skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS

I was actually secretly cheering for that project, because I thought it could be actually innovative

But, as I look back on that with my modern understanding of Microsoft's backward compatibility focus, I realize such a thing would never, ever fly
It just seems like there should be some means to not let whomever wants to remove content for any reason they feel like.

I have sometimes seen "vouch" options but I guess maybe those permissions got removed. Because I ragged on the UK's fascist internet surveillance bill as horseshit, I think? So now I am unable to help others keep their voice. The systems here are undocumented & opaque & it sucks & is sad that hackers are subject to such unclear whims with no transparency & no way to negotiate for speech, of themselves or others.

Edit: I still have vouch options on some flagged posts.
Sounds like it's time to make your own certification. :D
Not surprised. Back in my artist days, the studio I rented was in a building with a countertop business on the first floor. The extent of their safety measures were blowing the dust out into the back alley. Most workers rarely, if ever wore masks, and the inside of the shop was absolutely covered in dust. The dust would make it up to me on the second floor, everything in my studio would accumulate a thin layer just a week or so after cleaning.

Wasn’t great but the rent was cheap, until it wasn’t
> (which can be disabled)

Wouldn't that break spectacularly? The whole "the fs is case insensitive" assumption has kind of been a given on Windows for about 40 years now.

I remember accidentally creating an NTFS flash drive with two names with difference cases in Linux. Windows programs sure didn't like that.
> What's the proper inference: that he kept going with bad parenting and escalated to murder?

The path is this: he is known to have shook at least one kid before, so maybe that's that happened again with the kid who died in his care. Doesn't mean there was an intent. Just that he shook too hard or the wrong way. So you ask a doctor you check for signs. Doctor says yup, totally SBS. The end.

At no point did he need to "escalate to murder", so there is no leap needed. It's all very straightforward.
>so it's not surprising that class didn't do as well as subsequent ones

But it also didn't do as well as the previous ones. I don't know when exactly YC got that "hit maker" reputation you are talking about, but S06 is an outlier regardless. The class directly before and directly after had failure rates of 29% and 38% compared to S06's 73%. The only classes coming close to the failure rates of S06 were in the lead up to the 2008 financial crisis.
Bypass the door switch on your microwave and point it out the window.

Works every time.
A NASA Spacecraft Comes Home with an Asteroid Gift for Earth
Thanks for flagging! We'll fix that.
I'm aware that passing a file name is a part of working with a file. I'm just skeptical that it's such a large fraction of the computation that optimizing it would provide a noticeable performance boost.
You're correct. It isn't a direct solution. For the most part, it makes the selection experience easier, which then makes the editing experience easier.

But I wouldn't underestimate how big a difference it is. One difference between a folding phone and an iPad, is that I can reach every part of my screen with my thumbs still in their resting position. It feels a lot more ergonomic to have an 8 inch 4:3 screen than a larger 16:10 screen that requires hands gymnastics to touch type.

Hold to select word. Drag to extend selection. Drag pops up the edit menu by default, which takes little screen real estate and zero additional clicks to do a cut/copy. Lastly, a cut/copy automatically puts the snippet as the top recommendation on my auto complete bar on the keyboard. So paste doesn't need triggering the edit menu again.

Samsung doesn't have a double tap experience. So it removes that ambiguity.

I have the stubbiest fingers I know and I type a lot ; as my HN profile bears witness. So I have heavily user-tested this experience that I claim to love so much.
Jeez - Sunstein has such great work in legal scholarship, but I guess power corrupts?

Even more surprising to me was Sunstein and his wife Samantha Power attending Henry Kissinger's birthday party after Power previously published a book basically pinning 150,000 deaths in Cambodia directly on him. They knew this guy is basically a war criminal and still went to celebrate his birthday.
But the situation at most email hosts is like this: they only support user/pass auth, no 2FA.
I am confused by the reaction to this. It seems like the only people adversely affected by this would be people who rely on borrowing others’ devices and therefore cannot use a native mail client.

The discussion here is centered on bandwidth and accessibility, and both of those problems are solved by using the mail client that (almost definitely) shipped with your device.
When we talk about "modern browsers", we're not talking about usage percentage, we're talking about browsers released in the past few years. If you need to support browsers older than that, that's great, but we don't call those modern browsers, that's legacy support.

Most modern browsers are evergreen, so targeting es2022 would be fine for most users. The exception is Safari, which is slower to incorporate new features and doesn't roll out its updates nearly as quickly as Chromium-based or Firefox, but even they have had es2016 support since 2016.
I wish it had an another sample return capsule, but at least it's going to get to poke Apophis with a stick and record the spectrum of what is thrown off.
Even though there are whistle-blower protection laws, they aren't good enough. No-one should fear risking their job when they stand up for their own health.

Management on the other hand should enforce masks as a means to avoid liability.
I have honestly no idea what you're saying isn't possible.

I've been writing a bunch of Rust code running in browsers, for work and play. I'm not futzing with the details, I just use wasm-bindgen and web-sys.

I've honestly never worried about garbage collection before, one of the professional hazards of working with a well-designed Rust API. I guess that web-sys provides types with a Drop impl that tell the browser side the object is dead.

> without having to manually mark as held and free.

I guess that's what you're worried about? It's never been a concern of mine. Maybe if one were writing WASM by hand?
Not entirely resolved. Some enclaves and exclaves were transferred but some still exist. A big issue is citizenship and relocation, respecting peoples prproperty rights and perceived nationality, and this is the most densely populated region on the planet. It's a messy situation along that border, thankfully not one viewed by the governments as contentious or worthy of conflict.
> OSHA had only 750 safety inspectors in place at the end of FY2021[0]

Contrast that with recent efforts to hire nearly one hundred thousand IRS agents to get a sense of the priorities of your leadership.

[0]https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/workplace-sa...
So what’s the difference between this and me just running postgres in a docker container and enabling these extensions?
Have you ever wore a respirator? Not a mask (which all already uncomfortable to wear all day), but the full respirator which is what is needed for this dust. I've done it for an hour when working with chemicals (different filter from dust, but otherwise the same) and I was glad to get it off.it is hard to blame someone for not wanting to wear them all day. They still should.

If you need to wear a respirator all day i'm told the most comfortable is an air supply and dragging a hose behind you.
I know someone that never eats breakfast. He does however eat a very big dinner and continue to eat late into the night.

Skipping breakfast is not necessarily a fasting technique, but a consequence of over eating.
Thanks for linking this -- ties into some recent interests of mine!
[dupe]

Discussion over here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37632729
If they do, then the connection will only work when hackers want to steal your trucks and fail when you need to monitor it.

There's a reason why we don't have people remote-controlling trucks today.
For example smoking, which is known to be unhealthy, has a relatively high correlation with skipping breakfast.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19638728/#:~:text=Skipping%2...).
It's pretty amazing they launched it to an asteroid, landed something on it, brought it back up, then flew it back to earth and managed to drop it within a specific small zone of the Utah desert. And then on top of that the spacecraft is going to continue on studying another asteroid.

I guess they figured out a lot of this stuff with the first moon rock samples in 1969 but still it's amazing thinking about all the moving parts.

They also apparently learned a lot from the failed solar wind sample return called Genesis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample-return_mission
To be fair you can't drop a caret (the edit cursor) into non-editable text in most desktop applications as well. And that's a missed opportunity there too. I think Chrome got less agreesive in changing your selection to match word bounaries, but it was very annyone for a while. I think you could void it by holding Shift, but that had some other side-effects in some pages.
You can do much better things in all that free time you get, but it is an analogy.
The Tragedy of Volodymyr Zelensky: Beyond the Ukrainian President’s Finest Hour
Please explain how "expert testimony has been widely discredited" doesn't count as new evidence?
If someone has three citizenships, what then?
Windows doesn't bother checking every string after every modification, but neither does Linux with UTF-8. You can pass invalid UTF-8 to tons of APIs and almost all of them will just work, just like you can with UTF-16 in Windows.

Doing a string validation check in every single API call would waste cycles for no good reason.
You seem to be conflating computing with mobile devices and that makes me sad...
Yeah, but it is kind of hard to do right and they are working towards it.

How would starting from scratch solve that?
I believe they use a GC, so they may be able to leverage the runtime to help out. If it's all type system-based, the compiler probably has to be stricter to ensure safety (Rice's theorem implies that compilers err on the side of rejecting some valid programs in order to reject all invalid programs). Maybe Pony could be a blend of Erlang and Rust?
Whereas in any thread about WFH it seems that 95% of HN has concluded that remote just really is the best. Case close. No further study needed. The only reason to think otherwise is corporate greed.
Your employer should provide you with all the tools you need to do your job safely.

Weirdly enough, that doesn't apply to car mechanics which seem to be dead set on bringing their own tools to work.
Sadly, the .hk kills it. I can't even look at the page, my corp network geoip blocks China's IP addresses completely.

Corp would never let a Chinese created device on network.
You can also cook food using sunlight. And yet I take walks and run in the sun and I feel perfectly fine.

Just because a 5G antenna can heat up humans around it by 0.00001C (I am guessing at the number of zeroes here), is in no way a valid argument that it is bad for us. A study would have to specifically link this kind of microwave radiation to some ill effects, at the dose of 5G installations in use today. As of now, no such study exists.
I would love if the photographer would make his RAW photos available. I love seeing different edits of a good photo. /r/EditMyRaw is a great subreddit for this.
How would hydration predispose to liver cancer?
> My guess is the industry just isn’t educating workers about the risks.

My guess is that the companies that did were undercut by the ones that didn't.
>> Adults in bad marriages do not make for good parents. Children exposed to abusive marriages are predisposed to considering abusive marriages normal, therefore perpetuating the cycle.

Do you believe majority of bad marriages are abusive?
It’s perfectly reasonable to argue you don’t want to waste time in prison waiting for a trial if you think the evidence is clear enough.

An appeals judge should be able to make that call the same way a trial judge can dismiss charges before trial. That appeals judge can easily say, it’s relevant but not clear enough for me to dismiss the case.

PS: Thus various standards of evidence “beyond reasonable doubt” vs “clear and convincing” vs “preponderance” etc.
Gross profit, operating profit or net profit?

If you mean the latter please show us some examples of public cos with a 90% net profit margin. I don’t think there are many.
> I dread opening the mobile version of google docs, sheets, or even Notes for anything more than a grocery list.

I dread it even for grocery lists. For one the apps (Notion, Google Docs, you name it) all give me a stupid splash screen when I tap them, and I have to wait 5-10 seconds to see content. We're in 2023. Splash screens should be unnecessary. Opening a piece of text should take no more than 50ms after the tap on the app icon.

About half the grocery stores I frequent have no cell phone signal. Why the HELL can't a device in 2023, with all the machine learning we have today, deduce from my GPS track and time/day deduce that I'm probably headed to one of several grocery stores, record that the last time said grocery store had no signal, and pre-download anything that looks like a grocery list, or hell, labelled explicitly as one? And do whatever rendering it needs off screen so that it's no more than 25ms from tapping the app icon to viewing it? It has a GHz+ processor, 90Hz screen, 25ms isn't a tall ask to render some text. 5-10 seconds? What are engineers busy doing?

And this is why I still use post-its for grocery lists.
Thanks for letting me know about the Unexpected Keyboard app. It'll take some getting used to, but having arrow keys and punctuation available without changing modes is pretty awesome.

I can even hit Ctrl-A to select all, Ctrl-C to copy, etc. This alone will help text editing on my phone.
Having GI issues that end up becoming cancerous is also associated with not feeling like eating in the morning because you have GI issues.

N=1 here, but I have IBD and immediate family history of rectal cancer, and I definitely feel the worst in the mornings. That kind of pain is strongly correlated with not wanting to put food in my mouth.
Ask HN: Is anyone pursuing longshot tech for recycling / remediating landfills?
I have had a lifelong interest in cleaning up trash—-something that’s probably rooted in deep-seated aesthetics and maybe a bit of OCD.

My first career was in standard finance/tech and left me with enough flexibility to try to do something I’m really passionate about.

I have rigorously followed the academic literature and commercial development of recycling tech. It has been a disheartening journey. Recycling doesn’t work as well as people think. Promising solutions like plasma gasification had lots of engineering and economic challenges. A recent push in Europe for landfill mining went nowhere.

What is really needed is a single stream solution where almost any material can go in the front end, and out the back end comes useful elemental products or inert products.

Is anyone working on long-shot technology that would do this? If so, I would like to network. I’m not interested in something to make incremental changes around the edges. I’m interested in the type of tech that would be revolutionary.
It makes sense temporally.

If you have a species that is intelligent and has the capacity to evolve to more and more sophisticated tool building, then that will build on itself. If life is so common that it has arisen independently on other planets in our solar system, it would be likely that these intelligent species would have arisen hundreds of millions of years before us.

And even if most don't advance to interstellar travel, it really only takes a few expansionary ones if they were sufficiently long ago that we would have seen evidence. Again, if life is so common it is on other bodies independently in our solar system, this should have happened probably.
There are all kinds of possible confounders or 3rd variables here, yes. This is more or less just a correlation -- it should not be read as evidence of causation.
skipping breakfast causes cancer? linked to obesity even? Did the study establish a causal relationship, or is it merely observing a correlation? A longitudinal study that tracks participants over time may provide stronger evidence than a cross-sectional study. Were other factors (e.g., smoking, exercise, diet, etc.) controlled for in the study?

sounds like bullshit.
Fun fact, what you call async is also widely referred to as coroutines. Stackless coroutines vs stackful coroutines seems like the most appropriate way to disambiguate the two.
This took me an unreasonable amount of time to find, but here it is

https://kenschutte.com/gzip-knn-paper2/

The moral: the methodology is cool, but implementation details matter, i guess...
Oppenheimer was based on “American Prometheus”, thus all the Prometheus references.
The first question is, do I have to? If not, then I will have to deal with all kinds of intermediate cases, say an industrial designer or film music composers. But ad hoc I tend towards making a difference and accepting that there will be a whole lot of cases that are not obvious how to deal with them. Sports professionals would be another tricky category.

I would say it lies in the nature of being an artist that the products are unique and unpredictable. Competition applies to a much smaller extent. You write one great novel at age 20, should you be able to live on the royalties for the rest of your life? In the end the consumer decides anyway, if they buy enough books at a high enough price, then you can.

As I wrote in another comment, there is also a moral aspect to this. If people willingly pay your subscription fee, then this is what it is. But do you find it good to sell your software at an inflated price in order to make yourself a nice life? How would you feel if everyone else did the same, if the supermarket staff would all only work half a day, make $45k a month and put the bill for that onto your grocery prices? I bet you would hope that competition solves the issue, otherwise your subscription income will no longer afford you a nice life.
how big do you have to be to get an actual OSHA inspection? I've worked in lost of small and medium shops of various kinds and the local fire department will show an interest sometimes, but I've never heard of anyone getting involved with OSHA for any reason.
"Global usage of messaging apps and statistics" - https://engage.sinch.com/blog/global-messenger-apps-usage-st...

If you are in a hurry: https://engage.sinch.com/sites/default/files/styles/x_large_...
Interesting, when I eat a larger number of smaller meals I do tend to be hungrier in the mornings.
>He was found guilty because multiple people in his life testified

Source?
Because except for a very rare few it’s just not a feature most people would use (the SOS satellite feature).
> C++'s filesystem package (part of the standard library) should take care of all that nonsense for you. It's whole point is so that you don't have to pay attention to format of the underlying filenames, directories, etc.

Unfortunately by default it doesn't, because the constructors which take `const char *`/`std::string` will default to the local codepage, instead of just using UTF-8. So you have to use `u8path` or C++20's `u8` string literals to get sane portable behavior.

So yes, you technically don't have to pay attention to the format, but as it is typical of many features in C++ the default is wrong, and you have to manually make sure you don't write code that's subtly broken.

(Or alternatively use a linter which would warn about this, but does such linter exist?)
> I would always add a fallback for a CSS variable, as a defensive CSS approach. You never know what could go wrong. Accounting for that upfront yields more future-proof.

God, I hate CSS. Why can't CSS come with static checks of variable and class names at build time like any other sane language? (Yes, I know there's no build time.) SCSS does solve the variables issue (at least as long as their value is known at build time) but unfortunately I still have no way to ensure my CSS will actually get applied to my DOM elements. So for the tiniest bit of sanity I already need JavaScript/TypeScript and some CSS-in-JS library.
Tax cheats are bad, actually. And those taxes are required to pay those safety inspectors, among others.
Knuth's 20 Questions for ChatGPT
You can remove these files using the command line by using the \\?\ syntax to bypass all normalisation and compatibility tricks Windows employs. Definitely works in CMD, never checked in Powershell (but I assume it works).

I've had a similar issue with a recursive folder and transferring it to another host in Linux. A megabyte on my machine filled up the server pretty quick.
Using cheap DIY hardware to supercharge vintage synthetizers [video]
The more limited C API (system calls) is also full of race opportunities. The windows file APIs are better, but not a lot better.

Anyway, the problem described in the post (scanning the string twice when converting) is as race prone, or not, as the the filesystem API.
Wasabi or Cloudflare R2 are probably better solutions as they don't charge for bandwidth.
I was interested, but also didn't want to scrub through a podcast. Summary:

Cass Sunstein was the administer of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs. The OIRA is given the remit to review drafted rules (ie regulations) that various federal agencies want to enact. The OIRA is supposed to perform an external cost-benefit analysis of the proposed regulations. OIRA is suppose to turn around rulings in 90 days.

While Cass Sunstein was administrator (2009 to 2012), various pieces of regulation were submitted for review, and ended up being reviewed for ~3+ years. Examples include:

* Requiring rear-view cameras (submitted for review in 2011, regulation finally passed in 2014 with a 2018 deadline for compliance)

* The silicosis workplace safety regulations (as mentioned - submitted in 2011, finally passed review in 2013)

* Coal ash handling regulations (from the EPA) delayed from 2009 to 2014

For the specific case of silicosis specifically, it doesn't appear that the OIRA ended up blocking the regulation, though it certainly slowed it down.

Some news articles:

* https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/white-ho...

* https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/usa-regu...

* https://www.theregreview.org/2013/11/26/26-verchick-silica/

It is worth noting that these delays continued after Sunstein left office, and there's certainly evidence of OIRA significantly delaying review processes prior to Suntein's term as administrator.
Unfortunately Instagram has become the primary vector for photographers to get their work out there, and the small size basically demands flashy over the top editing to get anyone's attention.
Not at all! Where do you get that impression?

Windows, macOS, and many Linux distributions ship with mail clients that you can set up to use with Gmail.

I wonder how many people on earth are accessing webmail from a device that does not have a mail client installed.