skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And… what exactly is achieved by this sort of justice system?

It suppresses the rate of vigilante justice. If the courts can generally do a better job than the vigilantes themselves, then society comes out ahead.

If we were to live in a society where parents can abuse their children to death and receive nothing more than a scolding from the state to be more careful in the future, then we'd have a lot more people killing each other in retribution. And once that starts in earnest, it often forms unending blood feuds. At the very least, imprisonment for manslaughter is warranted. For the state to mete out no punishment at all would be an abdication of their duty to deliver justice so that others don't have to seek it themselves.
The airline is allowed (in fact, required by law) to use security as a reason to pursue a policy that’s favorable to them. Do you like the experience of going to the airport and wish more things you did were similar?
> Longevity biotech came from a similar milieu and has been doing very well

They're doing well numerically when it comes to funding but is there anyone who has actually lived materially longer as a result of the field?
$20k per dose Jesus H Christ. Rent seeking galore. Hopefully the patent has run out by now and others can get in on the action and make it affordable. There’s no way in hell this could possibly cost $20k. Is capitalism ever going to produce innovation that’s affordable to regular people again and not just benefiting the profiteering VC parasite class?
I think it would have been nicer if this platform took the enum, and didn't the integer conversion at the FFI level, no? That should all be elided by optimisations.
10% of what went to Ukraine would've hired how many safety inspectors?

Ukraine is a life or death situation you say?

Solicosis isn't?

How many tax men do we need before we get the government to do the bare minimum here?
> what is the downside of this "miracle cure"?

The strain is probably less tough than its wild type.
The thing about French laws is that they are based on a different system than we have here in the US. It's called the "common law" system. That's why a normal, valid, and fully enforceable contract between two multi-million dollar companies in France could be just a page long. Or maybe just a few pages. The 99.9% that is not written down on that paper is assumed to automatically be applied, and therefore doesn't have to be written down.

And the same is true for creating new laws in France. When you create a law that establishes the existence a certain organization, a whole host of other things are effectively built into that, simply by inheritance from the common law system. And common laws don't need to be written down anywhere, because they're common.

You look at what is written, and you see only what is written. I look at what is written, and I understand something of how much doesn't need to be written because it's common law.
GDPR doesn't make it illegal to use cookies without consent.
For game development this should only matter on the game developers' machine, where there is more interaction with loose files on disk.

For any shipped game being played on a player's machine the data files should be some form of packed files, which are close to the executable and only a handful need to be opened.
"This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since."

That's the kicker. Damn near everything has side effects. How and why the FDA approves some things but not others is a quagmire, but the truth is that almost everything has side effects. Sometimes it feels like every approved drug ad you see on TV will have some lawsuit 20-30 years later. Look at where we are right now with ozempic. We know one of the side effects is thyroid cancer and doctors are prescribing it left and right while there is money to be made. In 10 years there will be a multi-billion dollar settlement for "misrepresenting the risks".
A conversation with my friend who was a dentistry student, ~2013.

> [The friend, let's call her L, trying to dissuade me from drinking some fizzy drink]
> J: But I won't get a cavity if the liquid doesn't touch my teeth.
> L: Cavities are caused by the ensuing low ph environment, not by contact with teeth
> J: Does that mean I can drink as much of it as I want as long as I rinse my mouth with water afterwards?
> L, with a hint of defeat in her voice: yes.

After this conversation, I started the practice of rinsing my mouth with water after eating anything sugary or associated with tooth decay, as well as using interdental toothbrushes. My rate of cavities dropped from one on most years to zero - I haven't had a cavity since. Even the one noticed by my dentist at the time and left untreated for being too small hasn't developed yet, and that was ~ten years ago.

On a sidenote, I have yet to find interdental toothbrushes whose use doesn't lead to ingesting nylon.
I really feel this, and it is so disappointing. Since 2012 my primary development machine has been a MacBook Pro, and my 2020 M1 MacBook Pro is maybe my favorite workstation ever (they brought back the good keyboard, the M1 processor is so fast, and the battery life is insane—even at three years old I will get through half a day of work and zoom calls and only be down to 80%).

But at the same time, I see a slow creep of operating system and interface changes. Especially worrying is the push to make macOS look and operate more like iPadOS. I've loved macOS as a development platform because it's Unix-y enough, but with a polished desktop interface where everything just works without fiddling and tweaking.

Perhaps I'm missing something in their vision or perhaps I'm being too myopic, but I don't understand the obsession with adopting mobile/tablet-style interactions and restrictions.

Will I still be able to plan on using this operating system for development in the next 12 years? I've begun revisiting Linux as my desktop operating system on the side, because I fear the answer is no.
Sure, but this is the third 'trend' I read here today. To me these are advertisements and this is starting to be concerning.
As long as there is string concatenation and SQL libs accept queries as a string there will be SQL injections.
Something like this works very well for travel.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BKPCXZQY
This is a well established route for new tech: first start by selling to the early adopters who have extra motivation and extra money, then use those funds to lower the costs by increasing scale then reach a bigger market.
Breaking the reproduction/re-infection cycle was key. Pickup up dog turds did make a difference, so too the widespread use of preventative drugs in pets. Not spitting in the street. Wearing shoes. Bathing in clean/chlorinated water, drinking clean water, proper sewage, and tacking any local infections with serious drugs ... all these things add up to cut the reinfection rate to the point that the parasites stopped spreading.
I take very significant issue with the fact their appendix A and B do not link to the original literature. When I was skimming the pitch deck, I thought they had done the experiments themselves, but it just looks like they copy pasted the results without proper citation. At best this appears as miscommunication, at worst misrepresentation of the work they have accomplished.

I work in medical startup space and the evidence we develop to prove our technology works typically has a higher threshold than what I've seen presented. I would want to see significantly more work done to demonstrate the scientific validity of this research. Do they intend to carry out any additional pre-clinical research (in vitro/in vivo)? Do they intend to do a clinical trial? It appears from their slide deck that they don't?
They're both complicated enough systems that there can be independent or causal (either way) disease progression.

Something like hepatorenal syndrome [0] would be a liver to kidney collapse, but that's more to do with blood supply.

[0] https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23399-hepator...
My old dentist would give me a pump of it and have me swish for a minute. Billed insurance $20. Insurance always said "$5," then they "forgave" the rest, probably because I'd be asking some questions about how that costs them $20.
The key term here is confidence. It was bad enough when it turned out that many people who really should understand p-values didnt. But this claiming overwhelming confidence to better manage patients is just despicable, how ever well meant it is. Its incredibly short sighted and ruins trust.

Stuff is just complicated.
There are at least two ways to refute Brandolini's Law, both work.

The first refutation is in response to a steelman version of the argument. It's simply that that you often can't know whether a claim is or isn't bullshit until someone manages to refute it, or tries to and fails. Thus even if this claim is correct, it doesn't matter. People will just have to spend the energy in order to discover what's true.

The second refutation is to observe that Brandolini's Law is itself bullshit. Therefore anyone presenting it as relevant to a debate on free speech is in fact arguing in bad faith, as you put it, whether they know it or not.

Where does this "law" come from? Calling it a law makes it sound like it's got some empirical basis in fact, and it's phrased in a mathematical way, but in reality it's literally a snarky tweet made in 2013 by some rando programmer [1]. Not only was it presented with no evidence but when asked "How do you know that" his reply was "Just read #ThinkingFastAndSlow ... then everything will fall in place". But very ironically Thinking Fast and Slow is a book famous for being built on bullshit. Many of the studies within it don't replicate, and the author later admitted that he relied too heavily on underpowered studies for his claims.

Even if this book wasn't full of bullshit, nothing in it is about the claim Brandolini made! So we have something that pretends to be some sort of scientific law but isn't, and which is justified via a bullshit irrelevant reference to a book that doesn't make that claim and which is itself full of bullshit studies. It's a fractal of bullshit.

Brandolini's Law is a good example of why we need an open and uncensored internet. Far too many people are willing to take claims at face value because they are phrased in ways that sound superficially scientific or authoritative. Our only defense against this is when people are free to refute such claims in public, extensively and robustly, without being moderated into oblivion. Only then will we be able to inch slowly closer to a truth-based and shared reality.

[1] https://twitter.com/ziobrando/status/289635060758507521
It's not nonsense. Perhaps many don't, but most ask (at least where I am). They literally ask you when you go in for a cleaning if you want fluoride and then charge you. My current dentist charges $40. My last dentist (Orange County) charged $80, which was a total scam place I only went to once.
Nope Ticketmaster shares fees with its clients, this is from the Ticketmaster help...

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The standard tickets sold on Ticketmaster are owned by our clients (venues, sports teams or other event promoters) who determine the number of tickets to be sold and set the face value price.

...

Ticket fees (which can include a service fee, order processing fee and sometimes a delivery fee) are determined in collaboration with our clients. In exchange for the rights to sell their tickets, our clients typically share in a portion of the fees we collect.

...

Service Fee and Order Processing Fee

In almost all cases, Ticketmaster adds a service fee (also known as a convenience charge) to the face value price, or in the case of a resale ticket to the listing price, of each ticket. The service fee varies by event based on our agreement with each individual client.

In addition to the per ticket service fee, an order processing fee is typically charged. Unlike the service charge, which is added to each ticket, the processing fee is charged once for each order. The processing fee offsets the costs of ticket handling, shipping and support and as a result, the processing fee is generally not charged on in-person box office purchases. In some cases, Ticketmaster's order processing costs may be lower than the order processing fee. In those cases, Ticketmaster may earn a profit on the order processing fee.

In both cases, these fees are collected by Ticketmaster and typically shared with our clients.
It’s still local the particles travel along the ‘portal.’ Best I understand it, the fields are reshaping to a tube or rope that carries particles to earth instead of their normal route.
Which profession is overhyped and not worth the struggle it brings?
Canada doesn't have a border with Mexico, but it does have its share of undocumented and under-protected workers.

> While there are no accurate figures representing the number or composition of undocumented migrant population in Canada, estimates range between 20,000 and 500,000 persons

> Research suggests most undocumented individuals live in large urban centres and typically work in seasonal and informal sectors, such as construction, agriculture, caregiving and housekeeping.

> Undocumented migrants are a vulnerable group due to their lack of immigration status, as was seen during the COVID-19 pandemic. They have limited access to health care, social services or employment protections.

Source: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/co...

Until this year, asylum-seekers could transit through the United States into Canada under the Safe Third Country Agreement, by crossing the border at an irregular crossing like Roxham Road.

Sources: https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/deal-roxham-road-migrants-b...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/canada-asylum-seeker-increase...

https://web.archive.org/web/20230601135133/https://www.nytim...
It is an excellent language, and a joy to develop in. Works on linux, linq to objects is nice, it has good reflection and decent pattern matching and good ide support. But the library ecosystem is terrible. Imagine starting out web development by looking for alternatives to Entity framework and asp.net core or whatever they have now. ML is sparse, financial libraries are sparse, dataframes, vectorized arithmetic, very hard to find something that works in all .net versions.
Show HN: LangLearnCopilot – Your Companion Python Package for Language Learning
As part of my ongoing quest to master the French language — a journey filled with numerous challenges — I've turned to Python, creating a practical tool in the form of a package that can assist language learners like myself. This is just one of several tools I've either developed or adopted, aimed at making language learning more accessible and effective.

This Python package, based on OpenAI GPT-4, comes with two main features. Firstly, it has the capacity to extract unique words from any URL or text and subsequently convert these into flashcards, compatible with Anki—a popular, versatile study tool. This allows learners to reinforce vocabulary learning at their own pace.

Secondly, this tool can generate example sentences for any word or set of words, further converting these sentences into flashcards. This aids not just in vocabulary acquisition but also in understanding the contextual usage of words, a crucial part of gaining fluency in any language.

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I would love to hear your feedback and suggestions :)
> In the end the consumer decides anyway, if they buy enough books at a high enough price, then you can.

Why is this different from software?

The software priced here is very cheap. DevUtils costs lifetime less than what an hourly wage of SWE intern costs.

I don’t even know what logic is implied in here regarding the supermarket staff.
Every year I read another article detailing the futility of trying to get along with gmails filters. Most often these writeups end with the author giving up and using Gmail.
OK, but that still doesn't explain the connection between SBS and hypnosis (and Texas for that matter). Is there a particular history of using hypnosis to convict innocent people of shaking babies to death in Texas and impose the death penalty on them? Is this common knowledge?

The original comment to which I was responding still makes absolutely no sense to me. And getting downvoted because I asked for clarification is making even less sense to me. I must be missing something fundamental here. (Either that or HN has jumped the shark, which I fervently hope is not the case.)
Holmes does use a scientific process. He forms hypotheses and tests them, and when they are proven wrong he synthesizes the new information and then repeats until he solves the case.
Yes! -- I'm curious if you had some efficient way to find that?
There was a previous campaign that lasted sometime, and fought tenaciously, but received as designation as a harmful product targeting children,

so lets do that again, with interactive A.I. and tracking surveillance, so the ad is more than a cool older brother figure, it knows what form is most evocative to your eyes, and all about your daily life by inference, and understands what you need/makes you engage.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/1997/05/...

https://csts.ua.edu/cartoons/the-industry/joe-camel/

https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/cartoons/joe-camel-c...
>are there actual published results from legit scientists on this?

The main papers referenced by document on the page are by JD Hillman on 1987[0] (et al) and 2002[1]. A layman review was done few years later by PopSci[2]. This specific site and company appear to have no relation to Hillman or Oragenics (co-founded by Hillman) that holds a patent on this[3,4].

[0]: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002203458706600...

[1]: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1020695902160

[2]: https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2008-01/germ-could-sa...

[3]: https://www.oragenics.com/news-media/press-releases/detail/3...

[4]: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9260488B2/en
I added the following CSS to every element on the page
An outline with 0.5px width

I actually often do the same to look at how a website is structured.

I use this bookmarklet which when clicked does it on the current page:

javascript:(function(){Array.from(document.body.getElementsByTagName('*'), e => e.style.outline = '2px dotted orangered');})();
You were sold a silly idea: that the reason software isn't portable has to do with work and resources. That's simply not true in a vast majority of instances. Companies intentionally lock software to certain platforms for sales reasons much, much more often than for technical reasons.

OTOH, Windows isn't portable, so if you want to run old Windows software, you don't move it - you emulate it.
I would think that the advantages are conceptual. I never learned quaternions on their own (unless I've repressed those memories), but I was aware of them as I was learning geometric algebra.

My experience with learning complex numbers in an undergraduate electrical engineering class was that these were baffling mathematical objects that make the equations work, but understanding why or how was best left to the mathematicians. Names like "complex" and "imaginary" didn't help.

I would imagine that learning quaternions on their own would be similar. Quaternions are like complex number, but more so, and they have this i*j=k property that you just have to accept as part of how they operate. So you have this four-dimensional object that performs rotation in three dimensions, and that's just how it is.

The geometric algebra construction explains all of these mysterious properties and gives an intuitive algebraic and geometric sense for why they behave that way.

And this intuition extends beyond quaternions. Projective, conformal, and spacetime geometric algebras all have equivalent objects that behave differently but according to the same fundamental rules.
Oh yeah absolutely, but being a shareholder in there? I mean it's always easy to judge people whose context you don't know, but I think you can draw a line and this is past it
My saw is a bad hammer.
NASA capsule brings home asteroid samples dating back to birth of solar system
>A saucer-shaped capsule carrying asteroid fragments that may hold clues about the birth of the solar system slammed into Earth's atmosphere Sunday and descended to an on-target parachute-assisted touchdown in Utah to wrap up a dramatic seven-year, four-billion-mile voyage.
https://getfreewrite.com/
https://archive.ph/CNJBY
The patent has expired. The whole pitch here is to modify the tech a bit so they can patent it again and charge 20k/dose.
Sure, but the reason why browser compatibility is being measured is to quantify that notion of "modern".

You can then use that to make your own decisions; if you're working on a high-tech video streaming platform for kids you can probably safely ignore the 5%, but if you're providing information on behalf of the government you might need to support much more than that.
When I look at paper titles I like to switch the words around to see if the paper is talking about correlation or causation. If the title was changed to "People with high GI cancer risk tend to habitually skip breakfast" does anything need to change in the paper?
Yes, but you would still need to convert the differential signals to UART with appropriate voltage levels. A RS-485 to USB adapter might be the better option here.
But a buspirate has way more usability than just UART, it's awesome for some quick i2C or SPI experimentation
Yep, docs is another example where it's clear google uses it internally.
Why the "not near a school zone"?
What? The parent isn't arguing for "less algorithmic laws" or not enforcing laws. They are hypothesizing about the worldview of a supreme court justice who doesn't care about the accuracy of the outcome or what happens in edge cases.

Your sentence about people getting radicalized on the internet is non sequitur and bizarre.
> I have yet to find interdental toothbrushes whose use doesn't lead to ingesting nylon.

Use the interdental toothpicks made of wood.
More tweets (one per paragraph) drives more engagement.