skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The principal is correct: "the bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction."

But perhaps you feel there is an second implicit, prescription: "Your abstractions should be strong."

And that's not necessarily true. To every thing there is a season. Excessive abstraction is astronaut architecture.

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The principal is a good one.

The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction.

That's not to say big interfaces are bad or inappropriate. It's just to say they aren't strong abstractions, so don't expect them to be.
Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner, safer and longer-lasting
Nah. Speaking from experience as a scientist, drama increases with the magnitude of impact. This is far from any confirmation that the result is real, but it's quite consistent with the authors believing it's real.
+1 in fact it's hard to think of a statement that's less in need of a citation.
In the past i used SQS where the client can extend the TTL of a given message (or lock in this case?) while it is still alive. Isn’t that possible with Redis?
I’d be curious to know how you arrived at this opinion, as it doesn’t match my experience as a competitive debater in college. Have you ever been on a debate team or is this from observing? I’m genuinely curious!

To refute your points a bit :) ->

1. Debate itself is highly stressful, but pressure makes diamonds as they say. My time in debate made defending my honors thesis much less stressful and I’m a very calm presenter as a result.

2. This is exactly what debate research forces you to do. You may not get to choose your side, but you’ve done your best to prep in either direction. You get very good at understanding if the evidence provided has any gaps, and if it supports the impacts claimed.

3. Debaters do read judge profiles to understand the audience and determine strategy.

4. This is a major part of prep, as naturally you need to prepare both sides and understand the counter arguments at least 2-3 levels deep.

5. This occurs often, as mentioned in the article linked above. Ks and counter plans allow debaters to reframe the topic in many ways.

On your last paragraph: I experienced the opposite. Debate made me realize how ambiguous most issues are. While one team does win, the decision basis is often nuanced.

I will say that for my part, debate had a profound impact on my life. It taught me how to research, consider unintuitive perspectives, and articulate a point.

My research in debate directly led to a fellowship, honors thesis, and mentorship - all outside of debate. I leveraged my academic success into a great career and owe a lot to the skills I picked up on my college debate team.
What's your point? Cheese doesn't cause heart attacks. Cholesterol in the arteries isn't caused by cheese consumption.
Not exactly a budget tab, but I've found the S8 Ultra (and the S7 FE before that) to be pretty great. The S8U managing to make having a laptop entirely unnecessary (since I'd only need a laptop away from home and I mainly WFH).

With Android there has been a long period of stagnation with only Samsung doing custom stuff like DeX, multi-tasking stuff and striking deals with various productivity apps for Android ports to make Android viable for tablets, otherwise they're only very recently starting to come out of it with Google working on a Pixel Tab.
> By being able to argue for/against Kritiques, you gain the ability to quickly call out the fucking bullshit and go straight to the meat.

I'm not so sure about that. Because, if what Bodnick says is true, the judges never go for the meat but always vote for the sizzle. As she herself wrote, 'For example, many leftist judges will not accept a response to a Marxism kritik that argues that capitalism is good.' Sounds more like the K advocate (with the aid of the judge) is more interested in diffusing aromas than putting ribeye on the table.
Aquamation. It's basically like when murder victims get dissolved in a bathtub full of lye, except they charge you a ton to do it, and market it as a gentler alternative to cremation, because it uses less heat.
I switched my mom to a Chromebook and my dad got a tablet a few years ago because their Windows computers were just loaded with viruses for absolutely no reason. The chances of getting viruses or malware with those two types of devices were very slim, and yet, they figured out how to still get in trouble.

I always recommend Chromebooks to just about everyone simply because they remain fast and low on the virus level, yet they somehow still manage to either download a faulty extension or go to a website they do not belong. It can be annoying and I do wish these large manufacturers would figure out how to make better PCs for older people.

And I haven't had any issues and do have that peace of mind ever since I enabled the Authenticator app.
I used to have a smartphone, but never really liked calling people. So I decided to live without a phone altogether.
> Putting error nil checks into a function is an anti-pattern in Go.

I assume you mean into a helper function like I've done with check()? If so, I agree with you for normal "production" Go code. But for simple throw-away scripts you don't want half your code littered with error handling, when you could just throw a stack trace.

> There is no need to worry about the LOC count of your error checking code.

Well, it means some functions are more than half error handling, obscuring the guts of what a function actually does. Even the Go language designers agree that Go's error handling is too verbose, hence proposals like this from Russ Cox: https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draf... (there are many other proposals, some from the Go team)

> inb4 this ends up on pcj

im not shur wut pcj meenz
> In reality, only rich (and white) folks can afford to live in areas that are not car-dependent

It’s just artificial scarcity, like fine art.
>Today all existing API developers with a history of successful payments can access the GPT-4 API with 8K context.

My account at that time had not made any payments so it did not aplied to it.

>We plan to open up access to new developers by the end of this month, and then start raising rate-limits after that depending on compute availability.

They have not given access to me yet.
How much more efficient are superconducting mining rigs?
This was my experience as well. I went in fall of last year for four days to attend Blender (the 3D modeling software) Conference, and it was simply delightful. I walked to and from the conference center every day, took the metro a few times, got to ride the high-speed rail from the station that's literally integrated right into Schipol airport, and witnessed more bikers than I've ever seen in one place. All of this while the city and its infrastructure was clean, quiet, safe, and beautiful.

Then I came back to Los Angeles. For reference, one time while taking the metro I had to evacuate because one of the cars caught on fire and had smoke billowing out the windows. I wound up trapped near the Walk of Fame in Hollywood at roughly 11PM, because when I tried to catch a bus out of there, a bunch of idiots were parked directly in front of the bus stop and the bus driver was forced to just drive right past me because they couldn't pull over and stop. So then I hailed an Uber and had to wait nearly half an hour for it to arrive and pick me up because of how utterly packed the streets were with bumper-to-bumper cars.

I used to semi-jokingly tell my friends and family I wanted to move to Europe. Then I went to Amsterdam. Now I am dead serious when I tell my friends and family I want to move to Europe. Although, I'll probably go somewhere with slightly warmer weather than the Netherlands — Portugal and Spain are both high on my list of candidates currently.
I dunno, debate previously promoted a sort of detached both-siderism that matched an e.g. Clintonian "winning is more important than using wins to enact good policy" politics. Now the pendulum has swung to the other side.

Whatever. All this stuff is stupid college application padding and we should not think so hard about it.
For sure, but it's a bit weirder than that:
1) They applied for the patent in 2021, long before the current hype coming from Korea.
2) The patent was officially granted by the Patent Office on pretty much the same day as the Korean preprints were uploaded.
The patent is very clearly bunk, but the timing of the patent approval is an astronomical coincidence.
It's the 2017 one, thanks for the correction.
Art is expression, it exists outside of capitalism and has for thousands of years. Illustration can be a profession. It's not funny seeing seeing artists contextualize art as a purely capitalistic endeavor, it's depressing.

Anyway this was inevitable and I called it as soon as artists started demanding their removal from AI image sets, you can't stop some rando with a little money and time from fine tuning existing models on whatever images they want.
Haha, I can't deny that I love the catty drama that happens around the free software community. While I do wish people would get along better for the health of the project, I also suspect that these strong characters are why the movement hasn't been completedo taken over by corporate interests.
Not sure how new this is but very cool that users can host a node simply by toggling an iframe or installing a browser extension. I wonder if these methods have much lower bandwidth limitations than the CLI version
That was fun! (Though the "Oh yeah" sound file got old after a while...) I kept finding myself wanting to do "just one more." And the interface is terrific - great design.

One thing: it would've been nice if there were more space to put the pieces if/when you decided you had them in the wrong place, and wanted to take them back out and try something else...
Chromebooks seem to have replaced Android tablets, eg the Lenovo Duet.
No, for a myriad of reasons. Not the least of which being that investigative reporters have been systematically silenced within those countries, which is well-documented across a number of sources.

And to top it off, the US government isn't deciding who gets Pulitzers - that's an award granted by a private ivy league school.
I was absolutely NOT expecting the "Oh Yeah".
Read up on 'institutional capture'.
But I don't want to! I literally just walked to the store and it was in absoute perfect conditions - we wanted to go for a walk anyway, the weather is perfect (sunny but not hot), the store is 10min walk from my house, the neighborhood is nice and not drive-thru so there is ~0 non-local traffic. The plan was we go for a walk, and pop by a store and get one item. But as usual it never ends up being that way, so we had one paper bag of items - 6 pack of beer, some cheese, box of blueberries, nothing very heavy.

I am pretty fit, like I deadlift 280lbs :) and still walking with this stupid bag ruined the whole walk back. And it wasn't even much - if I replaced beer with food it would be like, 2-3 days worth.

I would have rather just finished the walk, then drove 3mins to the same store. In the most perfect conditions imaginable, with minimal amount of groceries. And what if it was 100F, or 32F, or raining, or I didn't want to go for a walk, or I needed to get some large items like sugar or rice or a gallon of milk or a lot of beer for a party?

Walking to a store is simply not an advantage at all. And if you go to even a poor country you can see most people agree - as soon as they can they start driving to big box stores, and small local stores die.

And regardless, even if (which I wouldn't grant) the majority would prefer to walk rather than drive, it's still SUBJECTIVE, not OBJECTIVE. A ton of people prefer to drive.
Angry Birds Cafe Pushes Video-Game Adaptations into the Mall
> The relevant metric is number complaints normalized by the relevant potential victim population.

It's obvious there's problems with either rate you'd choose for either task.

We have varying degrees of exposure / vulnerability within the populations. Neither one really directly leads to a "risk per unit of exposure of child" or "risk of a given person being an offender".

But it seems like you have some pretty motivated reasoning going on: it sure looks like religious organizations have not done well, and are relatively likely to be much worse per unit of youth exposure.
Ask HN: Share one man boring internet businesses
Hello HN,

What are some one man boring internet businesses you have encountered or know about
Sources to get the reader started?

Seems like the type of project that, originating out of defending against user-hostility or user-negligence, would have some (possibly overly?) passionate people behind it.
Right, how highschool debate should be structured is like this:

Two parties are given sets of random "belief statements" (e.g. "All zugs are wogs", "Some wogs aren't clogs"), and then both parties exchange statements over a limited amount of time, and they either both win, or both lose, depending on whether they can both find the logically inconsistent belief statement.

Because this is how we should mentally understand real-world debate.
I'm in the south too actually, about 45 minutes outside Birmingham, AL

I've seen cheaper housing in Birmingham as well, but I don't know some of those areas nearly as well and couldn't vouch for how nice or safe they actually are outside of listing photos online
"Add-on device makes home furnaces cleaner, safer and longer-lasting" (2023) https://www.ornl.gov/news/add-device-makes-home-furnaces-cle... :

> [...] Even modern high-efficiency condensing furnaces produce significant amounts of corrosive acidic condensation and unhealthy levels of nitrogen oxides, carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons and methane. These emissions are typically vented into the atmosphere and end up polluting our soil, water and air.

> Now, scientists at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an affordable add-on technology that removes more than 99.9% of acidic gases and other emissions to produce an ultraclean natural gas furnace. This acidic gas reduction, or AGR, technology can also be added to other natural gas-driven equipment such as water heaters, commercial boilers and industrial furnaces.

> “Just as catalytic converters help reduce emissions from billions of vehicles worldwide, the new AGR technology can virtually eliminate problematic greenhouse gases and acidic condensation produced by today’s new and existing residential gas furnaces,” said Zhiming Gao, staff researcher with ORNL’s Energy Science and Technology Directorate. “An eco-friendly condensate eliminates the need to use corrosion-resistant stainless steel materials for furnace heat exchangers, which reduces manufacturing costs.”

"Nondestructive neutron imaging diagnosis of acidic gas reduction catalyst after 400-Hour operation in natural gas furnace" (2023)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S13858...
The idea that we have to choose between helping struggler or gifted students is a false dilemma. Instead we should be asking why we aren’t allocating enough resources to education.
well the countries most affected by Japan's atrocities (including the second most populous country in the world) certainly don't see it as such.

if anything I would say that most of the world's population do not see it as much
Yes, a 'collapse' is inevitable. But you seem to be suggesting that it will go on 'collapsing', is that not correct? (Please correct me if my assumption is wrong.) Populations do not keep collapsing to zero; at some point the decline is reversed.

And a population 'collapse' is not necessarily bad for a country or a region in the long term. Indeed it can be rejuvenating in the long term. Europe suffered a massive population 'collapse' after the Black Death pandemics. This had the long term effect of making peasants' labour more valuable which ultimately led to the Industrial Revolution and the rise of a Middle Class.
Just use port and use SmartFirmware, a BSD-licensed IEEE-1275 Open Firmware implementation. It even includes a C to OF bytecode compiler for ease in porting drivers.
> If you switch on the Snowflake below and leave the browser tab open, a user can connect through your new proxy!

I am not even sure, if I am getting this right. If I embed an iframe in my website, traffic from Tor users will get tunneled through my user visitor's IP? How does consent works with relay.love? Does my website vistor's IP show up as TOR exit node?
GNU Boot seems to have sent it not for anything in Libreboot itself, but to adress a web page with self-proclaimed “unofficial” GNU Boot releases. They wanted it to stop proclaiming to be “unofficial GNU Boot” releases. Understandable, if a bit antagonistic.

EDIT: Courtesy of user jbit¹, this is the aforementioned web page:

<https://web.archive.org/web/20230719185342/https://libreboot...>

1. <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36927233>
I was thinking hardware for this idea. Actually I was thinking a Lord of the Flies situation where they all had an LLM to talk to and it became an oracle of sorts. It's just an idea, I'm not throwing any capital towards it.
You kind of just described the job description of a modern "machinist". It's far more of a job regarding the machine itself (CNC in this case) and it's setup, versus the part itself being made. A mechanical engineer or manufacturing engineer deals moreso with that. Machinist is more synonymous with "operator" in my field.
Twice. They have to hit the molten droplet twice.

Once "gently" to deform it briefly into a concave shape, and the second, harder pulse to actually activate the droplet to emit extreme ultraviolet light

Asianometry on EUV. Skip to 10m50s. https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw
> you just can’t win

This is correct. On the internet you really can’t win because it’s not a debate, or even a conversation with another individual. You’re talking to an anonymous mob of unknown size and composition.
> They don't have their own car mode or messaging, they use Android Auto and Google Messages.

As of late 2021 when I got my last Samsung this was not the case for the default messaging app. I thought driving mode (not Android Auto alternative) was different too but I do feel less confident about that.
Not going to happen. Remember, TSMC manufactures chips for Apple, Nvidia, AMD, Google, and a looot of other companies. They own about 60% of the cutting-edge fab capacity in the world, while Intel was basically an "also ran" during the transition to EUV.

ASML is never going to tie themselves to a single customer like that, let alone one which isn't even the market leader. High-NA is a massive technological change, and all the major players have already ordered their machines. Intel was simply the first to complete their order in a desperate attempt to avoid a repeat of their EUV debacle, but they'll receive their new toy at most a month or two earlier than their competition.
The actual Article Title is; ‘I’ve never seen anything like this’: Illegal medical lab discovered in Reedley

Not the click-baity title submitted be the poster.
Copyright laws just need to be shrunk back significantly. Then nobody is gaining income from it. No residuals, no licenses.
Friends, not only is there room for two boots in the world, we need that many if we want to get anywhere.
See also:

- "Single Atom [Palladium] Catalyst Could Cut Methane Pollution 90% from Millions of Engines" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926784
As a commentary on games and people, I played five iterations, I knew the correct answer for every iteration but got every iteration of gameplay 'wrong' as each time the first card I clicked on wasn't the answer I was pretty sure was correct, but the word I knew least about ..

It started with wanting to look up "Captology" which was clearly a much more recent term than Barnum's There's a sucker born every minute.

I had no intention to click, I really wanted to highlight and search rather than play.
Even when media covers it, voters tend not to care, or get mad at being asked to care - consider the meteorologist who resigned from doing TV weather reports due to the death threats from viewers who objected to being told climate change was a factor in weather systems.
Obviously we don't have the full context of prior communication, but the message screenshot is super passive aggressive ("just a little reminder you're not a maintainer" when obviously both parties are aware, "you're welcome to send us patches that we will review if we want to" very implying that the patches might just be ignored). It's possible the libreboot author also wasn't communicating professionally either, but I don't think that really warrants a response like that either. If you actually want to convince someone to cease doing something, it seems better to just to stick to cold, formal language; writing something like this makes it seem more like an attempt to rile someone up rather than an attempt at legal enforcement.
Must be having massive midlife nostalgia of the 90s:

- bring back x.com from his 90s company
- get back into payments like X/PayPal
- logo for his company is dead ringer for the 90s X-window icon
- decided to implement a real world implementation of the ubiquitous <blink> HTML atop their office
Spelling bees are a quirk of the English language (though there are other languages with more perverse orthography see Hindi).

I feel like the notion that words have a "correct" spelling, and memorizing that is turned into a competition that is often televised and broadcast and highly promoted to all middle-school students in the US, is probably political in nature. At least one should probably question why it is we even have spelling bees, the history of spelling bees, the structural questions, the constitution of the game itself as it relates to the worship of the Word (Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, as they say), and the place of the Word in the organization of society. But those are only a few things you could ask.

A debate student, when asked to argue about the place of spelling bees in our society, might generate these very arguments. A young student who is winning a lot of spelling bees probably wouldn't, and they'd get laughed out of the auditorium if they couldn't answer and then started arguing that spelling bees were racist or something like that. I think your point is moot.
Yup.

It either works or it doesn't. Unlike many other claims, this one doesn't require anything rare or super hard to do. The furnace, tubes, materials, could be bought for around $10k.

I'm only a hobbyist scientist. When I saw the pre-print my first thought was "if this works, why the f- haven't we noticed before!? Someone should have done this accidentally freshman year!"

The good news is we shouldn't have to wait long.

The bad news is that we have to wait at all.
How should we produce the muons?
I'm 100% with you on that. Strong free software leadership (e.g. classic Torvalds), despite all its problems, is naturally anti-corporation.

Anyone with a real job in a moderately Big Co. can tell you that.
Because someone submitted the link and then it got some up votes
> Could irc not modernize?

This is the point and the problem. It could but it hasn't. People have been waiting for it to modernize for 20 or 30 years. It took almost 30 years to add a feature people were demanding 20 years ago.

Slack etc. are poor replacements, it's true. No-one is denying that. But for all their flaws it's not hard for them to be better in aggregate when IRC is as stagnant as it is. If IRC refuses to modernise (which it has, generally) these replacements will come, whether they're good or not. I'd really like if we had something good, however we get there. But waiting for IRC to get there has not been fruitful.
See also:

- "Add-on [AGR] device makes home furnaces cleaner, safer and longer-lasting" (2023)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926952 :

> [...] removes more than 99.9% of acidic gases and other emissions to produce an ultraclean natural gas furnace.
If you like that and want to know more Asianometry did a deep dive on this process:

https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw

A short video showing the laser in action:

https://youtu.be/NHSR6AHNiDs