skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disengagement works because not everyone out there is trying to talk to everyone. If you change cultural norms such that every child should talk to strangers a lot, it'll be tiring to have to do this "disengagement" 10 times a day.
I once encountered -30°F one winter in Fairbanks. I visited a hot spring where, for some cruel and unusual reason, the facility was designed so you needed to walk about 10 meters out of the (well heated) building to get to the water. And of course, you would do this walk in nothing but just your bathing suit. That was the longest 10m walk of my life.

The cherry on the cake of the experience was that you get into water that is 70+°F but every part of your body above the water line is exposed to -30°F winds. Fun!
I wonder if his obsession with the blue checks and confidence that they had too many followers to want to abandon the site made him overlook the fact that those followers are constantly churning. And what kept that engine going other than recognition of the established Twitter brand?

Who's getting on the app store looking for X, past the initial rush of people looking to virtue signal allegiance to his performative political incorrectness?
I mean, that's entirely your opinion and potentially only representative of the sector of OSS you've touched. I've known scores of programmers who do open source work who also cross over with that stuff... and to your earlier point, I'm in several Discords that are not "nerd"-centric (politics, etc).

Multiple people here are pointing out reality to you but you're seemingly insistent that your view is the only valid one. shrug
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If you bothered to google the goal of Neuralink you'd realize it's "enabling people with paralysis to control external devices with their thoughts".

I don't know about you, but that sounds like a very worthwhile goal.
Sounds like she really needed someone to talk to. Might've helped keep her sanity. Thanks for being polite
I appreciate how the author has laid out how the calculation works and the pitfalls of CSS calc. It makes it very approachable for folks.

Has anyone seen a responsive type solution like this that doesn't break the "resize text" accessibility section of WCAG? [0] I would love to be able to use this style of responsiveness, but every time I've ever seen it there's always accessibility concerns or a piece of a blog post dedicated to how you'll still need to tweak and fine tune to meet the needs of less sighted users so it isn't the silver bullet it seems.

For instance on this blog post when zooming in on the example section, my naked eye feels like I never see it actually grow to 200% bigger. I'm on my gaming PC which isn't set up well for much code inspection, but it feels like it's either not growing at all or clamped at a certain size based on the zoom's width. Looking at dev tools, it shows it going from 28px to 18px, so it technically is getting a little smaller, whereas if you have 2rem you see the text grow as you zoom in.

I also could be completely misinterpreting this WCAG section or maybe misunderstanding the font size calculation. It is college football Saturday here in the US, so my brain may not be firing on all cylinders!

[0] https://wcag.com/designers/1-4-4-resize-text
A good place to start is current studies on peat and wetlands.

From https://phys.org/search/?search=peat

* Re-wetting is key for boosting carbon dioxide storage in southern peatlands ( https://phys.org/news/2023-09-re-wetting-key-boosting-carbon... )

* Officially endangered: Critical environmental research saving Western Australia's precious peatlands ( https://phys.org/news/2023-09-endangered-critical-environmen... )

* Rewetting German marshes to blunt climate change impact ( https://phys.org/news/2023-07-rewetting-german-marshes-blunt... )

etc.

Reading the types of papers these articles overview will provide some insight into the weighting factors deemed important for these kinds of calculations.
I subbed my toe today. Didn't break it. Therefore nobody ever gets a broken toe?…
instead of cash, they should have required a handwritten letter of apology
>Alright, so it's not genitals

I said genitals is "a required component of the arrangement." It's just not the whole thing.
They just collect the cocoons of the caterpillar. It’s already pretty industrialized. Farmers grow mulberry bushes and feed the worms and collect the pods. This would be no different. Just a slightly different worm.

People do it as a hobby at home and scaling it is a known process already scaled.
nit: The sun is not moving along the ecliptic or crossing the equator. It is the Earth that is actually doing all the moving.
Usually they are mediocre chefs. Actually I don't believe that a chef who doesn't like what he's cooking can make it right, and almost every awesome chef I know demand more from the quality of their dishes than their customers.
I thought they were polar?
There’s not much preventing people from doing this today. Maybe truck drivers wouldn’t fall for it, but the average American driver is absolutely vulnerable to a single-cone attack.
Instead of "attendance" it should be called "failure of teachers to accommodate variable in-person learning times"
It's not really about that; it's more of a breakdown of the ways that they are actually able to circumvent measures meant to prevent scalping. If there have been a lot of such stories then I missed them.
Reminds me of the presumably hand drawn computer wire frames of 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy' tv show.
> Density is attractive to individuals who want to exploit as many other people as efficiently as possible.

> For example, in the downtown areas of Canada's densest cities, before smartphones, about 90-95% of random strangers coming up to me wanted money either as beggars or seeking donations for some "charity". The other 5-10% would generally be asking for directions or the time.

That's selection bias.

You are interacting with the most desperate, entrepreneurial, and lost people, who are not a random and unbiased sample of the whole city.
The point is that Discord participation is not universal, and the site has a deserved reputation as being unprofessional and often more than a little seedy.

This conversation reminds me of the when people built Facebook-only communities because “everyone is on Facebook”.
Stay away from fentanyl and you'll avoid the #1 cause of life expectancy "plunging" in the US.
I agree that enough sources is close to actual proof. How is it that USA, China, North Korea and Elon Musk are all flying to space, yet never even hinting that they "know" the Earth is actually flat? So, not only the evidence provided by those who know, but also the lack of evidence to the contrary from individuals and groups that are often more like enemies than co-conspirators.

But there is an Earthbound layman way to witness it for yourself, with your own eyes. For me, here in Toronto, I just have to go around Lake Ontario to Niagara Falls, and then look back across the lake toward the CN Tower.

You will see no sign of Toronto Island, nor the Skydome, nor the majority of midrises. But they are in fact, there. You know this because you saw them just 45 minutes before you arrived to Niagara Falls for this experiment.

A lot of it is just below the horizon: You can see about 1/2 of the CN Tower's height, and a good handful of the highrises, so you know it's not an illusion.

For that matter, from Toronto Island you can only see a couple of Niagara Falls' tallest structures peeking over the horizon. So the observation works both ways, although stronger when looking towards Toronto - Toronto is obviously a much taller city afterall!

How does one explain that without admitting you can literally see that the surface of the water is curved?

So it doesn't take a lot of effort to see Earth's curvature, even with minimal scientific tools. You don't even need binoculars to witness this one. Just a car and 45 minutes of your time.
I agree, and it works the other way to.

Say I'm a local wheat producer. I sign a deal with the local bakery. That stops a multi-national from undercutting me.

The contract cements the benefit that both I and the bakery have from mutually working together, and removes the risk to both parties of some outside party damaging both of us.

In other words exclusivity works for small companies in spaces dominated by behemoths.

Think craft beer and local pub.
You have to build the thing and test every possible problem before you build it again and do it for real

We all know everyone is perfectly willing to pay and wait for thorough testing so it works perfectly

Nobody would ever underfund something and then complain about how the final product didn't produce 150% of what was promised
Why would the author even make a point about the different seasons between hemispheres and then immediately get it wrong? He tells the reader to "reverse the seasons and add six months to the dates," but doing both of these operations cancels them out. "The summer solstice in June" becomes "the winter solstice in December," which is still the northern perspective.
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Movie plot point turned reality.
It seems like that person should just buy the book/album. "Do it again! and the same way!" is a weird concept if you think about it, in age of recorded media.
zutty has an interesting article how it does it.

https://tomscii.sig7.se/2020/11/How-Zutty-works
You could have it go from $10k to $50 over a single weekend. It's not bad optics if you don't sell out a venue at $10k per ticket.
No, my understanding is that the “adkim” tag in DMARC only affects how strictly the DKIM check is done, but not whether a DKIM signature is actually required.
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Might you consider for just a moment, if you will, people who do have a larger problem. People who are neurodivergent who may be challenged with object permanence. Apps like this help greatly. It's not that we don't care or we're stuck with a device in our face, it's that the person doesn't exist unless brought to the front and center.
Any invites left? Thx for offering. My email is in my profile.
Unity claims it removed ToS repo because views were low
Yup if you applied for a refund, your ticket(s) could go back in the pool for someone wanting to get one/some last minute.

If it/they are picked up, you get your money back minus transaction fees and perhaps a small penalty, and if it doesn't, you don't - but at least you tried and someone else had a chance to get it.

Ticketmaster obviously doesn't GAF / care.

(The above was for a last few hours or days cancellation type scenario; there could be variations to this where if the event is months out, you could get an instant almost full refund etc - benefits could very well be linked to a premium subscription service perhaps. Lots of ways here to play.)
How is this problem mine, you dirty computer?
Having to slash the prices so drastically is also embarrassing and doesn't build hype the way the tickets being instantly sold out everywhere does.
When I finished my phd in materials science I interviewed and got an offer at applied for $120k/yr in 2019.

No thanks.

Throughout my time in grad school I saw leaders in the semiconductor industry talk to professors and complain about how they can no longer get the best talent and that every one is going to software.

Well, have you looked at what you're paying and what you're asking to get for that money? And then they complain about nobody wanting to work anymore.

So yeah when I see these bs pr pieces about how important they are, how come they're not valued higher and pay better salaries? The talk and the reality don't match.
I think these might be the demos that were unable to play during the talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61PIOBp30vA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eODw4t4WaCw
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Physics matters, but any engineering discipline dictates principles and practices beyond merely what is demanded by physics.

> It's gardening.

Let a thousand bad analogies bloom!
That's part of what filecoin has been trying to solve.
Ask HN: Is there a technology you loved but had to abandon?
I recently started my own software development agency after 14 years in startups. Because I’m now in a position to set the technical direction for many small businesses who have no established engineering team, my technical choices have a long-term impact for their future ability to hire engineers with relevant knowledge.

I’m also someone who deeply enjoys working with Elixir and Phoenix. However, I’ve quit investing in that stack and I don’t plan on recommending it for my clients. I think Elixir is a fantastic language and I’m highly productive with Phoenix, but I can no longer justify my personal investment in that stack due to the small pool of engineers who have relevant knowledge. The ecosystem is also quite weak in comparison to JS or Python, and that can have a major impact on productivity.

Now I’m doubling down on TypeScript with Python as a secondary choice. No niche frameworks, just things other engineers likely already have experience in. I’m not terribly excited about it, but I feel like I’m making the right choice for my clients.

At the same time, I hate being someone who perpetuates the status quo. Maybe I’ll reach a point where I can begin investing back into Elixir and other niche technologies that I feel should have a greater presence in the world.

Anyone have a similar story?
Some lunar regolith are better for living off the land on the moon
Containers which contain shell scripts also contain the shell itself. It is not typical for the host machine's shell binary to be made available to containers running on the host.
Discord groups dedicated to gaming, anime, RPGs, furries and “femboys” top their list.

That’s both uninviting, and what I anticipated.

It also doesn’t represent a subculture that’s synonymous with or even inclusive of the broader professional OSS community.
I wasn't really thinking of any particular era, I have some vague familiarity with the concept of pater familias and famiglia as a "body of slaves". This, I reckon, aligns with the Christian family modal that I'm most familiar with, perhaps with less extreme connotations of ownership depending on who you ask.

My presumption is that the later Roman empire, despite its collapse, did inform the later customs of Europe, particularly in religion if only due to incidental diffusion. And by that dint also affected the custom of marriage, divorce and perhaps more importantly the status and autonomy of women, though I've all but forgotten precisely how this all played out. And I may very well be mistaken.

I would also posit that it has less to do with religion and more to do with [perceived] female autonomy, value, mobility, economics, and the abatement of the stigma of divorce. The religious aspect having only been the foundational institution of the customs which have been carried (somewhat steadily) forward for nearly 1500 years let's say - a tradition which has suffered a colossal usurpation in society's working memory.

I think it's important to note that women with children are not necessarily unbounded as are women without, I think it would be difficult quantify pre- and post-divorce expectation shifts, but I believe it would be an incisive question. But if the expectations aren't grounded in reality the decision weighing process would lead to poorer outcomes.
“He is currently adapting One Shot, one of the best-selling Jack Reacher books for Paramount.”

Did he ever finish this? Never heard of this movie.
This is a disappointing post -- they picked up a complex thing that they didn't fully understand, pushed some buttons, and then complained when it didn't work as they expected. I expect more from this blogger, whose content I think of as usually good.
I agree. It might be hard to adjust one's practices, like when one first starts living in another community with a different culture, but it's the right thing to do in most cases.
Not surprised, as I said [0] Newsom wants to run for POTUS and he needs the endorsement and (more importantly) the money from the SV/VC king makers if he has any chance at doing it.

>I'm convinced that autonomous trucks are the way to go. Free from fatigue, bad training, bad driving, and all the other things that come with human drivers, it could save lives, and maybe even reduce cost for everyone.

This is peak HN techno-utopian thinking, that is only poassible due to a rather shallow analysis of the state of things: first, its myopic to rely 100% on FSD when they are currently colliding into things in cities that have favourable conditions for it (Bay Area, AZ etc...). Second, most of you probably do not drive much in middle America, the roads are often not marked and signage isn't entirely better.

Sure there may be a way to overcome all of these short-comings in time when ML training becomes more refined and can do much more capable than it can now. But then you have a severe lack of connectivity in much of the US (hence why Starlink is such a massive game changer) and before you say 'well then just make them use starlink) I think Elon has proven himself to be unreliable in ensuring he can deliver services without some reason that only make sense to his deluded mind being a real threat.

Honestly, if people want to take these kind of risks on the road then they need to at least be well informed on the matter: drive through the Rockies Mountains during an avalanche or even a blizzard, hell drive through Texas during one of their snow storms that takes out the entire grid--I've done all 3. You'll see why contingencies need to be in place, because modern logistics is a modern miracle and that relies on a myriad of moving pieces all working toward the same goal and even then things break.

I'd be open to the idea of those Human piloted convoy methods, with a Human pilot to correct where needed, until things get to that miraculous inflection point where FSD is possible but we are so far away from that this needs to be taken serious because too much capital has been destroyed on things that quite likely will never come to fruition, and FSD being around the corner is one of them.

0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37514843#37516811
> Much as the Maga wing of the Republican Party will soon struggle to identify a successor to 77-year-old Donald Trump (...)

It had never occurred to me that the maga wing could outlive trump.
While I wouldn’t want to do many tasks in prolog. I’ve always wished for a good interop with some other language, or a language with some kind of async prolog call. There are so many things that are a couple dozen of lines of prolog but would be hundreds of lines of other languages.
The NYPD is deploying a 420-pound robocop to roam Times Square's subway station
Optimus can now sort objects autonomously
So, I believe this has been under research since ~2015 at Microsoft. Bill Gates had invested in nuclear power and introduced the idea.

It seems like a good idea. One problem that pops out is that even with a large, geographically distributed data center, you’re talking about ~250MW. In order to get the same level of resiliency the grid has you need to have some redundancy. That gets really complicated. If the unit fails, and you need to start a 125MW power draw from the grid. Which…isn’t practical.
Unity is history. Not today or tomorrow but long term it’s done. I guess the lesson is dont do corpo shit when you are backed by so many people and their good will.
If it's only the worst .01% of humanity, you're talking about 80,000,000 people on the planet.

The Internet has a remarkable way of introducing you to the absolute dregs. It's like computer security: everything not 100% locked down perfectly will belong to someone else minutes later. And even a gigantic corporation with intense experience handling money cannot lock things down 100%.

Most of humanity is ok. But the parts that suck, suck so hard that on the whole I think it averages out to really bad.
you have to make tradeoffs. If you want to ban reselling, you ban reselling.

Scalpers locking out fans is a universal concern. How often do you hear the success story of "I can't make the concert so I sold the ticket online". Come on. An industry has propped up. This is small potatoes.
Several arguments in here but his last one wasn’t a good one. The idea that an artist as tiny marginal cost to using their hard acquired skill is exactly why it could be painless to do a favor for someone. In this case it wasn’t easy, however, so that point wasn’t relevant at all to the frustration he felt in wasting time on this unappreciative guy with a poor script.
South Korea too.
I'd argue that clickbait and fake porn producers have exactly the same motivation -- money.

Fox News posts rage-bait on their front page because it drives advertising revenue.

Fake-Your-Classmate.com (or whatever) operates their service because it drives either direct or advertising revenue.

And there's demand for the service... because 14 year olds are horny idiots with poor impulse control.

I don't expect the horny idiots with poor impulse control part to change, which means this is here to stay. Sadly.
and then disable "do not disturb mode", swipe down notifications about 5 times until USB device pops up, open it, approve the hex shit, peck at the tiny button to change its mode from MDI/UTP/PCP/whatever other hell options are out there to a file transfer mode, then hope and pray it shows up on computer, then click, wait a long time, then navigate the phone's messed up file system before you can drop something in there.
They have:

> "What we've basically found is that dogs dream doggy things," Coren said. "So, pointers will point at dream birds, and Dobermans will chase dream burglars. The dream pattern in dogs seems to be very similar to the dream pattern in humans."

https://www.livescience.com/53743-dog-dreams.html
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I was frustrated with a memory leak in someone else’s code of a dozen or more if-if-if-if-else-else-else statements like the second example, it was probably 400 or more columns wide. It was my first real job and I began to doubt my abilities, I couldn’t follow the logic.

I refactored it all as the author suggests, out of desperation to better understand it in a debugger if more code could fit on a page. To my astonishment the memory leak disappeared, so it has always since been a habit, sometimes I still rewrite code this way just to better understand it, I think it looks better.