was the substance which I had previously tasted on my finger.

- Aspartame: Physiology and Biochemistry, edited by Stegink and Filer
Why your avocado toast costs $20
> Be prepared to deal with blocks not necessarily updating to disk in the order they were written to, and 10 seconds after the fact. This can make power failures cause inconsistencies.

This is not specific to mmap -- regular old write() calls have the same behavior. You need to fsync() (or, with mmap, msync()) to guarantee data is on disk.
Absolutely, it's saved me a lot of pain at the dentist since I started on it; that and picking/flossing.
Nobel Prize in Physics (1993)
The magic of digital goods is that you only need to produce them once. This guy put in all the work and now can just copy paste it wherever and have it always ready
Kind of a weird leaderboard if you can’t even check to see if answers satisfy correctness. I’ve seen plenty of leaderboards where the top answers would fail cases that weren’t covered by the leaderboards testing.
WPA2 also had an exploit (KRACK) while the handshake algorithm itself was "proven to be secure". Formal verification is a powerful tool but it does not guarantee bug-free code: it merely guarantees that the particular bugs you checked for are not possible.
He also got off the hook for slander/libel by claiming "pedo guy" is a nickname.

So clearly calling musk a "pedo guy" is just an affectionate nickname, too.