skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually, I suspect that everything in that show was possible in 1999 (the base, the equipment, etc). But no-one wanted to pay the gazillion dollars it would have required.
So how many users in your estimate are aware?

(Opt-in is a method of verifying consent)
So the question becomes "should more taxes be spent to disproportionately favours kids whose parents are uninvolved, in the hopes that they reach the same outcome as kids of the involved parents?"
> Would you feel comfortable saying that a human who isn't bipedal is unnatural and abnormal.

We're talking about the language of science here. Biologists often talk about humans in terms of their biological characteristics. There is no judgement, only classification.

And acknowledging what is normal, is not a value judgement. It's not meant in a hurtful way.

Intent matters.
Now I want to put a banner on my .io website to remind visitors of this story
Have you tried to catch either?
A dull knife, assuming it can break skin, is a far worse experience.
I have cuts from both, but my scars are only from dull knives.
> the state socializes kids.

that's sometimes called indoctrination.
What about them? Are they designed to make you overeat? Or do they fill you up? I don't know which is why I ask. It is possible that they regulated things differently or their food companies had different values so they engineered snacks and fast food to not make you overeat.

As I said, engineering food isn't bad in itself, it depends on what goals you have when you engineer it. Just because Japanese people eat a lot of engineered food doesn't mean it is bad for them if that food wasn't engineered to make them fat.

Many say they slim down as they visit Japan, so I wouldn't rule it out.

What I'd want to see is if two countries that has the same snacks available had vastly different outcomes. But as far as I know most countries has domestic snacks so it varies wildly around the world. For example, why is Czechia much fatter than Slovakia? They were the same country 30 years ago.
yep, advent of chatgpt will enable software proliferation before anything else, developers have become far more powerful now, they can create in more languages and understand complex concepts faster. This will only continue until AI is good enough to work in an agent-like manner with reliable output, afterwhich, who knows what will happen.
In India, you cannot directly advertise alcohol on TV.

So, famous alcohol brands launched soda water, mineral water, and even glassware. One company has music CDs. They advertise those instead.
Absolutely, there are (w)hole branches of philosophy that deal with the void, nothingness and what is between things.
Nothing is without its absence, is it not?
unpopular counter opinion: copyright infringement is good, actually. I don't care that they had Apple's logos on it, it's based that Louis found a way to violate their copyrights on that, we need more like that not less.
Was society better in the past when it was more religious? If you think so, maybe you could give a hint about how far back we might look. 50 years? 100 years? 250 years?

Is there a threshold for belief in God that you think is necessary for a healthy society? 50%? 75%?

It's not true at all to state that morality has no grounding without a "higher power". (See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics)

For example: belief in a higher power simply isn't required to allow people to make their own medical decisions. Belief in a higher power isn't required to give someone food.

It's absolutely fine to propose religion as an ethical framework, but I don't think it can possibly make sense to propose it as the only ethical framework, or to propose that society will become worse if humans "move away from God".

There are plenty of good alternatives.
>that are actually relevant

"actually" stands as a weasel word here. Trying to use the internet w/o an adblock is a daunting experience. When I have tried: I am, yet, to see a single relevant ad shown to me, it's especially funny if you live in a country where you don't speak the local language - the browser preferences/headers(accept-language) are ignored altogether, so pretty much everything "targeted" is entirely useless.

However, receiving an online invitations to learn that programming language is still funny enough. Car ads are funny too, especially if you don't drive at all. Local pizza deliveries, when the same chain won't deliver to the place you live (the IP location is pretty spot on). That kind of stuff: "actually" irrelevant.
Even if they had no designs on Taiwan, China would still be in U.S. crosshairs.
The thing about naming is that it is so closely related to how the problem domain (not business domain, though they are of course related) is understood, and how well it is conceptualized.
There is a new tunnel under Tokyo
Yeah, I think in future I will only list ones that I think are relevant to the job I’m applying for.
I don’t plan to quit studying, it keeps me grounded and focused and I enjoy it.
Calories are equivalent to joules. Diesel fuel has lots of calories, but you probably won't get fat drinking it. (The human body can't process diesel fuel.)

Alcohol is also very caloric, and the human body can process small amounts of it. But replacing cola with alcohol won't have the expected effect either.
I have been hit a lot by the adblock-block and my default browser for youtube was Chrome with uBlock. There was some back and forth and it still worked around 50% of the time. I took the oportunity to try the youtube experience on a brand new clean browser, not logged in. My seed recommendations were 80% right wing and conspiracy material. I humored the algorithm a bit and after three days I was basically in a right wing/anti science/flat and hollow earth bubble. An interesting experience to say the least. It is basically the opposite of my real world interests. I'd describe myself as libertarian and love to learn about different cultures and I do work in academia.

I have since cut my youtube viewing by about 50-80% and am not using Chrome anymore (except for testing/security). Great success Google and thanks for all the idiotic brainwashing content.

I do get that youtube needs to make money somehow and adds are the way. Unfortunately the experienc is so bad, perormance is suffering etc. that I'd rather have no youtube than youtube with adds.
The data will be biased though. Few people will buy new hardware and install old firefox versions.
> i would rather try to catch a falling dull knife, it's safer to catch than a sharp one.

> "never try to catch a falling knife" metaphor for the stock market

I've only ever heard this as literal advice: if you drop a knife, do not try to catch it. Move your feet/make sure the knife doesn't hit you, but do not attempt to grab it.
> the 100(+?)-page ToS, User Agreement, EULA, Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy documentation, you did

Facebook's EULA is over four thousand pages long [1]. Burying info in a bunch of legal text does not constitute informed consent in the EU.

[1] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/terms-of-service-visualizin...
What's great about it? They can't tie to a specific website, the data is dirty with other factors (as they acknowledge themselves), so what's the benefit vs just testing in on an sample of actual websites to see what is slow?
Why People Are Using the Watermelon Emoji in Social Posts About Palestine
>Surely the human understanding component will be whittled down at some point, too, but it's a much much further goal than automating essentially mechanical processes.

Why do you think that?

People used to think that making paintings and poems would be one of the most difficult things for AI, and look how that turned out.
It's more like cars. Different engines have different efficiencies. So filling up a few gallons at the pump will get you less pollution per mile on car A than in car B.

But regardless of the efficiency, if you overfill the tank and the fuel starts to spill on the pavement, that is not going into the milage but straight into the pollution bracket.

The idea that intake is irrelevant is just as ridiculous as the idea that everyone's metabolism is an exact clone.
Stalking and cyberstalking is a criminal offense in many countries.
> Are you saying that a penis is what makes you a male? That a vagina is what makes you a female?

As a rough approximation, yes.

> What about a man who loses his penis in an accident?

He's a man who lost his penis. Statistically insignificant and doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of humans, by far, have either a penis or a vagina.

Again, the exceptions do not invalidate the norm that we all know is true. For thousands of years we've understood human reproduction and the role of males with penises, and females with vaginas.
After that trick there is the trick they did at SNL. And i only just realized what big part Penns ponytail plays in selling that trick.
The person you are replying to is asking about operating costs, not manufacturing costs.
Question from a total noob: How modular are these segmented mirrors? Ie, if the budget runs to 'only' 39m now, is it possible to upgrade it to 42m later by adding segments to what's already there?
I am completely content with inequality
You're correct, that's why having pagefile is important for Windows even if there's enough RAM. Why don't you enable it?
With skill-based matchmaking, why does it even matter? Players should average 50% win/loss regardless of who they are playing against.
I don't agree - you can't just stop using it.
Given the size of facebook (or google, amazon, microsoft, apple etc), they are ingrained in our (tech) life in such a way that one has to invest a - not negligible - amount of work to stop using them.
To sum it up: companies want to have "power", but without having "responsibility".
Both are either introducing or toying with the idea of introducing ads. Because paid + ads still makes them more money than just a regular subscription.

And since the goal is to make always more money the future is gonna be paid subs + ads.
It's honestly incredible how much progress the Asahi team have made with Linux on Apple Silicon. In a few years I imagine we will have Vulkan support, external displays, bluetooth and good performing drivers for most of the hardware.

I swear, the MBP running Linux would be an unstoppable development environment - at least as far as ultrabooks go.

With the developments in Proton, FEX (x86 translation), and usability improvements in desktop linux (Gnome 4x and KDE); I'd go as far to say a MBP running Linux with full hardware support would be the best gaming and general purpose ultrabook on the market.

For now I am testing Asahi but daily driving MacOS.
Scientists program robotic seeing-eye dog to guide the visually impaired
There is: people do travel.
> whimpers all through the night

I just bought two new Sonicare toothbrushes and maddeningly they do this. Toothbrushes.
They could just show dumb ads and it might even work better. It's not so hard, you look at the page /content and get the ad category. I've had Google and Meta account for more than 10 years and all ads are completely irrelevant. I go to r/programming on new browser and they show me ads that actually might have something interesting.
The obvious answer is more calories. The obvious answer for why more calories is pretty obvious to non-Americans - your portion sizes are crazy, albeit everyone else in the world is catching up. Even if you buy a "healthy" meal in a quick service restaurant or as a pre-packaged retail product, the smallest portion size is still likely to be grossly excessive.

The obvious answer for why portion sizes are increasing is that food keeps getting cheaper, in particular relative to other costs in the food service industry. The traditional formula for restaurant pricing is 1/3 ingredients, 1/3 labour and 1/3 overheads; if your food costs have decreased over time but your rent and labour costs continue to increase, it's natural to increase portion sizes to maintain the appearance of value-for-money. The same would apply (to a moderately lesser extent) to convenience foods sold at retail. This has a quite drastic anchoring effect - when you normalise excessively large portions, reasonable portions seem meagre.
Paypal.
Bought 2 but the shop only sent me 1.
The shipping company provided me their weight log show that they have only picked up 1 item.
Paypal refused to refund.
By reading up on those decades-old bugs in the issue tracker, by making said issue tracker easier to vote on and pleasant to look at, by making other easy feedback submission mechanisms that don't become black holes themselves, by many other options mentioned elsewhere
Anti ad block feature, not a bug I guess.
On the last page of the paper [1], the runners' data are shown. Age: 73/59/45/46, weight(kg): 58/76/69/71, finish time: 345/359/440/606, heart rate: 150/145/152/NA. I wish I could sub 4 at the age of 70s.

[1] https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.10.561303v1
"I want my browser to load ads as fast as possible" is an interesting take
Between 2008 and 2018, there's a drop, then recovery, of school funding (back to 2008 levels). That's a decade. I think this underfunding during that period may have contributed a lot to the current state.
I also don't like copyright too much, but that's trademark violation. It misleads people into thinking it's an Apple production which is dishonest.
Chromium (new) EDGE or OG?
Could you clarify what exactly your internal moral voice objects to?

The school curriculums basically boil down to "Most people are either men or women. Some people aren't, and that's okay - you should still treat them like anyone else." Does your internal moral voice object to any part of that, or is it something else I am missing here?

Do you also disagree with schools teaching kids in a similar fashion about the existence of left-handed people, redheaded people, or handicapped people?
are you gonna launch vscode extension as that provides better UX
Interesting video by The Economist. I wonder why it's unlisted? 500 views in 4 days seems low.
Its all about market segmentation. Most 'Pro' buyer application mixes will not feel any significant effect from this restriction. However, those that do will now have to go for the 'Max' and can afford the premium.
YouTube Premium isn't available worldwide.
Hundreds? Increasing user base doesn't matter much for sample size
You CAN stop using them. Do you WANT to? Are you unable to?

Social media addiction isn't a right, and just because you have a share to Facebook or Twitter integration doesn't mean you have to use either.
Don't IDEs highlight variables that aren't read/written to?
In practice it's easier to register a new account in Europe and just use that account.
He was joking
But it's okay for society to destigmatize sexual and gender minorities, right?
People should stop trying to cope and pretend that life is very long when it’s not.

At 30 you’re well into your professional career.
You'll have both. E.g. Tesla's credits litterally fuel the emissions of other carmakers.

Meanwhile the heavily EU subsidized incinerators in the Netherlands are buring up all of the EU's forests to charge those Teslas because some lobbyist managed to sneak in burning wood as a 'renewable' in the 'green' act.

Fossil fuels are about just as renewable as burning wood in reality, not at all, but hey, the Excel says so and if we don't follow the Excel we will be fined, so let them Dutch trucks carry of the last of our forests.
> When we buy a physical product, we accept that it won’t change in its lifetime. We’ll use it until it wears off, and we replace it.

Not true. We accept that physical products WILL change due to wear and tear, repairs, and even deliberate modifications. It's true that car pedals will stay in the same position, and a table will keep having four legs, but their parts WILL be replaced. Physical products can also have bugs, hence the recall campaigns that happen now and then.

Software just makes it easier to replace and modify, and open source allows more people to do that. It just happens that software runs on a physical product (a.k.a. hardware) that has a much lower need for maintenance than a car or a piece of fabric, so you can use it for longer if that pleases you.
gaps means "the lesser-known figures"
SQLite on the Edge: Prisma Support for Turso Is in Early Access
which is why uBO has the option to delay, but also to disable this delay (which relies on firefox enabling the capability to make a choice). Why can't chrome also let the plugin (and by proxy, the end user) decide?
So philosophical.
I listened to the whole Indian Philosophy part [0] of this podcast - all ~20 hours of it, and I can vouch for its quality. It took me some months.

It delves deep into philosophical theories but doesn't use any jargon, so there is no entry barrier and prerequisites. But the content itself is deep and will test your analytical thinking. The content is no fluff or trivialities - be sure of that.

I look forward to listening the episodes on Greek Philosophy, and I encourage you to listen to the Indian Philosophy episodes, as I can guaranty, if nothing else, that it will expand your mind.

Podcast transcripts are available as books from Oxford University Press, too, sans the interviews (interviews are very high quality). I bought the Indian philosophy one [1].

[0]: https://www.historyofphilosophy.net/series/classical-indian-...

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Classical-Indian-Philosophy-history-p...
Text UIs don’t actually require different resolution and refresh rates. Even Macs can boot into a text mode, but there’s no jarring mode-change flicker when it switches in and out of it!

Besides, there’s nothing to prevent you having a nice graphical boot configuration while still having a text version as a fallback (which is exactly what Intel Macs do)
I searched around and couldn't find it.
memcpy is ±99%. The 1% involves bit shifting (nal unit reshuffling, avc3/avc1 fixups).

So indeed, repackaging mp4 <-> mp2 containers is pretty trivial. Nevertheless, Apple initially choose mpeg2TS because it conveniently allowed them to shove the reassembled media segments straight into the dedicated AV chip.
> Japan's caloric intake per capita has declined since the peak in the early 90s.

Couldn't possibly have anything to do with its aging population (median age closing in on age 50). Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37878558
In a surprising finding, light can make water evaporate without heat
I used it to block Twitter's ad bugging me to pay. Funny thing is I can't use the paid version since it's not available in my country. However, the popup kept bugging me
It takes up disk space that I thought I could save. I have it enabled now, as a side effect of working with LLMs on my new computer that only has 16GB of memory (working on fixing that).

I still wouldn't be comfy letting Firefox fill it up, because no matter how large the page file is, your system will always crash when Firefox fills the entire thing. I do not know if my new computer will have this problem, though.
Father*
This is overly dismissive. I wouldn't expect everyone to know that lactose + lactase = glucose + galactose. I do, but I studied molecular biology.
While Nietzsche was generally construed to be anti-religious he had some observations along these lines. He famously said - "God is dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown" and what he meant by it was that while science had eroded the moral supremacy of religion, we now faced a dilemma where nihilism would consume society, and we'd likely proceed to do bad stuff without God's help. Sure enough as a species we have gone on to commit all sorts of horrifying atrocities without the help of religious dogma, last century's mass murders under Nazi and Communist regimes being prime examples, no God required as a justification, it may be even scarier when all the justification you need for murder is the words of some charismatic strong men in politics.

He still really didn't like religion and the morality associated with it, but it seems he was correct when he predicted that getting rid of it would leave a vacuum in people's lives. His solution to all this, the ubermensch stuff, was a sort of radical self-actualization which I feel we've barely scratched the surface of understanding and applying.
The "or you can give up your rights in exchange for a discount" part is the problem. You can't buy a car by agreeing to be a slave for 90 days either.

Commercial subscription services that don't violate your privacy are 100% fine, and incidentally, as xp84 noted, are way healthier because the user is at least a customer. (I dream of a day where companies spend $0 on advertising and instead all commercial websites and social media are run on small subscriptions or frictionless micropayments and the only person they need to keep happy is the customer.)

Of course "free" services have a massive advantage over paid ones. If Meta can profitably run Facebook just on generic ads without tracking, like a newspaper, that's allowed too. But if they can't, well, tough shit.
Agreed entirely. Even more glycemic foods than sugar (which is only half glucose), are not a metabolic problem. I started eating pasta, white bread, and white rice and have been able to lose weight. People on this very forum will tell me that what I do is impossible, but I'm done taking the advice of bots and people who aren't fit. I am downright skinny now. Go ahead and downvote my post, after all HN is an echo chamber full of IYIs and shills, is it not?
Familiarity. Do something mindless over and over. Then do something slightly less mindless until it also becomes mindless muscle memory.

It’s not about memorization. It’s about repetition. Even things that cannot be memorized, like randomly generated puzzles, are solved by this. Through practice and life experience you learn what mindless things to practice and which to avoid.

Things that do not directly accomplish a goal but require intense learning are things best avoided. For example I have spent my career as a JavaScript developer avoiding the large stupid frameworks. This has harmed my career mobility but has allowed me to focus on skills most JavaScript developers cannot do: accessibility, performance, security, A/B testing, test automation, and really just about absolutely everything possible aside from some giant stupid framework API. There are pros/cons to not spending time with stupid. You are far less likely to be hired to do stupid beginner things, like put text on screen and pretend you are engineering, but once you get past that you are suddenly qualified for things that pay much more. This pattern applies to everything even unrelated lines of work.
> I hope that this industry turns it around, and refocus on the prime objective: being nerds.

Actually, the prime objective of the industry is to create surplus value for the capitalist ruling class.

The second software engineer becomes replaceable by AI they’re all gone.
That’s like saying that using a site with moderation rules is asking you to sell your right to free speech, or that going to a nude spa is asking you to sell your right to privacy.

I have no problem with EU regulating what Facebook can do, in the same way I accept that some places might regulate against nude spas, I just take issue with the way you framed it.
That's ironic isn't it.

Can I get this in a gloss?
Not a podcast, but Durant's "The Story of Civilization" is available as audiobooks on Audible. It's something like 500 hours, but hey, a lot of stuff has happened.
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Agreed.

Only way it could be left unclear is if the storage medium was damaged and the relevant bits were corrupted.