skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
90% or so of revenue is generated by search engine royalties, i.e. Mozilla getting paid for the choice of the default search engine (mostly Google).
I think it's primarily down to verbosity when working with it by hand and very heavy weight parsers being used for it frequently. There's just lighter weight, easier formats to work with and a lot of the standards that get piled on top of it lead to ever increasing complexity, xsd specifications, namespaces, etc.
I agree! Which is why I think it's a shame that this is an activity where the best way to win is in fact to not do that at all :(
> occasional situations where injured parties can't be made whole but that is an acceptable trade off for the benefits to society as a whole

https://amp.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2017/jul/10...
> Cautious Mouthwash Use:

I was under the impression that poor dental hygiene is associated with Alzheimer's disease and dementia?
> No, "both sidesing" is not at all how philosophers or mathematicians train to establish the truth: they learn to identify overt and hidden assumptions and question the validity of this assumptions.

I disagree with this.

It's not "both sidesing" in the same sense as debate, but for sure mathematicians often engage in similar ways of learning. Almost always, you'd learn something new, like a new definition, by considering other ways to define the same thing and see how that affects things.

And at the high level of maths, there sometimes are actual debates about which direction to go with certain axioms/etc.

> What you describe is plainly an exercise in rhetoric, the central conceit that one can simply switch positions after a fixed period of debate is clear enough evidence that truth seeking is not the goal.

Hard disagree. Being able to switch sides is essential to being able to understand why one side is better than the other. If you're trying to decide which ice cream flavor to order, but literally cannot see one of the options, it is meaningless to say you chose not to take that one. Only by actually seeing it, tasting it, and deciding against it, have you actually made a choice that one flavor is better than another.
"The UFO congressional hearing was ‘insulting’ to US employees, a top Pentagon official says" - https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2023-07-29/the-ufo-c...
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Superconductors, Extraterrestrials and Predictions
Actually she has a decent idea for a web business so the plan is to get cracking on that. Seems she inherited her dad’s entrepreneurial spirit!
I'd guess the example of the glass of water was made as an afterthought, or as a vivid example of the potential complexity of the theorem. As your example shows, it simply cannot be true. If you think of a vase with marbles, it is also clear. Or if you think of an (ideal) gas in a closed system: would there be at least one particle that always(!) stays in the same place?
Reducing Measurement Error
I've been seeing this headline for 20 years
Android doesn't have ToS.

Google may.

No other variants of Android do, AFAIK.
Running is a good start. Keep the distance increases reasonable to avoid injury. Enjoying it is important - no need to add anything else until/unless the running gets boring. (Yeah, weights can help, but like you said, can be overwhelming for somebody new to fitness)
Backup driver in first death by fully autonomous car pleads guilty
How would you do a binary search on a continuous space without discretizing?
> I disagree. I think academia has fallen for Goodhart's law.

It may or may not, but my claim was that we need some mechanism to decide who gets a position and who doesn't, and it should be scalable for the current scale of science and beyond, i.e., at least hundreds/thousands of applications. Saying that journals are used for career decisions and this is not good (enough?) and thus doesn't need replacement mechanism is weird.

> a big reason we are in the replication crisis.

The stated reasons are the same for different branches of science, while replication crisis is far from that. Replication of 100-year-old experiments is also not always easy/successful. Publish or perish motivates people to cut corners, but I think it is far from being the main reason.

> What I was referring to is that we've been just sending papers to one another for centuries. Uploading to arxiv is just an easier form of that (and was the explicit reason for its existence).

(Almost) nobody reads arxiv (edit: I mean (relevant part of) arxiv as a whole, of course most people read specific papers on arxiv). In fact the snr of arxiv is so low, even compared to journals that just by filtering garbage you can get quarter a mil followers [1]. So instead of random experts of varying quality and motivation I'll get a single rando on twitter (no offense to A K, he does good job)? No thanks.

> It only works when everyone acts in good faith, and at scale only requires a few bad actors to spoil the barrel.

Citation needed? You could claim the same for science as whole, but self-correction turns to be extremely robust, even if slower than you may want.

[1] https://twitter.com/_akhaliq
The article is about Epic, a terrible medical journal software.

What you say differs between IT environments and clients. We usually just deploy EDR/MDR like S1 or Defender (Defender that comes with Windows) and deploy settings, so you cannot have a crazy long uptime and force Windows updates, yes you need those.

According to some standard body like NIST, you are now supposed to have a longer password or passphrase that never expires.
The biggest release after the one introducing libgccjit: treesitter and treesitter modes, bundled eglot/lsp, sqlite... it's a revolution!
Does anyone keep track of whether nullable references or Java serialization was the more expensive mistake in the long run?
There’s no such thing as “reasonable taxation” because it’s a subjective concept. It’s no better than saying “the rich are not paying their fair share”.

Say you’re settling the tab for big dinner at a restaurant, if your rich friend pays for the steak he ordered, is that his fair share? If there’s 100 of you and he pays for 1/100 of the check, is that his fair share? What if he pays for half the tab, is that enough to be his fair share?

Is it reasonable for society, through taxes, to take more than half of what you earn? (e.g., in CA the top brackets out you at 37% federal + 12.3% State = 49.3% tax rate. And that’s before sales tax!)
First genetically modified animal that can have offspring asexually
I think it might just be autocorrect translating "AAC" into "access".
I'm surprised by how easy and literally one-click it was to use that. Bravo, Tor Project team.
Thanks for listening! At $10 per month unlimited searches I'll immediately switch.

Also thanks for creating kagi. Kagi was the first "alternative" search that convinced me that there can be competition to Google. YaCy just does not work, most competitors (DDG, etc) just repackage the big engines. I use presearch as my daily driver right now, but am somewhat turned down by the NFT shenanigans behind that. Kagi looks like the only engine that stands on its own and is definitely something worth paying for.
I never understood what is so special about hospital pacient software. Why cant they do this with the Microsoft 365 suite with Sharepoint for files, Teams for chat, files etc and Word to write notes in?

Or Google Workspace for that matter.

Aren't they just writing notes and ordering meds?

Why is it this mess that is Epic and Oracle Cerner?

*Sure being in the downvotes
That's what struck me most from this article too! 3 years?! That's a huge capital investment for very little service life.

I had naively expected at least something like 10 years, even in LEO.
Note that windows typically block the majority of the radiation that allows you to make vitamin D, so even if the sun hits you every day through your window, it's still not a good substitute for a sunny walk every once in a while. My doctor told me to go out at noon every day, but anything is better than nothing.
Well it did take them 30 years to get working and lots of money.

That's why ASML doesn't have any competition: everyone else gave up.
there was lots of us,
but far far too few to make a difference
Bombardier's trains division wasn't failing, it was just that Bombardier the company was overleveradged on getting the C-Series out. What that failed, they were massively in debt, and had to do a fire sale on everything of value (CRJ, trains division).
Asthetic Blogs
Can you pin some asthetic personal blogs?
You're just lucky YOU aren't affected yet. Try telling that norwegian poker player who is unable to wire legal poker earnings from a tournament abroad to his bank home. Or to any of the people who made money on crypto who they want to use as security for an appartment loan. Or to someone trying to wire gains from legal online casinos abroad. Or to someone trying to access a web site that the norwegian authorities do not like who are DNS blocked (yes, easy to circumvent for tech people). Goverment and politicians abusing authority and limiting individual freedom is already here and growing. When it starts affecting "most people" it is usually a lot harder to reverse. The norwegian goverment already passed a law that allow mass electronic surveilance. And they want to limit the public's access to goverment records. It's a very slippery slope, left side "social democrazy" (spelled "beuracratic dictatorship") like most of EU. People need to open their eyes and fight goverment overreach now.
Goodreads is so bad it allows reviews of books that don't even exist.

There exist pages for books that are "presumed" to exist based on author expectations, but have not been even conceived of yet, much less written, edited, titled, covered, published and read to be reviewed.

For example, Brandon Sanderson thinks that his current big hit series (Stormlight) will have ~10 books, he's currently half way writing the 5th book, so the 10th is a LONG way coming.

It's entirely possible he will change his plans, after all he did so for his other series Mistborn, he put four more books in between book 3 and what was originally going to be book 4 (now possibly book 8), if he doesn't change the plan again, or cancel the book series entirely and re-write the entire multiverse setup he has in his brain.

Yet a page for this hypothetical Stormlight book 10 exist:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17250985-untitled

There is no harm in pre-emptively creating a page bookmarking purposes, I supposed, but it already has 22 written reviews and 94 ratings giving it 4.68 stars.

WHY? why allow such things for non-existent books? How hard is it lock star ratings and comment box until the book is, you know, actually existant and read?
I agree on KDE being better but that's just because they consistently put in the effort and results piled up over time.

Sure, with a few setbacks (cue 4.0 nightmares) but overall their technological choices (Qt in primis), architecture and quality of contributors won the battle.

Gnome used to be way more polished at the Gnome 2 vs KDE 3 era but kind of lost its way over time.

It's definitely not about unchangeable defaults vs configuration (there's a market for both).
I had to finish up my PhD while already working at a FAANG. My professor would keep stacking more stuff that he wanted to have in my thesis. It was a horrible time and I think I was very close to a burnout.

One thing that I later noticed was that I e.g. couldn't enjoy any music anymore. I always used to be able to be absolutely amazed by some tracks and dance to it at home - but during that time there was just nothing.
This exists for plastic bottles as well, your country just didn't implement it as they did for glass. According to your own argument, your country is now responsible to some degree for the plastic pollution.
Usually there is no restriction in custom supplied components, which would void repairs by third parties (i.e. you). In most environments you are whoever not allowed to drive with hands of the steering wheel or if not mentioned explicitly you are not allowed to create unsafe conditions (which where I live means you have to be in control, even with driving aides)

Placing a can monitoring and loggin tool on the obd port is perfectly legal afaik. Sneeky spyware installing insurers do it all the time.

For manipulation via can: ymmv depending on what modifications need to be applied and what security is broken (if any) and you should ask your insurer what they cover. The insurance part is my biggest concern.
> but going by HN, it's not reliable

That's a cheap shot, it's been as reliable as the underlying fabric, the only thing that really stood out for me is how utterly weird HN is when it comes to determining what constitutes reliability: no data was lost other than a tiny bit that was in inbound transit which can still be recovered (and which you could not realistically protect against). Note that this is a backup service and not something that is normally found in your primary business processes. As such if it stores the crown jewels safely, allows for them to be restored if and when needed and doesn't leak them in the meantime that's mission accomplished.

> or cost effective.

That depends on your use case, and not everything is about cost. The way it is set up I think the trust factor that even Colin can't read your data and that there will always be a way to get your data back out if you should need it is what matters. Backups that don't work are a net negative, a backup that does work can be, given the right circumstances, absolutely priceless.
Honestly, this is basically it. The organisms that supposedly don't suffer from aging, are probably just better at accounting for entropy.
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The bigger problem is a fear of public spending because of perceived incompetence. The stigma comes from a time when only governments had run big bureaucratic systems. Now we can see there is little difference between public and private bureaucracies except for a lack of oversight on the latter.

Still the stigma remains and all public spending is filtered through a profit making entity.
I was able to see this in person recently at Jokulsarlon Glacier Lagoon in Iceland. The craziest part was how excited our tour guide was - she was taking as many photos as we were. From what they told us it doesn't last long, as the sun melts the top layer of ice, turning it opaque.

https://ibb.co/YpCs9p9
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What would you search for, the zero/root in the derivative? Imagine the derivative is a function like y=x^2-eps with some small eps, say 0.000001. For binary search like that to work, you need to start with two values x1 and x2 such that sign(y1) != sign(y2). But with the derivative above those values are hard to find with random initialization.

More generally, for binary search to find a value x such that f(x)=0, we need to have f(any value less than x)<0 and f(any value greater than x)>0. We can't guarantee these properties for general derivatives.
This seems obvious for agricultural productivity but I fail to see how that would explain say, classical Athens.
Unfortunately CaMKII also promotes cancer cell propagation. Typical evolutionary tradeoff it seems.
>Modern chip manufacturing is basically black magic.

This, if you ever want to feel wonder at things the human race can accomplish, lithography has to be in the top 3 reasons imo.
> No, why? Lots of foundries out there that don't compete on leading edge nodes

The discussion was about Moore's law ("scaling down"), which is only about the leading edge.
Reads like fanfiction at this point.
I find the rowing machine is a great cardio+strength combo that you can make as comfortable as you like, and is very low impact (just keep good posture).
Enstil Postmortem
Collecting uranium in plant tissues won't do much to increase Po-210, since the decay chain to Po-210 runs through Ra-226, which has a halflife of 1600 years.
Literally every science headline these days.

But tbf who said science was easy? You can't force definitive results, shit's just complex.
The fucking paper, although there’s no reason for anyone to understand that.
The thing about its wording is: It was true every single time.
I saw this report the other day and didn't submit it here because of "...in mice". I mean I agree with your comment btw.

We probably need a standard bracket suffix like (in mice) for these sorts of things, as we do for year.
Changes in Emacs 29.1
I don't really know how to take comments like this.

I work on a pipeline that processes millions of events per day in a pipeline that contains two pretty busy Go programs. One has an embedded Javascript engine and does all kinds of pattern matching and string manipulation. The other does a ton of database read/write and some crypto-calculations to do data integrity for us.

Millions of events. Per day. Never a panic in production.

It is easily possible to write deterministic, highly performant, and durable applications in Go.
I may have upvoted your comment.
Ask HN: Ads in readme for open source funding – Thoughts
Hello HN community,

I've been pondering sustainable funding methods for open source projects. One idea that came to mind is integrating non-intrusive advertisements directly into project READMEs.

Would you, as a developer, consider this approach for your open source projects?

If you've already tried this, what has been the community response? Has it generated meaningful revenue?

Do you foresee any major pitfalls or drawbacks to this method?

I understand the importance of keeping the open source ecosystem clean and user-friendly, but I'm curious if this could be a win-win, helping maintainers get compensated for their hard work without compromising the integrity of their projects. Looking forward to your thoughts!
Fascinating! Reminds me how machine learning as a field is often focused on tasks that can be quantitatively evaluated using large datasets. There are a lot of tasks that do not fit this model, especially interactive tasks.
In general it's not the smoothest but okay. Using bridges, for the mobile app the same applies: WhatsApp or Telegram are snappier but Element is still okay for me. Element web beats WhatsApp web, though. The Telegram desktop app is unbeaten, unless you want a TUI like me.

I don't have any problems with message delivery.
> ...in mice.

Should be by default attached to any medical news headline, just to be correct more often than not.
Turning the subtitles on is useful when you have to turn the volume down at night. Believe it or not it helps you hear what's being said.

I also use it with the foreign language I am trying to learn. Both audio and subtitles set to the target language is useful. Though as someone has already mentioned, the two don't always match which is both frustrating and educational. You get to hear a synonym or a different way of saying the same thing. It helps fill in the blanks sometimes.
Since null pointers (or references in e.g. Java) triggers segfaults or exceptions I would say it is free test coverage.

Nullable pointers are essentially an "option type" with runtime checks.
Well, unless one devises a way to break up atoms + rearrange those in such a way as to turn protons, neutrons, quarks etc. into compute machinery, we're stuck with individual atoms (or small groups of those) as the smallest possible building blocks. And thus Moore's law will hit a brick wall at some point. 3D structures (stacks w/ many layers of transistors & interconnect) will help, but make thermal issues more difficult than they already are.

Kind of like (iirc) the tip of a scanning tunneling microscope might be used to pick up & manipulate individual atoms.

Self-organizing materials like DNA might make that process easier, not scale it down further.
The problem and advantage of XML is schema validation. If you don't validate you may not need XML.
> Nowadays, KDE users better use Firefox.

Meh, I've been just fine with Falkon. As I was with reKonq back in KDE SC4.
If it turned out to be that easy, it should already have been replicated.
Things I wish databases did for developers
Interesting previous discussion from 2014:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7523953 (311 comments)
It asks for the user's consent.
Yes, there is little difference from Windows.
A Portable Civilisation Starter Kit for a Post-Apocalyptic World
This quote, often attributed to Albert Einstein, paints a bleak picture of a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war, where civilization has been bombed back to the Stone Age. However, new technologies like large language models (LLMs) running on mobile devices call this claim into question.
LLMs like GPT-3/4 (ChatGPT) demonstrate the immense power of AI systems, even when disconnected from the cloud and running on consumer hardware like smartphones. With astounding fluency and reasoning capabilities, an LLM could potentially accelerate the redevelopment of civilization after an apocalypse. Even without access to servers and the internet, an LLM on a solar-powered smartphone could provide a wealth of knowledge and problem-solving ability.
To protect against electromagnetic pulses that could fry electronics, the phone could be placed in a Faraday cage, an enclosure made of conductive material that blocks electrical fields. This would allow the device to survive the immediate effects of a nuclear blast.
Consider this scenario: A solar flare or nuclear EMP (Electromagnetic pulse) wipes out electrical grids and internet infrastructure. With most advanced technology disabled, survivors are left with no power, communications, or ability to access humanity’s collective knowledge. Now imagine one of those survivors has a smartphone with GPT-3 installed, along with a compact solar panel to keep it charged. They could ask the LLM pressing questions about agriculture, medicine, engineering, and more to help jumpstart the recovery process.
Instead of fumbling around in primitive darkness, people could tap into the knowledge of these AI systems running locally on mobile hardware. With their ability to generate intelligent text, translate languages, and reason about complex topics, LLMs could drastically accelerate the redevelopment of civilization. They make the idea of bombing humanity back to the Stone Age seem rather far-fetched.
Of course, robust infrastructure and access to global information networks would be preferable to post-apocalyptic conditions. But if worldwide destruction did occur, AI assistants on local devices could provide a vital lifeline to recovering more quickly. LLMs transform a smartphone into a portable civilization starter kit.
So while Einstein’s prediction paints a dismal picture, the progress of AI systems running on consumer hardware provides reason to be optimistic. With just a mobile device, solar charger, and Faraday cage, an LLM assistant could help humanity get back on track after even the most catastrophic events. The coming world war may not be fought with sticks and stones after all.
Golden rule with anything health-related:

1. Fix sleep

2. Drink water

3. Have Magnesium, Zinc, Vitamin D, and natural proteines

4. Move your behind