skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Oh, THEY are policing my language. THEY are watching everything I say!"

You're reading the idea of language policing as some actual thing, like people are hanging over someone watching every word they say. It certainly might be true in some offices or with some coworkers, but, I'm pretty sure feeling that your every word is policed is closer to a form of anxiety than an actual problem in most offices.

Or, your coworkers are basically bullying you over minor nitpicks, which will keep you in a state of mild anxiety.

Either way, having to monitor your every word is definitely closer to being anxious than not, and is definitely going to have some impact on your performance.
The 5-6 posts about this when it was news weren't good enough?
Why video games and not movies or TV? Why not books or music? And why is church a positive moral construct? Maybe I want my kid playing Stardew Valley to counteract all the violent fire and brimstone they're getting from the Old Testament.

Hell, why not their own history textbooks? France at least one prominent example of a violent revolution that's looked on positively in retrospect! (Of course, when you're the leader of the ruling class, no challenge to the current status quo could possibly be positive in your eyes).

The thing with pinning the blame on any one thing like this is that it betrays one's own biases. Macron grew up without video games like we have today, so they're his go-to culprit — it obviously can't be the violent things I grew up with, I turned out fine, didn't I?
Yes, children are impressionable and I don't think that stops at the age of 18, otherwise the biggest tech companies wouldn't be advertising companies. Being repeatedly shot and killed by other humans in virtual format taught me the lesson that other people can be quite skilled at shooting and killing me, presumably in real life as well, and I'd very much like to avoid that in a situation where I can't just press "A" to respawn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

Note also: “Since the end of atmospheric nuclear testing, background radiation has decreased to very near natural levels,[3] making special low-background steel no longer necessary for most radiation-sensitive applications, as brand-new steel now has a low enough radioactive signature that it can generally be used in such applications.”
For a factory on site, see HadrianX, a large robot that builds houses.
I believe the position is actually that even more would be dying if we let the animals populations decline too much.
Wait Before You Sync
Not rubbish chatbots anyway that just spit out knowledgebase links.

Something more empowered and smart could be good I think
”Download” does not mean what you think it does here, it’s a tag that means the file mentioned, which I’m not sure is available here at all, has download capacities. Click the logo for more info. But sure, that could be the url here.
Sure, but obviously France does not need more workers, given that statistic.
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I definitely agree, but I do think for a lot of subjects schools can provide benefits that are hard or impossible to find on your own, such as access to equipment and facilities, dialogue with peers and teachers, group activities, objective measurements of your progress etc.

Edit: the other commenter's example is a good one - you can certainly study medicine by yourself, but without access to labs, cadavers, and clinical training you'd have a tough time.
> That doesn't appear to have happened

That appears to be exactly what has been happening.

It seems we disagree on this point.
Yeah, it's not a very good proposition right now, but if we have the android platform available for all desktop OS, perhaps companies writing games or other software for the desktop form factor could target android as a universal platform instead of electron. Finally fulfilling Java's promise of write once, run everywhere.

Who knows, maybe we could compile android to web assembly and have android applets on webpages!
Contrary to the headline, Macron didn't blame video games. Macron said that social media encouraged rioters to riot, and that while doing so they felt the rush that they had felt while playing video games.
The US sees about 80 million legal visitors from overseas in an average year, with plenty from various tropical places where malaria is endemic. What about illegal immigration specifically do you wish to highlight as a risk?
I get the temptation of doom porn but progress is progress: there’s no world in which people who could be polluting instead going electric is worse.

I would also look at both the rise of cheap EVs and the size of the ICEs people outside of rich western countries are buying. American SUVs are an outlier caused by heavy subsidies but the cost of buying and operating them is prohibitive in many places, not to mention narrow roads and storage cutting into the appeal. There’s a reason why you see so many cool cars only available outside of the U.S. market and most of them get whole number multiples better mileage than the median American vehicle.
I think the vast majority of people go their entire lives without doing any kind of circuit level repair work. It's just not a skill most folks acquire. I can't think of anyone in my extended family who could replace a capacitor, half of them wouldn't even know what that means.
Gerald Ratner
House prices vary inversely with interest rates. This is by far the biggest influence outside of cities like Sanfrancisco.

Sellers, agents, and banks all want you to pay as much as possible. Want a loan? "What is your monthly income? We'll figure out how much you qualify for." You might be able to resist these forces, but most people can't, and they set the market rates.
A little different stance on the topic:
AI being able to replace these people at their jobs is not because AI has to be better than these people but because most of the people working at call centres or supply chains are extremely bad at what they are supposed to do.
So AI just needs to be at par whatever the industry requires.

Only matters that require a transaction to happen are to be dealt with a little caution.
The WORST is when calling a specific department you in the generic queue and the bot wants a piece of information that you don't have (eg. demanding an ATM card number when you only have an investment account) and hangs up when you don't give to them.
Curiously, the incidence of love not being on time rose dramatically at as well.
What benefit do you hope to gain from an arbitrarily long nonce?

The design I sketched out extended the 96-bit GCM nonce to 224 bits, which is longer than the 192 bits of XSalsa and XChaCha. That's also the maximum that's supported by the algorithms as used.

If we supported arbitrarily longer inputs to AES-CBC-MAC, it's going to get mixed down into an AES block (128 bits long) anyway, so the benefit of arbitrary-length extensions over a 128-bit extension is unclear to me.
I'm curious as to why you use this standalone tool versus a full fledged test suite.

It seems like a browser based approach (like Selenium) would be far more powerful and overall useful in a testing context.
Not Apple PR magic, but true firsthand experience. Objectively, this is the computer that makes me happiest and most productive. It could run on a 6MHz slime mold processor for all I care.
System Requirements: Hardware virtualization must be turned on.

Now that is one ODD of a system requirement.
I didn't do the research and am not the expert, but essentially:

Temperature impacts mosquitos in several ways that change their effectiveness as a vector for disease.

The temperature during egg/pupa/larva stages impacts adult body size and fitness of the mosquito. That in turn tends to impact total lifespan.

A change as small as 2 to 4 degrees C can add or remove more than a week of lifespan for a mosquito (huge change, the average lifespan is 10-14 days), and the longer a mosquito is alive, the more likely it is to become a vector for malaria (and other diseases). For malaria in particular - the life cycle of the disease means the mosquito usually needs to make it at least 10 days to become a vector.

Throw on top that changes in temperature can change the feeding habits (shift them in time to make mosquitos more likely to feed when humans are out) and that parts of the southern US are now considered viable habitat for these subspecies and you get Malaria.

They do still need to interact with an animal/person carrying malaria during their adult stages - and the general strategy in the US is still to contain and treat those carriers.

We just expect it to get much more expensive as these mosquitos become more fit for our region.
First line: “Santa Cruz County has vaulted over the San Francisco area as the most expensive market in the country for renters”
Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
An equally complex product is drastically easier to build now than it was 15 years ago, but expectations since then have risen even more drastically. A product that is competitive in the market is generally harder to build now.
Yes and no. I know nothing about Norway's rail system, but it was the case in the UK that a lot of electrified rail was only partially used because services that ran on both electrified and non-electrified tracks needed to be powered by diesel for the entire journey.

This has got a lot better more recently as we now have hybrid trains that can run on electricity whenever there are overhead lines, and diesel where there aren't. There is talk of replacing diesel engines with batteries so that they can run on electric (and use regenerative braking) even where there are no overhead lines, charging the batteries from the overhead line when available.
https://anonw.com/2023/06/27/what-will-be-the-range-of-a-hit...

There are usually multiple diesel generators on each train, so it's likely that the batteries will only replace some of them - there would still be some diesel power available for emergencies.
The main things people use here are:

G2 & Capterra for software

Clutch & GoodFirms for service providers and vendors
> Five years after deleting my Facebook account I was ready to give in

Because you became weak and caved does not mean the rest of have to give in as well. I have never created an IG account, nor will I be using Threads. I abhor Meta, and will never allow their apps to be installed on my devices. Your cavalier attitude about your data is your business, and my attitude is polar opposite. You coming in and trying to white knight the Threads listing as "nothing to see here, move along" is just this side of being a Meta shill. Some of us still have principles.
Comparison of JavaScript table libraries using Svelte
IsaacHarper.dev
Introduction to Statistical Learning with applications in Python [pdf]
Alternatively, we could build more rail and move the shipping done by heavy trucks to trains. Even in their very reduced current form, and with heavy trucks getting their infrastructure for free, trains are still more economical than heavy trucks, so if we remove those factors then trains become the obvious choice.
Yeah, the only games I have on my phone are S.G. Tatham's puzzle collection, a bunch of games I bought on humble bundle, and a Nintendo DS emulator now that my physical DS stopped working.
This site does not have any downloadable files. This is a demonstration of how you can use preinstalled binaries on a Windows system as a vector to download new files or execute your own scripts/programs ("living off the land"). It's for hackers.
Besides what the others said, they're also good conversation starters.
> Nvidia, as #1, no longer needs to compete and has stopped winning via low cost, high performance GPUs. This opened a giant opportunity for AMD GPUs to give those things to consumers and start winning against Nvidia.

> But instead AMD has just followed Nvidia into making slow, uncompetitive GPUs at high prices.

I am not really sure they could do that. If nvidia cards are cheaper to produce, then for AMD just ordering more cards can end in massive losses short term, and much less profit long term, as customers demand cheaper cards. Nvidia always could lower their prices as the updog, and hurting AMD really bad.

But yes, in retrospective, knowing that the demand for GPUs would remain ridiculously high for years, the best move for AMD was ordering and producing much much more cards. As the best move for us customers were jumping into crypto. (Not necessarily the best strategy.)
The Ultra-Pure, Super-Secret Sand That Makes Your Phone Possible (2018)
This is good writing. Highlights a very important concept in very few words. I am thankful for the reminder.
I'd be curious to see examples of very tastefully concealed / unobtrusive / or well integrated access panels.

(Asking for myself, because I agree with both of you - I hate having to open my lathe and plaster walls, but I also don't relish the idea of blatant access panels).

Maybe 8"x8" panels with electrical receptacles and data ports integrated so they're also functional...
Right. You contact a human because you want a guarded administrative action to be taken.

For all the impressiveness of these chat bots, I think people are still skeptical and hesitant to give it levers that are actually connected to things.

It's hard to hold a computer program accountable in any nuanced way when it starts misbehaving other than kicking it to the curb
Nobody is going to spend the time to devise custom fishing attacks for individual websites.

GPT prompt: "As a phishing attacker, find me websites where users have written about their school, their mother's maiden name, and where they currently work."

GPT has access to Bing, and it's a really nice interface to unstructured data...
My peer texted me his personal blog that is an xyz domain three separate times. Finally, he got frustrated and asked why I was ignoring his article he wrote that he was really proud of and was only responding to his other texts. It turns out T-Mobile blocks xyz domains outright over sms, which led to our awkward moment. We had a good laugh about it, but it made me realize that xyz domains are not reliable for even a personal blog (and also reaffirmed sms is a very poor medium for text communication).
Why's this on the front page? As far as I can see (from the abstract), they found a small beneficial effect on cardio events, and no effect on strokes. It's almost a null result.
Reading this: https://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/telemetry-should-you-all... I've stumbled on this:

> Optional telemetry, of course, but again - this creates a selective and unpredictable reality. Ordinary people don't care either way, and nerds will always make deliberate choices that often have nothing to do with product or profit or anything else entirely.

So, by that logic, users who opt out of telemetry are aware of why they are doing it. People who don't care share their chaotic usage patterns. This creates a false picture of usage reality, and makes software worse. In conclusion, there are only two remaining choices:
1. Make telemetry non-optional
2. Ditch telemetry and rely on QA studies
Positive habit forming is incredibly hard to do. Negative habit forming is easy. Being “aware” of this fact is not enough to prevent bad habit forming.
or they're just being honest, it was a nicely written piece and no one knows everything

educators are garbage because they don't work empirically, they experiment on kids and the experiments have been failing since the 60s, causing mass amounts of fatherlessness but none of them are even willing to see themselves as the issue because no snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
The startup boom was taking advantage of vulnerable companies that had simple operations, but were severely lacking behind in technology. For example, Uber when taxis were still largely cash only and had no apps. Construction is highly technical, complex work.
Friction. Mastodon has a lot of it, and Threads has almost none.

Also Mastodon did attract many technical users who stayed on it. Twitter's death was always going to be death by thousands of papercuts. But Threads is a legit knife to the heart.

As a closed-source centralized platform they can innovate quickly and address user concerns, something Mastodon can't do.
What's stopping you learning about philosophy now? Do you not have time, not know where to start, or just don't have the motivation any more?
Exactly. It does not affect me directly. I do not have private debt.

The public debt is the fact that someone decided that you will pay for something and get in debt through taxes. Out of control and totally unfair.
Why learn when ChatGPT has all the answers?
It honestly feels weird to hear people talk in generalities about “regulation” and “innovation” in the wake of the whole Titan submersible thing. Like, didn’t we just have an object lesson in why certain industries need to be more tightly regulated than others?

I would not want to live in a house whose builders took an “innovative” approach to dealing with “regulation”. Building codes are often written in blood.
Charger outages leave northern Ontario EV drivers stranded
If HTML were specifically about structure instead of presentation, stuff like line-height or text-transform (which carry an obvious semantic value) would've been tags rather than CSS properties.

HTML+CSS(+SVG+JS+Web Workers+etc...) is not a formally correct framework, and personally I can appreciate what Tailwind can achieve even if strays a bit further from an ideal approach.
Homebrew is one of those tools that actually makes MacOS a decent Unix workstation for engineering (often, it feels like in spite of Apple). Without brew, MacOS would not be an OS I would even consider for my personal machines -- but I really enjoy MacOS now that it's on the M1/M2.

Although, admittedly, I use Nix-Darwin to manage my Homebrew apps.

Thanks for your contributions to Homebrew :)
Tangible is one that is focusing on reducing the carbon impact of the construction industry by making information more widely available

https://tangiblematerials.com/
I wonder how our society would look like if instead of importing a cheap workforce, we'd raise the minimum wage to a point where the shitty jobs would be paid enough for them to feel respectable. You know, like in a healthy capitalistic society of supply and demand. Instead we're manipulating the workforce supply for the sole benefit of the employers.

And now we're talking about video games. Sigh.
>> Would the world be better off if Norway drilled no oil and ran its energy like everyone else?

> Yes, because the price of oil would go up and there'd be more incentive to reduce oil consumption

That's a pretty over-simplistic analysis of "better off." By that logic, I could make us "better off" by bombing all the oil infrastructure, causing the price to go up even more, meanwhile hundreds of millions or more die because the modern economy and trade links collapse.

That's an extreme example to prove a point: it's pretty important to consider what else would happen.
No it was a demand shock that caused demand to plummet meaning storage facilities were still full as futures created before the demand shift expired. Basically people bought futures expecting to have capacity to take delivery but then realized they wouldn’t.
Remember the time Meta broke their network so badly they locked themselves out of the building? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
This is cool, but immediately makes me wonder if blocks are the optimal material for this type of installation. Naturally that’s where you’d start because it’s what is commonly used

But pretty quickly you could pivot to better “blocks” that interlock or align automatically and need less (or no) mortar. Then you’d be really flying along
There's Icon, building "3-D printed" houses: https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2023-3d-printed-houses-au...
I assumed this was a “social media of the future should focus on self hosted websites owned by the people themselves” angle. But it’s just to archive things for your ancestors
You'll love this: https://structuretech.com/new-construction-home-inspections-...

Yes, part FIVE.
They're descriptive, not prescriptive. Like journaling. Like "writing to understand" (oneself). Andreas benefits from the process itself. If other's appreciate it, woot. If not, just move on.

I personally find Andreas's efforts comforting.

Whereas I eschew the majority of our culture's prescriptive self-help BS. Just one sincere, yet still excretable, example is Mark Manson's middle brow rehash of philosophy; I get more from reading the OCs like Zeno and Epicurus.
> Best I can find is about 17% of GDP in Norway is from Oil and Gas. While that per capita number is high, it's not Saudi Arabia levels.

Per capita doesn't mean % of GDP though. It means relative to the population.

Norway exports like $50B / yr of petroleum (and another $120B of natural gas). Saudi Arabia exports like $170B / yr of petroleum.

Saudi Arabia population is like 7x larger, so per Capita oil and gas is larger in Norway even if you subtract out all the natural gas.
Has online whos been using Evernote as a bit of a paperless office (receipts, scanned docs etc) successfully switched across to Paperless-ngx [1]. Interested in if there’s an easy way to export from Evernote into paperless.

1. https://docs.paperless-ngx.com/
So take Viagra?
> Malaria was endemic in the US south

And is why the CDC is in Atlanta.
There was a time when Facebook almost became decentralized, long long ago. It is promising to see this line of thought repeat with Threads. My only hesitancy is how the product will evolve, but the saying always goes “you don’t mess with the Zuck”.
The challenge is that Vitamin D is the new egg debate. i.e. eggs are good for you, eggs are bad for you.

Many Vitamin D studies like this one talk about major events (i.e. things associated with sudden death), less so about the symptoms of cardiovascular health.

Other studies talking about cancer will say similar that higher Vitamin D is found in certain cancers or the opposite effect in other cancers.

Definition of a controversial topic.
Ask HN: How would you restart your software engineering career if you could?
If you had the time/resources/money (whatever) to reboot your journey in tech, how would you go about it?

Is there anything that you think that if you do this time, you would be better than what you are right now?

I'll start
a. I would tinker more. I am horrible at it.
b. I would probably start as a sys admin. I think sys admins or devops or infrastructure or platform engineering or whatever it is, is really interesting and has high impact in any organisation.
Which regulation?

They gave up on climate change when they decided to invest in nuclear energy. They prioritized nuclear power over removal of coal. If the whole world takes this viewpoint we will decarbonize in a few centuries.

The French plants were designed to run for 30 years, their replacement was supposed to be the EPR and the construction on Flamanville started almost 20 years ago. The program has been a colossal failure.

The problem is you don't know anything.
> So, you need an explicit policy plan and how to implement it

Yes? That's how things work everywhere in the world.

I'd like $50 billion and the biggest yacht in the world, I don't plan on doing anything to get either of those things, so magically, they will appear to me as soon as I walk out the door in 20 minutes.

> but you can take one cherry picked example from Baltimore to justify turning the US into a Taliban style theocracy?

I don't think I addressed religion once until just now, so this is coming out of left field to say the least. But since you want to be hyperbolic about things I never said, I'll imagine your ideas are no more than theft and money laundering.

I suppose that's the end of this discussion.