skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm disappointed this article repeats the misconception that ADA mandates removing non-conforming curb ramps. It does not. In fact it prohibits removing curb ramps on the grounds of non-compliance. Some interpretations of ADA require ramps at every corner of every intersection, but this hadn't been fully tested in court last time I checked.

This is in 28 CFR 35.151(i): "Newly constructed or altered street level pedestrian walkways must contain curb ramps or other sloped areas at intersections to streets, roads, or highways." Some traffic engineers try to weasel out of this by claiming that after they remove the approach (the short bit of sidewalk that connects the main sidewalk to the ramp), the walkway no longer interesects the roadway. But that was not the intent of ADA, and legally it's not true.
So? Tea is also addictive.
What do you think explains why America has none of the top 10 polluting rivers? And only one of the top 1000? Despite the fact that we use massive amounts of plastic relative to most other countries, and that we are the headquarters of Coca-Cola.

It's laws. It's society. It's government. It's mobilization by citizens to get the government to regulate waste disposal -- to make improper disposal of waste illegal, and to fund the creation of easily-accessible environmentally-friendly waste disposal mechanisms.

Consuming soft drinks does not pollute the environment. Throwing bottles into rivers does. Your disdain for soft drinks has you mistaking these for the same thing.
The article is from a respected foreign policy site, and makes a case that is well accepted by historians. You can say that the bombs were still justified(which I believe), but the attitude in these comments are borderline insane. Makes you think americans can't handle a little criticism without losing their mind.
I don't know anything about science but it sounds like from your comment that the best thing about this claim is that it's not smoke and mirrors. It either works or it doesn't and there are a set of instructions that shows how to do it.
Now imagine all of this with a precision of a few nanometers…
Came here to make the exact same comment. I can't help but feel like some day we will forget how we were able to make such amazing machines.
I’ve lived in LA for five years now and lived in Boston for seven years prior. They’re both uniquely terrible.

LA’s roads are easy to imagine because it’s synonymous with huge interstates, congestion, and long commutes.

Boston is terrible because it’s layout makes zero intuitive sense and looks like spaghetti when viewed from the sky. Of course Boston predates the automobile, so I understand why.

I do enjoy the prevalence of bike culture in Boston. It’s just the right size to pedal most places and there are fairly good accomodations for cycling, like bike lanes.

But hey, at least I don’t live in Philadelphia. By far the worst driving experience each time I visit. :)
I kinda wonder if that particular vid was posted by YH Kwon... it would have been posted while he was still involved in the group.

It's very obviously not a U-235 disc by the color, unless the LK-99 film changes that somehow? Plus, if it's supposed to be pure U-235, why use that? Weapons grade enriched fissile uranium used in demonstration of properties of a thermally deposited film?

That video makes no sense at all.
Some people can. Many people cant. Many people also lie to themselves and others about how much they drink. Regardless, drinking is bad for you in a whole slew of ways.

But sure. Some people can have a drink or two once in a while. Just like some people can smoke a cig or two once in a while. Just like some people can insert other thing that is unhealthy for you and addictive.
I'm guessing you're being sarcastic. If so, it's not really a fair criticism. Go has properly-typed return values (not just parsing text from stdout) and any type can implement the error interface, allowing for error types with any custom, properly-typed attributes. You use Go's type assertion or errors.Is / errors.As to handle the latter.
See my reply here for the problems with that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36926392

EDIT:

To elaborate my reply there tailored to your lawn mower example...

> What mows a lawn? A person, or machinery?

Yes, in this case the tool analogy matches real life (and your interpretation of Go interfaces as tools): I use a lawn mower to mow the lawn.

My issue is that there isn't always a tool, but the Go worldview forces there to be one:

What reads a book? A person, or a ...?
> just one of these turbines should be able to produce enough electricity to power 36,000 households of three people each for one year

What is the point of adding a time component in there? They always say weird things like this that make me double take. "Wait... does one revolution power 36,000 homes for a YEAR???" What's really annoying is that they aren't even wrong, just annoying.
You seem really upset – tell you what, take a breather, step back and think about the larger point I'm trying to make here.
>Hold on you think Cola company is not doing nefarious stuff?

Not any more than the bakery down the street is "doing nefarious stuff" by adding salt to their bread.
If you start as a baby your body is too small and weak to get anything on your own, so the foundation of your life is actually built by the people taking care of you. How could you customize being helpless to suit a later presumed lifestyle? I also struggle to see how all the content stored in an adult brain could be transferred to a smaller-sized baby brain, when the brain grows as your body matures.
You're wrong. Aspartame was added to group 2B, which is the group for "possibly" carcinogenic. It's not known whether it's carcinogenic or not yet.

Here's how they define items in group 2B:

> This category is used for agents for which there is limited evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. It may also be used when there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans but there is sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals. In some instances, an agent for which there is inadequate evidence of carcinogenicity in humans and less than sufficient evidence of carcinogenicity in experimental animals together with supporting evidence from mechanistic and other relevant data may be placed in this group. An agent may be classified in this category solely on the basis of strong evidence from mechanistic and other relevant data.

Source (Page 23, PDF Page 25): https://monographs.iarc.who.int/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/C...
Your argument reminded me of that scene from "Thank you for smoking"

Nick Naylor: Oh, this from a Senator who calls Vermont home.

Senator Lothridge: I don't follow you, Mr. Naylor.

Nick Naylor: Well, the real demonstrated #1 killer in America is cholesterol. And here comes Senator Finistirre whose fine state is, I regret to say, clogging the nation's arteries with Vermont Cheddar Cheese. If we want to talk numbers, how about the millions of people dying of heart attacks? Perhaps Vermont Cheddar should come with a skull and crossbones.

Senator Finistirre: That is lu --. The great state of Vermont will not apologize for its cheese!

Senator Lothridge: Mr. Naylor, we are here to discuss cigarettes -- not planes, not cars -- cigarettes. Now as we discussed earlier these warning labels are not for those who know but rather for those who don't know. What about the children?

Nick Naylor: Gentlemen, it's called education. It doesn't come off the side of a cigarette carton. it comes from our teachers, and more importantly our parents. It is the job of every parent to warn their children of all the dangers of the world, including cigarettes, so that one day when they get older they can choose for themselves. I look at my son who, was kind enough to come with me today, and I can't help but think that I am responsible for his growth and his development. And I'm proud of that.
Anything's a library if you're sufficiently motivated

- Hyrum Wright, probably
The assumption is that the smart kids will find the resources they need to be successful, and will be successful regardless. It's the ones that are behind that need the help.
go less fast than the speed limit
As I understand it, exclusivity with ASML comes solely from their limited production capacity. Just buy all the machines for the year.
An Introduction to Debt
"The standard computer configuration" stopped referring to desktops long before 8GB DRAM + 256GB SSD went mainstream.
Live demo: https://www.shadertoy.com/view/cd2fRG

(It's linked in the post, but it's not obvious.)
There are many other alcohols, 2M2B(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Amyl_alcohol) for example, which are "alcohol without the hangover" in a sense. I seem to remember a scientist looking into ways to deliver these alcohols(absorbed in cellulose IIRC). You'll note that these chemicals, like alcohol, can also lead to overdoses and since they are much more potent it is even more difficult to ensure one does not overconsume. I suspect that is why they have never been sold commercially for recreational consumption.

Of course, you will likely always get some after effects from any mind altering substance as you brain returns to normal, but alcohols which do not metabolize to acetaldehyde are going to result in much less suffering the following day or two.

I was somewhat fascinated by other alcohols for quite a while. A microbrewery I used to frequent had some abnormally potent brews despite being around 6%. By potent, I mean that my friends who would normally split a 36 pack of Coors lite between the two of them would be heavily buzzed after a pint or two. A little research led me to discover that fermented beverages are a complex cocktail of chemicals, many of which are psychoactive. Some of those chemicals can actually interfere with a simple alcohol measurement based on specific gravity, so you could be under-stating the ethanol content while also producing a brew with higher levels of mind-altering substances.

Here is one such substance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptophol When yeast are nutritionally stressed, they will often excrete amino acids and other chemicals with alcoholic functional groups attached. By tailoring the nutritional profile of the wort, you can select for higher or lower levels of these mind altering substances. I suspect it has something to do with how some beverages, notably cider(very poor nutrition for yeast) can give me a hangover before I even manage to fall asleep.

In any case, it's fascinating that you can setup a brewery and crank out mind altering chemicals and be largely unregulated beyond the amounts of ethanol(and maybe methanol) in your products.
British satellite guided to assisted crash in Atlantic in world first
Flash mob (2003) is newer than Slashdot(199x).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_mob
Let's put it as simply as possible, because there's the genuine possibility that you don't understand, rather than are just being an acrimonious troll.

You wouldn't be Linux-on-the-desktopping as hard as you are if you didn't want people to use it. As such, if you, as an advocate of a thing, want other people to use it when the alternative is "continue using other things", then the least effective response is "fix it yourself".

I don't need to fix it. I have alternatives that already do what I want. If you want to hector people to use the thing you want them to do, then you had best come correct.
> my chance of getting killed in a traffic accident are so astronomically low

Are they really? You have a higher chance of being killed by a car while you are inside a building, than you are of being killed by a cyclist.
Funnily I live in LA and have a one-hour commute each way. But I drive a Vespa and am therefore limited to taking the side streets.

I don’t mind it all that much, aside from the distance. One thing that helps is that motor bikes are permitted to split lanes and thus I can flow through congested traffic quite easily. It’s quite fun and I find that it allows me to enter a flow state more readily and it takes some of the edge off of the whole traffic experience because I get to keep moving.
But then the other side is not arguing slavery is good, but slavery is good except for this exception, which could likely be continued at infinitum. At some point we end up at the true scotsman fallacy, where no existing slavery was ever "real" slavery. .

If we take a scientific view, one example acn falsify and statement, so shouldn't
> Processing power is fine these days.

I don't know, I've been working with LLMs a lot recently and for the first time in a while I am wishing I had access to much more compute than I do. Imagine having the power of a H100 locally without having to pay thousands of dollars a month.
This kind of argument is starting to really bother me. Do you really think that the only part of the debate that matters is the actual debate itself? Are you ignorant of the massive amounts of shit that we learned when researching a topic?

I'm bringing up some old memories now, but lets go with some random topics that I recall

a) We should increase USAID funding to Africa to fight HIV/AIDS

b) We should increase alternative energy incentives in the US.

With the USAID topic, we had to learn in high school:

- What is USAID, how does it work

- How does foreign aid to Africa work

- How does the Govt actually allocate funds

- What is HIV/AIDS, how does it spread, and what work is done to prevent/cure it

With the alternative energy topic, we learned:

- How does national alternative energy policy work

- How do states deal with their own energy security vs others

- Does nuclear count as alternative energy

What high schooler is being tought these topics in class. I definitely see debates on HN that are FAR worse than a High School debate since so much research and planning is done by debaters on these topics, and probably know far more than most people.
The nightmare is being shot through a drive-through window and not even being able get a license plate. I've never had a car driver's license (only motorcycle) and I completely get it.

They're not staffed the same way at night as they are during the day.
So the scenario plays out: you get too old to have fun, so you metamorphosize back into a baby, which your now-adult children have to take care of. This is just as labor-intensive as care for the elderly you would have been, but now they have to go through the psychological horrors of knowing their mother/father is now a child in their care, adding to their load of possibly already trying to raise a family of their own?
I'm building something, and approaching investment stage.

Really like the "cut of your jib" - are you currently interested in hearing about opportunities?
> don't negotiate with the factory workers who built my car, because I don't even know them. The factory workers negotiate with the car company, and I negotiate with the car dealership.

And you pay the car dealership for a one time use of the car. The factory workers pay to exchange their labor to build the car. Writing is a one time labor. What’s the difference?

> Writers and actors have an ongoing relationship with the studios

No they don’t. Writers are contracted to write for a show. They are not employees of any given studio.

> I'm currently self-employed and thus get perpetual income from my own software

Do you pay a perpetual license for every library that you use?

> Before that, I was a longtime employee of a software company, and they had a revenue sharing plan

Are you still getting a revenue share after you are no longer an employee?

> Writers and actors have an ongoing relationship with the studios

No they don’t, once the show is finished they no more have a relationship with the studio than you have after you leave a job.

> It's a financial negotiation

Yes, it is a negotiation. Just like if you worked for a startup and settled for lower pay in exchange for equity. Neither they or you “deserve” more than the market will bear and what you are able to negotiate.
If I was confronted with this kind of nonsense in my data science job, I would lose all respect for the person who produced it and never thereafter trust anything they said without thoroughly vetting it.

There's only two options here, deceptive or hopelessly incompetent.
> Then why bring up IRC’s lack of a “pleasant” app?

Because...I was expressing why it isn't fit for purpose?

> One doesn’t complain about http because the mobile browser options aren’t to one’s liking.

If HTTP was functionally unusable in the application model provided by mobile operating systems, you bet people would complain! But HTTP is stateless. IRC isn't. As such, HTTP is not inherently incompatible with a quality mobile experience. IRC is.

And that's not incumbent upon me to fix it--I have no stake. I'm happy with the tools I have. That's incumbent upon people who want other people to use it to fix: the necessity of making something people want to use in order to get them to use it. You get that this is really basic human-interaction stuff, yeah?
How about muons then?
It's because Google dropped the ball on Android smartphone app sizing for phones vs tablets.

This IS changing now that Google has a pixel foldable smartphone.
So, I'm reminded of the old 'store your files on youtube' thing[0] and I wonder how much bandwidth one could get using the same concept on one of the widely used voice conferencing solutions (like zoom) to further blend in. Bonus if you can do some kind of video steganography to transfer the data and have a 'real' call.

[0] https://github.com/DvorakDwarf/Infinite-Storage-Glitch
Ah yes. This is one of the marvels of having browser APIs that want to give you (almost) complete control over the machine, and let you do (almost) anything...

Upside: You can do almost anything.

Downside: You have to manage (almost) everything yourself.

Downside: It lets other people do real dumb/annoying/inconvenient/stupid things, and you get to deal with the result.
AFAICT “Alcarelle” isn’t in the current product. It’s still in development. The current product is claimed to use plant extracts to try to do something similar.
Castration was a common punishment in American slavery, and “didn’t hold a candle to” is a really egregious whitewash. Questions like whether it’s better or worse than having a child sold off are potentially valid philosophical debates but the only valid conclusion is that both were heinous systems deserving only condemnation.
Two must watch videos about the whole process:

https://youtu.be/5Ge2RcvDlgw

https://youtu.be/pfU20SAR21A

(Typed on a device made by this process, which I still don’t quite believe.)
The entire conversation shows it’s all security theatre and I am amazed everyone goes along with it so easily.

We are talking about a tool - a knife - and everyone is arguing we should sell’s only blunt knifes in our country/the world because people could stab others with it (No it’s not a gun analog; guns don’t have a purpose beside killing) and is discussing progressively more stupid interventions to make the knife not being able to be used intentionally maliciously, basically turning it into a spoon.

We discovered electricity and are now arguing we shouldn’t roll out 220v because people can dig down to the power line, purposely strip the isolation and stick it into granny’s mouth and that causes bad things.

It’s all so damn stupid, performative art lacking the nuance of cost - benefit analysts primarily because the first purveyors of knives decided that focusing the public debate about the knive on the risk of someone maliciously abusing it will allow them to keep the competition from building cheaper knives.

TLDR of the article: Researchers discover resharpening a blunted knife makes it dangerous when stabbed in with. Oh no.

This is basically how humanity creates bullshit jobs - don’t have a nuanced long term view on risk and instead doctor on symptoms.
Libreboot is one of those projects I have a tough time following because there’s always some toes they are stepping on. I don’t understand why this project has so many people problems.
You'd have to pray your caregivers give you food that you actually like before you get teeth and the ability to walk.
My god, the narrative. "Apple is doing this just to fuck with users, fuck apple" etc over and over despite zero evidence as to their intention here.

One sane person comes up with the more likely explanation:

> That implies to me the calibration is unique to each screen and a proper repair has a calibration setup step?

And someone just dismisses that perfectly logical explanation completely out of hand, declaring 'all the hardware is identical'

> No that is not the case. Its not a calibration that really happens here because the screens and the hardware are identical.

Tell me you don't know anything about mass production without telling me you don't know anything about mass production...

Their reply is further sense:

> If Apple wanted to prevent unauthorised replacements they would have no reason to cause erratic behaviour, they could just disable it.

I am so tired of people who interpret Apple's actions purely as anti-consumer fuckery. Even to this day, people still claim that "apple made people's phones slow down as they got older, so they would have to buy new ones" despite it being widely covered that Apple, like other phone manufacturers, slows down the CPU when they detect the battery's internal resistance rising to prevent brownouts so that the phone is usable for a longer period of time and all you have to do to restore original performance is replace the battery, apple or no.

You point that out and without admitting they were wrong, they shriek "well apple should have TOLD people that's what they were doing." No other manufacturer was telling people, either. Plenty of Android handsets just randomly start crashing as the battery's internal resistance goes up. I had one. A Google Nexus 6. It took me months and multiple re-installs of the OS to figure out what was going on before I read others saying that new batteries fixed their crashing.

You just can't win.

Don't get me started on how superior the lightning connector is for daily use - predominantly charging - compared to USB-C, but apparently Apple are "dicks" for not going to a more fragile connector literally designed to break just like every USB connector before it. People even have the nerve to complain about Apple "taxing" cable manufacturers and their burdensome certification, ignoring the whole "random USB-C cables will fry your laptop and phone" problem and the fact that the USB alliance charges a license fee on every single product that bears the USB logo.
I’m not an expert in political theory nor in practice. I also have no particular interest in politics. My only concern is that my jurisdiction allows me to conduct my private business in peace. Asking people like us to do these things is ridiculous. More likely than not, we would protest for the wrong things in the wrong way and make things worse. Politics is a complex field and should be taken care of by experts.
But odds are high your code isn't reading from any device. It is literally using a "reader of ___" to get the data read into a buffer that your code will process.

So, still seems to work for me.
I don't mean to knock redis. I love redis. I implore you to benchmark Redis in FSYNC_ALWAYS vs Postgres. I encourage you to benchmark it as well with FSYNC_EVERYSEC and understand the tradeoffs that makes - Postgres is still very competitive with EVERYSEC in most workloads, and with a lot less tradeoffs in data reliability.
Snowflake (software) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake_(software)

Tor (network) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_(network)

The Tor Project : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tor_Project