skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't be surprised if our RFID reader is bad, too. But it was also a brand-new fridge... Wife never followed up on getting warranty service for it, so we'll live with it! (would love to do a tear-down/self-repair, but fridge is kind of inconvenient for that :) )
Gut microbes may play role in social anxiety disorder, say researchers
One of my favorite Smothers Brothers bits was their last time with Johnny Carson on the tonight show.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyFb45x_zgA

Rewatching that it really grabs me when his brother says wherever I am Tommy is near.
It really depends on what makes you feel bad. Funny coincidence, I just found mine yesterday after it sitted 2 years in a drawer as I hate having things tell me what to do.
https://modernjuliaworkflows.github.io/
I wouldn't disagree with the high mortality from pollution toxins. I've never looked closely, but also seems common sense.

As for how much greening benefits offset costs, I was mildly frustrated by the downvoting :) and went researching on the economic effects in particular. The only study I can find on CO₂ fertilization is recent and stunning:

"we apply the CO₂ fertilization effect... backwards to 1940, and, assuming no other limiting factors, find that CO₂ was the dominant driver of [American agriculture] yield growth"

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w29320/w293...

As they note, the extrapolation is from a study period of 2014-2020, but it's expected they have underestimated the prior role of CO₂ fertilization, as CO₂ response becomes saturated as levels rise and that's not represented in their model.

This is 2021 research funded by DOE & USDA, run by NBER, with PIs from Harvard and Columbia who are well cited within their field of environmental economics. Given the pedigree and that conclusion, this should be front-page news in science mags at least. I couldn't find any reporting on it except for Epoch Times (https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/nasa-satellite-data-su...), which gets an eye-roll from me, but guess they got this one :)

I read the full thing. It's great. Crosses high-resolution satellite CO₂ anomaly observations (NASA OCO-2) with crop yield records, wind modeling, sensitivity testing on non-ag land and the result is broadly repeated: +1ppm CO₂ -> +~0.5-1% yield. CO₂ levels went from ~310-410ppm in that period.

If true, it seems at odds with the normal account that gave nitrogen fertilization the lead role for increasing crop yields this past century and lifting most of the world's population out of regular food insecurity, and the growth of our population into billions. Seems more likely both were necessary.

It also makes sense, as C3 plants (e.g. soy, wheat and most plants besides hot/dry grasses) respond positively to CO₂ partial-pressures up to 800-1000ppm. C4 low-CO₂ adapted corn also fertilizes, just to a lesser extent. The authors also note the negative effects of heat stress, but this wouldn't have been as significant in the extrapolation period.

From Epoch Times: “The paper’s first author, Taylor, said: 'We reiterate that climate change will have a large negative impact on agriculture in aggregate, especially in places exposed to extreme heat. And higher CO2 may even lower food nutrition. But the countervailing fertilization effect should also be taken into account.'”
Golly gee wilikers, ya don't say?
VB6 was my last VB. It came at just the time when getting a computer onto a network to download and install a giant distribution was touch and go. The building where I worked didn't have networking in the labs, the "labs" were whatever space we could find, and the "lab computers" were old cast-offs retired from office use. It meant that supporting VB.NET with a brand spankin new networked computer wasn't a safe assumption.

At the same time, I was playing with Linux at home, and wanted tooling that could run on either platform. I learned Python at home, and then made the switch at work.

One of my last VB6 apps, thousands of lines, has been running in the plant without issue for 15 years. On one occasion I had to bump up the declared sizes of some fixed length arrays.

As for GUIs, I never found anything close to VB, but also decided to just write a thin wrapper around Tkinter and let my layout be generated automatically by default. I haven't missed laying out my GUIs, which were always a hodgepodge anyway.
Beep Beep
According to the author, game is designed to convince you that gambling isn't fun. Let's not corrupt that social good with technical fixes.

>Traditionally this game is played by kids, as it's an excellent way to convince them that gambling is boring as all hell.
Unprivileged process injection techniques in Linux
I like the design of Xiaomi products, as well as their build quality. If SU7 follows the same trend, I'll definitely consider it as my next EV.
Median household income in the US is more like $70k. Median individual income is $40k. Median household also varies tremendously by state, Mississippi is around $44k and Maryland/DC area is $90k.
Study finds Pandas are more socially active than previously thought
You can't and shouldn't try to. We can however qualitatively try to see where the wind is blowing.
Notice that most dependents of his tools are: 1) his own project, 2) abandoned beginner projects.

As some people mentioned, most of the usage of is-even is by tools made by this person.

But the other part is that, he made quite a few development tools for beginners that scaffold new projects and pull lots of his packages as dependencies (especially the handlebars helper), which heavily inflates the number of "Dependents" in NPM.

The other issue is that, in the past, he managed to include some of his less-useless packages in some semi-popular tools.
Her municipality issued a stop work order (pending an inspection by a professional engineer): https://www.tiktok.com/@engineer.everything/video/7317787448...
I don't recall the exact numbers, but I read that public opinion was even divided on the Kent State Massacre, with much hostility between the two sides.
As a visual dictionary, this is not as useful as conceptnet, compare vs "conceptnet" on common words such as "red", "apple".
Requiring someone to follow safety standards but never spot checking them to ensure they are might as well be not having any safety standards.

See

https://inspection.canada.ca/food-safety-for-industry/food-c...
I don’t want him to be president either, but this is some tyrannical horseshit. He should be rejected from the presidency by the voters, not by the courts.
If china were as benevolent as the west I would agree. One can argue about the benevolence of the west for a long time, but there is very little debate about what China wants to do.

People who know what China is doing say that China should not be as autonomous as the West has been in the past.

China wants the rest of the world to be China, too.

It’s a communist dictatorship with a lot of hunger for a lot of things, mostly control of people who are and are not located in China.
> Under Section 702 of FISA, federal investigators do not need a warrant to tap the phone calls, texts, and emails of foreigners outside of the country.

Sounds good to me!
This: https://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/dev.html

I loved the old ones even more: https://web.archive.org/web/20080401021836/http://www.bay12g...

The power goals especially, as they made it clear what all these little "features" set out to achieve. They were beautiful to read, and sometimes reading about the feature can be even more exciting than getting the feature itself.

But apparently these were hard to update so Tarn stopped. I think today, you could probably use something like Jira to add and label tickets and then pull it out with the API and export into HTML.
> They can prescribe a drug which is not FDA approved, can they?

Yes they can. They can give you whatever medical advice or prescribe whatever regimen they want. They could tell you to drink bleach and the FDA would be powerless to do anything about it.

I think the strongest argument for you would be a drug approved in another country; but not in the US. Your doctor can still prescribe it; and under the right conditions that prescription can allow you to obtain the drug in a foreign country and bring it back to the US.

https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/5-tips-travel...
The sad thing about these "monolith vs microservice" debates is that to this day we have programming languages which favor shared mutable state, so a program written like this is an absolute hell (or a very leaky abstraction) to distribute. And it doesn't have to be like this.

Think about it. When your variable is a simple value, like a number or a string or a struct, we treat it as pass-by-copy (even if copy-on-write optimized), typically stack allocated. Remote IO is also pass-by-copy. But in-between those two levels, we have this intermediate pointer/handle hell of mutable shared state that the C family of languages promote, both procedural and OOP variety.

The original OOP definition is closer to the Actor model which has by-copy messages, but the actual OOP languages we use, like C++, Java, C# all derive philosophically from the way C handles entities on the heap, as this big shared local space you have immediate access to, and can pass around pointers to.

And that's where all our problems come from. This concept doesn't scale. Neither in terms of larger codebases. Nor in terms of distributing an application. It doesn't also scale cognitively, which the article mentions, but doesn't quite address in this context.
Or maybe not tell which digits match, and instead give a different type of clue, like Euclidean distance between the two colors.
Does anyone remember that one weird block script that people post to HN sometimes? The only thing I remember is that it's the kind of thing that would take a good while to learn to read—maybe the blocks for the letters in a word could be recognised as a single shape when juxtaposed?
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/roadmap-for-small-binaries...
It is not perfectly legal to have a machine paint a copy of another image. And in either case, you can't sell the work without ending up in court.

https://petapixel.com/2022/12/08/photographer-loses-plagaris... is one of the more recent applicable cases here, where the original artist failed to uphold their claim, which surprised most people.
Very opinionated article really.

It starts with unsubstantiated claims that X suffers from "bloat" despite being capable of running on a 486 and dismissing the fact that the average Wayland compositor + necessary infrastructure is much more "bloated" than X ever was.

It fails to distinguish between compositing and hardware accelerated blit operations that allow X to display multiple windows without the need for a compositor.

It talks about hardware planes but fails to mention that no Wayland compositor so far is capable of using them whereas X is using them for the mouse for a long time (which avoids mouse stuttering on high GPU/CPU load).

It proclaims that certain protocols are "commonly used" when they are really in a experimental phase or actually not commonly used.

I get it. Linux userland graphics is huge a mess right now. Mostly because Wayland caused a huge amount of uncertainty and fragmentation. At least call it out as such and don't pretend otherwise.
Thanks for the recommendation, just grabbed it on sale
We might not be able to quantitatively measure it but we can run studies to evaluate what individuals and teams can handle. Human factors people do this and it’s a sub field in industrial engineering. The military runs these studies and I’d imagine air traffic controllers do them as well, etc. You sometimes get really surprising results.
Seems pretty easy to bot. Its also a personal blog which adds to suspicion. There is also a new trend which is trying to get on hackernews front page
How does someone verify their understanding is correct then?
That doesn’t sound so bad at all!
I print casually on my cr-10 and I feel the same way about not wanting to invest time in it. I made a little checklist for myself for when I re-visit it every few months I can get right back into it: open filament, heat the nozzle & bed, level the bed, tram it, etc. I'm such a casual I didn't know Bambu existed until this thread. I'd love to just have something that works. Keeping up with software stacks is enough for my tired brain.
It’s hard to imagine worse advice. Software design principles lead you to good architecture. Focus on autonomy, proper partitioning, and sound design and you get what you get. If you target monoliths out of some misguided attempt to reduce cognitive load, you will only create unnecessary entanglement. If you try to target “microservices” with N services per team or other arbitrary target, you will end up missing boundaries you should realize or introducing ones you shouldn’t.

There is no instant pudding.
the difficulty with enhanced geothermal systems is that they still provide thermal power, and heat engines are still, as i understand it, a lot more expensive per watt than solar panels, even without paying for the supply of heat (be it geothermal, nuclear, or fossil)

induced seismicity has been a problem but is probably solved and even more probably solvable
You not knowing anyone is not a good indicator of a phenomenon existing or not.

You don’t know any Eastern European who drives from the UK to their home country twice a year? London to Warsaw is 1000+ miles and can be done with the ferry in under 24 hours. Here, an estimate from Google maps: 18 hr 19 min (1.015,6 mi)
via A2 and A2.

There are thousands of those people on European roads every year before Christmas and after NYE, and in holiday season. I did it myself a couple of times years ago.

> There is a reason Professional drivers aren't allowed to drive for more than 11 hours in a day

Yes, 7 to 40 tonnes of reasons and legal rest breaks required between work shifts. Professional drivers do a job, not just driving.
I actually posted for that exact reason.

Was looking for a second printer (a coreXY, mine is a cartesian) and the X1 had all the same features as my printer (minus the lidar) except turnkey and enclosed. After discovering their corp culture I hard noped and I think I'll just bite the time bullet and build a voron.
ACA was a bag of compromises intended to increase health care access without disrupting the insurance industry. It succeeded on both counts.
Do OpenAI executives understand the math?
You are completely correct. I neglected to mention that we mirror/cache the dependencies we need in our private index.
> it is the worst of both worlds

A thin atmosphere provides an additional option over the alternative of zero atmosphere. Zero atmosphere means you rely entirely on propulsion to slow your arrival, which is inherently expensive. I can agree that a thicker atmosphere would be easier, but a thin atmosphere is better than none.

> absurdly complicated and risky 'sky crane'

The skycrane was entirely related to not wanting to stir up huge dust plumes around the lander.
Midjourney claims that you own all of the images it creates for you.
That game is gomoku, commonly played on 15x15, and is a strong first-player win, where the game is solved. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/gomoku
The Web Is Fantastic
I wonder if cows do this. It's a little surprising they don't mention cows, since people in general are aware that they also ruminate (more precisely, most people know cows chew cud. Maybe not the name of the full process around it.)
I said "3 guesses", not 9... but then again I've only been writing colors in hex for 18-19 years, so not sure if that makes qualifies as "thoroughly unfamiliar"
I was curious just how much traffic a front-page HN post generates and found this excellent post: https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/how-much-traffic-comes-from...
In their case traffic peaked just under 10000 requests per hour.

(RoyalSloth's blog survived the hug while hosted on Hetzner's smallest 1 vCPU instance.)
Would that this area code was associated with responsible fatherhood.
I used to complain about overly complex software, until I realized the problems themselves were very complex. There was/is no way around complexity, and pushing for early simplicity causes more problems than it solves. People need to accept that encoding 1,000 if else statements (software engineering) will be complex no matter how you spin it. Just design the software upfront for what you will need, like a professional. Technical debt more commonly comes from under abstraction rather than too much complexity/abstraction.
> Where did you get this from?

The source code?

#[unstable(feature = "unwrap_infallible", reason = "newly added", issue = "61695")]

And that issue you linked is from 2019 and full of people asking when it will be stabilized. Last activity was in late 2021.
> 1. can you put a link to the running http file served by the example so we could see how the result looks?

How would it look any different than if it was served from a bash script or the world's most complicated .NET container in a Kubernetes instance?
Exactly why we used to play with various levels - everyone could refer to the two letter word sheet with Q without U words also, and the players given a handicap could use the dictionary, though limited to 30 seconds on their turn.
That would be the punchline for a kids joke. As a dad joke, it subverts the expected punchline with something even cheesier.
That's pretty cool! A couple years ago I designed a similar 3x5 typeface for Salesloft's icon set.

It was designed with a similar style—outer/inner radius, square terminals—as the icons. Personally, the centered descender on the Q is more clear with tiny typefaces.

https://solomon.io/salesloft-icon-fundamentals/#alphanum
Ok, you are right.

But the thing still remains: the supposed Vogtle 3/4 boondoggle of gazzilions of dollars of cost overruns did not result in consumers paying more for electricity. Sure, historically they used to pay less than the national average, but they continue to pay less than the national average, and by about the same amount. The cause could be regulation or deregulation, or better geographic position, or whatever. But the consumers are not paying more, after Vogtle 3, am I right?
Someone at ycombinator boosts and deranks posts. I see it all the time.
Not only that, it's half price! With free shipping!

Holiday promo at Rutgers University Press (I'm not affiliated with them, other than being a recent customer :)

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/holiday-sale/

https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/ignition/978081359583...
Agreed, I feel the author even manages to step on their own feet in this manful effort to show malice towards X.

> In contrast to X, Wayland applications always run on the same host as their compositor. Implementations are thus free to optimize for this case

Sweet.. the "go fast" generation is thrilled. We're optimized for a single popular commercialized case!

> Transferring data via shared memory is good enough for software rendering but, for high-performance hardware rendering, it is insufficient.

Whoops.. we're no longer optimal.

> To avoid that penalty, the graphics buffer has to remain in graphics memory. Wayland provides a protocol extension to share buffer objects via a Linux dma-buf, which represents a memory buffer that is shareable among hardware devices

Which, X also has. So, we've gone completely full circle, and we're less capable for it. I'm hopeful for the era of "move a little slower and try to fix a few things along the way."
> Right, it's nothing to do with it being "newly added".

It absolutely was, but now it seems to be mostly that the stabilization process is tedious enough that nobody has done it yet for this tiny utility function. There are tens of other tiny utility functions in the same situation that have been sitting for years, I run into them all the time.

The whole situation surrounding "unstable features" is just super disappointing for me. This stuff doesn't deserve to be unstable, and I shouldn't have to switch to an experimental toolchain that breaks all the time just to use these tiny utility functions!
but just like the credit bureaus who sell your personal data?
That domain participates in the US gov's digital analytics program but the page demand isn't registering: https://analytics.usa.gov/
ObjectMaster by ACI was pretty much the best OO IDE at the time. Pretty much everything on the Mac kicked the shit out of these pathetic and crappy DOS/commander interfaces that are linked in the article.

Unfortunately, there don't seem to be any screenshots of it online anymore due to link rot.
We should all be worried about that. If journalism is replaced with AI, truth is replaced with the AI hallucination du jour.
I think it's still part of the experience.

I'm going out to eat, likely spending on drinks and tips I wouldn't if I took it home, so I want someone to be bringing me the order while I sit.
I assume you're familiar with ledger stax? I have a pack of tangem cards, but haven't used them.

The thing is, don't most reasonable exchanges offer the things you are asking for? I don't find exchanges any worse than using an online trading account (which it is more than a bank). In fact, I think exchanges are usually providing better security than banks/trading platforms I've seen.

Are most people going to have so much crypto that it makes sense to store it themselves rather than have an exchange do it?
It's amazing to read what people think is fair use. Have a read of the wikpedia article, it's definitely not as straight forward as adding a slight variation and then I'm good.

If that was the case all of the following would be fair use (hint they typically are not).

- making a movie from a book (I mean it's a pretty big variation)
- making a sequel/prequel to a book, movie using the characters of the book
- making new comic stories using Mickey Mouse/Batman/Superman...
- Making merchandise using redrawn characters from comic books...
...

Also it's important to note that one of the important aspects to judge fair use is commercial interest, i.e. what is allowed for an individual privately, might very well be copyright infringement for a company (like Midjourney) who sells a commercial product.
Just read the author’s bio. This is a person that appears to have zero software design experience writing an article telling you to ignore software design and just respect your team configuration. I call this Conway’s Confusion.
Once upon a time it was a possible for a prank call to be traced and the child spanked.

What is more important is that I provided source and destination numbers alongside times and screenshots of their customer violating the law and the response was a 'durrr, ok'.

These providers launder sms and voip spam. I've worked with providers that care about compliance and know when someone DNGAF.
> unsubstantiated claims

Indeed:

> It used to be easy to have any kind of X client connect to a remote X server. Back in the early 1990s on the HP Apollo workstations in college, it was a simple matter of setting the DISPLAY environment variable, but that was before network security was a concern.

Remote controlling an HP 1670G logic analyzer with a Linux PC X server

https://tomverbeure.github.io/2023/12/26/Controlling-an-HP-1...

10 hours ago here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38778807

and also:

> I recently scored a Hewlett Packard 1670A Deep Memory Logic Analyzer and I finally had a chance to fire it up. This unit dates back to 1992 and is packed with all sorts of interesting options for connecting peripherals to it. One particular feature that caught my eye was the option to connect to an X Server.

A Testament to X11 Backwards Compatibility

http://www.theresistornetwork.com/2013/12/a-testament-to-x11...

10 years ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6850591
Curious, how would you profit from Argentina's economy recovering? Seeing as you can't trade their currency anymore (if they get rid of the Peso). I don't know what happens with their bonds.