skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
power meters and bike improvements (carbon, 3D-printed gadgets, aero, etc) happened around 10 years ago in the professional peloton (give or take)

the dramatic increase in power output happened less than five years ago so it's not about the gear, it's chemistry

we're seeing ludicrous numbers of about 7W/kg on long climbs like we used to see in the worst of the mid to late 90's, it should tell you that what's going on is bad
Then again, a rice cooker with metal or ceramic-coated surface doesn't infuse your grains with microplastics.
Show HN: WikiWho? – A Wordle-Like Wikipedia Based Guessing Game
Heyy,

I've been building this game for the past few weeks and I'm excited to share it with you all.

What is it?

WikiWho? is a Wordle-like guessing game where you are shown a Wikipedia Pane and you have to guess who the person is.

You can reveal more of the pane by clicking on the "Reveal" button, but you lose points for doing so. You get 3 attempts to guess the correct person.

If you can't guess the person, you can click on the "Give Up" button to reveal the answer.

Origin story: I recently sent a screenshot of a wiki pane to a friend and asked them to guess who it was, they were able to guess correctly in a minute or so. I thought it would be fun to turn this into a game, and so WikiWho? was born.

I'd love to hear everyone's feedback on the game, and if it gains enough traction, I'll continue to curate more panes and add more features.

https://playwikiwho.com
Can it figure this one out without any hints? Not base64. Use case [1]

ONXW2ZLUNBUW4Z2AONXW2ZLXNBSXEZJOORWGI===

[1] - https://ohblog.net/about/
I like how you can tell they optimized the assembly line in the places where it was most necessary - not all the stations have automated screw feeders, but the overall flow of the line seems fine, so they must have put them in the places where people were previously spending too much time fishing screws out of boxes, or where screws were frequently being forgotten (thus the counter).

And then at some stations they put the product on a rotating platform (lazy susan?) so that the person doing the assembly can freely rotate it 360 degrees easily without picking it up. You can tell that most of the stations didn't need it by watching how they work, but it must have been a big improvement for the stations that did.
Technology is like fashion trends. In the early 2000's VM's became popular on personal computers (PC's) like they were something new. IBM created VM's in the 1960's.
“Others expressed concerns regarding the impact changing the clock — or not changing the clock — could have on areas that rely on tourism or those with large farming communities.”

https://thehill.com/homenews/nexstar_media_wire/3880009-bill...
Top of the line Zojirushi uses pressure as well: https://www.zojirushi.com/category/rice_cookers/systems.html
Ok but how many teams are building web APIs in C++?
There is something in the middle like VW ID Buzz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_ID._Buzz with the size of a SUV and quite a good range between 400 and 600 km. And without SUV safety issues like limited observability. Not too many Vans like this around, but I think they will gain popularity. Obviously Mercedes Vito will be a good base for EV Van.
Their stock price has been very, very low for a while now. Meaning it would be incredibly hard for them to raise money. Their rocket development program was nowhere close to being finished or fully funded. And even if they could develop the rocket evidence of other such company shows that they need lots of additional money infusions even after the rocket is developed.

So the chances that they could get the rocket up and running were slim to non.

A few month ago they pulled lots of people from the rocket program to the space engines program, a move you would only do because you know you can't finish the rocket and the engines are the only thing that have even a minimal chance to make any money.

Frankly it was clear years ago that this company was going nowhere, they just raised a huge amount of money in the exact right moment. The chance that they would be viable was close to 0%. Anybody still believing in them in the last couple months was borderline delusional.

They are just the next on a list of rocket startups that will die in the next couple years.
That is all confirmation bias and psychosomatic symptoms.
The idea that these 128 lives are different from any other 128 lives in, say, Central Africa is precisely a result of propaganda. Arguably the beneficial kind.

You'll find that you haven't actually addressed that point. Unless you are suggesting that the US was so inbred that all of them were close family members and relations of the people onboard the ship [0]. There isn't any way to know that you're in the same group as those randoms without some serious social legwork explaining that the group exists to everyone, slowly, multiple times, over an extended period. The technical term for that explaining is propaganda. It isn't a truth of natural law, it is very much a social construct.

[0] And, even if they were, there'd still be a lot of connection to other European countries like Germany by similar logic.
Don't restaurants just use big rice cookers, not necessarily high end ones? Those things can make like gallons of rice at once.
Additionally, any result suggesting a new approach has profit potential. If fasting was effective then a pill giving the same benefits would have a big market.
Great addition to a great language.

We've been building a very technical product in F# + Rust for the last three years or so (think R lang + R Studio or Replit but for DSLs we built for finance and contracts).

While most folks tend to see F# as a .NET-oriented/back-end kind of language, they'd be missing some incredibly unique web technologies such as the Fable compiler (F# -> JS, Python, Dart, etc) and Elmish (Elm, but for F# with a JS target via Fable). It boggles my mind that more of the web dev community haven't discovered these tools.

These "communities" fall completely outside of MSFT's umbrella, but are transformative for how you think about architecting applications: Elm as an architecture (rather than as a language) enables a large amount of optionality in terms of what technologies one might use as a "reactivity layer" (e.g. can swap out React for SolidJS or even non-JS targets like Avalonia quite easily if it made sense to).

Our bet is that it enables us to future proof things in a number of unique ways as better WASM-based solutions come online as well that hopefully won't require shipping the whole .NET runtime (e.g. Bolero). The approach is also v helpful in managing state across an otherwise very complex application.
That was my question as well. But perhaps he intended it as a statement of principles rather than a formal recommendation.
I've recently started using rdfind for this kind of thing. It does something that fdupes doesn't AFAICT, which is replacing all but one copy of the duplicated files with symlinks.
Are you faulting the former FCC chairman for calling the Internet America’s most important network when speaking in the context of FCC regulations? Obviously he isn’t making a claim that it is more important than power transmission or our transportation networks because those don’t exist in the domain being discussed.
I mean, if the person just discovered LLMs, sure. But it reads more like they were already using them for some advanced things.
>There's limited interest in it though because most of those things simply have no profit potential.

A cancer researcher could rely on charities, academic institutions, and government grants to fund experiments. There is a lot of cash available to cancer research. If the researcher shows a cheap and effective method to combat even a specific type of cancer, that researcher will get tenure, book deals, and fame. So that's a rich researcher.

Big pharma can be a cutthroat industry that prioritizes profit over public health. But they're not a shadowy cabal behind every bad thing in the world.
The local painter/decorator here has a fleet of L200s, some with open beds, some with covered 'van' beds. Every road he or his employees park on is instantly blocked.

It's irritating af.
The analogy is deep. But actually the relationship is as follows:

P(A u B) = P(A) + P(B) - P(A^B)

P(A ^ B) = P(A u B) - P(A) - P(B)

And to the guy who said xor is addition — no it’s not:

P(A xor B) = P(A) + P(B) - 2 * P(A^B)

In Probability, when you have a space of outcomes, doing a Union on two disjoint events (sets of outcomes) the probabilities add. Whereas doing an Intersection on two non-disjoint events those probabilities multiply. If two events have no outcomes in common, for instance, the probability of them both occurring is zero.

When you “condition” probability on an event X happening, you restrict the space of all outcomes to that set X, and intersect every event with it.

When you condiition B[n] = A[n] given that (A[n-1] AND … A[1]) having already happened, you have a sales funnel and each step is independent of the previous, so the probabilities multiply.

It is also called a Markov Chain if you have a discrete set of possibilities at each step so you can form a matrix.
Personally, I want my browser to do less, not more.
> People are taxed on income (with only certain deductions), corporations are taxed on profits.

Thanks, but you’re just restating the problem. Income is not analogous to profit. We agree on that. Why can’t people be taxed on some measure of disposable income? Income After Necessities or something more analogous to net profit?
Dear Tech Companies, please stop ruining cool words. First you took "uber" and now you're coming for "grok". Please stop!
nowadays I am more interested in a "forgiving" JSON/YAML parser, that would recover from LLM errors, is there such a thing?
That’s really fascinating about the folk music. I understand there have been major losses of life in most countries in this part of the world, in some cases not so long ago.

My adopted son’s biological dad lives in Serbia and I believe he lived through conflict during the early 90s. A staggering number of people died in that period. I’m fairly sure that living through something like that in my early life would have dramatically changed my outlook on life and my behaviour in society.
That way to dooming the west will be fine the rest of the world will just do better then they have been doing the last 3 centuries. It will create a level playing field and the current tier like system.

We are going back to the time where GDP was just how many farmers did your country have. But in 2000s it will be how many STEM people does your country have and how much IP one can create and license. tech IP is like a global rent from everybody that consumes tech.
Email obfuscation has long been pointless, even before ChatGPT. It's unrealistic to think that you can keep spammers from getting your address. Spam filters are the only realistic solution.
I misread this and expected that link to be a 15 year old HN comment from you to OP. I was impressed how quickly you recalled such an old conversation.
No need for an adaptor, the units have a standard IEC 60320 C14 connector and are sold both with UK and EU plugs: https://yum-asia.com/eu/product-category/rice-cookers/?filte...
Israel-Hamas Information War
That's exactly what OP said, but without the catch that it can be added once it has been vetted for safety.
RIP 3D Printing?
If someone asked me to write CSS at this level for an interview I'd probably question the job, because if you have to write CSS at this level for work something is horribly wrong.
> Authorized resellers aren't your "contact with Apple", you can simply buy genuine apple products there. Authorized repair centers can do repair and have access to genuine parts. That's all it is.

The last time I dared to request a troubleshooting for the terrible lockups (sometimes down to the touchpad click not responding directly) that I now believe are caused by swapping (and are present on every ARM Mac I've used), I was offered by the official Apple website to make an appointment at Gravis, an authorized reseller and then perhaps also authorized repair provider.
Squeezing the lemon, the AI hype train continues full speed ahead.
Back when I'd commute a long distance to work (in NYC), it was so demoralizing to be in a 4PM meeting, it be DARK outside, and know I still had the whole trip back.

Remote work has largely fixed that aspect for me at least.
So anyone who’s a role model is a tool builder? Seems like a stretch to me.
I like BeeWare Toga a lot, but I'm having a hard time convincing myself to use it for anything serious. Not because of any problem with the project itself, just because I've realized that it's probably always going to be a niche offering. A few years back I spent a while looking at various GUI toolkit options out there, and ultimately came to the conclusion that cross-platform native UI toolkits are rapidly becoming an anachronism, and I should probably just bite the bullet and learn how to use Electron.

25 years ago, during cross-platform toolkits' heyday, it was a different world. People expected more UI consistency because they spent virtually all their time interacting with native applications. The Web did exist, but it was still mostly just a hypermedia viewer plus a few ecommerce sites. XMLHttpRequest was under development at Microsoft but hadn't made it into any publicly available Web browsers. The initial public releases of GMail and Google Maps, arguably the first widely-used modern Web applications, were still 5+ years away.

Fast forward to now, and everyone's completely accustomed to spending most their time interacting with mobile and Web applications that do heavy custom styling and have very little visual consistency with each other, let alone the host operating system. It turns out that we're mostly fine with it. It's not necessarily that there aren't usability problems; it's just that it turns out that inconsistent control styling is nowhere near as much of a problem as poor layout and flow.

So I think that the "it's good for users" argument for native GUI toolkits has largely fallen by the wayside. They still attract me, though. But for a different reason: Electron & friends have poor developer experience. You have to fuss with at least three languages for UI layout, styling, and control, and quite possibly at least one more if doing everything in JavaScript is not your cup of tea. And, frankly, HTML+CSS is a PITA for layout compared to many native GUI toolkits, and wrapping one's head around modern JavaScript frontend frameworks is a much bigger task grokking APIs like GTK+, Cocoa, and WinForms.

I acknowledge that Electron's easy for Web frontend developers, since it introduces very few new concepts, but for the rest of us I think that there might still be value in a cross-platform GUI toolkit that we can all use from our favorite programming language. But I'm starting to think that what it should really look like is something that's fundamentally similar to an Electron-style "we're just going to give you a canvas you can draw in and some tools for drawing in it" approach, only without all the additional technical cruft and complexity that comes with needing to support - and work through - modern Web standards.

In some ways I like what Flutter's trying to do. But it's tied to a specific programming language that I don't already know and don't feel like learning. And it's treating accessibility as an afterthought on at least some platforms, where I think that nowadays it's a non-negotiable that needs to be baked in from the very beginning.
> The point that nobody wants tabs was handwavy and extremely dismissive of the fact that I actually do like tabs.

You do NOT want tabs and you do NOT like them, but you do NOT know that. You just think you do. Open your mind up.
I don't want tabs, for the most part. I use them for certain specialized activities, but in general, I strongly prefer using multiple browser instances in windows over tabs.

Fortunately, browsers can and do accommodate both of us. I hope they continue to do so.
Propaganda is basically just viral shitty reasoning, where a small stack of memes replaces consideration with cliches. It's the lie delivered between two truths. The filter is based on whether a comment or belief is thoughtful or not. Sure, there are simple things that are mostly true, but thoughtless or rote repetition of them doesn't make them meaningful.

Original ideas can be in service to propaganda, but preferring them imposes a cost that is higher than what most propaganda needs for scale. Your argument is misleading and neutralizing noise and not a counterpoint. Innoculating people to propaganda with humour and dead ideas is probably the most practical way to mitigate its more pernicious effects.

Of course great musicians can be employed to make pop, but when the message is the same, it's like using IMAX to produce porn. See any music awards show.
Shopify's comparison of CSS Frameworks (CSS modules, tailwind, vanilla, emotion)
I know it’s a charged topic, but the interesting bit here is the interaction playing out online between the US and the other countries
Social Security Solvency: A Worry for All Ages
That's the tragedy behind it, since the whole premise on how Itanium was done was that compilers will be able to, eventually, any day now, optimize for it and then you'll see, just wait and then you'll see.. any day now!
You're not the only one. I very rarely have more than two or three.
To be fair, those screenshots are three years old so there may have been rendering improvements since then. Quality can often depend on the selected font as well. A comment in another post from yesterday stated that Noto Sans is currently used by default in KDE and while it might have some issues, the breadth of the font solves other problems.
Plastic could be a similar case. Microplastics in the air and drinking water are possibly a health hazard, yet biodegradable alternatives are more expensive or not as durable. Similar points could apply to chemicals like Bisphenol A and PFAS. A lot of substances are highly suspicious but aren't phased out because they can't be replaced easily.
If the LLM did such a bad job that the syntax is wrong, do you really trust the data inside?

Forgiving parsers/lexers are common in language compilers for languages like rust or C# or typescript, you may want to investigate typescript in particular since it's applicable to JSON syntax. Maybe you could repurpose their parser.
it's been around a long time with serious usage, hn frontpage just doesn't typically provide a thorough market analysis perspective and indeed has many non-expert (in terms of gained familiarity with a correctly broad view of our field) members. still doesn't mean it's necessarily a great choice though
That's very culture-dependent. The PRC has a literal Propaganda Department of the CCP called so in Chinese and until recently in English (It is now called the "Publicity Department" probably because they've figured out how negative "propaganda" sounds in English). It is just accepted that the CCP will provide support for their positions ("propaganda") without providing the "other side". And Vietnam still calls their version a "propaganda department".

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Propaganda_Department_...
> The string you've provided appears to be encoded in Base32. Decoding this string from Base32, it results in:

> "This is a test. This is only a test."

So, it got the base32 part right, but the decoding wrong. I would have been extremely surprised if it got the decoding right, though.
... by destroying marine life before it can stick on. The oldest antifouling were copper plates as they're an effective biocide. Lots of paints still use it today.
> why German keyboards don't have the keys to write „ord“

I'm assuming for the same reason American/English keyboards don't have the keys to write “place”, just "place". Which is because American/English typewriters didn't -- they invented straight quotes to save extra keys. And looking up on Google Images, it looks like German typewriters were the same -- Shift+2 was a straight double quote.

It's my personal opinion that this was the original sin -- that typewriters implemented straight quotes rather than curly quotes, to save an extra column of keys. Imagine there's a parallel universe out there, just like ours, except straight quotes were never invented, and everybody actually types opening and closing quotes explicitly, and word processors never had to invent any "smart quotes" feature at all...

Still, I'm more surprised by German typewriters than English ones. In English, you can "get away" with straight quotes, they don't stick out too badly. But in German, the opening quote is in the totally wrong position, at the top instead of the bottom!
El Niño effect? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/21/stronger...
> this looks ace, so a serious question: is it widely used?

I know some french cloud provider that uses it, and… I'm not sure they're happy with it. Issues with YAQL, a lot of weird bugs. They mentioned Temporal looking much cleaner.
Synthetic textiles also produce a lot of microplastics in the form of indoor dust.
Oh, that's really interesting. That use case wouldn't work for me because I want to be able to access my bookmarks from any browser on any machine -- so I use a bookmark server.
Is there a point to getting a rice cooker over a pan of boiling water?
> Older women [in this context, 30s] come from a time before widespread birth control usage and are used to condoms vs younger women who rely mostly on pills.

Lol? Hormonal birth control has been around since the 1960s. Women old enough to remember a time before the pill are postmenopausal and probably not worried about conceiving. Women in their 30s today grew up in a time of omnipresent birth control.
I wonder: can fast, special-case JSON parsers be dynamically autogenerated from JSON Schemas?

Perhaps some macro-ridden Rust monstrosity that spits out specialised parsers at compile time, dynamically…
Occasionally, yes.

Though the same person who told me this alleged that sulphites tended to cause other allergic reactions, such as blotchy skin / hives. I know one friend who gets those drinking wine.
If OpenAI can generate those for customers they will make a killing. Export the piece out of ChatGPT you care about and run it on-prem for way less.
primary cause of the calendar issues seem to me the entanglement of solar cycle and day cycle. Why do we have to make years divide neatly with days?

Have separate counters for days and years. There could be separate revolution years and rotation years. Moon years could be a thing.
So add it as a repo secret?
Yandex Translate gets it wrong in the same way, suggesting that they also go through English instead of Russian, or something else is going on.
Keep licking that boot, maybe you'll get a scrap!
Could we add (2020) to the title?

> Last changelog: 1.0, 3 years ago
People tend to care more about people that share the same language, culture, history, and geographical proximity. They tend to care less about people they have no such connection with or are not aware of at all.

Again, I really, truly, have absolutely no clue as to why this is so difficult to understand. People can feel a connection to others that they share characteristics with, without it being a deliberate, top-down propagandistic effort.

And as I said in my original comment, the opposite thing (universalism) is actually what must be propagandized [1] in order to spread, as tribalism is, for lack of a better word, the "default."

1. I'm not using the word in a negative sense here, as I generally think it's a good thing.