skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you on this ...

What seems to be happening is a whole lot of anec-data that has various problems which do not allow someone to draw useful conclusions.

The problem a lot of folks have is "We've been planting things in the ground using centuries of study on the subject, something so novel couldn't possibly work!"

Putting together some experiments with a little rigor to try to identify (a) if plants are growing better in this environment and (b) what, specifically, is causing that growth and (c) altering the experiment to focus on that "what" ruling out other possible side-effects[0] would be helpful.

It seems like something that could be done by an amateur as the equipment involved for a lot of this is inexpensive while the upside is huge if it turns out there's something to it.

[0] Specifically the mention of lighting strikes affecting Shitake mushroom growth -- which could be any number of crazy things that happen when lightning strikes something -- would be necessary.
Bad drivers should pay more for car insurance.
If you invest (significantly) into a test suite that realistically mirrors the real world, that argument doesn't fly. Think Chaos Monkey squared. But it's neither cheap nor fast. Sure, some rare edge cases are probably impossible to model even with great care. But that's not the stage self driving is at, they struggle with pretty common and predictable problems.
I had a similar problem, and resolved it in a simpler way.

I had all *@DOMAIN.com messages forward to my main gmail inbox, which is a one-line configuration change with google DNS, so doordash@DOMAIN.com, etsy@DOMAIN.com, etc all go to my @gmail.com email address. Usually in these cases I never need to send anything from these email addresses, so it's fine to only setup the forwarding.

If any of them ever became annoying, I would create a gmail filter against that specific address.

How does your app, with the code+cloudflare improve upon my infrastructure-less solution? Does it allow sending from the *@DOMAIN.com addresses? Also, would be nice to have a screenshot of the app in either https://x2.email/ or https://github.com/jessetinell/x2.email so we can get a better idea of what features it allows.
What's an example search that's better on Kagi?
England to roll out first seven-minute cancer treatment jab
"...disabled the search function in windows ... Why are they trying to make things difficult for people?"

If you do embedded system development it is best to turn Windows Search off.

Windows Search will write index files to devices that are not expecting to have such files written to them, which often bricks the devices. Old Freescale/NXP boards are particularly prone to this, until their bootloaders are updated, which can only be done on a Windows-7 machine.

Oddly if you do turn Windows Search off via registry key, then the Microsoft Store stops working correctly. I've never found that behavior documented anywhere.
I believe there's plenty of apps which will give you most of that, but generally they are termed "stalkerware", and the app stores will remove them based on their utility to abusive domestic partners and the like.
> introducing new security controls

Messing with clipboard has nothing to do with security. I bet the web browser (and other programs who do RCE or phone home) still has access to all my files in wayland, just like in X
YouTube Defeats Mexican Movie Tycoon's Piracy Lawsuit
It's not always a legal requirement but sometimes it is: https://nccriminallaw.sog.unc.edu/bartenders-duty-cut-off-se...
Similar to https://github.com/toddcooke/namechecker
>Oh right - those don't happen in California.

It does actually. You just have to go into the mountains.
Disassembling public education would have substantial societal externalities. If education is anything you want it to be, why not graduate from DraftKings Precocious Kids HIgh School?
Gothic embellishments (the Baroque period was a couple of centuries later)
Our Human Ancestors Nearly Went Extinct 900k Years Ago, Genetics Suggest
Not anything that would be available in the short term, but geothermal should work well in some parts of Canada, and where it is not enough for power generation it should still work for heating homes in an effective manner using small scale(ish) installations that cover maybe 10-15 houses at the same time. I had it installed in my house recently, and the most expensive part was the drilling. A government program to lower that threshold would probably be a good way to reduce peak energy.

Regarding meat, I am also all for feeding cows grass only, but that means land use balloons like crazy.
Yeah we all collectively had a look at it and there's not a lot of solutions available. The bundler needs to bundle everything at some point and you are going to pay the SPA tax.

That's why I personally don't recommend SPAs, it introduce a whole other class of issues on top of what you usually deal with. Google makes it work with Gmail and Youtube but it's Google, they can throw infinite engineers at any problem and could make those in pretty much anything.
No? If the UK decides to stop doing DST or synchronize when they do DST with North America I still want to have my meeting at 6pm local time. Not have that meeting be 5pm or 7pm for some reason.
FoodOn, the open-source food vocabulary
lol. Shareholders are absolutely not “you and me”.

Your couple Tesla shares doesn’t make you a “shareholder” as being discussed here. The shareholders that sue boards are shareholders who, if they sold, would disrupt share price notably.
I always check out the HN comments first. The HN comments don't assault my browsers with popups, ads, awful styling and who knows what else. I may learn what the article is about (not always clear from the title of the submission) and be warned of other people's reactions (like "WOW that giant flashing thing on page 2 can trigger a seizure!" or "Site hijacks back button!" or even more importantly, "Article is a waste of time, author has it all wrong. Here's an authoritative source which explains why").

I may or may not risk a click at all if there are no comments.

I do read the article before commenting though. (Well.... not this time, but it's kind of a meta topic)
I have automatic PDF downloads configured as the built-in browser PDF viewers are often subpar. So for sure I will check the comments before deciding if I want to click on a PDF link (in this case: I don't).
Where would one publish such an experiment?
Tangent: your use of the word "tripe" here is spot-on.

The secondary definition (nonsense) works, but I'm talking about the apt metaphor of its primary definition: offal that's technically edible but comes from low-quality parts of the digestive system which are literally filled with feces.

LLM-generated SEO spam should always be called "tripe".
I'm thinking of joining Kroger to help with the Albertsons merger. They are looking for Java developers, cool, some sanity. Learned they have decided to build all new stuff in Go. Like WTSF people? I can find no justification for building mundane business systems in Go. Ugh...managers.
Hi guys! Meet new AI Task and Event scheduling tool MindGenie!
What AI harms would not already be addressed by existing laws? Do you think there are gaps in criminal codes, for example?
This is seriously disgusting behavior from Microsoft. Windows truly is an abomination. At this point I refuse to work at places where I'm forced to use windows. I'm convinced that this would affect my personal well-being.
How is it a leap of faith when mathematical models that describe reality demonstrate continued reliance in making predictions? Does this not demonstrate that there exist mathematical relationships between certain physical quantities?
You bet. But if you grok that simple example, you can see why teams that switch to Svelte, Solid, Preact, or Vue feel "refreshed". This mental burden of trying to figure out what has to be put where just...goes away. The React model tries to bend JavaScript to conform to it's render cycle rather than designing to JavaScript's unique object-functional strengths.
I hope you enjoy it. It’s really great imo. I was stuck in the hospital for a couple weeks when I read the book. It’s remarkable and Robert Hughes was one of those rare critics that was a sort of teacher and philosopher who loved the things he was in task of critically analyzing.
Hardly anyone will actually return anything but they get to cover their asses by doing this.
Olive Oil Prices Surge as Persistent Drought Ravages Mediterranean Groves
The good news is we’re only 4 years away from Wayland’s replacement being born, if it follows Xfree86/Xorg’s timeline (yeah, that is how far into its existence it is, shocking given the state of it). Not if it follows the X Window protocol’s timeline, but I don’t think it’s on the same level as that, longevity-wise, even if “wayland’s just a protocol” (eyeroll)

I’m holding out for that before I do much with the Linux desktop again. This split-desktop-system fiasco has dragged on for years and still sucks every time I pop back in to take a look. Maybe whatever red hat decides we’re all using next will finally get this right.
Shameless plug but if you're looking for an alternative UI for GitHub PRs, you may want to try CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com)

Frustrations with GitHub's PR performance, limitations, and overall clunky UX are the main reasons people choose to use CodeApprove instead.
I don't understand what commitment there is. If you go somewhere and have an iPhone with you, you can route with Apple Maps. There's no commitment to use it later when you look up a place on your PC.
I suspect they've largely flagged those as spam at this point.
Blood Clotting Proteins Might Help Predict Long Covid Brain Fog
Goth-ube, obviously.
Really interesting test case - thanks!

cycle.travel's scoring for the two routes differs by 0.4% so it's very close. In OSM data terms, the challenge is that there's no particular special tagging for the Sarphatistraat - it just gets classed as a "cycleway", same as the route along Mauritskade. Plus there's a couple of very slight advantages for the Panamalaan (which is tagged as part of a designated longer-distance bike route) and the Zeeburgerdijk/Mauritskade (which are beside water so get a scenic uplift).

I might look at doing some Amsterdam-specific routing tweaks: I doubt the longer-distance bike route consideration should be relevant in this case, for example.
The Silicon Blockade
Oh yeah, that's Switch007's Law—the more useful some graphics would be in an article, the less likely it is to contain any.
It would certainly appear so, I would need to give it a try to know for sure. Based on the compositor support table on that page, this would be even more compositor specific logic as it seems exclusive to KWin. Thank you for the link though, this is the first I had seen someone mention this.
Certification matters if you intend to work for business partners of the major vendors, as the number of certs held by their firm dictates the level of partnership and perks they get from the vendor.

Outside of that arena, they hold way less value. That being said, the curriculum to get a cert may be worth studying to improve skills. And if you are learning anyway and can afford the testing fee, there is no harm in picking up the cert. But most employers won't really care.
It seems every website thinks they need your PII for legitimate interests though, i wonder how many have actually been taken to court, and actually lost. I bet close to zero, and zero.
> As usual, the title is not accurate, as there is no "fuel". What happens is that the antioxidants, including vitamin C, stimulate the tumors to grow blood vessels.

What an odd nitpick, especially as it's incorrect.

> fuel, verb, 2: support, stimulate [1]

By improving the blood flow, it supports, stimulates, or fuels the growth of tumors.

1. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fuel
Is this actually a thing? There's lots of people doing this professionally. There's lots releasing porn of themselves for free for fun. The system feels extremely saturated already.

I get the trafficking for prostitution, but is trafficking for porn actually a thing? Would it even make money?
I love seeing projects like this! In general I have always been extremely impressed with the coverage of GitHub's APIs. They're generally well designed, well documented, and available publicly around the same time as a new feature is announced. Which makes it possible to develop alternative UIs like this that aren't complete hacks. Very few other platforms have this type of coverage!

I've used the GitHub APIs on CodeApprove (https://codeapprove.com) to replace the part of GitHub that bothered me the most: Pull Requests.
I think it just was never going to get the mass adoption it needed to justify the upkeep.
That's just an axiom for me, no justification needed. My life is my life and it is not the business of the state to watch every step I do as long as I am not affecting others in any relevant way. You convince me that I or society as a whole would be better off if I allowed the state to constantly keep an eye on me, then I might change my opinion and grant the state the permission to violate my privacy.
Not OP.

I believe "minimaxed" in this context refers to optimizing profits while trying to keep search results useful to users.

The term comes from game theory where a player tries to maximize their gains while minimizing their losses:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimax
Breast Milk Alternative Boosts IQ and Executive Function in Kids
Anonymous Sudan hacks X to put pressure on Elon Musk over Starlink
I also use cars.
using the exception only works at whole symbol level, i.e. with "cat do" as imput

No terminal matches 'd' in the current parser context, at line 1 col 5

cat do
^
Expected one of:
* CAT
* SPACE
* FISH
* DOG

Next valid symbols: ['* CAT\n\t* SPACE\n\t* FISH\n\t* DOG']
> And when the marvel of AJAX happened I enabled some of the components to be requested separately by the client code, rendered and sent to the client to replace the part of the website they occupied when they were rendered when the page was served initially.

I did the exact same thing. I made a page with a table that was fully rendered server side. Any change in the display, such as pagination, sorting or filtering would trigger the same PHP code that returned a HTML fragment. The Javascript for that was easy. Just send an AJAX request to the server and replace the <tbody> element with the new content.

The PHP code itself was separated in components which made it easy to share the rendering logic for the initial page and the page used for the AJAX request.

React solves this in a more convenient way, but I am really surprised that we had to wait until 2023 before it happened.
Stealthy APT exposed: TTPs spill secrets of sophisticated campaigns
My favorite garden right now is a small prairie garden in front of Cornell's vet school which is full of coneflowers, ornamental grass and other native plants

https://mastodon.social/@UP8/110945295508142082

It's pretty, easy to maintain, and makes a statement about sustainability. There are beautiful much more formal gardens all over Cornell but this one caught my eye when I went past on the bus.
Engineers care about arithmetic. Carpenters do too. Any number of other creative endeavors require (or, at least, are dramatically improved) by the ability to make basic calculations (even if approximate) quickly in your head.

Arithmetic is the "write one sentence" of composition. The ability to think through a series of calculations with real-world context and consequences is the 5-paragraph essay. If you're not competent with the basics, you won't be able to accomplish the more advanced skill. Being tied to a calculator (not merely using, but being unable to not use) takes away intellectual agency in the same way as an LLM-generated essay (though, I'll agree, to a lesser degree).
It could mean more than that, or maybe not. Velikovsky had the interesting hypothesis that you could compare this histories of different traditions to see if they synchronize.

For example, joshua stopping the sun for three days, which would have been in the evening (you’d stop the sun at sunset, not at noon)… so you can look a Chinese history where it was dark for three days, or aztec history where the sun was about to rise.

He does play fast and loose with his source material (based on the ones I’m familiar with) but I think the general idea is interesting…
It's not like Google Maps has a good UI for anything else it does, so doesn't seem to be a knock against the idea.
Word count:

complex: 9

complicated: 2

I've tried Nextjs's app router, and server/client components, and there are more footguns and gotchas than you can shake a stick at. Maybe it'll get smoothed out over time, but right now it is downright HARD to keep the mental model of your app when server and client code is constantly being intermingled, imported, and exported back and forth to each other.
There is no UI for opening hours in Organic Maps afaict. I think that's part of the complaint.
Or volunteers

> He stresses the large size of the potential market since the price is low enough for bike clubs and individuals to purchase. And, perhaps obviously, municipalities will find the economical nature – and perhaps the ability to leverage the pool of operators to include volunteer or paid bicycle enthusiasts with a vested interest in keeping bike paths cleaned.
> We are not on some subreddit for a reason.

This has other reasons though, like the fact that this site has better moderation and better users in general.
I have no idea what "true" means if it does not mean "a quality of a statement as being an accurate description of objective reality". While mathematics itself may be a human invention, it clearly describes a fundamental truth as evidenced by its continued reliance in producing effective models that describe the measurable world, which must be taken as a reflection of objective reality. Again, you can feel free to deny this, but all you are left with is cogito ergo sum.
Why is that the bar? It they are safe and useful in other situations, they can already be used in those other situations, no?
I see it is an instance thing like invidious or nitter which might be valuable for browsing github because it obscures you from microsoft but that makes it read-only because the moment you identify yourself you lose that benefit. That's assuming you can even do that on this. Basically I don't know because I never browse github. I am there for read-write purposes.
There's also recent Bayesian Optimal Experimental Design methods that allow you to directly design experiments using gradient ascent. Not sure how it compares with BayesOpt on your problem, though.
Now all they need to do is actually allow a fixed budget instead of possible runaway credit card charges.

Microsoft do it, and IIRC Google, so why not Amazon?

I've been waiting for this for about 20 years too :D
Sounds like a mythical riddle. "To survive, you must go knock on the doors of death."
This is a great website. I think it would be a great idea to extend it to "knots in action" with a video showing how the forces (expected magnitude and direction) act upon each given knot. Specially the climbing ones. I few months ago I learned the knot that ties my shoes for good : https://youtu.be/aQ66r5vMqo8?feature=shared The problem with teaching knots is the hand action. Making a good knot involves good hand action. Surgeons spend months practicing sutures. There was an episode of the crime tv series Columbo where finds out it was not a suicide because the dead guys shoes where knotted backwards as someone else knotted the shoes when the guy was already dead (backwards). Very interesting.
Profiling is not about filtering what you see but about ranking viewership from an advertiser's standpoint.

For an ad campaign to succeed, it's allocated budget _has_ to be spent. Targeted advertising gives a higher value to certain eyeballs but if the selected set isn't big enough to spend all the money on, other people will see the ad whether it concerns them or not. And that's actually what happens most of the time.
> You're assuming a competitive equilibrium

No. That’s a different topic. I’m saying that it doesn’t matter how we distribute money — there is a finite number of real value in an economy.
Note that there was about 9 centuries between the Umayyad conquest of Iberia (8th century) and the explulsion of Moriscos (17th century). So the analogy with North American natives would be something like - if somehow the Native Americans win political/military control in the 23th century (9 centuries after the arrival of the Europeans) and then decide that all non-native Americans will have to leave the country to wherever their ancestors came from - do you feel that would be justified?
This isn't just Spotify, sadly. YouTube music has offenders like this as well. So many times I've started a radio station from a song to hear sad covers of songs instead, completely a royalties/play count scam.
I feel like nobody in the Google Maps uses a bike for commuting or other daily life purposes. If they did, they wouldn't route me through the most dangerous, fast traffic street in my neighborhood, and instead they would choose the adjacent bike boulevard. Apple Maps does this much better, even though they've sent me to the wrong side of town a few times.

From my early tests, Organic Maps also sends you down dangerous routes, so I'll use cautiously.
This reminds me of The Story of Mel[1]. It seems like you were doing Heavy Wizardry, which requires deep knowledge of technical details. The result can be Good Code in the sense that it makes the most use of available hardware and software resources, while possibly being hard or 'impossible' for people without equivalent knowledge to read or make changes. This is fine.

When you have more resources, you can write things prettier, not rely on side-effects, not 'abuse' features to do things normally considered BadTM, not "cross the streams". Or perhaps I should say when you fit easily within available resources, you have luxuries.

Don't feel bad about what you built, when you're aware of the constraints you were under and that the tradeoffs you were making were the best available choices at the time.

[1] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html
Thanks. All fair points and a great comment very much in line with the HN guidelines as far as I'm concerned (not that I'm a moderator!): https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Your comment got was marked "dead", so I went ahead and vouched for it + upvoted, which I think now has marked it with the proper respect it deserves. You can vouch for comments after you reach a certain karma level (there are various unlocks for various levels of karma, but nothing that changes your experience here, really)

Welcome to HN!
> If you had launched an instance in 2006, an m1.small, you would have gotten a virtual CPU the equivalent of a 1.7 GHz Xeon processor with 1.75 GB of RAM, 160 GB of local disk, and 250 Mb/second of network bandwidth. And it would have cost just $0.10 per clocked hour.

> It’s quite incredible where cloud computing has gone since then, with a P3dn.24xlarge providing 100 Gbps of network throughput, 96 vCPUs, 8 NVIDIA v100 Tensor Core GPUs, 32 GiB of memory, and 1.8 TB of local SSD storage, not to mention an EFA to accelerate ML workloads.

They decided to omit the price but I think it's relatively good - around 31 USD per hour. Just remember to turn it off after you're done otherwise it will cost you over 7 grand.
TIL Paw Patrol brand is popular enough in Europe to have product tie-ins