skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Imagine there's no internet and you don't have a dictionary.

When you've never observed the Eiffel tower and someone tells you the Eiffel Tower exists, will you tell them that they're wrong?

"There's no evidence that the Eiffel Tower exists."

Do you have any evidence the Eiffel Tower does not exist?

No?

Then it makes no sense to assume you know what's reality. The reason, why you insist that it doesn't exist, is because you're narrow minded and boring. It's not because you know better, because you can't know better.

In regards to the topic of consciousness it is not just insanely ignorant to believe that the lack of evidence is evidence that it is NOT something, it is also incredibly full of yourself to assume you're right simply because of that.

Fact of the matter is that a lack of evidence does not necessarily automatically prove anything. Us not being able to find evidence means exactly nothing, which is proven by human history itself.

For example, if Ignaz Semmelweiß would have had your flawed reasoning, he would have never tried washing his arms and hands.
Links:

https://quart.palletsprojects.com/en/latest/

https://flask.palletsprojects.com/en/3.0.x/

TIL about the new Flask logo!
Sorry about the rant, but this kind of sub rubs me the wrong way. People quickly develop an entire subculture around something, start using their own insider language (autogogia, prophantasia, hyperphantasia) which quickly loops back onto itself in Google since it was unearthed from a random 1973 paper. Then they go on developing methods and theories without any scientific rigour, and sharing experiences with origin-story undertones.

Not to dismiss the whole idea, which I think has very solid ground, but this makes the perfect breeding ground for 'sociogenic ilnesses' like that fake-Tourette's epidemic a couple years ago.
The cashew fruit alcohol is called Feni. It’s a local alcohol you can find in Goa.
I think OP is so inexperienced that he hasn't realized yet how code gets "bad", and what's his role in getting it there

He will eventually, but until now the more experienced people around him will have to be patient.
glad you like it :-)
> something huge like QT

In defence of Qt, there's a lot of functionality in there, and they've made it modular.

To my knowledge Qt's library binaries have roughly the same file sizes as, say, their Gtk equivalents. I wouldn't expect a new competitor to be that different.
Not really. There are many mature tools outside of the GitHub monoculture that do changesets, both on top of Git as well as other VCSs.

I don’t do much reviews these days but I remember the confusion of GitHub PRs. Things just disappear, especially with the rebase workflow which is preferable for improving reviewer burden.

I think Mitchell is mostly right here: a changeset is the most natural data structure for maintaining code. However, is it also the most natural construct for storing code in repositories, ie “should git be replaced in the long term?”. Can the merkle tree of blobs be replaced by an analogous merkle tree of changesets? That I don’t know. But it’s a worthwhile idea.
What do you mean? Europe has been pretty much degrowing since 2008
That's so interesting. I'm an American and I would swap the meaning of few and several. In my mind, a few is usually between 3 and 5 but has an upper limit around 7. Several is anything beyond that
> What waste does a solar panel generate? Or are you talking about the manufacturing process?

I'm talking about the panels themselves after they reached their end of life.

> So you’re saying building nuclear plants generates less waste than building solar farms? That’s unintuitive

Nuclear power density is incredibly high: you build 1 concrete bunker and 3 supporting buildings and you have more than a gigawatt of power. For solar you need a square kilometer of solar panels to get 0.1GW.

Compare those two places next to where I live:

- the nuclear plant: https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/47.7311/2.5188

- the solar farm:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=14/47.7229/2.6665

Roughly the same area. The solar farm has 55MW of power. The nuclear plant has 3.6GW, 65 times higher. And the nuclear plant's life will be 60 years at least, which means that over its lifetime the panels would need to be changed 3 times. And that's if there's no hail to damage them…

And this calculation only counts Power, if you did the same calculation for actual energy produced the difference would be around ten time worse.
>the failure to focus on software is a big one and seems to be due to internal factors such as conservatism and business models tied to sale of hardware.

It's the same in Germany. Up until 10 years ago or so, they still thought the future of their economy will be selling more diesel engines to everyone. Today Germany is still the world's leading exporter of diesel engines, but how long can that cow be milked until they realize a significant part of their economy is living on borrowed time?

It's what you get when your majority wealth holders, politicians and business leaders are well past their retirement and don't care about the changing world around them, don't care to empower the youth in wealth generation, gate-keeping it all for the existing gentry.
"Processing" is not the issue. Food seeing the inside of a factory is not what will make you sick. It's what gets put in it. It's the sugar.

I'm pretty sure at this point that the word "processed food" was also a stroke of marketing genius by the shit suggary food lobby. Avoids putting front and center what is it that makes the food bad (it's the sugar), and replace it with a generic scary-sounding word that can be applied to everything, so it diffuses responsibility and hides the actual problem ("See, this shit food uses unprocessed brown cane sugar as its addiction additive. Healthy!")
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> ...most company policies will try to block USB drives of any kind.

Grand assertion. Where's your supporting cite? To be clear before goalposts are moved, the context is external optical media drives---a peripheral commonly issued along side laptops without one---not USB mass storage devices.
>Teams suddenly reversing the order of the letters in your sentence as you're typing in a chat

I think they had a button for this on the right click menu.

TBH, Teams is the quintesence of today's SW development state of the art.
The logical reasoning here, is that a poor person needs to become 'not-poor' to be able to have children responsibly.

This greatly trivialises the reality of poverty.

People aren't poor by choice; they're often poor through situations that are beyond their control.

To also suggest they're not allowed to have children because of these factors beyond their control is tantamount to an injustice.
UFO-tier or semiconductor fab tier[0]. But even then there are very few physical and economical situations where you can say "let's deposit X number of atoms per square nanometer of substrate" and not get laughed at.

[0] https://youtube.com/watch?v=NGFhc8R_uO4
This is the reason. By far, most people in the Philippines live in poverty and anything affordable to poor people comein plastic sachets.

Instant coffee, shampoo, detergent, soap, almost everything is most affordable in a plastic sachet, and usually in very small amounts.

The detergent is enough for two small loads of laundry, the shampoo for two or three showers, etc.

This is combined with virtually no garbage handling, and often where there is garbage collection, it usually goes to landfills which are close to the sea and "leaks" plastic to the sea every time it rains or the wind blows.

Some places have started banning plastic shopping bags, but until there is an alternative or regulation to plastic sachet packaging, this problem won't go away.
Apple says software bug and certain apps causing iPhone overheating
https://cdn.netzpolitik.org/wp-upload/2023/09/2023-09-28_LIB...

"...Those aforementioned media reports point to alleged close working relationships between the European Commission and a broad network of tech companies, foundations, security agencies and PR agencies, including Thorn and WeProtect Global Alliance, indicating possible undue influence in the drafting of the proposal. Of particular concern are the allegations that the solutions laid down in the legislative proposal to fight CSAM supposedly replicate the solutions designed by those groups, contributing thereby to furthering their economic interests..."

This is of course, the same Ashton Kutcher, who recently wrote a letter advocating leniency for a Scientology member convicted to 30 years in prison for rape, after his sentence.
>Nothing for your left foot to do

I never quite understood why automatic cars make you operate the gas and brake with only your right foot to this day.

Wouldn't it make a lot more sense to have the brake pedal on the left now that you don't need to operate the clutch anymore?
There are new logos for all the Pallets projects and Pallets itself, based on a common theme.
I’m one of those savages who can finish a bottle of Indian pickle in one go. Even if my teeth start hurting because of the acidity, I still keep going at it by sucking on them. Nothing like a hyper concentrated dose of sourness explosion in your mouth.
Maybe to go all-in on Blocks. https://blocks.githubnext.com
You are incorrect.

What if you can give them positive things that money can't buy?

Do all rich kids get the benefit of wisdom, experience, compassion, joy?
How about survival of the fittest and the people believing it being the least ... well, fit in the reproductional sense?
Not on purpose...
> which is a moral judgement anyway

There seems to be a certain subset of the HN population that thinks that "morality" is somehow a bad thing.

Morality may be subjective and not "analytical", but it's also completely unavoidable to being a human person, and debates about moral behaviour are absolutely integral to human societies.
Because they want to charge you for the expensive "tethering" option. I know, that's fucked up but the US are not very good at forcing consumer-friendliness on their companies.

On the "how they detect it", unless you're using a VPN they can look at the traffic and easy distinguish "computer traffic" from regular "phone traffic".
Agreed. I think few=3, some=4, several/many=5/6/7
Ah, the "achaar". So wrongly translated as "pickle".

In my village (Ganges plain, North India), making achaar was a significant seasonal community event. When mangoes were small, we used to wait for heavy winds during early monsoon. A lot of raw mangoes would fall on the ground, and the next day they would be sold at a much cheaper price.

There were two broad classes of mango varieties: one for eating ripe, and the other one for making achaar, which were usually very small, had large seeds, and were extremely sour when raw (and extremely sweet and full of fibers when ripe). The whole process would take a week or two: cutting raw mangoes, drying them, salting them, preparing masala, and putting them in a special jar.

The last process requires special hands if you wanted your pickle to last a few years. There were a few women who were experts in putting pickle in jar and were highly sought after. Whoever had pickle that could last at least two years in the village without growing fungus belonged to this group. Some members of this famous group were from lower castes, and obviously, they were not allowed to physically touch the pickle. Instead, they would supervise from a very close distance.

They would take a few pieces of mango mixed with masala and push them down the jar as hard as possible to remove all air. The slower and harder you push, the better. Once the jar was almost filled, it would be filled with mustard oil and crystal salt and then kept for at least 6 months. The older the pickle, the better it is! The achaar jar used to be the costliest pot in a house, usually a china pot.

My contribution to this was introducing potassium permanganate as an extra layer to fight fungus. It is still known as "achaar powder" in the village. Things are very different now. The moisture content in new brick-concrete houses is not as high as it used to be in traditionally made houses. And much better quality jars are available, especially the airtight ones. I don't think many people now push the achaar as hard as they used to.
100% this. It is the biggest problem I have by far with GitHub. I really hope they can follow this advice and do something closer to Gerrit.
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Pickles are the traditional sendoff items in India. During my university days, my grandmom and mom would painstakingly curate mangoes to make pickles. A handsome batch would accompany me to the hostel where friends and foes would flock together to consume it with much fervour. Those pickles certainly pulled a lot of slack for the mess food.
"The god of small things" as well.
What is this "better technology"? It's nowhere to be seen, SMRs are even more expensive. So what are you talking about?

Sure, did anti-nukes win.

They forced the exit in Germany and the growth of renewables. Huge German subsidies pushed development of renewables for years and made it cheaper for the rest of the world AS A RESULT. You can lie to yourself about it, but it won't change the facts.

True environmentalists won.

Fake ones like Shellenberger lost.
> Consciousness cannot be "obscure" when it is the basis for one's own experienced reality, the substrata underlying everything else.

That you can do any of this has consciousness as a precondition, it is of significance to us but we are most likely a statistical anomaly in the Universe. It is statistically probable that we have this rather fragile viewpoint on the Universe, that's only available in small places for short times, because consciousness has preconditions.

For people who work in or consume TV and film maybe the video camera seems fundamental to the nature of the world, but it wasn't very important before it was created.
Betteridge's Law of Headlines [Wikipedia]
A bit off topic, but this site looks great! I see it has many great articles about algorithms with interactive visualizations. Why I didn't know this site before?!

Anyone has some more recommendations of sites with similar content (easily explained algorithms with great interactive visualizations? )
Halt and Catch Fire

Seriously underrated. Based on the 80s.The most realistic drama about entrepreneurship and relationships I've ever watched.
I don't think they would have stopped at Apple.
Well it's not just the sugars. Processed food gets a lot of preservatives (some natural, some made in a lab) which make the food last longer and "look better". In Bulgaria (I think this is an EU directive though) you can see the preservatives on the nutrition info and they all have an ID (E###). Typically the more Es that something has, the more processed it has been and is seen as less healthy.
You can export/import the group policies via the LGPO tool so to quick restore them in anycase, like eg total re-installation.

I also use batch files for my re-installs, apps/utils installation via scoop (https://scoop.sh) + winget

[link]
https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-security-ba...
It isn't. And it would be hard-pressed to be, since there's no JVM backend. It could work on iOS via the C target, but you're probably better off with Swift. It could work in the browser via the C target and emscripten, but again, you probably don't want to go through so much trouble when you could just use C++. There's a JS backend, but at that point you're better off with TypeScript.
You really seem immovably hung up on this clunky 'recommendation' epigram. All the best mate.
These all seem very solvable. Also, when I say “cloned” I mean also a broader set of technologies, such as artificial wombs and genetic designer babies. If desired all couples should have the ability to create children in artificial wombs and have them be exact clones or some designed mixes. These mixes/clones can contain their own dna or that of others.

In general, I think genetic sequences should be open source and if we get a ton of Einsteins, Michael Jordans, etc then we’re better for it.

> why should we create cloned children when the state already can't do good by orphaned children

Same as why we have children at all, some people want to have children that are their own.

> unless the clone is raised by a family as their own child, we'd effectively be creating a subservient class by cloning, since while with normal children, losing their family is not necessarily known ahead of time, with a clone that isn't the case.

I absolutely agree that all children should be when possible with parents and clones/design babies need to be given the same care/rights/support as normal children.

> Is it worth the suffering of all the imperfect clones (and the surrogate mothers within whom they'd be grown) that will inevitably be produced during the development of the technology?

We develop it not on humans first. We then use it to design babies for parents with genetic abnormalities.

> How do we deal with reproductive rights of clones and their impact on genetic diversity?

We grant them all rights. I think there will naturally be enough diversity, and monoculture scare is less meaningful when we can breed new generations with proper adaptations. Essentially we can get almost all benefits of having a diverse genetic pool (and I do think we should financially incentivize diversity).

> How are we, as a society, supposed to then have a proper conversation about the ethics of creating full human intelligences? With normal children we can at least point to a biological imperative.

I don’t think there is any difference between normal children, cloned children, and designed children.
helpful. Based on my cursory research I've learned that in California employers can fire an employee for any lawful reason or no reason at all. They don't have to show cause or give any warnings or multiple chances
Yeh, nah mate. A few is probably 3, perhaps 4, and definitely not more than several, except where several counts as 2.
GPT4 is just the latest thing.

It was only a few years ago that AlphaGo beat the best human at GO. Supposedly a game so deep that only some unknown quality of being a human could ever grasp it.

And AlphaStar also wins against humans in SC2, where there is hidden information and 'deception'.

I'd say that is more worry than GPT.
GPT is a language model.

AlphaGo is winning in a competitive game.

and

Life is just a game.

Just start adding more variables, and more goals.
Start combining GPT/AlphaGo/Visions Systems/etc.... It might not be that far.
TTL, traffic use amounts. Domains not available to mobile apps. your phone tells the network and sometimes implements the restrictions itself
Yes, we use to make that as well with raw tender mangoes. We called it pressed mangoes in brine and was not considered as "achar" or pickle.

https://www.facebook.com/Ranchikood/photos/khalatli-amli-raw...
Eh, when you say a salad in Europe, there's a 90-95% chance that its only dressing is olive oil (and not much of it, just for the texture) and not heavy stuff like ranch or french dressing.
How does an adult working a full time job even meet 200-300 people let alone become acquaintances/friends with them?

I find it a struggle to even become casual acquaintances with more than a handful of people a year.
EU GDP has grown by 15.3% from 2008 to 2022 https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.MKTP.KD?location... Is that really what degrowth looks like?
No, we’re fucking up the planet pretty badly, and our impact is (consumption x population).
Several historically and often still legally is closer semantically to “individual” than “a few”.

For example, contracts concluded between multiple parties often include terminology like “jointly and severally”.

The term “several” shares its roots with “sever”, and means essentially “unlinked”.
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The one that gets me with "couple" is people who say " a couple beers" instead of "a couple of beers". It's like says "a pile coats" or "a queue customers" or "a herd cows".
Show HN: Antonemo – A Game of Words and Their Opposites
I had the idea to build this game when the Wordle craze was going on. Antonemo is somewhat inspired by the hard mode of Wordle. I finally built the game now as I wanted to learn some new web frameworks. To my knowledge, no other similar game exists.

In Antonemo, your goal is to construct words and unlock letters by finding their antonyms, which then allows you to create even more words. For a more detailed understanding of the game-play, you can refer to the in-game instructions or the GitHub README.

The game offers a challenging yet educational experience, allowing players to expand their vocabulary and learn about new words. If you’re ever stuck, the game provides hints for both words and their antonyms. The game also features multiple word lists that you can cycle through for an ever-changing challenge.
What if you built a 2D or 3D mesh out of that 1D superconductor?
>id Software is an exception and makes a poor example to follow. Studying wild success stories is not without merit, but is -- if you are interested in how to do the thing successfully -- ultimately a trap.

The article has plenty of current examples of developers doing this on Steam now that are not at all outliers or an exception. For another concrete example you have something like Chilla's Art https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=Chilla%27s%.... Two japanese developers who have been releasing games for 5 years very consistently and have slowly built up their audience while also increasing their skills as developers. They also have a Patreon, which is a model that works nicely, with another more known example of it being Sokpop https://sokpop.co/. And for all their consistent work they're now getting rewarded pretty nicely for it, without having had a single insanely huge hit as far as I can tell. You can find plenty of examples of devs like this, doing it and succeeding on Steam, right now. Calling all of them exceptions sounds like a poor excuse.

>You will not attract players to your (now generic) platformer by getting it to run at 60Hz.

Yes, you need to be creative in the creative profession and come up with good ideas. That comes with the territory. If you aren't very creative then you should probably consider doing something else.
Waterproof sheets exist and pack down quite small for logistics purposes.
That's not entirely true. Processed food requires less energy to digest and absorb. Nutritionally it can be exactly the same food but the net calorie intake will be higher for food that has been processed.

We should eat food that our pre-industrial ancestors would recognize.
This is impressive but it's estimated S3 is at least 1 or 2 zettabytes.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/y6lb2v/est...
I didn't know about HackSpace, so thanks for that; I've ordered a copy. We shall see.
Do you have a source for this list? I suspect it's not as well known as you hope.
Depends. Am I being hired with the power to change things?
> If 18% is nearly a hemisphere.

That's a stupid metric, especially when you consider that the limit between the Pacific and Antarctic Ocean is completely arbitrary.

Just spin it and you'll see what I mean: https://earth3dmap.com/3d-globe/

It doesn't really matter if you have some daylight remaining in the Americas while the sun is rising in Asia, all the solar energy is going to over the Pacific and will be for hours before it fully reaches Asia.

> Agree the connection part would be tricky

It would be “tricky” in the same way space colonization would be “tricky”… Like not entirely theoretically impossible, but still very far from what's practical today.
Chocolate Consumption vs. Nobel Prizes (2014)