skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
…someone might believe it enough to kill themselves or others.

Absolutism helps no one, and you already rely in the government to protect you in a number of “authoritarian” ways, so it’s not like you have a moral opposition to the idea.
I appreciate clean emissions, but I’m skeptical this will happen in 13 years time. Are there similarly ambitious programs that have worked in CA’s past?
I honestly don't know how/why. https://www.nbcnews.com/better/health/why-walking-most-under... is one of the first search results in "benefits of walking vs gym" and there is no shortage there.

It could be as simple as you are less likely to indulge in a treat after a walk?
I would add that significant portion of the remaining budget is spent on defense, which is a classic economic public good utilized by every citizen.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9150228/

> With puberty blockers and in adults treated with GAHT, unintended systemic biological changes may occur which may increase the risk of chronic diseases, such as osteoporosis. Sex hormones are well known in playing a crucial role in bone acquisition at puberty, 6 and in adulthood, it regulates bone homeostasis.7–9 Therefore, hormone treatments (puberty blockers and GAHT) can affect bone health both in adolescents who undergo puberty suspension and in transgender adults.
Will you ever graduate kindergarten?
nbstripout[0] does that and installs a pre-commit hook

[0] -- https://github.com/kynan/nbstripout
The judge notes the two parties had demonstrated a long history of executing contracts and doing business together in this manner, which he used as a basis to find "consensus ad idem" (a meeting of the minds).

This is novel and the lack of traditional formality may seem a bit scary. But compared to all the sleazy browsewrap and clickwrap Terms of Use pages out there on websites which have some degree of jurisprudence to support them, it's downright incandescent in clarity (especially the ones that bury their copy-pasted terms on an ancillary page).
People are welcome to post their own stuff as long as it's part of a mix of unrelated/interesting submissions. What gets accounts "super deranked" is when they only post their own stuff or use HN primarily for promotion (this is in the site guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html). Your account hasn't been doing that at all, so you're fine, and certainly welcome to post your articles if you want to.

Edit: I sent you repost invites for https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36211059 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35881175, both of which are great HN submissions. If you use them, the reposts will go in HN's second-chance pool, so they'll get a random placement on the front page. If you don't want to be bothered in this way, please say so and we won't do it again!
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My kids aren’t top students at all. They both have learning disabilities. My son is highly sports oriented, my daughter is very musical. They both have trouble with traditional subjects.

They both got “B”s in public school, despite their standardized tests showing them in the 15-20th percentile.

They both struggled with their knowledge deficit transitioning into the private school.

They are doing very well now. Not straight A’s, but they are learning what they need to learn and flourishing as people.

I have seen this repeated for many other families. A lot of public schools are simply awful.
Chat bots are the same as the support forms that suggest articles.

Ergo useless.

If I've arrived at your support form it already means I've done everything your articles say they do.

Yes the modem is plugged in.

Yes I've rebooted it.

Yes the cable is good.

Yes the house's electricity is on.

No you didn't report an outage.

files claim.

2 days later they replace a piece of cable 2 neighbors down and things work again.

...
And yet, Lupron has been used since the 1970's to treat precocious puberty and every single ban on using it for gender affirming care still allows it to be administered for that purpose. Medical associations also approve its use, in both cases.

When the people against it are only against it for one group of people, and doctors by and large disagree with them, it makes me suspicious that their motives are not based in concern for health and instead are based on personal feelings that are being projected onto an external cause.
Mercedes-Benz to implement NACS in 2025
I could believe that wire nuts for regular size wires (say, 12 awg) have a pretty good reliability record -- only after they've been twisted together by an experienced electrician and then capped, there is great wire contact and physical strength. I've occasionally had a wire slip from a Wago when I do a test pull.

But I'm with you, I'm happy with Wago. When I'm doing the work myself, that's what I use. Though I do use wire nuts for my big wire connections (6 awg). They probably don't even have lever nuts for that size, but I didn't look.
I know someone, personally, who has suffered from these treatments and now regrets having ever taken them.
That we can run a simulation of an organism that looks and acts like the real thing evokes a rare sense of wonder I thought I could never again experience from technology.
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Marketing says we'll make a fortune with ads on a big screen! Plus we can upsell related products and charging packages!
Fairphone’s repairable smartphone goes on sale in US for first time
Go Elon!
Bull fucking shit. The only fantasy land here is the one where we can’t build because it’s just too hard. Cities densifying is literally what cities have been doing for thousands of years now. It’s not impossible, and it’s not even hard. Yes, you have to invest in sewers, electrical infrastructure, schools, etc. but that is not hard either. We literally do it all the fucking time. Was Manhattan master planned for 3 million people back when it was New Amsterdam? No fucking way. Current system can’t be expanded? Build a new one. JFC, this isn’t rocket science.
Not a solution but FWIW, in my time working at Apple, they encouraged you to log in to work devices with your personal ID (with the expectation you don't allow files to sync). There were some people who kept them apart, but the overwhelming majority just used their personal with no issues. Personally I made a new one, but at the time it was my first Apple device so wasn't really a decision.
Insanity. Shouldn’t we first prove that we can actually produce electric shipping trucks?
Good insights but one thing I would point out is that your experience with Cruise may not translate directly to all self-driving cars in the world. Or to the next version of Cruise three months from now.
Yeah - the whole "sudo" category just seems superfluous since the issue is with sudo, not with the individual tools.

OTOH, if people are expecting literally every program to open file handles / network sockets, then drop privileges to something else, that's a weird expectation.

I'm in the no sudo camp myself.
I just starred this on Github. So it was fresh in my memory https://github.com/imgly/background-removal-js
Or that population studies are not individual studies.

Vitamin D 100% cures a vitamin D deficiency. And Vitamin D deficiency 100% causes disease.

This study was only looking at how vitamin D supplementation affected a large swath of people, both those deficiency and those replete. So why is everyone surprised the results ar inconclusive?
A randomized trial would probably violate all manner of ethics rules, and be vociferously opposed by parents, at least those who care about their kids' education, and thus we'd fall back to the same self-selection problem the author highlights.
>A solution I've had in mind is libraries running decades-long hosting services attached to member cards.

Well, its not quiet a library but definitively running since decades: sdf.org
Why such a needlessly pessimistic view? I think this "paint drip" imagery is a cute way to describe the characteristics of success described therein.
Not just that they should be working, but they should only be exposed to their parents' social circle. There should be no opportunity for children to meet people from different social backgrounds.
> They are forced to "show strength" and "not complain"

I wonder about this. Sometimes I think that is the job of a CEO: to put on a good face and keep and maintain “The Plan Is Gonna Work” vibes.

Every CEO I’ve worked under—no matter how compassionate they were on a personal level—has had a policy of absolutely crushing voices of dissent. Maybe not immediately, but within a couple quarters. At least when the dissent was regarding things that the CEO felt were not something they could address on the current roadmap.

I’ve come to appreciate that this attitude may be necessary… that companies (with headcounts in the 50-500 range at least) cannot afford to have some of their people pulling in a different direction than their roadmap. And that people who will do that must be excised.

But your comment makes me wonder… is that the only way? I think maybe a company like Valve lets their employees pull in different directions, and also then just allows them to be starved of resources. Which maybe is effectively the same? Or maybe is an innovation on the standard CEO model?
If that's the worst example you can come up with of "big whoops" and "no doubt [will happen]" - 70 years old and no actual cancer cases, with the advent of PCR fixing the root issue - I think we're probably gonna be OK.

> Population level studies show no evidence of any increase in cancer incidence as a result of exposure, though SV40 has been extensively studied. A thirty-five year followup found no excess of the cancers commonly associated with SV40.
That was might first thought as well but "diode" might make people think about polarity.

I would rather describe it as unidirectional valve for microwaves instead.
Threaded connections are just another point of failure.
> even fine-tuning using AI causes the models to quickly degrade

Really? My recent reading[0, 1] suggests AI training with AI-generated content provides excellent results, but happy to see some counter examples

0: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.07759

1: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
Important cultural difference that the study failed to highlight.

You'd probably see a similar <15% success rate if you used a WeChat QR code for contact in the West. People might scan the code, but stop once they realize it's an unfamiliar platform that they don't have an account for.
First reaction: Baloney - no mention of race, some previous French civil unrest has very much been white-on-white over economic issues, etc., etc.

Second reaction: Well, we are talking about France. Where suspecting that ethnic or racial divisions are possible is verboten, and the government's policy can be summarized "Napoleon and his armies fought hard to make the Nile a river in France, dammit!". ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_campaign_in_Egypt_and_S... )
The problem with the assimilation theory is that it only works in extremely small numbers.

As can be seen in every country in the world, as soon as you have more than a handful of immigrants coming in at once, they form enclaves and resist assimilation - indeed, it’s usually only their children or their grandchildren that do thanks to the influence of school and interaction with their peers.
Set up a whole virtual economy, with AI agents paying rent, having jobs, inventing goods to sell and deciding whether to buy. Fast forward 100 years and see what happens.
Does it actually use a blockchain? Interesting. I would have thought a centralized database would be more efficient. What benefit does a blockchain provide here?
I’d be concerned that something like that needs user feedback to do a really good job. When I try to do that with photoshop it is never quite right the first time though maybe the new A.I. models can do better.
It's a decent autocomplete.

That's about the extent of it.
right! and, to build on that: people who see programming as maths understand it fundamentally differently than those who see it as prose, they approach every aspect of programming differently, evaluate "quality" on entirely different metrics, etc.

in my experience, this is a major source of friction in programming teams, and deserves to be addressed more directly -- if i had it my way, i'd prefer that those who see programming as prose would be disabused of this incorrect notion, but i understand that this is my bias speaking, and not any objective truth :)
> Why do larger e-ink screens cost more to produce?

Last I knew the bulk of cost for e-ink displays was just due to the patent holders decision to charge a lot, which is disappointing, but can't go on that much longer...
There is also https://radar.cloudflare.com which uses the statistics from their dns servers https://1.1.1.1/dns
https://ykgoon.com/

Statically generated with Pelican.

Not keeping track of posts, been too many years.
My observation is that homeowners tend to be more involved in local government, and have a personal incentive for their homes / land to increase in value. For most, homes are thier single largest investment. Intentionally or not, they use the force of government to insure / inflate the value of their property

The Impact of Zoning on Housing Affordability:
https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w8835/w8835...
That's awesome!

I don't really know anything about physiology or nutrition, but when you learn physics you do have to learn about the difference between simple linear systems and complex feedback networks, and then you see the Metabolic Pathways chart[1] and that proves that we are the latter, a complex feedback network.

One lesson about complex systems is that you don't change them by finding something “wrong” and “fixing it”, in the traditional sense. The problem is that there was a feedback loop keeping it that way and whatever you did just enabled that feedback loop to work harder at fighting your change. The weight-loss interpretation of this would be the failure of fad diets, I guess?

What you do instead is that you find a way to pin the output out of its range and then work backwards, or disconnect an input or so. “I need to live a life without sweets,” sounds like it was your disconnected input.

A second lesson about the complex system is that for the one thing to change, everything must change. All of the feedback loops that kept the system in state 1 need to reconfigure and reorganize themselves to accept state 2. Which means there's a period of breakage, one could even call “mourning,” where the system has not yet managed to reconfigure itself and limps along trying to get the new thing going. You just wanted a cleaner house, but in order to get it done it turned out to not require haphazard two hours cleaning sessions, no. Instead you needed to start waking up at 7 AM to have the time to empty the dishwasher before you go to work so that your spouse, who will forget about the dishwasher if it is not left open and inviting, can put the kids’ dishes in it, this causes a chain reaction where the kitchen countertops are not covered with dirty dishes so that becomes the natural room for the kids to draw in when they come home from school, which leads to them choosing to do their own homework, which leads to them having time at the end of the day to clean up, which allows everybody to go to bed early in a clean house... which is the ONLY reason you can, night owl though you are, get up at 7AM to empty the damn dishwasher. Everything had to reorganize to accomplish the goal and that took chaos and difficulty.

1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Human_Metabolism_-_P...
I think the new generation of weight-loss drugs are going to be a revolution because they give you power over bad habits, wholesale.

ICYMI: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2023/05/ozempic-a...

Anecdotally, they really work. It’s not just your food cravings that are mostly stopped in their tracks. But in some miraculous fashion it seems all your “bad” cravings are squashed, while your good ones (side projects, chores, work) stay intact. The only good one I can see slightly down is sex, but as well with that it does also feel like you have a lot more control in that area.

I think we’ll eventually see them as first line prescriptions for all types of addicts. It’s part of the reason I sort of want to throw some money into their stock, but then again it’s hard to know how that all turns out as multiple manufacturers have these drugs and there are many more analogues in the pipelines.

But I find it so interesting, as it really upsets my notion of morality. Yes, resisting your temptations without drugs seems like the obvious better world. But our modern world is simply overflowing with temptation. Fast food, advertisements, sugar in everything, caffeine in everything, drugs everywhere. It was far easier to be ascetic when there just wasn’t that much around. But suddenly on one of these drugs you feel… powerful, in a way. Like you’ve gained a superpower. It’s a really weird experience, and I don’t hate it.
"trying new things and fixing long standing bugs and absent features"

I'm struggling to parse what those might refer to.
Hard to tell, web is weird :D I contacted the author and they have fixed it!
AIM (Autonomous Intelligent Machines) is trying to automate construction vehicles, so is BILT robotics to name some. Definitely not as much as you would expect though
I Miss the Internet
I believe that extra turn indicators are allowed. Ambulances have a similar issue where they have dozens of lights but clear signaling of turns is important. A common solution is to add yellow arrows [1]. If I were designing a delivery vehicle I would include turn arrows that are not activated by the hazards.

https://www.fedsig.com/sites/default/files/products/Ambu.jpg
But does the skin always produce the same amount of vitamin D just depending on the light and regardless of the levels in the body or is there a control loop that makes the skin produce less?
I use my work Mac for work and my personal Mac for personal use. I use my personal phone to listen to music and for messaging. It works well.
oligarchs who were killing, stealing, raping and betraying their whole lives, now are laughing on this joke so hard, on their super-yachts.
"Not in use" means that nothing is closing the circuit. A machete going through the cable has a high likelihood of completing the circuit.
Exactly. It all depends on what you mean by "improve".
Incident link: https://status.gitlab.com/pages/incident/5b36dc6502d06804c08...

But it links to a gitlab issue that I can't open.
This ideology takes a good idea and pushes it too far. There isn’t a lot of value in seriously considering oneself as a “failure”, and rarely is it actually true.

Perspective to recognize the lack of any such way to measure outcomes so booleanly is probably more valuable than choosing to adopt failure as your default state.
You can make the same argument with Sony then. Dreamcast didn't have DVD because they started development after the Saturn which was an era where DVD wasn't available in a mass market and Sony having "innovated" by relying on their patent portfolio and that they just happen to be partners in the DVD consortium.
Harry Potter fans possibly :)
2020 house and the tankless water heater is just plugged into a 110 outlet. Kinda surprising when I saw that. Also shoutout to the builder predicting that we'd want to replace every overhead light with a fan and using the correct boxes with two hot wires from the switch to handle that. Really appreciate it.
Templates, themeable products like WordPress, dark modes and alt accessibility presentations...
> Stories are powerful ... but everyone recognizes their power

I don't. What is 'power' and do all stories have it?
Average Age of Automobiles and Trucks in Operation in the United States
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Having trouble wrapping my head around this...how can you not use an array of lenses to focus many images of the sun onto a single very hot image on the earths surface?
If it could navigate the rest of the pages of the newspaper and was guaranteed to last at least 10+ years or had a long-term warranty provided by an established company, then I would consider buying this product as an alternative to traditional wall art.
James Tabor released a translation of Genesis that has me very interested because he states that he stays as true to the original Hebrew meaning as possible and it reads completely differently than everything I've ever known.
Added K2 to my regimen a while back when I learned it and vitamin D are needed together for calcium absorption. Too much D w/o K2 appears to make bones more brittle.

As mentioned above, it's not abundant in the western diet. I wonder if places where there is more K2 in the diet have less osteoporosis?
Why?

It's not like we proved we could put a man on the moon before committing to it.

Although given that almost every train runs on an electric engine (diesel is a liquid battery on diesel train) I have no doubt that we can produce electric shipping trucks. Also, electric shipping trucks already exist [1] but all this is tangential to my point.

[1]: https://www.peterbilt.com/electric-vehicles