skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I know about Greta, she is rather careful with such matters. Your comment in general is in effect destroying part of those careful efforts, so I'd be happy if it wouldn't.

"Significant carbon footprint" asks for, significant compared to what? Maybe Greta leaves bigger footprint than the lowest, say, 10% of the Earth population, who don't really have access to modern technologies with that significant footprint. But she surely tries quite a lot given the circumstances where she is, and encourages us to follow. So I'm skeptical about accusations towards her without enough evidence.
I can't find the study I was thinking about, but here are two other studies I found. Neither study directly supports what I had recalled, but one study concludes longer names are more productive and the other concludes shorter names. :) How well these academic studies apply to production code is another question...

* "Shorter [C#] identifier names take longer to comprehend" (2019)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10664-018-9621-x

In this paper, we investigate the effect of different identifier naming styles (single letters, abbreviations, and words) on program comprehension. We conducted an experimental study with 72 professional C# developers who had to locate defects in source code snippets. ... We found that word identifiers led to a 19% increase in speed to find defects compared to meaningless single letters and abbreviations, but we did not find a difference between letters and abbreviations.

* "[Java] Identifier length and limited programmer memory" (2009)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016764230...

names used in existing production code are long enough to crowd programmer’s short-term memory. This provides evidence that software engineers need to consider shorter, more concise names. As the study considers individual names extracted from production code, it tends to underestimate the demand on memory because there is no need to remember context as well.

* "Evaluation of Rust code verbosity, understandability and complexity" (2021)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7959618/
> we just want to verify if a visitor is faking their device or user agent

What does it mean to fake a device or user agent? Their intent is probably devices and user agents who say they’re one thing but are actually another. But browsers have been lying about who they are for decades. And what’s the difference between a fake device/UA and an unusual device/UA? Probably none, as far as they’re concerned.
When the choice is between Apple and Google, why do you resent giving money to Apple?
The pissing match above has at its root a global namespace conflict around the term “Lean”.

To clarify, the underlying heirachy is:

Shewhart cycle “PDCA” (1939)

Lean manufacturing “Lean” (1988)

Agile Manifesto “Agile” (2001)

The Lean Startup [subset of lean] (2011)

Lean around here often handwaves to mean the Lean startup with Lean manufacturing under that. Technically I’d suggest Lean on its own is really a reference back to Lean manufacturing and the principals of Lean developed by Toyota in the 1960-1980’s in what they later named “The Toyota Way”
Crazily, they also have something that looks just like it inside the either the Docs or Drive app, but it doesn't have the same chat history as the one under GMail!

I dismissed a notification with photos from my wife and then had a hard time figuring out where that conversation was, because it seemed like it would be chat but wasn't.
I'm wondering if someone is sitting on a bunch of this stuff and wants a quick way to get rid of it...?

EDIT: ( highly speculative, of course )
Harvard professor: Twitter's new owner is a 'case study of failed leadership'
I have a dumb sounding question, but I don't know anything about Oregon... or really anything.

Do you think full service gas stations positively affected the economy via tourism? I ask because I've never experienced one and if one wasn't too far out of my way on a road trip I might have checked it out and the surrounding area.
Yes. An employee can maintain nonimmigrant status while on a leave of absence for health or personal reasons.
Pretty much any client area of a B2B site. Obviously the actual backend is a significant part of that time, but on many apps, most pages will use components along these lines.
I've been wondering: how do we teach kids about addiction (substances, gambling, phone/internet) and its consequences?

Theoretical explanation is not effective. Letting them experience it first hand might be too destructive, because of the nature of the addiction.

Can any parent chime in what worked and what didn't?
I'm a US citizen, but just wanted to say thank you for your work in helping others immigrate to the US. Our system is both complex and complicated, and the legal and administrative staff who help immigrants and prospective immigrants navigate it are doing difficult but necessary work.
Yes but it's also going to be depend on what your employer does and your role within the company.
What advantages have ferm over nftables? The format looks similar.
A similar example: educating prisoners reduces recidivism. Feels obvious, right? Education leads to jobs, jobs lead to money, money means less need to do crime. But then you get these "whaddya mean prisoners get free college but I have to pay, prison should be a punishment" takes, and so whenever one of these programs gets too effective and popular, it's liable to get killed. This is actually the first year Pell grants have been available to prisoners since it was banned 30 years ago.
Agreed - a lot of so-called quality shoes aren't and as for the mattress wars...

It's pretty frustraing, because even stuff that used to be dependable quality seems to get outcompeted by people buying stuff they replace (or would like to, if they could afford the monthly payments) as soon as the next model comes out. And so, the reliable, dependable company slumps (i.e. company making shoes that last for years), is bought-out by a hedge fund, quality goes to hell as they feed off its reputation.

So many people people say they want to buy quality, actually they want to buy is status (Rolex, Apple, Burberry, ...).
The article is specifically about a difference in the mTOR protein, so in the end, a genetic difference. You will not trigger a limb regrowth in humans by opening and closing specific ion channels in our cells.
TV from 90s, I was watching from 95/96-- great movies being announced, Saturday night live being political incorrect and funny and just normal people.. I miss that time.
The most modern way is to tokenize the database, or the two databases in case the tables belong to different databases, then you can pretrain a large language model. Fine tune it with the two tables, then apply prompt engineering to ask the ai model in natural language. No need to learn SQL!
You could also make the argument that teens only seem to be having a mental health crisis because adults are spending more time listening to them.
How to make LangChain agents faster?
Langchain agents works not bad with multiple tools however until the final output is given, the response times are usually around 40 seconds. Has anyone tried out an architecture that made them much more faster without compromising on the output quality?
And still you will see folks using and/or defending the use of having mobile phones as an identification for messaging apps or as a 2FA.. yes, I’m looking at you Signal users.
> XOR is not a great choice here. Consider that 2 copies of a row give the same result as 0 (or 4, 6, etc).

That indeed is a major flaw. You have to use another commutative operation that doesn’t destroy entropy. Addition seems a good choice to me.

> And even without multiple copies of rows, you can force any hash you'd like

I don’t see how that matters for this problem.
Not really "from scratch" though, Blink is a fork of WebKit. Sure, it's taken its own path since forking, but it's damn near impossible to start a browser from scratch these days (which is why ladybird is so impressive).
I don't think minority browsers being Chromium-based has any effect on this disaster one way or the other. The problem is Chrome's near-monopoly.
> The cells multicellular organisms are constructed from are all shockingly similar.

They are not. They vary greatly in structure and function.
If the GC holder obtains a reentry permit, then 2 years at a stretch and generally up to 5 total without issue.
> probably DeviceCheck, which gives you 2 bits to store “fraud” related flags

Does resetting your iPhone (Erase All Content and Settings) clear out data like that?

Does doing a restore from backup put that data back on your iPhone?
> successive improvements from previous work

The first iteration produces 0.5 units. The next produces 0.75. The third produces 0.875, then 0.9375 and so on. Each iteration improves on the previous, but no engineering will surpass the 1.0 limit set by fundamental physics.

> may make gathering energy from the environment in creative ways practical and useful.

There's no end of crappy ways to produce electricity. Get electricity from walking across the floor? Yep [1]. Get electricity from exercise bikes at the gym? Yep. Get electricity from plants? Yep [2]. "Solar Freakin Roadways"? Yep. [3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavegen#Criticism

[2] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181212093308.h...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_highway#Solar_road_panel...

> it's more than just 'will this technology easily solve global energy demands'.

You know how I know it's not a "potentially game-changing breakthrough in energy harvesting"? The best place to use this is not in extracting power from rainfall but in ultra-low-head hydropower energy production. Let the water fall on the panel as drops, and extract power.

The energy involved corresponds to a head of about 3m, so it needs to be more efficient than other ULH methods, which already exist.

Yet there's no mention of that application in the article. It's not like I'm an expert on the topic, so I conclude this is a solution in search of a problem.
Not necessarily. You can be compasionate to a narcicist manipulator while being perfectly aware that he is trying to manipulate you and not playing hus game. Being compasionate does not means doing everything someone asks for, but trying to understand where they come from, see their actions as their (likely unskillfull) attempt at avoiding discomfort/suffering (dukkha), and orient your actions based on that understanding.
Remind me again where this weird syntax came from for passing arguments?
For researchers who follow the guidelines, yes it's necessary to do the kind of independent studies needed to assess educational development.
> I find most people don't say anything so it's on me to let my kids know the effects they're behavior is having.

People are terrified of saying anything because of the likely reaction of the kids' parents. The "it takes a village" mindset is gone. If someone's kid runs into you and you so much as say "excuse me" to them, you risk the parents getting in your face, holding up their cellphone camera, yelling "You don't talk to my kids. Go mind your damn business, Karen!" Not worth it--so bad behavior in public goes uncorrected.

Even when kids aren't involved, people's reaction more and more to public criticism/correction is to get belligerent and tell you to mind your business.
Right, I'm sorry. I misread that
It is not the status.

Americans love to consume. They think their consumption brings them happiness. One of their most delightful purchases is a new phone.
You're trying to bring in money, though, not people.
My two cents to my produced animationes before 2000s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36784955
Map Reduce with GPT-4
You'd expect lack of innovation from studios, but then why are Netflix or Amazon or Apple or Google acting so risk-adverse? Why aren't they trying anything new with the medium of streaming?
The implications here are interesting -- that discussing with emotion is something to avoid or that it's even possible to avoid at all. We're human -- as much as doing so has been a cultural aspiration for millenia in the West, it is simply not possible to decouple ourselves from our physical and emotional experiences.

In my mind, it's far less important that we try to address these topics "without emotion" (whatever that means) and instead focus on cultivating respect and curiosity and assuming good faith. This is a bit more congruous with the spirit of the site.

There's another Western cultural aspiration involving an impossible decoupling, probably more common in American culture than European, which is to depersonalize politics. But politics is about people, and some people are much less immediately affected by political and social issues than others -- there's usually a great many layers of indirection between the articulation of a regressive point of view or support for a particular law or politician, and e.g. a minority being squished out of tech or a parent who was a victim of a hate crime or a queer person's suicide. There are probably especially many layers of indirection when it comes to a lot of tech workers, given the demographics.

In any case, when discussing politics and issues of class and race it's important to recognize that you're not talking about something abstract, but people, and their loved ones and families. Given that, it's hardly a level playing field if we start with the expectation that folks will leave emotion at the door
io_uring supports that too, although not a network protocol.
I'll offer a perspective. I'm a father of 3 young kids (4 year old twins, 20 month old). I often find myself in situations where I also need my children to stop whatever they're currently doing and pay attention to me.

You mention this happened on a sidewalk. Cars drive next to sidewalks. The American culture of cars is the number one cause of anxiety in my life as a parent to young children. I do not want to feel this anxiety, I do not like how it makes me react towards my children, who just want to play and have fun and explore the world and try to understand it. But cars exist. And today they are a much bigger problem than they were when I was their age, for a whole variety of reasons that are very well understood and articulated by people far more intelligent and capable than I am. And my children are, practically every single day, within 4-6 feet of cars that are a) much larger than they have any right to be, and b) driving much faster than they have any reason to, to the point that if they are careless about where they are, or what they are doing, they run a very serious risk of being killed.

That is why I sometimes respond to my children the way that I do, in line with what you've observed here. I don't like it, either, but it is what it is.

Now, I go out of my way to get my kids into big, wide, safe open spaces on a daily basis, and I will deliberately ignore them (within reason -- I keep tabs on where they are, etc.) so that they can go off and find interesting ways to play, hurt themselves, whatever. But I still have to engage with the automobile problem multiple times almost every single day of our lives.
There are server-rendered charts, but those have more or less fallen out of vogue since there's no interactivity.
Highcharts seems also really customizable
Oh the immediate parent to me seemed to suggest something like this was all a good thing, but thank you for driving the point home that it was a bad thing, even at the time.
I especially love Dan aggregating previous discussions on <topic>. Equally appreciate the other users that do the same. It’s nice to go and check out how perceptions have changed (if it’s a thing with longer time horizon) or just additional discourse
Chrome and vscode both have conditional breakpoints:

https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/javascript/breakp...
Hello Civil Asset Forfeiture
The main goal of the prison system is to keep criminals apart from society, preventing them from re-offending as long as they are locked up. The conditions of the imprisonment don't matter at all from this perspective.
In a free country, the circumstances of one's birth matter the least.
Those didn't pop up last time I searched in this area. I knew about Stan but not PyStan. I'll check those out.
Months! Although this after-the-fact approval notice isn't required for reentry. The I-129S is associated with a blanket L application so this would only be relevant if you obtained a blanket L and if you did, you definitely should be keeping in your passport and presenting to CBP an endorsed copy.
Is hackernews on of the last sites where the TV doesn't analyze your preferences and generates a new front-page based on what it thinks will engage you the most?
Leonardo da Vinci’s Woodpecker
It maybe a tangential question - but can a company chose to sponsor EB2 visa directly and skip H1B? If the decision is up to the company what decision usually factor in deciding which visa to sponsor?
Ok that is fair. I read into the OP’s response being dismissive but did not hold the same standard for the first reply.
Sequel is coming out "soon". Definitely my most anticipated upcoming release.
For me, the annoying part of Disney doing this isn't that they do it, it's that they do it and and their ride wait times still aren't accurate. They have a ton of data measuring people moving past specific points in lines in real time, so what are they even doing with it?
Kids that have more math lessons, in most cases, will be better at math than the ones that don't. There are limited amount of jobs, students per class in college etc so they compete with each other. If you are living in the same system as most people in this thread, which is capitalism, then to live a somewhat problem-free life with financial security, you need to be either very lucky or participate in the rat race.
To lift the kimono:

It's often easier to search within a specific timeframe on Hacker News itself given Algolia search's excellent date-range functions, and the fact that HN itself is strongly time-oriented. There are doubtless other stories elsewhere, but it would be more tedious to track those down and verify that they actually came from the period under consideration.

It's also possible to search via comments, with one useful set of terms being "Google+" and "ghost town", an assessment which was being thrown about early on.

And we can link directly to the HN threads and see what contemporaneous discussions were like and how they characterised the issue at the time.

By contrast, date-ranged General Web Search on, say, DuckDuckGo or Google is often confounded by Web pages which have inaccurate date indicia, or have been misclassified as to time by search engines. It's much more tedious to try to find specific content matching time criteria, though the universe of total such articles is obviously larger. Fortunately for this case, Google+ was of sufficient interest to HN that there were numerous submissions concerning it submitted early on, many of course highly syncophantic, but also concerning the rather fumbling rollout and weak adoption.

Amongst other possible archives, Google+ itself is no longer extant, and so cannot be searched. Its own search features did not afford date-ranged search, though I'm well aware that there was much early hand-wringing over the "brutally unfair" stories (in the framing of G+ advocates) circulating at the time.

Reddit might be another useful trove, though I'm avoiding that for the time being. Search there is limited to only the initial story title and, in a limited number of cases, the "self-text" content of text-based posts. Pointedly, comments aren't searchable on Reddit itself, and so the potential match space is far more constrained than it is on Hacker News.

Despite those limitations, in answering your own historically uninformed vague hand wave that the response to Facebook's Threads launch is exceptional, I'd given numerous specific and quantified examples from a roughly comparable time period for Google's G+ launch strongly suggesting otherwise.

Yes, the data I brought to bear are subject to a strong availability heuristic. But the evidence presented is rather stronger than your own none-at-all offerings.

Cheers.
The part that worries me is that Apple is stifling young people's imagination for what computers can do.
d. None of the above
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I was inspired to create this platform while I was in grad school because many of the firms giving us talks would talk about how they had teams of engineers who build out pipelines to bring a model to production. I personally believe there can be an easier way.
I suggest we pool our resources and produce a Mexican corrido music video for dang.
I have an old Samsung flagship with a 120Hz display, snappy and clean UI that never lags. It has survived several drops without a scratch. I was on the edge of moving to Apple but decided back then to give Android one more chance, and it was a good decision. What bothers me is the very mediocre ecosystem that stopped developing some time ago. That’s the place of the actual battle between Apple and Google. Apple moves forward, and Google doesn’t know what to do.
I'm not sure what could be done much better than what Greta does given her environment. I believe so far her impact on climate awareness is large net positive, and that alone - the putting the problem front and center before many people - should already help at least somewhat with mitigating it. Not to mention other, largely positive effects of her work.
Evaluation of Rust code verbosity, understandability and complexity
In my experience it was due to backend devs (like myself) being asked to or volunteering for some front end projects. At least that is how our current frontend turned into a redux mess and is currently being rewritten.

It is a completely different skillset and I think more often than not people assume that they can write front end code just because they know Javascript.
I would say that American car-centric development and distrust of others go hand in hand. The more people wall themselves away into their castles in the suburbs, the less they feel part of a community, and the more they distrust others.
Retro TV: Live 24/7 Vintage Cable TV Network on Raspberry Pi [video]
The 1995 film "Heat" refers to them as "gladiator academies". And there's a great Willem Dafoe film called about the US prison system called "Animal Factory".