skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, all those RO systems run the water through an enormous amount of plastic, and store the filtered water in a rubber bladder.

When looking into this previously my decision was to avoid introducing yet another potential source of contamination.
> replace you with an AI system

Or a couple of Excel macros.
I don't think people here have a good sense of what a low cost of living really means. I was still an Army officer in my early 30s and still fairly junior. Made more than 80k, but not a ton more, and it isn't totally comparable, especially with completely free healthcare, but we lived like kings. My first house was on nearly a quarter acre, four beds, three baths, three-car garage, historic trees, in a very quiet neighborhood, no crime, and the purchase price was $120,000. Not only could I easily raise kids, but much lower paid enlisted personnel still raised kids, too. That was only 2010. Housing costs have certainly gone up since then, but nowhere near the ridiculous costs on the coasts. My wife's sister just bought a townhouse in Queens that is finally big enough for their kids, and it's not any bigger than my first house, and they paid $2.5 million. You just can't compare what counts as a livable salary when some places cost 10 times as much for similar housing. And the fact that they're even in Queens at all is because they can't afford Manhattan. I'm not even sure it truly is comparable since the places there don't have garages. Her last place they had to buy a parking spot separately, for only one car, for an additional $60,000. That's half the price of my first house to park one car.
Sure! Can you send me a note to andrei@fogbender.com and we’ll take it from there?
Not only can you not beat Django's modeling in Python, but I simply cannot find an in-kind solution in JS either. Nothing covers all of the bases the way Django does, or more specifically DRF/graphene-django.

The current state of the art is apparently Prisma, but it covers only a small part of the full picture.
Yes:

const std = @import("std");
const expectEqual = std.testing.expectEqual;

test "u4 is 1 byte" {
try expectEqual(1, @sizeOf(u4));
}

test "u4 is 4 bits" {
try expectEqual(4, @bitSizeOf(u4));
}

test "u4 is 1-byte-aligned" {
try expectEqual(1, @alignOf(u4));
}

test "pointers to u4 work like any other pointer type" {
var foo: u4 = 10;
const foo_p = &foo;
try expectEqual(@as(u4, 10), foo_p.*);
foo_p.* = 7;
try expectEqual(@as(u4, 7), foo);
}

Packed structs are Zig's replacement for bit fields:

const std = @import("std");
const expectEqual = std.testing.expectEqual;

test "bool has a bit size of 1 bit, a size of 1 byte, and an alignment of 1 byte" {
try expectEqual(1, @bitSizeOf(bool));
try expectEqual(1, @sizeOf(bool));
try expectEqual(1, @alignOf(bool));
}

test "in a regular struct, fields are aligned to their natural alignment..." {
const Natural = struct {
read: bool,
write: bool,
exec: bool,
};
try expectEqual(3, @sizeOf(Natural));
try expectEqual(1, @alignOf(Natural));
}

test "...unless otherwise specified" {
const TwoByteAligned = struct {
read: bool align(2),
write: bool align(2),
exec: bool align(2),
};
try expectEqual(6, @sizeOf(TwoByteAligned));
try expectEqual(2, @alignOf(TwoByteAligned));
}

test "in a packed struct, fields occupy exactly their bit size" {
const Packed = packed struct {
read: bool,
write: bool,
exec: bool,
};
try expectEqual(3, @bitSizeOf(Packed));
try expectEqual(1, @sizeOf(Packed));
try expectEqual(1, @alignOf(Packed));
}
The goal of the law is to let someone connect a hose to the fire hydrant right? Well even with a car parked in that spot, there is still multiple yards of spare space to connect a hose...

The whole thing smells of someone sticking to the letter not the spirit of the law.
> What we need is effective regulation, not bureaucratic us-versus-them regulation.

That's easy to say and everyone would agree we need "effective" regulation, but I think the profit-driven corporations that continue to pollute and use a portion of their profits to pay lobbyists and influence public discourse in order to discourage regulation will always take a "us-versus-them" approach.
It's not an opinion because IMO you need a why for an opinion. There's an implicit why most of the time. But Facebook supporting marketing because they make more money with marketing can be a verified fact - there's no opinion element in it and I don't think Facebook supporting marketing by itself is an opinion.

If you like rain because it waters your garden I'd hesitate to call that opinion because you have a factual reason.

If you like rain because it sounds pleasant that's an opinion.

If you like rain because it restores your chi it's (probably) an opinion.

I say governments and corporations can't have opinions for lots of reasons. One of them being they're not people, others that follow from that, like you need thoughts or feelings to have an opinion.

It just doesn't sit right with me having faceless entities publishing opinions because by definition opinions aren't based on facts and we have enough of a problem with regular people spreading misinformation.
Was about to comment the same thing. Constantly consuming solids and liquids from other places that contain all sorts of minerals, I highly doubt I'll be depleted because of my RO system.

More of a concern to me is that it's almost certain that PFAs etc are contaminating those other sources of food.
I think it does. I remember that some of my more common search results changed to include children's content after I went on a lazytown binge out of nostalgia
Also, there’s the recurrent cycle of AI Summer and Winter. Each time, someone figures out a new piece of the AI puzzle, we get new tools that are useful but don’t deliver on the big hype, AI funding drops as we run out of ways to skin the new cat, we’re left with some useful tools that the world acclimates to until the cycle repeats.

Maybe the massive growth in computing resources speed up the seasons now, or have prolonged this one, but I don’t think we’re on the exponential part of the curve to AGI yet.
Right, exactly.

Like I understand the appeal of model building but Lego models aren’t very good models & look like ass compared to (often a lot cheaper) model kits.
yes, s-expressions are a win (that's why i love them) but i don't see the xml structure that way. for me the tags themselves are very elaborate opening and closing markers. that's simply how i perceive it. if a closing tag is missing when there should be one, the structure looks broken to me.

the example s-expression matches that structure and i perceive it as the same because the first element in any list has a special meaning (in lisp itself it is the function name, while the rest are arguments)

to replicate the html5 structure in the top comment without closing tags as s-expressions i would come up with something different:

(table
(tr)
(td) one
(td) two
(td) three
(tr)
(td) another table
(td) with more stuff)
If you live in a location where it doesn't rain much, get an RO filter and boil the water you drink.
They certainly can speak freely and any number of channels will pick up their statements and carry them without much critique.

But their right to free speech ends when they start to hurt citizens' rights to express themselves.
You can work and go to school at the same time.
Their web app is not there. I think you can directly link to a Thread but it only shows what you linked to, not even the discussion tree or anything like that.

Its not open to the web yet. Supposedly, it will be
Even better, lets triple the work and require UML diagrams, comments, and code to all be in sync at all times!
https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinder
Reminds me of a study. It showed, that swearing enables you to tolerate pain better. It was simple. Two groups, both had to put their hands into ice water. The group that was allowed to swear could do it longer.

I'd hypothesize, that programmers, who actually care about quality, swear more.

Individuals with AD(H)D might have a have a lower tolerance to pain. This, coupled with wide open sensual channels and decreased impulse control, might be a contributing factor.

[Edit] added parenthesis and link

Not correlated to swearing, but AD(H)D:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdT4DIiX7Nk
I won't eat octopi anymore. They're just too smart. I've seen examples in person.

"You're posting too fast. Please slow down. Thanks."

OK. We've all tolerated this abuse for years now, and there's no excuse for it to continue. If we can't post, THE REPLY BUTTON SHOULD BE DISABLED. It's inexcusably rude to insult users by deliberately STEALING FROM THEM. Wasting our time is STEALING. Nobody should get a free pass on that. Ever. KNOCK IT OFF.
I wonder if this is related (in a very large scale sense) to the sand pile model and self organized criticality...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized_criticality

The sand pile model: if one builds a pile of sand, dropping onto it a small number of grains at a time, individual grains will slide down the slope - but there's a critical angle at which any additional grains can trigger a catastrophic avalanche.

https://nautil.us/the-math-of-the-amazing-sandpile-238320/
Why is it placed so close to the road and also directly facing it? As a first step, maybe they could try turning it 90 or 180 degrees and see if that helps increasing accessiblity.
You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words.

how dare you ?
I just meant that processed foods aren't as likely to remove the husk as when people cook with flour themselves. I don't really disagree about the cow stuff, although they don't live long enough before slaughter to encounter the late digestive issues that humans are getting.

My real point was just that GMOs were advertised as decreasing the cost of feeding the world. What that meant in practice was reducing the cost of grain for livestock, since it takes 4.5-7.5 pounds of feed to make 1 pound of beef, so reducing that cost takes priority. Then those GMO crops, not meant for human consumption, cross-contaminated the crops we eat.
Glad to hear charcoal works. Picked up a Berkey filter years ago because a family member was insistent.
The govt should be able to sue the company for more than it’s worth and simply nationalize it if it wins. Think of it as a death penalty for corporations.
Pay walls have been around longer than facebook
>It is often used as an example because it is the prime example of the beginning of The Enlightenment, also known as The Age of Reason, the triumph of reason and evidence over dogma, which gave rise to modernity.

But is this reality or just a nice narrative people like to bring up as a "all experts are wrong" dog whistle?

The Galileo thing was about politics, not religion. The pope (who was a good friend of his) gave him permission to write and publish the book, and then Galileo used an exact quote from that friend as a line from a character called "Simplicio" and it turns out spitting in your friend's face when the rest of the elites already hate you is a great way to be censured in a time before "knowledge is power".

It also wasn't scientific.
I'm surprised this is still a thing. I suppose this is associated with "toxic masculinity" which is frowned upon nowadays. I'm always a bit worried that I forget to edit my swearing and that it goes to code review.
https://tcrf.net/ — it’s cool to get a window into the creative process
AMD Begins Sending “Family 26” Linux Patches for Apparent Zen 5 CPUs
The Linux Experiment has Linux/Open Source News. The videos are already listenable without video but he also publishes a longer version of his Videos as a Podcast on Spotify.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UAwBUum7CPN5buc-_N1Fw

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3AZjRagzOkDX55Ftk8meuZ
I use Joplin and it... it basically works! Bit ugly at times but I really enjoy having a thing that works on my computers and my phone. Sometimes I end up in Drafts instead on iOS because of how Drafts is really "just open and go", but even then I'll copy-paste it later.

Joplin is great at being a place to put a lot of ... simple rich text documents in a random manner, and have access to them. Wordpad with sync, and it does its job.
https://ghostarchive.org/archive/CwjnI
#5 Hey stop talking and start buying things. Internet not supposed to make only some money. Internet supposed to make all money. It’s the rules.

https://catvalente.substack.com/p/stop-talking-to-each-other...

Better than #4 of the garbagetown list of social media trajectory.
Love Joplin's FOSS nature and extensibility.
In my workflow, I have set it up to accept transcribed speech notes and to-dos.
https://github.com/QuantiusBenignus/NoteWhispers
I love following instructions. It's so relaxing for me to just follow without having to figure anything out. Building my own stuff with Lego would be a completely different thing and I never enjoyed that, probably because I'm not very good at it.
> PRIVATE COMPANIES are doing 75%+ of the tracking

My family recently went to an amusement park.

As we drove in, I saw what looked like a license plate reader camera on the inbound gate to the parking.

On the way out, we pull up to pay at the automated gate kiosk and my wife says: "Oh wow! How did they know how long we've been here??"

I answered: "Because they scanned our plate on the way in and now when we pulled into the exit gate"

Part of me thought this was cool (automation!), part of me thought "well, there is no expectation of privacy since we are in public" and part of me thought "this is very big brother but done by private companies"
So your fine with a foreign power using bullying tactics to silence your fellow citizens, undermining thier right to free speech?

Because that's what you're actually arguing for.... And if you still support that position despite being informed of this fact, then I have to question exactly who You are working for....
> A large portion of the money collected should go to a department whose goal is to find further ways to discourage the problematic behaviour. Paint the curb bright red, for starters.

That would still not really align incentives. If a particular action (parking next to a fire hydrant) produced revenue for that department, they will be financially incentivized to encourage more of that action, not less of it.

If the government somehow lost money rather than gained money when someone did something naughty, then maybe they'd work to try to reduce that naughty behavior.
FYI: charcoal filters can introduce arsenic and also appear to increase the bacteria in the filtered water.
Just because you perform the rituals of democracy doesn't mean you get democracy.

If voting doesn't result in representation, then the act of voting is just a ritual and not an exertion of political power.

You're saying because we performed a ritual around judges, we should be getting the result we want, or judges that represent America at large.

You're so focused on rituals you are missing the bigger picture.

That is cargo cult democracy.

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

> In the South Seas there is a cargo cult of people. During the war they saw airplanes land with lots of good materials, and they want the same thing to happen now. So they've arranged to imitate things like runways, to put fires along the sides of the runways, to make a wooden hut for a man to sit in, with two wooden pieces on his head like headphones and bars of bamboo sticking out like antennas—he's the controller—and they wait for the airplanes to land. They're doing everything right. The form is perfect. It looks exactly the way it looked before. But it doesn't work. No airplanes land. So I call these things cargo cult science, because they follow all the apparent precepts and forms of scientific investigation, but they're missing something essential, because the planes don't land.
I didn’t. That’s my point. Kits were rare (usually just suggestions with a slight subset of blocks) and most “sets” were 100s of pieces & so infinite options to build.

Now that’s still available but VERY much tertiary.
Sorry, but how do I use XQuery with HTML5? How do I use all my generic XML tools with HTML5? I'm sure equivalents exist, but why learn them just so I can drop a few tags? Can't even use xmlindent if I do that to prettify it. If I need to embed HTML inside an XML document it's easier if it's XHTML than HTML5. It's much more convenient for most roles if HTML fits within existing XML flows. The only benefit of HTML5 is for those manually authoring them.
The judiciary branch is separate from the legislative branch and I was under the impression we were discussing the legislative branch of government.
The testing is probably already done for you!

https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/
Elected officials set policies. Government employees implement those broad policies into action. You can change the policies your representative is pushing by changing the representative. I'm a little unclear on where exactly the FBI director falls (because he's appointed to his job with the advice and consent of the Senate, which makes a difference for these things, maybe). A FBI field office head chanting "locker up" in a press conference would be violation though, yes.
I think you misunderstand what I'm saying.

The spirit of free speech is to protect saying things that are either unpopular or inconvenient to the powerful. Speech that is popular or convenient to the powerful needs no such protection! Even in the most repressive states you can still praise the party or the dear leader.

The truths that we need free speech to find are not the congenial truths, but the inconvenient ones.
The $1B and Higher Ante to Play the AI Game
>We can try something, even if it doesn't work, we can still try it.

At a national policy level, trying something that doesn't work can have terrible and long-lasting consequences.
I sincerely hope this ends in CEO single combat.
LOL. Copernicus & Galileo didn't "doubt" the geocentric model, they provided scientific evidence that it was incorrect. You see how that's different, right?

"I'm not trying to question climate change, I'm just wondering if this overwhelming scientific evidence might somehow be wrong, despite any evidence to the contrary ... and I'm just as brave as Galileo for questioning established orthodoxy, too!".

Sure, buddy. Tell me all about it.
I like model building. But Lego models are not very good models
https://www.ieso.ca/en/Learn/Ontario-Electricity-Grid/Supply...

Look at output.
What are you talking about? You can ban the sale of products containing PFAS, not just their local manufacture.

If you wanted, you could levy fines like 5-10% of gross annual revenue for any company or marketplace or retailer found distributing product containing PFAS.

You don't have to agree it's feasible or worth it, but it's possible.
> Walkie-talky voice communication

In Brazil there's been a fairly sophisticated scheme based on that. It proceeded more or less as follows:

1) the "service provider" hired some highly specialized "candidates" who would enroll for the exam and take it

2) these fake-candidates would then quickly solve the questions, focusing only the few subject matters they were specialized in. One is usually not allowed to leave the exam room carrying the printed materials, unless they accept to wait for a specified amount of time (1 hour before the final time or so, IIRC). But these guys were able to memorize the answers and, then, simply left.

3) after leaving the room, the fake-candidates would meet a team in a car nearby. They had a radio transmitter there, and started to broadcast the answers.

4) the cheaters who hired the "service" would carry a radio receiver with a tiny earpiece implanted under their skins. They would then listen to the answers and write them down

I don't remember how did they find that out. I believe it happened when an exam proctor suspected about a candidate answering the questions too quickly.
I remember my first trip to Germany, would pick up off the shelf supermarket bread, white, wheat, whatever. It was great. Especially pretzels. I ate so much bread, and was surprised at how much regularly I was still pooping. I'm not even going to touch on local bakeries, because that shit was fucking fantastic.

But in the U.S, we're forced to be the slaves of Metamucil to poop. Eat white bread here and you basically have cotton stuck up your ass. Good luck.
> If the Bible can be wrong about the nature of the universe (as the Church was wrong about heliocentricism during Galileo's time), then surely it can be wrong about any number of issues.

“The Bible can be wrong about any number of issues, just not, when understood properly, about faith and morals” is a not-uncommon Christian position.

That it is simple, self-contained, ibtended literally, and correct on every factual detail is... a rather novel opinion.
If private companies profited from these chemicals (after knowing they were dangerous and likely to get into the water supply) they should pay back some of their profits.

Doubt we'd be able to prove it even if true.
Aha - feels like that ZX Spectrum game "Dictator", by Don Priestley.

(less like Jones in the Fast Lane)
I wonder how much money the economy in Algeria loses due to the lack of internet during this time period
> Correlation is not causality.

I'm fond of pointing out, despite every time I get downvoted, that causation is the thing we have no knowledge of, and therefore correlation is all we have. As Feynman said about gravity, there is no how or why to gravity, as far as we know it's simply a property of matter. But of course, that means we only know that because of the perfect correlation between matter and gravity, including every time we conduct an experiment about it; but still we have no cause to point to.
Great game (and sequels) but it wasn't released in Europe for example. Nintendo always did these strange business moves that made no sense yet they always prevailed. For example they had everything needed to connect DS and Wii - never did. Online shop? Dead for years, etc.
Why don't you just say you were offered it and preferred not to?
Cardano F10 – Bring ADA into real-world commerce SDK
What are your thoughts on incorporating Cardano Ecosystem into real-world commerce? - A call for community input on this decision.
Hmm, that could be. It happens with different prompts when the number of input tokens is over a certain length.

Fascinating how hard these kind of issues are to debug.
Once had? Go tell that to an Orthodox Jew, or you know, go read what they actually believe. There is no Jewish faith, to my knowledge, that ever had multiple gods.

You're referring to Yahwism, which is a name and concept given by secular scholars trying to understand the origins of Judaism, but no such religion in-and-of-itself ever existed.

It would be like national historians grouping the histories of Canada, The United States of America, and Mexico into some sort of "Peoples of Northern America" nation, which does not exist.
It sounds like you should watch The Lego Movie (:
Ultimate plumber can do this.

https://github.com/akavel/up
Fastmail without 1Password but with maskedmail-cli...

[1] https://github.com/dvcrn/maskedemail-cli

[2] https://christiantietze.de/posts/2023/04/create-fastmail-mas...
Give me the ability to set sliders to filter accounts and replies based on metrics like the number of their followers vs the number of people who have blocked them, and the number of their posts vs the number of their upvotes -- things that help me find the good stuff, and make it possible for me to access the "wisdom of the crowd" -- and I'd pay $20/mo.
The x-axis is size of trade, and the y-axis is % of trades at a specific size. ExRates had _many_ large trades, which shows up as a significantly different distribution than other exchanges like Coinbase/Bitstamp/Kraken (which had many small trades, and a long tail of larger size trades). See slide 42-44 here: https://www.sec.gov/comments/sr-nysearca-2019-01/srnysearca2...
And this is precisely how language policing slows down technical progress.