skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"People know and care about their immediate circles and don't do politics for the sake of politics unless their local lives are drastically impacted.

Even "superior" online characters don't care about politics."

This is evidence that democracy is dysfunctional and we need to fix and or change how it works.

There are many important issues of a 'specialist' nature and or of minority interest or that only affect a small percentage of the population that government should address but has either failed to do so or done so inadequately.

If these issues only affect a few citizens or there are only a few pushing government to address them then there's less chance they will be dealt with in a fair and equitable manner. That 'disinterest' of the majority means there is no general oversight of these minority issues no matter how important they are. Thus government decisions about these issues will usually be influenced by the protagonists and lobbyists who have the most power and influence—their wishes prevail and win out even if not in the best interest of the citizenry as a whole.

There are thousands of issues that fall into this category—treaties signed on request of big business, regulations changed or weakened to benefit the few, etc. Take copyright law for instance, in the digital age it needs a gross overhaul but is resisted by vested interests, big publishers etc., also it's protected by international treaties which adds further resistance to change.

The majority of the population couldn't give a damn about copyright so the powerful get their way despite that the majority of citizens would benefit from its reform.

This is just one indictment of democracy's failure, there are thousands more. Moreover, as society becomes more complex and the needs of people become even more diversified, the failure will become even more evident.

When we look at the dysfunctional nature of current politics it's clear we urgently need to rethink how we are governed. A dysfunctional democracy has high potential to morph into totalitarianism.
Microplastics may be a significant cause of Male Infertility:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9134445/

The plastic brain: neurotoxicity of micro- and nanoplastics:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7282048/

Phalates in plastics reduce IQ significantly:

https://time.com/3625352/phthalates-iq-toxins/
Sorry for the confusing phrasing about STT vs TTS. I'm not familiar with cases where you would use something like this 'at the edge' instead of say a laptop. I was thinking maybe some sort of offline setup with a microphone -- but in that case the audio is just real-time. Do you have some use cases in mind?

1/4 of the price for 1/3 of the speed is a good deal! Presumably still faster than faster-whisper on the same hardware?
I think they sort of project the current state of affairs, drawing attention to the issue, which may have significant developments in the future. They ran an article about COVID during the earlier days of the pandemic, where they suspected it would take several years to come up with a viable vaccine. With R+D and novel vaccine technologies, we had a vaccine in a fraction of that time.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/30/opinion/coron...

Similarly, a famous wager took place in the 80's where two academics agued over whether we would have significant resource scarcity in minerals. That scarcity as projected never came, because resource use patterns changed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%E2%80%93Ehrlich_wager
https://archive.is/VjQuZ
> Awwh I liked them though.

Same! I think it's great when websites add characters to provide a relatable emotional core to their content.
Yeah it's like crypto created this weird crop of "debunkers" who think that being permacynical is good just because it was smart to be cynical about crypto. So now "everything I don't like is just like crypto currency"
These folks suspect lithium in our water causes obesity. They also support several citizen-science diet experiments:

https://slimemoldtimemold.com/
According to the manual, UVM is supposed to be working on vGPUs (at least MIG-backed vCS), I could never get it working though
A monthly fee for a build tool that provides no ongoing benefit other than continuing to exist is a ridiculous pricing strategy. Especially $99 for solo.

And what is this "download links on your domain" feature for the $240/month option? Are you really advertising a URL rewrite as a paid feature?
> But using either one of them instead of Java is probably going to be a huge win for most teams on concurrent workloads

Not for long. Something is looming on the horizon in Java-land.
?? That just means you haven't clicked on the links. Of course the pollution will not be represented in your browser history.

Nobody is saying they are forced to visit the site.
I Switched from Cypress to Playwright
I don't think I would want this over the git repo I currently use.

- I just sync the repo to get everything for offline use. Excellent offline access is x100 more valuable to me than anything a web interface could offer. Stats and Anki just feels like frippery.

- You get a web-interface to your repo if you do actually need to grab something online

- I store markdown notes and even diagrams alongside my books

- I edit the css in epub books if I don't like the fixed formatting they include so probably best to store a history of changes. It's quite fun becoming an editor to change an author's idiosyncratic spelling or chop out that "free chapter of another book" they added as an advert.

- I prefer a directory organisation of books - a media website things only impairs my access e.g. grepping all your books and notes together is just a minimum expectation for me.
If the Flynn Effect is caused by more complex environments, it's possible we've just maxed out the improvements to be had from turning up the gain on that. Maybe this is just as smart as we get because of hard biological limits.
America's not. The southwest and California are. The rest of the country has a surplus of water from rain. The farms near me all use rainwater retention ponds for irrigation, it's much cheaper than digging a well (the farther you lift water, the more energy it takes), and that's only for really water hungry crops (fruits and vegetables). The corn and wheat around here are all watered by the sky.
Writing a Custom Credo Check in Elixir
True in the technical sense, but it doesn’t address the mystery that in the 40s, 50s, 60s people in rich countries had access to plenty of food, ate lots of calories, and yet obesity was very rare.
The creator of JustJS has written about how it's so fast actually:

https://just.billywhizz.io/blog/on-javascript-performance-01...

(Related GitHub thread: https://github.com/just-js/just/issues/5)
At least two more episodes: S03E04 & S0403.

Probably a good way to find more: https://house.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_medical_diagnoses
As long as you can dilute it with salt water (until it's not deadly) that shouldn't be a problem.
There's an equivalent JS pattern that I always suggest over using switch cases, as it's far more idiomatic:

const case = 'case1'

const result = {
'case1': 'value1',
'case2': 'value2',
'case3': 'value3',
'case4': 'value4',
} [case] || 'defaultVal'
> I'm still shocked that there hasn't been more of a regulatory push to eliminate single-use plastics. In the US the closest we've gotten is banning plastic straws and charging for plastic carry bags.

I think it's because those two things can be used to scold consumers and thus inculcate the belief that the final link in the production-consumption chain bears all the blame.

I mean I have seen signs encouraging people to use reusable bags at the checkout line. But is it a problem that literally everything in the store (except mushrooms I guess) is wrapped in plastic? Apparently it is not.
Sure, there are plenty of such populations. The first one that comes to mind is the Kogi, who live in a sky island 4000 meters above northern Colombia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogi_people

But none of those populations can actually be used for testing, because you would need to collect relevant data on them starting 50 years ago, and we don't have any time machines.
Once you've seen enough code, the right abstraction becomes easier to spot.

Applications are more similar than they are different. That's why we have the concept of design patterns since these occur with enough frequency that we should just give the abstraction a name instead of re-inventing it each time.

Problem today -- my observation -- is that many younger devs don't ever bother learning design patterns so we end up with 1) devs who aren't aware of common, existing patterns codified decades ago and then 2) think that the "wrong abstraction" is expensive partially because of a lack of knowledge of the "right abstraction" to use.
C.R. Rao: A Life in Statistics (2020)
Indeed, TFA says that given perfect knowledge, they would have done a better job of protecting nursing homes. Contra, I guess, the example of New York. I haven't heard though - has Cuomo suggested they might have done anything differently?
Is there a reason why the researchers did this on live production BGP network rather than in a test environment, running their own BGP and FRR routers? Seems a bit haphazardly, as doing so first seems to have uncovered the issue.

Overall I agree with your message though, and of course things shouldn't stop working just because you use attributes reserved for development.
>Handling requests over separate threads, like 99% of languages do, still isn't enough if all the business logic runs on the same thread.

I mean, if your business logic is inherently serial it makes little difference if you run it in a single thread or if each serial segment in between IO requests is run in a different thread. One way or another it's not going to get parallelized.
Indeed. Beef actually plays the biggest role. From what I can find, feef requires 106gal/oz while almonds require 23gal/oz. Reducing animal agriculture has so many benefits for the planet.
Not to just toss around anecdotes, but I once rewrote an email service in elixir for a company from a literal sketch on a piece of printer paper describing what their old system did. The new service ran on 1 server vs half a dozen and was both faster at crunching through their mail queue and used far fewer resources. Some tasks are embarrassingly parallelization and the BEAM excels at those tasks. Sure you might want features it doesn't have for certain systems, but for some things it really is the right tool.
I've seen that in several buildings in Dubai. Considering that most of Dubai was built since around 2000, these kinds of advanced elevator controllers should've been available when at least some of these buildings were planned and built. So no, probably not legacy. Maybe those hall-floor-selector systems are simply much more expensive. Or maybe they only make sense when you need a really high throughput.
Delta Update Schemes Compared
Your body is not an abstraction. There will be parts of your body that will come in contact with acidic distilled water before it diffuses. But even in aggregate there were some studies showing increase in muscle cramps and heart disease in people drinking distilled water.
Creating a calendar app with web technologies is a mortal sin.
Obesity is caused by eating too much of the wrong thing.

Which happens to be the cheap thing in industrialized mass produced Western food chains. Cheap in terms of dollars and personal time.

So obesity is really an economic problem.

We should come down like a ton of bricks on fast food and require they offer healthier options at low prices, subsidized by taxes on their unhealthier options.
I'll do one better. I am strongly opposed to 2023 term : 'career'.

It's a common excuse : "I cannot do <insert fun thing>, or have to do <insert undesirable thing> for my career."

The word is now untethered from all responsibilities and benefits that came from being a career professional, and instead just signifies the constant urge to be working in pursuit of some arbitrary career.

Your career used to be a lifetime job. Your coworkers were your neighbors. Your boss was your mentor. Your company men send their children to the same school and you retired with a hefty pension. Your wife's friends were your coworkers' wives. Work was real work. You made physical products or you worked at your own little shop.

It's all gone now.

Now, 'Career' throws you around the world, destroying your communities. Dual-income households have to choose between career and children. Pensions are dead (For good imo). Most people work on things without clear positive real-life impacts and you own none of it. Your boss is incentivized to abuse you in a capitalistic rat race until you burn out, and your kids get thrown in the same blender at school at an even earlier age.

So I ask, what even is a career ?
Some cicadas which emerge en masse every 17 years. Seems like the same strategy.
I kinda miss the fact that native apps followed os' UI standards, now every app has a different UI with its own set of quirks.
>I wonder what else could be contributing?

The Wikipedia article on the Flynn effect mentions air pollution. Though this is a little surprising because in some parts of the West, air pollution has decreased since the introduction of acid rain controls in the 1980s, while the decline shows up generally after the 90s.
The microplastics in a product don’t have to originate in a product’s final packaging. Things like airborne particles on the production line, filaments from filters and cleaning equipment, manufacturing swarf, and cleaning processes that are oriented to killing small things with heat / UV / chemistry rather than filtering tbem out is probably more of the answer than leaching and degradation.
But not eating slows down your metabolism, and then you will eventually find yourself at a point where you are tired all the time because you are not consuming enough calories to have a high enough metabolism and energy level, and yet you are still slowly gaining weight because you are too tired to do anything to burn it off.
Like Telegram.
Star Citizen is a big planned online MMO. This page is about their current and planned back-end server architecture, where they want to have thousands of players online in a single virtual world, along with all of the random items - from ships to bits of trash - that float around in space visible to everyone.

Ambitious and such; the only other game I know of that tried it was Eve Online, which has tens of thousands of players in the same world, but which is limited to hundreds of players that can actually see each other.
This makes me wonder about newer terminal emulators on maccOS like Warp[1], and if they're for example taking all input locally, and then sending it over the remote host in a single blob or not? I imagine doing so would possibly break any sort of raw-mode input being done on remote host but I'd also imagine that is a detectable situation in which you could switch into a raw keystroke feed as well.

[1]: https://warp.dev
Dont have kids, cant afford kids, I didnt like growing up poor to uneducated parents and uneducated people around me.

UK is way too crowded anyway, so I'll let the immigrants crossing the channel take the place of my kids.

Hopefully they'll be able to destroy that anglo-saxon rape and pillage philosophy out of the native population, of which I'm one.
> I tapped anyway and it went through, after they tried to grab my card out of my hand to swipe it.

I'm gonna guess since that I don't know the full details, but some merchants' POS and payment terminal are not connected. The swiping is intended for the POS machine to retrieve the card details (like your name and the last 4 digits of your card*) to be printed on your receipt. Good luck on them in the near future when a tourist pays with an European-issued card (which in 2025 will allow banks in Europe to issue cards without the magstripe at all).

* For purposes outside of direct payment processing (like recordkeeping), PCI standards only allow the first six digits (which was the Bank Identification Number/Institution Identification Number, but now BIN/IIN are now at least eight digits long) and the last four digits of PAN (primary account number, formal name of that 16ish-digit card number) while US federal law only allow to store the last five digits of PAN. This results in US merchants (in theory) only storing the last four digits of the PAN.
Astute observation, given that the cat hole clearly predated Henry VIII.
A problem with the floor selector in the hall is when some people enter the elevator together without selecting a floor. The system thinks that there is still space in the elevator, but in fact it is full, so it stops at different floors without anyone being able to enter. I've seen this happen quite often in a corporate building during the end of business hours and lunch hours.
This sounds a bit like District 9 (albeit having Peter Jackson as producer might exclude it) - the director then "graduated" to Hollywood, resulting in a decline in critical reception (though I've heard Gran Turismo is pretty good by video game movie standards).
Judging from the games performance, this looks probably better than what their dev team has.
Couldn’t there be some kind of dilution step in the plant, using pumps to mix it 1:10 with seawater?

After that, it’s just slightly more salty seawater.
Long COVID isn't even legitimate and if it was it's not anywhere near the fatality rate of HIV/AIDS.
Hawaiian Electric says power lines were shut off hours before wildfire
I mean that's an awfully convenient argument to say "morality for thee but not for me". Yes it's a spectrum, but it still matters to be consistent.
We do need a better setup, but is there any more mature UI platform than HTML+ CSS +JS?

I don't think the concept of wanting to used this advanced interface is wrong, just that the implementation of Electron is bloated - and that web programming culture is far too wasteful because the premise there will only be one important app on the computer.

I have not tried sciter, but making a fast, light Electron alternative is the right way to go. To go with that, I would like to see a new emphasis on fast and light js/css libraries and frameworks that treat desktop as a first class citizen, using light SVGs instead of big raster images, automatically generating stripped down icon packs rather than loading all of fontawesome etc.

That looks like a much more promising way forward than any other UI framework I have seen. The interface with a myriad of languages for actual hardware access and local file/data manipulation are already there for the most part.

Because of this overwhelming benefit in my opinion, it is worth it to go through the development pains to get there as the easiest path to a better dev experience, rather than trying to use some other tech and bring it up to web UI quality and flexibility.
In an environment awash with cheap calories, some people get obese and some don't. That's something worth investigating. (I personally think it's more about natural mental variation than subtle chemical poisoning, but that's probably just my bias talking).
Is there any hope to see the LCM open again following Paul Allen's death?
I am not sure what you are talking about.

If I release a novel visualization library on github under some open source license I want it to be attributed to me. I don't want some specialized LLM to be lifting and offering the same visualization concepts to unnamed corporates for a hefty fee without me ever even knowing about it and these corporates pretending they don't know where that concept is coming from.

It is you choice whether you think that is a problem and how "novel" it is. Theft after all has a very long history.
Biome formats and lints your JavaScript and TypeScript code in a fraction of a second. Biome is the community successor of Rome [0].

As part of the announcement of Biome [1], we have released the first stable version of Biome [2], which includes many bug fixes and new features!

Join us on our Discord [3] to share the excitement of the launch!

I am one of the main maintainers of Biome. I will be happy to answer any question :)

[0] https://github.com/rome/tools
[1] https://biomejs.dev/blog/annoucing-biome
[2] https://biomejs.dev/blog/biome-v1
[3] https://discord.com/invite/BypW39g6Yc
I can deprive myself from the experience of seeing far away countries, but billionaires won't deprive themselves from their yachts and private jets.

And no - trains are not a solution. I can't travel to the American continent with a train.

Should travelling be available only to rich people again?
Anime faces seem very easy to draw. Granted I don’t watch anime, so I could be missing something, but it’s not like they are going for photorealism.
Reminds me of a Spike Milligan anecdote. He attended a reunion from the Italy campaign with the opposing Germans. One of them left a note saying “sorry I missed you last time”

Proving that Germans do actually have a sense of humour.
One of the biggest reason plastics are used is because they're inert.

in this case, fluorescent polystyrene particles

Did they neglect any effects of the fluorescent dye instead?

The fact that plastics are everywhere, and we have been exposed to them for several generations, should be seen as evidence of their harmlessness; we would've seen many obvious effects if they weren't. I see this as very similar to the sometimes argued link between cellphone radiation (or RF in general) and cancer.

This is simply more fearmongering from those who stand the most to profit from it...
How large are those retention pool? Football size ?
I'm getting the impression that it's like Monopoly -- an overall solid idea that some people glue their own pet ideas to, or where they tack on pointless add-ons until it becomes unrecognizable.

I don't really see what's hateable in scrum, when done sensibly. Like what do you have?

1. Daily short, standup meetings just to make sure everyone is on the same page, nobody is terminally stuck, and everything is moving forward. Most of the time these are done in a few minutes and go by completely uneventfully.

2. Weekly plannings where the team figures out what to do next. That allows replying to real-world changes, or to adapt to team composition. Eg, if Bob, who knows everything there is about Postgres is on vacation, maybe we'll delay database related work until he returns.

3. Retrospective to see if everything is on track or things are getting badly bogged down somewhere. This is a good time to think about whether some feature will not make it at this rate, or such.

I don't think there's anything wrong with the core idea, and there's a lot you can adjust to your needs. If doing two week sprints is too much planning for you because all the tickets are long running, do it once a month instead.
I use ToDesktop for Conjure[0], and I love it. Given the nature of Conjure (Habit and Time Tracking), having a desktop app was important to many users, and many now use it instead of the web version (myself included).

As a solo developer, I avoided building a desktop app for months, mainly due to worrying about the maintenance overhead. I built the desktop app within a single day with ToDesktop Builder, and there has been no notable maintenance/overhead since (other than me over-engineering some features/enhancements).

ToDesktop's deployments are super smooth. The API and docs are pleasant to work with, which made integrating Conjure's habit and time tracking through the menu bar, native notifications, and multiple windows fairly straightforward.

I did worry about the performance and resource consumption with Electron-based apps, but the Apple M1/M2 Chips absolved that concern. Most of my users (mainly Mac and Windows) don't seem to mind/care/notice the Electron nature of the app.

Disclaimer: I'm also friends with the founder, he's from the same town as me in Ireland.

[0] https://conjure.so