skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If we’re going full speculation -

Microbial life is probably not too uncommon, almost certainly present in our own solar system beyond Earth (and then the big question - does it always originate on its planet, or is cross planetary contamination a thing?)

Complex life that can build tools to send itself to orbit is probably a whole deal less common, but we’re not the only ones nor the first ones in the universe.

It’s just that the scales (time, distance, energy) involved are so wild that the odds of any 2 forms of life encountering each other is practically 0.

Well, if cross contamination between planets is a thing, the most likely way for 2 such complex life forms to interact would be for them to have developed in parallel in the same solar system, and then one discovering the other.
> I guess simple doesn't mean what it used to mean...

"You should see our new, redesigned, UI/UX" /s
Hasn’t this paper made it through peer review?
It isn't a security issue and doesn't warrant responsible disclosure so why would op be expected to?
Arduino Nano ESP32
I use Firefox focus on the iphone and I love it.

I like being able to just close it and the history is wiped.
I'm not really seeing where the racial diversity is in Australia. The 2021 census data shows majority of Australians are White/European and then some Chinese/Indian.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Australia
I can't speak specifically about Australia since I'm not familiar with it.

But what is "local culture"? It's made up by the local people. In a homogenous society like Japan, it's Japanese culture.

In a melting pot society like the US, it's a mix of the product of old European immigrants that have mostly merged and assimilated with each other, African Americans forcibly brought over via the slave trade that emerged with their own culture, and finally combined with more recent arrivals from Asia/Africa/Latin America who are much less assimilated.

When one or more cultures meet, sometimes they adapt positively. Sometimes they adapt negatively. When you have so many cultures mixed together, there is bound to be friction.

That doesn't necessarily mean violence, but it can be something more subtle - like certain races or groups resisting interacting with each other beyond the bare necessities. I wouldn't be surprised if this is true in Australia too.

I'm Asian American, and I am ashamed to admit I have zero African American friends (I have Black friends, but they are all more recent African/European/Caribbean immigrants). Cultural norms and upbringing has a lot to do with it. At the risk of sounding too clinical, one of my goals is to genuinely befriend more African Americans.
I thought so too, at first. The last game I spent any time on was Borderlands 3, and before that, Destinty. Story-oriented FPS was my bag, baby. Then I watched a few videos called [Let's Play Factorio,](https://diode.zone/w/p/36k4bJzMFNJUro9sFcG3dX?playlistPositi...) posted to diode.zone by sexy_peach@feddit.de; i started watching around episode 20 or so.
. It's absolutely a resource-management game, but I love it. I think because there's a little pressure, but not much, and there's a goal (build up enough industry to support building a spaceship to escape the planet you crash-landed on). But the interesting thing for me is that there are many paths you can take to achieve your goal. It's not difficult to manage, per se, and there are many automation tools, and much attention to reducing inventory management fussiness.

Anyway, that's all to say I'm an FPS person, but this game has me hooked. The demo is free to play; I don't know how far you can get with the free version, because I bought it as soon as I was done with the tutorial. But the only thing you have to lose is your time.
I read the article. This seems to be about a former lineman who had a high blood lead level in the 1980s, and also a study where line workers doing soldering were found to have high lead levels in their blood.

Reading this, my first and biggest question is : how did the lead get into their blood?

Having spent ~20 years soldering in the electronics industry on a daily basis I had always assumed that lead isn't getting into your body unless you ingest it. There are ways to ingest lead that we know about : flaking lead paint becomes dust and can be breathed in; lead compounds from burned gasoline can be breathed in; lead in water that has traveled through lead pipes (and possibly copper pipes soldered with lead) can be drunk.

But how do you ingest solid or liquid lead? Disappointing the article never addressed this. It seems the authors heard "worked with lead" and "lead in blood" and just said "yeah that seems obvious".

Wouldn't we see very high levels of lead poisoning in plumbers? (before the move away from lead solder they were heating the stuff with a blowtorch, often in cramped unventilated conditions). Were studies done to eliminate the possibility that the people above ingested lead in some other way?
Why wouldn't it. It suggest it copies text spans, it doesn't say how big.
There's an easy link from guns -> violence.

You're proposed link from homogeneity -> gun control is completely unsupported.
I imagine the purpose is to extend the timer when attempting to steal a vehicle.

Ford had their dial pad on their vehicles for the longest time to prevent entry if you were using a non factory key to enter. I always thought that was a neat feature, but heavily under utilized.
I’m a little perplexed by the heat wave coverage of late.

I get that there are a lot of places that are experiencing unprecedented temperatures for uncommon lengths of time.

But a lot of the headlines, like this one, are broadcasting pretty normal temps for their places. Phoenix is having a a pretty normal Phoenix summer. So is Death Valley.

Both may be hotter than they were 100 years ago, and both may be seeing consecutive 100F days for longer than they’d seen 30 years ago, but the current temps aren’t particularly comparable with respect to places like southern Europe which are seeing things they’re not used to seeing.

There a story there, but not the ones the MSM keep pushing.

EDIT: I’m not disputing that Phoenix is hot and getting hotter (I graduated high school and college there and visit family there every year), nor am I disputing climate change. But the focus on heat in Phoenix is a little misplaced relative to the extremes happening elsewhere. Phoenix is having an incremental increase to its norms, per:

“There are days when the mercury climbs to well over 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius) in the summer here. But over the past two weeks, the mercury has hit 110 degrees F (43 C) or higher every afternoon, a streak of extreme temperatures that could stretch into next week, breaking Phoenix's 1974 record of 18 consecutive days, forecasters say.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/summer-tested-phoenix-brave...

Phoenix set heat records a long time ago (even before adding millions of people and the houses, offices, roadways, and parking lots that were built for them).

There are places in the world right now seeing temperatures they’ve never seen before. I think there’s a difference between the phenomena.
Those new M3-equipped iMacs may come in October
Building your own LAMP stack on a VPS from scratch is a good learning exercise, but opens you up to various attacks. For example if you're running Wordpress, expect /wp-admin to be scanned and brute forced, and your whole site to be scraped by bots, not to mention bandwidth issues when your site gets hugged to death from Reddit/HN/Social Media.

Just get a blog on Ghost[0] or Posthaven[1] and all the worry of getting hacked / traffic issues goes away.

[0] https://ghost.org/

[1] https://posthaven.com/
(Based a bit on older OGL usage)

> I really don't understand this. Why the need for relentless abstraction? Just learn the ways that OpenGL is weird and use it anyway. Most people who work on these things will need to understand OpenGL anyway.

OpenGL/WebGL have a global state that affects drawing and which introduces side effects. Direct-written drawing code tends to make assumptions, which then makes it blow up when drawing code next to it makes different assumptions.

The API abstraction means you don't really know how expensive it is to make state changes.

So you tend to have either a thin abstraction that manages to set states appropriately for all your drawing code before use, flushing prior state, or you build a full local state manager that understands the 'delta' between old and new state.
It would be nice if the runtime validation was an ecmascript feature designed in such a way that typescript could infer the types for them automatically... Such as

schema Example { ... }
cosnt example: Example = new Example(unkonwnData)

Where a schema applied runtime validation based on declarative syntax and which typescript could use to derive a `type` from
I think I went through a junk food phase, but now 90% of my use of ChatGPT is cutting through the subsidized noise that waters search engine results down- basically eliminating the process for finding just the right combination of terms, and having this AI synthesis of all the ideas instead- so I can consider the next path to take in an instant instead of casting about randomly looking for plausible clues. Basically it's all about productivity.
You can take another step back and ask if there is an appropriate racial makeup at all, and if so, is this something that we want the government to work towards achieving?
If you look at the information collected by any of Meta’s apps do they really need more information on their users than their users’ local tax authority, for example, might have?
127.4° F
Opportunity cost of the additional travel time[1] that you have to spend because you don't have a car.

[1] Yes, I'm aware of european cities where cars aren't necessary or are actually slower than public transit. That's not applicable to most of the US though.
Easier solution: take off one highly visible trim piece from the dashboard or console of your car, and throw a $20 DMM on the passenger seat. A couple random bits of loose wire in various colors for effect, maybe a half roll of electrical tape, and nobody's going to take a second look.

Source: nobody has ever stolen any of the cars I've owned while I've been troubleshooting the ongoing electrical problems.
Twitter has lost a ton of revenue, has dropped significantly in web ranking, recently had a gargantuan outage (which they are still recovering from), and they've made a number of extremely questionable decisions regarding privacy and security.

If you told me moderation staff and moderation tools were extremely understaffed at the moment, I would believe you. The false positive rate is likely high.

Additionally, Social Media CEOs (particularly Reddit and Twitter) seem to be a bit thin skinned right now, with the clear decline of Twitter encouraging lots of players to enter the space. I believe that Elon has officially said, multiple times, that "advertising" another social media platform on Twitter is a rules violation.

Put both of those together - declining platform and reactionary CEO - and this person's experience aren't surprising.
Show HN: Virtua – zero-config virtualization components for React
Some cars also have unused switches on the dashboard (presumably features you didn't pay for) that are perfect for such use cases.
Possibly. How is the reliance on daycare facilities outside of the US? There is a super spreader event weekly at those places.
As a life-long admirer of Japan’s history and culture I’ve actually been consistently putting off visiting for somewhat related reasons (cueing Italo Calvino’s “Le città invisibili” [1]).

There are probably fewer differences between Tokyo and where I’m from than between it and its modern self in the 70s, 80s or 90s even.

I’d be delighted to learn that that’s really not the case.

Though even so, I would probably keep on being hesitant as in my head it’s still peak 80s in Japan [2] and I’d really like to keep it that way.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible_Cities

[2] https://youtu.be/4dR_KHXcu9w
Why Harvey AI is Good Biz, But Your "Copilot for X" May Not Be
Harvey AI found themselves in a sweet spot with a win-win for themselves and the customer. Other "Copilot for X" tools may not have the same fortune...
That amount of money is absolutely nothing compared to the waste that goes on in the startup industry. Remember the $445 million self driving pizza oven delivery van?
Voice dictation, Shirley.
Never noticed any of that.
(I have to use Chrome from time to time on 2 machines (one is fresh powerfull laptop and the other is a decade+ old PC) due to embedded Google Translate feature, and always happy to switch back to Firefox, which is much more convenient and tunable (and has a killer "Simple Tab Groups" extension)
Wait, I need you to please elaborate on this. Where was he sourcing all code he pasted? Did he have a "snippet file" like a painter with a palette or something?
Isn’t it impossible to know if you haven’t had Covid once vaccinated? (Because you will test positive for antibodies regardless)
Literally suggesting we enshrine the Balance fallacy into our conception of truth:

https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy
Website looks great!

Just FYI, I’m getting a “failed to load search index” error in your docs.

Also I saw GitHub Actions called out in the workflow. Do you have GitLab support?
I remember finding a similar thing while working on minifying JavaScript. If you have code like

func("hello world");

func("hello world");

Then naively it seems that can be optimized to this:

let s = "hello world";

func(s);

func(s);

However once compressed, the second result is usually larger! It's basically because the second example adds the `let s =` part which is new unique content it has to store.

So if you want to minify JavaScript to a shorter version uncompressed, it's good to transform the first to the second. However if you want to minify JavaScript to the smallest compressed size, it's actually better to do the reverse transform and turn the second case in to the first! But then you get in to tradeoffs with parse time with a longer input, especially with very long strings - so I'm not sure any of today's minifiers actually do that. (Edit - turns out Closure Compiler does: https://github.com/google/closure-compiler/wiki/FAQ#closure-...)
I guarantee you I, or anyone else with ~30m of training can get into 95% of homes without leaving much evidence that the locks were tampered with. House locks are very easy to pick open.
We certainly improved, but in 1799 I think it was already the age of pseudoscientific medicine, where people thought they were superior to traditional herbalist, simply because they read some books. In other words, I don't think any traditional medicine man would have done that treatment.

(Apart from that, I surely go to a hospital if I am really sick, but for everything light, I rather find something else, than some drug, where I don't know if it is helping me, or the doctors pension fund)
What? Sophistry? Are you insane? I've factually described the difference between revenue and profit, and you're saying I'm deliberately trying to deceive someone?
If there is some distributed processing project that really seems valuable to you, go for it. But if you feel you need to keep your CPU busy just to keep it busy, think again.
If you're doing anything AI related, this might interest you.

https://aihorde.net/
I don’t currently need something like this, but I like the simplicity and it seems handy.

Tech aside, I’m compelled to say that I don’t like the name. It is one letter off from a bodily function, and the pronunciation is even closer.

Edit: the menu button on the landing page doesn’t work for me on iOS.
If I read your comment with extreme charity, I think that sentiment boils down to the fact that everyone needs money to continue having food, shelter, and medical care. If I read your comment mildly charitably, it would reduce to a tautology: everyone who works for money wants money. If I read it uncharitably, meaning anyone who does sustained, hard, taxing work wants money, I would argue it's easily disproven since people do incredibly hard work as volunteers. It baffles me that tech titans rail against government and academia, and think everyone has a single-minded desire for money, when the Internet (gov't), the World Wide Web (academia), and Linux and a slew of open-source software (volunteer) powers our lives.
well maybe it's the wrong way to fund college
Silly me for expecting an anti-virus company to care about security. The point remains: DNSSEC COULD make this safe to do.
53° C (127.4° F) is extreme, even for Death Valley. We're rapidly approaching the point where larger and larger areas will be uninhabitable for humans, not just uncomfortable.
(The human brain is also, in part, a blurry JPEG of the world.)
> Not to attempt to convince you, just to explain my rationale
Your example is starting with absolute arithmetic, and sticking with it. There is no change.
It would not surprise me if carbon nanoparticles could act in a similar way to asbestos, if inhaled.
I just use a cronjob to restart my nodejs apps at 4am to prevent memory leaks.
Or, they'll become even cheaper.
> except it scales to 10s of thousands of sites.

Does it though? In what sense, other than content, would a site created by AI scale any better than one created by a human? Would each of these 10s of thousands of sites be unique? Or would they be slight variations on a theme? Because just about any human dev could write a script in a few hours to spin up WordPress sites with slight variations on a single theme, limited only by how much they were willing to spend on hosting.

What value are you providing to this conversation other than unwarranted optimism?
Extra step to worry about, need to always use things that support it, and it is solving self-inflicted problems
Wild house cats cannot live without prey, and they are not adapted to -40C, let alone -20C for weeks at a time. They cannot live in many parts of North America without humans settlements.

There are native cats in Canada, skilled at even detecting prey under feet of snow, but house cats are not that.

There is no significant cat presence in Canada, outside of human habitats.

I notice you cited Vancouver Island, the most temperate place in Canada. And there are deserts in Australia, cats don't live there without humans, yet there are birds adapted to the desert.
I just gotta make “nazi” and “fascist” go away and it would improve my Mastodon feed considerably. Korzybski would be more radical than that and just ban the verb “to be.”. (Then you can describe the racist behavior of X but not say “X is a racist”)

I also want something that disappears images that are mainly text, whether it is a T-shirt with a slogan designed to piss people off or a screenshot from some other social media site it is usually crap.
Don't. Let it go into a deeper C-State/Sleep/Hibernate, whatever. Turn off the computer. Don't burn the energy in the first place.
The Guide to File Organization: 5 System You Must to Know
Most thieves are not trained in covert entry, they aren't lock pickers, they're desperate addicts looking to get some things to pawn for a fix.
> I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses

I have no idea what the masses prefer, but Web 1.0 tends to be better for me in terms of conveying information and ease of use.

And I'm one of those weirdos who literally could not care less about how pretty a site is.
On the scale of phones and ovens sold, this makes a huge difference.

Look at the ATX12V standard coming soon for desktop PCs - just a couple percent increased efficiency at idle will save tons and tons of power when applied across entire office buildings, for example.
The point is pay your employees well not your investors when it's human lives at stake.
The title gives the impression that one typo led to the leaking of millions of emails from the US military servers, which is not the case here.

- Presumably each typo led to one leak. "Typos leak emails" would be more appropriate in that case.

- Are they really "US military emails" if they originated from elsewhere and one of the intended recipients was on the '.mil' domain? Apparently "emails sent directly from the .mil domain to Malian addresses are blocked before they leave the .mil domain".
I believe those bottles are common at many US pharmacies these days.
Pretty impossible (in a static text) for an English speaker reading ancient Greek unless they're familiar with Greek or Cyrillic letters. Otherwise a block of text is just going to be totally inscrutable and having the "original" (which, to be clear, is never going to look like an original inscription for ancient Greek) is not likely to add any value.
AI Improves Employee Productivity by 66%
Evidence of what? I can't see how it would prevent fraud, the occupant can damage the "seal" just as well, and a burglary without damage is still a burglary and lock-picking is a thing so it doesn't have much to say about due diligence either.
I am strongly on board with the subsidy theory. This wouldn't be the first time.

Looking at what this is doing to the stock price of AT&T adds another potential item to your list:

Hedge funds pushing well-timed narratives to their benefit.
Squarespace (and Weebly which Squarespace ate) are simpler to use than Wix, in my experience. I found Wix particular unintuitive. Which may explain their push to go for a prompt-based approach.
>Imagine discussing the politics of the penal system and someone butts in, "imprisoning people is bad by definition"... Ok man

And that someone would be right and that's why it should be avoided as much as possible. Because people refuse to have this discussion, imprisonment is applied at a far larger scale than necessary.
I wonder how many instacart/uber orders I would need to have to offset the cost of a car, assuming I can bike to most of my needs.

The only reason I have a car is because there are some specialized transportation needs (towing) that I cannot get from my bike. I use my bike for everything from hardware to Costco to groceries to child care to ... lots of stuff.
You can use Kiwix too as an easy way to get an archive of it
Good things that have happened since Elon Musk acquired twitter:

- The Fediverse has grown tremendously.

- Meta's Threads is on the path to legitimize ActivityPub.

- People are realizing that social media doesn't have to be ad-driven.

- Twitter has become less of a problematic echo chamber, now that a chunk of it's former userbase is gone.
I'm personally fond of Sandstorm (which I contribute to), but any number of Docker-based self-hosting platforms either available to run yourself or sold as a SaaS (Cloudron, Umbrel, Tipi, a half dozen others in development, etc.) solve the problems that Solid solves, "owning your data", without the huge downside that Solid creates, "giving your data to outside servers willy-nilly".

The thing is Berners-Lee is a web standards guy, so he wants to solve the problem with a web standard. But a web standard is not necessarily the right solution here. And I think it's unfortunate some tens of millions of dollars of funding have gone to a solution that doesn't really solve the problem.
Google Meet doesn't support visual effects in Firefox, e.g. background blurring