skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it's a good culture tbh, gives you a chance to avoid the interaction if you don't feel like it, or get into it if you want to have a chat.

- How are you doing?
- How are you doing?

- How are you doing?
- Well, you know, yesterday..

both are equally socially acceptable
> It also sounds like the mayor didn’t bother to answer a request for temporarily rerouting streams to let the fire department have enough water to respond. Because it wouldn’t be equitable to the other people on the island to let that small group have so much of the limited resource.

That would be true if it really was about other people, but the water rights are tied up in multi-national agricultural and development interests.

Why was there no water to fight the fire in Maui? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/17/hawaii...
I don't think you can or should blame willpower here. If the carrying capacity of an environment is finite and you overwhelm it, you blame the stressor, not the capacity.

I agree that the industry is too good at setting the narrative and "flooding the zone" in the US, however.
> Residents are trained to run into the forest in the mountains when they hear the sirens… the exact spot where they needed to keep people away from because the fire was raging. If that’s accurate, it might have done more harm than good to use them.

Even if people went in the wrong direction, at some point they're going to see the smoke and fire, come across someone who tells them what's happening, or otherwise sees a load of people going in the opposite direction to where they're going and figure it out. Having a chance is better than no chance at all which is what these people got.
A few HOURS? That's an insane take.

What kind of situation makes that possible even?
There are probably lingering psychological impacts associated with COVID, but rather extensive physiological impacts are documented as well.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41579-022-00846-2
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37131559
Starlink has still been pretty great in my experience, but I don't know how much he meddles with that.
And every expert who has analyised it or thought about it know its nonsense. SpaceX has told us, but you simple believe them.

SpaceX has shown these numbers to investors and have received money on good valuation. If not even there core buissness was profitable why would anybody invest in Starship?

The argument that SpaceX subsudizes their launch prices is just a nonsense argument that doesnt hold up to study.
Yes, it's just another name for that.

But this article paints high-context as bad and low-context as good, when they're really just different (and opposite ends of a spectrum, not a black or white one or another).
I’m staying in an Airbnb style holiday cottage at the moment. I hd to register and pay tourist tax when I got here.

Maybe the problem isn’t Airbnb, it’s your jurisdiction.
I'm conflicted about this story. I fully believe that Coca-cola and other megacorps would have front groups undermining health research, but I'd normally expect it to be arguing against sugar replacements.

The linked report is done by a group that has previously found the front group working to undermine warnings about sugar and soda taxes (which despite the name are generally sugar taxes, and don't apply to low sugar sodas):

> ILSI sugar study out of ‘tobacco industry’s playbook’

> In 2016, public health experts denounced an ILSI-funded sugar study published in a prominent medical journal that was a “scathing attack on global health advice to eat less sugar,” reported Anahad O’Connor in the New York Times. The ILSI-funded study argued that warnings to cut sugar are based on weak evidence and cannot be trusted.

But I guess it's possible that both Sugar and Aspartame are bad for you and they'll just try to undermine any possible health risk from the so-called "food" industry.
> People guessing about performance is perhaps the most frequent anti-pattern in all programming

I disagree, premature optimisation is.

Changing your style of programming to suit what todays JIT does but tomorrow’s may not, in anticipation of performance issues you have not yet encountered is a waste of everyone’s time. No doubt it is valuable in extremely performance sensitive code but that is the extreme minority, especially in the JavaScript world.

If I were involved in a project where performance concerns were high enough to require everyone know what the JIT is and is not doing my proposal would be to use a language other than JavaScript. If thinking this makes me a “small child” in your mind I’m fine with that.
But a keylogger has a better chance of stealing the password if the user has to enter it more frequently.
Completely agree with the remarks on patience. I will add that the source of my patience tends to be being well rested. If I am well rested I am sympathetic to the mother with the crying child. If I lack rest then she is a terrible mother. Happily I am beginning to slowly recognize when my irritation is from lack of rest and that does help moderate the situation somewhat.
Also, who is "they", and are "they" hiring?
I don't really care for the "Ask vs. Guess" framing.

More like "make demands without considering the other person at all vs. think for a second about not imposing yourself on other people unnecessarily."

But mostly this article is about the virtues of being a clear communicator and having decent interpersonal skills, which is neither an "ask" nor a "guess" thing.
C and C++ prioritize performance over correctness
Multi-Party Privacy Preserving Measurement Is Becoming More Real
I would love to find a way to get some sort of emulation layer to get Textual apps running in the browser. Does anyone know of any projects that might aid in this silly goal?
How would it spike insulin, if it does not contain carbohydrates (or any micronutrient for that matter)?
If PFAS compounds are any indication, no. Industry will successfully stall and sow doubt on the science question for decades. Regulatory authorities will act after that, at which point they switch to a similar compound and the clock resets. Fifty years later, there'll be a settlement far lower than the accumulated profits that doesn't begin to cover the damages.
Publishers on social media are between a rock and a hard place
> since these tokens are almost always something like "15 minutes since the last use"

No? They’re almost always “15 minutes since the last use, or 5 hours since it was created”, which results in a completely different security picture.
You have to be logged in, so you can also see a register of who has browsed your own tax returns. I once saw that somebody I had dated 7-8 years prior had checked up on mine. It was a hoot.
> that still works.

I think that is the point being made. This exe is cherry picked as the oldest working exe, it isn't like every 30 year old exe in that folder still works.
Wait until you find out about the US cosmetics industry

> The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act does not require cosmetic products and ingredients to be approved by FDA before they go on the market, except for color additives that are not intended for use as coal tar hair dyes

https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetic-products-ingredients/...

And that includes additives strongly suspected of being carcinogenic like specific estrogen-agonistic parabens
I guess I'm lucky -- I almost never use my phone to look things up like that.

I will be switching to a dumbphone when my current smartphone dies, because keeping the smartphone secure has become unmanageably difficult to do and with every release, gets more so.

But I will be carrying a pocket computer as well as the dumb phone. That's what I really wanted my smartphone to be -- a computer I always have with me -- anyway, and smartphones were never very good at being that.

So, by tethering the pocket computer to the dumbphone, I can look things up when I need anyway.
You're misrepresenting the parent comment's viewpoint as a binary choice. There is a massive spectrum between shareholder-value-above-all and the "communism boogeyman".
All the people on that Twitter thread getting butthurt about it and complaining that Windows' backwards compatibility is a bad thing... WTF koolaid have they been drinking?

I don't often sing Microsoft's praises but backwards compatibility is something they get absolutely right: something they've always got right. Everything doesn't have to be changing and breaking all the time and, to me, it's a mark of maturity when an organisation can maintain compatibility so as not to inconvenience - and introduce unbudgeted (and sometimes very high) costs to - users, integrators, and consumers. Top marks, Microsoft.
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Lol, lmao even.

The covid vaccine used an "accelerated timeline" and was rushed through it's trials in less than a year.

Every other vaccine took 7-10 years to establish a clear long term understanding of how these vaccines interact within the bodies a broad segment of the population.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/vaccines/timeline

Answer the question: can you cite the decade long term studies about the safety of the covid 19 vaccine like the MMR vaccine?

No you can't, because they don't exist. In fact, you're living through the long term studies now because you are the test subject.

> Fair enough, just don't stand anywhere close to me when the next pandemic hits and you refuse to do anything for a decade because the concept of epidemiology and science advancing since you were a child is apparently foreign to you.

¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯

The smugness is comical. Those decade long trials are done so to avoid health crisis like thalidobromide babies. That too was released without much over sight into its effects and guess what happened? Oops!

You're welcome to be my guest and beta test vaccines.

At least if you live in a city with a lot of biomed companies you get paid to be a human guinea pig. You did this for free.

Might as well start installing nightly package builds and pushing them to production after a week of testing. You've essentially done the same thing with your body.
Yes. I meant of course to teleport to a nice neighborhood. No sense expending all that teleportation energy to just end up in another crappy place ;)
The difference is that YouTube has a user friendly button to ruin people's channels, while big brands actually need a lawyer to send a C&D
I have always believed this has been one of the primary reasons for which Windows won decisively against MacOS.

Apple has never had a problem throwing away their customers’ investment in their ecosystem. I was at a company with several hundred Macs when the transition away from PowerPC happened. It was just brutal. And costly. Not just hardware, software too.

And, what for? From a business perspective, you can do the same fundamental work woth both systems. The difference are: My investment is protected in one case and not the other. We have a bunch of Macs here. Only where absolutely necessary and for multi-platform testing.

As much as MS is maligned by purists, the truth of the matter is they have always protected their customers by having a remarkable degree if backwards compatibility, which isn’t easy to achieve and maintain.
Carter is FU espionage V.3.0

But the NSO/NSA/SF red teams are formidable...

Carter is on that team.

-

Carter is known to have a huge slurping nose which allows for the pickup and splicing of deep ocean lines such that they can put anything as rudimentary as a vampire-tap (copper) or an actual muxing fiber splice to beam split traffic...
In this video we explore the realities of implementing a brute force solution by doing an exhaustive search over all the possible moves in the game.

The game is a Mobile game called Water Sort Puzzle available in Android and IOS. The solution is in this GitHub implemented in Golang.
It certainly seemed that way at first, now I'm not convinced. They seem to be recapitulating most or all of the bad behaviors. And more expensive often enough I have to check, used to just assume it would be comparable or better unless obvious reason for shortage.
Interesting, thanks for sharing. We also found[1] that context stuffing leads (generally) to worse quality results, as did a recent study.[2] But that's for question-answering use cases and not summarization.

[1] https://www.pinecone.io/blog/why-use-retrieval-instead-of-la...

[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.03172.pdf
u left out htmx.org ;)
> “Imagine that everything else in a system is done correctly, and the system, overall, is perfectly secure. In this imaginary world, short sessions don’t help.”

Isn't the reverse also true?

Imagine that everything else in a system is done incorrectly, and the system, overall, is completely insecure. In this imaginary world, short sessions don’t help.

At any point between "perfectly secured system" and "completely borked security in every single layer", in what way will short sessions help?

If you've got a good and secure setup, with maybe one or two holes you don't know about, how does a short session help?
Which evidence/data tells you that cruise cars are not safer than humans?
that's how you read ACRONYM's logo if you know Cyrillic.

Wouldn't it be more like Lsroioum's ?
Well, there’s lots of land making land ownership very attainable.

During the 1930s and 1940s very little was built. And what was built was seldomly maintained. So after the war there were a lot of people living in old, outdated, cramped, and expensive apartments and tenements in cities.

Suddenly materials were plentiful and there was a lot of available land. The economics of it were such that you could get a car and a home outside the city for less than an apartment inside. And the living conditions were so much better. People still had their bigger families and community bond in their new neighborhoods.

But over time that was lost and we were left with the isolated towns that need a car to get anywhere and there’s no community connection as the new development doubled down on bigger houses, bigger lots, more cars.

I live in an old pre-war town. Most every home was built before 1930 and most around the turn of the century. Lots of walkable shops and a train runs through. There are many old towns like this and they’re wonderful. They also tend to be expensive nowadays.
One of the issues R7RS-large ran into was in how to handle datatypes, such as collection types. Initially, Lisp-style languages had linked lists as the primary data type, but vectors were early added. So you had a "map" function (that worked on linked lists) and "vector-map" (that worked on vectors). Similarly, "length" vs "vector-length". What happens if you want to add more collection types - for example "bytevector"? Do you add "bytevector-map" and "bytevector-length"? Or do you generalize "map" and "length" so they also work on bytevectors (and also vectors)? The former is most compatible with Scheme history and tradition. The latter is IMO preferable going forward as new collection types are added - but it needs some way to talk about frameworks of types that are all sequences (linear collections). I.e. you need at least the concept of inheritance or "interfaces" as used in various languages, including Java and TypeScript.

Many languages in the Lisp/Scheme family have some kind of inheritance or interfaces, including Common Lisp, Dylan, Racket, Kawa, and many more. However, this hasn't been standardized for Scheme. R7RS-small has a mechanism to define new data types (records), but they were limited in functionality to C-like structs.

I (and others in the community) felt (and feel) that it is premature and unwise to add a bunch of new libraries for new data types until or unless we have some kind of framework for inheritance or interfaces. Others in the community (including the former chair) felt this was unnecessary and perhaps inappropriate for a language with the goals and history of Scheme.

There is no clear right answer or consensus for how to go forward, which is part of what caused things to bog down.
"designed to replace government functions with their own profit-driven replacements"

They should have marketed it to US Republicans.
Frontend needs work for sure, API issues also need to be solved, other than that it's a good idea as long as people actually start using it and the dataset becomes larger.
You are doing something wrong. There are huge productivity benefits in learning how to use a debugger effectively. Debuggers have benefits that go beyond just fixing known defects. I have disciplined myself to step through every line of code that I write while watching the control flow and state changes. This allows me to proactively find and resolve defects and inefficiencies that would have otherwise leaked through testing. Issues that you would never notice while reading source code or looking at print statement output become much more obvious in a good debugger.
This [1] page shows changes in real average household incomes from 1965 to 2020, broken down by quintile. Keep in mind the sharp increase in the number of necessities in modern life as well as things like healthcare, education, and housing inflating in price way beyond the rate of nominal inflation. Economically, many people certainly had significantly better lives in the past. Of course that would also have been a life generally without mass computing, the internet, and other such things. And I did say "many people", as it seems the bare median has probably moved up just enough that they're probably better off, but it's really uncomfortably close when one thinks how much we 'ought' have improved.

[1] - https://www.advisorperspectives.com/dshort/updates/2021/10/2...
> By definition, spending on something that is consumable (like a rocket launch) is not a capital expenditure.

Uh, I was talking about the Starlink satellites which SpaceX owns, not the rockets. I am not, in fact, an idiot. But thanks for assuming so and giving me capex 101. Much appreciated.
> The food industry in the US is making us sick

Food industry everywhere is making everyone sick. The difference is culturally, we don’t care in the US. How many people in the US make food at home? And by make food, I don’t mean heat frozen meals or throw ready made pasta on pasta? That makes a huge difference on how sick we get.
> Step outside of the software bubble we’re in and I’d guess 80% or more people would prefer a world without Airbnb

This is delusional. Here's one survey, by YouGov, pegging their liked-to-dislike ratio at 3.4: https://today.yougov.com/topics/travel/explore/website/Airbn...

The software bubble is nothing compared to a political bubble.
While I agree with the truth of your first statement, your view seems rather black and white. Companies don’t only see patients as profit centers, most investors probably do. Anthropomorphizing corporations is of little value, arguably a dangerous abstraction.
Really? Filesystem performance on Windows is absolutely horrible compared to Linux. It blows me away how, even using SSDs, the performance of git over large repos is at least 10x slower than a Linux box with the same CPU. It is the bane of my existence. It's not just git. rsync of a large directory takes >10x as long. This is with Server 2016 (and 2012 r2). My 2012 r2 machine had spinning disks and when I tested on 2016 with SSDs I was shocked the situation did not improve.
The entire world probably has the equivalent of "how are you" in every which language available. Not sure where you're going with this "take" on American culture.
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> I am convinced it's not a problem of willpower, but the food just being engineered to be addictive and overly flavourful at any cost.

This is where I'm at with our processed food in the US, and I agree with this as an actual recovering addict (opioids). Massive lucrative businesses have been built on addiction and making things more addictive. We allowed this trend to continue in our culture by voting with our dollars, and I suppose wr could point fingers all day, but I also land back on the question of how do we, as a society, fix it and do better moving forward?
You're mixing him up with Sam Bankman-Fried, no?
I understand what you meant, my point is that it isn’t actually that valuable.

I was clarifying so that my point could be made. I’m sorry that it rubbed you the wrong way.
> According to the declassified FISC ruling, despite paper reforms which the FBI has touted that it put into place to respond to the last time it was caught violating U.S. law, the Bureau conducted four queries for the communications of a state senator and a U.S. senator.

Ironically, it seems that a significant chunk of the progress FBI has made in terms of 702 compliance comes from a pretty trivial "paper reform": changing the default in their search portal to have 702 be defaulted to "off".

> In June 2021, the FBI changed the default settings in the systems where it
stores unminimized Section 702 information so that FBI personnel with access to
unminimized FISA Section 702 information need to affirmatively “opt-in” to querying such information. This system change was designed to address the large number of inadvertent queries of unminimized Section 702 information DOJ had identified in its reviews, in which FBI personnel did not realize their queries would run against such collection. Historically, users were automatically opted-in to querying unminimized Section 702 information in these databases if they had been authorized to access unminimized Section 702 information.

https://www.justice.gov/d9/pages/attachments/2023/03/03/rece...

Josh Geltzer (a deputy DHS advisor) said on Lawfare that this probably alone dramatically reduces the number of noncompliant FBI 702 searches:

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-lawfare-podcast-jos...
Incorporating old, strong plastic filaments would be a terrific reuse idea.

I don't think the get enough disused fishing nets for that, and these nets would need a lot of cutting.
You need to compress hydrogen and storage containers need to be specially built for H2. It requires more energy and specific tankers to be able to handle it under pressure.

It is a fuel which has that advantage in that is it does transport around the world and can utilized on the specific site intentioned.

That said it is expensive specifically for hydrogen relative to other fuels that don't need special handling/containers/pressurizing.
There's a hilarious theory that it's due to the success of stamping out smoking. Nicotine being an appetite suppressant after all.
How does a “digital nomad” differ from a resident that works from home?
Why musicians in Spain are going topless as a radical gesture
I'm not sure how you reach this conclusion considering the other posts on this thread show this is related to cookies, which is why clicking the same link twice doesn't have the delay the second time.
> Locals are incapable of that because property owners are the majority of voters and unwilling to vote against their own interests

This seems unlikely to be true. Especially In the places where housing is most expensive. Do the majority of voters in NYC and SF own homes or other real estate?
I still disagree. Moving is not sufficient. If both are moving in the same direction and one hits you in the back, you would not say they collided with each other.

we define collisions by whether the velocity facing side of the object hits the object.
npm and gem behave like this, although I don't know if they use this exact method to figure out the abbreviations.

git has something similar, although it's disabled by default (help.autocorrect option).
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If your objective is to tax farmers out of existence, then yes.
The exact words I typed are "If you read these principles and reverse them...".

These are Dieter's principles — a product design approach that he believes leads to good design. I pointed out that if you apply the opposite of them, you get this product.