skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have choice. You can do shitty work. Which is what I see in most cases -- managers happy to take on new reports but unable to actually manage them. Work piles up and progress grinds to a halt as the manager becomes a severe bottleneck.

Par for the course is blaming that their team is too large and the team is broken up and they become a director with 2-4 reporting line managers.
You could have just moved the repetitive math into separate functions and called them from the resize functions.

The resize functions themselves only looked repetitive because they were forming an interface, which is why refactoring them away was wrong. But the math they performed is a perfectly valid target for cleaning the code.
post the question here, rely on the wisdom of crowds!
Deflection and sarcasm is all you have to offer.
This is often stated but I think often it is forgotten what is a model. It's not just "the algorithm." The metric is a model (the Wasserstein distance between norm layers of a discriminator is not image quality. Entropy isn't language). The data is a model (scraping all the internet isn't human language nor thoughts). It's important to always remember that these things too are models. Often proxies for things that are intractable. They are fine to use, but not fine to forget that they are not perfectly aligned. They are maps and to use another clique, the map is not the territory (no matter how detailed that map is).
Yup, that's what I'm dealing with and it sucks.

I am typing this from a phone that I am already considering replacing for this very same reason although it does everything well and I looks brand new (rubber case, screen protection, etc.).

I understand phones are harder to upgrade because space is very limited but the e-waste we're generating (and the money impact) seems something that needs to be addressed.
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Both. Just disappeared from my purchases. It is installed on one of my devices, and in android there is a button that leads from an app shortcut to Play Store page [0], but pressing it just brings you to a blanc page that displays an endless loading indicator.

[0]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.twodboy.wo...
I remember my first HTML was built by Microsoft Frontpage 97 on my Intel Pentium mmx 166hz + 8mb edo memory + s3 Savage gpu, and the ie3.0 was keeping crashing.
Of course! And I support anyone who talks with their wallet, but that's not what's going on here...

If Bob has a personal problem with Musk, then let it be know. I could totally understand that, especially after Musk's recent interviews.

But hiding behind a virtue signalling flex when Disney are actively supporting platforms that are as bad or worse is straight up hypocrisy.

Even if we ignore the child abuse and focus on antisemitism, it doesn't take long to find out how bad Facebook is:

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58058428
Anti-Semitic social posts 'not taken down' in 80% of cases - 2 August 2021
"Facebook was the worst performer, CCDH said, failing to act on 89% of posts."

Similar articles can be found on The Guardian, NPR, and many others.
And this is the actual danger of AI, not the doom and gloom of "AI will wipe us out".
Also keep in mind that this strain was discovered about 50 years ago in a human host (the "grad student" reference). The tech is in mutating it further to prevent adaptation, but the beneficial mutation (secretion of mutacin-1140) appears to be the product of natural evolution.
The Russian peasant built their brick ovens with a flat top large enough to lie on. This gave them a warm place to sleep or lie down.

It is explained in the footnotes on the linked story.
A thing that makes other forms of transport slow is called an urban freeway.
I guess it's a perception thing but I feel as if this becomes more intuitive if you look at it as 1 in 20.

Amongst a group of 20 people you know, assuming you haven't just picked 20 people with highly correlated hobbies (e.g. 20 software devs that like to game), each person is probably going to have "their thing" and they'll be the 1 in 20 or 95th percentile in the group at it. Extrapolate out and there you go.
Yeah, it could supply 60W or even more. But it won't, because most people who care about this stuff set both the charging rate limit and max battery percentage limit in the phone's settings and don't worry about it anymore.
What about almost any other website? Google aggressively abstracts away search terms and very often gives you something irrelevant.
Kind of explains why there are no buffets in Spain. Spanish people eat very healthily during the week but when they eat out, it's gloves off. Meat with meat.
Well, you literally had a backend
Hard to tell. Google does lose data, but they aren't going to own up to it.
Anecdotally, I use a different Google Drive client (Syncdocs) and haven't lost anything. However, I don't know what % of users are affected.
Yeah, two pieces of one device. Could even be an arm band with the detachable display.
[dupe]

Lots more discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38559582
Encryption is an layer to prevent disclosure in cases where offsite vaulting fails to keep data confidential. Backup passwords can be split amongst trusted individuals (N-person keying) so that no one person can access contents themselves, but there is no point of failure when multiple people with the same part of the password.
You can host the independently implemented OSS version yourself: https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

For me the headache of running my and maintaining my own server isn’t worth it (+ would still require a GCP/AWS account)
> The faster one layer slides over another, the more resistance there is; the slower one layer slides over another, the less resistance there is. But the world is not an ideal place.

This seems backwards. Am I missing something?
Personally I think they run really well on modern OS, I've got Sonoma running well on my 2012 and 2013 MBPs.
That line has always stuck out and annoyed me. What does that even mean in the context of Middle Earth economy? Who could pay that much to determine the price?

Maybe it’s a naïve calculation extrapolated from more realistic exchanges of small bits of mithril for reasonable plots of land? Then if you multiple the land by the amount of mithril in the mail, you get something bigger than the shire?

Maybe I’ve answered my own question now…
Math is an empirical science.
I'm not sure if this was they reason for them, but one potential problem is synchronization between the two bands.
Remember You, from Adventure Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9BGFlDjRlo
We called it "gack", not "oobleck", so maybe it's just a naming thing.
Meta Will Be Rolling Out End-to-End Encryption
> it turns out the doctor's alchemical formula only worked in the first place not because of the salt he using, but because of a unknown trace contaminant in the salt

Reminds me of reading about "Fogbank"...

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

"In March 2007, engineers devised a manufacturing process for Fogbank. Unfortunately, the material turned out to have problems when tested, and in September 2007 the Fogbank project was upgraded to "Code Blue" status by the NNSA, making it a major priority [...]

The experience of reverse engineering Fogbank produced some improvements in scientific knowledge of the process. The new production scientists noticed that certain problems in production resembled those noted by the original team. These problems were traced to a particular impurity in the final product that was required to meet quality standards. A root cause investigation showed that input materials were subject to cleaning processes that had not existed during the original production run. This cleaning removed a substance that generated the required impurity. With the implicit role of this substance finally understood, the production scientists can control output quality better than during the original run."
There should not be a need. There is enough performance, and it has plateaued.
This story was used as a chapter title in Antony Beevor’s book on Stalingrad (or another one of his) and it was so fitting. Germans racing across the Soviet Union, conquering everything but exhausting their momentum and overextending their supply lines, then the last line of the story answering the chapter title. Beautiful.
The Lancet[1] says "Childhood obesity rates have increased substantially over the past year in the UK, according to a new report from the UK Government's National Child Measurement Programme. This rise in prevalence is the largest single-year increase since the programme began 15 years ago and highlights the worldwide rising trend for obesity among children and adolescents [...] it is now an undeniable public health crisis."

and "a US study reported an increase in recreational screen time of almost 4 h a day in children aged 12–13 years during the COVID-19 pandemic."

Why do you think this is "mostly okay" and why is "mostly okay but getting worse" good enough for you?

> "I view this as a veil for conservatism."

I view this as sticking your head in the sand and trying to distract from it with a cheap insult. By 2030 do you think obesity prevalence will have gone up or down? Screen time? Depression levels? Happiness? Isolation? They've all been trending in bad directions for years, despite COVID. Smartphone apps aren't going to magically get fewer gambling mechanics and dark patterns, two hundred million people aren't magically going to stop responding to advertising and stop eating McDonalds, American cities aren't magically going to turn away from cars and pro-walking.

> "Tiktok fat shaming is bad but leading your “society is dystopia” comment with obesity rates in the US is fine?""

Calling out a public health crisis isn't fat shaming, so yes it's fine.

> "More extensive redistribution rather than moral panic + regulation over tiktok. Let’s not waste time on speculative interventions."

You can't fix juvenile diabetes by taking cash from McDonalds and throwing it at the sick child, or the sick child's doctors. There's nothing speculative about this - companies engineer food to exploit our senses, and engineer advertising to exploit our weaknesses, we know it works, we see the results of it, and we should stop it.

> "view this as a veil for conservatism because they don’t behave the same as you.*"

It isn't about how they behave, it's about why we behave. The why is willful manipulation by companies which want profit and don't care about harming us to get it. The manipulation is effective, coersive, substantial, powerful, abhorrent.

[1] https://www.thelancet.com/journals/landia/article/PIIS2213-8...
This doesn't sound like a small trust issue. It sounds like either Altman had to go or she had to go, and Altman made that decision himself, he really only gave her two options: get Altman fired or resign.
It's in the first sentence of the article.

> Today, Plogue is launching chipsynth C64, an AAX/AU/VST3/CLAP plug-in recreation

It's also discussed in the manual: https://s3.amazonaws.com/chipsynth/C64_manual.pdf
The 'Life Changing Books' thread from Dec 2021:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29605394
> purely performative nature of the company

Are you serious? The company launching more mass into orbit than the entire rest of the planet combined (by an almost 4x multiple) with a single constellation of satellites larger than the combination of all other satellites ever launched by mankind is a company of "purely performative nature"?
I think Georgism has three main pitfalls:

- Under the premise that a land tax should extract all value from the land leaving the improvements to the owner, it would expectedly be very high land tax near urban centers and very low taxes in rural areas. In order to maximize the return on urban plots, the builder is incentivize to build the smallest units possible in the greatest quantity. This is great for young professionals who dig living in studios, but would make family-sized housing of multiple bedrooms extremely expensive.

- What do you do for all the people who will see a massive increase in taxes? Force them to sell? I'm pretty sure that's political suicide for any politician. Or do some sort of exemption like Prop 19 al la California? Now we're back at square one.

- Who decides what the productive value of the land is? Presumably someone will need to set it, as there is no objective way to determine it (like there is with the value of raw land). Nor would it stay static over time, since improvements around a property, increase the productive value of the land. That's a huge opportunity for politics to come into play to game the valuations, and create special exclusions to buy votes.

And if you think about it, we have a quasi-land tax already in place. In CA, the tax rate is static, and most of the value of a house is in the land anyways. So owners (ignoring Prop 19) are paying a property tax based on the value of the land. I do recognize it's the market value of the land, which is different than Georgism which is the productive value of the land.
Swap spit/kiss someone who gets this. Cheaper than dental insurance. Time to bring back the kissing booth.
My brother has coined the term Depression Olympics between this and The Stormlight Archives for what the characters go through and Farseer makes Stormlight look like childsplay
So you are saying 'words are violence' was BS all along? Better tell that to those college campusses and their speech police squads. Bring back the reasonable people they ousted over the last two decades.
Additionally and if it's not too much to ask, a review on Amazon could really help me too! I'll definitely ship you a free copy to Poland once I fix the page numbers
> I support anyone who talks with their wallet, but that's not what's going on here

That's exactly what's going on here.
> You can get by without the latest iPhone. How long will you last without food?

So you deserve more money for providing a luxury instead of a necessity? Limits placed on how much you could profit from food never made food cheaper. It has discouraged people from providing food.
more like backhand lol
Air Force trying to save 2 severely damaged F-35s by merging them
A Book Club Took 28 Years to Read 'Finnegans Wake.' Now, It's Starting Over
This is always the case in Denmark.
You can apply for subsidized loans to renovate your house in Germany if the renovation leads to a reduction in CO2 emissions. Strange comment.
Thanks for that link. I wasn't aware that he suspended journalists at that time. However, I do note that they were only suspended and not banned. And this is consistent with what he has said on a number of occasions, that people might get 'timeouts' (in this case for doxing) but he's against permanent bans. Just checked two of the accounts (Ryan Mac, @RMac18 and Aaron Rupar, @atrupar) named in the article and they are active today.

I would like to know if there are any journalists he has permanently banned. As used to happen quite often on twitter, pre-Musk acquisition.
Sorry if this is obvious, but have you tried the options in Settings to avoid the OS killing certain apps? On my Pixel it's Settings > Apps > App Battery Usage > (choose app) > Unrestricted
Foveon just has 3 vertically stacked layers of photodiodes (one for each RGB colour) instead of a single one with Bayer filters like other digital camera sensors.

It’s not related to film grain (which is a byproduct of silver particles in celluloid).
Since car manufacturing, and design, wasn't held back at all by something like auxiliary current, the reason more likely was people not wanting to waste energy to improve on something that is working just fine for everyone.
True!

(however, they say the cynics in Chelyabinsk are such tough cookies, that they merely install big metal flaps over their tubs to keep the snow off: https://cdn-media.tass.ru/width/1020_b9261fa1/tass/m2/en/upl... )
If only the welfare departments employed the same rigour and determination when it comes to ensuring people receive benefits that they are entitled to but not claiming.

Will they use they spend the same effort to ensure nobody goes hungry because of a benefit they're entitled to but aren't claiming ...? I doubt it

——

Going after welfare claimants is wildly popular in the UK thanks to years of propaganda on TV dedicated to shows about people cheating the system. There is a widespread view that anyone claiming benefits is lazy and a cheat. This gives the departments carte Blanche to introduce inhumane claims processes, algorithms etc
Is the link to the article broken and anyone has it archived somewhere?

I wish people stop posting Twitter messages to HN and provide a link directly to the original article. What's next, post on HN on an Instagram post?
Is creativity a legal concept?
From the article, the claim is that this strain of S mutans variant produces mutacin-1140 which allows it to outcompete other strains of S mutans and other Gram-positive bacteria.

I have no particular opinion about whether this claim is plausible or true, but you don't address this at all in your comment even though it's directly relevant.

For example, if this strain's production of mutacin-1140 allows it to kill other bacteria locally then it could maintain a niche despite higher pH. One way to view this is bacteriocin production substituting for lactic acid production as a weapon against competing bacteria.

Also, the percentage of the novel S mutans strain colonization is being measured in the first chart and shows initial 90%+ followed by a later drop and stabilization. It would be helpful to more directly address the evidence as presented.

EDIT: Also, this S mutans strain doesn't need to outcompete the entire existing oral microbiome. Even if mutacin-1140 is less effective than lactic acid at creating a niche, it suffices to just maintain a toehold in the microbiome while outcompeting existing acid-producing S mutans strains.
“7 principles for making marriage work” had a couple of new insights for me
Surely VS Code terminal pane can't display arbitrary unix terminal session, so this shouldn't be a concern. Arguably windows makes it easier: since color control is out of band, it can be ignored and only text is displayed.
Cool, I didn't know this existed. It seems to be a third party server similar to what vaultwarden does for bitwarden?

But why would it need a gcp or aws account? It could run on any vps right? I'd run it on something much cheaper like scaleway.
“Heist”

Huh?

Disagree with the use of that term.

If anything copyright is the heist. Disney subsists on back breaking labor of others while it wags around papers saying it owns things that make it rich enough to avoid real work.
The closest thing I could think of was the economics of everyday things.

https://freakonomics.com/series/everyday-things/

Available as a podcast
Philip Zimbardo (of the SPE) wrote a couple of books and gave TED talks on this topic.

It's possible America and China will share a common trait of disaffected, distracted, disengaged men without much to live for.
I think the ability to actually email the docs around is half the value proposition. Having to always refer back to the cloud versions is annoying as hell when you're not actually collaborating, just showing someone a thing.
It feels like at this point we should also have "Organic Objects on the Moon" which would include, for example, tardigrades. Apparently there are bell peppers and a few other things like that in the Chinese pod, too.
It's quite interesting in its own context, otherwise, you may not be interested.
It came to iPad a year before iPhone likely for that reason. Maybe the smaller screen needed a zoom-in feature?
The beneficial mutation is not secretion of mutacin-1140, but absence of lactic acid production. Transplanting only the original mutacin-1140-producing strain wouldn't help anyone, since it still produces lactic acid that would destroy your teeth all the same.

david_l_lin upthread is stressing that lactic acid is ordinary Streptococcus mutans' primary defense against other bacteria and it wouldn't be able to survive without it.

The significance of mutacin-1140 is that it provides an alternative means of defense against other bacteria (or maybe offense would be a better word) which potentially makes lactic acid redundant.
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - This was best read of 2023 for me. The narration is very immersive and the author makes you very invested in the story. Shows the messy, complicated human side of things. And another plus was that it was about game dev, quite fun to learn about it through fiction.
Does this help with morning breath?
The problem is fundamental to any jpeg uploading website. For the computer it is just a bunch of numbers. You need a human brain or something imitating the brain for the computer to understand the meaning of the arrangement of numbers.
None of that matters. They'll still make heaps of profit long into the future unless someone beats them in Search or Ads.

AI is a threat there, but it'd require an AI company to transform the culture of Internet use to stop people 'Googling', and that will require two things: something significantly better than Google Search that's worth switching to, and a company that is willing to reject whatever offer Google makes to buy it. Neither is very likely.
Here's a related article: https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/7/23992737/google-gemini-mi...

And another: https://techcrunch.com/2023/12/07/googles-best-gemini-demo-w...
If this is true and approved it will probably be sold over the counter. Similar to how you buy yoghurt or probiotic pills today.
Given the cost of the “wasted” electricity I think it’s reasonable to say that charging with wires could easily be more wasteful. All it takes is just that wireless charging saves ONE broken/worn-out component, and it’ll easily have saved the world an equivalent amount of resources. If it’s a screen (like cause someone accidentally pulls on the charging cable dropping the phone to the floor), it could equate to several phones over several years. Maybe you are careful, but others aren’t.

One giant caveat though: wireless charging could wear out the battery faster due to the heat generated. But fast charging over cable is also bad for the battery, and that’s becoming increasingly common. At least wireless is always slow charging
> The limit of what is considered low volt is like 60v or something.

As far as i know, 60 V is the limit for alternating current. For DC it is 24 V.
I honestly don't think you have to. If banking apps are a bit slow, so what? I know that individual actions have limited impact, but do you realise what's at stake when it comes to environmental issues? FWIW I run a 6yo xiaomi and I avoid crapware, it's working fine, I can AV call, message, browse HN and other forums/links aggregator, navigate, track my sports and calories... The resources (some) apps and websites use are the issue. You're part of the educated crowd, resist, FFS.
I love kagi. It's the first search product I'm willing to spend money on