skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclosure, I work for GM.

Type 1: The tradeoffs are not in my favor.

Type 2: You have not understood the tradeoffs.

Type 3: No one can evaluate the proposal.

> "When policy-makers ask for secure encryption with a back door, we do not always see that this would like be telling Ford and GM to stop their cars from crashing, and to make them run on gasoline that doesn’t burn. Well yes, that would be nice, but how? They say ‘no’? Easy - just threaten them with a fine of 25% of global revenue and they’ll build it!"

> "This would like be telling Ford and GM to stop their cars from crashing"

Easy - car doesn't go until all seatbelts are on. All seats face backwards. Helmet and HANS device for all occupants. Maximum speed is 45 mph. Cars are wrapped in giant foam pads. Cars are limited to roads mapped by the automaker. (Type 2b [I have interpreted the intention of your Type 3 proposal] - Customers would revolt)

> "Make them run on gasoline that doesn’t burn"

Easy - catalyze gasoline to hydrogen and use a fuel cell. Well not easy, but possible. (Type 3 - I can propose this, but no one can evaluate it without doing a LOT of work)

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Personal opinion: People feel like experts have lied to them, because experts have lied to them. We can't trust experts. How should people think? Specifically when it is very expensive to test something? 'Expensive' includes all kinds of risk, not just money spent. 'Test' includes "what will this do to me?"

So some people think that there is a 100 mpg water carburetor that Shell bought the patents to and maybe the inventor had an 'accident'. In reality, (Type 2) They have not understood the tradeoffs. 100 mpg is easy - on a speed limited motorcycle on a chosen route. Water carburation is not too hard for motivated and handy person to use. It IS too hard to put on a general consumer's vehicle.

Jet airplanes used to inject water into the engine to get more performance on takeoff. Someone realized that it's cheaper, easier, and saves weight to just inject more fuel. The fuel doesn't fully burn, but it adds to the thrust just by being mass that goes out the end of the engine.
Human-Pig hybrid created in the lab
Oh it exists. Lines of code, number of commits, number of documents and other such BS uncorrelated with actual work.

Imagine how poor management must be to think more lines of code == more revenue.
I noticed that’s something people don’t pick up on when they cook also, but some things really are all day affairs. Meaning my mom couldn’t leave the house for most of the day. Baking, certain stews, etc. function this way.
The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (2012)
As someone who works daily with climate scientists making models that are actually used by people looking to turn a profit, if you actually believe there was a scientific consensus in the 80s about an ice age coming then you’re not researching actual science; you’re researching pop culture.
Okay, so they made the claim that nearly every software engineer is against it. What is the proof?
I TiVo’d and watched “Everyday Italian” most nights in college but I never seemed to learn how to cook anything from the show. Still… time well spent. Ha!
Get a guided bike tour, or failing that take a hop-on-hop-off tour bus. Ask the guides for further recommendations. Ask your baristas/bartenders.
The issue is that big messes can be made that are hard to clean up in one small release.

For example, one of our teams had the requirement "Allow end users to programmatically configure widget xyz". Now, widget xyz has a janky design and a table with 50 columns associated with it.

So what did this team do? They took that internal table definition, made a CRUD api that exposes the whole thing, and moved on.

Tell me, how do you fix something like that like that? They followed the agile route, got an MVP out with hardly any effort on their part. But now we have this API that shows off 20 years of legacy that our end users now depend on.

And to be clear, of those 50 fields, maybe 3 of them mattered to the end user and the rest could have been inferred. But doing that inference is a lot more work as it takes understanding the domain.
“A little something like this, John.
Let me walk you through our Donnelly nuts basing and crack system rim-riding grip configuration. Using a field of half C sprats, and brass fitted nickle slits, our bracketed caps and splay flexed brace columns vent dampers to dampening hatch depths of one half meter from the damper crown to the spur plyths. How? Well, we bolster 12 husked nuts to each girdle jerry, while flex tandems press a task apparatus of ten, vertically composited patch hamplers. Then, pin flam fasten pan traps at both maiden apexes of the jim joints. A little something like that, Lakeman.”

Love this show! Cleverly written and incredibly underrated.
Illustrators Are Fundamentally More Talented Than Painters
Adam/AdamW doesn't follow any intuitive logic. Pretty much everyone has different experiments with setting learning rates and schedules.
Given the context, you would then want to look at value extraction.

How much is each entity extracting from the suggested economy in terms of income.

PayPal operating income: $4 billion

Apple operating income: $114 billion

And of course PayPal is a skimmer, somewhat similar to Visa, so their extraction is miniscule compared to the transaction base. Apple carves out a fat profit from their ecosystem by comparison.

Maybe PayPal is beaten down here and their stock is relatively cheap as a value play. Or maybe they're about to be destroyed as the US switches to a European style, low cost insta money moving system courtesy of FedNow, and the market is pricing it accordingly. PayPal better diversify in a hurry, the transaction skimming business isn't going to be so nice in the future.
True, I didnt explain myself very clearly. An editor serves two functions: to open text files, and to act as the Program of Last Resort to open an unfamiliar file type. Id like something beefier than Notepad for the first, but I could live with it: but Id really like something with the power of Notepad++ for the second use case, built into Windows. However its far outside the mainline for windows corporate users since they probably never get sent filetyoes for which they do not already have the right app to open it.
Would you mind describing a few of the things you like about Nova IDE? I never tried it, but it has my interest. I'd be happy to hear what you like and dislike about it.
Have you checked out Adam Ragusea on YouTube? https://youtube.com/@aragusea

He continues on in a similar, if more modern, tradition as Alton Brown, I enjoy his videos and I have learned a lot from his videos.
>I agree with checking the references, but again, my point is that as a general rule it's really not that easy. You can think it's easy because you have had the work done for you for this particular article and that it is obvious in this particular article, but in general, it is way more complicated.

It is that easy to check a reference. The only real obstacle is whether you have access to an article cited, which any reviewer will through their university or organization. Find the article cited by the paper under review as referenced in work using the title, author, and year published. Read article. Done it a million times myself. Books are obviously going to take longer to double-check and very old articles might be hard to access. Studying the "quoted paper" (Although it often won't be a direct quote. That would be even easier to check on.) is an important part of reviewing. This isn't supposed to be a 5-minute read-through to be given a thumbs-up if it seems alright. It should take time to ensure that it makes a valid point using verifiable facts.

>But more importantly, and it makes your point moot: if the article is misrepresentating the reference, then, rather than in the peer-review process, it will be the reference author that will notice it.

The reference author isn't going through every work that cites theirs. It could be they notice, but it's more likely they never see the work. If the paper author is misrepresenting the reference, that's the peer-reviewer's job to catch it.

>The peer-review is the first step before submitting the article to the whole community, and it is then that the majority of the discussion happens.

The peer-review is the last step before submitting the article to the whole community. What do you think the point of the peer review is? It's not a rubber stamp. It's supposed to be other researchers who are capable of spotting a work which isn't supported by facts and the references cited.

>While I agree with the previous things, this bit makes me pause: careful with that, historically, the majority of correct claims were, at first, sounding dubious, and the majority of incorrect claims were, at first, sounding totally not dubious.

So you shouldn't look into questionable claims because sometimes false claims sound perfectly believable?
https://archive.md/1loPT
They weren't as expensive as Macs but they were also much more powerful so they were well worth the money even if Macs were cheaper. Macs were pretty minimalist systems from a hardware standpoint with no graphics acceleration and little sound capability in the early days. The Amiga's graphics and sound chips relieved the CPU of a lot of work, allowing it more time to focus on other things. This is why running Mac OS as a task under Amiga OS on some CPU and at some MHz would ran faster than on real Mac hardware of the same CPU and MHz
It's pretty objectively a big deal.

(Feature-limited) Photoshop was ported to WASM in 2021.

https://web.dev/ps-on-the-web/

With the deprecation and imminent removal of WebSQL, the official (Google) recommendation for SQL-in-browser is WASM SQLite.

https://sqlite.org/wasm/doc/trunk/index.md
15 years? No one will do webdev with a keyboard by then.

You'll be arranging UI blocks in augmented reality IDE completely powered by AI. AI will use WASM and upon request it will gladly convert to your language/framework of choice so you can view its source. Us old timers won't trust that it converted the code correctly for us to read, but the kids won't care. They'll just give it a new context/edge case examples, and have the AI rewrite everything on demand whenever they run into a problem. Looking at code will be outdated.
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skin was smooth and healthy, her eyebrows were straight and fine, and her teak-colored eyes
intelligent and quick. There’s an attractiveness unique to mixed blood and she had it, perhaps a
quarter of this and the rest of that.

For our first meeting she’d chosen to wear a plain black halter blouse that showed her
figure and bare shoulders to good effect and a peasant-style skirt of multi-colored, mixed-
texture fabrics. Her dark cascade of hair was pinned up in a chignon, revealing her graceful
neck. Her smile revealed even white teeth. She had the glow of the well-off and an unself-
conscious confidence. She was poised, slightly shy and visibly curious about me.

In other words, she was stunning.

And needless to say, out of my league.
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No clarity around growth mindset (2015)
I don’t have the direct citations offhand, but I believe it’s a conflux of one law limiting price increases and an entirely separate law prevention something like “location discrimination” which companies like to do if they can to avoid servicing poor and other disprofitable areas.
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As an experienced developer who did not do a compilers course at university I was able to write a SQL/JSONPath evaluator in TypeScript in a week or so. I don’t expect a minimal C compiler would be that much more complex.

Essentially all you need is a grammar, parser library and a couple of tree walkers to convert the AST first to expand macros and then convert to assembly.

A production compiler with all its optimisation steps is of course far more complex and more modern languages have many more features, but C is really pretty simple (the K&R book is concise and good!) as it was built to work on the computers of half a century ago.
Even worse is Reddit's use of Moderator-Bots that can remove posts for any ridiculous reason they feel like making up, such as 'Self-post too short'.

Reddit jumped the shark long ago with its censoring of posts.
This is wrong and is a flawed understanding of how caste works in the indian subcontinent. Every single brown person has a caste. They may be unaware of it (in which case they are likely not lower caste) or not acknowledge it but it definitely exists. It certainly exists among muslims, sikhs and christians in the indian subcontinent. In those cases, religion is the perceived identity to the outsider but caste is right there, under the surface.

Hinduism codified and forms the basis for the caste system but every other religion evolved later or was forced upon people who already had caste.
Each of those can be reasonably separated. But I do think that it is quite natural and will stop the digital dictator mindset, most importantly splitting of digital services from marketplace and both of those from hardware.

Notably they seem to view their product lines quite different, the website lists "Store Mac iPad iPhone Watch Vision AirPods TV & Home Entertainment Accessories".
Did they grow any food, produce electricity, or had any manufacturing at all in Kowloon?
>It's a lot harder to fake incompetence and failure and besides why would you?

Whether Gordievsky was a triple agent or not, it's clear that the KGB desperately needed a conduit to convey useful (true) information to the West in a form that Western intelligence agencies would find credible. Western intelligence (particularly the UK) also desperately needed an asset who could produce that sort of intelligence. Gordievsky just happened to be a perfect conduit for this communication, and may have helped avert a truly stupid nuclear war.

If you assume this was an "op" then it would have to end somehow. Ideally it would end in a way that left Gordievsky alive and in the West, where he could continue to deliver his message to politicians. In order to keep Gordievsky's past information credible, he would either need to (1) be caught and tried/imprisoned, (2) defect. But I would imagine that the best case for his credibility would be some amazing combination of (1) and (2), especially a situation that would force the West to commit resources to a heroic escape that took him right out from under the KGB's nose in Moscow. This would make his handlers look brilliant, and it would make Gordievsky the kind of hero that politicians would take seriously. It would also be politically almost impossible for anyone in US/UK intelligence to ever (publicly) voice skepticism about Gordievsky.

Gordievsky's escape from Russia also seems extremely bizarre. Remember this is a man who has miraculously survived chemical interrogation, is liable to be shot at any moment, but has somehow slipped his KGB tail and traveled halfway across Russia to a border town. Whatever doubts the KGB had before, he is now a dead man if they catch him. Yet instead of hiding in the woods waiting for his rescue, he heads into town, gets drunk, falls asleep in a restaurant and nearly misses the appointment to escape to the West? I guess people behave strangely under stress, but there's strange and there's "death wish." Perfectly reasonable, though, if the whole thing was fake.

Finally there's the fact that Gordievsky's arrest story was almost immediately verified by Vitaly Yurchenko, whose "defection" is utterly bizarre. Yurchenko just happened to be an expert in "special drugs" who defected right after Gordievsky escaped, basically for the sole purpose of solidifying Gordievsky's story and drawing attention away from Aldrich Ames. Then, literally weeks after delivering his confirmation to US intelligence, Yurchenko walks out of a Washington, DC restaurant and heads straight back to the USSR where he is awarded the Order of the Red Star for "a successful infiltration operation."
We’re drifting away from the original topic, but I suspect it has less to do with antisocial behavior and more to do with saturating the intersection of people interested in riding on scooters and places where scooter riding is a plausible mode of transportation.

Horace (and the various VC firms that dumped money on e-scooter companies) probably assumed that intersection had more people in it than seems to be playing out in reality.
Because it’s just bad math.

It uses the wrong denominator. You may as well compare it to the bank balance of Bill Gates. If you add up the revenue of every company it will far exceed 100% of GDP, making the comparison meaningless.

It’s been pointed out again and again. Any financial analyst should know this.
> Intel has 80%+ of the computer market. Should they be forced to license their IP?

You can walk into any computer store you want and pick up a top of the line Intel or AMD CPU, and buy parts from all kinds of vendors to assemble a computer from them. With Apple, you're locked in into paying whatever they demand. The only problem is that anything x86 is an utter pain in performance-per-watt because Intel doesn't care, AMD doesn't have the resources and the patent situation means that there can't reasonably be competitors for these two. Having actually performant Apple components available on the open market would be the kick for Intel to finally do something. Competition would be working again. (BTW, I'm an Apple user myself, but the way that Apple gouges you on storage and memory is beyond ridiculous)

> Should Google be forced to license their search algorithms?

At least to open them up. Google is incredibly powerful thanks to its market share, and its decisions (or not-decisions) have serious economic impacts upon individual people and small businesses unable to afford the millions of dollars that you need to get a personal Google account representative.
-Alarm wakes me up

-Lay in bed for 10 min while I remember that I have responsibilities

-shower etc

-wake up the kid if he isn't already awake

-get him ready and fed

-take kid to day care and then either go home or to the office

Usually from awake to out the door in about 45 min. If course this all gets thrown out the window if the kid had a bad night.

I eat breakfast in the office or back at home after all that.
I remember using this in the Netherlands. Must have been Works 2000. and kinda surprised in hindsight Microsoft maintained 2 code-bases with competing products for so long. I realize they address different segments. I kinda liked Works 2000's simplicity.
It's type 3 because there's also a requirement that there are NO unintended circumventions to security. That sounds like "hard to circumvent", but it's not the same.
This was a great app that is wand was under appreciated.

Some versions included a FileMaker like interface to make little apps. A friend built an inventory system and fleet maintenance tracker for his auto repair business that was fantastic. And he’s a gear head, not IT.
You can get used tape drives but no matter how hard I’ve tried to make it work it just really doesn’t, not for this stuff.

You can spend that money on way more drives and increase the number of copies you have on and offline.

As for automation the libraries aren’t much more than the drive, but you can also just manually load tapes if you had to.
Electricity mix is a fairly useless number on it's own. Especially for an industrial powerhouse like Germany. Renewable's share of total energy consumption in Germany is about 15%, and has been decreasing.

The number is the US is similar, and has been rising.
Not a very comprehensive list, but Mr. Sheehan's website has some information.

a quote from [1] :

'Food fraud can take place in many forms. A company might substitute one product for another, use additives or enhancements that are not approved or misrepresent the country of origin of the product. Stolen food shipments or intentional contamination of the product is also considered food fraud.

Food fraud is a continuum of deception. At one end of spectrum, there is the deliberate substitution of inferior and potentially harmful ingredients. At the other end is the mislabeling of common products by the largest food companies. The largest food companies will not engage in outright food fraud intentionally by using different ingredients that could be harmful. Instead, they typically would engage in a more subtle deception – all natural claims, no preservatives, healthy, yet containing lots of chemicals, etc.'

[1] https://spencersheehan.com/other-areas/#food
Unless he is in a third world country, the value of your time spent trying to 'learn art' would be much, much higher than that.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

Taking dietary supplements full of antioxidants could help cancerous tumors grow - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37349870 - Sept 2023 (66 comments)
Decreasing in real value, sure, but people hate the idea of a nominal loss when it comes to selling their house. And with inflation still higher than usual, it's entirely possible to have a 15-25% loss over five years in real terms while still looking like a wash on paper. That seems like a more likely scenario than an outright crash right now.
I personally taught my 8yr son programming using Swift playground on an iPad. Its a great visual app which asks kids to solve fun challenges and minimal coding - but teaches them basics of variables, if/else, loops pretty well. Its a great starting point.

He also experimented alot with scratch.

Now he's 9 and learning intermediate Python through community classes taught by our area hi-schoolers.

He recently made a summer holiday project called "Story Machine" which takes 5 nouns, calls a generative AI API to create a story, uses Spacy to find nouns and randomly replaces those nouns with another set of random nouns - creating a funny story in the process. UI input using tkinter :-)

I helped him to learn concepts like API calls, JSON, generative AI, UI, event based coding etc - he google searched himself to figure out how to use those concepts.

Once you teach them the basics, they will fly!
Mice in the title now. Thanks!

URL changed as well. Submitted URL was https://newatlas.com/medical/antioxidants-stimulate-blood-ve... (the same one you mentioned there, so I couldn't track the 2015 ref)