skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it has no real viable way of cleaning up or deprecating old answers

This is one of the things that baffled me the most.

Until very recently you could not even sort by "newest answers first" (I just checked and it seems it has been added now, but it looks like it was added this year?), which seems a pretty strange decision considering technology changes so fast.

As years went by, it became more and more difficult to look for answers as you would need to search through piles of old answers to find the most recent one (which was not necessarily the accepted answer or even the one with the most votes).

I mean, most places I've seen, that show data with a sortable Date field, let you sort by olders or newest, but not SO, no.

I could never find an answer fot this, but always seemed like a big obvious oversight.
This kind of modeling far too often assumes that current (unsustainable) rates of consumption will continue right up to the point the last tree is cut down.

In real life as resources become strained they also become expensive and people start finding alternatives or change behavior to be more efficient. This blows out the long term forecasts time and time again. It is important to recognize where we are consuming resources too destructively, but it is not a death sentence for civilization.
I don't think so. Just a typically loaded fridge. The shelfs have metal arms and then plastic holding the glass to the metal. Structurally the weight is on the plastic though and the plastic breaks. This is on a 12 year old LG refrigerator that works just fine on staying cool.
While this is true in the short term, it usually means the roles didn’t pay enough to keep the “funnel” open, so it’s an aspect of the same problem.
It is in general good CSS advice not just specific to apply.
I just checked the day gig site... builtwith claims it's using Webflow and Apollo GraphQL (Neither of which it is) and doesn't mention at all the language it's actually implemented in (Python), although that's not surprising since it's an in house framework.
Korea’s Biotech Comeback Kid
Alan E. Nourse wrote a short story called "Tiger by the Tail" that was collected in one of those Asimov or Martin Greenberg (or both) edited anthologies. For some reason the story really affected me, and I tracked it down after thirty years or so of half remembering it. I was surprised to learn about the Blade Runner connection from the Wikipedia article about him.
Just as a thought experiment, what would you have done if a pandemic of a highly contagious, extremely severe new illness with uncertain symptoms from which over a third of of people don't seem to recover as was the case with the early variants, and nobody seemed to care? Because that's where we were at for several months even with lockdowns, travel restrictions, and mandatory masking.
AWS has an endpoint for this: http://checkip.amazonaws.com
Because knowing what something is tells you less about how to get there than the paper does?

You can see the exact chemical structure of the material and still have no idea how to create it. Especially for composite materials like these where the junction of dissimilar materials gives rise to the desired behavior.
What exactly would a 'civics' curriculum teach that would be consonant with contemporary political culture? The next generation is being taught a "civics" that is hostile to the American civics tradition. This sort of program is DOA.
Workers go where the money is.
the conventional wisdom was always that the cold war era land battle calculus went to NATO/US because of it's well developed NCO corps. the adversary was thought to be a 'hollow' force of conscripts who lacked professionalism and had few career soldiers who were capable of leading new recruits and effectively implementing the will of higher command.
This way of thinking and this manual which enshrines the thinking of the day may seem out of date and was hotly debated at the time seems to be pretty spot on judging the performance of the adversary in Ukraine.
Well, that's what I get for not clicking through on that link ;) Thanks.
Why can't we have situation where the CSS tells the browser what colours things should be etc, the browser does it, but the site cannot retrieve information about what colour the links are?

There's all kinds of things browsers do that no amount of coding will help me access because there's no public API for it. Why should this be any different?
Signal is a government op (2021)
This rumor may be inspired by the recent Korean movie Secret Zoo (2020).
The white plastic just stops being able to hold the glass shelves to the metal brackets and chips/cracks until it can no longer hold weight. This is a 12 year old LG refrigerator.

Decompose is probably not the right word, but it loses whatever property makes plastic usually last a long time.
I would hazard a guess that the replacement rate has fallen below the attrition rate precisely because pay has not kept up with inflation, which would fall exactly in line with the parent poster’s argument.
Is there a way someone could avoid wrecking their back in the kind of work you did or is it inevitable? Like it just takes one accident? I'm really sorry that you're in pain constantly. My wife has a bad back from a motorcycle accident and it's always an off-and-on thing for her. :(
"ChatGPT is actually notoriously good for coding. I don’t even use it for anything else at this point."

I can't take a coder who says this seriously. Come on. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to expose the fact that ChatGPT is actually a pretty shitty coder once you get beyond the most dirt damn simple shit.

With that said, fuck Stack Overflow.
Gas Auth: Gaslighting the masses to take over their accounts
I think it could be fun to work these types of jobs if part-time was acceptable. Part-time would be ideal to give some time to recuperate and avoid accumulating injuries.

I once built a house with two friends over a summer, gruelling work (70-80 hours per week) but lots of fun & great learning experience. A month in I had a major flare up of RSI in both wrists and had to take two weeks off to get it back under control (with the help of ibuprofen to reduce inflammation & on advice of my doctor), and then I wore wrist braces on the construction site after that.

If it had been an actual job then I imagine there would've been more pressure to not take that time off to recuperate, leading to longer term damage.
Assuming PIE existed, you would be right. I am not saying it didn't.

While of course no PIE writings have been ever found, it's interesting that we have also not found references to PIE anywhere in writings in any other languages, from the times of the Sumerian Script all the way until William Jones showed up (or until slightly before his time). Please correct me if I am wrong.

William Jones was a sharp cookie to theorize PIE, no doubt. But for us to believe in the existence of PIE, we have to believe that there was no other cookie sharp enough elsewhere in the world, between 3400 BC (Sumerian Script) and 1786 AD (William Jones) who could have looked at Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, and Persian, like Jones did, and derived a theory similar to PIE, and written about it.

One possible explanation could be that people who came before us considered this idea, and discarded it due to lack of sufficient merit, and we are simply reinventing that wheel.

On another note, all the old assertions regarding the death and follow on artificial revival of Sanskrit have been invalidated. Sanskrit, as a language, has stayed very much alive since ancient times. References:

- Hatcher, Brian A. (2016). "Sanskrit and the morning after". The Indian Economic & Social History Review. 44 (3): 333–361. doi:10.1177/001946460704400303. ISSN 0019-4646. S2CID 144219653

- Hanneder, J. (2009), "Modernes Sanskrit: eine vergessene Literatur", in Straube, Martin; Steiner, Roland; Soni, Jayandra; Hahn, Michael; Demoto, Mitsuyo (eds.), Pāsādikadānaṃ: Festschrift für Bhikkhu Pāsādika, Indica et Tibetica Verlag, pp. 205–228

- Seth, Sanjay (2007). Subject Lessons: The Western education of colonial India. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. pp. 172–176. ISBN 978-0-8223-4105-5.

Since I got downvoted and accused of "pointless contrarianism" elsewhere in this thread, I would like to say that I am not trying to offend anyone, nor waste anyone's time with my questions/thoughts/explanations. I am bringing up an issue that I think deserves discussion. I don't see what the problem is. If you don't like what I have to say, scroll past my comment. If you like what I have to say, I am happy to engage.
It's going to be hard to top the utter cringe of a game where you control a naked guy with a single pixel dick on his way to rape an indigenous woman.
Decoding C Compilation Process: From Source Code to Binary
I know they don't qualify because of the needs-to-run-on-the-web requirement,[1] but I firmly believe that every politician (heck, every citizen, period) ought to play MULE, SimCity, and Civilization.

[1] Would in-browser emulator qualify?
We raise taxes on fossil fuels, and then what? More investment in intermittent sources works until peak production is saturated. But now thanks to fuel taxes, lithium becomes a lot more expensive to mine since the heavy machinery is more expensive to fuel. Taxes on fossil fuels would reduce emissions, mostly by contracting the economy. It doesn't translate into more storage build out, and it certainly doesn't solve the orders-of-magnitude mismatch between the amount of storage available and the amount of storage required to smooth out intermittent sources.
Pretty decent answer!

In matters of health and personal data, not only are there strict laws on the books (e.g. HEPPA), but there remains the matter of trust.

I, too, think in terms of the "freemium" model, but I do so in the context of b-corps, the idea being that stockholders in a b-corp are not free to sue the board over financial matters. What that signals is that the entity was created with no option for exit strategies of the usual kind.

I work on open source biomedical NLP projects which aim to dive into the vast (and messy) PubMed literature, and all of the many databases on health, disease, microbiome, and etc. It seems to me that a project such as yours may end up wandering in similar directions.
>They tried to submit a paper to Nature, but was rejected

This should be "were rejected" because "were" refers to "they". It cannot refer to the paper even though that would make sense. You could say "but it was rejected" to force the sentence to refer to the singular paper.
That gets stored in the fat. Overdose through ingestion is a thing, our bodies aren't so smart about that; it's skin synthesis specifically that limits itself.
I wanted to argue with you about this, as I have experience working as a construction site laborer, and then I thought back to the time I had to spend a night on-site because a huge beam fell off a wood pile and pinned my leg in the dirt and other fallen lumber, and everyone else had gone home and no one could hear me yelling.

I wasn't seriously injured, but ninety nine out of 100 times someone in that position would be.
Do they want Gerrymandering Simulator 2024, Bribe-A-Senator, or Citizen's United: SuperPAC Simulator?
Yes, of course there are specific cases where it's clearly a dumb idea to share the idea with someone else.

The usual saying is that all that really matters, in the end, is the execution of the idea. If that were strictly true, there would be no need for patents.
An old strip from the newsprint comic Zits has always stuck in my mind. In the strip, the kid takes a sip of his father's wheatgrass smoothie and describes it as licking the bottom of a lawnmower.

That is how I feel about most of the overpoweringly strong IPAs that have been all the rage for so long.
Use the new “Custom Instructions” feature, then it won’t wear off.
> people like you smoking slightly more often

Heh, well.. you give me a bit too much credit. I went from one or two bong rips a year to most days of the week.

To be honest I think my point of view is more common than you may think because admitting to it is tantamount to admitting I'm some sort of uncool uptight square, but also that I now use. Saying it won't win me friends with either side of the issue, so people like me are generally disinclined share our experiences.
Alternatively, search the web for everyone implementing "/ip" and random load balance between all of them and let them handle the load for you.
We have a similar method under the hood, except it's purely text-based search-and-replace. The model decides what to replace. It seems to be consistent and is easy to implement.
Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt
The darker the better, imo. Though I appreciate a good blonde or hefe, my favorites are the Abysses or Ten Fidy's of the world.
I think you usually join a local union serving a specific subset of construction. Filling jobs is a major part of what the union does for you.

Ages ago my dad worked concrete construction back in IL. I was young and didn't pay much attention, but I recall him referring to "the hall" as where he'd go to find work. Google search turned up this:

https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/the-law/em...
This is a bit weird for me. I don't particilarly like or dislike it, it's just what it is. Do other people not have 1h+/day where they are bored of their smartphone/tv and don't do anything at all? I get at least 5-6 hours a week (possibly twice that) alone with my thoughts. I thought it was mostly child raising people that were forced into 110% time for others mode.

It's very easy to get carried away if there is some problem and I have an idea, I just keep measuring/calculating until it gets out of hand and meh... I don't get enough out of it to actually do it IRL . Things like climate change, us politics, startup ideas, technical problems I've seen at work, religion, nature of the universe,etc...I even come up with surprisingly funny jokes/humor but only if I am tired and grouchy (is it the mind's auto-response to protect itself? Is this why comedians are usually sad/distreessed IRL?).

I am a bit surprised by this post because there are a ton of people much smarter than me on HN and I presumed they must spend a ton of time with their own thoughts, figuring shit out. But I am not seeing comments of that nature. Perhaps grit/discipline and interest play a bigger role?

I gotta say though, getting to know myself has not been pleasant, but it is the truth and reality, at least then I can change. One lesson I've learned in recent years is how utterly terrible I and we humans in general ultimately are, and it wasn't surprising when I found out that even babies can be racist, greedy, jealous,etc... and have to be taught what is good and right. A lot of "good" behavior is only a consequence of a full belly, social/peer consensus, shelter and desirable socio-economic conditions. I know damn well I am capable of shameful cowardice or hitlerian atrocities and I will fight like everything I am depends on it to prevent that and stop rationaliztion and self-deception that is needed to do terrible things.

If you ask me, everyone should spend time with their own thoughts and get to know themselves. "The wolf you feed" wins after all (if you know of that parable).
One thing I've noticed is that a lot of edibles these days, especially stuff like the candies, don't have the same 'profile' as old school brownies and whatnot. The requirement for precise dosing means many edibles are made using some sort of extract that's been refined to a specific potency, but that can end up losing some of the other psychoactive compounds. But people are sensitive to different cannabinoids differently, which has led to a bigger variance in tolerance I think.
> If you consider the list a reasonable substitute for artist names, I’d ask you for a prompt that replicates the common Rutkowski + Mucha style using just the styles listed.

Not looking at the list, but replacing “by Greg Rutkowski” with “detailed realistic muted fantasy” and “by Alphonse Mucha” with “Art Nouveau” seems to work pretty well for reproducing both “by Greg Rutkowski” alone and for the Rutkowski + Mucha combination. (Oddly, replacing either of those, but not the other, does not work as well for reproducing the combination effect as replacing both.)

> Just asking for straight up Rutkowski was a short lived cargo cult and is now more of a meme than anything else.

Rutkowski + Mucha is as much of a cargo cult as Rutkowski alone, even if it is a longer-lived one.
It’s true. Designer clothes and social media is a weak flex though. Or, I’m just of an age/mind to see it as such. I can see how people fell for Bernie Madoff at a certain point. The social proof was strong.
The planet is 4.5 billion years old! 400,000 years is just roughly 0.0089% of earth's history (and I rounded up!)
Synthesis of possible room temperature superconductor LK-99
The only name mentioned is Wang Zhaolin. Seems pretty… Chinese. Would you agree?
I'm being a bit pedantic here, but it's the heavy metals contained inside of coal - cadmium, uranium, thorium - that are the main pollution concerns, not the carbon from the coal itself. Coal is definitely one of the dirtiest fuels, though, besides biomass.
This is awesome, thanks for sharing! For those interested here are some similar recent or upcoming efforts to encourage more participatory and generative civic engagement:

Speculative fiction + civics

- https://open.usa.gov/national-action-plan/5/pilot-new-forms-...

Art x Climate

- https://www.globalchange.gov/content/art-x-climate-project-f...

- https://www.forbes.com/sites/evaamsen/2023/07/27/the-art-fea...
> Honestly, if it weren't the product of religious delusions common with schizophrenia, I'd say TempleOS and HolyC would be more than enough of a resume to get hired into many programming jobs.

He actually was employed as a programmer before the whole schizophrenia/TempleOS arc.
I'm 20 years deep in at least every-other-day usage (since I was 16), with breaks whenever I have to travel for work. Honestly the idea of quitting is a bit scary.

The only saving grace is that I've very rarely been a day-smoker (now vaper), it's almost always been a post-8pm thing.
Eventually it will hit >135° somewhere and everyone there will die. It will be a massive wakeup call.

If it happened in, say, one of the Pakistani refugee camps it would be a mass casualty event.
This only seems to work if your client can send requests directly to resolver1.opendns.com. It does not work if you have a server that is intercepting DNS or if you use the system configured DNS. The google version posted below is closer to what I was looking for:

$ dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @ns1.google.com
"A.B.C.D"
$ dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com
"172.253.195.202"
"edns0-client-subnet A.B.C.0/24"
$ dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @9.9.9.9
"162.244.55.23"
$ dig +short TXT o-o.myaddr.l.google.com @1.1.1.1
"172.71.221.175"

The opendns implementation returns nothing if you try something similar to the last three.
That is cool. I hope to wander bookstores with my daughters when I die.
The summary actually goes into this, the Dutch branch isn't actually involved in this case but Meta didn't object to the reasoning provided by the plaintiff that Dutch law should apply to them.

I'm pretty sure the Dutch subsidiary exists just to avoid taxes, the Irish branch is the main company most EU citizens interact with.
This works! Thank you very much.
And in that long and rambling anecdote, was there any point besides you feeling superior to other beer drinkers?
I guess there's Reddit, but I've generally found poor results (ie, few responses) for such questions.

These days I'd generally start with "awesome" lists on GitHub, use number of stars as a coarse filter to exclude obscure stuff, then dig into the documentation of each of the alternatives.

It works ok, but I really would like to have a better way of finding opinions about libraries or whatever.
Lucky. You can add a 0 on the end of those for me, more than that at the high end. I've done 1000mg over the course of ~12 hours before. Now, admittedly I wasn't DOING a whole lot in those 12 hours (mostly watching movies), but I was functional enough that if called upon to do so I could have had a coherent conversation.
How can you become aware of the evils of capitalism and then turn into a... Marxist?

Why not do the good thing and become an anarchist?
Cool I'll stick to my out of the box thinking ...it's never popular on here but in the end future proves to be on the money

in a few years we will see many streamers Consolidate and to compete against the biggest streaming apps YouTube and TikTok more free offerings will be available and or cheaper ones. Hollywood
'S push to go AI is a smart money saving one
I double majored in EE and CS. My personal experience as well as observing others is that EE curriculum is "harder" in two aspects. First, EE students seem to have a more difficult time grasping advanced EE concepts than CS students do grasping advanced CS concept. Secondly, EE students spend more time in the lab working on projects.

What I found interesting is the contrast in perceived difficulty where the two majors overlapped. I'll give two examples:

1) Digital logic design was both an EE and CS class. Literally the same class taken by both majors. For EE majors, it was one of the easier classes that people breezed through. For CS majors, it was considered their most difficult class. I remember seeing CS t-shirts with jokes about taking this class 2-3 times.

2) EE had a single required programming class, which basically covered programming from the ground up and finishing up at the topic of loops. That's probably the equivalent of the first week of the CS introduction class. So many EE students found this class almost impossible to wrap their minds around.

Not sure what my point is, but obviously different people have an easier time grasping different concepts.

Perhaps another interpretation is that people go into EE who should not. I saw many people who wanted to go into CS but didn't because their parents pressured them into a "real career" like engineering or medicine.
MermaidJS is a markdown diagram tool with a huge variety of options including Gantt charts. Might be worth a look as well!

I’m on mobile otherwise I’d link to the Gantt directly

You can find it in the docs here I believe:

https://mermaid.js.org/
I agree with you that incentives are aligned and disagree that this means that the companies will actually do the smart thing.
My favorite: https://cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace
Sometimes it's an accident, sometimes it's repetitive motion. I worked in a shop where people had carpal tunnel from handling parts the same way for years, or bad eyes from welders. It really depends.

Of course, some people take more precautions than others, and that helps, but it's no guarantee of safety.
"You can find details on the rules and information on how to enter here." leads to this page, which has what I think you're looking for:

https://www.challenge.gov/?challenge=library-of-congress-fri...
You'll need something it you want to download files from Github, because for some stupid reason they still don't provide IPv6 services for cloning and such.
I used to work at a plant like this, we were acquired by Siemens. The machining process itself is less critical than the balancing and even the welding of these components, which is highly engineered and controlled.
It's huge, but it's dispersed across the massive volume of water in the pacific. Charts like these are scary, until you read the legend and realize that even the bright orange areas indicate concentrations only 0.1% higher than the typical pre-fukushima concentrations of radioactive isotopes: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/science-data/fukus...

Eat a banana and you'll receive a dose larger than anything related to Fukushima.
Thanks, that's interesting. I wonder what happens if there is a new atom found? Can we somehow make it out with some methods? I guess once we have all atoms we can just grow the thing?