skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, lack of nutrients will stunt the plant in some way, and will reduce the production of some plant compounds. But the original comment's logic is just too simplistic. You can't then safely jump to the conclusion that the lack of nutritional value in plants is primarily due to the reduction in these plant compounds

The main drivers could very easily be due to a variety of other factors. Like the sibling comment says, it could for instance be changes in agricultural practices (like the plants growing faster) b/c farmers naturally optimize for volume and not nutritional value per-kg or per-calorie

There are just a million other variables at play - and the nutrients in the soil aren't intrinsically the limiting factor for the nutritional of plants - b/c what's nutritional is fundamentally different
That's interesting, thank you. It seems what's old is new again: I had a lot of contact with CLIPS early in my career but I found that most of the programming tasks weren't heavy rules based as much as CRUD and reporting apps. Given that Forge is in Java, they may enjoy Drools <https://github.com/apache/incubator-kie-drools#readme> (which used to be a JBoss project but I guess has been donated to the Apache Foundation)
Christmas deliveries at risk as shipping giant suspends Red Sea journeys
The average new car price in the US is around $47k, well above the Bolt, Kona and Leaf.
RC is slower than a modern garbage collector, ARC (if the A means it requires an atomic increment/decrement) is significantly so.

I’m not saying that it is a bad choice, it is probably a good one in case of battery-powered machines with small RAMs, but I think tracing GCs get a bad look for no good reason.
Related: https://news.mit.edu/2023/engineers-develop-efficient-fuel-p...

>"Now, researchers at MIT and Harvard University have developed an efficient process that can convert carbon dioxide into formate, a liquid or solid material that can be used like hydrogen or methanol to power a fuel cell and generate electricity. Potassium or sodium formate, already produced at industrial scales and commonly used as a de-icer for roads and sidewalks, is nontoxic, nonflammable, easy to store and transport, and can remain stable in ordinary steel tanks to be used months, or even years, after its production."

Paper: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports-physical-science/fulltext/...
https://github.com/Card-Forge/forge/pulls
> keep working and at some point it'll just click for you

Haha, monads still haven't clicked for me despite knowing F# and Clojure pretty well. I think of them as "functors that you can flatten" (and functors are "things you can `map` over", and `map` is "a structure-preserving transformation"). I know monads syntactically, but not intuitively. Despite this I still manage to work with monads pretty well - sometimes rote knowledge is enough. Maybe if my work involved discovering new monads I'd feel like I'd know them better. (I just see the same option/list/result(ish)/generator-style monads over and over.)
Just don’t lose your phone. You’d become a stateless ghost alienated from all the documentation that proves you’re a person.
Hubless-wheel electric penny farthing is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece
A penny costs 2.7 cents to make. We make almost 8 billion of them per year. That's $216 million per year for a money-losing nearly-useless coin. so, it costs you about a buck per year.
> every SwiftUI app I have gets those features without the developer doing anything.

I'm not sure that's right. The developer does a ton -- it just feels automatic to you. All your SwiftUI apps are not going to use Metal shaders automatically now just because they're now so neatly supported in iOS 17. And every update to Swift/SwiftUI comes with deprecations and those need to be addressed (sooner rather than later), including adding #ifavailable macros to cover all the bases.

The real benefit is that developers can add new functionality or write simpler code than they would have to before. I could be wrong, but the stuff you get "automatically" is minimal IMHO. It's just that developers start targeting the newest iOS version during beta so that by the time users upgrade, apps can be ready
Not what I am saying. I am saying it is much much smaller than inference/model running cost.
Easy exercise

How many books do you store in 1GB
How much does it cost a year to store it and have OpenAI gather it once.
How much does it cost to run a GPT4 level model that will output 1GB.

That's my point here that's all. It is a huge cost for OpenAI to run a system that produces dynamic content. And it is not comparable to the cost of storing static content.

I didn't talk about the cost of producing the original data.

And I do not talk about training costs.
France's digital ID program called "France identité" does the first part.

After pairing it with your physical ID via NFC you can generate digital proofs of identity which are time based and contain the recipient's name and the usage for the proof.
The oldest-known promontory fort
Not from the US, so help me understand here, why would a traffic cop looking to verify a license want to image the entire contents of your phone?
Sodium Ion energy density isn’t the best, it’ll probably impact grid storage more. For cars that need less than 200 miles of range I agree though.
Blame Knuth. Afaik the font used simulates closely the typesetting of the original art of programming edition that was printed using hot metal typesetting on an old monotype machine. Later these machines were eliminated for more modern techniques but he didn’t like the look so developed TeX to achieve a fidelity with those machines for art of computer programming later editions and new volumes. It has been almost universally adopted in academia since.
because the top 5% have the vast majority of the money... meanwhile their effective tax rate is lower than the bottom 50% (at the least) and they are audited way less than those with less money and have to jump through fewer hoops for their benefits (what the rich refer to as handouts or entitlements when it comes to poor people)
For the average person, this pushes the incorrect narrative that somehow our food is becoming drastically less useful. The primary use of these crops has always been the carbohydrate content, followed by micronutrients; all this really says is that we should still have a diverse intake of food to reach RDA’s of said micros.
Tell HN: Just noticed Reddit blocking VPN traffic. Old subdomain still works
I should say I'm also n=1 :-)
Having worked for a "flat" organization that grew past 200 employees (cf. Dunbar's number) and was on its way to a thousand, hierarchy did indeed form and it was often like a shogunate, although without the peasants.

But orgs with clear org charts often have hidden political hierarchies as well. It would be nice if you could count on your supervisor and expect your supervisees to do as you ask, but a formal hierarchy is only effective if it's actually enforced and other hierarchies are suppressed. In practice, the formal hierarchy can become the tool used to enforce the goals of the alternative hierarchy.

Chesterton's fence makes sense in a deliberative process but old fences are often just in the way. In a lot of ways, the default position on this front is mere obstructionism.
As an electric car owner for the last 5 years (a Peugeot Ion), price is not my primary concern. What I want is a car with better range (250km+ in the winter), that seats 5, weighs 1100kg max, with no screen, and can tow 500kg. A plus: being able to swap the battery for a reasonable price when it gets too old. It's a shame these cars need to go to the dump at 10 years just because of the battery.
Through a series of unfortunate events I ended up briefly owning seven brand new Beoplay Portal PC/PS headphones in the summer of 2022, and keeping the last one that was purchased in exasperation.

The products were all bought from three different authorized dealers across the EU, and despite the serial numbers and manufacturing dates being spread out, mostly all of the headphones had manufacturing deffects:

- The clamping force of the headbands had considerable variation, some of the headphones were very comfortable, one fell off from your head if you looked down, while two of them caused headaches after wearing them for 20 minutes

- The firmness of the foam inside the earpads and of the lambskin also had variations

- Some of the products made a popping sound if you slightly pressed the cushion on the headband

- The painted white L and R letters inside the earcups had various brown spots

- Three headphones made a squeaking sound when you adjusted the length of the arms, one of them was also squeaking during normal use

- The material of the storage bag was half as thick if the product had a later serial number

- One of the products had a broken BLE module and would not connect

I got some casual use out of the headphones I have kept for about 6 months, and despite treating the product like jewelry, the headband cushion material has started separating from a hidden seam. The product was quickly replaced by Bang & Olufsen.

An app is required to adjust the EQ and access other features that are advertised on the sales page, but the app forces you to sign up for a B&O account and share personal information such as your name and email address, then register the product. You couldn't find any information about the requirement for account setup and product registration anywhere, not on the sales page, and not in the user manual. I believe this is at least a GDPR violation.

The headphones sometimes forget the customized settings, and after a couple of months of use, the app now has a hard time connecting to the paired device.

The headphones all sounded great, but from what I've read and experienced, Bang & Olufsen seems to hide shoddy manufacturing tolerances behind bespokeness, even for their most expensive products, and I doubt this is the user experience the rich are craving.
? The documents still exist stored safely in my home.
If you don’t think there needs to be a discussion then don’t engage.

In my first year at college we were all set an essay about why human females invest lots of resources preening and enhancing their appearance, while across nature females normally put almost no effort into their appearance, and males are the ones with the bright colours.

This is an enormous area of study with thousands of papers published. Sexual selection is incredibly important. Especially as modern human evolution is driven almost entirely by sexual selection.

It’s worth understanding how sexual selection works.
The way you wrote it there is a use-after-free because other_flag is not valid anymore immediately after the previous holder exits. Instead you spin on your own flag (which the holder sets to true when releasing the lock).

The correct code requires the local atomic to be a pointer to struct, containing both a pointer to the next link and the "still locked" flag. Alternatively, the locked flag can be snuck into the low bit of the pointer.

See https://lwn.net/Articles/590243/ for the full description of the algorithm.
There is no such requirement for such tedious timesheets.

Technically there’s no carve out for maintenance at all tbh.
I would probably choose between the two based mostly on their security track record, but I haven't needed the comparison yet.
CA says it’s a pilot program and so far only accepted at SFO and LAX. Rollout for something like this will be slow. Thats ok!
I always thought it was a weird colloquialism. Saying quarter to three takes exactly the same number of syllables as two forty-five, and the latter is more clear when communicating. You’re also using the word “to” which could be confused with “two” if the communication is garbled over the radio or a bad connection.
They were invented in 1955, but high quality class D audio amplifiers have only been around since the mid90s, and are only now available as simultaneously good, high-power, and cheap.

Servo-controlled subwoofers are readily available these days; full-range servo systems are comparatively rare, because the end user generally wants room-calibrated equalization anyway.
Two interesting XOR circuits inside the Intel 386 processor
If hosts are configured with SSH certificates as part or their setup, you can definitely skip TOFU and determine trust on the first connection. That won't work for the "I need to connect to a random IP address" scenario, but any cloud server exposing SSH can be configured with a certificate signed by a company/personal SSH certificate authority.

You could configure something delightfully atrocious like https://github.com/mjg59/ssh_pki but I think for most use cases where you connect to loads of SSH servers, host keys and certificate authorities will work just fine. We can do with an ACME-like protocol for distributing these certificates, though.
You could say the same about your physical wallet.
Wartime allows for many rights to be taken away.

for example: Article I, Section 9, Clause 2: The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
I don’t know about the specific local conditions there, but there have been more violent floods in Yemen and the UEA.

Sudden precipitation is —oddly— somewhat common in Arabia and usually trickle through ergs, river beds empty most of the year, and sometimes captured by water walls, feeding oasis. The last few years have seen more violent incidents, overflowing ergs leading to floods, changes in temperature in the Indian Ocean, and more water in the monsoon-like pattern, I’m not sure.

It might make sense to adapt to the changing climate than the one they’ve known until now. If tree-supported water basins can handle more water than ergs, that might be relevant terraforming.

It’s the same in “Northern” Europe: Paris, Berlin, London, Amsterdam. Those cities had hot summers and needed fountains, but not so hot that they needed adaptations like shading all plazas with trees, having every building extend with parapets to shade the inside, etc. Paris has Venetian blinds (meant to let the air through but keep the sun out in summer), but they are not common in London, for instance. All those cities are now thinking of having gree water-culvert to complement storm drains.

Changing what we think of as normal might be necessary.
I'm sorry, why would they do that? Instead of building their own API key infrastructure and proxy the requests to the respective notification services? For an example, please see Mattermost's on-prem notification implementation.
Don't you agree that at equal size speakers from the 2000 are worse than those from now?
I don't say that they are equivalent to a good quality HiFi system, but things have gotten much better for cheap systems.
I think that's fair as well with the "sometimes", and I fully agree re: the oversimplification. I think CBT is ultimately labeling the most recognizable stages of certain mental phenomena and providing a framework for interacting with and guiding that phenomena. But as a discipline I think CBT knows very little (relatively speaking) about the machinery involved, and at best we have a low resolution understanding that is surely incomplete.

But yeah, my belief in CBT is mostly for its utility.

As a side note, I've found some of Lisa Feldman Barrett's work on emotions to be pretty interesting. It dives into newer research behind how emotions are intrinsically connected to other bodily processes, and explores some of ways that the emergence of emotional states doesn't match our intuitions.
Baseline Does Not Cover Baseline Support
I've tried so hard to take notes about what I do, but I'm really bad at it.
Their predecessor also did a good job realising that it might be hard for GP to apply Chesterton's fence because there wasn't an obvious reason, and leaving notes documenting that (lack of good) reason.
Here in Denmark we also have a driver's license app. The app has a feature through which the user can identify themself to another party using the same app on their phone.

When used to identify, the app displays a series of QR codes which can be recorded by the 2nd phone through the camera. No need to hand over th e phone. It tranfers identifying information such as name, age and the photo so that the 2nd party can use it to validate on their screen.
There are plans to support userspace spinlocks in Linux by letting a userspace program borrow from the next scheduling quantum: https://lwn.net/Articles/948870/
Chernobyl gets six-year extension for work on original shelter
october is still a month "name", like decilis, not just "the 8th month"
>If your IQ Z score is 2 or 3 you can be much wealthier in the US.

...assuming you can get past the USCIS gauntlet.
I wish people didn’t confuse forests and tree farms.
Are you saying tiny earbuds from the 2000 are equivalent to those we have today?

Also there is plenty of high quality music around, including music with high dynamic range... The one that existed didn't disappear, and there is still some produced today, probably much more in a year than I could listen in a lifetime.
When I go to a reddit url from a nordvpn address, I get an annoying "oopsie" static page ("whoa there, pardner!"), it informs about a network policy error, asks to log in or use developer credentials.

Using the same address with the old.reddit subdomain still works as of now.

I haven't seen that before and thought it's interesting.
Well, the one where I grew up. It has rotating exhibits of local historical and civic artifacts. It basically has a small wing that functions as a mini museum.

A lot of towns have one or more mini-museums of that sort. They might be attached to a library, to city hall, to a school, or even a volunteer organization or something.

Donating it to a library can make perfect sense in that case. It really depends on the library.
Within a general nutrition context, yes of course carbs are essential, however in a modern context the supply of carbs is so abundant that the conversation mostly revolves around the over abundance of them, while other nutrients are neglected. This and many other studies are highlighting this problem, where people crops have been optimized for size, yield, and fast growth (which almost always results in empty carbs being produced quickly), at the expense of all the other nutrients being reduced.
> These ML-compilers are being overhyped. It's all the same trade-off as a traditional compiler

Funny you should say that. Because traditional compilers have been incredibly useful.
It's like losing your wallet, except there's a backup wallet at home. ;-)
I followed this company since there beginnings out of Netflix. The original founder Michelle Ufford left with no detail and no explanation. I'll bet there's more to dig into.
People are needlessly paranoid because there will be a few incidents that get a lot of media attention and mindshare, despite being a vast minority of the time.
this makes me thing of the "baby shoes, never worn" short story by Hemingway.
Judgement? Having attention for detail? Being in touch with the community?

Just a bad look / first impression.
Ask HN: What are your Christmas gift ideas for family and friends?
For me, that's one of the most frustrating parts of the year to come up with gift ideas. I have the habit of buying them presents randomly so they already have everything they need. Share your ideas and maybe some great ideas will help a lot of people get rid of the presenting block:)
Even if it is, we can fork and move on.
Some resources on AI security.
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Can you elaborate, with a source or two? That's a bold claim and I've never heard of such a thing.
They will, at least in my experience, but from the glares you get you'll wish you'd told them to keep it.
Maybe another war?
Ask HN: Recommendations for privacy-respecting medical patient portal EHR SaaS?
Hi HN, I'm volunteering help for medical organizations including small-town U.S. doctors and dentists. I'm encountering many technology issues relating to small-business electronic health records (EHR) software as a service (SaaS).

I'm seeking recommendations please for privacy-respecting small-business EHR SaaS.

Must have: sign up a patient; schedule an appointment; send a bill via email; maintain notes; comply with HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA.

Should have: patient portal sign in; save payment methods; messaging among providers and patients; set recurring appointments; import/export EHR into exchange formats such as JSON, XML, CSV, PDF.

I have 100+ companies to evaluate, so I'm seeking HN guidance on any direct perspectives and experiences please.

I'm seeking a service that is not owned by private equity, and that does not sell/share/market patient information.

Thank you in advance for suggestions!
Much of this nutritional "science" has been made into public advice by large swaths of the medical establishment, by people's own doctors, by public health authorities. We're not talking about advice people took from reading Reader's Digest or some health magazine.
> genZ will use earbuds anyway

Not sure how it is with genZ in particular, but it sometimes feels like people now use speakers even when making calls in public. Which kind of sucks - not only if you need to listen to it as passer by but especially if you are on the other side of the line and someone puts you automatically on loud. I get it that phones are so big now that one can not hold them next to ear but it seems that wearing earbuds is also not popular.
It’s worrying that they are trying to tie your Id to a device that you don’t control
Just smartphones and tablets.
Plus-size travelers bring new attention to Airlines' 'customer of size' policy
Much like the EU patent convention that also excludes computer programs as such, programs for generic computers routinely get patented. It seems it is the opinion of esteemed patent judges that "as such" means it only applies to programs that do nothing other than exist as computer programs, in some pure, Platonic sense. If they actually do anything, they are no longer "as such" (but if they do nothing, that is not a patentable invention anyway, software or not).

In other words, it is the learned and wise decision of the honored judiciary that the entire sentence excluding computer programs is there just for decoration. Like flavor text on a Magic card. As a layperson I naturally defer to their expert judgement.
We evolved in the only phylogenetic family to use organised group conflict (war) as a mating strategy.

I think we’d have a much more peaceful world if we’d evolved from crocodiles or something peaceful like that.
Add a home smart lock and you can get to the point where you only need to carry your phone.

Probably could go even further and only carry Apple Watch and AirPods in most cases!
thanks! forgot to mention queuing (e.g. SQS), which is SUPER valuable, for example when you want to do large scale maintenance on the database (major version upgrade where the on-disk format can change)
I'm sure once the company contracted to build this is done milking taxpayers and the contract goes to someone who isn't buddy buddy with whoever wrote the bill, it'll get integrated into Apple/Google Wallet so normal people will consider using it.
There are knock-off handbags and things like that which require microscopy and an expert eye to detect any differences from the "genuine article" and... that says it all.

None of this is about the product itself.
see my reply above - one classic case is db system maintenance.
"in practice" everyone has faceid/touchid enabled, which means you can be compelled to unlock your phone, making this point moot to begin with.
I'm going to use this to do UUCP over QUIC.
Also you have to hold your phone sideways to see the sidebar.
"It's not clear why you wouldn't just use the Android/Apple app"

The QR code changes each time you open it. So you can't just screenshot it. I guess that's the same reason why you can't add it to Google wallet.