skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are only just realising why Coca-Cola from McDonald's tastes so different
Pizza Hut to lay off California delivery drivers in 2024
Missing the hackernews part of product to research and development,:
Is your company planning to use the exponential growth nature of software to enter into a overlooked niche or rapidly take over a existing industry? In that case, product development does not really catch the situation. Cause using the situation, closing time window till competition appears or funds run out, is way more important than the product or its quality
There's some yahoo who buzzes my house twice a week in a Cessna (coming and going). He's often under 500' AGL. No ADS-B and haven't gotten a tail number yet. I think it should be illegal to not have it enabled, for exactly this kind of thing.

In fact I wonder if it's even a licensed pilot—William Bushling apparently flew for 20 years without a current FAA license and also didn't use ADS-B; when he finally lost the dice game it took them days to find the wreckage: https://youtu.be/69NvK6YbNtg
But you need people to use those guns. And those people need to stay loyal. Sure, you have stuff, but how do you keep your stuff safe from others who are bettered skilled at taking your stuff?
I think that's why EVs don't really affect the road. You could double the weight of every car in the country, and it would increase road wear by like 3% because of how ridiculously disproportionately large vehicles cause it.
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> My grandparents will endlessly complain about the lack of good quality products on the market (knives, power tools, clothing) but at the same time refuse to engage in locally-made albeit more expensive merchants.

The core of that problem is that this is a self-reinforcing destructive loop, and it's not just for tools but for everything these days. Cheap imports, especially from China, grabbed the masses that were just interested in price, and large chain stores grabbed the masses that didn't want to spend hours driving around small specialist stores. The remaining people were not enough to support the few stores that did still sell quality products, so they closed down, so even more people went for cheap large-chain stuff because they couldn't expect that they'd be able to find what they need reliably at a small, local store. A lot of formerly popular brands (here in Germany, most infamously AEG, Telefunken and Grundig) ended up going bankrupt and now also sell relabeled cheap Chinese stuff.

And now, the revolution is eating its children, as the deluge of scam products and dropshippers on Amazon shows.
yea, I guess it's the lack of human-friendly default assumptions mixed with prescriptive design patterns. definitely an anachronistic design intent :(
lol mma skills... the man does not fight, he will never be able to. Just learning some "skills" and spa'ing is not actual fighting and is nothing the same.

Mob bosses rarely use skill to extol violence. So I agree, step 1 is to "demonstrate" who is in charge...
Do you mean you're running a DNS server locally? Wouldn't the DNS block apply when your local server tried to resolve the name upstream?
This is Bruce Wayne's actual origin story.
Our legal system is, absent other laws, free employment, meaning you can be fired for anything not explicitly protected by law, and "pissing off the CEO" is not one of them.
Researchers Stuff Data into Diamond Cavities
> I like the fact it takes a few minutes to refuel my car

I guarantee you spend more time fueling your ICE than I do my EV in a given year.
Retired NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott's Call to Action for Earthlings
You don't have to "stop for electricity" in a EV if you can charge at your home. Your car is always ready to go.
https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/01/01/google-settles-laws...
I believe doom uses the packages vertico and marginalia for that, available on github.
Oregon and Washington.
You mean Kindle Unlimited? Yes, kind of, but it's a somewhat limited selection, in part because it has an exclusivity agreement such that you can be on Kindle Unlimited xor in public libraries[0].

[0] https://twitter.com/AnEriksenWife/status/1742405151116140907
A Study of 500k Medical Records Links Viruses to Alzheimer's Again and Again
Ask HN: Why did civilization happen "now" vs. earlier?
Humans have been around for hundreds of thousands of years. Why didn’t modern civilization happen earlier?
Tech 'for' but so far the biggest contribution is a boycott list. I suppose it's hard to come with technological solutions for old school problems like conflict for land, religious enmity and bad blood.

Hopefully someone is working on a way to terraform a clone of Israel/Palestine so both sides can get one.
lol what a tool...
To avoid being diverted by broad generalities, let's note that with regard to this specific issue, the political decision-making progress will be sub-optimal if it does not take into account the existence of objective evidence concerning the effect of students' circadian rhythms on their ability to satisfy the politically-chosen, yet still objective, goals of education policy.
There are not many alternatives that are truly general build tools (not limited to single language/repository, etc), and properly parallelize and cache.

So, besides gradle and bazel, what else is there?
SpaceX launches first phone service satellites
Because people upvoted it.
What makes human cognition so important? Because you have it?

You are no more special than a mosquito.
Money would become meaningless once society collapses. Things like food and shelter would be more valuable... but as guards they're already inside the bunker and have access to those, so why would they need Zuck?
Doesn't Norway just not tax EVs unlike ICE cars which are highly taxed? A bit different that the US where domestically made EVs are subsidized.
I don't like the solution being to just make containers out of everything. That introduces its own problems and lets developers be lazy in other ways.
Eh, will this really work, I have my doubts, and this is why.

Good actors: "Hey, say good things about good articles and they become more popular"

Bad actors: "Oh shit, you mean I can say good things about my shit articles and they become more popular?!, you know what I'm doing, right?"
Helium discovery could be worth billions
Not a fan. Wikipedia should be a truly neutral actor - regardless of situation. Once this starts, it won't stop, and it will start to burn the NPOV.
Guardian Goofs: Signs Your Developers Are Leaking Secrets
I really like this. It seems very thorough and complete, and most importantly, it really feels like it instills confidence. Excellent work OP, I am absolutely going to give this a read end-to-end.

I've recently come to realise just how much of an effect confidence can have on the productivity of engineers trying to produce technical documentation. I know multiple brilliant, prolific developers who have struggled to put words down, not because they didn't know what to write, but because the perception of increased visibility and permanence of what they were writing made them constantly second-guess their tone, style, sentence structure, grammar, etc.

Speaking from personal experience, Technical Writing Style Guides[0] have been pretty effective at helping overcome that option paralysis, and adopting a style guide [1] helped my team a fair bit. However, by far the biggest benefit came from adding real-time style guide linting to our docwriting devcontainer, via the excellent Vale.sh[2] and the vale-ls[3] language server. It was a total gamechanger.

If you're struggling to find your groove with technical writing, I'd thoroughly recommend trying out this approach (in addition to everything else mentioned in this book). Yeah, I'm sure you could just use ChatGPT to standardise your output to a particular writing style, but if you write code for a living, you'll know there's something about the immediate feedback of a real-time linter that really inspires confidence. And confidence is important.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_style_guides#For_the_c...
[1]: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/style-guide/welcome/
[2]: https://vale.sh/
[3]: https://github.com/errata-ai/vale-ls
> all this money

All what money? Scaled for a net worth of 100k, this would cost less than $200.
It depends. Local caterers can be good. This is a good option for people who are not great cooks. But yes, if you order catering from a run of the mill place it can be average. Another option is to hire a chef.
you had me in the first half, not gonna lie.
I'd rather just see the kwh usage. Rates vary wildly in the US, even within the same state. Some states with average prices have utilities with cheap power.

And others with overall low rates have dumb utilities that charge high rates if you use more than 1000kwh, which most EV owners certainly do.
But is it exciting? Why? Personally I find the idea of a uniform “Earth” culture with no local identities as exciting as the idea of never being able to travel away my own local culture to experience a different one, that is, not exciting at all.
Food for thought: what about driving a massive deadly hunk of metal through a community?
Check out marginalia[1]. Whenever you press M-x, it will pop up a buffer showing all the commands (with most recent ones on top) along with their keybindings and a brief description of what they do.

Embark[2] is also cool. It will show all the possible commands relevant to where the cursor is at that moment. I bind it to C-c a.

[1] https://github.com/minad/marginalia
[2] https://github.com/oantolin/embark
Skeuomorphic interfaces educated people to click for the first time on buttons which resembled buttons in real life. Having to click on unadorned words would have been too difficult. Which words are to click, which words are only to read? It still is difficult at times but 30+ years of collective education makes it possible.
> But those farm trees still produced more oxygen and stored more carbon than the solar panels will.

If those solar panels replace a coal fired power plant, is that still true? I am unsure.
There are lots of theories but the 0-th order term in the formula is climate stability. Everything else is an insignificant correction term. Without a stable climate agriculture is not possible and modern civilization is not possible without sedentary agriculture which is only possible if the climate is predictable and stable enough for farmers to have predictable yields and surplus.

Once there is food surplus it's possible to invest in cultural output and science to advance technology for exploiting environmental resources more efficiently with a lot less manual human labor. There is no free lunch though and the metabolic output of techno-industrial societies is poisonous to life (this includes the monkeys who figured out how to extract petroleum from the ground as a power source for their exploitation machines).
You should try to petition your state governor office to get the felony removed. It is a long time consuming process and will likely need help from a lawyer, but I have friends that have successfully gotten their felony removed after several years of diligently trying again, and of course good behavior in the mean time. It may never happen, but might as well give it a shot, it can’t hurt.
There is a fun book about this phenomenon called Survival of the Richest by Douglas Rushkoff. He met other billionaires who were planning to build apocalypse bunkers with private security forces, They were all flummoxed by his question: how will you prevent your security from turning on you when your money is worthless?
Clearly you have been watching too much Dune.
How is microsoft worse then any other of the tech giants?
Amazon is unique. If you look at their revenue, the vast majority comes from E-Commerce. But if you look at their profits, the majority comes from AWS.

AWS is indisputably a software org, so it's clear that their senior leaders value software engineering. But I think that even Amazon's marketplace sees itself as a software org. From the early days, they always saw software as being a competitive advantage.
EVs have to be a superior product (read: including the infrastructure) before the majority of people will switch to them, plain and simple.
It's not "the development of the first global civilisation". It's the death of imagination and creativity.

You'd think that for a place as varied and interesting as Earth, you'd emerge with something that is as varied and interesting.
Honestly a great way to have a self sustaining niche website.

Looking over the smaller communities I've been a part of over my internet adventures, nearly 25 years, that have disappeared due to costs or other commitments, I wish they all had stores to self sustain and grow their communities.

Now I wonder what the equivalent the online equivalent to cooperatives would be for the internet, and if there are any examples attempting this.
One thing I always despise about science textbooks Is that they always state theories as facts rather than current theory.

Biology textbook should’ve say “As of today we think that photosynthesis started at so and so date.”

This would do more for science than anything else.
Good thing the universe is full of that stuff. We'll all be rich once we figure out how to suck it out of space.
Another competitor of Retool with around 150 employees is very far away from 1m in revenue as far as I know. They recently did a layoff as well. VC money that flowed in 2021 has created a bunch a money burning machines.
I don't think it matters what the US decides to do here. It's a lost cause either way. If the last failed war in Afghanistan (and Vietnam) taught us anything, it's that native bootstrapped insurgency is impossible to stop, as long as it's cheap and persistent enough and can keep the recruits coming. Yemen's Houthis are arguably gaining even more popular support than the Taliban ever had, across the entire Muslim world, Sunni and Shia united. The fact that the US's closest allies, even Saudi Arabia who had previously fought the Houthis for years, are refusing to cooperate publicly on this one, is a sign of the massive popular support that the Houthis enjoy. They'll have no trouble refilling their ranks.

Also doesn't help that they have an indirect line to Russian military manufacturing via Iran.
People moved to suburbs, not to Nevada. They didn't quit their jobs. They just commuted by car.

Today, the sprawl has reached a point where commuting into the city is no longer an option.

That's why the old method no longer works.

We need to add density in the population centres where there are opportunities and jobs.

Not force young families to choose between a good job and a house.
"It only takes 5x longer to charge at some specific charging stations that may or may not be conveniently located for your trip, I don't know what's the big deal"

I can see how EV cars are good options for people who live in the city and only go grocery shopping, but for people who have family scattered around the country / continent with young children or babies, it sounds extremely inconvenient.
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As I read it, he believed that we must have an afterlife (the soul survives death) because otherwise, all of the knowledge we accumulated in our lifetime would be lost and that would be a waste and irrational.

I don't agree. Knowledge is passed down through generations; it doesn't need to be preserved in a single human. Even stars are born and die, so it seems much more reasonable to me that a system has evolved where knowledge is passed through generations instead of the human soul surviving death to preserve knowledge (an afterlife).
Probably the power would stop when the fault is detected.
No matter how many debug printfs you add to a program, they won't help you if you're editing a different copy than you are running. You will make this mistake and you will learn from it, but even reading this warning will not teach you, you must make the mistake yourself. If you are lucky, you'll lose only an hour. If not you'll lose a week.
Yeah you can get simulated divided lights (SDL) on a modern window. I guess I am a bit of a stickler for these things, heh.

I can see a modern Georgian type thing though. Definitely nicer than so much of the garbage being built today.
I don't have four kids, but I am really interested in getting an EV/PHEV minivan eventually. Hopefully more vehicles like the ID.Buzz come out and prove a bit of a market for it. Right now, the only PHEV minivan in the US market is the Chrysler Pacifica, and I'm not entirely sure on the reliability of its drivetrain.

But yeah there's currently not a lot of 3+ year old used EVs out there because a lot of models are barely even three years old and haven't even been produced in mass quantities for 3+ years. This situation is likely to change over the next 5 years or so.
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A law named after an unrepentant pedophile. Not something I'd want to see on HN.
A few decades... Give it like 8
That's asking a lot of windows. But as a former sys admin, that sounds like it would make things harder to manage. So its linked. But its not really there. So existing userdata backup automation wouldn't catch it. Sorry your Outlook psts are gone. User data should live with users. The problem isn't with that paradigm. Its that its abused and wide open.
The answer is obvious when you look at who wrote this op-ed.

Always remember: It's bad on purpose to make you click.
It's never a compiler bug. Until it is. Unless it's a hardware bug instead.
Los Angeles city hall is an icon and this is a local paper.
You can rebind it to the normal 'hold-to-shutdown' behavior.

Also you can assign custom action under quick double press.
Show HN: Tatask – Nestable To-Do Trees
Hi HN, I'm Max, the maker of Tatask.

Tatask is not just another to-do list app. It adds infinite nesting so you can simply break down and structure your tasks. The smaller the task the easier it is to complete.

I've just launched Tatask on the App Store in time to hopefully capitalise on people making 2024 plans. The web version has been iterated on for almost a year now.

I hope that this subtly different approach to to-dos will work as well for you as it has been for me and many others already.

I'm always open to constructive feedback and looking forward to hearing from everyone here as I have had great responses when getting involved in other discussions.

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I'm not one of these guys, but what I imagine is that it's purely ego-driven. They just see themselves as too important to die in squalor with the rest of the masses. When "the end" comes their estate would be too vulnerable compared to a protected bunker.

The one in the article will apparently include 30 offices, so I imagine he'll make sure social media will emerge from the other side of the apocalypse, so expect lots of selfies with people holding their enemy's head and howling at the moon?

The last thing is I bet these guys at least feel connected enough to get more advance warning than the normals.
If a sci-fi author wanted to imagine a bio weapon that would prevent a nation from raising a military, this is exactly what such an author would come up with.
Are tracking pixels still a thing? If so it allows to fingerprint you, and track you down across sites.
The fact that this got proven to be unfair at all and convictions overturned etc. is because it could ultimately be pointed out that these specific software bugs existed in an intentionally designed piece of software. But it still took years to get past the "computer says no" attitude to being told they were wrong. I worry as increased use of AI and profiling becomes normal, that there will be no avenue for people when e.g. the background check company's ML system says they're a high risk candidate.
Thanks for the rec! That seems right up my alley!

Re: ants. A quick google suggests there could be around twenty quadrillion ants on earth. With such volume, they could literally "learn" through pure trial and error like a machine learning model.
And I was expecting the Outlook J smiley. Been a while since I've seen it in the wild now.

https://superuser.com/questions/1181497/text-smiley-faces-sh...
Sure, but you still have a better chance in NZ than in US. And you'll still have to deal with the other people panicking in an AI scenario. Maybe the AI doesn't particularly care about you, but civilization still collapses.
Typical Linux fan answer on the Internet, apparently Wikipedia knows better than me, having bought it.

Not only it shipped with a custom Asus distribution for media play called Linux Express, it had Ubuntu on it.