skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That is absolutely not true. Flouride varnish helps prevent cavities and remineralize enamel in all ages.

Here's a meta analysis for you: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK401516/
Fine motor control of the Optimus robot
I know a lot of people hate the CEO for many reasons (many of which are justified), but the way this thing moves is an achievement in itself. The fact that it's apparently NNs end to end is just a cherry on top. I've seen a lot of robots do a lot of things over the years, but this is next level. The smooth movement almost seems like CGI, especially when you compare it to something like BD's Atlas. But maybe I'm just not in sync with the latest developments in the realm of actuators etc. and this is not exceptional anymore?
GitHub CEO: Despite AI, demand for software developers still outweigh supply
It reads fine to me. Is it really all that technical? It’s just a variable. People with basic math skills with figure out what this means easily. Even if it was technical, the author is also working in a technical space, so technical speak seems par for the course.
If two years is not enough lead time someone is not doing their job.
Have you seen https://github.com/google/ghost-userspace
You could be lucky but you could also just have a bad dentist who does not x-ray or the x-ray might be old and with insufficient picture quality. (Source, GF is a highly specialized dental hygienist and we talk a lot about some cases. I was even at Euro Perio with her...)
I believe it's the opposite. Money is what killed P2P.

Why do people keep seeding a 20 years old torrent ? Why do people still run tor relays and escape nodes ? Why do people keep editing wikipedia ? It's absolutely not for the money, it's because they feel it is useful for humanity, and it indeed is. Money, or rather the greed that fuels willing to be financially rewarded, is the reason people stopped P2P and embraced individualism and centralized platforms. A central platform is comfy, it's cozy, it's easy, and it treats me right... at least in the beginning, but then it's too late. The value is in the money that can be extracted from the other. P2P is complicated, it's hard to understand, but everyone is at the same level, I can talk to people if something's wrong and anyone can improve the situation. The value is in the service provided to the community.

Cryptocurrencies are the peak of individualism, they allow the commodification of not just the individual, but of interactions, of knowledge, of thoughts, of absolutely everything. It's the market everywhere, and now you need to have your wallet handy to write a message because you're going to pay for it. It's the illusion of equality and "all you need is a little bit of willpower" that the bourgeoisie inherently believes in but has never been true under a capitalist system, and capitalism actively fights against equality. The exchange of financial value is how inequalities are created; we must abandon the exchange of value and focus on growing usage value instead, the only system that ensures everyone is valued and keeps a little bit of control and power.

P2P is digital socialism. Centralization is digital capitalism. Let's not make the mistake a second time, let's put cryptocurrencies where they belong: in the trash
The word "comedy" appears 16 times in this article. Is it not clear to any serious person that this is comedy?
Tax on sugar, sure. But having an obesity tax would be like having a silicosis tax.
Not you individually. I said "some", that's a subgroup from a larger population
Show HN: Sheriff: Block JavaScript and Cookies per Domain, in Safari
I know a bit about the welding industry and and it’s a lack of education, macho attitude, bad habit “I know by smell/touch/sound that it’s going well” and of course management not making it mandatory.
Working with respirator is not the fun part of the day, for sure. And mask/gloves slows you down. But well being able to breathe and see at the end the day without the worst sunburn of your live helps ;)
Hear me out, capital punishment should be allowed but the execution of each inmate should depend on a referendum at the polls.

For example, new highway spending, municipal bond issuance and other stuff gets put on the ballot. Consent to take the life of a person who has committed capital crimes should be directly granted by the people. Advocates for the inmate can campaign for leniency but voters must vote assuming guilt since the inmate is already convicted. Lack of turnout or refusal to grant consent means the inmate gets life without parole.

There aren't enough executions for this to be an issue and a person's life shouldn't depend on legalist bureaucrats.

Also, a guilty verdict alone shouldn't be enough to put their name on that ballot. Overwhelming evidence needs to be present.
> As soon as the work of the laptop class is automated by next generation agentic LLM's, you will probably understand

Coming any second now, right behind robotaxis, with the only difference being that robotaxis will probably actually happen within the lifetimes of the current “laptop class”.
We can still draw those lines today, but mostly ignore them. Such as the nets around Foxconn factories, slave labor used to create chocolate, lithium mining, etc. Not nearly as dramatic as what those copper mine workers went through, but still quite bad.
There is floss made from silk without any PFAS. One brand is called RADIUS. Floss does a better job than water flossers.
"Sold but not yet completed"

Eh... that's not unused space, that's non existent space. What percentage of those have no actual on the ground progress, hence are total bullshit?
Prisoners in Finland Live in Open Prisons Where They Learn Tech Skills [video]
Another good resource for this would be Stiffed by Susan Faludi ( https://susanfaludi.com/stiffed.html ) . Similarly, she started off saying "why are guys resisting the women's movement?" and that lead her to some great insights about the situation of men. I think she has some fantastic insights into why it is hard for progress to be made here. (her observation about the "masculine" approach taken by civil rights and women's rights and being a process that can't be taken to 100% completion has sat with me for years). highly recommended as another thoughtful reflection on the situation.
https://archive.ph/O81PV
America has removed more miles of railway than most other countries have ever had. I hold out hope that high-speed rail is still possible, at least between the major population centers in each region. The good news is that airports and flying are abjectly miserable experiences, which makes people willing to look at alternatives.
Something something the map is not the territory.

To your point about "overly defined boxes," it's a little ironic how 10-15 years ago the prevailing thought in LGBT spaces was (more or less verbatim) "Society wants to fit us all into these rigid boxes, but I say fuck your boxes!" and now it's more like "Society wants to fit us all into rigid boxes, but there's actually a lot more boxes out there that you may not know about, so just keep looking until you find the right box. But you will find a box."

E.g., the extent to which nonbinary has almost become a defined third gender category with its own set of expectations rather than a catch-all for anyone who finds that the main two categories just don't quite cut it.
Yeah this is pretty much solved in every ecosystems but Javascript. It made me not use openAI's chat streaming because guessing became to hard. I'd rather show a loading and have precise measurements.
American too, birth rate is 1.6, well below a replacement rate of 2.1
I did that in December 2022, and then set it up on a different Apple ID, with a simple password and PIN, so if the repair place wanted any of (Apple ID, password, PIN) I could go ahead and give it to them. After the repair I did another reset, and restored the latest backup from the original Apple ID.

Worked fine, except it is now very confused about my "Longest Move Streak" record in Apple Fitness. Here's what it has said at various times this year:

2023-02-04: "You earned this award for your longest daily Move streak. 39 days, ending on 2023-02-03. Your current streak is 1,368 days".

2023-02-21: "You earned this award for your longest daily Move streak. 41 days, ending on 2023-02-20. Your current streak is 1,385 days".

2023-09-24: "You earned this award for your longest daily Move streak. 37 days, ending on 2023-09-23. Your current streak is 1,600 days".

The current streak numbers are correct. The longest streak numbers are now nonsensical and inconsistent.
> You will need at least 400GB of memory to swiftly run inference with Falcon-180B.

[0] https://huggingface.co/tiiuae/falcon-180B
Well you have to take birth control constantly and a lot of very young women end up having it. You could easily wipe out a generation of fertile women if you didn’t do it correctly. On the flip side, old men (usually) that sometimes need to use a pill doesn’t seem all that dangerous.
It would apply to all to some extent, but when you make the wrong move with an interdental toothbrush it can lose a quarter of its bristles in one session.
SeeSaw: Interactive Ad-Hoc Search over Image Databases
Always interesting how much engineering went into a 'simple' early chip like this. This was state-of-the-art once. :-)

Never liked these 4116s myself due to their multi-supply voltages. Common cause of problems where used (like in the ZX Spectrum as another poster pointed out).

And of course Ken Shirriff is brilliant as always!
“Applications being written in .NET is mostly on the Azure side.”

You are of course, wrong about this. Most .Net/C# code is not Azure (yet anyway) -related; it is the billions of lines of enterprise application code across businesses around the world (for me, since 2001)…
Okay, so scalping is illegal in a hurricane. Is it also illegal for outsiders to choose not to provide goods to the sticken area because the sale price doesn't justify the cost? See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jKl-SgJQVc , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZuxdXmSoj4 , https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFXYO1W_JXw .
That’s always been my disappointment with streaming, unlike music we’re most things are on most services movies and shows you often cannot find on anyone them let alone even buy physical copies anymore
Experiments I recall from a while back from browsers and JDK indicated the vast majority of memory is consumed by latin1 strings (even for apps in Asia). Of course, those experiments I recall are something like 20 years old and likely biased (websites were smaller, content was still latin1 dominated). It would be interesting to know the results from Chinese apps and websites today. For websites, the markup used the most space and that stuff remains latin1. For apps I don’t know. But also, text size in memory is typically a joke because the expensive bit is all the multimedia that accompanies text these days. Remember, 100mib is 25million characters even in utf32. That’s 1 hour or so of high quality audio or a few seconds of video. In terms of compression, the smaller initial file will typically compress better so not sure what you mean by “utf-8” tax. UTF8 is not slower to process than utf32 as far as I’m aware except for one small corner case of random codepoint access (but then in UTF text processing, you really shouldn’t be doing that I think but I’m not a utf expert ).
I can see why an emperor could want to try to convince people that their lives are great, regardless of their material conditions. No need to rebel. Nothing to see here.
Coincidentally, Russia also sent the first dog into space, as an Untermensch, if you will.
My problem with Minhaj is the same problem I have with all newsinfotainment comedians. The mixing of news and entertainment on the left is no better than red meat bait on Fox News.

This stands for Stewart, Colbert, Klepper, Oliver, Noah, etc.

If you're whole shtick is about how (group X) is so bad and (here's a bunch of things that have happened to me), then you don't get to fallback on "hey I'm a comedian, this is just entertainment, of course its made up".

It's the same vibe as the people who love the orange man because even though he lies nonstop, he says things that appeal to how they feel.

Minhaj is not "just a comedian", he had a 40 episode news show - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriot_Act_with_Hasan_Minhaj after being on the Daily Show .. all in the same timeframe he was doing these comedy tours. He's even been called to testify before congress after one of his episodes did a deep dive on student loans.

The untrue jokes that he told about racism were long, deeply specific and extremely dire things like being the target of an FBI sting, anthrax hoax attack, or being physically attacked for his race. A few simple jokes about some words said or getting turned down for a date would be a smaller matter.
The US is an aberration because it has decreasing life expectancy, much higher rates of violence, paradoxically expensive and less effective healthcare, and a wider range of socioeconomics and lifestyles than other advanced economies. The US isn't "behind" so much as "falling" despite having every innate advantage apart from a political system that doesn't trade gold bars for votes from foreign countries.
It's my experience that anything that whiffs of self promotion tends to get downvoted away, which seems reasonable.

Anything that expresses a non-mainstream opinion might hit the initial downvote limit, but recover over time if it turns out to have some merit. (My fascination with capability based security falls into this niche)

Something non-obvious, but informative, tends to get a bit of upvoting.

The rare really good point that builds discussions... those get rewarded richly.

So, the moderation system, as near as I can tell, works as intended. The feedback cycle takes a while to train us for better behavior, but it seems to work.

You do have to weigh all of the above, against the factors that overcome inertia, and lead to someone posting.

Most people reading are likely to see something expressed at least as good as they would, and thus just lurk.

It's only when you've got a nit to pick, or an interesting tangent, or need to self-promote, that people tend to post. These are the forces always pushing against moderation.
> Damn near everything has side effects.

Maybe that's true, I don't know. But it's worth noting they did not say it had no side effects, it was that they weren't aware of any ill effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission

Check out the article for each mission for a high level summary of at least some of the findings.
I desperately miss my HTC touch Pro two and its slider keyboard. It was a dream.
Crop and Lock (Powertoys)
…"crop a current application into a smaller window or just create a thumbnail…".
This is a great idea, and it looks really useful. Is there anything comparable for MacOS/Gnome, etc.?
The vast difference in editing things on a MicroPC with its touchpad and physical keyboard versus a phone is immense. I'm pretty sure I can legitimately type faster and usually navigate UIs faster on a capacitive touch phone, but the frustration of typing and targeting the cursor is unbelievable even after having used smartphones for over a decade now. It's just bad.

It is amusing that it's hard to convince people this is a problem, but I sort-of understand. Over time people have learned to just, not edit text on mobile. There's relatively powerful versions of office suites on modern mobile OSes, certainly more powerful than Windows CE devices that had full keyboards would ever ship with, and yet most people don't even really consider doing much on mobile other than sending messages and taking notes, two things that rarely require dragging the cursor. When editing things you quickly type out, gestures like dragging the spacebar to move the cursor around is usually "good enough" for making small edits to fix typos or change the wording, which makes it feel like a non-issue.

On Pinephone with Squeekboard, I greatly miss the ability to drag on the spacebar to move text, and even slightly miss the ability to swipe across keys to type. And yet, the weird thing is, even though text editing on Phosh is significantly less refined than either Android or iOS... I ultimately don't have much harder of a time doing it. And I think that speaks volumes on its own.
Seems like a product that would be difficult to monetize even with a patent as the bacteria outcompetes other oral microbiota. Which would make it just as possible to be treated via a nice deep tongue kiss. (Or you know, less grossly rinsing then getting swabbed with a sample from someone else).
It's extremely difficult to prove anything in education research, just like any kind of sociology or psychology research.

Humans aren't like bowling balls dropped from towers, they're very non-deterministic, and the number of background factors that every individual has makes it very difficult to make federal statements.

Source: current ed research master's student.
Wait so are you trying to add a .5px outline, or a 2px outline?
Not invisible for me. I do occassinally enter moderate amounts of text 3-4 paragraphs). I also like to iterate on my texts, so I do a lot of editing and entering at the same time.

The points mentioned in the article are painful, but something I could get adjusted to and get better at with time. There are a couple of things for me though, that I just can't work around, and which are subsequently the biggest pain points for me. These are: lack of vertical space in landscape mode and broken text selection feature. Let me elaborate. Note that I own a google pixel phone, so can't really speak for iphones or androids from other companies.

Pixels gravitate towards long and narrow displays. This can be great for portrait mode, but sucks for landscape most of the time. The issue is made so much worse that neither OS or most apps seem to try to optimize for this mode, further wasting the space available. For example, I'm typing this post in Firefox on my phone right now. About 1/3rd of the screen is taken up by the keyboard. This is fine and is actually the reason I use landscape mode - bigger keyboard allows for faster typing. Another 1/3rd however is taken up by a combination of notification bar at the top, gesture hint bar at the bottom and firefox's address bar. With some manipulation you can make the adress bar go away, but the other two bars can not be hidden on pixels period. Perhaps the biggest frustration is the fact that the "fullscreen" mode I want is already implemented on Android for games and such, there's just no way to turn it on for firefox in either the app itself or the OS.

Text selection tends to be broken when selecting several paragraphs of text, especially when selecting existing text from a web page - the teardrop just jumps around violently not letting you to put it where you want it. Sometimes you can wrestle it with multiple attempts, but other times it just won't let you leaving you with the only workaround of selecting in smaller blocks.

This reminds me there actually was one somewhat recent improvement to text editing on androids from few years back: ability to move cursor by sliding your finger over the space bar. That eliminated one big pain point I used to have.
And I think that this is bloodthirsty evil.

Sure, the author wrote why they believe what they do. That's not itself evidence that they are right in their beliefs.
The curious case of DMT and a man with a brain tumor
On one hand, a small difference in the reproduction rate of two similar species competing for the same resources leads to extinction of the slower reproducing one in not so many generations. Even without hostilities.

On the other hand, Spainiards and Portuguese killed around 90-95% of the indigenous population when they conquered South America. Contemporary Homo sapiens seems to be a rather aggressive monkey horde.

Choose your odds. I think it was a mixture of both.
You were downvoted because your comment showed you didn't read the OP article, which answers your question thoroughly
It's not unique but only apt as libertarianism advocates for dominance of the strongest
> The quirk here is that India and many Hindu nationals disagree that this is all he was doing, and they instead basically brand him as something closer to a terrorist responsible for murders.

It seems you are ignorant of the history behind this issue. The Khalistan movement wanted to stay in India and get special status (like J&K did which was removed later). If these powers were not granted then they wanted to secede. The Union of India happened with a lot of effort. Nearly everyone wanted a special status (and politically there are still fights for special status of different kind but no one threatens to secede). Even J&K special status nearly fractured the ruling party (Congress which is not "Hindu nationalist party" as per today's Western agenda) with many leaders refusing to be part of it. Khalistan had no chance and wasn't granted that exception too. They took to arms and captured the Golden temple.

It was the Congress leader which had ordered an army attack on the Sikh sacred ground - The Golden Temple in Amristar. When the Air India bombing happened, even then Congress was in charge.

The larger point is that West is ignorant of India's concerns. Previously, it was an issue of "botched" investigation and Indian justice and legal system. Now the garb is "Hindu nationalists".

At the end there is always some story about "freedom of expression" as well. It is nothing new.
Any time you see "forbes.com/sites", keep scrolling - they'll let anybody who can fill out a form and pay a fee become a "contributor".
Who said anything about the state claiming ownership of this software? That's a huge leap of logic. We are talking about removing the state's power to use secret software at trial. This is a restriction on the government, not on the software authors. The authors have the right to write whatever software they want. They have no right to have the government use their software at trial.

We have pretty good proposals to deal with this problem. I think the following seems sensible:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/4368

>Partially because fringe people who want to change the law make terrible legal arguments

No one has ever changed the law to benefit the rich, no sirree.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/77/To...

It is our current system that is fringe. Copyright is practically permanent when compared to a fleeting human lifespan. Even when copyrights eventually expire, trademarks function as "a species of mutant copyright" to keep works protected forever. Companies like Disney profit off our shared heritage and then lock it in their "Vault" forever. The way human culture has worked for hundreds of thousands of years has been derailed within just the last few generations.

Radical changes to line the pockets of the owning class are sensible and legal and moderate, but wanting even the smallest change to prevent the slaughter of innocents by the Abbott regime is fringe.

Note that I don't necessarily disagree with you that reformers often make bad legal arguments. Making good legal arguments requires good lawyers, and only the rich can afford good lawyers.
When your Maytag dishwasher breaks after a month, do you think the best thing to do is to buy a Maytag washing machine?
Can evolution be attributed thought or more generally consciousness?
> So, the physical knots you might think of being useful in various situations have only somewhat of a relationship to mathematical knot theory.

No, you can map real world knots to mathematical knots. It is explained in the video, with common examples. You can also map the other way around, but there's way more mathematical knots (prime and non-prime) than people could ever need.