skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a large amount of precedence, that's why. Rather than asking the room, one would think the first step would be to obtain information and inform yourself.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5753965/

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34022259/

https://theconversation.com/natural-supplements-can-be-dange...
What's wrong with fructose? Surely not all fruit is unhealthy.
Looking forward to Colin's rebuttal, "What I would do if I ran Bingo Card Generator for a while and then quit"
Do you have a source for that? Because while looking up this spinach thing I've come across half a dozen websites, most of them from health institutes that look fairly responsible, stating leafy greens do have calcium. Although in the case of spinach it's barely absorbed, apparently

https://www.myfooddata.com/articles/high-calcium-vegetables....
Looks good. For me, the best recent feature is native compilation so Emacs feels super fast and responsive. I often use macOS and I wonder is going to GTK will help a lot there?
I was completely unaware of this, and yet they collaborate with each other? Do you have potential sources for this?
I kind of agree with this in that WIMP is a good philosophy for desktop UI design, and I feel that mobile has never really had the equivalent (hamburger menus falling out of fashion being the apotheosis of chasing rainbows IMHO)

But I feel we need only point to Microsoft Word as an example of how the statement.

>Everything was so clear, neat, and discoverable back then

just isn't true. The only difference now is that we have dozens of pieces of software in our lives now instead of the half dozen we used in the 90s, and we don't have one company monopolistically decreeing what the status quo of UI design is.

Meaningful competition is also why I think there is no WIMP in mobile. And that's a double-edged sword.
Such a pity GTK3 and later aren't intended to be themeable, and the devs make no release-to-release compatibility guarantees for the theme engines.

If this only affected Gnome, I wouldn't mind so much. But so many regular non-Gnome apps I use are GTK-based, even if I pick a different DE (which I do), I can't personalise my own user experience in a way that's consistent. The UX I keep behind a password, so I doesn't matter if anyone else would get confused if they tried to use it, because they can't.

I can still try to pick QT-based desktop apps where possible. And for some fairly simple apps, there are both GTK and QT implementations (e.g. calculators), so that's feasible. But a lot of apps have one main implementation in their niche, and you either have no choice, or if you pick the one with fewer developers some features just aren't there.

I really feel like we've lost something significant from where things were 15-odd years ago.
Not sure why people downvote jokes lol
I wish I could have a very long discussion of this. It is my belief that people think they want new stuff because marketing has told them that. The corporate internet is like someone took that process and welded their finger to the fast forward button, endless iterations of pointless redesigns, galaxies of UXes that only a few people in Boise Iowa ever visited, it's nuts.

I want the internet back where everything looked like that phpbb stuff. You just got the information then. Now you have to solve the CCS/JS puzzle first.
Big Tobacco’s push to sell nicotine pouches in UK
Yeah, I think a lot of us looking at this must be wondering how we can be part of this university.

Even famously conservative universities like U. Chicago have plenty of this stuff going on.
> Democracies cannot fail, only the people in it do.

I think this is false if only because the premise of Democracy is so poorly defined. What are we voting on? Why? Who is "we"?

Am I allowed to call a vote to strip you of your property?
Am I allowed to call a vote to tell you what to eat?
Am I allowed to call a vote to tell what to do or where to go?

Why or why not? We have laws today that do all of these things. What does "failure" mean?
I mean most of the really rich are rich from investments.

Unless you're arguing that the banks and large companies are breaking the law by avoiding their reporting requirements to the IRS (to what benefit?) that makes no sense.
I am utterly confused by your various statements, which seem to contradict each other:

> I have had the same choices:

> 1. Being risk averse by taking cash up front and choosing to negotiate based on a maximum up front payment

> I chose to work for a public company that gave me less than market value in exchange for stock that gives me residual rights to income from the company. I could just as well as chosen to work for a company that paid me up front in cash my market.

> I choose to accept my total compensation because while the reward is lower so are the risks.
(I wrote this comment as a _reaction_ to yours -- it turned out not to be a _response_ to it, so I apologise if I seem to put words in your mouth.)

I have this idea rummaging about that I have never quite seen articulated in these discussions.

The earnings of "rich friends" are often seen as a singular, isolated achievement, and fairness is then discussed as relative to that: "they earned it, so is it fair to take X%?"

It seems to me that society at large facilitates those earnings. The roads that their workers drive on, the water facility that supplies the school that their employees send their children to. The unemployment safety net that lets employees take risks and take the job of the industrialist... The list is endless.

All this is the net sum of what was _also_ given to (taken by?) the person that makes a billion dollars. In this context I think the "fairness" argument against taxation becomes weaker.
Well, it's right for the leading edge. The point is that they will stop scaling chips before technical limits are reached.
Economic limits are imaginary, secondhand effects of the ideological goggles one's society decides to wear at a certain time for arbitrary reasons. USA during the Manhattan Project knew of no economic limits, i.e. they could arbitrarily push them according to the greater goal; China today, for instance, knows no economic limits. But yes, today, in the "Western" world a speech such as "we choose to get 160 zetaflops (10^21) [1] under your desk in 10 years because it is hard" [2] would be unimaginable, also because you can count on the fingers of an amputated arm how many politicians know what a FLOP is.

[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/04/26/a-per...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon
You don't really know it's the most important until you have reason to believe it's true, though.
Google’s DeepMind team highlights new system for teaching robots novel tasks
How does this impact storage? Conduction (as in the superconducting) is charge flow, storage is generally static charge. Is this some sort of new storage system which somehow has a benefit by constantly moving charge? But wouldn't this generate losses due to the magnetic field interactions?
FWIW it's a beautiful plant. I grow it every year just for the flowers, which have an amazing scent. A humid evening after a rain, the garden at night with the flower scent. Quite lovely.

I've tried curing and smoking the leaves, but without the right facilities it doesn't go too well and doesn't produce anything close to the quality of store bought pipe tobacco.
Einstein's Relativity was called "fake Jew science". In national newspaper.

But you have to also understand every discovery is met with skepticism, because 99.9999999% of them turn out BS.

Ideally, humanity would cut it out with the idiotic hot takes (both rejecting and glorifying the paper... based on "hunches") and review the paper and try to reproduce. Unfortunately that's hard. While idiotic hot takes are easy.

And we like easy things.
Based on reading comments here, it seems the general overuse of sugar has made people forget that sugar in adequate amounts at appropriate times is good for you. If you have low blood sugar because you just ran five miles, eating sugar — and thus inducing an insulin response which replenishes the energy of your muscle cells — is a good thing.

Sitting on your ass all day eating sugar, however, is not.
Book bannings seem pretty popular in the offline-world of the US as well, not sure it's an online-only thing.
Running Docker containers in network isolation with proxied traffic
Epic is something entirely different.
I got a dell XPS 15 for work, 2022 one. 32gb 12700h. It’s slow and loud. Especially compared to my personal laptop. Not enough to be annoying tho. But then IT decided they want some software installed to make sure they can monitor for bad processes. Wow it’s annoyingly slow now for development because every process is analysised.
Apples and oranges.

Road safety is increased in countries with more regulations - there is direct evidence across the (developed) world.

Drugs is an entirely different problem that has way more factors that make comparisons between countries rather difficult.

And just because drugs are regulated AND an increasing doesn't mean that the problem is resolved by less regulation. Maybe there is just a need for different / adjusted regulations.
See also:

* https://ffmpeg.guide/ — create complex FFmpeg filtergraphs quickly and correctly

* https://www.hadet.dev/ffmpeg-cheatsheet/ — clipping, adding fade in/out, scaling, concat, etc
I wonder how British-built Aeolus turned out to be, the initial prime contractor in 2003 was to a UK company, but by the time it was actually launched in 2018 it was Airbus that was the prime...
> I can't believe that the most important discovery of my lifetime is surrounded by this cloud of uncertainty.

This is because you are a witness and obviously past discoveries are read in books just as a facts. Even when there is a story, the story doesn't have the "resolution" to mimic every hour, day, weeks, etc of the event. And in such great events, even if they don't work but the people involved think they work, there is great greed. Pure Shakespeare?

Borges wrote in Funes the Memorious [1] "Two or three times he had reconstructed an entire day; he had never once erred or faltered, but each reconstruction had itself taken an entire day." [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funes_the_Memorious

[2] https://formazione.indire.it/paths/jorge-luis-borges-funes-h...
Pretty sure the client feature parity problem is inherent to open ecosystems with many vendors with varying priorities and budgets. Just look at the web back when there were more browsers in the game, or email clients etc.
Sidekiq NV100: Wideband RF transceiver in M.2 2280 form factor with FPGA and GPS
I am pretty sure that it was meant "unintentionally". I would say that nobody has killed another person with a shovel unintentionally since shovels exist (maybe injure). OK maybe one since shovels exist /s
I'm sorry but CO2 being the primary driver of climate change was predicted in the 50s. Back then it was just a hypothesis and now it is undeniable.

Meanwhile the competition that was "bullied into submission" made ridiculous claims like global cooling all the way until 2014.

Inform yourself about a topic before talking about it.

Here is the ancient paper: [1]

If you check the prediction in the abstract it mentions doubling CO2 levels, which means going from 310ppm (1955) [2] to 417ppm today or a 33% increase. The paper predicts a 3.6°C increase and 33% of that is around 1.18°C which is dead on.
The temperature record goes back to 1880 but when you look at the relative warming then 1950 and 1880 had the same temperature [3] so it doesn't matter that IPCC numbers start from 1880 instead of 1950.

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2153-3490....

[2] https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/daviz/atmospheric-co...

[3] https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/ContentWOC/images/globalte...
If you apply validation, testing, document the protocol and use decent serialisation rather than string combinations, it's really not that bad. I'd even argue that it's better than JSON.

However, it was popular during a time when C++ (not C++11) was the language to go to, CI was a very manual process for most companies, CD was something only very small companies could do, and protocols were vague. Had we had JSON during the same time period, JSON would now be considered a terrible standard we should just abandon.
At some point XML was everywhere: Deployment descriptors (j2ee), build files (ant), xHTML, debug log files (log4j), word documents, RPCs (xmlrpc up to the soap monster) etc ... One of the key point of having a textual format was its human readability but a lot of those forced use cases were not good for XML (like RPCs!) where it became as readable as binary. This what gave it its bad reputation. There are some niches where it survived when it was done well as a structured description language (SVG is excellent for example) but all the "schema less" craze right after the XML craze kind of killed it for its original purpose structured documents.
What kind of negative effects? Cognitive ones?
> I've noticed a cognitive decline in myself the past couple years.

How have you measured? I know people do decline cognitively in old age, but 30s is still young. I wonder if people only think they were sharper when younger. I knew much less in my 20s and made tons of mistakes. The mind has a peculiar way of highlighting good memories and downplaying the bad. The person I was in my 20s would not be able to do my current job.
This seems unfairly aggressive. GP asked what the downside is to preventatively taking l-arganine as a supplement, your quote addresses only whether it's required.

In short, you can't test your own blood so you don't know when your levels may be low. If there were no downsides to constantly supplementing then what reasons may there be to not do this?

That is I think the actual question.
'Access' copies are versions of originals intended for viewing, in contrast to the original ('preservation') video which may be impractically large to use, or in an unusual format.

(At least that is how the term is used by collections librarians. Even there terminology may vary)
Look up Bhramari Pranayama. Humming directly increases nitric oxide levels.
Patio11 is a professional advice giver, while cperciva makes a living running a niche service. The ability to give eloquent and persuasive advice is professionally valuable to the giver, but should not be mistaken for domain expertise. It's important when running a business to lash yourself to the mast sometimes and not listen to people without direct experience or skin in the game.
Potentially the most important discovery of your lifetime. Subtle but important difference.
That's less a question and more "click here to see my project"
The subject of the last typewriter shop in Melbourne, Australia made for a great article and documentary. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-10-02/tom-hanks-letter-melb...
One wonders about gut biome and whether any microorganisms there have any effect on this.

One also wonders how humanity can adapt to dramatically extended lifetimes without obliterating our planet.
I am just curious, but what do you feel defining these three common terms, surely all well known to anyone who'd read HN, adds to the discussion?
> Nitrate-Rich Diet: Consuming foods high in nitrates, such as beetroot, leafy greens, and other vegetables, might promote the production of nitric oxide.

I don't think maximizing dietary nitrate is a good idea, since the nitrite that's an intermediate in this pathway is definitely carcinogenic (forming nitrosamines).
It has been said by many on this site before: you pay a consultant to tell you what you want to hear and to tell you the things you fears others might not want to hear.

Next step is then to say “it wasn’t me, the consultant said it!” To deflect all criticism.

And it works. So why change the system?
How the Python team is adapting the language for an AI future (Ep. 593)
JetBrains forgot this memo, as it requires you to configure svn.exe in order for it to work. And usually TortoiseSVN is the way to go for subversion...
> Why's it considered so bad?

The human margin of error is greater in XML implementations and usage compared to say, JSON. Here's a famous 0-day in Apple devices due to inconsistencies between XML parsers: https://blog.siguza.net/psychicpaper/
There is no use in making chips that are not cost effective.
You may be misinterpreting a technical term. "Debt" is everything in economy. You make me a coffee, I am in debt to you for $1, take my note if you accept legal tender. Which I assumed you must if you are a legal business.
the internet brings out the worst of people
It doesn’t become weaker unless you can cogently express a limiting principle to your argument:

- Why isn’t it fair to take 99% of the highest earners’ income?

- Why isn’t it fair to take 50% of the median earner’s income? They, too, drive on roads and send their children to school.
it’s microsoft

what else would you expect?
No one is saying they aren't important or not needed. The point here is that there is a very large disproportionate focus on "not leaving children behind" while the gifted children are left to suffer. We just want gifted children to get the get just a little sliver of the same attention as badly performing students.
https://archive.is/8vgyo
I’m a doctor and have used Epic and other EMRs extensively. The most accurate thing I can say is that Epic is the least horrible EMR available. It’s probably a 3/10 overall while everything else is much worse.
> at 10x the cost

And that's comparing to S3 Standard. Infrequent Access is 2x cheaper than that, and Glacier Instant Retrieval 6x (if your files aren't tiny).
https://archive.is/GnW1W
> an airline or railway that on transitioning from all refundable tickets to a split of non-refundable and refundable tickets ended up making non-refundable tickets measurably cheaper (in the long run)

I don’t know how long is the long run for you, but Delta is right now offering RT to Vegas for $444 non-refundable and $638 refundable. I didn’t go check all the other carriers, but I definitely recall tickets with more flexibility (sometimes including refundable, other times creditable) being sold at higher prices than less flexible tickets.

As a buyer that makes sense to me; it costs money to provide flexibility; it’s worth it to some buyers but not all, so buyers can opt into the level of flexibility that matches their preferences.
Try & view compute power as order of magnitude, vs. what useful things can be done with it.

Something containing ~100k transistors, ~10KB RAM & flash, running at a few MHz in a power envelope measured in milliWatts, has production cost (and environmental footprint) of practically 0 these days. But still enough brains to control your washing machine, monitor solar panel or open garage door w/ remote.

A few steps up & you have epaper equipped tablet that allows you to read books, simple games or check weather forecast, doing so for days or weeks on battery power.

On the other end of the scale you have datacenters, supercomputers & their energy + manufacturing footprint. With desktop PC's, laptops & game consoles somewhere in between.

When choosing between:

a) Apply budget, see how much CPU, GPU, RAM etc. that buys you, and deal with physical size + power draw / thermals, these days I go for

b) Pick physical size + power budget, see what kind of CPU / GPU / RAM etc you can shoehorn in there @ what cost, and just deal with the limitations of such device (if perceived as limiting, that is).

It's amazing what a Raspberry Pi sized computer (or further down, a modern uC) can do these days. Lean software does exist. No clunky desktop needed if you just want to play PacMan. :-)
It is unfairly aggressive and they did this twice just in this thread. The other was here:

> There's a large amount of precedence, that's why. Rather than asking the room, one would think the first step would be to obtain information and inform yourself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36930036

I don't know why this person feels the need to roam around the conversation policing how people are engaging in it. It's incredibly obnoxious. Especially frustrating given that they do seem to have some information to share, which they could do and just omit the completely gratuitous and unwarranted hostility.
They need to Champagnify that
During the days of XML being the first JSON, the libraries available for handling XML documents were rather obtuse and pedantic. The view was that two XML entities that just had all the same names and values, but we're defined in different namespaces, were not the same entity. Everyone was pushing for the nost strict interpretation of things, under the idea that "stricter is safer".

So you couldn't just read and write a smattering of tags and attributes and expect anything to work. You needed to know what namespace each went in. There were rules about which ones required prefixes and which didn't. You needed very intimate knowledge of the data before you could ever read it, knowledge that may not have been easy to come by, given the documentation efforts were even worse back then than they are now.

And then JSON came around and said "screw all that, just overload the scripting engine itself to do parsing directly". Early JSON wasn't a standard, it was just a technique of taking a response body and calling `eval()` on it. It was wildly dangerous and--as most wildly dangerous things--incredibly freeing and intoxicating.

These days, the XML story has gotten better. Some newer versions of processing libraries are not as strict about namespacing--they will let you spit out whatever tag soup you want without being so officious. But the damage was done and now XML has a reputation.
We can all prompt ChatGPT.

Littering the web with its output is against good netizenship. I understand it's inevitable and a matter of time, but it's still aggravating.
How does Dino compare to Conversations when it comes to XEP support? There used to be a website that gave a quick overview of XMPP servers and clients but I can't find it for the life of me and I don't feel like doing a side by side comparison of two giant tables of XEP codenames...
I clearly made a point of inquiring why the behaviour was performed, it was an honest inquiry, I am genuinely curious.

For what it is worth, my context is that I have seen the behavior of asking the room, or even just throwing out conjecture to the room, without properly doing research beforehand, to be a common flaw within computer scientists and within "tech workers" as a demographic. I had to put up for a whole year with one person making up what was complete and absolute nonsense through first principle reasoning, rather than just reading a 101 Sociology book, which would have answered all his questions effectively and with some basis in research. It is also something I see commonly within the Hacker News comments -- someone will ask a generic question to people in Hacker News, rather than doing even a cursory form of searching first. I do not understand the idea implied through this behaviour, that a random tech worker will know more than people whose job is to study the questions that are being asked, and so I resolved to ask this person, taking care to be polite, why they choose to engage in this behaviour.
I'm 100% with OP. Also lived in NYC for 10 years without a car. I had everything I needed within a 10 minute walk including my commute to work. Have you ever seen a family struggle to get two strollers down to a subway?

After having kids , a single family house and a car is 100% better.

After reading most of the replies in this thread I'm guessing it is mostly filled with younger people without kids... notice I'm saying mostly, not all.
GPT4 Can Play Chess