skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
LK-99 and the UFO hearings have just tanked my already low opinion of so many communities. I know that no matter the field or the training people are susceptible to being overly excited when they're ignorant on a subject, but god it bothers me how much trivial research (ESPECIALLY on the UFO issue) should at least temper expectations if not outright make people more skeptical.

I figured places like HN would be better for that, although not much. Sure seems about the same as the rest of the web. It's just gossip rags for techy people.

What kills me is that LK-99 might actually be a room temp superconductor, but that doesn't mean the straight out crazy beliefs and behaviors were.
I agree it’s not great. However, you may have missed it but the key in interactive you can click on individual years and groups of years you see the trends. 2021 and 2022 are also quite distinctive lines. So it’s easy to see from the data how large an anomaly 2023 is.

Enabling individual years lines in sequence, 1998 was a major jump from what came before as was parts of 2015, and 2016. But 2023 is still a huge jump which going from past patters will settle down for a few years before becoming the new normal.
No, the allies didn't learn. The British knew very well that moral was not negatively affected by the Blitz, nor was industry. The targeted workers living quarters and civilians regardless. And no amounz of data confirming that these bombings had no real impact on German production rates, nor moral (in fact, POWs from Normandy confirmed that they fought to defend Germany from allied bombing), and still contimued. Heck, the leveled Caen in France in order to destroy three bridges. Caen was leveled, thousands killed. And the bridges still intact.
I'm so angry that Comcast is getting away with advertising their 200Mbps service as "10G". I have seen repeated confusion from folks online who think it means 10Gbps. I sent a complaint to the FCC, FTC, and the CA AG, but doubt anything will happen. The funny thing was, in their rebuttal to the FCC, Comcast even calls their rebuttals "talking points". I thought "talking points" was well known as a slightly derogatory term, where it's just crap you parrot because it sounds good.
Investment Strategies for Stock Market
I don't understand the point you're trying to make here - are you implying that liberalism is some sort of regime, or a bad thing that needs to be replaced?
I have had great experiences with home internet from the likes of Comcast and Verizon for a decade now. What became true a decade ago? I moved to a city where there were two viable broadband providers (Comcast + municipal fiber, then Comcast + Verizon in two different locations). My conclusion: it doesn't matter who is offering the service, it matters that there is more than one viable option.

Municipal fiber is not special due to the ISP being municipal government. It is special because it is a path for a community to force a second option into existence.

Lest anyone misunderstand this post: this is an observation in wholehearted support of the linked article. It is wonderful that a community is able to move forward with getting better internet service.

Additionally, I am not trying to brag. I am very lucky to have been able to relocate as I have, and that my locations have had multiple viable options. I recognize that most of the US does not have this flexibility. Again, I offer these observations as full throated support for communities pursuing municipal fiber.

Edit, summarizing: Competition works. In my experience, the dominant factor determining ISP quality is the presence of another ISP with a substitutable offering.
I wish that US law enforcement, who likes to act all tough when dealing with helpless poor people, would instead act tough with white collar criminals. Instead of taking their fake SWAT team units into twitch streamers homes and to schools where they sit there and let kids get murdered, imagine them storming into Theranos and yanking them straight to jail, and then having a speedy trial, rather than wasting years of our tax dollars to slap them on the wrist.
This uses the /embeddings API endpoint that OpenAI released last year:

https://openai.com/blog/introducing-text-and-code-embeddings
I think you underestimate the scale of the problem by a few orders of magnitude.

That park is over a thousand square kilometers, mountainous, and with very few roads.
So if I write an article about astrophysics but start off with the idea that we're all on a flat earth on the back of a giant turtle you'll continue trusting the rest of the document?

The whole round earth thing is just a basic thing I missed!
Earth would look different too. Through its' high mass, Jupiter gets the most visits by asteroids. He protects us. The romans named their highest god Jupiter.
You need some hw to take advantage of it but it's not too bad. https://sschueller.github.io/posts/wiring-a-home-with-fiber/
> ... if you are in college or a smaller community word gets around

Maybe this is the reason I don't get this kind of reactionaryism: I left for college ~25 years ago, and didn't go back to the small town I grew in.

And I'm glad. I could have turned into the same kind of guy who still believes that men can aspire to be players, and women should not.
The first toaster didn't come with a plug they came with a light-bulb socket connector.

If you are eating toast must be daylight for most people no need for the lightbulb.

Usually a home could afford a single outlet and they put it over the kitchen table for light and other utility tasks.

If one was going to splash out for some electricity that might consider and outlet for a refrigerator.
> Instead of a few anonymous peer reviews, you get the entire planet to replicate.

Notably, peer reviews typically don't involve reviewers trying to replicate the results. So we've essentially skipped peer review (at least temporarily) and went full speed ahead with the post-peer-review process.
in china recently businesses have been warned against refusing to accept cash. most online services also accept other payment options besides wechat. not having wechat pay is an inconvenience but not a tragedy.
Yeah, I was going to say. I've seen so many (usually legitimate) criticisms aimed at Nature dot com in the past year alone that I saw the domain immediately disregarded the possibility that this should affect my opinions one way or the other.
Any of the gas they 'mined' (ignoring the immense difficulties of trying to mine liquid hydrogen) would be stuck on the platform without a rocket to carry it out of orbit. It would be much, much easier to stick a base on Ganymede or something and convert some of the ice there into fuel.
The desktop and UI conventions are largely inspired from NeXTstep, which is from the late 1980s and was considered ahead of its time. However, there is nothing preventing the use of alternative designs. One example is the Etolie project from the late 2000s and early 2010s, which used the GNUstep API but didn't rely on NeXT-style UI conventions:

http://etoileos.com/etoile/

If GNUstep gains traction, there will almost certainly be a project to create a modern desktop. I personally like the NeXTSTEP UI, but I wouldn't mind something new.
And then there's the 99.9% of people who completely ignore the "crusty old map" of science and get scammed by grifters selling them a brand-new fantasy map every other week.

You don't have the right to be curious about anything until you have at least glanced at the real map. And you deserve to be shamed as a crackpot, pseudoscientist, quack and fraud if you are.
This is just how humans are. You pick something you like and then you support it fully. Rewind time to 10,000 years ago or whatever. You're out distance-running animals to exhaustion, and your friend trips and breaks their leg. You stop the hunt and carry them back to your village. You go out tomorrow and hunt without them, and give them some of the food you caught anyway. Someone says "man this guy is lazy, let him starve!" They are ruthlessly taunted for going against the group. The broken leg guy recovers and society moves on. It didn't have to be that way. You could have watched someone break their leg and say "that sucks bro, enjoy dying" or you could have gone along with the "this guy is lazy, let him starve!" cries. Both are rational actions that many other species would take, but for humans, evolution didn't favor that. (Probably because an adult human is a pretty big sunk resource cost. 9 months of gestation to have 1 kid!)

The end result is that we still have these instincts. We want to belong to a group to receive its protection if something goes wrong, and we want to support our group so the members know they're getting the protection they crave. The end result is that in a world without life or death consequences at every turn, we naturally apply this to shit that doesn't matter like rocks. Same brain, different problems.

I'll also add, this is what science is. People say stuff. Other people test it. Everyone shares their results. Is there a better system?
I jumped from comcast (whatever, 200 up/20 down or similiar) to 1Gbps symmetrical 4 years ago and now 10Gbps symmetrical. For less than half of what Comcast charges, with a local ISP (Sonic). It just makes you realize how much money is being funneled directly into shareholder pockets (and to lobbyists and congresscritters and local regulators). And then they brag about throwing $100k at some local schools or something.
Noob question: if whatever is happening is strong enough to raise one of the ends of the sample, why doesn't raise both? After all gravitation is many order of magnitudes weaker than electromagnetism. Did they calibrate the setup to closely match the gravitational force on the sample? Why not push a little more and make it fly up the the cap of the container?
And what is that supposed to tell us? If it's so awesome, work for Automattic, or start companies like it to dominate other spaces. Where's the problem?

I just can't stand this learned helplessness in people, like the writer's strikes in Hollywood. Oh the studios are terrible, oh they're doing literally everything wrong all the time. But I'll just sit in the middle of the street, shout cringe at people and demand slightly higher pay.

Go out and show people what you can do if you know how to do everything better. And if not, at least stop complaining about your boss and go back to work.
Well said.

Curious: what does your current team / company do to enable the real-time ad-hoc conversations that need to happen? Are there conventions or tools that have helped?

(full disclosure, we're building a platform that integrates with Calendar, Zoom, and Slack to try to solve this problem and let people turn to one another in real-time, without interrupting heads-down time. Would love to interview you for user research if you're up for it)
It's because people aren't excited about the science. They're excited about the speculation, the gossip, and the potential result. That is literally antithetical to the entire process of proper science, and the exact kind of behavior/mentality that most scientists hate due to how it warps things like funding.

Science is the process. It's taking your time, proving your work, and most importantly, replicating your results.
Mostly because almost all of this originates from India and the Phillipines, not from within the US. The scammers are almost never associated to any US entity. The spam telemarketers that work for US companies that are beneficiaries are kind of a different sort of deal, although should also be penalized.
> We already see the first attempts - Death Stranding will be available natively on M1 Macs.

We see those first steps every year, Apple always has some big developer showing a game running on the Mac and then nothing relevant actually happens beyond that.
Classical liberalism is a government, a regime, and it has been overtaken and is being replaced already. Hence why classical liberals feel surrounded by sharks.
> But there is something to be said about having an actually usable banking website, modern ATMs, and most importantly some support options during non business hours when something goes wrong

An example of all of this wrapped up in a credit union in California - School's First Credit Union.

What's great about modern banks/credit-unions is the ability to issue cards that can use payment processors like Mastercard (school's first uses this), making almost every ATM work for you. I was able to make purchases in London without doing anything special.

The account monitoring is also top-notch. I buy gas, driving up to San Francisco and someone buys some shoes in Los Angeles when I had just stopped in San Jose, I get a phone call. I try to purchase more than $X with the card, it won't go through without me allowing it (you can configure your max daily, ofc). Loan rates are great. It goes on and on.

I just don't understand why anyone uses big banks anymore.
The US does need nuclear weapons as long as other nations have nuclear weapons that can strike the US and allies.

For one thing, the US military is strong but they aren't bomb-China or conquer-Russia strong. The article is from 2007 so the calculus with China has changed which has improved their military significantly in last decade. Finally, it doesn't really matter how strong military is when the opponent can vaporize it at will.
Sure, I felt similarly when I read it 3 years ago. But the problem is that there is not a single atmospheric model that can explain the magnitude, rapidity, and localization of the current warming. This does all three and I don't see why the mechanism for it is impossible. The fact that Antarctic sea ice is plummeting when there hasn't been any significant atmospheric warming at the South Pole is remarkable and deserves a lot of scrutiny.

And figure 1A is referring to the heat contribution to the Northern hemisphere where the vast majority of seasonal CO2 landmass sequestration occurs. The author isn't saying the sun gets hotter in March.
> They are both at least as petty as MacOS or Windows

Yeah, no. I don't think you use macOS/win at all if you say stuff like that. It feels and always has felt rough around the edges.
there’s no issue to fix.

some people are born with different neurochemistry, and are happier to live as a man or a woman. who cares?

i know it threatens the patriarchical masculine worldview, but it doesn’t hurt anyone in reality.
Oral cancer drug kills 100% of tumors in vitro and in animal models
https://www.cell.com/cell-chemical-biology/pdfExtended/S2451...
MailPoet is pretty simple and works well. The main draw being that you can just import your WordPress posts, unlike with MailChimp and some other platforms.
Visualization of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Tagged by Source
> asynchronous communication involves less frequent, but richer communication

Problem is that most people aren't good at written communication. They're passable, but not good. This means the communication isn't actually "richer" it's just longer.

The rise of remote has led to so many wasted hours (for the author and readers) due to RFCs and proposals that just never had the chance of going anywhere, because the people that could help don't have time to figure out what the author is actually asking for or trying to get done.

Then people whine about how no one is listening to their great ideas.
> Why bother with a tablet

Honestly, because it’s nicer to use on a couch.
Ask HN: Best way to run enterprise R/Python VM
We have a bunch of agencies that want us to host and run their r and python scripts, so they can use the outputs in BI tools. Is there a free way to take a wide variety of working scripts install dependencies for R and Python and then run each on a schedule and maybe support project folder and the like? Thanks.
The simulation is just testing the release. They haven't decided whether or not to make it real yet. There's a lot of bureaucracy involved. Even doing this initial test caused a lot of debate as it's deemed too early. If it launches, it requires a lot of updates on the backend to expand.
Upvotes are for what you consider interesting or added value.
With comcast, it was cheaper to have internet+tv than just internet. The scam is that it's only cheaper for the first year, so you have to keep threatening to cancel.

The internet-only plans had no specials, so WYSIWYG but it looks expensive in year 1.
>> People like you

>> But please talk more about that evil right wing news outlet

What on earth are you on about? "people like me" "evil right wing news" ?!

I have not referenced anything as either right or left wing. Nor did I mention anything of mine or anyone else's political leanings.

I cited my theory including several sources that show it to be factual that this television personality's employers gained several millions by causing the bank's share price to drop.

Yet you seem to be deploying personal attacks rather than finding fault with my core assumptions.
Do you expect authors or publishers to operate without a profit motive? I think I understand what you're getting at, but in any library model someone is getting paid. We buy books from the same wholesalers that serve book stores and subscribe to magazines that review them and catalog them with software we license (or if you're using open source you often have a support contract). It seems somewhat arbitrary to single out Overdrive as the ones who should go non-profit here. Overdrive provides a service that they charge for; that, in and of itself seems pretty standard, which is why I'm curious what else is going on.
Ask HN: What are some reasonable black swan tech predictions for 2023?
One 1 hand we have "AI", promising chatbots that automate trival tasks, to the industry going back to old boring frameworks.

What are some tech society predictions you have?
Bottom line is that Valve doesn't want to pay for Windows licences, that is all.
> in many ways IPv6 is simpler than IPv4.

It's not really about whether or not IPv6 is simpler than IPv4, though. It's about how painful moving from IPv4 to IPv6 is. And it's very painful. If the only thing that changed between the two was that the IP address space is bigger, it would reduce the pain of changing.

I'm certainly not going to claim that my experience is representative of anyone except for me, but the reason that I'm not going to shift to IPv6 until I literally have no other choice is because doing so is an enormous undertaking. Since IPv6 doesn't bring me any benefit that I care about, there is no reason to do so unless I simply can't get on the internet without it anymore.

Please note: I am not bashing IPv6 here, and I'm not saying that a change isn't needed. I'm just expressing some of the reasons I've seen why people resist changing to it, and that I think adopting it would have happened within a reasonable timeframe if it weren't as ambitious.
Its not the safety studies. I'm sure the safety studies were done in other countries so they can submit it in the US. But if the company claims some beneficial properties to your body then its considered a drug and they need to show efficacy. But if they didn't advertise Novamin as an active ingredient they could sell it in the US but then they can't claim the benefits of that ingredient. I'm not sure how in the EU they can claim benefits without trials.
I assume you meant to ask "how to build" and not "how to write", since writing the Objective-C code is trivial since it's all just AppKit and there's documentation on Apple's website for that.

Building for both GNUstep and macOS is difficult. The problem is, macOS wants you to use Xcode and GNUstep wants you to use their weird build system. In order to build software that is compatible with both GNUstep and macOS you will either need need to have two parallel build systems (one GNUmakefile and one Xcode project) or use a custom build system.

Personally I think GNUstep's build system is stupid, and I don't like using Xcode, so I lean more towards a custom build system. Sounds insane I know but it really isn't that bad. Compiling and running a Cocoa application on macOS pretty much boils down to this:

clang main.m -framework Cocoa
./a.out

I don't remember how to do it for GNUstep. It's been a few years. Their GNUmakefile thing is REALLY weird, they have all these Makefile macros you need to import and they try to abstract all of this stuff away. Using Makefile macros. It's horrible. I asked ChatGPT and it generated this:

include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/common.make

APP_NAME = YourAppName
YourAppName_OBJC_FILES = main.m YourAppClass.m
YourAppName_RESOURCE_FILES = Info-gnustep.plist

include $(GNUSTEP_MAKEFILES)/application.make

I would make a basic GNUmakefile, then run it with `V=1` (or `VERBOSE=1`? i forgot the name of the environment variable) to get the actual terminal commands its running, extract those, put those in your one-liner custom build script and be done with it
Its filled with anxiety and emotions. I am completely turn off by this. Despite thet fact that I acknowledge climate change. Its approach is based on emotions and not clear well though actions.
i had the same problem. i solved it by becoming much more social in my non-work parts of life.
A fork then
Interesting. Help me understand, how do peoples' differing social ontologies exist within an objective social reality?
f--k the "office" and f--k the soulless two-faced corpo-goblins who thrive within it. never going back.

in 20-30 years i'll be worm food. not going to waste anymore time rotting in an office. f---k no.
Kitboga on youtube is a great channel if you want to watch scammers get strung along for hours while he pretends to be a confused old man while actively getting the services used by the scammers cancelled.
Most of their resources were still being sent to the Eastern front during the entire extent of it existing. Most significant damage to German fighting capabilities came from tactical strikes by the US airforce during and after the Normandy landings - taking out specific railways and airfields rather than factories.
Now that Risc-v is starting to become a real competitor to ARM it is time for them to execute an exit.
Clearly we can't know for sure unless we have more information about the data itself.

But my reasoning is this: If we assume a uniform number of "samples per area" then the north/south distinction does matter. Larger total sea area in the south would mean more samples taken in the south. And therefore more influence of "southern samples" on the total average.

Again, we don't know unless we have more info, but it seems like a reasonable assumption to make.
My experience some people with weak game settled with who they thought would take them but aren't 100% happy they did and will jump at expanded opportunity. If I want a Porsche and buy a Toyota it doesn't stop me from wanting a Porsche. If I have a Porsche I get over it and I want a Toyota for my daily vehicle.
>One would think Microsoft would have had plenty of time by now to address this.”

Anyone that’s had the pleasure of using office 365 knows microsoft has other priorities.

I’m not even sure this was fixed yet: https://forum.level1techs.com/t/am-i-the-crazy-one-here-or-i...
German indistry, mostly unaffected by bombing, went underground and to remote locations. What the allies, especially RAF Bomber Command under Harris targeted was the worker living quarters, not even the factories for the most bit (not that it made practical difference, aiming was just bad) and civil infrastructure. While wasting limited resources for aircraft production, andtaking away long range aircraft from Costal Command that could have been used against uboats in the Atlantic.

And no, London was no legitimate military target during the Blitz neither...
It's really annoying that I want to know what win32kfull.sys does so I google it and all I find is dozens of pages of automatically generated spam.
Even in its current state, Threads is currently the #2 "free" download according to one of the data analysis firms cited in the article.

https://app.sensortower.com/top-charts?os=ios&category=0&dev...

X is nowhere to be found. It's a dead app walking.