skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Could I have been a decent mathematician if the opportunity was not missed while I was totally unaware of its existence? Obviously there can be no definitive answer to that question."

But there can be a definitive (personal, subjective) answer to the question "why am I torturing myself with resentment over this hypothetical world which never existed? Why does 'being a decent mathematician' have such a hold over me whereas 'being a decent sculptor' or 'being a decent botanist' is emotionally neutral or disinteresting by comparison?

It's quite possible that studying apple tree cultivation and propagation and plant genetics and growth factors could be the most interesting thing you've never been exposed to a good teacher on, and that you could have had a fulfilling and satisfying career doing that, if only, if only.

> "And it’s also ok to be a little resentful of having been tortured for many hours with something that clearly could have been a lot of fun."

Are you equally resentful of being "tortured" with all the other subjects you don't care about and weren't interested in? Does listening to good music make you resentful of your highschool music teacher? Does listening to people speak Spanish make you resentful of your highschool Spanish teacher? Anything "could have been a lot of fun" with the right people, right? Bad days at work can be a lot of fun with a good team and good management but you don't live in resentment every time you go into a shop where the cashier seems happy, going "Imagine how much better my life could have been, I'm full of resentment of the bitchy store manager I worked for at age 18, woe, woe" - not at all.

With hindsight, there was nothing stopping anyone studying math independently in highschool, forming a study group of friends, trying to make it fun, asking other teachers or students, trying to get some money together to pool for a tutor; pinning the next twenty years of resentment on MRS JONES WHO DIDN'T MAKE MATH FUN AND RUINED MY LIFE is a mental behaviour pattern that deserves debugging - or at least noticing - not defending.
Of course the ball motion is not random. When I was a kid, probably around 1962, my brother and I bought a real Gotlieb Brothers pinball machine from a neighbor who didn’t want it. Over the years I got so tuned into that machine that I would about once a month ‘max score’ the machine with just one ball. It got to be relatively easy to max score it with the allotted 5 balls per game.
> We can find such a solution in the internal accessibility architecture of some modern browsers, particularly Chromium and (more recently) Firefox.

Gray on gray, no scrollbars, no menu, hamburger button. Trully accessible. /s
> There's people I've had a deep relationship with online and when I met them in person there was nothing.

I can't help but feel there's a serious issue somewhere in the reality described in this sentence.
"Overhunting" vs. "undermanagement" feels like a distinction without a difference outside a small circle of purely scientific inquiry.
The promise of Linux is a rock solid stable OS that puts you in control and is free (as in open). It delivers on the open and control promises, the rest not so much
As a counterpoint to the other comments on here… I had a great experience with Tinder as a late 30s divorced single dad. I was able to date a different attractive women every night if I wanted to, and found someone I’ve really liked, and we have been together happily for 2.5 years now. It works so well because you get to see so many possible people, and can find a better match than any matchmaking algorithm or real life chance.

My take is that 99% of the men on there are immature man children whose life is a mess. I have many women friends and the guys they end up dating on Tinder, etc are a low bar- dress sloppy, no purpose in life, etc.

If you want a good partner you have to be one. An app can’t do it for you. Learn to be vulnerable and emotionally supportive, build a career that is interesting and has meaning to you, dress well with a unique sense of fashion, learn to cook well and eat healthy food, get fit, make friends and have fun hobbies. With all of that you will be happy even if single, but you will also be unusually attractive.
I get the “why” of GQL - what I fail to grok is the “when” for many endpoints.

Case in point: Shopify.

They have nominally a perfectly functional RestAPI which they seem to be putting secondary to their GraphQL api.

Take, for example their Customers endpoint [1]. Aside from giving you access to the metafields, I fail to understand why this is even a thing that can’t be done with field selections in the RestAPI.

What is the raison d'être here? What problem does this solve that cannot be solved by just adding in metafields in the RestAPI?

I get that one is not limited to Customers and that, technically speaking you can perform complex subqueries, but that’s not how Shopify “sell” you on the GraphQL API.

It just feels like an unnecessary complication for complications sake, that only makes life harder when automating queries due to the ever changing query cost.

[1] https://shopify.dev/docs/api/admin-graphql/2023-10/queries/c...
The article gives the example of the priest working with the patient’s doctor to conclude his affliction is medical, just as you describe, and not demonic. Patient is disappointed he didn’t get a faith-based reason for his suffering.

I’m struck by this example, because it gives me the idea this priest’s main job is to look for evidence of something that doesn’t exist. Arguably, like SETI research.

…

I’m thinking about this drug addict I met once on a day labor job. He was describing to me how he faked different mental illnesses to get better drugs. I’m guessing there was something underlying, and he’s working from there. The previous guy is looking for a reason underlying his condition. The latter guy is developing his conditions.

It seems like this exorcist job would deal with people on a spectrum of strong religious beliefs—people with rare conditions grasping for answers, people who convince themselves and maybe manifest the symptoms consciously or unconsciously, and people who are truly mentally lost, and I would add, lost in the man-made fiction.

If the church exists for any positive purpose, it’s to help people who are suffering. In the latter type, only a trained exorcist trained in faith and in ‘evil’ distortions of church doctrine could help. Like a specialist software/hardware debugger.

His job is to help alleviate suffering because he has this knowledge of weird, and to protect the church. Like a spiritual fire fighter.
Agreed, I think this is all downstream from recent macroeconomic forces in the west/America. Namely the "land of opportunity" in the post WW2 era has disappeared and the class structure has largely calcified and will carry over multiple generations. The anxiety people feel about not being one of the "top tier and chosen" is because that's the only avenue for social mobility left.

Or maybe it was always mostly BS and the information age where the message is less controlled/manipulated by a few elite owned sources is making that obvious.
Be careful not to suffer vertigo from the dizzying heights of that horse you're on.
Every pun has the possibility of being a fatal mistake!
You could argue that an equal retirement age is equality though.

Otherwise anyone with a health condition that shortens their life span could argue that they should be able to retire earlier.
Since you can't eat for a day before, colonoscopies daily would also prevent death by heart attack as everyone would starve to death in a couple months.
Yup. People badly overestimate the shoe effect, especially.
Hasn't no one tried to approach this with AI?

I'd figure it wouldn't be too hard to record couple of hundred of hours of different kinds of fires burning, maybe "re-encode" / transform all the frames from pixel data to a more convenient representation like motion vectors or something and turn that into some sort of model.

Maybe a ControlNet- or motion model to use with Stable Diffusion? Or some kind of proprietary output model which could be used with video editing software / motion capture?

Usually the hardest part with AI seems to be coming up with the data to train with. In this case, that should be the least of one's problems.

You could even record fires in front of a green screen and, hell, setup it like so that you can control variables like wind direction with fan(s), intensity of the fire, temperature of the fire,...

I might even be possible to train the model "in reverse", in such a way the the goal for the AI is to come up with correct set of motion vectors, when given wind direction and speed, intensity and temperature as inputs. Since you can control these variables and record the real result, you have the ground truth for something like reinforcement learning.

So the question is; am I just overly optimistic and dumb, or isn't this a relatively easy thing to do?
This is a joke made on Seinfeld, about men and women, 30 years ago.
At least in the UK my experience is we don't really use decimals with Imperial units - it seems much more natural to use fractions.

For example, "10 feet 8 and a half inches" not "10.7 feet" (yes I know the rounding is slightly different). For a smaller distance you might say "three sixteenths of an inch" (since thats what the imperial side of a tape measure is typically divided into) though there are some exceptions eg "0.1 inch spacing".

Pints and fl oz the same (you see this quite often in recipes for example) - "1 pint 3 fl oz" or even "23 fl oz" not "1.15 pints". For gallons I think most Brits would likely use a whole number of pints rather than subdividing (ie "21 pints" not "2 gallons, 5 pints").

But I'll give you that we don't really use furlongs outside of horse racing :)
It can happen to foreigners in a left-side-traffic country when they are used to right-side traffic. Or vice versa.
Another one I found funny is we Americans usually say "He thinks he's hot shit" while the Brits say "He thinks he's shit hot."

I feel the Brits had it the right way and the Americans oddly reversed it.
I have always interpreted “I could care less” as something like “Well, it is technically possible for me to care less.” Like, if you ask someone “how was your food” and they said “it was edible” or how their trip went and they responded “we made it back in one piece,” they don’t seem to be saying something good.

Describing a very low lower-bound doesn’t technically say anything negative, but it sure implies it.
"Little" annoying? God, having your rectum just spewing out urine-like shit as if it were a water tap is absolutely awful. I can't imagine doing that and then having a tube going up your damaged ass without anesthesia
A theory that Mars lost its magnetic field and then its oceans (2022)
> For the first time in history, women have the economic independence to walk away from a bad deal, and guys have up their game as a consequence.

I see variations of this statement all the time. This weird, almost gleeful misandry masquerading as a historical perspective. It needs to stop. It has poisoned all our interactions and it is hurting people.
As long as it gives device manufacturers an excuse to pat themselves on the back for updating some almost-current devices and phase out some others, they will be happy. And customers rejoice because UI change for change's sake is rarely an improvement.
But the article is about so many examples of unsuccessful illusions. So that's what I'm questioning: do we really have the technical ability to create realistic-enough fire in these types of complex scenarios? Even given a reasonable but realistic timeframe?

Just because we can easily make realistic-enough fire in some scenarios doesn't mean we can in all. And clothing on fire on a human body in motion in the wind sounds like one of the hardest scenarios of all.
> Nix is a declarative OS

I think precision is important.

"Nix" refers to the package manager (and the language the package manager uses).

Whereas it's "NixOS" that's the OS which makes use of Nix to manage the system configuration.
I think comedians and humourists are teachers. They examine things in new ways and show us how to look at our condition. Laughter comes from the joy of learning.

Comedians from earlier generations are less funny because their message has been absorbed into our culture, and what they discovered then, has become understood, accepted, and is no longer new or surprising.
This is kind of the point. Built in interfaces require tuning to fit a given situation. And the alternative is a starter/scaffold generated on demand and then extended, or just a fully custom built solution (which, if one’s design is good and the framework is good, is low effort).

As with all frameworks, the freebies usually have less value in real world situations than we imagine they would.

So choosing a framework based on the freebies is extra risky.
That's mostly time-of-use though.
> I thought the website was some kind of a joke but I guess not.

It's a real "problem" AND it's a joke. A joke website about a real "problem".
> Giving a shit makes for a more happy customer, but cutting a board oval shaped is what they do in a workshop for breakfast.

Maybe. It could also be that the majority of their customers only want boring non-oval shit most of the time. So the chance to flex a bit on a "non-standard" order and getting to actually demonstrate those skills leads to a much better outcome for everyone including the craftspeople.
unless they use a cdn with a hostname like imagemagick-14.akamai.net
This thing has 233k stars. I dare to say, without evidence, that the vast majority of devs does not know what e.g. the CAP theorem is——and they’ll never need it. The vast majority of “systems” are small-scale. Who’s this massive audience?
I'm still flabbergasted that anyone in the face of the planet even considers doing a colonoscopy without sedation.
My conspiratorial (*completely evidence-free as far as I know) theory on hookup apps is that they're secretly backed by the major pharmaceutical manufacturers of various STD treatments.

The numbers are interesting: there are about 32,000 new HIV cases in the USA each year, and the per-month cost of ongoing anti-retroviral therapy is estimated at $1,800 - $4,500. This works out to a gross cost of ~ $0.7 billion to $1.7 billion - and it's cumulative, year after year. as HIV patients need this treatment for the rest of their lives. Given profit margins of 10-15% in pharma at least, this is a huge cash cow for the industry. (Also explains the reluctance to invest in seeking a permanent cure for the disease that would allow patients to terminate their therapy).

Now, would a profit-hungry industry deliberately encourage reckless sex practices in order to grow demand for their product, year after year? It might bear some investigation.
It has nothing to do with the amount. It’s an uncommon item with real value. Gold stars and lollipops are not US currency.

Also, I hope most people don’t believe a gift of less than $10 usd is an insult. It’s not nothing.
Almost half of Gen Z viewers want less sex on screen, study finds
I love this analogy. Not only is it a good analogy, the underlying mechanisms causing bugs to be drawn to light and humans to be drawn to instant gratification are both results of our biology and evolution through thousands of years of life before modern civilization, and both can have really devastating outcomes in modern society.
Explore the file system via chdir and ls (or ls -l), see what programs there are under /bin.
Compile a C program (e.g. from ken's home directory) with cc and run it. Read the v6 man pages: https://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/ Learn ed and write your own C program.
it's a novelty, they're not super common, and it has nothing to do with the monetary amount. Gold stars don't have any value either, yet they can represent something really special to both the giver and receiver.

You should try and look past the literal aspects of things.
I've been through hell and back on both Windows and MacOS with application signing. It's only getting worse.

First thing I have to note is that this really makes me want to offer anything as a web app. The browser offers a much better experience in so many ways and security is a well thought out integrated experience unlike these 25 year old operating systems bolting security on as an after thought. Clearly no one at Apple cares about this but that would be funny if this was the crack in the dam that broke down their hardware software monopoly.

Second thing is why can't a third party offer this as a service? I'm not limited in the number of apps I can sign technically, right? Why would people using my app care that the certificate says it is signed by me instead of (trusted by the os) ABC, corp that (Microsoft|Apple) says in their overlaid dialog they trust. They could revoke something in the chain but it's technically possible right? Is this explicitly prohibited in some EULA I accepted in a brain fog?
>Tinder and Bumble are in decline

do we actually have any evidence this is true? people have complained about dating since we were neanderthals; articles like this have written themselves for the past decade
Solution 26370: Removing a new Texas Instruments calculator from the package
Google announced you'll be able to use Claude via GCP Vertex AI soon.
If I remember correctly, this tiny binary is used to (reproducibly) bootstrap the next binary, which bootstraps the next binary, until eventually GCC can be compiled (and compile other software).
Yes...

Obviously every alternative has its own (dis) advantages.

If you want other's money you need to convince them. That means a lot of extra work writing plans, and when you receive the money you are inmediately diluted.

For that reason I always pursue ideas I can start developing on my own... And it is then when I find my main weak point: I don't have enough time...
The nitrogen oxides that are produced are gasses at room temperature.
Two dollar bills are really cool. I haven't even seen a 50c coin myself, need to track one of those down.

Looks like you can get $100 worth of half dollar coins for $147 from the US Mint https://catalog.usmint.gov/kennedy-2023-half-dollar-200-coin...
Show HN: I made a bookmarks app using Flutter and FastAPI
Hey HN!

Every time I read any large book, and get back to it after time, I don't seem to remember anything. I used to make bookmarks using dog ears early on, but growing up, I realised that degrades the quality of the page.

Since, my phone is always I available with me, I thought why not store the bookmark digitally, and that's when I came up with the idea of Bookmarks IO. You can also add some notes regarding the context so that it is easy to maintain the flow.

For all my fellow readers, I hope you find this app useful, as much as I found it to be!
I’m not a fit person but when I see someone running like that (the Freeze in the video) it just looks so beautiful to me. Seeing a human body functioning at such a high performance, thinking about how many hours and how much effort that guy went through to get to where he is, I just feel like tapping him on the back and saying “great job dude”. It’s a bit like when I see some great feat of engineering, like a big bridge or a massive building or a nuclear reactor or something like that. It just makes me wonder how awesome and amazing humanity is.

Conversely, this is also why I get so annoyed when I hear people say things like “I like dogs more than humans.” I mean come on just look around you at the wonder that is modern society. Sure there are problems sometimes but to think that we can keep this extremely complex system, entirely in parallel and distributed, from degrading into total caos is just incredible.
Yes. If it finds anything you get called very high risk and get right in. My doctor sent me to cologuard because the people doing colonoscopies had a year long waiting list, I don't need to get in, but if the test found something they would let me skip the line and i'd be in a few weeks later. Since it didn't i'm not in line at all, but I need a new test in three years, while the colonoscopie is good for ten.
The same thing appears to have happened last year and in some previous years. Are there developers other than the individual who goes by zedeus on github?
That article is absolute ignorant garbage.

> "An ammonia engine is a type of internal combustion engine that uses ammonia as its primary fuel source. What makes ammonia unique is its composition[...]"

No shit, Sherlock. What makes anything unique is its composition.

> Another, more complex method involves using ammonia as the primary fuel source, relying on advanced technologies like spark ignition [...]

Hold me...
Serbia-Siberia is also a common one.

I know that it went wrong when a follow-up question to "Where are you from" is "Is it really very cold there?"
I think it's a conglomeration of issues _including_ unaligned incentives of the companies vs their users. The fact that they're nearly all self curated profiles is a symptom of the former.

The core "Apps" don't want the real you with all your idiocracies and flaws, that won't sell the most subscriptions. They want the heavily curated "you", which inevitably becomes a bait and switch for someone else when the idealized you is replaced by IRL you.

With the newer generations fully online for their lifespans, it may be an interesting (and dystopian) exercise to use a specially trained LLM with hooks into social platforms, long form writing, etc to "summarize" ones "life corpus" instead of relying entirely on self reporting and curated images.

PS I'm half joking half not.
I cannot begin to express how dumb most comments are in this thread.

It's simply dumb to believe that you can change the way of living which was going on for all of human history and still have people undisturbed, without friction with their very biology, and in peace.

Humans don't evolve in a century or two.

This doesn't only apply to relationships either. Cities, technology, everything.
Ah, the uncommonness aspect is completely lost on non-US audiences (such as myself)
Tao Te Ching – Gia-Fu Feng, Jane English Translation (1989)
That logo is not only ugly, but functionally deficient when it comes to hardware.

This design can only be applied to equipments as a sticker as it is impossible to directly imprint into the mold.

Not only this increases the cost (negligible, I know), but for devices that are meant to be used for years, it will just degrade and won't be as visible.
The water freezing outside may buffer temperatures right at the freezing point, so it may not require much heat to prevent frost on the inside.
Ideally you need at least two hobbies: one that you and your Tinder match have in common, so you can do it together, and the other one that is weird and unique so you can impress them, and sustain their interest :-D
Yeah, that's grossly too inefficient. This is nothing more than a lab curiosity.
For some reason a lot of documentaries or books on bison neglect to mention that these herd animals had a presence in ever US state except Hawaii. Have not seen this new film, maybe this is mentioned there.
prime testing is much easier than factoring. you need to factor to break rsa
What a long article to explain what could have been summarized in one phrase:

"Kill every buffalo you can. Every dead buffalo is a dead Indian"

That was the de-facto policy of the US on the American bison.

An explicit policy of animal extermination to achieve human extermination. A policy that would later inspire the most horrible events of the 20th century.

The reason you don't know many Native Americans today, and most people you know either come from Europe, Africa or Asia but not here.

Everything else is revisionism, obfuscation, dillution of important events in oceans of irrelevant text, and waste of time.

Bisons were killed and their bones were processed into fertilizer.