skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you do like all those pseudo psychologists, always find one category a person they meet fits in. There you go there are only 5 traits. Same thing for horoscopes, you can always fit one description from a sign to someone so you are always right. Except when there is this "how weird i thought you were a gemini what is your ascendant" "ohh that's why." a posteriori analysis can explain anything you want.
I honestly think this problem is unsolvable, like, you can only do so much with typing on screen.

Maybe with a device that read your mind and allowed you to type by thinking, but with that aside, I don't think there is a solution. I think this is a fundamental limitation of mobile.
I’m surprised that nobody mentioned satellite SOS on iPhone 14 and presumably newer. One would be my next upgrade when the iPhone 8 quits. It won’t take ios17 for better or worse, and still takes very fine 28mm equivalent photos, some of my nicest, despite all my camera gear. Right place, right time. I DO carry an 8X zoom lumix almost all the time. It’s smaller than a phone except for thickness, a BIG DEAL with phones. I have “deep pockets” in the non-money sense.

And, I often carry the old coolpix, with 24-1000mm equivalent focal length. Just not in the car during the summer, for the same reason you don’t leave CD’s sitting on the dashboard when parked.

A family was hiking nearby in hot weather. Despite being experienced hikers (or perhaps overconfident because of their experience) they needed rescue. Cellular signal was absent, and a satellite SOS probably would have saved them. Lesson learned.

Nobody uses CB or FRS, though less the satellite capability, leaving one the ranger and taking the other is better than nothing, perhaps.

I remember playing phone tag many times, with public phones. Cellular has saved vast amounts of anxiety and frustration. IMO, satellite SOS, when you’re out of range of cell coverage (which is much of where I live) is the next game changer, not AI processing of photos, nor other doodads.

Zoom is relative to the “normal” wide 24mm equivalent, so for lots of extra money, (pro) you can get “3X” or 77mm or for tons of extra money, (max) you get 5X or 120 mm. equivalent.

Finally, cameras are generally made to last, and not be flipped every few years.
Ah yes, we can sort kids into humanities and sciences, by age, by ability, into gymnasiums and normal schools, but sorting visual learners from other ones is too hard.

We can only seperate kids into groups when it serves adninistrative or industrial beenfits, when its for the benefit of the child, forget it.

I mean how can you expect a ridiculously expensive system where children spend the majority of their waking hours to actually ask a child if it suits them?
Habitually Skipping Breakfast Is Associated with the Risk of GI Cancers
Wanted to comment on this, too - replying instead trying to avoid being a spammer.

Meme or not, I'll try to remember this for any conversation where I want to strengthen my argument :)

> Here's a quick response as I have to get to a sailboat race:

> You have no idea what you are talking about and the implications of using spaces for indentation are much more severe than you think.
> However, I understand that not everyone can afford to keep buying good masks

As a tip for fellow price-constrained folks out there: upgrading to an elastomeric respirator can help substantially with costs. Dentec's marketing copy suggests about a 90% reduction in costs compared to using disposable respirators [0]; given a pack of 50 duckbills on projectn95 [1] is roughly the same price as a new elastomeric w/ filters [2], seems to check out.

As an added benefit, going in on an elastomeric can help a bit with both mask fit and comfort.

[0] https://dentecsafety.com/usa/products/respiratory-protection...
[1] https://www.projectn95.org/products/aci-surgical-n95-respira...
[2] https://www.criticaltool.com/style/dentec-400nx-black-half-m...
That's because the purpose of the death penalty is to function as a sort of secular human sacrifice, to ward off evil-doers possibly doing bad things, due to a belief that deep down bad guys are rational actors and will choose not to do commit capital murder based on punishment.
Does the use of pseudouridine occur in all modified mRNA vaccines?
Ask HN: What are few good AI tools for generating stories
I started using OpenAI to generate random storylines for my app. Thought of improving it by using some dedicated AI.
Can you suggest some tools to approach this? I don’t mind self hosting one if it is better than OpenAI for the purpose.
This change will affect people in the poor countries where people don't have high speed internet and fast computer.
While I was at a coffee shop recently I overheard a young lady telling her friend that she was switching her major from nursing (I think) to psychology, "because the nursing major is hard", and instead she wants to become a forensic or criminal psychologist, which she believes will be easier. I am concerned about the quality of evidence such a person might present if they ever were called as an expert witness at someone's trial...
I recently upgraded from an iPhone 8 to a 13 mini. I thought I would miss the home button, but what I really miss is 3D Touch in the keyboard for moving the cursor. It doesn’t solve editing text on mobile, but it went a long way.
I don't know if Bill is right or wrong but I think it doesn't matter. Humans could never in their wildest dreams plant as many trees, bushes and flowers as squirrels and chipmunks plant by mistake. They hide seeds and nuts but forget where 70% of them are and then the seeds and nuts grow. As a fun side note I feed chipmunks and in turn they have covered my fence-line in sun-flowers. The bird-seed companies are supposed to spray the seeds with something to prevent germination but recently they seemed to have given up on that.
Why Do Economists Get Paid More Than Sociologists?
There are plenty of DIY PAPRs now, many of which need some refinement to be truly comfortable, but they're certainly affordable.
"2 extra calls" is a weird metric here.
Some calls are vastly more expensive than others. Syscalls come with a significant cost, encoding conversion of short strings (esp. filenames) does not.
Hiding just the syscalls behind an abstraction layer is vastly simpler than doing that and additionally hiding the string representation, so "UTF-8 everywhere" is IMHO the right solution.
"What the hell are you worried about? This is 1874. You'll be able to sue her!"
Why is that an automatically agreeable opinion? There are a lot of people in professional trades who go to school once in their career, and then periodically augment their skills. But they don't go and get a whole new degree every few years just to continue to have a job
Qt uses UTF-16, Gtk uses UTF-8.
I generally agree and also disagree with a few aspects of both your comment and the OP.

First of all, to the OP, maybe not for the leet kids, but I absolutely find large amounts of text input on a phone to be a pain. I can do it if I’m away from a computer and have to, but I don’t enjoy it and it takes more time and requires a lot of concentration.

As for cursor positioning, holding down the space bar on iOS works pretty well—although it took me a few years to learn about it.

I do think text editing could always be better and I actually think it’s a pretty broad use case. I’m also not convinced mobile is easily adapted to it, especially without really good text input [probably speech] which also isn’t suitable in a lot of situations.
Very nice!

Can we add numbers and basic punctuation to the list of glyphs?
The reason I think it won't get much better is that the size of smart phones will not change. It is size that's really the issue for text editing. No space for a real keyboard, no space for a real display.
* The daughter was sick from birth with breathing apnea,
with bouts causing her to collapse and stop breathing.

* Had severe undiagnosed pneumonia.

* Was prescribed an opioid medication that is no longer deemed safe for children.

* Had diarrhea and a fever of 104F for 5 days prior to her death.

How can you not entertain the possibility that her death had absolutely nothing to do with the fact that someone claims a dude shook a child one time?
>The body of the article acknowledges that those "learning styles" have been debunked

I'd say some dubious quality research (like most educational / psychology research is) was done to favour learning styles.

Then some newer, still dubious quality, research was done to "debunk" them.

Meanwhile, we probably don't know more about what objectively works in learning than we did before both sets of research were reported.

It's more about churning papers and taking sides in different academic camps, than actual scientific work.

Like with "Thinking, Fast and Slow" I wouldn't bet on either the original research or the debunking, having "settled" the issue.
I actually had to google to find that tofu is "processed" but not "ultra-processed". I think the asian-style soy milk I buy for cooking might also not be "ultra-processed" since I don't think it has emusifiers or things that western soy milk has, but googling for this doesn't give much info.

I guess I just assumed they were considered to be ultra processed since they're produced industrially.
The Simplicity Shift: Innovative Design Tactics in a Corporate World [pdf] (2002)
Book-length material tends to fare poorly on HN, but this touches on a core topic of interest (UI/UX), written at the dawn of the mobile age (2002), by an author currently featured on the front page, Scott Jenson (see: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37630804>). Submission thanks to ChrisMarshallNY's comment: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37633428>.

Link directly downloads the full 179 page book.

(I once again wish there might be some way for HN to better facilitate discussion of books, perhaps a book club of some sort? <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=407067> <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32418761>)
Half-Proof
I swear I've seen 80% of these on the Windows login screen
Hold the space key and it also becomes a trackpad.
It doesn't address this editing issue at all. It somewhat attempts to address multi-tasking, but this thread is specifically about how poor the text editing experience is, and I'd like to hear how a folding phone fixes that?

I have an iPad and even there without a mouse plugged in, the editing experience is poor.
To go from .ts -> .js -> execution more quickly. Am I misunderstanding something?
> But isn't it the same when we lionise sociopathic, charismatic men

Yes.

Steve Jobs myth is completely overblown.

Elon Musk is far from being a great entrepreneur, on the contrary he's a malevolent reactionary who's greater achievement is making people believe that a company that profits from selling carbon credits is a car company or a tech company or a software company or a battery company, depending on who you ask.

Jeff Bezos normalized new more subtle forms of exploitation of US workforce.

etc. etc.
Worse, a lot of ISPs have implemented transfer caps that disincentivize seeding. I dropped my residential-class service and switched to business-class which has no caps, but that's probably not an option for everyone.
To Zach: I feel confident in saying this is very important applied research into improving our field. Too much of programming still amounts to conceptually duct-taping loads of rando modules together and hoping for the best.
You've got my interest. I would love to see some articles if you have any handy. I found some cheaper off-brand PAPR's on Amazon but they have really bad reviews and look sketchy.
Buen Vivir: Colombia's philosophy for good living
The man who "wrote" the code disagrees with your take on Katie Bouman:

"While I wrote much of the code for one of these pipelines, Katie was a huge contributor to the software; it would have never worked without her contributions and the work of many others who wrote code, debugged, and figured out how to use the code on challenging EHT data."

Btw lines of code != amount of contribution, sad to see this kind of take on a supposedly programmer focused site.

https://www.foxnews.com/science/internet-trolls-discredit-ka...
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/438617-white-m...
Lantern Biotech
TLDR: startup aiming to cure cavities by replacing bacteria that generates lactic acid in
our mouths with a GM strain that generates ethanol. Website here: https://www.lanternbioworks.com/

Making the rounds on Twitter
Oh wow! I remember the 1st and 2nd Gen.! The 3rd one is so nice! I don’t need one any soon, but it looks like I’d love to have one later in the future. I’m very curious what would the next gens look like.
And that is why trials should be blind... The characteristics of perpetrator should not be shown or told to jury.
Well, no.

Conservatives have no problem stripping authority from cities and towns so that they maintain absolute power at the state government level. That's what Florida, Texas etc have all done, accelerating especially recently. It's always couched in specific terms and frameworks designed to make sure they're the haves and everyone else is the have not.
Probabilistic Approximate DNF volume counting
A cool method to approximately count volume using the power of randomization. It's a pretty simple algorithm, each step being trivial on its own, yet it produces a surprising good algorithm for a rather complicated problem.
GPT 4 is great at converting TypeScript to JSDoc
Funny, this last one just happened to me and I blamed myself. I made an account for my son, wrote down the username/password then didn't touch it for nearly a year. I got to log in and it keeps saying wrong password.
No mention of the ongoing extinction event, but that's just a side show, right?
The cost of a Pentium III and the electricity to run it might be much, much less that the cost of labor to move one application over to a Raspberry Pi.

Then the cost of debugging the application on a Pi 4 might be more than the value of the company trying to run it.
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
They're better for some types of photos. For example, you'd never want to take a photo of something you'd want to measure quantitatively with a smart phone. They hallucinate all the detail.
Well, you can argue both ways. For me I think it's fake basically due to the photos. The mum and daughter look similar but not identical and to my eyes the later pictures are the daughter. Re the locals not noticing, if you thought someone looked a bit funny would you just think that's a bit odd or publically accuse them or fraud? Personally I'd do the thinking it odd and ignoring it thing.
I always wonder how this sort of data ends up escaping into the wild en-masse. Everytime I've come up against wanting public records they're not public by way of API public. They're always public with no easy way to get at them yourself en-masse, and no one is willing to write any code to get at them en-masse. Seems like the big players have cornered it

Court records for instance
> In the end I just opened Apple’s “TV” app and bought the movie for $9 instead.

In my case, I have to pirate the movie because I couldn't find any streaming service which stream my movie, especially the director's cut or final cut. I once paid apple to buy a movie just to find out that half of the movie is cut due to censorship.
How to be happier: Add these to your /etc/hosts to prevent gratitious anxiety

127.0.0.1 nytimes.com
127.0.0.1 wsj.com
127.0.0.1 washingtonpost.com
127.0.0.1 cnn.com
127.0.0.1 foxnews.com
The COVID part I was replying to GGP's claim that the central bank doesn't print money.

Generally QE has started since 2008.

> Had it occurred to you some people repeat stuff because they just want other people to believe the things they think?

Yes, that's a possibility, not a definite. Why did you think that hasn't occurred to me? I'm not the one saying "I don't know why people keep saying this."

I specifically offered an explanation that involves the GGP possibly being wrong: "Does it occur to you that maybe people keep saying this because that's the truth?" Note the "maybe". It's not rhetoric. I meant what I wrote.

Of course there are other explanations but I'm pretty sure their view on what central banks are wrong or at least out of date. And I explained and gave pointers. I still wrote the "maybe".

Anyway, given your definite claim that people just repeat stuff because they just want other people to think the same, I guess discussion with you becomes meaningless at this point.

Finally I'll just note that quoting my counter example to explain what central banks do as evidence that I got my original claims wrong isn't really a argument either way.

Have a nice day.
Maybe when they implemented the one child policy they thought they would be immortal by now?

“For every two of us there should be one of us” doesn’t seem that wise in hindsight.
Great live images on this all the way from the point it hit the atmosphere!
Always remember.

What do you call a med school graduate who had a straight-A average? "Doctor".

What do you call a med school graduate who had a C-minus average? "Doctor".

I've had to weed through a couple dunce doctors in my time.
Did she really? That's pretty hilarious tbh...
The hyperfinancialization and commoditization of everything is what gets you
My more local fun fact: I live on the North Shore of Montreal, and I have friends that live on the South Shore, but they actually live more north than me.
Nope, I know about that. It’s just garbage software, especially their Mac version. See also the inability to open a CSV file correctly without corrupting it, unless you use a specialized import.
Alien life may not be carbon-based, new study suggests
The only way to acquire know-how is by doing. Failure and repetition are the best teachers. People are lazy and entitled and believe they should just be able to passively acquire knowledge without doing work and they blame incompatible “learning styles” for their personal failure. People also confuse “know-about” with “know-how”.
HTTrack - a name I hadn't heard in 15 years may be. I used it back then. However, I want to clarify that the thing I set out to build is not about entire site backup, but more of site URL and some metadata, but with local-first approach and self-hostable.
I read that part too, and it's irrelevant. There are no "enough vacant homes to host 3 billion people" with or without those. Even considering families of 5, that would be 600 million homes, a ridiculous number.
Why say bloated when you could say complicated?
Workers who cut countertops are dying of silicosis
> All that sounds great, but how do you actually assert those things without your child missing out on their classes?

Just make sure there's no excuses the school can use to deny your kids. Make sure they have a device they can use. The steamroller counts on apathy.
I tried, used it for like a year.

I found the conversation view to be no where near as good as gmail. The ui in general just was far below gmail. So in the end I slithered back on over to gmail.

Also, I remember auto-filters not working very well and not putting my emails in the right folders
Today? I think most flat-earthers are indeed having fun with an elaborate, long-running joke. Some even sort of admit it. (And some are truly deranged, of course).

Back then? Flat earth made all the sense in the world, according to the empirical observations possible at the time. Only it wasn't able to explain some phenomena (e.g ships "sinking" over the horizon), and so evidence accumulated against it, eventually.
The police is where you can get obvious, overwhelming evidence of abuse. It literally takes a man being murdered on video to move the needle, and even then you get a ton of pushback.

There are many prison reform movements, but none of them get any traction without such visceral, concrete, and shocking symbols. You hear about defunding the police because it's the only one with even a shred of a chance to accomplish anything at all.

People might agree with other improvements if a pollster asked them, but only because it's abstract. If they got any serious traction there would be an equivalent objection using the same tactics to defame and harass the people who were trying. And since it doesn't involve a death it will get chalked up to "both sides are bad" and dropped.

I'd love to see politics work on something more coherent and beneficial but we're way, way past that.
we are going ahead to 17. too much resources spent to do an intermediate step
Stuff You Should Know did an episode on hookworms

https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-stuff-you-should-know-269...
Please report back when you’ve removed the doors inside and outside your home and invited illegal immigrants and the homeless to set up camp in your yard.
Um, no?

It’s to achieve vengeance. This doesn’t seem that complicated.
I don't see how this is shovels and dreams. There is no courses involved here or book deals.
real mirrors can become rogue ones?
Not exactly what you described, but I was reminded of this LLM-based prototyping tool:

https://youtu.be/nhTyuuDZe4w?si=5bVPU7g5-WXJitlY
I can't sign up for Sendgrid and then send signed email on behalf of another Sendgrid customer.
I went down this rabbit hole two weeks ago, but settled on using a Lenovo ThinkSmart View instead: https://taoofmac.com/space/blog/2023/09/22/1230
Aggregate statistics might be more illuminating than anecdotes.
This is a confusing question.

We shouldn't be able to see tides caused by changes on the mass distribution inside the horizon. But yes, the mass is all there.

That "originates" word is funny.
Cross-platform can expand your reach.

But you will have some crazy support problems.
This is also being called a “never-nester”. As in, you never nest your own code more than three levels deep.

There is one very well-made YouTube video on it, IIRC.
As a one-time conversion, maybe, but it would be expensive and unreliable as part of a toolchain.
On MacOS, you need 0.0.0.0 instead of 127.0.0.1 to block a site in my experience.
Just put the frozen stuff into a bowl or plate and microwave it. That's what I used to do and it's insanely easy.
This exists on Android Gboard, though it's hidden in some menus by default. [0]

[0] https://www.xda-developers.com/gboard-v6-2-adds-cursor-contr... (2017)
Better than a Wacom tablet?
How do you find those Discords? I seem to come across lots of tech Slacks, but few Discords
Yes, I totally agree with basically everything you said except the VC point (which, I don't think I implied VC invested in public markets).

Thanks for elaborating my point.
I just realized that Blade Runner is now in the category of "alternative history," like what happened with Back to the Future in 2015. The title for the opening scene displays November, 2019 as the date.
Guess so. But whether it's CDs or live shows, the key point is that what this guy is doing is more "news" (or HNews) worthy because he is a pro with a good portfolio, as opposed to some amateurs giving their stuff for free.

I didn't use "albums away for free" because, seriously, hipsters and boomers aside, who buys albums these days?