skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. The base test for how increased co2 impacts the environment stems from an experiment in the 1800s.

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/features/happy-200th-b...

And much science passed that.
Until extremely recently, they did offer exactly such a service, though only in a handful of markets (mine was one). They called it Premium Lite.

It was exactly what you want, a much lower priced subscription which just removed ads, and didn't include any other premium features. I happily paid for it.

It was discontinued this month.
> Even people that "join" individual channels cannot watch content from those channels if they use AdBlock

Is content from publishers you’ve subscribed to normally ad-free? I don’t understand the relationship between these things
Excel VM: C compiler for I/O based operations to execute in an Excel spreadsheet
When a bad harvest, a pack of hungry wolves, violent neighbors, or a small cut that becomes infected, are all life threatening possibilities, I think mysticism overrules skepticism.
I would suggest reading reviews and literary critiques, written by authors you appreciate and respect. I rarely regret pursuing a book recommendation from someone whose own writing has engrossed me.
There's nothing actually stopping you from getting a fungal culture yourself. The turnaround time is over a month though. Unless you're at a huge hospital they just farm it out to Labcorp and the like and you can buy direct. Like it makes sense, if it's high-probability bacterial you might as well try the z pack first. It's faster to just treat it and see than to test if it's bacterial.

Also for SSRIs there's nothing to test, you just try them under medical supervision and if they help they help. There is an experimental DNA test that might be able to narrow down the antidepressant options but unless you're struggling to find one that works for you it's usually not worth bothering.

Medicine is crazy advanced in some specific areas but for the long tail we're not that far from leeches.
There is the famous case of Betty Crocker's cake mix. They found that buyers were happier if they had to do a little work, so they made the recipe more onerous!

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/inside-the-box/20140...
> Some components that have been proposed to be admitted to the C++ standard were also contributed to Boost, but that's about it.

Reality is: boost libraries were created, widely adopted, and once interfaces stabilized, we got technical reviews from wg21. Not the other way around.

So the point is moot.
That isn't mental gymnastics.

> You know you can win this game quickly by not visiting YouTube again

Yes. You understand perfectly. YT doesn't have to enshittify much further for this to be no loss.
There is a huge difference between being 5-9 and 5-4. Again, I’m just stating the obvious, I’m happily married and have been for 13 years.

I also started dating my now wife at 35 and she was a single mother of a then 9 and 14 year holding her own and we met at work. She was looking for something different than women in their 20s.
They are not angry because they are rewarded for being angry. And an answer is far for being a reward. A negative answer is still an answer.
FWIW not sure if this is applicable to you but if someone behind your public IP address happen to be using a program to download videos from them such as yt-dlp without enabling rate limits in the application then they will eventually start responding to your requests with TCP reset packets. I have a theory that a factor in their decision is the PTR reverse DNS record based on my testing. My work around was to do the automated downloading from random throw-away VM's in the cloud in a GNU screen session with rate limits and delays, then rsync what I want to keep when it finishes. Otherwise it could be just a network glitch.
Euclid mission to release first full-colour images of the cosmos on 7 November
Thank you. I had no idea this existed but it's the kind of thing I was looking for.
Django with HTMX + Alpine on the frontend. Deployed as Docker container on a cheap VPS. It's boring, time tested but by Jove, does it get the job done fast.

I'm building a B2B2C marketplace in my free time and I'm blown away by the practicality of this stack. Due to longevity of Django, every problem I encounter is just a search away. DRF makes it dead simple to add REST APIs.
The Admin panel is a golden cherry on top.
It's not just cost effectiveness. It's about how awful you will make the user experience for real users if you tried to bring fraud truly to 0. It's essentially the security-convenience tradeoff. In terms of YouTube, it's the monetization-experience tradeoff.
How would spending billions on the space race help?
I wonder what makes the Japanese so much better at rebuilding than the western world: They repair almost everything on crazy timescales.
Pay-per-view creates a perverse incentive to make SEO noise and make it more difficult to find what you want. You would be mostly paying to make your life worse. Better to just block ads, encourage and help others to block ads, and hope those sites die.
This varies a lot from app to app. It’s true that some are built in a way that puts no thought towards efficiency, but there are plenty that are built by devs who care.

I like to keep around test devices that somewhat represent the average user’s device, and when it’s practical a low end device and test against those every so often just to make sure the app performs reasonably well.

This has been in my experience more important for Android apps than for iOS apps, though, because the gulf in power between currently-sold devices in the Android world is vastly more large than in the iOS world. With few exceptions, I find that reasonably efficient apps tested and developed chiefly on newer iPhones work fine on older iPhones, but developing and testing an Android app only on flagships will make for a miserable experience for users of low end or older Android devices.
Falsifiability is critical for engineering, but not all science is for engineering. The further you get from engineering, the fuzzier the line between science and non science.

We try to apply the tools of science to things like astrophysics and paleontology, but they're practically never going to have engineering consequences. That's fine. It's great that we want to know stuff just because we like knowing -- even if "knowing" sometimes gets hard to define.

Falsifiability is a great tool for being able to say some things don't work. But it's important not to let it limit curiosity.
They presumably shut down his account, and that indirectly resulted in shutting down everything. I'd put that on the customer - if you run a risky project that could get your account banned you should partition things better.
It largely has, yes. The fact that things aren't perfect isn't justification for condemnation of the entire process.
How was the command interpreter for the TOPS-20 so intuitive?
Heavy use: really bad roads, dust, pulling heavy loads, very high temperatures, track use (high speed on motorways is different), very high milage...

Your daily communte is not heavy use, unless it is through Sahara or something...
> My best relationships are ones that have felt effortless from the start. The ones where I had to put in more effort to make the connection work ended up not being as good.

I can't emphasize how much this rings true to me. I struggled in dating: I spent far too much energy both trying both to find someone and in making relationships work once I found one. I was always told that a good relationship means putting in effort, and so I always constantly put 100% of my energy into it. Naturally, that left me burnt out and resentful when my partners would be putting in next to nothing.

Of course, a relationship does require some effort, but I suspect most men struggling to find a satisfying one are putting in far too much effort into it. So long as you have the basics down, it's mostly luck. This can be depressing when you do already have the basics down and still aren't having any success, but the reality is effort in relationships has steeply decreasing marginal returns. It's better to put your energies into things that actually benefit you and let luck and time do their work.
The average kind of sucks for everyone. Being average single is a lot better than average income family. Raising your average family of 4 on an average 61k salary just seems like hell in any major metro. Better just Netflix and seek other validation.
A month ago my kids had pink eye. One resolved within days, the other got worse. Instead of a doctor’s appointment the next day, we went to the pharmacy where the pharmacist evaluated him and prescribed an antibiotic. Whole thing took 15 minutes. Really made sense for “a parent could diagnose this” kinds of minor ailments.

Also: if it’s the pharmacist determining a med and immediately administering it, is she really “pre-scribing” anything?
ML/AI is not really a use case but rather a technology. The use cases may come a one point but right now, as far as I can see, they are missing.
> Keep your domains at one company. Your DNS with another. Hosting, a third.

This just means that there are three companies that can shut you down.
This was my experience going through a half dozen doctors. I found a great one finally, but they didn't even bother taking insurance, and it was very expensive.
For context, this is in response to 'Analyzing Data 180,000x Faster with Rust' [0], previously discussed on HN [1]

[0] https://willcrichton.net/notes/k-corrset/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37964161
But not completely, at the same time
Not limited to males. Most people have poor capacity for introspection and self improvement
> Yet VCRs could easily detect and skip over them when recording

How did they do that? Is there any more information on this topic?
There is a unique satisfaction to solving a problem with XSLT.

That said, it's a lot like that old joke about regular expressions, "now you have two problems."
What you have realized is that attraction is more than just physical beauty. There are plenty of non-verbal and biochemical cues that generate attraction. That's why you find these women in real life more beautiful than women on screens.

It's why the article linked in the root of this thread was even written.

Human attraction happens best in person because there is more to it than just looks.
A hundred years? I feel like 90% of what happens is done because of election cycles and quarterly reports
Listener callout does not have to be part of the synchronous writes. Say if you keep a changelog, listeners can be asynchronously notified. These checks can be batched and throttled as well to minimize call-outs.

I would suspect this is what Google does with Cloud Firestore.
The FTX trial, day thirteen: Sam Bankman-Fried gets a dress rehearsal
Well that's more evidence for it, not an attempt to falsify.

If we want to falsify, we should ask questions like: Was there a time in the past when the atmosphere contained even more CO2 than it did now? What was the temp and did life survive?

What evidence or experiment would convince you the theory is false? Or is that impossible?
Yes, because the corporations are optimizing for cost effectiveness (return on sales or return on investment).

Corporations don't care what the user experience is for its own sake. They care about keeping and retaining paying users. After a point they don't bother making the user experience better, because it isn't cost effective to do so.
> How can we disprove the hypothesis “If we can’t disprove it - it isn’t science.”?

That statement isn't science. It's a definition. It's philosophy of science. It's the briefest summary of Karl Popper's definition of the scientific method. According to him, science can never be proven, only disproven.
YouTube has already implemented Premium-only quality in a form of 1080p Premium, i.e. higher bitrate 1080p. Though they don't seem to be worried that yt-dlp can download it without a subscription. Maybe they will make 2160p option Premium in the future, the backend is ready.
Generating a table schema per airtable spreadsheet sounds like an anti-pattern to me.
Smithsonian to Open First Public Display of Asteroid Bennu Sample
The NYT doesn't get everything right, but they still have a strong reputation for factual reporting. when they do get something wrong, they generally print a retraction and it is a big deal. I don't think it is fair or factual to say that almost everything they write is fiction.
This sounds like a toxic incel point of view.

If you talk to women like they're human beings instead of bizarre creatures that you need to manipulate into mating, this doesn't actually happen.
I’m not sure if it’s available on the X or not, but it would make a lot of sense if a certain level of hardware acceleration is required to do this OCR in the background with little to no negative impact on battery life. The X’s SoC can probably handle one-offs just fine, but it might not hold up as well to the OS churning through photos OCRing them in the background.
Half of the product managers I have worked or interacted with don't have any real expertise and seem to have just fallen into the role. As a result, I don't think they often understand the complexities of their cross-functional stakeholders/peers and how things need to be completed in order to deliver a functional deliverable.
By not writing off everyone who is religious as categorically wrong or incorrect in every other category?
The iPhone X had excellent camera and photo/video processing. So much better than the earlier models; from the X up to today's model it is much more marginal improvements. Really nothing I notice as a casual user.
I’m currently running 25mpw, and have maxed out my free time available per week (3 children). The only way I can do more distance
And experience more woods is by running faster :)

If I weren’t time constrained I’d def be happy continuing to jog, I feel like slower speeds are less injury prone for myself
This was my question elsewhere, but I'll put it here too because I'm really curious: Are most women really able to look at a guy in-person and know that he's 5'10 vs. 6'0? Or is it mostly abstract and only becomes an issue because height is explicitly listed in online profiles? I suspect the latter, and I think you're saying the same.
so they seized the domain kinda like you do with malware?

it's unfortunate that the only button for Vercel admins is "seize everything in this account", as that's a bit imprecise if one domain is hacked

but if it's a person willfully violating TOS, then it's not really a hacked box, it's an intentionally created thing - and maybe that means that person shouldn't be a customer of Vercel anymore.
I agree that that particular point is one of the biggest problems when it comes to translating scientific understanding to public policy.

Can there be "settled science"? What is considered an acceptable level of skepticism?

Governing society is largely based on rough estimates of ROI and optimizing for certain value systems based on minimal firm data at best. Often under time pressure.

The problem is that it's easy to generate bullshit skepticism to lock up the process (to benefit the status quo) whereas it takes lots of effort to scientifically disprove and debunk the bullshit. We generally use appeal to authority as a shortcut to overcome this effort asymmetry.

The thing we need to be clear about is when/how that is a valid tool for public policy, but not science itself.
As a user, I have a right to control what is executed and rendered on my devices. It's not the user's fault that internet advertisements have become a security threat, a significant visual nuisance, and now an environmental issue [1].

Additionally, for those with neurological issues, I imagine using a browser without content blocking must be unnecessarily difficult. It would be a tragedy if these users lost control over the content rendered in their browser.

Additionally, for those with family members who struggle with discerning scams and other forms of manipulative advertising, content blocking is a legitimate tool for mitigating this risk.

[1]: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340321563_Energy_Co...
> The most unexpected thing is that when I actually wanted one, the process took over two years. And that was after a year or so of periodically mentioning it to the doctors, who would give me a sheet of numbers to call

What? When my GP decided I was at risk for cancer of the colon I was scheduled for a colonoscopy within a couple of months and I didn't have to call anyone. This was in Norway.

But also, didn't your GP examine you?
check out the detailed negative and positive points
An interesting idea for sure. I spent too much time worrying about fragmentation on Linux and ended up with jemalloc (based on Firefox not the default).

I also had a local thread based pool I hand wrote for fixed sized objects that were generated en masse.

I did look at the boost library pools too.
Think of the "formal project" is the API by which executing the design can be understood by all stakeholders.

It is a high level abstraction that allows all parties to understand what they need to do and when they need to do it. For large projects it is simply essential - you need your external vendors to plan their availability, months or sometimes years in ahead, so that they can commit to the timeline.

If you're lucky enough to work on large software projects where there are no managers or other stakeholders asking "and how long will this take, exactly?" then maybe the design is enough.

But pretending planning ahead on large projects that is something that will just happen by osmosis or people "just doing it" simply won't work. Good project managers who do what they're supposed to are worth their weight in gold (just like good product managers).
Wow, I guess this was un-funny enough to warrant downvoting.
I wouldn't say that the best way of thinking about it is the blanket analogy because conduction is _not_ the primary way that the earth sheds heat, convection in the mantle is.

Though I haven't run the numbers, I would strongly bet that the core would be _hotter_ than it is right now if the mantle did not have internal heating.

The reason being that, the rate at which you remove heat from the core (e.g. the rate at which the core cools) is entirely determined by the rate at which mantle convection removes heat. Radiogenic heat is a _strong_ driver of mantle convection in the earth, without radiogenic isotopes you would get much more sluggish mantle convection and a much lower rate of heat removal from the core.

The reason for this is twofold:

- Internal heating leads to higher temperatures which leads to lower viscosity and more vigorous mantle convection
- Internal heating will locally heat cold "blobs" and make the buoyant

I would also (much less strongly) bet that plate tectonics would not occur without internal heating. We only see plate tectonics in a narrow slice or parameter space in mantle convection models and once you get plate tectonics you get _much_ more heat removal and _much_ faster cooling.
At this point I don't think anyone over the age of 3 doesn't know what YouTube is. I don't think much referring is happening by you.
Agree. Many are ignoring the fact that these ads aren't all traditional advertising.

Particularly appauling in my view is the propaganda:
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/clive-palmer-spends-...

We saw similar things with The Voice referendum recently.

When someone has paid to manipulate society en masse, and there are no more targeted controls to stop the content being forced on you available, why is anyone surprised people choose to filter that?
Sveltroid – Metroid Prime Demo Using Svelte, Three.js, and Cannon-Es
One is free high quality security software, and the author doesn't even accept donations. The other is "free" videos that come with malware.
It's rare I find myself reaching for the adjective "Panglossian".
Boy, these responses to the question I asked are terrible. They must have gotten loose on their way to a "Dear Lazyweb" post by jwz.
winget supports multiple sources and you can filter on them. One of the default sources is 'msstore' and includes the Microsoft Store and it shows all that junk unscrupulous vendors have added. (Keep in mind it is all reportable if it is pretending to be an open source tool but not from an "owner" developer. `winget show package-id` used to include the Store reporting URL but doesn't currently seem to show it. Maybe it was abused?) The other source is 'winget' which is mostly powered by an open source repo [1] that you can file issues against and even try to make PRs.

So far the "winget" source seems relatively well curated. `winget show Package.Id` seems to me reliable at matching up official sites/GitHub releases for that source.

At times I'm tempted to `winget source remove msstore` because it is full of so much junk, but I still also appreciate being able to manage store installs with winget.

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
12ft hasn't worked against many prominent U.S.-based site paywalls for a while now even though other paywall-bypassing methods still work on those sites. So I had presumed the author had already been catering to some of these angry letters sent to him. Author did mention he had received at least 4 E-mails regarding such matters from Vercel in the past year. Vercel probably resorted to the nuclear option to finally get his focused attention.
Ask HN: How to Blur Faces in Photos
I am aware that most simple methods can be undone by a decently motivated threat actor but am not sure what method(s) actually are effective. Anyone have guidance for most effective way in 2023?
Excluding emergency situations, the biggest issue IMO is diagnosis. So many tests, scans, listening, observation, etc. is all about understanding what the problem actually is. Once you accurately identify the problem, treatment can be effectively given (if one exists) via the current system.

For mysterious problems that elude a simple diagnosis you can really be stuck. Most doctors don’t have the time for complex cases. It’s worth becoming your own health researcher if no one else can identify the issue.
David Kirke, performer of first modern-day bungee jump, dies aged 78
Cool. I'll check that course out, at least for an overview, to start with.
This brings up an interesting insurance debate. On one hand, you should have the right to drive around whatever expensive-to-fix car you want and be entitled to not getting hit, or at least reimbursed if you do. On the other, this doesn't set up good incentives. You have less skin in the game when it comes to repairs, so that's not a factor you look for when buying a car. The at-fault party's insurance should only be responsible for the repair cost of a median car with similar damage?
HN turning into reddit now
Tangential, but I quite like the error page. Informative, concise and avoids any confusion as to what is going on.

> This Deployment has been disabled.

> Your connection is working correctly.

> Vercel is working correctly.

> If you are a visitor, contact the website owner or try again later.

> If you are the owner, please contact support.
Attention and personal information are not a valid payment methods. Either charge money up front or accept the risk we're going to delete your ads and block your tracking.
Last time I looked there's at least several tens of papers of chemists rediscovering that getting a chemical equation to balance is just finding the null space of the corresponding matrix.

Maybe I'm being too critical, but really I don't understand why papers on the subject exist in the first place. Finding null spaces is solved, you just need the one paragraph pointing out the equivalence between the two problems, there's no real need to investigate much further. I mean there's only 90-ish elements that can reasonably participate in a chemical reaction in the first place so the largest linear equation is pretty small, there's not even any need to go looking for a more efficient calculation.