skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe the 1.5 hour half life is only for smokers

Edit: the mechanism seems to be due to inducing Cytochrome P450 1A2, an enzyme responsible for caffeine metabolism and many other drugs. This is also induced by diet with cruciferous vegetables and medications like Prilosec/Omeprazole. So if you find yourself sleeping better or needing more caffeine to get through the day, ingestion of these could potentially explain it. Likewise it can be inhibited by foods such as cumin or turmeric and medications, so if you notice more energy after turmeric supplementation or heightened caffeine sensitivity after eating more Indian food or your sleep is impacted when you start taking oral contraceptives, this could potentially explain why.

See inducers and inhibitors here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP1A2
On point 3, I've never met a parent (at least a first time parent) who knew exactly what having a child would be like. I don't know that people can have a life style that "fits" children without having them. Of course, with such a subjective topic I'm sure I'm bound to be mistaken.

In my experience, the original excitement and expectation fade away slowly after birth and is replaced by paternal/maternal love, as well as different excitement and expectations. Then over a longer time, you start understanding how profoundly your life is being reordered and how you've become a different person, for both the positive and negative. No one can know this a priori.
Instant availability of the services provided without waiting on bootup, wakeup, or anything else.
>the purchasing power of the dollar that, with regards to used vehicles, has essentially collapsed over a three-year period.

"purchasing power" is not something you isolate on a commodity by commodity basis. The whole article is just basically a repeat of the old news that used car prices are up since the start of the pandemic.
In rural Finland you'll often see 100 house numbers per kilometer. Alternating even & odd, you'd get a number every 20 meters, which is more than sufficient. I'd think this is really handy for emergency services, when people don't bother to put up house numbers on dirt roads.
As someone pointed out, this is a variation of the Urgent/Important matrix.

I've found that there is a next step / additional dimension that can be very useful as well:

Once you have what's in the important row, ask people what they would want to work on.

Assuming everyone is qualified for the tasks, I've found that giving something urgent/important to someone who wants to work on it vs someone who doesn't DRAMATICALLY improves the odds of it getting done quickly.

This being HN, someone will say: "But what about things nobody wants to work on". Great question!

The answer is to either:

- Have everyone take turns e.g. doing support for the team on a rotation

- Make trades vs the future e.g. "I know you don't want to do this now. If you do it though, I guarantee you get first choice on what you want to work on next."
I got you: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=bat+symbol+batman&t=osx&iax=images...
Well, while we are here, I think this one is way better: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/teach
Because they may use it to generate sexual images? Kids have two ages: "Don't care about sex" and "care about sex". If they've gotten to the point where they care about sex, your AI image generator filter isn't going to put their hormones back in the box.

It's mystifying to me why American culture wants to insist that sexual urges must come the moment you're 21, and not a second earlier, otherwise you're somehow sinful.
> if you want to design classes for serialization that is agnostic to serialized format

You mean XML/JSON/binary etc? This is impossible :) - the only thing that comes close is ASN.1.

But serialisation can be easy: just don't do anything and let runtime handle that. Any compacting GC can be seen as serialiser/deserialiser (it does move object graph from one place to another) - and it does not need to run any application code to perform its task.
Criu and any other live program ("object") migration methods are similar.

> and that accounts for cases where not both sides of the communication are trusted

I don't believe Java serialisation will ever be capable of handling deserialisation of untrusted input.
This is an outdated take. The left-pad incident was 7 years ago, and newer mainstream packages are generally doing a better job curating dependencies.

That said, it is true that the Node/JS world is primarily hype-driven by "thought leaders" and people seeking personal brand and clout. Go on JS/React Twitter and prepare to loudly groan at the self importance on display.

There are good packages out there that try to do things in a sane way without wasting your time. Postgres.js [1] is one of them.

[1] https://github.com/porsager/postgres
Half correct, sort of.

India's per capita CO2 emissions per capita are around 24% of the EU's. I wouldn't call 24% minuscule but it is pretty significant so for India I'd score the claim as sort of correct.

China's per capita CO2 emissions per capita are around 97% of the EU's. If they were an EU country they would be comfortably in the middle of EU country emissions per capita, about halfway between France and Germany.
No, this would undermine the entire point of the GPL. The compatibility is one way.

In an extremely simplified version, LGPL says you can only use the software if you guarantee A and B, while GPL says you can only use the software if you guarantee A, B, and C. Since {A,B} is a subset of {A,B,C}, licensing the LGPL software under something that requires A, B, and C guarantees A and B and so is fine by the LGPL. However, since the LGPL doesn't require you to guarantee C, then licensing software under the LGPL will not maintain all the requirements you must maintain to use GPL software.
Improving my sleep has beens something I've been meaning to do for a long time and I've heard of that Japanese idea in the past, but haven't entirely gelled with it. I think it's a bit of that and a bit of...something else that makes me stay up way longer than I should do.

To be perfectly honest, usually I'm staying up because of "the hormny" or because I've found something technical/geeky to immerse myself in. But I think the core thing is not "losing track" of time, but for some reason I see the time and just feel apathy like, it doesn't matter that it's 2,3 am or whatever.
Long Long is ridiculous and often confusing.

Now, what about SIMD types?

What about 16bits floats?

Using the short size convention we have easy and logical answers.

The reason why new languages like Rust and Zig are using those conventions is not random, types naming (and stdlib) is a weak point of C (and C++).

Luckily they are not set in stone, we can choose different and reasonable conventions.
It's possible. The eye strain is real after a couple hours, though. And I've already run into situations where I wanted to show someone something and had to "change modes". Having the laptop display for auxiliary use still seems important, although you could probably get away with crappier and cheaper screens again.
I love comments like yours. Modern medicine is amazing but still full of uncharted areas and hard to diagnose stuff, especially when it's not immediately life threatening. It's ultimately up to us to insist, to say "no, this is not right, I'm not functioning correctly" and to find what's going on. But it's a long, difficult path and it requires insane amounts of grit to go through it, though the rejection and the indifference and the dead ends. So it makes me super happy when someone is actually able to find out what was going on and - cherry on top! - fix it
Your median figure for individual income includes children, part-time workers, and retirees.
Off topic but I see ”the advent of” more and more these days. Yet when I look up the word, the definition is a religious holiday. In this particular instance I see that you use another very obscure word, so I’m going to assume it’s something people say to try and sound smart, despite it not being the correct word
Perhaps more importantly and that during inflation/shrinkflation the median income has _decreased_ so not only do you get less for your money you also have less money!

I will say though on inflation we should shoot the messenger. Inflation is a disease; it describes a symptom (increased prices). The word inflation does not describe at all why prices increased. Did oil get more expensive so the cost of revenue increased? Did a company realize they were charging below market rate? The news can be do a tiny bit of investigation before reporting on it for hours on end.

https://www.census.gov/library/publications/2023/demo/p60-27...
Do you have some examples of stuff that you would consider obvious rabid Russian propaganda? And then different stuff of people having a narrative?

I'd like to compare them myself. In general I find it useful to read a wide variety of sources, and I can't see myself excluding something from consideration by labeling it propaganda. For many reasons as I stated above, that seems prejudicial and unwise, when reading it could be useful and informative.

An additional trouble is raised by your point, in that, by prejudging articles as being likely propaganda and then excluding them from your consideration, you risk making yourself vulnerable to manipulation by whoever you trust to label content as propaganda or not. In effect, by trusting propaganda labelling you may end up supporting, or even being victim to, what you seek to prevent and protect yourself from!

Therefore I'm interested to know more about your examples, in the hope that I can learn more and discover if I really think there is a distinction to be had there! Distinguishing obvious propaganda from narrative seems like it could be challenging, so I'm eagerly awaiting any examples you could provide in order to educate myself more. Please share! :)
> Murder is murder whether it's with a gun or poison.

But we have laws specifically for weapons of mass destruction, instead of just suing those who use nuclear bomb with murder
Money, effort, morals.
When do you believe that X Window API-using applications will cease to function?
This is hardly just the news talking too much about the thing. Cumulative inflation over the last 4 years has been insane and most people haven’t gotten double digit raises (just to tread water in the best case). People feel the pinch because it’s an actual fact in their day to day life
I’m sure we could imagine more regressive forms.
Lawmakers shift gears on TikTok ban
CheckAnyPlateAsLongAsItsAnUSOne would be an even greater name :-)
>It does feel like being ripped off when someone puts ~30 minutes ($20 max) of Western labor into something and then turns around and charges me $800 for the privilege of supporting an American company.

If you are just looking at it as labor then yeah, you are going to feel ripped off.

But it is not just labor, it is labor + overhead:
Office space
Tools required for job
Paperwork associated with the job
I don't think that can ever be done with an array. Try with slices. They seem to be a fair alternative for most situations.
Because that's the licenses they know and interact with day to day. It's probably what most of the audience for this book id familiar with as well.
My keyboard came with a usb A to usb C cable which is proprietary in some way. A regular cable doesn’t work for it.
That's how I remembered it too. And that's also then one of the major differences between this app and an actual professional camera - because on a smartphone you only have autofocus. Which works most of the time, but I've had some recordings of concerts with weird lighting, smoke and other stuff which were out of focus for quite a few seconds. One of the most stupid things is when you try to take a picture of a bird or airplane in flight and your smartphone can't focus on it because it's too small. Why can't it just default to focus to infinity if it can't find anything to focus on?
Use strawberry jam
I use hurl [1], a text-based HTTP testing tool. It's like the proprietary one that jetbrains ships, but as a CLI tool and can be perfectly integrated into CI. It is based on curl, as the name suggests.

What I was also playing around with is using it as a scripting tool. Comments are made using #, so you can add a shebang to a file, make it executable and use it as a lightweight script for HTTP stuff.

[1]: https://hurl.dev
This looks great, nice work!
This is a very strange comment section. I can't in good faith recommend Entity Framework to anyone who doesn't want to torpedo their project with ORM problems.

Additionally, this article is really poorly written.

> Last week, we completed a migration that switched our underlying database from MongoDB to Postgres.

Okay cool, but why? MongoDB is a very capable and fast database.

> It was a shock finding out that Prisma needs almost a “db” engine layer of its own. Read more about it here: https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-engine...

If you did any research on Prisma rather than diving in head-first, you'd realize this is a core part of why Prisma exists.

> we discovered that at a low level, Prisma was fetching data from both tables and then combining the result in its “Rust” engine. This was a path for an absolute trash performance.

Can you confirm this is actually the case? Can you show some benchmarks re: this claim? Or are you just assuming this is the case? We're using Prisma in production and it is blazing fast.
If I draw something poorly does that mean pencils were a mistake?
I'm not asking for a for the children blob of legislation here, everyone.

But I do see mass-scale generation of nonconsensual images, well beyond individually commissioned works -- and actual CSAM blending in with it because it becomes indistinguishable -- as a real problem.

We're having nuanced discussions about how to deal with misinformation, including mass-scale generation of it from LLMs. Why can't we have those discussions about AI porn so that we can come up with solutions that are somewhere between "change nothing/don't be a prude" and "go full authoritarian"?
It's not the 00s anymore hardware can idle and handle light workloads without sucking the full tdp out of the socket.
Leveraging iOS apps and the app store is a nice position for Apple to be in. I'm still a bit skeptical that most apps will easily convert from multitouch to look-and-pinch.

Funny enough, meta does actually have Android apps running in headset. The licensing battle is the bigger issue.

I wonder if Meta have a plan to take on flat Android app uploads if it looks like this is the way AR takes off.
TLDR: I highly recommend HN readers skip this poorly-written article and go read "Example 2: Drunk drivers" on Wikipedia's article about the Base Rate Fallacy instead [1]. You'll probably learn it more and get better context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy instead.

Ok, I'm going to put on my harsh editor's hat. I'll abbreviate the Prosecutor's Fallacy as PF. Here are some glaring deficiencies:

1. The article goes not get to the point quickly (or at all!); it doesn't define PF up front nor ever.

2. The article doesn't properly situate the concept; it does not recognize synonyms for PF, which include: "base rate fallacy", "base rate neglect", or "base rate bias", "defense attorney's fallacy".

3. Poor logical flow. One example: Saying the PF "involves" conditional probability without having defined it first, much less at all -- is frustrating to the reader.

4. Poor reasoning. One example: The claim that the PF "is most often associated with miscarriages of justice." isn't plausible nor defended. It should be rephrased to say "is often associated".

5. A lack of organizational cues. Most obviously, the article doesn't have any headings. It desperately needs them.

6. Various formatting problems. For one, the top quotation should be formatted as a blockquote.

Overall, the article would benefit from several more drafts. I'm pretty disappointed a professional organization would hit "publish" on this one. I'll try to find a way to share my feedback with the editor(s) and author.

In the meanwhile, I suggest HN people read this instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_rate_fallacy

Why? The concept is explained in a self-contained way, followed by self-contained examples. I really appreciate that approach.

Slight tangent: On a more happy note, I think a lot of software developers are better writers than they give themselves credit for. I don't think most software developers would make the same mistakes as this author. I'm not saying we're all great writers, but many of us do have a strong sense of logical flow and organization.
yeah i had 48 bit pointers on one asic. upper 16 bits selected memory partition/region
The pivot table, the spreadsheet's most powerful tool (2020)
curious do you find other systems? Because as OP says it s still not feasible to do microtransactions on the web
At some point American Exceptionalism turned into learned helplessness and it's incredibly frustrating.
The British DVLA already provides a similar service for cars registered in the UK:

https://vehicleenquiry.service.gov.uk/
and if the state actors didn't supply their own police force, policing would also be a market.

the question isn't "is it a market", the question is "should it be a market"?

The issue here is the idea that the market is more important than the upbringing of a child.
> They get away with that because they know marketing departments don't care

Even if they cared, they have no leverage.

In the financial sector, any market-maker in Google's position would be heavily regulated, and the kind of shit Google pulls would land people in jail. Even without the market manipulation, there's no way a company like Google could operate without a clear separation between departments. The reason for that is that centuries of playing that game have shown that it's the only way to keep market makers honest.
My corpo firewall is blocking because of what seems to be a TLS issue.
Do you have anything you can share on what King did with Insomnia recently?
I know this is about Desktop HTTP testing but have anyone experimented with command-line HTTP testing?

I recall having a good experience with https://github.com/grafana/k6 some eons ago.

It's geared towards load testing in JS but it also allows you to check HTTP body, headers, etc.
I also can't stand, when it comes to inflation, that the media talks about a low-inflation quarter as though it is "relief for consumers."

What about it is relieving? Prices haven't gone down, prices aren't going down, we're supposed to feel relieved that prices are still going up, just slower?

I honestly dare the bankers on the Federal Reserve, and frankly, all of Congress, to live on a 20th percentile income. They'd be all over inflation in seconds once reality set in.

Edit: I might mean 80th, I'm struggling to remember which end is lower (20th or 80th).
We should just build spaceships that are “tied” to a small planet or moon. Then just yeet that over massive distances.

Imagine being an alien species and humans roll up pulling a small star or something.
Flickr → Instagram
(Had FB not bought Insta, it could have been Facebook to Insta too)
Plenty of Fish → Tindr
Lol, this is a bunch of hot takes from some random dude with a BA in math. You'll forgive me if I'm just as skeptical of him as I am of Walker.
Yeah, now that quelsolaar clarified, I am fairly certain that claim is not true, for exactly the reasons you describe. Of course, there is also the practical example of the mingw compiler, which does implement C11 for Windows, as a counter-example to their claim that it cannot be done.
It’s my least favourite part of working in software. Majority of peers drastically underestimate how much work something takes, and where the finish line even is.
Interesting application, but my license plate (yes, I did renew the registration earlier this year) appears to not exist. The VIN number search gives the correct results.

[Edit: the results page should say “active lien” rather than ”active Lein”]
Agreed, Its not neccessarly about AI. Loads of AI assisted artwork / effects are great. But using AI instead of hiring an artist almost always look like crap.
What laws did they break? I’m confused by the sudden interest in monopolies when the duopolies have developed over 20 years. It’s like after Microsoft government assumed Google / Facebook and Google / Apple and EBay / Amazon had each other so all was good?
Maybe it is just an engineering problem.

Humans aren't strictly math computations that can arrive at a absolute 0 or 1.

Maybe humans have a bit of a random number generator that kicks in some noise to avoid reaching absolute 0 or 1.

Allows some re-evaluation.

Maybe that would be option in AI to avoid the problem.
During one of the games with AlphaGo it seemed to get stuck and was treading water making really 'plain or lackluster' moves. Until it kind of got unstuck. It seems to be similar?
https://archive.today/hdVuy
There should be a special place in hell for people who come up with 2-axis, 4 quadrant categorization of things and a VIP entrance for those making trivial modifications on them and branding it the Magic Way (TM).
The sad truth is that the era of our grandfathers (the Fordist era, as a shorthand) was an insane anomaly in the history of political economy. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work to bring it back, but it was grandpa and his peers that got lucky, not us who got unlucky.
I confess to being one of those people who doesn't believe Darwinian evolution explains the origin of species (let alone the origin of life). Of course, I see myself as taking an entirely empirical and scientific perspective, but I do understand that those who approach the question with a blind faith in a materialist worldview (and buy into a "materialism of the gaps" perspective) will not be able to accept any empirical evidence or scientific argument that contradicts their presuppositions.
every b2c app needed a native app (two actually)

every web only consumer product basically died

what is true is that b2b products didn't need them, or needed them as "companion apps", not full replacements.
Can't disagree with you there.

And I'm not a huge fan of the form-factor either, it gets messy once you've got your SATA connectors, power and ethernet.

Not suggesting Zima is the right solution, but ebaying dated hardware often isn't either for many of us.

Don't get me wrong, it's great there are people who can use this stuff and not pay disproportionate prices for electricity to run it; but much of the world isn't in that situation; maybe one day.
Well, free content has to be subsidized somehow. On HN, all of our conversations are basically being used to advertise YC and related jobs. YouTube and Twitch are amortized with advertisements and premium tiers, and even email and search breaks even with suggested results. Greed is one half of the equation, but paying to keep a zero-friction service online is another half. Considering where the internet is now, I'd argue things aren't half as greedy as they could be; competition is forced, Hacker News is not given a safe-haven to exist away from it's peers. Ad-supported, sub-supported and free/static content all has a place on the modern internet.

And I mean... I own a Quest 1. I've not seen an advertisement anywhere besides the "Store" and "Browser" apps to my knowledge. If you want to immerse yourself in a scene, nothing stops you. There's probably a reality where Roblox-style VR is supported by ads, but that will exist on all headsets. The only way to guarantee advertisement becoming the norm is to lock out competitors and make it impossible for Open Source software to compete. Apple is quite good at that last part.
Show HN: For people who takes notes on WhatsApp and Telegram
Very nice data! Interesting when paired with (also front page) 'The Prosecutor's Fallacy' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37819637