skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi,

(I don't know how familiar you are with the following topics).

As long as your documentation is just plain text files, it can be versioned easily. In fact, many people have used github to create whole books about many different subjects. It ties nicely into the "issue tracker" functionality, cause you can use it as a starting point for discussions that later turn into new functionality or fixes.

You can also use the builtin wiki functionality, just got to "Wiki" on a new repo and click "new page". This has the added benefit that you don't really need to understand the git tool itself and you can start creating content right away.

Either way, I recomend looking up "markdown syntax", as it is very convenient when you're writing a book and its also used for the wiki functionality.

Hope it helps!
- "I would expect factories to do batch testing as part of internal quality control"

They generally do not!

- "The lack of regulation leaves much of the monitoring of heavy metal levels to companies. [Consumer Reports] contacted all the ones with products in our tests to see how they limited heavy metals."

- "Of the companies that replied to our questions—Al Wadi Al Akhdar, Costco, Bolner’s Fiesta, Gebhardt, Litehouse, McCormick, Roland Foods, Spice Islands, Target, and Whole Foods—a few said they require their suppliers to have a program for controlling or testing for heavy metals. But only three—Al Wadi Al Akhdar, Bolner’s Fiesta, and McCormick—specifically said they test products in their manufacturing plants for heavy metals."

https://www.consumerreports.org/health/food-safety/your-herb...
I'd personally love to have an E-Mail address ending with nuke.africa. If you can't understand that it's satirical/jokey, I feel bad for you.

Some people are way too serious on the Internet. If you are offended by a bunch of words without proper context you really need to go outside.

Also see this thread that discusses this at length: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33142122
You don't have to impress your peers, you have to impress everyone else. Also interesting is speed vs complexity. It is equally impressive if you can do dumb things really fast. You have to focus on reducing the time wasted between the simple tasks. In an ideal world you'd have a dedicated computer to do a single dumb task with everything optimized for it.
No, you can't. Many combinations do not merge at a nucleus at all.
How? It takes a tremendous amount of lead to cause acute lead poisoning. That's not something that normally would occur from contamination or even intentional adulteration (like is done with tumeric).
The ISP that services our apartment building has static IPs available. Residential and commercial are just billing SLAs. The actual network equipment treats you exactly the same. It's not like they are rolling a separate fiber for ground floor commercial and residential services.
I worked in a Food Safety lab, most of our customers were businesses selling food products, but we did have someone that sent us a can of coke every few months for, I assume, his own piece of mind.

The panel of things you can test for is large, but not super cheap.

As an interesting aside regarding testing, in addition to food you can also test control points along the manufacturing process. For example, ultra-sensititve tests on sewer output that detect contaminants is a presumptive bad resultfor the material created since your last all-clear and you then identify what broke and what food isn't good. It some cases, for some contaminants at well-chosen control points, this is a much cheaper and just as reliable way of ensuring safe food.

Food safety is a huge industry. The teeth are generally only as sharp as the legal framework mandates but the capabilities are there on the testing side.
It's dangerous if you get really strong and keeping pushing the envelope, but at "gen pop" levels if your form is good, you use safeties, get a spotter where needed etc you should be fine.
Discussed previously:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38167604
That's not really true generally if your margins are low and you include all the taxes paid by the worker e.g.

A very oversimplified example (which I think should be somewhat approximately accurate):

- Your revenue is $100 + $21 (VAT)

- $40 goes to suppliers and other expenses

- $40 goes to labour (let's say they pay ~$18 in taxes)

- $20 is gross profit (you pay ~$5 in corporate tax on that, 25%)

on top of that there is VAT which is another ~4$.

So you end up with a profit of $15 and 'pay'(or rather 'generate') $27 in taxes (and you still need to pay personal income tax when you want to cash out).

And I think an 20% operating margin is pretty good for most businesses.
Yes! 2023 was one of the best years by amount of well-received games in a long time and I can't agree enough. Some people will disagree but I think it's a very cheap hobby too, you can get dozens if not hundreds of hours for the same price as semi-expensive dinner at a restaurant. Many of games I played are pure art and I admire all the hard work that goes into making them. I cringe when people dismiss gaming as a childish hobby and then proudly say how they binged a netflix show, or did some similar activity for "real grown ups (TM)"
Who would want to experience more fear in safe situations?

> This part of the prefrontal cortex is thought to sustain emotion regulation, such as decreasing fear signals in the context of a safe situation.
What age range is 'older' here?

Controls have gotten easier in my experience, at least on anything made for a mainstream audience. Recently it came up on a podcast with a game reviewer among the hosts that games nowadays seem to all have a setting where enemies can be beaten by looking at them angrily and how it's basically story mode at that setting, and how much that's doing for inclusivity and how many non-gamers they've seen play/enjoy such-and-such game.

More anecdotal, my partner started playing hogwarts a few days ago and wanted to set it to easy. The default was normal, and there's also "story mode" and "hard" available at opposite ends of the spectrum. She's terrible with wasd+mouse (her own words, but I concur) and wanted to go for easy but I encouraged her to go with the default setting, figuring that'll be balanced to be enjoyable for Harry Potter fans (who are book nerds, not necessarily gamers). So far, she's managed to beat everything in one try!

I'm surprised you experience the opposite
> What exactly the word "version" means depends on context. If you put your essay under git, you probably want to track how it was changing with time.

In other words, the history.

> It's not a useful information and it never becomes a "version" of a shared project, because why would it?

Because the real world doesn't match your ideal of how software development works. You need the full history because sometimes innocuous looking "simple fixes" are neither innocuous nor fixes, and because obscuring the history makes auditing and merges more difficult, not less.

> It's just confusing and wastes people's time on review, and makes things like blame and bisect harder to use.

So blame and bisect are poorly written therefore you should hack around them using a convoluted process that obscures the true history and raises the risk of requiring people to redo weeks worth of work by overwriting branch histories on shared repos. Great idea.

The authors of Fossil and Sqlite did a complete breakdown of everything wrong with rebase and what a proper tool should do, so I won't belabour the point further:

https://fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/rebaseharm.md
I'll take it if you still have it? chris@extrastatic.com.
The vast majority of machines are not using a kilowatt and the vast majority of users are not running anything to deal with the heat. You're an outlier here.
I can't speak for OP, but I did comment how it also made my feel a bit weird, I get suspicious given the amount of shills/plants large companies will create as 'spontaneous' social media success people. Its used to create a more authentic connection to a person who then shills the brand they've been planted by.

Prevalent or not, the ide gives off creepy vibes to me personally .
Without commenting on how likely it is the hypothesis is true, the lead-crime hypothesis has always been academic handwaving to make a different, political point.
Where can I read more about the sketchy boards hosted by the admin?
My office in US has free sodas, snacks, and coffee. As well as free lunch weekly. Not as bad as some people’s experiences here I guess
Damn site is HN-ed. I was looking forward to seeing what it would show me
there's intelligence and wisdom.

To use a car metaphor - there's how fast your car can go, and what direction you're driving it in.

And often the latter beats the former.
Honda's First Electric Bicycle
I never understood why we don't pump and incinerate all non-recyclable waste straight into a volcano and let the lava deal with it!
It is one thing to dump a overvalued company... But all of the weird deals involved and WeWork make whole thing look really bad.

I'm quite on side of caveat emptor on IPOs and SPACs. But it is sad that pension funds and such are many times involved. And entire thing isn't 100% transparent.
At least cards didn't tend to damage you too badly. Before punched cards there was paper tape, which I had to use to program a Varian 16-bit mini in the early 80s. After punching your tape you'd take the reel and feed it into the mechanical reader, which read at a couple of inches per second, steadying it with your hand as it slowly fed through.
I go on vacation. Fast forward to two weeks later, when I'm about to feed my program into the machine, not noticing the spiffy new optical tape reader. I steady the tape with my hand, press start... and it reads at about 10 feet per second. There was yelling and blood everywhere. Quite some paper cut. Cards were very welcome after that.
Yes, most of IBM charged you for coffee. And this is when they were still doing okay. The real gem was around 2010 when my location stopped picking up trash from offices and cubes. You had to dump your bin into the big one at the end of the building.
I am a big fan of Bodhi Linux for hardware limited environments like old laptops and VMs. https://www.bodhilinux.com/
> Their findings showed that ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) thickness of women who were using OCs was reduced compared to men

I would expect the study to compare it to other women not using OCs. Does this methodology make some sense that I'm missing?
>> Is Java in decline?

Yes.

Take a look at the graph: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/java/

Java's original strengths were:

1) "write once, run anywhere": a huge improvement over the platform-dependent C / C++ that was widely used at the time,

2) easier to learn and safe replacement over C++ for many problem domains: finding / growing good C++ talent has always been a challenge

3) large, powerful standard library and massive third-party ecosystem: it made development rapid and much more like building with Legos than rolling your own libraries like many C / C++ shops did

Java's killer use case became backend and middle-tier enterprise software.

Today Java's strengths are less relevant:

1) You can "write once, run anywhere" with containers, Go (easier deployments over Java, lower resource usage compared to Java, easier to learn than Java), or Rust (easier deployments over Java, far lower resource usage compared to Java, harder to learn than Java, more performant than Java).

2) Java never fully displaced C++ for high-performance domains. Go and Rust are solid competitors to both Java and C++ depending on the problem domain.

3) Go and Rust both have wide adoption and third-party ecosystems that compete against Java's ecosystem.

I say this as someone who wrote Java enterprise software for many years. I don't hate Java. It has been very useful and paid my bills for years.

Java is not going away. There is FAR too much software written in Java and enterprises will keep on maintaining legacy software until they choose not to. Java 8 will probably go on for decades as long as someone keeps patching it and selling support. Java will slowly become another COBOL.

>> Was it caused by all that Oracle bullshit in recent years?

Partially.

Breaking changes in how the JDK / JRE worked between Java 8 and Java 9 were a contributing factor.

Oracle's licensing changes caused many enterprises to flee to alternative OpenJDK distributions, effectively causing some mindset fragmentation and encouraged enterprises and developers to look at alternatives.
What claim needs an assumption of being perfectly spherical?

A rotating (or merging) black hole can be deformed (non-spherical), but that doesn't stop you to calculate average density.
You seem to have left out an important detail, why did your house get raided by the police?
> Per-employee profits are far higher than salaries or taxes,

I don't think that assumption at all holds true for the majority of businesses. Even an extremely profitable tech company like Google "only" has a gross margin of around 28%.
Would have been funny if that happened at a libertarian event.

"I can’t see why we need state regulation".
I also struggled with this when watching it. It's frustrating because I am really enjoying the show, it makes me feel like a kid again, but I have such a strong desire for consistent and cohesive world-building.

The trick/explanation/excuse I've been using is that we know our characters are explorers and experts, so maybe the life on this planet isn't as "alien" or "unknown" to the characters as it seems to us.

I've had survival training, I know how to identify certain useful plants or recognize tracks from animals in ecosystems I don't live in, so I tell myself that it must be like that from their perspective. Which lines up, seeing as the character's don't seem to react that strangely or shocked to most of what they see. Even one of them says that their goal is to not only survive, but _thrive_ here until rescue.

Highly recommend it, the trailer gives a good sense of the vibes without giving away too much.
I went to my local Goodwill store looking for the final touches of my Halloween costume. I was disappointed to find the t-shirt bins were completely filled with tech company T-shirts, barely worn.
100%.I was even gonna add to my comment that these psychological biases seem to particularly affect business people, but omitted to stay on point. I don’t think like that, but I also can’t say what works better on average, so I’ll try to stay humble.

Also, with AI there’s not really a “roll your own” option as with Cloud – the barrier of entry is gigantic, which obviously the VCs love, because as we all know they don’t like having to compete on price & quality on an open market.
Public speaking. I started an internal diversity group based on (what I thought would be) a less popular diversity strand and wanted to get better at public speaking and presenting to do the topic justice.

So, I joined Toastmasters. Went along for a few taster sessions and signed up. Quite apart from improving my speaking skills it's actually a lot of fun. I'd recommend it.
> This isn’t a ”copyright risk“, it’s a Silicon Valley corporation getting away with declaring copyright just… obsolete.

While this does not fully represent my views on what's a very complex issue, since you phrased it like this, I feel compelled to say: about damn time someone did it.
I really want Godot to succeed.
Good luck all!
Debit or Credit – A Founder's Perspective
More background on Stewart Brand:

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/stewart-brand-whol...
I’d much prefer these guys generate money rather than be an ongoing cost to taxpayers. Allow them on some kind of supervised work-release program with every bit of income over a certain amount above going towards care for their victims.
> Perhaps the author is biased/doesn't understand common use cases because SQLite has a famously thorough test suite that almost nobody else comes close to

I'm sure they understand the use cases quite well, and designed their Fossil VCS to address these faults.

> And that's pretty much exactly what git rebase is...

Except rebase disconnects it from the history where the author's solution does not. A view on a SQL table does not change the underlying data, it just presents it differently. That's the difference between what the author's proposal and yours.
I develop almost exlusively in Java and as a language it still works extremely well for our use case, and is only improving.

We write financial trading systems which require lowish latency (but not truly low latency) with rock solid stability, monitoring, tooling, etc.

We actually write idiotmatic Java in the sense we don't actually use object pooling etc. We have five 9s latency at below 500 micros. Which people in the industy will know is very much not low latency HFT style, but is enough for our competitive edge. And as I said, we can achieve this while still relying on idiomatic Java, which means we spend most of our time writing feature code rather than fighting the language. And by idiomatic Java I mean the right style for the right part of the code. We mostly write data oriented code, which low touch records/pojos and business logic outside of objects, but there are cases where we're more traditional OO style.

I have ex-colleagues who have moved elsewhere who use non-idiomatic java to achieve < 5 micros fastpath. That was several years ago, they may have improved that into the nanos now.

The online programming sub-culture loves to hate Java, because humans love being part of a fashionable in-group, and it is extremely fashionable to hate Java. Luckily, very smart people don't care about that nonsense and I get to work with a lot of those people.

Summary: I don't know if the stats show Java is in decline, but I doubt it. I still get many high salary job pitches from headhunters monthly.
> You can't scale AND maintain those properties.

zk-proofs allow you to do so. It's seeing very active development, and yes it involves an L2. The issue you seemed to have ignored is that to be able for the L2s to inherit those properties from the L1, the L1 needs to have sufficient expressiveness to be able to build the proof verifiers. I would love to see how anyone builds such a thing on bitcoin.
Cover it up until the Olympics are over?
> the last time I tried to just print “Hello, world!” in either Python or JavaScript, it took me down a hell dungeon of configuration and dependency nightmares.

On Mac:

brew install node
node -e "console.log('hello, world');"

Seems pretty easy?
It is the same here when you are in dispute with the tax authorities - you need to pay them what they demand and only then you can dispute it via the appeals process.

If you don't they attach property and goods from you - this happens rather very quickly than the actual appeal process.
Why is it always lead?
Yes and the most well-known historical cases involved diethylene glycol, not lead. But lead is used, too.
Ah! I think I get it now. The question you have a problem with isn't "Why?" but "Why me?", right? I still think that, even in the context of the aftermath of some disaster or trauma, it's a good idea to ask "Why?" but it has to be an open-minded, impersonal "Why?". "Why did this happen?" rather than "Why did this happen to me?"
Which is supposed to be included when calculating GDP. I think the issue is that the tax system is very inefficient there in the sense that some groups are significantly undertaxed while others don't neccesarily pay that much. This creates the overall impression that "Italian don't pay taxes".
About 5 years ago the lab in Toronto had free coffee but the other offices did not.
> He puts his birthdate in a password

I imagine that date is in a lot of Russian passwords. That was the day of the '91 coup attempt against Gorbachev.
There's nothing about security here. By this logic you should probably stop using hashmaps, then? :)
https://editor.graphite.rs/
It's like Inkscape in your browser!
US offshore wind is holed and sinking
SurfGPT: Chat with Any Website
They print money on hardware (Z), consulting, and red hat. They’re trying to grow in cloud and AI.

They’re huge in IP as well
tl;dr article describing a study [0] by Peyrot,C, Brouillard,A, et al comparing the ventromedial prefrontal cortex volume between the brains of { women using, women abstaining from, women who never used, men } oral contraceptives. They found reduced volume in the brains of women using contraceptives and some amount of recovery in women abstaining. The linked article is ambiguous about whether the effect dampens or increases fear, but the study indicates a correlation between hormonal contraceptives and higher stress.

[0] https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-8512774...

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S00057...
This is why Ethereum is important. It provides a permissionless and public database that anybody can contribute to.
The last paragraph where she describes her life six years later is pretty much exactly what adhd is like.

“I use to-do lists to keep myself on track. I triple-check the rehearsal dates on emails I send my students to make sure I haven’t listed the wrong day or month, although sometimes mistakes still slip through. I also sometimes struggle to remember how far back events in my past happened. I’ll catch myself wondering if I had the oil in my car changed three months ago or a year ago.”

I’ve always regarded the ability to remember when the last oil change or when you registered your car was to be some kind of exotic magic trick that everyone but me can do, like I’m living in a world full of savants with abilities I’ll never have.

My biggest problem on the job is that I don’t really have any sense of how things take; I work on something for as long as it stays interesting or until it’s done. My project time estimates are hilariously bad. I have no idea how long it took me to do something after the fact, until I get congratulated or reprimanded by my boss.

For me, it’s kind of like being colorblind and being told I’m stupid my whole life because I can’t separate the red m&ms from the brown ones.

They’re all brown to me!
It’s worth noting that the ad blocker-blocking is a slow roll-out. People with the same OS and browser/ad blockers will have different experiences. I’ve also never been blocked from watching but I do commonly see “Youtube is not free” dialogs pop up because I’m using an ad blocker. In my case it’s AdNauseam[0] which uses uBlock Origin behind the scenes.

0: https://adnauseam.io/
I enjoy the veritasium youtube channel but it's important to remember that videos like this are enabled by the military as recruiting and propaganda aids. The same is true of channels like Smarter Every Day when they partner with the coast guard or military.
This has nothing to do with security. It's just wasted CPU. I imagine you have to do this every time you make a query to lookup the users DB?

Security is not a concern here. It's just literally bucketing ids. Also, this is not needed with modern file systems.
Isn’t this describing people having “grey market” or worse products confiscated?

If the Apple logo is on a part then the manufacturer likely made that part for Apple under some agreement and the manufacturer is not permitted to make more of those exact pieces for other buyers.

Also if those pieces were made for Apple and didn’t pass QA, then the manufacturer can’t just sell them. They have agreements to destroy them.

If the Apple logo is on a thing then it’s a counterfeit someone is trying to pass off as real or an official part that “fell off a truck” or didn’t pass QA and should have been recycled or something…

If I legitimately paid a manufacturer for a compatible part to be made, I’d expect no logo on it
Single room occupancy (studio flats)
Dell and Lenovo Keyboard Quirks Addressed in Linux 6.7
Did they not carpet bomb the forests with pre-vaxxed chicken heads ???.
Rabies is terrible - dead man walking.
It would be good to know what the "new ownership model" is.