skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Associate administrator for NASA sworn in on Sagan's “Contact”
I've looked at clouds from both sides now

From up and down, and still somehow

It's cloud illusions I recall

I really don't know clouds at all
meh. Maybe not AWS this time...
The other day while eating food I had delivered from a restaurant, I found a small piece of plastic mixed into it, about half a square centimeter. Pretty lucky to have spotted it, mixed in amongst multi colored rice and whatnot. It almost certainly would not have caused me issues, but I still do not like the idea of eating it. Encountering things like this makes you think about how many similar cases you don't notice.
Check out the picture.

Originally from https://fosstodon.org/@ovid/111130168530816021
Two points:

1. Lawsuits are completely irrelevant to what is actually causative. E.g. there is essentially no evidence silicone breast implants are carcinogenic, but that didn't prevent implant manufacturers from going bankrupt due to legal judgments.

2. From your own link: "The studies in people are observational. Some conditions that might prompt acetaminophen use during pregnancy, such as fever and severe infection, are themselves associated with autism and ADHD in children." Observational studies may be a good point to start further investigation, but given how many observational studies have been thoroughly debunked from a causative point of view, they should be completely ignored as evidence IMO.
Yes, because the hallmark of great satire is that you cannot tell.
I think it feels weird and counterintuitive because `form-sizing: normal` looks as if it means, 'I want this to behave the way form elements behave by default' (i.e., use the normal form sizing). I would 100% expect `normal` to be the default value for `form-sizing`, as it usually is for other properties. Instead, if I understand correctly, this "normal" doesn't refer to the normal behavior of form elements but to the normal behavior of non-form elements. I would understand such logic if they had used `sizing: normal` instead. But for `form-sizing: normal` to not represent normal form sizing is just... weird.
well, if we are going the anecdata route i am 70 and childless and reasonably happy. i suspect i am not alone.
Internet has enough basic instructions that will cause things like release of chlorine gas...

Or various ways to electrocute oneself or start fires...
The US also has free schools, and unlike certain european countries they aren't divided into three tiers based on class.
I don't need the level of psychological assurance you do in life. I use judgement. I know my car works because my mechanic seems like he has his shit together and knows what he is doing. I don't get that impression from virtually anyone in the social sciences.
Yeah, though it seems reliably projected that population growth will stagnate. If the trend of developing countries lifting themselves out of poverty continues, we should expect it.

There are obvious policies we could reach for if we really wanted to improve the fertility rate, but it clearly doesn't matter that much. If Japan's leadership was so worried about fertility, they'd have better work-life balance by now. They do not care, because it does not matter.
Don't start a tech-enabled services startup
More like one of those reusable ones that contain 100x as much plastic
Isn't the primary reason to worry becuase our global economy is founded on debt? Debt only works if the future is more valuable than the present by at least the interest rate on the loan writ large across the global economy.

The easiest way to make sure the future is more valuable than the present is to have more people than we have now, more people working, more people generating value, more people consuming etc.

If there are less people then we need to find a different way to make the future more valuable than the present to pay off that debt.
Switching back to LG might be difficult; they are no longer making (Android) phones.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG_Electronics#Mobile_devices
There's a similar case ongoing in Spain [1], where some teenagers (13-15) created explicit images of some of their classmates and distributed them among friends. IMO it's pretty terrible stuff.

1. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/25/spanish-prosec...
Ah thank you, had to read up on odds ratio.

edit for those curious about odds ratio https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431098/#:~:text=The%20....
These will finally cross a (useless and arbitrary) gap we've been at the doorstep of for the last 3 CPU generations: having enough threads in a consumer class CPU to change the task manager from line graphs to bar graphs!

In all seriousness, what I like about AMDs approach with the high core count complexes is they aren't completely different cores like the Intel efficiency cores, they're just slower cores. I do wish they'd take that as an opportunity to go crazy with the primary cores though, doing something like 4 or 6 asolutely giant cores and 16 small cores to give it a bit more than a 15% boost for those things which can't take advantage of having a bazillion cores available.
SurrealDB Dependents
I saw person selling a copy with photo on top... Didn't check price as I felt it was going to sell for too much anyway...

I think there might have been lot of other questionable books too... But didn't try to find any.
> should I interpret this as you agreeing that you will force me to provide guarantees for open source software I do make?

Yes. However, the way you use the term "force me", at least to me, implies an unjust enforcement of a law, post-publishing that was not made clear pre-publishing.
If you refer to 1 case as "small sample size" you need to review all the research process in order to even start building your own opinion.
Yeah, seems like you could've benefitted from a union, back then. They would've at least negotiated severence while you were unconscious.

> A union only works if you were part of the union

Likewise, shoes only fit if you wear them, medicine only works if you take it, and wings only provide lift if you push air over them.
Japan is not on fire, and their GDP and population growth has been stagnant a long time. They have an aging population, but they won't live forever. Fertility rate could be trivially boosted through policy measures and we aren't seeing those, because they don't care.
Maybe govt owning transport infrastructure is not working or is not affordable. We grow up with what is around us, and that is what we know.

The Walmart parking lot is private and not paid by my taxes. There are solutions other than govt ownership, and some lead to more private property with allowances for public use.

If a coffee shop wants parking, maybe they should have their own parking spots rather than relying on govt to pave and maintain the parking spots on the street in front of the coffee shop.
A poorly-written, self-posted advertisement for a morally bankrupt service that offers zero novel engineering or business approaches and is still carpeted with the same slimy low-res banner ads as its competitors. Why is this here? Go shill it via some other mechanism designed for the losers who would use it.
Used Car Shoppers Now Have to Buy Cars Twice as Old Compared to 2019
Solving Sybils for any blockchain is kinda something rational, ethical cryptographers wouldn't want to do... but I'm sure you can pay someone to claim they've solved it.

I'm kinda okay with blockchains always remaining vulnerable and becoming relics of the past. It's all a scam. Not patching it.
As they should be. Product safety should never be reduced down to a cost of doing business.
Cool. I’d love to see a version for Tailwind!
It is doable, `folly::Expected` supports that: https://github.com/facebook/folly/blob/main/folly/test/Expec...
The end of the oil industry and trade lady's and gentleman. Sell your carb stocks now..
I mean, that seems super-reasonable, but I tend to open these sorts of things with "Either you think that the Earth can support an infinite number of human beings on it or you believe there is a finite number, and most of it is quibbling over the number."

And that number is going to be a function of lifestyle, or quality of life, or what have you. We can support an awful lot of miserable people with stunted growth from malnutrition in sprawling hovels, much more than we can of healthy people in nice homes who aren't miserable with hunger all the time. That appears to be the biggest slider on the carrying capacity formula.

I happen to think that the carrying capacity on the planet is quite low, about a quarter of a billion people. Yes, I am sure some Star Trek tech would raise that. It isn't something you can plan for or count on.

It is currently fashionable to sneer at Malthus, I happen to think that the main failings were his not counting on us finding exciting new ways to burn the future in favor of the present. Yes, we found an awful lot of ways to increase food production, ha ha, here's mud in your eye, Malthus! Now we're starting to wake up to the costs of that.
Why is this an archive link? The original article is still up; indeed, it's from yesterday: https://www.wired.com/story/a-revelation-about-trees-is-mess...
From the article:

> We don't know yet what types of cores these new Zen 5 core clusters will have. Half of Zen 5's core count could be dedicated entirely to Zen 5c efficiency cores, or the entire stack could be vanilla Zen 5 performance cores. It could be a mix of both since AMD's slides suggest that there will be different models featuring FP-512 support and some models with low-power cores.
Most lenders already know how risky a particular loan is. They know the predicted default rate and price the credit accordingly, including the sell-on value. Reducing the sell-on value won't make them "more careful", it will just make them price the credit higher.

That may make the very, very bottom tier of borrowers unable to borrow--maybe--but it doesn't prevent the vast amount of borrowers from getting a loan. It just makes it more expensive.
Google killing off HTML viewing in Gmail
Right now the problem with consumer grade CPUs from AMD is that you can't have 128 GB of memory running at full speed. You need to use 4 memory modules which means a lower speed.
From https://www.amd.com/en/products/cpu/amd-ryzen-9-7950x

Max Memory Speed
2x1R DDR5-5200
2x2R DDR5-5200
4x1R DDR5-3600
4x2R DDR5-3600

There's also the issue of ECC.
The new tasks people get from talking to each other are usually well within their job description. They are just new tasks, and neither developers nor middle managers are allowed to drop useless tasks just before something valuable appeared.

Either way, in my experience management consultants just add new useless tasks for everybody on that set. I have never seen them actually decreasing the number of tasks.
The Harvard Professor and the Bloggers
A great HN feature would be a link to a chatgpt chat, with the contents of the article loaded into the context, summary already generated. Some of these articles are five sentences of interesting information, hidden among five paragraphs of forced human interest.
Wow I’m sure someone that paid some money for an MBA and then stopped at the gate of an entry level position has expertise in this matter.
You wrote a very long and passionate love letter to the European process and how it's almost perfect.

And yet all those chemicals are allowed in Europe.

So what happened? Were they grandfathered in?
Tim Berners-Lee has been working on something very similar to what you’re proposing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_(web_decentralization_...
Ad blocking is a moral imperative. We should all do what we can to drive these advertiser profits to as close to zero as humanly possible. This will fix the web.
So now regular people thinking there are experts that know more than we do are becoming the new punks?
Generative models are still trained with real data. That output isn't really synthetic, it contains patterns from existing images of victims. Making that legal to share doesn't sound right.
Similar to what the sibling comment says, I was able to find a motherboard/CPU combo from Newegg 2 years ago when I built mine around a 3955WX. I'm not incredibly happy with the Supermicro board though and sort of wish I went with the Asus.
I have a 6A on T-Mobile. Exact same issue for me.

Do you use wifi calling when you are at home? It has been my experience that T-Mobile WiFi calling is absolutely terrible, and I've oftentimes wondered if something in the software "locks" into WiFi instead of switching to cellular data, until the phone is rebooted.
The Deep-Sea Debris Database
Beavers building dams is the amazing natural world.

Humans building dams is a sin against the natural world.
If he's not worth my time, then why are you carrying his water?
But the qualities of the song are not what make it popular. With "pop" music there are far more important forces at play, namely the quantity and quality of the song's publicity. One of the big things you get with a big time producer is big time connections and a lot of "airplay" in mixes, commercials, TV shows, etc. You also open the door for more collaborations with other popular artists.

Occasionally you'll have a song that breaks through due to sheer catchy-ness, but this is the exception rather than the rule.
> make deepfake technology so ubiquitous that everyone can plausibly deny that it's really them

This seems inevitable given the march of technology. Doesn't this also give plausible deniability to real child porn? This makes child porn laws unenforceable in many cases. Unless fake child porn is also illegal. What trade-off do we want there as a society?
Only if the top bit is set to zero, and there exist 8-bit representations of ASCII where that isn't true.
Just FYI, this study was funded by a controversial group called Autism Speaks [0].

Many autistic people feel that Autism Speaks is a hate group. Even among those who don't feel quite as strongly, it's still often considered a problematic group. Possibly akin to groups that used to want to "cure" homosexuality.

Among other things, Autism Speaks was a big advocate of the discredited theory that vaccines cause autism [1].

[0] See the funding statement in https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3772.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.325_135a
Privacy is ingrained into Canada's laws and can't be changed willy-nilly. It'll be interesting to see how we deal with it and the 'blabbermouth' nature of tech.
Philippines is the world's largest source of ocean trash. Even more than China.

The UN should start censuring countries which just throw their shit into the oceans.
If, to the best of our current knowledge, porn reduces rape, that is equivalent to saying that its absence increases rape. So we must ask ourselves: how many additional child rapes, per year, are we wiling to tolerate, to maintain a ban on fake child porn.
It's published in Nutrients.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDPI#Resignations_of_editors

In August 2018, 10 senior editors (including the editor-in-chief) of the journal Nutrients resigned, alleging that MDPI forced the replacement of the editor-in-chief because of his high editorial standards and for resisting pressure to "accept manuscripts of mediocre quality and importance.
We are witnessing a new step in human evolution to the Homo Dunningkrugerensis
You can use it in a commercial product, but if you distribute the commercial product it's going to require you to adhere to the GPL, which obviously has practical implications.

You can use it in an internal product that you use commercially, even if the program interacts with external users (e.g. web server) which is a big reason why AGPL exists.

Although, it's best to aware of what internal tools and software may require GPL distribution. For example it's the position of the FSF that distribution of internal tools to contractors requires adherence to the GPL.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#InternalDistributi...
Mushing your straw man around or elaborating on it doesn't change anything. Nobody criticized the ability to self-censor, but the inability to ever NOT self-censor.

It's like someone says "I hate being incontinent" and you reply with something about how getting rid of bodily waste is important and it's lethal if you can't. Or going the other way, someone complains about constipation and you helpfully reply that it's good that we don't constantly release bodily waste. Both true, but also 100% irrelevant to what you're replying to.
It's honestly embarrassing to see this article somehow climb to the top of HN. It's a mess of statistical bad practice, self-reported data, and potentially confounded or ignored variables.

Normally when I see a bad study there's like one or two serious problems with methodology, but when I read this through it's almost just every couple of paragraphs that the authors will say something or describe methodology that should be giving the reader pause. From literally the first paragraph in the intro:

> Changes in diagnostic definitions and guidelines and increased testing availability and funding have made major contributions to this increase in diagnosed cases; under the added impacts of changes in dietary, environmental, and other exposures affecting the intrauterine environment, ASD prevalence has reached unprecedented proportions.

Those two sentences contradict each other! You can't just tie them together with a semicolon like one thought implies the other. I'm not even saying that autism cases aren't actually rising at all, but you can't just go "our diagnostic criteria have changed; therefore environmental and dietary exposures are the cause." You have to actually put in the bare-bottom minimal amount of work to describe why you think that diagnostic criteria and social awareness aren't the primary causes, you can't just claim that changing diagnostic criteria itself implies diets are to blame.

It's unsurprising that somebody who would write this way would do bad statistical analysis.
You're thinking in absolute terms. I think that might be the source of the disagreement.

I am not advocating that it should be illegal to publish OSS unless you can mathematically prove it is faultless. I am advocating that if you are going to publish software for public consumption you better be damn sure it wont cause harm, because you will be (should be) accountable for any harm caused.
Agreed. Our attention is ours. It doesn't belong to these people. They are not entitled to it. They do not get to insert little brands and taglines into our minds without our consent.
> The EU wants to protect me, an EU customer, from vendors who sell software or software support contract but don't take cybersecurity seriously

No, the EU wants to make it illegal for you to buy what you want and instead force you to buy what they want you to have, or buy nothing.

Never mind the clear adverse affects of this law on small developers, who will find it difficult and expensive to navigate the new rules. This law will be a boon to big, expensive software providers who can dedicate whole departments to bureaucratic compliance.
I’m going to re:Invent for my second year and am excited to go again. I think https://conferenceparties.com/reinvent2023/ is a great resource too for night events, maps, and guides.

I’m very interested in event driven architectures and serverless development. If you are too, maybe we will run into eachother. I currently work in the GovTech space.
Discounts are anti-competitive? What?
Our planet was 20 degrees warmer overall that last time the CO2 levels were over 420ppm. And the level of rise over the recent past is totally unprecedented. Climate zones are moving tens of miles per decade north, far faster than forests can adapt. Things are going to get very crazy and the hunan population won't just decline gradually.
The Arlington Theater:

https://www.arlingtontheatresb.com

https://www.arlingtontheatresb.com/gallery?pgid=kxxp519a-a6f...
Matches what Richard Dawkins calls "the extended phenotype"

From wikipedia (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Extended_Phenotype ):

"Dawkins develops this idea by pointing to the effect that a gene may have on an organism's environment through that organism's behaviour."
How is this a recall? It sounds like if you're an early adopter all they're offering is a $100 discount on a new one.
You've posted this quite a few times previously [0]. While reposts are okay, has anything noteworthy happened to the product over the years? If it really was good, why isn't my dentist telling me about it? Seems like a dud.

[0] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=https%3A%2F%2Fblizzbrush.com
Perhaps they're trying to impress upon the population that wearing a helmet is an incredibly good idea, literally a lifesaver?
[1]. $1k, -95dB to 3GHz, in stock, manufacturer standard I/O plates sold separately. I think there's zero room for hypotheticals and challenges to talk about setting these up if you ask not webdevs but actual phone people.

1: https://jretest.com/product/jre-0912/
You already get that from weird "health" bloggers. What's new?
Education rather than policy might be the key ingredient
I have a Onewheel XR. Mine took a nosedive at pretty low speeds and I broke my arm. Onewheel blamed me, I had a lot of experience on the XR and a lot of time skateboards and skates. The device problems, I’m happy they are acknowledging that. I don’t like that it is a voluntary recall. I don’t want store credit, I don’t trust Future Motion or their products.
Why haven’t we heard about people using drones for bombing runs on their enemies’ lawns in retaliation for some grievance? This kind of feat does not seem out of reach for most hobbyists.
Russia May Annex More Ukrainian Regions, Medvedev Says
When I started in the industry, progressive enhancement as a concept was the theme du jour. As SPAs have gained prominence, I’ve sadly watched the drive to improve them and sometimes pushback against them morph this concept as it’s taught to newcomers into “No JS” or “low JS” as a side effect. It lacks nuance.

For example, your menus should work without JS but that doesn’t mean they should work as well as or exactly the same way as they do with JS disabled. There are many features and patterns that a11y/screenreader users (which I recognize I’m somewhat lumping in with the “I disable JS for X reason(s) crowd here) appreciate that are still impossible without JS. I’ve surprised people on a couple occasions by showing them how much JS is actually used to create many of the WAI-ARIA menu proof of concepts[0], for example.

I think the “a11y is easy” crowd, well intentioned as it may be, is also partially to blame for this. I’ve read articles with titles like “How to do X with CSS only” that gloss over many UX downsides to the chosen approach.

The sad reality is that a11y users represent another audience with a different set of formed expectations one needs to cater to, and fulfilling those expectations is not free more often than some would care to admit, especially when you consider how complex the differences in approaches between screen readers can be. This isn’t an excuse to not help those users, but I have wondered before if we would be doing better if we were more scathing in our commentary on vendor standards as it relates to this. Who knows? Perhaps I’m naive.

[0] https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/menubar/examples/me...