skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, we haven't just ripped up the steps, we're actively standing at the top pointing a gun down.

Do you know why Switzerland exports the 2nd most processed coffee of any country in the world [1] while Ethiopia (where coffee was "invented" remains extremely poor, only exporting raw beans? Because the IMF and World Bank would send them back to the dark ages if they attempted to do anything different.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1096413/main-export-coun...
Isn't 0.5 an absurd guess for the probability of a new restaurant being exceptionally good?
Yeah oxalic acid plus calcium is calcium oxalate, aka the most common form of kidney stones. Some people also seem to be sensitive to oxalates for whatever reason, and find improvements in health when broadly removing sources from their diets.

The trick is to bind the oxalates before they get absorbed in the body and require removal. So making things like traditional creamed spinach (or other things like turnip or collard greens) removes the potential hazard from chronic intake.

Incidentally the whey portion of dairy also seems to chelate the form of vitamin B12 found in plants, making it much more bioavailable. The casein portion of dairy doesn’t seem to have this same effect.

It’s fascinating to see how the preparation for so many traditional foods basically mitigates the sources of low level toxicity issues while increasing nutrient update, when as a “modern” person I tend to look at it from the perspective of taste.
> Right will never care about anything but themselves

Never is a long time. Richard Nixon's administration accomplished quite a bit.
Nixon created the EPA and signed the endangered species act. Why couldn't environmentalism become an issue for the Republicans in the future?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon#Governmental_ini...
The AI race is so hot right now that AMD will sit in #2 and pick up all of the people who can't get access to NVIDIA cards. There is a huge centralization issue around only writing your code for NVIDIA... and that is a huge business risk. People are going to wake up to that fast as the supplies of NVIDIA go to zero.

That said, I don't think people realize that there is literally no more large scale tier 3 (redundant) data center power in the US. Even if you are sitting on 1000 or 10k NVIDIA cards, you can't deploy them anywhere.

They also need to be in the same data center for speed. You can't just colo in 2-3 data centers to get what you want. If you want to train a large model across 1000 gpus? You're screwed.

Think you can just go to the cloud? Go try to sign up for coreweave. They are full and not taking any more customers. A lot of the other sites advertising nvidia gpus are just reselling coreweave under the covers.

Forget the software problems. There are far bigger issues and they are not getting better any time soon.
Because those Delphi apps were written by less capable people. I've done tons of Delphi's applications in the past and still do some now (both Delphi and Lazarus). In every case the UI and backend business logic was clearly separated.
We will see what statistics say and what the trend will be in a few years, but if labor goes up for the same output then mathematically productivity has to go down, which has a variety of consequences, but I can think of 1) less capital market yields; 2) less tax income from governments. Both 1 and 2 have nasty impacts on pensions. I am not saying one way of thinking is better, I am just pointing out the obvious fact that there is no free lunch. Workers might get a better deal now, to be handed a bad one when they retire. Unless technology comes to the rescue and helps us keep increasing productivity, but it’s not realistic to rely only on tech.
I like this, just tried your demo and looked at your roadmap. Would love to talk more if you have time this week about it. I've used all the major systems so I can prob point you to a few features not on your roadmap.
Relevant quote from the book "A Philosophy of Software Design"

Complexity is what a developer experiences at a particular point in time when trying to achieve a particular goal. It doesn’t necessarily relate to the overall size or functionality of the system. People often use the word “complex” to describe large systems with sophisticated features, but if such a system is easy to work on, then, for the purposes of this book, it is not complex. Of course, almost all large and sophisticated software systems are in fact hard to work on, so they also meet my definition of complexity, but this need not necessarily be the case. It is also possible for a small and unsophisticated system to be quite complex.
Saying “a line of code requires no resources” can only be true under a particular set of assumptions and particular system for accounting. It’s not a useful or interesting argument by itself, because it doesn’t explain the assumptions and accounting system that it implies.
We’re currently consolidating all container images to run on Debian-slim instead of a mixture of Debian, Ubuntu and alpine. Sure, alpine is small, but with 70% of our 500 container images being used for Python, R or node the final image is so large (due to libraries/packages), that the difference between alpine (~30 MB) and debian-slim (~80) is negligible. We’ve been experiencing the weird DNS behaviour of alpine and other issues with musl as well. Debian is rock solid and upgrading to bookworm from bullseye and even buster in many cases didn’t cause any problems at all.

I will admit though, that Debian-slim still has some non-essential stuff that usually isn’t needed at runtime, a shell is still neat for debugging or local development. This trade off could be considered a security risk, but it’s rather simple to restrict other stuff at runtime (such as run as non-privileged, non-root user with all capabilities dropped and a read-only file system except for /tmp).

It’s a balancing act between ease-of-use and security. I don’t think I’d get popular with the developers by forcing them to use “FROM scratch” and let them figure out exactly what their application needs at runtime and what stuff to copy over from a previous build stage.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36801491
In the US it looks like electricity production (25%) is a little less than transportation (28%). Commercial and residential show as 13%.

https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
How do you handle a bunch of email tasks?
Hi everyone,

I've been thinking about how we often use our email inboxes as a sort of to-do list. We leave emails unread or flag them to remind ourselves of tasks we need to complete. But is this really the best way to manage our tasks?

I'm curious about your experiences. Are you okay with using your inbox as a to-do list, or does it feel too cluttered? How do you keep track of tasks that come from your emails?

In the spirit of full disclosure, I've been exploring this topic in depth as part of a project I'm working on: dojj.io

We're looking at ways to streamline this process, using AI to help manage tasks more effectively.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on this topic. Have you found any strategies or tools that help you manage your inbox tasks effectively? Any insights would be really valuable.

Looking forward to hearing from you!
It disappoints me to see anyone discussing this on technical merits when the whole thing is a laughably bad idea. It really just needs to be buried into the ground before it gets started.
> I'd think this was a parody of a thread full of emacs users.

Haha! Indeed! Let me just clarify what I meant. I have a personal information management (email, calendar & contacts) where all information is stored locally and offline. The advantage is that I will never be locked out of my own data. However, this setup has so many components for syncing the info online and to interact with it. Quite frankly many of those components should be integrated into a single application. For example, mbsync can sync mail to a mail directory. But it needs go-imapnotify to trigger it when I receive a new mail. It's so frustrating that I considered writing those applications myself.

In short, Emacs has nothing to do with the complexity. Instead, Org-mode and emacs has actually allowed me to manage that complicated configuration in one place, with lots of documentation. The draw.io diagram was for the information flow between different software components for the PIM and email setup - not for Emacs itself.

Coming back to the complicated setup for PIM, I see a lot of new developments that promises to make it simpler. Hopefully, I won't need the org-mode power in the future to rein in the complexity.
> No, the point was that the leading edge will stop advancing when it can no longer compete economically with companies that sell mature nodes.

The "mature node" here will just be the one before the first node that doesn't make economic sense anymore. And this will be from a leading edge company, most likely TSMC. Say, if 2nm is too expensive compared to 3nm, then TSMC will stick with 3nm.
This is pretty much true for almost all of crypto.
> and they incentive verbal diarrhea by making the winners the one who can produce the most 'correct' arguments in the least amount of time

No, this may happen at low-level tournaments which still have lay/'mommy' judges, but no actual high-preff'd tournament judges are giving out ballots based on the number of arguments run.

Policy is a back-and-forth activity, and whatever arguments are made in the constructives have to actually hold up to the responses to them. If a team is running 9 T arguments, and the Aff team doesn't address their shitty "'The' means a specific singular entity, so using only one part of the USFG is a violation' T argument but covers 3 of the actual strong ones and runs a T-abuse argument as well, no judge is handing Neg the ballot for that.

And none of that is even beginning to touch on Condo (conditionality), which is a whole area of theory arguments specifically addressing Neg running arguments that they don't extend (and why they shouldn't be allowed to). That's especially effective when they're doing some kind off-case abuse like T or competing CPs.

Also, what do you mean "argument that is spread"? You either spread your speech or you don't. No one spreads arguments individually.
This vaguely reminds me of self-image problems vs. unreasonably beauty standards that we mainly associate with young women.

It’s definitely quite different in that everyone in public sees a girl’s face and the shape of her body, whereas penises are hidden by default. Also the “toxic” standard for women is everywhere across media, whereas excepting pure pornography penises are rarely and briefly shown.

But these stories are so sad. These men feel ashamed of their bodies for not “measuring up” — is this phrase itself perhaps a link between penis size and masculinity/value that is ingrained into our very language?

There has been a big effort for years to call out the harms of, e.g., airbrushing in advertising, to push for including more plus-sized models, and to generally expand the notion of beauty for women.

I don’t think there’s any such effort to claim that, say, all penises are beautiful, all men are attractive, and so on. The mere suggestion seems utterly foreign to our conception of manhood. We have billionaires and presidents still boasting about their penises. What a crazy thing to make a point of pride and shame.
I’ve been a remote engineer for over a decade, but only recently switched to a hybrid schedule on Tuesdays and Thursdays. IMO, these two days are effectively useless for any kind of productive technical work. There are simply too many visual distractions, interruptions, and a complete lack of comfort in an office.

…But I do enjoy these in-office days for what they make up for in remote work: Face to face chats; Real time human bonding; A sense of place. The office is just a socially accepted excuse to get everyone out of their homes and together for a few hours.

I’m especially grateful that our cofounders understand why we should actually be at the office, and that any expectation of “being more productive” is nothing more but a polite fiction. Ironically, our two days in the office are mostly spent just outside the building. Technical chats over lunch, 1 on 1 meetings as a walk around the neighborhood, and drinks in the evening. That’s what hybrid should be. I’ll send my pull requests at 3 am while in my comfy chair at home.

As for the commercial real estate market, I truly believe they’re fucked in the long run. There aren’t enough jobs like my Montessori arrangement that justify all the buildings in their portfolio. Hell, we couldn’t even go back to full-office because our team is so distributed!

Personally, I think this is commodification coming back to bite short-term economics applied to financial districts. We don’t need a Chipotle on every corner. We don’t need another $20 box salad store.

We need neighborhoods that people want to be in for reasons other than work!

I’m guessing that in the coming months there’s gonna be talks of a real estate bailout. Investors have entwined their holdings into everyone’s retirement plans, and will no doubt appear on the nightly news wearing a vest made out of dynamite. They will threaten to take us all down with them.

Such a shame that they’ve over-leveraged their position. Did they forget that we already have nothing to lose? The irony will be lost on them.
Personally, I think that it's the copyright assignment that's the biggest barrier. For someone who figured out how to use Emacs, it shouldn't be very hard to figure out how to use a mailing list too.
Tarsnap preforms asymmetric encryption which lets you perform automated backups without needing to enter any passwords (or otherwise storing your encryption passwords in plain text).

Tarsnap does full deduplication across all backups for any given "machine", while still letting you independently remove any snapshots you like. i.e. no special "full snapshot" that must always be kept around, and no need for multiple full snapshots that have no deduplication between them.
this is a great idea thank you
> if you also provide say a per capita dividend

Or offset by reducing other taxes, like sales tax. This would be more of a tax-shifting strategy.
I remember getting an interview question wrong when I said "yeah a get is supposed to just respond with data but you're writing it, you can make it do whatever you want"
The post office has never not been amazing, I don’t understand the people who rally against that. I hate FedEx and UPS far far more.
Which kinds of food are supplemented by default varies from country to country.

While table salt is supplemented by default with iodine almost everywhere, flour and milk are supplemented by default only in a few countries and I consider that this is a very good thing and that they should not have been supplemented by default anywhere.

This forced supplementation is stupid, because it will not achieve an appropriate daily intake, except for a few people who happen to eat a certain amount of floor and milk, while for all the others it will be either too much or too little.

The right way to help the poor is to subsidize the price of vitamins and essential minerals, not to waste them by adding them to a certain kind of food, so that everyone who eats something else will not get them.

And the argument that the government should supplement some food ingredients because people have become too stupid to eat what they should, is even more ridiculous. Even supposing that modern people have become more helpless than their ancestors, so they would not be able to identify or catch anything edible when left alone in a forest, that does not mean that they should not be able to at least have the survival skill of buying the right food from a supermarket.

If it is believed that most people are not capable even of doing that, then they should be educated instead of hoping that the solution is that the state should feed them with food ingredients whose composition they no longer understand.

There certainly are few things more important for any human to know, than how to choose what to eat, in order to not die and to remain healthy.
Changes in Emacs 29
Debugging the keyboard navigation in your QML application
Click on any stone to make two new stones
No, “the left” did not. They had upper 50s in terms of number of votes that would probably go along with the party, but they were shy of the 60 votes needed, hence the various compromises such as grandfathering old non ACA compliant plans, lack of public option, and “religious” exemptions for plans that do not insure anything.

And they only had that for 6 months in latter half of 2009.
I am wondering though: capitalism functions because of comparitive advantage. What happens when comparitive advantage vanishes in the realm of most people except the 0.1% in the tech companies.

It's almost as if AI/technology is reaching a phase where it can reap every advantage, causing a sort of heat death analogous to the heat death in thermodynamics, where trade will eventually cease because no one has any meaningful contribution since AI can do it better.

Maybe this will create a system where no one has to do any work and UBI will take care of everyone, but humans need a purpose and what happens to society when there is mass depression due to a widespread lack of purpose?
If you haven't seen it, Accidentally Quadratic has a tumblr documenting those kinds of things. https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/
> It will make humanity even more efficient and give us even more space to grow, but the biosphere will still be in trouble and all that clean energy will make people consume even more of earth's resources.

The global population will soon be contracting. The UN puts the bump somewhere at the end of the century but their hypothesis are completely crazy and most specialists think it will be sooner.
Does someone knows of a software that can estimate pipeline flushes, execution unit saturation, memory bandwidth and latency limits etc. for a given cpu?

Like:
simulate a.out

And it would give me a report for each line of code and tell me everything that happened on that line. Was it a cache miss? False sharing? Etc.

I would pay a lot for that software.
What does "value culture over money even mean?" I'd rather get paid more and work with people who are clock punching professionals than somewhere where "we're all a family".
Reading only the parts you need sounds awfully like consulting the docs, source, or talking to other people (stack overflow, Reddit, etc falls into this category for me).
In the menu bar, click “Options” → “Manage Emacs Packages”. Install whatever packages you like. You can even configure third-party package repositories.
subtitles can be anything you want if you have an editor with subtitle functionality. it could be the dialogue from the video; it could be "thought bubbles" for the characters, or just ascii strings of whatever code.

in a "good enough" sense end user subtitled video has potential use for steganographic methods.
I managed to fit my snake game into 100 bytes
We don't need to eliminate suburbia by fiat, we just need to build way more urbia.

See https://www.niskanencenter.org/sprawl-can-be-good-actually-e... where calling it "sprawl" is actually a massive troll because promoting walkable small towns connected by rail as they have in Europe (or America in the ~1920s) is nothing at all like our car-oriented sprawl.
You are clearly beyond the reach of reason, but maybe this explanation will be useful for people reading this thread.

The issue is that this ad vitiates therapy as such - if therapy is presented as a way to get dates with hot girls, it can't be a way to help you resolve serious problems. This isn't the case with, e.g., Axe body spray.

As an analogy: you would, I hope, be revolted by a funeral company that advertised their funerals as a place to meet girls at a time when they're emotionally vulnerable, and would not excuse it as presenting their product as "something that will make your life better, or make you fit in, or make you more attractive to others".

As the original article went into in detail:

> The above advertisement, which I think premiered in 2022, takes the medical tool of therapy and renders it a bit of dating-market gamesmanship, something bros just have to get on board with in order to hook up with high-value gals. I don’t expect a 30-second advertisement to reflect the reality that therapy is a frequently-adversarial process, that it’s at times uncomfortable by design, that it only works for certain kinds of problems, or that there are times when it can actually exacerbate them. ... What really gets to me is how a therapy company is going out of its way to make therapy appear so trivial, how the characters appear deliberately portrayed as unserious people and therapy so unapologetically represented as just a dating-market football. The commercial is somehow both grandiose about therapy’s purpose and dismissive about therapy’s actual use.
The only chance we have is to fix everything at once, as soon as possible. The big rewrite or the really hard crash.

The more complex the system you have (and our civilization is pretty complex), the less is enough to take it out of balance, and to cause complete collapse. Those 'devastating ecological disasters' might not give us any time to fix anything then (large scale crop failures, for example).

The data shows that the changes in the environment are starting to speed up. The changes will be faster and faster, and nobody knows how fast it will deteriorate. Cascading tipping points make predicting the future extremely hard.

I'm also scared for future generations. But I think that those who'll be there when the shit hits the fan were already born.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNYp6oc37ds ;)
Might be, from what I read it is. The republicans, but correct me if I am wrong, do not even pretend to care. Just jobs >> environment, wealth >> environment, USA >> planet etc. If that is not true, please enlighten me what the Bush dynasty (isn’t that oil?) or Trump ever said about the planet. I mean sure many Clinton and Obama did nothing but at least they appeared worried; the former is worse.

Unless they said it but messed up more, but that doesn’t seem to be the case.
> but nowadays we have luxuries

Who's we?

I know I am living a privileged comfortable life, yes. I am certain many people in my chosen profession as a software dev do.

But I also know that there are alot more people struggling to provide basic necessities for their families, despite working 40+h per week. And I am not talking about cellphones here. I am talking about a roof over ones head, clothes on ones back, food on the table and medical services.
Is performance any better than 28 on Mac？ I recently tried putting 28 on my work M1 and magit diffing on the status screen, where you can roll up diff hunks by hitting minus, was unusably slow on large files. My own Linux laptop has no such problem.
What's more confounding about this than translating between any other two formats?
>there is no “password reset” when it comes to iris data

This is the most critical part, I think. If my Iris scan is leaked (which is not hard to do, from modified Orbs, similar to credit card skimmers, to mobsters scanning people's irises under threat of death), my identity will be stolen and I can't do anything about it. Do they have at least some sort of 2FA?
> I haven't participated in this kind of program

So you have no idea what you're talking about.
Death to crypto, let it end already.
Except in the referendum, many of those “Don’t knows” turned into “Leave.”

My point is that you can’t just read a poll and confidently declare there’s popular support for rejoining the EU.
I've found very few in many years' use. You may be a more competent user than I. Please report bugs, the devs are very responsive.