skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linux (the kernel) doesn't claim (AFAIK) to use UTF-8. It takes NUL-terminated strings in any charset you choose (or none) and either compares them with other NUL-terminated strings, or spits them back out again later.

Interpreting a string as encoding text in particular character set is, as far as the kernel is concerned, a problem for userspace.

Windows does make claims of "supporting" UTF-16.
I drink a lot of acidic sodas, but I've never had a cavity as an adult.
Holy shit man you used to get one new cavity a year??
I'm not disagreeing with you. This was a very bad idea.

But I was a few hours away from becoming a parent, hadn't slept much in days, and was not thinking very well.

Sub-optimal decisions were made.
I tried t9 when I in the name of simplicity went for a Nokia candy bar. It was utter shit. I think it only worked because there was no good alternatives back then.
You don't know what you're talking about and provided no evidence. Pumped energy storage goes up to 80%+ efficient and is extremely scalable.
They might have, you have no way of knowing whether the factory in which they were made used PPE or not. If they were cheap, probably not, if they were expensive, maybe, or maybe the manufacturer was just pocketing more profit.
> Estimated price point:
> $20,000/dose

Dammit, this will make Martin Shkreli feel like a petty shoplifter. I hope biohackers will soon pirate those bacteries and sell to everyone in need.
Luxembourg certainly is.
This may be true, but it's the wrong straw man to attack in this debate. The real argument for censorship is to eliminate flooding the media with deliberate misinformation in favor of some actor who is doing it on purpose to influence the real world.

I believe if we had had a system in place to censor unscientific information regarding climate change, we would not be in as deep shit as we are now. It's a very strong argument for moderating what can and cannot be said publicly, as the negative consequences will be felt dearly by many.

Obviously there are problems with censorship, but I just want to point out that nothing about this is as clear cut as you would like to believe.
uBlock Origin filter:

newyorker.com##[class*="PaywallBarWrapper"]

Stylus:

@-moz-document domain("newyorker.com") {
[class*="PersistentTopWrapper"] { position: static }
}
> Our ISPs had metered traffic (traffic that went out to that external monopoly)

I remember hitting FTP sites that would check to see if you were in Australia or New Zealand and would bounce you out if you weren't. Some of the earliest form of "geolocation". A popular Linux or w4r3z release would drop and you'd always know you were in for a long night when only the .au servers were replying...and turning away your login.

It reminds me of the joke poem:

"A host is a host from coast to coast,

and nobody talks to a host that's close,

unless the host that isn't close

is busy, hung, or dead."
The articulation political landscape in the US is excessively reductive. "Conservatives", usually referencing social conservatives and often implying Christianity, are not small government people. They're currently allied with the small government people in a coalition that constitutes the current base of the Republican party, but conservatives and small government libertarian minded people are two different constituencies. They might overlap a bit, you get some religious people with a live and let live mentality or a social conservative who believes that social structures should be enforced by community rather than law, but they're distinct ideologies.

It's like how everyone says liberals are socialist progressives. They're usually not, but the two groups form a coalition that constitutes the base of the Democrat party.
Do you know the thing with horses and donkeys?
Wonder if they're able to follow up with most of the people inoculated back in 1985, and find out how they're going now?

Seems like an obvious thing to try, but am not seeing anything along those lines.
Show HN: TypeHub – A new SDK as a service platform
Hey all, my name is Christoph and we have just relaunched TypeHub https://typehub.cloud/ as general platform to quickly build SDKs in multiple programming languages for your REST API, in this sense it is a SDK as a service platform. Besides generating the SDK we provide a GitHub like flow to evolve your API specification, this means that every change is tracked as commit and you can create a tag to create a final release, it is also possible to submit a pull request to change an existing spec. We are still in an early stage but I like to share our current state.
Idk why the seeming schadenfreude. There seems to be this ridiculous idea now that no nation can possibly grow or shrink and that no new nations can break off or form, but that we must stick with the current set of nations and their boundaries ad infinitum. I don't get it.
It's been like 10 years since experts declared this stuff junk science and they still haven't vacated/retried all those cases? Just goes to show you how lazy DA's can be.
As I understand it you left off the key reason why symbiosis is a stable state for a parasite/symbiote: because other states tend to destroy the host, causing the mutated strain to (usually) have a harder time propagating. That's all well and good when you're looking at evolutionary theory writ large, it's less appealing when you're talking about sticking a new bacteria in a specific person's mouth.
> one on most years

What?! Did you never brush your teeth or something? That's an insane rate.
Windbird: Open-source and open hardware self powered wind station
Off-topic: I want to murder the person who removed the beautiful magnifying glass in iOS when manually dragging a text and replaced it with some garbage mini reticle that often bugs out and disappears if I am dragging on multi-line text >:(
Suggesting any negative consequence was retribution would imply that simply sending someone to prison was also retribution and thus the death penalty was unnecessary.

The argument was one for the proportionality of death for death, but death wasn’t the only harm. That’s an inherent contradiction in the argument being made. You can’t argue an unequal punishment balances the scales here.
What is the standard to be used by a court sitting in appeal on issues of fact not presented at trial to a jury of a defendant’s peers when throwing away that jury’s verdict?
I highly doubt you'd be taken less seriously. Your degree is also close and relevant to programming from my experience, even if it doesn't directly give you a lot of coding experience.

I've worked with electrical engineers who went straight into programming after they graduated, and they were good. Where I'm from the engineering degrees always seemed a little more brutal than a regular comp sci degree. I notice those engineers have no issue learning anything new
Or, to sum up in a pithy sound bite phrase: labels might describe people, but must never define us.
Was Mark Twain broadly painting an ethnic group with a negative brush to achieve a good story?
Is this something that we can facilitate through IH or elsewhere? I am on the other side - not good enough of a dev but plenty of experience on the biz side.
Ask HN: Small Developer Attempting to Verifying Large Corp Stats
General Question: Being a small app developer (like 1-5), how do you verify anything Google (or any FAANG frankly) tells you?

Bgd: Made a few apps. Tried them out on the store. Found that the stats looked "suspicious." People do not even accidentally find my apps. Back in 2021, humans apparently download 111.3 billion mobile apps. Not mine. At least based on the stats Google shows me. Google says I had ~10 downloads over the last 3 years, and ~100 looks ever (mostly spike on release and then no looks ever again).

Honestly, maybe the app store situation is just horrible, and with 3500 apps a day, there's no reason to ever waste months making anything unless you've got deep advertising pockets or an already known brand. I have already mostly gotten out because of the "Update Your Target API" issue.

However, had a similar issue with YouTube. Made videos in recent news topics with limited obvious competition (searched to see if there are many others). Nothing. Not even accidental hits.

So how do people who are not major publishers actually figure out whether Google is unfairly hiding your app? Or in the really dystopian version, how do you verify Google is not just totally falsifying ad clicks? Or if you're a small musician/content creator, how do you verify there's actually any "competition" and its not just Google/Spotify/iTunes picking winners?

Since if I really just wanted to cheat and milk people for money, I would charge ads, make a botnet to click the ads I want to have pay me, and then charge everybody a bunch of money. And now the WWW is apparently >50% bots...
I can’t that you seriously - what other fear could possibly be more valid?

Death is the end of EVERYTHING for an individual. What could be worse than that?

Everything else, we can figure out for ourselves, given time - pushing back death gives us more time.
Are you good about brushing your teeth and flossing on the regular? Having lots of sugar isn't what causes cavities, it's not keeping up your dental hygiene. So if you eat a lot of sugar but brush well on a regular basis, I would expect you to not get cavities.

Genetics play a role as well. My mom never got cavities despite never brushing her teeth, whereas my dad could brush pretty regularly and still have a cavity or two when he got checked up. Sadly I inherited my dad's genes, not my mom's.
> last several years

Velvia film has a reputation for producing very saturated photos, so this has been going on for a long time.
> They also discovered what happens in a libertarian world when someone stronger than you wants your stuff.

Libertarianism requires a government to protect property rights.
Doesn't the original sentence cover your concern? "Learn how you learn."
Except that Linux does support several filesystems that do claim to store the filenames in a specific encoding and therefore the kernel must do conversion. Mostly Windows FSes, but nowadays case-insensitive ext4 also applies.
Propublica also had a pretty great article earlier this year on the topic as well. https://www.propublica.org/article/understanding-junk-scienc...
Maybe. You could possibly now fall foul of certain alcohol production laws....
So Canada has 1/10 the population of the US and 1/20 the population of undocumented immigrants.

So seems like Canada has many fewer immigrants of this type than the US.
Reckon it'll generate enough revenue for a practical military force?

If not, they're likely just wasting their time and effort.

That aside, they'll need to be prepared to add other civilisation fundamentals as well. eg police, emergency services, medical facilities, etc.
> invented to garner sympathy

Or, worse, invented to garner sympathy by piling on demonization onto another group. These are not victimless crimes.
For this particular example, I think there were worthy contenders in the era, like Minix, GNU Hurd, BSD etc. So it was rather a sum of unpredictable contingencies (in the philosophical sense) that made Linux the thing that was to be, rather than any substantial merit of its inventors; much like Facebook won the social network race by simply being lucky to launch in a cool, selective and influential community.

But in the general case, I do not claim that the world works according to a pre-written script, on the contrary, if you act with a sufficient magnitude of power, I think you can alter it deterministically. Rather, I point out the immense inertia and active opposition by the powerful to you world-altering attempts, to the point where any low power action is more like playing the lottery. You might be lucky to get the that one in a million chance, but you likely won't.

If you organize your attack carefully, amass capital, workforce, hearts and minds, etc., you drastically improve your chances of success, up to the point when your reach Elon mode: you simply wish a product or thing was real, and an entire army of people shows up ready to implement it.
> launched my first SaaS 3 months ago, and got zero users

I couldn't find a link to your SaaS from your website.

Maybe you should put a giant button linking to the SaaS, put it in your Twitter bio, pin a tweet to it, your HN bio and every other place that you can think of. Assuming that's something you want to promote more than all the other things on your website.
Yes! Rinsing your mouth REGULARLY after meals does a lot to prevent further cavities. Also a diet high in animal meat and fats (cheese, butter etc.) helps strengthen teeth https://www.healthygoods.com/blogs/news/dr-weston-prices-die...

And cutting out sugars - especially fructose - avoids diabetes. Some people who are lactose intolerant cut out lactose, and some people prone to celiac disease cut out gluten. Sometimes the simplest solutions, done consistently, are best:

https://aeon.co/essays/sugar-is-a-toxic-agent-that-creates-c...

As for toothbrushes — if you are worried about microplastics you can get this:

https://www.amazon.com/Bamboo-Toothbrush-Adult-Size-Pack/dp/...
I'd rather pay Valve 30% and put up with their de facto monopoly than help Epic
America and trains: the little engine that could ?
It was deprecated seven years ago - and even making it from iOS 9 to iOS 10 needed an update to request permissions.

Deprecation is an announcement that "we aren't supporting this and it may stop working someday without warning". Someday has arrived...
I honestly can’t think of a dumber take.

Longevity isn’t really about adding more years. No one wants to live another 10,20,30 more years how we currently do. But, if you can improve everyone’s health span, the amount of healthy, able bodies years, why wouldn’t you? It would be a great relief to our health care system. People can spend more time doing what they love without worrying about their body giving out on them.

Being someone who lost two immediate family members before 30, I’d do anything to have had them live longer and healthy instead of watching the slow and fast decline of the human body.
2/2

Finally, whether or not it's tidal forces comes down to an interpretation of how one decomposes the Riemann curvature tensor. In some ways, the Weyl tidal tensor part is good for understanding the disc's warping and tearing. However, if one decomposes the fluid into a zillion particles of dust, this approach seems (to me) to be less intuitive (and certainly harder to compute) compared to the GRMHD approach in the paper. Additionally, for these effects the black hole's spin parameter is more relevant than the black hole's mass, and notably the paper is concerned about quasars and other active galactic nuclei, which implies supermassive black holes, so the tidal tensor will in general be quite gentle even at the ISCO.

For none of the above do we need to know anything about the microscopic states within the horizon. This is entirely about solutions to the geodesic equations and equations of motion in the spacetime outside the horizon, and matter-matter interactions of disc material (or "figure-skater-like spacecraft" material).
Why are you assuming I'm concerned?
I think that may have been true in the past but recent cases in front of the SCOTUS is setting precedent that stare decisis (and other forms of precedence) doesn't matter much any longer in the US court system.
My understanding is that you got it backwards.

As far as I understand, the claim is that internal head/brain/eye trauma can have many causes, so these symptoms do not automatically mean that the baby was necessarily shaken. Sadly, this combination of symptoms have been named "Shaken Baby Syndrome", which means that people naturally assume that the baby has been shaken, which is apparently a crime in Texas.

Had this same syndrome been named "Guthkelch Syndrome", or anything else, the man currently on death row might have been deemed innocent.

I, for one, find this scary. Just as (in a very different domain) the "movie piracy == slavery" equation I've seen float in Blockbusters many years ago. When people who don't know better start believing in names/PR/..., this can have very real (in this case, deadly) consequences.
> but they really are terrible computers

except for bottom-of-the-barrel androids, most drcent smartphones cost equivalent to a decent computer. I refuse to accept the garbage UX on an equivalent device which charges me such money and then dumb it down with tracking and ad shenanigans over usefulness.

P.S. My own opinion and it is very OK to 150% disagree with me.
This definitely can’t be true. There are too many spaces that cannot be reached mechanically.
This is by far the best LLM user tutorial I've seen.
I seem to have an entirely different opinion of philosophy. Your take is: we shouldn't take philosophy serious? It's just a bunch of random ideas that sometimes help you think in another way? That would explain the esteem for Heidegger and Derrida.

Unfortunately, someone posted a list of articles written on panpsychism. It's really well beyond "your" style of philosophy. And people in all kinds of branches of science (used to) apply Derrida's ideas. So when the original comment wrote "a respectable philosophical theory", I didn't take it to mean: a toy for the empircally challenged.
>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.

Like what?

>I would want to see significantly more work done to demonstrate the scientific validity of this research.

Like what?

Educate the layman instead of saying this is no good, please.
Any thoughts on brushing with a concoction of peroxide and baking soda as recommended in this yt video?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cow6wNRJqoo
Shocker! touch is not the best at complex and precise input. But it’s great for general purpose use and buttons. Problem is we all at some point in our day, week, month need to do something complex on the touch device, which becomes a challenging task and experience.
See also John Grisham's piece on this case : https://www.wsj.com/articles/texas-may-execute-a-man-based-o...
Full of critics in here. I’m not sure what service these “analysts” think they’re providing but it is so annoying to read these pompous critiques: dude I’m happy I’ll choose one as my wallpaper and dream that I’m special because I found this special photo from a special artist that decided to give his work away for us to enjoy? Wtf are these people rambling about! Enjoy the gift, or not, but please stfu… people aren’t looking for a review to a freebie.
Without your countries army, another army will come in. Kill or resettle your family to some shitty outback place and settle their own people on your property. Your property is acquired under your current government and your property rights is only valid under said government, another government can just rewrite the rules as they please. There is no such thing as "natural property rights".
Yeah this isn't a faster alternative to current options without recurrence.

If I have the method correct, it looks like they set constraints and try to guess the computation performed with Newton's method. The guessing can be parallelized.

Technically it's not guaranteed to converge and non trivial computations may not be faster than sequential methods(or may not be reached at all).
Wait I thought you hated government? Western Europe is privileged because government enforces regulations.

It works really well, you should come by and check it out. Get in touch, I'll find you a place to stay.
Electricity could be the main problem. Starlink would probably be a practical internet provider though, rather than needing to go through a neighbouring country directly.
Very bad advice, as the brushes need to have specific sizes suitable for the spaces and the bristles actually reach more spaces and remove plaque.
However, someone could manufacture the brushes from natural hair, e.g. from pigs as with other kinds of brushes.
>What’s the point of the research if it’s not aimed at shipping anything?

research!
T9 was so terrible I didn't use text messaging until I got my first iPhone.

Actual Keyboard >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Touch screen typing >>>>>>> T9
Asking me to come into the office extends my workday by three or four hours, and when I’m at the office and not collaborating it’s just a stream of distractions; constant motion in my peripheral vision, people on calls, it’s a busy place!

From my perspective WFH saves me so much time, money, and stress that I’d be insane to not insist on it. Why would I read a study that doesn’t take my perspective into account?

WFH saves me tens of thousands a year. Any conversation that ignores the financial impact of return to office from my point of view is worthless.
Argh, I was.
Thanks.
It costs a ton of money to bring a treatment to market, and this one has roughly zero commercial value. Presumably once in the world it would naturally spread just by people kissing or whatever.

I don't think it's totally impossible that this really works and everyone gave up on it.

But I'd probably still put my money on this not really working (or having unwelcome side effects) and people quietly shutting down the project without publicly documenting the issues.
Strawman: you're conflating and confusing energy storage with generation. They're entirely different. Texas alone deployed multiple multiples of 100's MW solar generation facilities that kept the lights on during the hottest heatwave in a century. Renewables account for 1/3 of all energy produced in the world now. Decarbonization of most major centralized pollution sources is achievable within 15 years.

And wherever there is a hydroelectric generation dam, there is also a "battery" that can run generators in reverse for PES, e.g., it is both generation and storage.
GlazeWM 2.0: A tiling window manager for Windows 10/11
Not any longer, pediatric scientists/doctors are the last hold outs (most likely because they will have to eat some crow over it), others have considered it as debunked as junk science, making it highly questionable.
Yeah basically the same for me - I had a couple in my baby teeth, but I’ve never had a cavity as an adult.
Rethinking the dining table chair for an aging population (2021)
"FIPS is the answer to the question, 'How can we force all cryptographic software to be approved by a government committee?'" [1]

Here's your reminder that even if FIPS itself isn't evil, it moves in evil circles with evil people. [2]

[1] https://twitter.com/matthew_d_green/status/41279364233232384...

[2] https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1433451378391883782.html
What exactly was "missing" before this? I've been perfectly happy with GraphiQL for years and don't immediately see anything particularly desirable that Pathfinder adds.
I've spent a bunch of time over the last couple of years working on learning and enablement programs. The main thing that I've learnt is that nobody likes the bulk of online learning efforts: dated videos with forced Q&A interspersed.

I've got a strong hunch that learners have an overall learning modality: some prefer video, some prefer audio, some prefer long form text, and so on, but--there's also a local preference based on their current context: you might have a stronger preference to video for commuting or perhaps you like to print out materials and read it.

Finding ways to allow learners to come along their own journey that meets them where they are right now is key to generating better outcomes.
The vehicle started to cautiously roll forward, then
the people got impatient and cut in front of it, and
this caused the vehicle to think it was doing something wrong.

"Think"? There's no "think" involved here; rolling forward when there are pedestrians on the road isn't legal no matter how much they're "jaywalking".
Then atleast use JSDoc. Type definitions greatly help the users of your package.