skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree to the general point and have used similar argument to why I don't really get involved in star wars or Star trek.

I think for layman (like me) a question to ask to make the distinction is just to ask "if we replace all the science element in the scifi with magic, would anything change?"

In star wars the force could simply be magic, light saber is the magic swords, space travel is portal between worlds, aliens is just magic species (yoda is a fairy), and almost nothing of the story or any core message would change.

Now can you say the same for say, Black Mirror? Not really, removing the "science / tech" from those stories will drastically change the meaning of the story and how the audience will relate to it.

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic" as Arthur C. Clarke said.

Core of good science fiction is to make that magic relatable and still somewhat convincing that "in the future, this might be something we would just call science"
Absolutely. I've written everything in Vim for almost as long as Vim has been around -- three books, dozens of talks and papers, who knows how many lines of code . . .

I had been joking on social media a few weeks ago that Vim must be "done" since patches stopped appearing about a month ago. Can't believe that the guy who created maybe the most important tool in my entire arsenal is gone.
Our solar system is not made of material created by any particular supernova, but of interstellar medium enriched by any number of events that created and dispersed heavy elements over the eons. But the shockwave of a then-nearby supernova explosion may have been the catalyst that triggered star formation in the presolar nebula. The sun likely had many siblings born at roughly the same time, but most likely those aren’t anywhere near us anymore.
When I glanced at the paper in a previous posting, it mentioned cycle life on the order of 100,000 charge-discharge cycles IIRC. Saying that being a capacitor it doesn't have the limited lifetime of a battery.

Weight is simply not a significant factor for stationary large-scale energy storage. It's arguably weird to be using the same cells you'd put in a car as a "powerwall".

WRT gravity storage that's going to have moving parts and require regular maintenance like a hydroelectric dam.
I may not be an expert on this matter, but the reported 37°C anomaly in Coquimbo is nowhere seen in the general historical record https://weatherspark.com/h/s/25823/2023/3/Historical-Weather... . Although the climate warming is very real and serious, my opinion is that the article probably is too dramatic and exaggerates (if not manipulates) the facts.
Credit unions are not "a smaller bank"; they work differently, they are regulated and insured differently, they are closely connected to the local community, and these are more than superficial differences.

Credit unions are smaller businesses than some banks, so they may have fewer branches, less sophisticated mobile apps, etc. but it's nice to walk into your home branch where everybody knows your name, like in that TV show about a bar.
I’ve been saying this for years, but it’s gradually become almost racist to imply that it isn’t racism that’s the biggest problem.

People hate the lower class. Hate. Look at public policy, how people react to their presence, etc. Essential workers were basically human sacrifices.

And you know who is poor and struggling? A population of former slaves in a country that hates poor people and doesn’t believe in helping them. Or a population that you deny legal rights to so that you can have cheap labor. Or even white trash, I mean, dress like a poor person and watch as staff follow you around while you shop. But yeah, racial groups like African Americans and Mexicans are poor for a reason and yeah people hate poor people
the source is Chinese tiktok (douyin)

https://www.douyin.com/video/7263715495256378659
> Not sure if they accounted for delayed surgeries in the study.

That's sort of what I am wondering. Perhaps it just delays the inevitable - the patient is gravely ill is is going to die if they don't perform _potentially_ life-saving surgery. The surgery, is of course risky.

The conference delays the surgery, so the patient's surgery or other high risk procedures are delayed. This gives the patient a few more days of being ill, but doesn't probabilistically change the outcome of actually undergoing the procedure.
A Global Web of Chinese Propaganda Leads to a U.S. Tech Mogul
How is consent-based decision making different from consensus?
Maybe coordination costs are lower when the boss is away? So more time is spent focusing on the task in the short term. And consequences would show up latter? When my boss went on maternity leave , the first 2 months were a breeze then things started getting harder.
What would you all think of naming an annual award for the greatest contribution to vim in Bram's honor?
Billionaires should not exist. They are a net-negative for society and a clear symptom that something it profoundly wrong in society, especially with the insane poverty and homelessness in the USA.
I enjoyed the Machineries of Empire trilogy by Yoon Ha Lee.

It also is labelled a space opera and has a decent amount of naval warfare in space
?

Are you saying that people who shut down companies that creates spyware are not the good guys? I don't really care if it happens by legal means or by blackhat ops like this, but feels like it's hard to argue it's immoral to shut them down, even if you copy and share all their private data while doing so.
IPv6 support is pretty 'widespread' at this point. >50% last I did a quick test

You unfortunately need ubiquitus IPv6 support to actually rely on IPv6, which isn't going to happen anytime soon.

So you really need to consider the benefits of dual stack v4 and v6 simultaneously within the same group of players. Might be useful, but it adds a whole heap of complexity.
Good article, but why is "rm -rf" capitalized in the HN title line? Is this an instance of a browser or a word processor autocapitalizing?
But the instrument for measuring doesn’t change. That’s what makes it dependable, predictable and something to measure against. You can’t measure against a moving target.
> if you have the genetics, coffee will raise the risk of AD.

Citation most definitely needed.
What if we are wrong?! we made the world better for nothing!
My guess, they delay risky procedures until senior doctors get back from the conference
I can easily do the same --- for a fraction of the cost.
WalMart has ~10x the stores as Costco across the US. Costco exists primarily in large metro areas and attracts shoppers who buy in bulk (including many small businesses, not your average grocery shopper), and focuses on a much narrower range of products. By setting up shop nearly everywhere and selling pretty much everything, Walmart eviscerated small towns in a way that Costco did not.

Plus, the way WalMart compensates and treats its store employees compared to Costco is night and day.
I'l stick with a sprig lavendar and rosemary from the garden under my pillow each night :-)
The smaller the credit union the more likely you can get it resolved during the next business day - mine is small enough that I'm often served by the bank manager just because she's the one on duty - and the main office is only a few miles away.

When you can personally talk to someone who has basically "full control" lots of issues can go away quickly.

Though I've personally never had an issue.
The CoDominium series by Jerry Pournelle and David Drake.

The Empire of Man novels by Weber and Ringo.

Belisarius series by Eric Flint and David Drake.

The General series by S.M. Stirling and David Drake.
That’s what I enjoy about a local credit union. In a worst case scenario there is a building local to me with folks personally invested in solving my problem.
I’m a huge Star Wars fan, but i have always considered it fantasy rather than scifi.
Package managers have their own versions of these problems, and I would suggest that there is a balance here, but it weighs more in favor of standard libraries than you think.

Here are the package manager problems:

1. Discoverability. Need an unordered map? We've got 20 of them, all made for slightly different use cases. No, their APIs are not cross-compatible. Also, only one of them has documentation and it's only in English/Chinese.

2. Lagging HEAD. Want to develop with the most recent version of the language? Too bad, package Foo was written for Python 2 and is now broken. The maintainer of foo may get around to updating it if you pay him.

3. Compatibility. The standard library runs everywhere. Package Foo only runs on M1 Macs, and has subtle bugs on x86 machines.

4. Supply chain hell. Chances are one of your packages or one of their packages is maintained by one guy. If a core function like left_pad is slow, you're shipping inefficient code. If one of those packages decides that you need to evangelize about how Putin is bad, guess what's showing up in your logs? If one of them gets compromised, you're on the hook for the damage. This practically means a lot of audits or a lot of sleepless nights.
A fraction of the cost of what? The $1000 you save by not buying an iPhone?
The configuration examples are not valid JSON, due to trailing commas. Not a great first impression. https://github.com/runreveal/kawa#getting-started

I see it's because they use their own config loader library that uses hujson. Why even use the human-unfriendly JSON format if you're also going to make it machine-unfriendly by not conforming? If nothing else, why not at least acknowledge that in the documentation which still calls it JSON? If this is what Grug Brained development looks like, they can keep it.
> video makes it much easier to understand what the tool can do

For you.

Long before YouTube versus WikiHow we've had "visual learners", "practical learners", and those who prefer learning from clear writing.

So it's probably not just some sort of generational or way-of-thinking divide, it's probably a cohort of personas who far prefer text to rapidly understand what things do, and a cohort who prefer someone to "show and tell"[^1].

That said, the balance does seem to have shifted in recent decades, perhaps for Americans around the same time (correlation not causation) as free play outside and big three over-the-air TV networks gave way to helicopter parenting of fully programmed days and/or the first 150 channel MTV generation.

[^1]: "show and tell" (1954?) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Show_and_tell
I found the writing of this piece to be very clear and accessible.

Whenever i read something like this, I marvel at the author who can be both fluent in Mathematics and have an ability to convey very complex ideas to a lay reader.
6502 systems had RAM that ran at system speed. Everything was so much slower then so this was feasible... plus, some systems (like the Commodore VIC-20) used fast static RAM.

The 6502 even had an addressing mode wherein accesses to the first 256 bytes of RAM -- the "zero page" -- were much faster due to not needing address translation, to the point where it was like having 256 extra CPU registers. Critical state for hot loops and such was often placed in the zero page.

Do not presume to apply principles of modern systems to these old systems. They were very different.
The news made me unexpectedly said. There are not many people that felt so close without ever knowing them, just because I used their software. Thank you for the reminder to donate: the least thing one can do now. I think most of the digital stuff I ever produced in my life was using vim. Software, scripts, websites, theses, a book, I actually even used a plugin to fill out text boxes in the web using vim.

All the stray 'i's in documents or source code in stuff I had to write with other editors give evidence to my dedication. Thank you Bram! May you live forever in vim.
This is a great idea. Bram has made a huge positive impact on the world, even if most people aren't aware of it. I'd love to help make it even bigger.

Edit: Hmm... PayPal seems to throw error after error at me when I try to donate. I'll keep trying.
Evidence for the existence of factor B doesn't disprove the existence of factor A.
The objective is not to get viral. The website is for your loved ones to know what you are upto. It could be mode of checking up on you without texting or calling you. It could just be a contact card or whatever you want it to be.

> also DNS updates don’t propagate fast enough to cope with you joining different Wi-Fi networks

True. But imagine if we had perfected this since 2009 we would have had a solution today. Same goes for other things.
Espresso is very different from black filter coffee, because the filters used in other brewing methods do not allow oil and particulate to pass through, so the composition of the drink will be different.
I'm not sure what counts as a charge-discharge cycle, but if it happens once a day that's about 277 years. Significantly longer than any battery I've heard of, most of which are warranted in the single-digit years.

On the other hand, the cement manufacturing process has high carbon emissions.
An even better solution is just picking up a decent hand grinder [1] especially since you’re doing work anyway.

[1] https://www.hario-usa.com/collections/grinders
I don't think that occurred through an act of God though. The point was that those cities didn't follow the American model because of the will of their people.
"True" espresso is extracted at around 100PSI of water pressure, so the coffee most people drink, at least in America, may not have the relevant compounds present of they are only extracted at the higher pressure of a true espresso.
I think the number of badges in the README also need to be included in the formula for Q.
They gave pretty decent detail for recreating the sample they analyzed. That's probably better than assuming any sample of coffee would have similar compounds and ratios.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy when in public. While it's certainly polite not to take photos of strangers and post them without asking if it's ok, you shouldn't morally or legally need permission. They're in public. Their actions can be seen by anyone else in public who crosses paths with them, whether online or off. There are cameras everywhere, and a random person with their smartphone should not be held to a higher standard than a surveillance company or security camera. I recently had someone give me a hard time because I had posted a selfie where someone else was in the background smoking a cigarette. The person was recognizable but far from being the focus of the photo. It was a complete coincidence that they were in the background, but a friend of theirs recognized them was angry that I had posted a photo of them without consent doing something that they didn't want shared on social media. Well, I'm sorry, but if you don't want people to see you doing something, don't do it in public. I chose to immediately remove the photo out of politeness and to avoid drama, but in my opinion, people have no right to be upset if a photo of them doing something in public goes viral.
Instead of passing a law, the French government should publish a blacklist and encourage their citizens to use it.
Functionally it's usually an edge case somewhere or someone doing something stupid. Recently where I reside there was an overflow scenario of a registration number and the powers that be decided to add another digit. Of course to maintain "compatibility" this number is a string and they added "0" to the start of it. Some organisations treated it as a string, some as a number. Ones who treated it as a string ended up with two orgs defined as "01234" and "1234". Of course org "1234", now known as "01234" wondered where the hell all the integration data went. Even worse someone registered an org "045" when "45" already existed which means that the wrong org got the integration data. This manifests itself as stuff being missing usually.

At that point, the outsourcing managers adopt the spiderman pointing pose ( https://i.imgur.com/ypYY6yg.png ) and try and establish blame. This takes forever to resolve due to a Mexican-standoff scenario, usually broken by one of them getting hungry which can take a few hours. Eventually blame is assigned and a team is set upon it. Because staff turnover is so high due to the low salary, no one at the outsourcing outfit knows anything about some rancid bit of COBOL/REXX/RPL or if you're really lucky Java which is holding all this together. In a panic, only initiated after someone informs them that they are going to have to pay a hefty compliance fine, the management team start running around like headless chickens. Eventually they bump into someone they forgot to fire who can remember who the original engineers are who wrote this. Delving into an ancient HR database, they find the mobile number of the last guy who touched and call him. His widow answers and informs them that Bob died 3 years ago but his old colleague Terry is still alive and you might want to call him. They call up Terry who is on a golf course somewhere. Terry is concerned but not that concerned about the situation because he knew what a steaming shit show the org was and moved his money well away from it. Eventually the manager starts waving daily rates around meeting the "I can be bothered" level of interest. Terry finishes his game, throws the clubs in his car and heads into the office to look at it. After 3 hours of unsuccessfully trying to work out how to get Terry an account on the mainframe again without having to involve the outsourced helpdesk, which is currently down due to a huge mudslide, he sits at someone else's terminal and stares intently at the problem. He utters a few words, edits a few characters in one file and resubmits the job. Several minutes later, the phone lines stop ringing. All is good again, Terry made $1500 and the org only lost 2% of its customers compared to the 0% it should have lost if they hadn't outsourced everything.

Now imagine this in 20 years with Kubernetes!
Maybe a dumb question, but could you grind them up and separate out the superconducty bits with a magnet or would that destroy the effect?
witness latest superconductor advancement on ..... tiktok!

What a time to live in.
Has E-Commerce Peaked?
Depending on community support isn’t the same as getting security updates from the vendor…
If anything wouldn't this argument suggest you should isolate and quantify the active ingredient? Certainly there is more variation between two espressos than, say, two 80 mg caffeine capsules.
Filter coffee catches oils and particulates, so it's better to try using espresso in case some of those compounds are being removed.
I don't upvote a lot, but this is well earned.
New study links brain waves directly to memory
People should extend this to tech; I don't understand why anyone would e.g. use Google for a business email account. Who do you call and yell at when something breaks?

Pay a smaller company for this.

Don't actually yell of course, in my case you beg for forgiveness and get pleasantly surprised, like the time when my dad accidentally deleted LITERALLY ALL OF HIS LAW FIRM EMAIL, and I had no idea what I could do. Provider was able to roll back the server a day for a whopping 15 bucks.
... the adjective "Pollyannaish" and the noun "Pollyannaism" became popular terms for a personality type characterised by irrepressible optimism evident in the face of even the most adverse or discouraging of circumstances. It is sometimes used pejoratively, referring to someone whose optimism is excessive to the point of naïveté or refusing to accept the facts of an unfortunate situation.
This is like the intro philosophy exercise of trying to define a chair. You inevitably lose something when you boil things down. I think using multiple axis definitely gets you closer.

Its also why the politcal compass memes subreddit is popular. Simply adding a authoritarian/libertarian axis to the traditional left/right axis accounts for a lot more nuance in the political spectrum.
FBI warns NFT buyers to look out for scam sites with “drainer smart contracts”
It's time for the dialog to move on from 'proving climate change', to what 'we're going to do about it'.
The French government has been covering itself in glory of late hasn't it?
There should be a right to be forgotten
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_be_forgotten
Ok. What is your solution then?

If it is 'use rust' wasm actively downgrades the memory safety that rust gives you because many of the security issues that wasm has is a function of both the compiler and the operating system working together. The compiler merely tells the operating system what should be done - it can't really enforce it.

In this case the various wasm runtimes are acting as that piece and they aren't enforcing the expected behavior.

If the compiler says - hey stick this in .rodata and the wasm interpreter says I don't know what that is then that memory safety feature/contract gets broken.
Which changes do you suggest? This is the ideas-gathering and initial design thinking phase of the project.

The CHANGES document now has some real changes and future work ideas also:
https://github.com/ikkje/ikkekernel/blob/main/CHANGES.md

And I forked Firefox, since I am planning to compare these two ideas to find which one is most likely to succeed:
https://github.com/ikkje/ikkefox
For sure. There was a show called “LivePD” that took live video as someone was arrested by the police.

I watched for years.

Now it feels so gross…if someone is having the potentially-worst moment of their life, society should offer them the decency of not putting it on live TV.
I wonder if the Kagi users approved of the publishing of this data, taken from what I assume are their personal settings in Kagi.
I don't think you included out of pocket payments for Singapore, but you have for England.
I remember it was 1997 when my older brother gave me his .vimrc file and explained to me a few of the basic commands. It took a few years but have used vim exclusively ever since. I’m deeply saddened by our loss in the open source community by this and wonder what contributions we can carry forward
I feel this way about employee discounts a little bit. Anything that encourages workers to return their earned money to the company feels wrong.
Not necessary undesirable, but definitely surprising as it's a major change from the current behaviour.
I didn't mean one specific thing. There are numerous tools in this space that approach the problem from different angles using different technologies.

My point really, was if your local dev environment requires you to jump through a bunch of hoops doing manual setup to get it working you're doing it wrong.
Yay! Decaf works too:

Three instant coffee extracts (light roast, dark roast, decaffeinated dark roast) and six coffee components [caffeine (1), chlorogenic acid (2), quinic acid (3), caffeic acid (4), quercetin (5), and phenylindane (6)] were investigated for their ability to inhibit the fibrillization of Aβ and tau proteins using thioflavin T (ThT) and thioflavin S (ThS) fluorescence assays, respectively. Inhibition of Aβ and α-synuclein oligomerization was assessed using ELISA assays.

All instant coffee extracts inhibit fibrillization of Aβ and tau, and promote α-synuclein oligomerization at concentrations above 100 μg/mL. Dark roast coffee extracts are more potent inhibitors of Aβ oligomerization (IC50 ca. 10 μg/mL) than light roast coffee extract (IC50 = 40.3 μg/mL), and pure caffeine (1) has no effect on Aβ, tau or α-synuclein aggregation.