skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I read this article with my iPad and of course that made me immediately start exploring the text selection within the article - it appears that it has changed in iOS 17 Safari and applies several ideas from the article.

* Immediately start dragging. When you pause it immediately enters text selection. If you move slowly you get the loupe otherwise it starts jumping word by word in the text

* When you release you get the popup options to do something with your text

* Holding the end of the selection and moving slowly gives you fine control over the cursor.

* When editing this comment, it doesn’t immediately jump to selection but gives you cursor control right away after long press with the magnified loupe. Move fast enough and the magnifier disappears. This is different behavior from long pressing the space bar.

* Double tap and drag gives you the selection behavior.

* Double tap and no drag selects the word.

Actual coding on a touchscreen is still impossible even with the articles improvements. I’d like to see more work on that. I wonder if speaking to our devices inaudibly could be the long term way forward.
It’s 80% FB messenger where I am.
It is a standard LCD display with amazing contrast (black is just... black, and I use a white-on-black full screen terminal), although I wouldn't want to get into a debate regarding safety here (let's just say I don't subscribe to pseudo-science).
Because they can charge $40-$80 (or more) for a fluoride treatment. It's actually how they make money on cleanings. If you don't opt for the fluoride treatment it's a wash.
The average American probably spends about 20k in their lifetime, that's probably where they got their pricing from. They get a check-up a year and a handful of fillings with some prosthetics if they live long enough. Which totals to around 20k.

The average American also cannot afford 20k in one shot they can't even afford 2k.
The Bizarre Cottage Industry of YouTube Obituary Pirates
I hope the VMoo author will consider releasing it open-source.
It doesn't defeat the purpose you'd know immediately if something went wrong. Like I said this is a routine.

If you fly, you are basically trusting your life to 2 people in the cockpit that you don't know.

How come sharing password for data recovery is too great of a risk and flying is not.
It’s most commonly done with virtual lists/infinite scroll to keep the position of the scrollbar consistent and relative to the virtual list.
Nice effort to fix the broken fundamentals, though this doesn't go far enough.

Why no customizable menu buttons? Good note editing apps like Bear on iOS have them, and predictable position makes choice faster/more precise vs a near-cursor popup

A selection undo stack (and action undo tree stack) would also help in fixing mistapping and other mistakes

And maybe modal editing paradigm could also be a good source of learning?

Also fully customizable keyboards would help in text editing

(don't like their proposed animation , seems like distracting noise, though maybe in actual use it's not bad)
True that Cleanshot works well and was there before but I feel like it should be mentioned that the background feature was copied 1:1 from Xnapper from Tony.
Do you think enterprises/private corps are interested in proactive climate action?
Seems more like something government orgs would invest in, no?

Also, you guys hiring interns/FTE? :D
> What's would be the purpose of such liberal experiment? I don't see what is there to learn about it.

Not that the only group of people who want to bother nobody else need any justification for living their lives as they see fit, but how else is humanity going to learn about the different ways we can organize society if we don't try them out?

It would be phenomenal for humanity if people with ideas outside of the box organized as they saw fit without outside interference and we all get to see what works and what doesn't.
I am one of those people who naturally are more or less immune to cavities. My dentist tells me it is because of the pH in my mouth.

I _do_ have to brush my teeth etc... though, because i tend to have a lot of plaque if i don't.

Apparently either it is cavities, or plaque. You must take care of your teeth!
Remarkable 2 with folio case gets close!
They use this blanket names so you buy it without asking questions
Spoilers: "Emotional Truths" means "bullshit"

I've seen a couple of his specials... I think when your show becomes less traditional jokes and more "man this CRAAAAAZY thing happened to me, for real!", well, it's important that the crazy thing actually happened. A lot of his stories rang sorta "too good to be true" so this article confirms my pre-existing opinion, I guess.

edit: good lord 'Minhaj also acknowledged to me that the threatening tweets displayed on the large screen during “The King’s Jester” were not authentic but, rather, heightened for comedic effect.'
Once illegal immigrants gain citizenship and essentially basic civil rights (being a criminal federally isn't really freedom no matter if your state is sort of cool about it or not) they will no longer be willing to work in these conditions. They don't report or sue now due to their status, people fear deportation and it's often used as a threat by business owners and housewives employing cleaners and nannies.
I always directly call the A or W versions of these functions. It makes things unambigious.

Additionally I have my own Windows header file which undefines all of the macros so my function names do not get mangled with A and W suffixes.
Is this a significant cause of concern for you?

Waymo has cameras running inside the vehicle. It would seem illogical to assume these people weren't flagged and that the car wasn't flagged for cleaning.

Most Uber's I've been in have felt more heavily trafficked than this experience and I'm no stranger to stories of people losing their lunch inside taxis.

I felt like this was a luxury experience in comparison to Uber/Lyft rides.
Berlin 1988: There was some GDR territory near Brandenburger Tor beyond the wall.

Similar story but people escaped over the wall.

https://alternativeberlin.com/2015/05/21/the-amazing-story-o...
Liberland had a government. Apparently no one ever told them they didn't need it.
Ok its been just about 4 decades. There appears to be 0 progress on this front.
Have you seen how people talk about “others”? “Nobody” is a very absolute term in a society that has people out for blood for “others”
If this is such a revolutionary technology and it is cheap to mass produce, it should be like water fluoridation and similar state funded measures that increase overall population health. I am not arguing that $20k is more than regular dental work's cost over a lifetime, in the US at least, but that it's because dental work is so expensive is why oral health is so bad worldwide,Lifestyle, sugar consumtion and the like notwithstanding.
This. People underestimate physical proximity while doing challenging things together. This has been a core human glue for millenia. One of the reasons I still recommend people to go to university. There is simply no substitute for this.
Solicit HN: Looking for CEO for legal tech startup
I posted this earlier in another thread, and figured why not make my own dedicated thread as well:

I am looking for a CEO for a legal tech startup idea I am working on. To frame my idea more technically than I normally do: I want to build devops for lawyers. They need a whole CI/CD pipeline. I experienced pain points in this area personally while working as an associate at a major international law firm. I don't think most other legal tech companies, particularly the ones utilizing generative AI, are actually hitting real pain points. They are building handwavy shit with buzzword technology.
The discrete pain points I want to work on first are very practical.

My background: I have a JD from Columbia Law School and spent some time in biglaw. I was also a software engineer for about 5 years prior to law school. Thus, I have both technical ability and domain knowledge.

I can elaborate further over a video or phone call. If interested, email me at samier_saeed@protonmail.com
Re-read (b)(2).

You can't testify that a defendent was "a jealous man" or "of unsavory character". You can testify that you saw him shake an infant angrily until she passed out.
There are a few writing appliances out there trying to do that, but they are all based on proprietary solutions. It _might_ be possible to get a decent e-ink display with a passable refresh rate at non-monopolistic prices and bypass the Rube Goldberg-esque setup by just plugging that into a Pi via SPI, but right now there just aren't many options for that out there.
Don't forget alcohol is also a carcinogenic.
A dental hygienist (those people who do maintenance cleaning at dentist’s offices) told me that saliva quality is key to cavity and periodontal health. The ability of keep all teeth moist prevents plaque/tartar build up. I don’t know how true that is, but this at least provide an alternative hypothesis to the two that you listed.
It’s the marine climate and most weather fronts move in from the ocean. When it does get relatively cold, it’s because of a front moving down from Canada.
Evolution is all about optimising tradeoffs. So what is the downside of this "miracle cure"?
26.4% of Canada’s population are first generation immigrants (foreign born): https://www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2021/as-sa/fo...
I had to stop drinking sweet tea this year. It's been a tough transition.

We have a saying here, "It's not the heat, it's the humidity", but if you're from a place where 85 is hot, you won't agree. When it's still over 80 at 11 o'clock at night, it takes some adjusting.
If the cleanup only happens if the flag is not used, then the "expiration date" is basically meaningless. You can either delete it or you can't. Who cares if it's expired or not.
I saw people speculating that maybe the drogue failed to deploy and that's why it landed 3 minutes earlier than predicted. https://twitter.com/DJSnM/status/1705958092842615042
For ethical reasons, it is not possible to perform some kinds of research with double-blind RCTs.

Besides, large biobanks provide a wealth of observational data which can be explored using causal inference. One can always use a RCT on promising hypotheses.
This isn't the latest example of anything. Hedy Lamarr's interests were the subject of podcasts over a decade ago, and books long before that.

This isn't a good example of pinkwashing. There's no harm in recognizing the efforts of the underdog. We valorize Nikola Tesla despite him living and dying as a failure.

Terry Davis too. Nobody needed TempleOS, but we're proud for him for trying.
Xerox PARC and ETHZ workstations were fully written in GC enabled languages, including the device drivers.

Smalltalk, Interlip-D, Mesa/Cedar, Oberon, Oberon-2, Active Oberon

Source code is available for some of them, many home made OSes in non GC enabled languages are far from meeting the capabilities of any of those systems.

"Eric Bier Demonstrates Cedar" - Computer History Museum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dt7NG38V4

https://people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/ProjectOberon/Sources/Kerne...
Its worth mentioning here that many methods of execution are quite sadistic. Shooting or hanging with a sufficient drop are quite a lot more humane then for example the chair. I am hard pressed to see that as a honest mistake.
Where is the sweet tea McDonald’s dividing line these Days? Northern VA? Maybe it’s moving as fast as the saltwater intrusion towards New Orleans lately.
Canada will have imported over 1M immigrants in 2023 (for their population of only 40M!). Newsflash: most aren't white.
Luzianne half caff and stevia are your friends.
Mark Twain told stories that never happened to him and said "never let the truth get in the way of a good story"
That happens all the time anyway, and your liver has no trouble keeping up. It’s a poison your body always knew how to handle, so long as you don’t reach megadoses of the stuff.
Scientists found the most intense heat wave ever recorded – in Antarctica
>In March 2022, temperatures near the eastern coast of Antarctica spiked 70 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius) above normal — making it the most intense recorded heat wave to occur anywhere on Earth, according to a recent study.
This is what I referenced in my post as plasma gasification.

It has been tried in the real world. Belgium planned to use it for landfill mining, and Britain planned to built two plants to process fresh trash. But this has all been shut down at this point due to engineering challenges and economic challenges.

I’m trying to find out if there is anyone out there trying to still plug away at this and make progress?
Patent hell should be over if this was invented in 1985.
The MK4116 chip hasn't changed much since 2020, so hopefully you will still find this article relevant :-)
Yeah, it's always baffled me. Growing up I ate snacks and sugar fiendishly, but only ever had maybe one or two cavities in 2nd grade or so.

I had another friend who got cavities on an almost yearly basis. What was really fascinating was how boring her diet was; I never saw her eat anything more complex than a peanut butter sandwich or cheese pizza. She brushed, flossed and mouthwashed every day but could never get ahead of it. Meanwhile I went through all of middle and high school without any major dental work besides getting my wisdom teeth pulled.

It's all very odd, and my personal experiences have also led me to believe that diet plays a smaller role than we might think. I could be wrong though, I'm willing to defer to the most reasonable explanation.
In geometry code (from my own experience) I use a cross product specifically to get a vector perpendicular to two other vectors. There are other times like calculating the area of a triangle in 3-space that involve taking the magnitude of the cross product or whatever. I don't see how any of this solves hard problems. You need to know a formula to compute what you want regardless of the underlying representation.

I also think the more abstract you get, the smaller portion of the population can understand and work with it. Lots of people understand numbers. Some of those understand vectors. Some of those can understand a transformation matrix. Some of those can understand quaternions. Some of those can understand GA. I'm not sure it's a question of teaching it earlier in school either. Go watch the 3-blue-one-brown video on visualizing quaternion rotation, and try to really appreciate how abstract and hard to understand that is compared to multiplying s set of (ortho-normal) basis vectors by some coordinates to do rotation. Then remember that quaternions are in some sense a subset of the GA abstractions people want us to use. This isn't going to happen any time soon.
You see the same thing with inventions falsely attributed to African Americans, like peanut butter and the traffic light, while actual awesome inventions by African Americans (like the super soaker) often get ignored. Or the video game cartridge is a good example. Jerry Lawson didn't invent it, but his other impressive engineering work gets ignored and instead a lie gets spread.
I wonder if the parent comment was referring to NATO’s 2% Defense Investment Guideline [0], where NATO countries agreed in 2006 to spend 2% of their respective GDPs on defense. The Americans periodically get grumpy that the European countries tend to come in short of that target.

[0] https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_67655.htm#indirect
> I find it more satisfying and clearer to say it's when day/night are the same length everywhere on earth/for everyone on earth.

...except at the poles! (There the sun will appear to be moving along the horizon, and there is no day/night in the usual sense.)

And when you take the pedantry into account (top vs centre of sun, refraction) the length of the day/night is no longer the same around the globe, since the effect in terms of time is different at different latitudes.
Since the examples are in CA, there is Medi-Cal for those who are too poor to buy subsidized insurance and it’s not age-related unlike Medicare. It’s an expanded form of Medicaid. I’d bet CA taxpayers do shoulder the costs if the victims know to apply.
That’s the freedom-to-operate side. But “Patent hell” could also be the lack of clear IP that would allow a commercializer to capture a return on developing this. Not much incentive to spend tens of millions on trials if at the of the process the product can be sold by anyone.
I agree. To have Biden out there signals that his NLRB might actually have teeth this time. So many of have tried to organize a union election only to stall when the anti-worker NLRB gets involved. It's great to have an administration that, for once, doesn't undermine the board's mission
CVE-2023-38146: Arbitrary Code Execution via Windows Themes
This is a sincere question: is your life, specifically, better because you're cynical and angry? I'm not talking about "the industry" in an abstract sense, but on a personal level are you happy?
I didn’t look at that Google drive, but Google search gave me:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12369203

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

As a layman, I would be concerned about trying to control a bacterium called Streptococcus mutans, as that, to me, signals “this thing mutates rapidly”.
Source code is, for the GPL, the “preferred form for modification”. Given the outrageous cost of training from scratch, plus the ability to fine tune models... I don't think it's completely ridiculous.

Edit: plus, the industry acts like models aren't derivative works of the training data. If true the source license is less important than the model!
Alcohol is not only heavily taxed in Canada, but most provinces also have a monopoly on selling spirits. That's right, the gov is selling the booze, pocketing both the tax and the profits.
thats not the way this works. Paying $20k over a lifetime vs an up front $20k payment means the up front $20k payment also includes the opportunity cost of the interest made - your up front payment of $20k is much more valuable than $20k over 60 or 70 years. That same $20k might be a large part of a downpayment on a mortgage and you'd get back many more times the value than if you spent it on your teeth all at once.
Yeah; that's a good point. Google's desire to provide popular/well known information sources is outweighing the ability for people to be specific. It's infuriating to be ignored as a user. Hence using verbatim constantly, which feels like a checkbox for "stop failing me".

Which... Why isn't Google learning that some users are constantly seeking out verbatim for results they'll click on and adjusting their search results to be more verbatim?
Thought this would be about mark zuckerberg….
Thanks for your reply, I appreciate it.

I never said I’m against marketing or sales. At my current stage, after building two products with the “build it and they will come” mentality, I think I understand the importance of marketing and branding way better than many other engineers.

The essence of my original comment, was pointing out the fact that from entire pose of the OP, only 1-2 paragraphs were dedicated to marketing, mainly with vague statements such as “I started to post on twitter, sometimes also jokes”.

On top of all that, marketing today is seen as beating the algorithm. And the algorithm changes every Thursday. So last week people were posting questions, today they are posting motivational quotes.

I don’t have the mental capacity, and desire, to participate in such games. I have moral principles, and I believe there is more than one way to achieve my goals. And the way I chose, might be harder and longer, but more aligned with what I want.
I think you misunderstand that flavour of communism. It’s ’for every two of them, there should be one of them’. The rulers weren’t putting limits on themselves.
How will you deal with the flooding?

Assuming you are a human, you don't have time to read everything even on just the important issues. The people who are deliberately producing information (as opposed to those whose misinformation is due to error) can often outnumber the producers of accurate information by orders of magnitude.

That's both because it takes much more work to produce something accurate than to produce something inaccurate, and because those deliberately producing misinformation often more resources to put toward such production.
> I still have no way to ensure my CSS will actually get applied to my DOM elements. So for the tiniest bit of sanity I already need JavaScript/TypeScript and some CSS-in-JS library.

What do you mean with all this? Valid CSS is applied to matching selectors as soon as they are in DOM. What problem would you like to get solved here?
You'd want to put them into Low Earth orbit, not on Ceres. We already have a bunch of old soviet nuclear reactors in orbit of the Earth.
My favorite geographic fun fact is that Maine is the closest state to Africa.
> sending people to jail has never stopped other people from committing the same offences

That's a bold claim. I know people who didn't do illegal stuff because they didn't want repercussion that comes with it. So it is a deterrent.
Buyers do not behave rationally. Without the induced sense of urgency some portion of buyers are going to think better of the purchase. So there is a risk it will not sell out either way.
> they can charge $40-$80 (or more) for a fluoride treatment. It's actually how they make money on cleanings

This is nonsense. Many dentists, mine included, don’t apply fluoride. (They trust you to use toothpaste.)
It’s not about the the browser. As others have pointed out, in order to use these sites without getting messages like “please upgrade your Adobe Flash plugin”, one needs to use an ad-blocker such as uBlock Origin.

I like uBlock Origin but these anti-patterns really leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
Beautiful!

I was reading that there have been sample returns from asteroids before, like Hayabusa (by JAXA) in 2010. It's said that asteroid sample returns could shed light on the early days of our solar system.

Anyone know what kind of new insights they were able to derive from those samples in the past 13 years?
Scientists Successfully Genetically Modify Individual Cells in Living Animals
You may have grown up with a Mac if you think the delete key is a key for a power user :)
Only available for those paying. And since paying means you get a badge and thus grouped together with cryptobros and rightwing nutjobs and gave Musk money, few people pay for it even when they might have wanted to.
But he never claimed that they were personal experiences on television
I think this question is a bad one.

You can ask it only for an in-falling observer. To extend that to someone who remains outside the event horizon, it becomes meaningless. There are many hints that there is something special going on at the event horizon itself.
I have DroidVim on my mobile.

Time when I really appreciated Vim was when I realized it is such a great way to edit text file on a small touch keyboard.

I call text editing on mobile solved issue ;)
And fluoride treatments likely don't do much. The main benefit of fluoride is from ingestion by children, while their teeth are forming.
Says Billy Joel most likely far richer than at least a typical front row seat buyer.

I suspect, though, he doesn't sit quietly in the front row of his own concerts, so that's not really relevant to the point he makes.