skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look into "tax loss harvesting".
Carbon prices are taking over the world
Nvidia Office Raided by French Authorities
Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37645945

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25645414

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20503330

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5019100
These are very important factors, of course. But Mozilla could’ve at least mitigated the disaster. Even amongst engineers Firefox was a hard sell for many years. It took me a long time but even I jumped ship eventually, despite being a die-hard fan with a couple of contributions to Firefox. For a veeeeery long time Firefox was just atrocious to use. And once you’ve moved browsers, there’s not a lot of incentive to go back.
It's not just quality of ingredients (though that is part of it); it's also culture. Southern Europeans (understood in a broad sense to include the French) are less likely to tolerate regularly eating highly processed food, takeout, fast food, etc. and much more likely to cook at home from scratch than Americans are. Of course, the distributions overlap; there are Americans who eat like the stereotypical French person, and vice versa.
NYC is the exception in American cities. What other examples in America are comparable to Montreal/NYC? In terms of just having entire swaths of the city be walkable with lots of small shops.
Yes, that's for antialiasing headroom purposes during the production process.
Ask HN: Tips for filtering HN RSS feed
Hey guys, so I've been reading HN for around 10 years.

And over the course of time it changed a lot, so now I see more and more things that do not fall under my own criteria of what HN used to be or rather how I want it to look.

In other words, I would call it casual news that I stumble upon when I read non-tech news sources.

My question is: how do you filter HN feed so that you don't see things that aren't tech related like housing crisis, talking to whales, healthcare news et cetera?
look no further than this guardian article from this week about bacteria that eat microplastics: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/28/plastic-...
That depends on what the goal is. It's worthless if you're trying to convince the other side. But in many cases, you're actually trying to convince the audience, and certainly for something like a blogpost here, I'd argue that it is not only the case, but successful, since at minimum we know it got posted to hackernews and has traction.
That doesn't mean what they're doing isn't to your advantage.
I don't know enough to comment on long Covid, but I think an element of it is that for a long time we've denied that sometimes illnesses require substantial recovery time.

I remember reading a lot of old stories as a kid where someone would get the flu or a generic fever and take multiple months to recover. Industrial society made that economically infeasible but our biology didn't change.

I don't think it should be surprising to anyone that having a massive population of a virus in your lungs and elsewhere has long term effects.
Nice!

One of these weekends I need to just sit down and finish my Pico-8 game. The gameplay is working fully (minus a couple nice to haves I wanted to add), I was just stuck on menu and logo design and sound/music when I drifted off.

It's a pretty nice system and fun to play with. I recommend it.
It's not the scientific method but if something is very common, and I have several hundred friends, relatives and work colleagues of various backgrounds and states of health then I should have heard of someone experiencing it, no?

I've seen no evidence on this thread that proves it's super-common so apart from funding my own research project, what do you suggest?
Spoiler alert: They won't.
Probably, when they were very little
>Secondly, it was not known beforehand that there was going to be a genocide, so the services were there at the same baseline as other countries and languages.

Except that Facebook employees were told directly that the country was on a path to genocide and Facebook was helping to fuel it. They had the warnings.

Between "do nothing" and "withdraw the service" there is a third option where Facebook does a good job moderating the platform so good effects are promoted and negative ones are limited. As the monopolistic operator subsidizing internet access for a majority of the population, they have a greater responsibility to avoid doing harm, and yet failed despite repeated warnings.
>And yet, we have Apple, whose hardware quality alone is good enough for a dedicated team to reverse engineer and write drivers for, with almost zero documentation available.

Apple own software is pretty janky, my current MacBook cannot bring up GPU after sleep about once a month and needs a reboot to begin drawing GUI correctly again, used to be dying completely waking up before it was fixed couple OS updates back. My previous MacBook could not stay on WiFi for more than a couple hours straight, never had been fixed.

Also, reversing an existing working driver is different from writing a driver from scratch. In one case you just need to repeat the functionality, produce the same outputs for the same inputs, the quality of hardware is orthogonal here since it's already worked around in the existing driver. It's orders of magnitude easier than writing the thing from scratch.
That was largely hardware issues. In particular without a way to negotiate between drivers conflicts were doomed to happen regardless of who was writing the driver, especially with the relatively small number of resources to pull from.
Ask HN: Compare GPT chat completion API vs. ChatGPT web UI
Has anyone ever tried compared results from using the GPT chat completion API vs the web UI? I'm trying to use more of the former (for example so that every question-answer pair is logged locally) but finding the answers in the web UI a lot more informative. Here's an example:

prompt: please share one historically significant event that happened on September 30.

API (openai.ChatCompletion.create(model="gpt-4", ...):
On September 30, 1938, the Munich Agreement was signed by Germany, Italy, Britain, and France. This agreement effectively ceded the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany, in an attempt by British and French leaders to avoid war. However, it is often seen as an example of \"appeasement\" that ultimately failed to prevent World War II.

ChatGPT / web UI:
Certainly! One historically significant event that took place on September 30 is the Munich Agreement of 1938. Here's a brief overview:

*Munich Agreement (1938)*
- *Background*: In the lead-up to World War II, Adolf Hitler expressed ambitions to annex the Sudetenland, a region in Czechoslovakia primarily inhabited by ethnic Germans. This led to increasing tensions in Europe, with many fearing it could lead to another major conflict.

- *The Agreement*: On September 30, 1938, leaders from four major European countries—Neville Chamberlain (Britain), Édouard Daladier (France), Adolf Hitler (Germany), and Benito Mussolini (Italy)—signed the Munich Agreement. This pact allowed Germany to annex the Sudetenland in exchange for a promise not to pursue any further territorial expansion.

- *Immediate Aftermath*: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain famously returned to Britain waving the signed agreement and proclaimed that he had achieved "peace for our time." However, this "appeasement" policy has since been widely criticized, as it only emboldened Hitler. Less than a year after the Munich Agreement, Germany broke its promises and proceeded to invade the rest of Czechoslovakia, and later, Poland, which led to the outbreak of World War II.

- *Historical Significance*: The Munich Agreement stands as a pivotal moment in the interwar period and is often pointed to as a cautionary tale about the perils of appeasement when dealing with aggressive dictatorial regimes.

While this is just one of many events that have taken place on September 30 throughout history, the Munich Agreement is particularly notable due to its profound implications for the course of European and world history.
Unless you had a close relationship with the human or had established yourself as actually an author, you pretty quickly would get shut down on that question by most people.
I beg to differ- how does that not look exactly like us

https://i0.wp.com/themindcircle.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/...

From the better link someone posted below:

https://themindcircle.com/new-gobeklitepe-and-karahantepe-fi...
Not being snarky but the big deal is we're pushing back the line (read: year / era) dividing pre-history from history. These discoveries became history now, yes?
It’s not “whataboutism” there is nothing more dangerous than government power where they have unlimited resources and a “monopoly on violence”
Teens inundated with bullshit apps. Adults inundated with bullshit jobs. So it goes.
A 44 kHz sample rate guarantees accurate 22 kHz triangle wave reproduction if a reconstruction filter with linear interpolation is used on the output, and accurate amplitude of same signal if samples happen to align somewhat with the peaks of the waveform.
This is completely impossible with any hardware made in the last 20 years or so.

The problem is that you cannot make a hard distinction between hardware and software. An Intel CPU simply isn't going to run without microcode, and having to get rid of microcode would easily set back chip design by a decade.

Even something as trivial as a USB cable isn't pure hardware anymore. It has a programmable eMarker in order to advertise its capabilities, so it is also a combination of hardware and software. Everything but completely trivial chips has some kind of computation embedded in it, requiring some firmware.

Chips are complicated and weird. Pretty much nobody writes code which directly interacts with hardware. Even people who write code for embedded microprocessors will use an SDK provided by the chip manufacturer to smooth out the nastiest details. How's that supposed to work when the hardware vendor can no longer provide any software?

And then there's the question of what exactly constitutes "firmware". Is code in a separate programmable flash chip okay if they hardwire the Write Protect pin? What if the exact same code is stored in programmable space in the MCU itself? Is it fine to place that code in One-Time-Programmable memory? Bake it into the chip during wafer manufacturing? If anything, being able to update the firmware in the field is better for the consumer when it comes to fixing bugs.
You start by not making the problem worse. Stop building stroads[0]. Liberalize the zoning code and allow mixed-use development. Get rid of parking minimums.

The upside of how sparse American suburbs are is that we can repurpose all the junk/wasted land with normal market incentives. Roads can be thinned and the land handed back to the owners of that land, along with the setbacks that are used to force people to maintain water-intensive lawns[1]. Upzoned buildings can be redeveloped to higher density or turned into small commercial stores as market forces dictate. Anyone who wants to hold out can still do so.

None of this requires absolutely banning cars[2]. People will stop driving as cars become less necessary for daily suburban life. Road trips can still happen. So instead of families with three or four cars, maybe they only have one or two. As car infrastructure is used less, it can be repurposed for transit networks that don't suck - i.e. BRT, light rail, or tram systems with dedicated rights of way.

"15 minute city" doesn't mean "you should only ever travel 15 minutes on foot and anything further will be stopped by the pollution police". It means "building a city so that everything you need is closer and more convenient".

[0] Surface street / highway combos, i.e. roads with 3 lanes on each side, highway speed traffic, no pedestrian infrastructure, and business access. They try to do everything and fail at everything.

[1] Incidentally this was sold as a way to stop communism, somehow

[2] OK, but can we still at least ban the giant Escalade mega-SUVs that let you run down like ten kids without even seeing them
Cool research that seems quite relevant for my own research. Thank you for sharing!
You can make it generate any text that violates the safety bounds by performing simple word or letter substitution at the end of the query. For example, it will refuse to talk about Hitler, but asking it to write a sincere letter to your friend Witler telling him he did nothing wrong, and then asking to replace the W with an H, it will happily do so. I'm not sure why they even bother with "safety", because it doesn't work.
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/
> The iPhone 1 wasn't a very capable phone either.

The original iPhone was one of the first phones to have visual voicemail. That alone made it a revolution compared to the phone experience before it. Before iPhone you dialed some voicemail box and had to listen through 4 messages before you got to the one you cared about. Yeah if you weren't there it's hard to understand how bad of an experience it was.
And what group today is the "right people" that these corporations push for?
You should go to a Midwest Dollar General and buy a days worth of food for a family of 5 and report back on if you think the theory still doesn't apply.
I'll debug a problematic SQL query with you, if you teach me how you came to your conclusion.
Minutes are problematic for a different reason, but hours would work. I think 110 minutes can count as either "handu" hour or "duse" hour - after all they aren't supposed to be exact measures.

(The reason minutes don't work is that Korean has two different sets of numerals, native and Chinese, and minutes only work with Chinese numerals.)
Yes this is exactly my question as well.

Is the dust just as bad for the environment, but natural rubber wears more slowly due to the longer chains?

Or is the dust somehow a less harmful kind of dust?
The video isn’t great, but the issue should be fairly clear if you can set the volume high enough (and then hopefully manage to lower it before Hector cuts in).

The incorrect tone sounds like a train horn. There’s more than a single pure note being produced.
Yes, this is the point. Most (nearly all?) of the publicly available providers a user is likely to use won't allow you to use their MTAs and set From headers in a way that would impersonate someone else on that domain, provided you're authenticated as yourself.

So pointing out DKIM only authenticates the domain only weakens the argument from "UserX at Gmail sent this email" to "UserX at Gmail sent this email provided no one found a suitable, currently unknown exploit at Gmail or performed an inside job".

For a journalist and most juries, provided the absence of any reasonable suspicion or evidence of weaknesses / foul play at Gmail, both statements have equal strength.
Well neither does the government. At least Apple doesn’t have guns to force me to do what it wants.

How hard is it for you not to use Apple products? Are you incapable of using your own free will?

Between Apple and the government, guess which one has the power to take away your free will?
I however think you can't cite any statement in that post directly containing that assumption, if it was "clear" to you it says more about your assumptions than about the actual content discussed.
"We should have an app for our school, it's only $x00"

Me: What does it do?

Calendar and notifications about new posts

Me: The website already does that, there's a button to click to subscribe to the calendar, another to subscribe to notifications, and you can "install" the website if you want, all with open standards

Surprising, I actually won the argument and they didn't waste their money.
Yet I couldn't find one and I was specifically looking for one. :)

And I've been living in Sweden since 2014, and it was commented on that "they're dissapearing" a few times in the games studio I was working in.

Glad they've been around, but the way you say this seems to indicate that I was lying and there's genuinely no reason for me to do that.
https://archive.ph/jaMiz
In my opinion, more than half the problem is the tooling, as indicated by the cartoon in the linked article.

DevOps pipeline languages are generally either weakly typed or stringly-typed. They generally expect users to do the control character escaping, in several different obscure formats. Did I say escaping? I meant three layers of nested escaping!

Variable/macro substitution as a rule uses syntax that overlaps with either PowerShell, Bash, or both because otherwise it would be too easy.

Another basic thing is the absence of a debugger — I have to run a complete pipeline with a change to dump out environment variables!

Instructions contain the display names of paths, scripts use the variable names, but the output (and errors!) use the values with no clear mapping backwards. What the eff is C:\s\1\x? I dunno, but it caused an error!

The worst sin is not having a local development experience where the entire pipeline can be run without having to commit code and push stuff almost all the way to production. Even if the pipeline agent is made available, it’s useless without the underlying VM image which is huge and not easily obtained. Not to mention KMS/KeyVault and other similar services on which pipelines can depend.

Developers complain about having to do DevOps, but in my opinion the problem isn’t who is doing it, but how. The tooling is just so bad, so very very bad, that anyone would hate it if they were the ones forced to do it. I’m an ex-dev-now-SRE and I hate it.
Yeah I was expecting something like a greek statue with very realistic human features, but I guess this is still astounding since other statues of the time are even less anthropomorphous.
The theory that nuclear weapons is the reason for the relative peace of our era is an oft cited one but without much evidence. There are multiple alternatives which are equally—if not more—likely to explain it better. Things like human rights, democracy, decolonization, universal education, etc.

If this was a bet, I wager the proliferation of democracies and decolonization is a much better explanation for why there are fewer wars, than the binary of whether nuclear weapons exist or not.
I want to thank you for Higher Order Perl. It was the book that finally led me to understanding Lisp. :-)
According to Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking, rice turns bad pretty fast at room temperature. Here's from "Keeping Rice Safe" (p. 475):

"Cooked rice turns out to be a potential source of food poisoning. Raw rice almost always carries dormant spores of the bacterium Bacillus cereus, which produces powerful gastrointestinal toxins. The spores can tolerate high temperatures, and some survive cooking. If cooked rice is left for a few hours at room temperature, the spores germinate, bacteria multiply and toxins accumulate. Ordinary cooked rice should therefore be served promptly, and leftovers refrigerated or frozen to prevent bacterial growth."

I've always taken that to mean that it's fine to reheat rice as long as it hasn't been standing around for too long before refrigerating the first time around.
No this is all statistics again: probability that a viral particles survives in the body, probability that it successfully enters the cell (this is all chemical kinetics so it's not 100%), probability the cell survives long enough to replicate the virus, probability of an immune response picking up the lyzed cell immediately and then repeat for the daughter copies.

An analogous process would be human fertilization: it technically only takes 1 sperm to fertilize an egg, but it's millions in order to make the probability of it happening meaningfully high enough.

Of course some viruses are stupidly good at this: it's estimated 5 norovirus particles will trigger a full blown infection.
There's absolutely no legal basis for it. EC technically may risk it and then lose in court.
I’ve lots on my e-reader, but I keep going back to Ben Falk. “The Resilient Farm and Homestead” is super cool, you actually follow their story over multiple years, with the farm’s changes rather well documented! Of course the more scientific books on the topic are better information-wise — some used at uni —, but Falk’s is nice to read.
It's amazing to have people on such a forum who can give some insights. Could you perhaps write a longer response outlining how you see what happened there? How he pissed off everyone? Was it his policies? Was it how he communicated them? Was it both?

For a while, is seemed as though the Greek government was going to go through with it. I don't have the expertise or context to judge if they should have or not, or if they even really could have tried in the first place. It just seems that the crisis was canned and is simmering now to see another day...
I was going to say this - cymbals are often very noticeably bad on MP3 recordings.
At this point captchas achieve the exact opposite of their original goal - they let machines in whilst blocking a good number of real users.
> This sentiment is just contrarianism, I think.

I really don't think it is. We're thrusting ourselves into just new problems. Yes, we move away from old problems that gas-powered cars have, but we move into new problems. For one, EVs perpetuate the idea of the car, which is perhaps the most dangerous part. Then, there's all sorts of new things like building out the infrastructure required for EVs and mining the new materials. For example, have you looked into the areas where lithium mining occurs? It is not a clean process and brings its own new problems, especially for the local people. You have foreign owned and operated companies move in and suck out manufactured value from the land, all the while polluting the local ecosystem. It's oil all over again.

It isn't contrarianism to point out that a solution is not the solution everyone thinks it is. Yes, we should probably switch to EVs, but we should be switching away from cars as a whole. But we're not. Cars are selling more than ever. It's not contrarianism to simply look at facts rather than hype.
You might find this podcast of interest. The guy talks about his experience of the TULSA procedure. They're kind of cynical about the state of prostate treatment in general but seem keen on this procedure.

https://www.podchaser.com/podcasts/starting-strength-radio-9...
Interesting anacdote, my wife is into teaching our 1 year old sign language. Many words and phrases come through much faster than they do verbally. Words for "finished" "more" "water" etc.

Really help in figuring out what she wants. And she squeals with delight when she feels understood.
Self-assembling material pops into 3D (Steve Mould) [video]
The whole 24 FPS thing is mostly historical. I don't like it. Nor do I like motion blur.

The 120 fps was regarding games. While movies are passive, they could still benefit immensely by doubling to 48. Not every scene in a movie is people talking and this is where 24 stops being adequate. Even YouTube has had support for 60 FPS videos for years.

I know it's not a win for the movie industry. They ought to hate it, especially the artsy types.
> the noise from cars is mostly friction and turbulence

Agreed. I can't even hear the engine in my car on the highway over tire and wind noise.
Marketing people are trash, episode someverylargenumber

You know where we need lots of marketing people? Mars. I think we should send them there first to build the consumer society that will be necessary for colonizing a new planet, perhaps in some sort of space Ark.
Fair enough.

Couldn't have emailed me though?
Maybe, but that's a separate matter from publishing specs that would let someone write a driver.
Was looking for a download, but there's precious little about that on the website. The closest I got were these remarks:

> On all Reed lab computers, Stata is located in the Applications folder.

> Stata can be found in the Applications folder of any school machine. On a PC, it is most likely located in Program Files.

Does that imply it's neither open source nor even commercially available? Seems rather odd, surely it is either of those two