skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This looks false, the Buster Keaton film was released the same year, not 14 years earlier, according to wikipedia. And both were inspired by an 18 year old song, Steamboat Bill, which Mickey whistles at the start.
> I knew the Java ecosystem was going to continue its decline

Has it?
I'd rather home-cook and take regular walks around the district, than having to spend even more time w/ tech after for work. Work is already kind of fulfilling, even as a manager, when you still can dabble with lower-level things and tools work. But spending your pasttime on more tech? Thats so sad, seriously.
IMO the technical part of this is easier than the social part. I've been hosting a Matrix server for years, and use it to talk to my wife and one friend.

One relative tried it but would ignore messages (iOS notification system design is bad, but their home screen is disorganized too), and would constantly revert to iMessage/SMS/MMS.
Two other relatives who are in a WhatsApp group with me pretty much refused with "But I can talk to you on WhatsApp just fine?", or "Who am I going to talk to on there?". Ironically does not stop them from downloading Viber, Instagram etc. Thankfully, the WhatsApp bridge + Matrix client works for 95% of the use cases.

Thus, I am happy that the author's efforts found good use and were appreciated.
Thought experiment: How would you go about proving that water is not bad?
The highest amount in their list was 54 micrograms per serving. Most of them were under 5 µg. They seem to have just bundled everything together instead of listing specific amounts of specific chemicals, and chose to put the numbers in "nanograms per serving" to make them look as big as possible.

I tried to look up the regulations, but whatever the value of EU regulations may be, readability and simplicity are not their strong points. Picking on DEHP because it's one CR mentions, I found these secondhand references:

* https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/news/16th-amendment-to-eu...
* https://www.foodpackagingforum.org/news/efsa-updated-risk-as...

The first says that the "specific migration limit" for DEHP had been lowered to 0.6 mg/kg. I assume that's the amount that ends up in the product. The second refers to Tolerable Daily Intake based on body weight, of 50 µg/kg.

So we're talking about, in one measure, the limit being 600000 nanograms in a kilogram of food. The serving size of Annie's Original Organic Cheesy Ravioli is 242g. So the allowable amount of DEHP in that serving would be 2,479,338 nanograms. They found 53,579, or around 2% of the acceptable amount.

Looking at it from TDI, Wikipedia gives a low bound on the average adult body weight of 60 kg. That's 3,000,000 nanograms, which brings it down to 1.8%.

Consumer Reports has not been a reputable publication for many years, and they continue to trade on their name as many Americans at least have it in their head that CR is some kind of unbiased arbiter of quantitative information about what's good or not. What they actually do is clickbait to sell subscriptions. This became clear to me when I realized that any time they write about a product category I have a lot of experience with, their recommendations make no sense. Thinking that they actually provide useful information but only about the things I don't have the ability to fact-check them on is a form of the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.
> People don’t walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced

I kind of like this idea.
This is a really nice overview of the nuances of WebRTC.

If you want to try this tech at a higher level, I maintain an experimental hobby project that attempts to abstract all the complicated parts of WebRTC into a simple API. Most importantly, it obviates the need to run your own signaling server by piggybacking on various public protocols like torrent trackers or IPFS to match peers. It's well-suited for quick projects/prototypes.

https://github.com/dmotz/trystero/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Goose_Girl

Similar grim
We aren't even close? What? The robot is doing its tasks properly. What you are complaining about is actually a minor problem. Ok the robot is 6x slower than it should be, that can be fixed by building faster robots. One day it will be 3x slower, then 2x, then 1x, then, oops.

What's wrong with only being trained to use a specific tool? The robot is designed to be easy to train via teleoperation. If you told me that one day it's going to be cheaper to program a robot to press a button than to remodel the switch to be robot friendly I would take these demonstrations as evidence.

The things you are complaining about are quite trivial. For example, they could have added a second prawn...

Edit: I just realized that it is only the first video was sped up by 6x. So basically, the robot is already fast enough and can only get faster.
You can't prove safe, you can only prove "no harms we know of yet."
List taken from my notes (removed the proprietary entries):

# WAN

instant.io

share.ipfs.io

Wormhole.app

# LAN

pairdrop.net

snapdrop.net

# CLI

Wormhole

Airtar

Webtorrent-hybrid

# Apps

KDE Connect?
Wound healing affected by perception of time that's passed
I'm glad to see someone standing up for hardworking folks like me on this elitist site. My family has found that converting one of these allows us to do the weekly shop of not just the milk, but also the charcoal for the barbeque and the tomahawk steaks for the children at the weekend: https://www.autotrader.ca/heavy-trucks/sanitation%20truck/
> few terms have been more challenging than the last 4 years.

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not
Thanks for stopping by! That was a fun video to be a part of, Grant’s math videos in general are so well done. I think this video was from 2017. Funny thing is that even back in 2014/2015, which is when I officially changed my PhD from pure math to AI, I had the fear that it was a little late (was originally from Toronto where neural nets were worked on my Hinton and his students —-Ilya, James…etc….so I felt like I had my chance to join much earlier and missed it). Only after 2012 did we start to see super human performance of AI in some tasks (namely, at first, classification). It was the Lee Sedol match with AlphaGo that convinced me that the field became a lot more interesting after I got to Berkeley (and also the generative stuff coming out early days from Alyosha’s lab and Deep RL stuff from Pieter’s).

But look at the world now! It’s never too late, jump in and build if you are excited now!
This is the same argument behind paying for a streaming service. Could I "find" everything I want to watch somewhere else and maintain it myself on a Plex server? Sure, but the cost-benefit analysis just doesn't make sense to me.

Particularly the older I get the more I value my finite free time. Throwing $20 at something to remove a problem that would take me hours (not to mention a large startup cost) to do myself is just an obvious choice.
It's a crazy way of staying online, but it does work, therefore it's not crazy.
All the pundits who have been predicting large rate cuts this year just baffle me. The jobs situation is very strong, wages are still rising, and consumer spending is still going up [1] despite predictions that everyone was going to run out of money in Q4. On top of that, housing is still sky-high and the commercial real estate market hasn't collapsed yet. I must be missing something.

[1] https://nrf.com/research/monthly-economic-review-december-20...
>Physical healing as a function of perceived time

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-50009-3

Abstract

In this study we wounded study participants following a standardized procedure and manipulated perceived time to test whether perceived time affected the rate of healing. We measured the amount of healing that occurred across three conditions using a within-subjects design: Slow Time (half as fast as clock time), Normal Time (clock time), and Fast Time (twice as fast as clock time). Based on the theory of mind–body unity—which posits simultaneous and bidirectional influences of mind on body and body on mind—we hypothesized that wounds would heal faster or slower when perceived time was manipulated to be experienced as longer or shorter respectively. Although the actual elapsed time was 28 min in all three conditions, significantly more healing was observed in the Normal Time condition compared to the Slow Time condition, in the Fast Time condition compared to the Normal Time condition, and in the Fast Time condition compared to the Slow Time condition. These results support the hypothesis that the effect of time on physical healing is directly affected by one’s psychological experience of time, independent of the actual elapsed time.
Okay: I haven’t seen anything from you explaining why Israel needs to provide Gaza with free utilities
Denominator changed - more people in the workforce through participation, immigration or not being dead.

As for analyst expectation, they are often mathematically inconsistent - quarterly revenue estimates can mismatch the 1y number etc.

The expectations are a simple average, and not necessarily everyone contributes to both estimates. Analyst A might stick in a +1 mil monthly number, Analyst B sticks in a -2% unemployment rate. (+ there are many analysts that like to stick in stupid numbers so they can claim to be a genius on cnbc if there is an outlier result)
For how many years have you had the same server running Ubuntu? Which version did you start with? LTS upgrades only? I don't want to update but once every 5 years or so.
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You can pay for the lifetime license, and it will do exactly that.
2007 FT3
Put a human in a beef jerky dehydrator for a few days?
The official unemployment rate is calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics by surveying a representative sample of US households, not a literal count of people "on the job hunt": https://www.bls.gov/cps/cps_htgm.htm

So while you should expect the numbers to broadly track together, there can and will be some variance month-over-month in the impact and durability of new jobs' contribution to the overall level of employment.
It would be fantastic for my wife, who often cannot stand for longer than a minute or two.

If I understand it correctly, it learns from "watching" you during telepresence sessions? If so, and if it learns fast enough, it really would be a massive boon to some disabled people.

Although I want to see it peel potatoes and dice onions :)
Nous-Hermes-2 on SOLAR 10.7B
What a fantastic blog post!
Number of jobs is only as interesting as the wages of those jobs (real wages not nominal wages.) I wish journalists would do better.
> a symbol of misplaced priorities at the time

This always feels terribly myopic to me. There's a lot of state capacity and doing a sing;e time bound endeavor did not prevent civil rights legislation from passing or economic development in Mississippi. The moonshot caused NASA's funding to peak at ~4% of the federal budget for a single year in 1966, returning to less than 1% by '73.
Zero-sum vs. positive sum products
How many of these were government jobs or government supported/subsidized?
> I also live in an urban area that seems to have fewer pumps per capita than other urban areas I've visited. This results in lines at the pump, which are exacerbated by automakers not standardizing on which side of the car to place the fuel filler.

EVs have also not standardized the location of the charging port, and it takes substantially longer to charge an EV vs fuel a gas car, so doesn’t an EV exacerbate your issues here if you don’t have home charging?

Everybody seems to like home charging, which makes sense, but it’s not available to everybody. So what are these people to do? Spend an extra 1-2 hours a week at a charging bay? That’s a hard sell, spending an hour or more per week doing something that used to take 5 mins.
It was not unbidden. You mentioned accusing any other side of genocide. I responded by pointing out that Hamas explicitly supports genocide.
Plastic pens

Plastic straws

Plastic Lilly sticks

Plastic tie-wraps

Basically anything that someone might chew on!

Although, licorice roots are okay to chew on... I guess. :-)
> not having any benefits

Actually, building on stable abstraction is a pretty nice benefit when your focus is on the product.

Swift is quite nice, IMO, but has also changed quite a bit since 2015 and using it would likely have lead to a bunch of work to keep up.
This works until it doesn't, and then you are screwed. Once a single property falls into foreclosure, you lose the refinance option and everything starts collapsing when payments come due you never intended to have to pay.
> With National I get my pick of any car on the lot (and with a corp discount code, usually around $30-40/day all-in).

When I fly and need a car I also use National to avoid the hassle of long lines and forms, just walk to the lot, pick a car get in and go, zero hassle. But this only works at airport locations so it is not a solution for the local use being discussed.

With local rentals I've never managed to get out in less than ~45 minutes of paperwork and waiting, it's a huge hassle.

Also as you'll know, with the Emerald Aisle the minimum class is midsize so there's a price premium for the convenience. Just got back from a trip yesterday using a National rental, $644 all-in for 6 days for the smallest car I can get on Emerald Aisle. Over $100/day. You must have a nice corp discount.
Good thought, but

> I figure that if you have knowledge that could benefit thousands of people, and it costs you next to nothing to share that knowledge, it’s your duty to do it.

As someone who has written a lot of docs over the years, there can often be a very high cost in terms of time and effort to document something.
The approach is so wrong on so many levels I'm wondering if that's just a rage clickbait.
> Yeah, people will say none of this matters, but talk to people in the gas station biz and you find out differently. Which side of the street or traffic circle the station on has a huge impact.

It certainly doesn’t bother me, but given there are people who will drive 100 MPH to save 3 mins on a commute, I can see how some would be impatient and act this way.
You have misread the post: it explicitly says that Steamboat Bill was released the same year, "no waiting 14 years"—as in, they didn't wait for the copyright to expire.
Never had trouble with those for using vinegar to remove ant trails. If you've got aphids and fruit flies getting in too, maybe that's the first thing to solve!

As for the rest, I certainly don't imagine it working all the time everywhere, but for the local pavement ant colony's roughly annual sortie into my kitchen it's fine. And what do you find of idealism in my not wanting to poison the room I feed myself in?
> In more of a work context, I think internal tooling for specific users or teams can feel similarly empowering. When you have an intentionally-constrained set of users, finding product-market fit and making sure the solution actually works for their needs becomes the only goal. And with so few users, it’s easy to keep tabs on what is and isn’t working for them.

I've seen a few of these and they always fall into (non-)maintenance hell once the dev (it's always just one, because the business can't spare a whole team for something like this) leaves, or until the next re-org (read: almost certainly less than two years from any random point in time) when the responsibilities of the team it was built for are divided among other teams, or outsourced to a body shop like CapGemini that won't use it (because they can replace the functionality with an army of managers with spreadsheets, all of which they can bill for).

In short, I think it's largely a fantasy to develop custom software for small userbases on economic grounds (at least for nontechnical users using typical "real" stacks -- spreadsheets and "programmer tools" are a different story), which is kind of the point of this piece.
> These plastics are going to follow tobacco and alcohol.

No. Demographics can show you with extremely small error bars the aggregate health effects of smoking and (heavy) drinking. If there was an effect of that magnitude from other variables, we'd know for sure. Microplastics and pthalates and other related contaminants are real, and deserve study. But let's not get ahead of ourselves with the doomerism.

We surely don't know the whole story, but we know pretty well that the effect is less than smoking/obesity/etc. because it would be there in the data if so.
You can require companies to do at least some due dilligence, though, to give a reasonable amount of comfort it is. "It's safe" is a falsifiable claim.
I hadn't heard this connection to Tom Kamifuji before, but knew of it being Regis McKenna's work. Here's an example of that exact rainbow I found after a quick search: https://www.flickr.com/photos/30559980@N07/37428150582
I see mm/dd/yyyy much more often, though I did see mm-dd-yyyy or mm-dd-yy a fair amount in goverment and military work.

See https://eforms.state.gov/Forms/ds5507.PDF for example, page two. Though again, it's not as common as slashes.
> Fairness doesn’t mean that the system should be stacked in favor of anyone who uploads a video.

Agreed, however if a creator repeatedly violates copyright and gets the three Copyright strikes (which I recognize are distinct while will related to claims) it is deleted. For the the issuer though. there is no penalty for invalid copyright removal requests. This is the type of unfairness that is an issue. Additionally, the claim issuer needs zero proof they even have the right to file a claim. The DMCA is mostly unfair to the companies that host the content forcing them act against the uploader and have zero ability to push back against bad faith actors. So the system Google has implemented can only legally pass the problem onto the content creators.

> Do you have any evidence that a claim negatively impacts search and discovery?

No. Can anyone truly have a confident stance that X == Y when it comes to how Youtube presents videos to potential viewers through its black box "algorithm"? I've seen plenty of inexplicable things happen with video recommendations as both a creator and viewer that both make me question what can/can't influence and never make an absolute statement about it, hence the "likely".

> that sounds to me like a very pro-creator outcome

You glanced over the unfair part there. Having 10s of music audio in a 10m video because you walked past a restaurant while filming a conversation can cause drastically disproportionate amounts of revenue to go to the claimant. This part is Google's fault and is an overreaction erring on the side of caution to appease the claim issuers.
The number of hours that they work matters as well (2 hours a week would be pretty low quality). I wish commenters would do better.

Average Hourly Earnings MoM DEC 0.4%

Average Weekly Hours DEC 34.3 (-0.1)
I recently re-read and thoroughly enjoyed Walden.. sounds like a lighter and funnier version. Will have to check it out!
> Initially, Huawei stated that HarmonyOS was a microkernel-based, distributed OS that was completely different from Android and iOS. A Huawei spokesperson subsequently stated that HarmonyOS supports multiple kernels and uses a Linux kernel if a device has a large amount of RAM, and that the company had taken advantage of a large number of third-party open-source resources, including Linux, to accelerate the development of the system as a future-proof, microkernel-based, and distributed OS running on multiple devices.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HarmonyOS#Criticism
Zero - I run a script when I install the OS and it kills all of that. I've never once had a Windows Update break anything on any of the computers I own.
I definitely shouldn't have to do set a load of regkeys to make the computer do what I want it to do but it certainly beats the experience of Linux on a desktop.
Why only native Americans? Spain colonized my country for 333 years too.
I have a few copy/paste text files from AOL forums from the 90s, of which sadly the other 99.99% was lost unless AOL (or the clients to whom they subcontracted maintenance of forums at individual keywords) still has them on a tape drive somewhere.
Uranus and Neptune are similar blues, 'true' color images reveal
PHP on hackernews also caught my attention.
Ask HN: How do find out what company is behind a Stripe invoice?
I am trying to find out what legal entity is behind a Stripe invoice. They use the app name and their website only talks about the app. Their invoice also says the app name. There is no mention of the legal entity behind it.
Technically EOL of CentOS 7. Guessing 8 will be supported for a while, then one must decide to switch to CentOS Stream, RHEL proper, or an alternative like Rocky.
Hoping for 10 years of support, I adopted Centos 8 a week before the EOL announcement. I never understood why they decided to support 7 longer than 8.
Looking for something
else, but you got this haiku.
Now, was it brutal?
Certainly, but it's a matter of priorities. I recycle and minimize my consumption of useless goods, and all the rest. These are unambiguously good things to do. But at the same time, going after people for their recreational hobbies just because said hobbies are not something you find personal fulfillment in is shit activism when they are barely enough to be considered a rounding error in the larger problems of climate change.

If at some point in the far flung future, things like dirt bikes or even track monster race cars owned by folk turn out to be the biggest environmental problem, fine. Then we'll deal with it. But from my perspective we have an entire ocean of fish much bigger and far more worth frying first than them.
That video of pigs being fed plastic it is in a facility in North Carolina, USA, run by Smithfield Foods, a Chinese-owned entity, the largest pork producer in the United States.

I have searched for to know what happened with that facility, but the only article that I've been able to find, and that it is showed as first result in the search engine, is from fayobserver[1], labeled as USA Today Network, saying a "do not worry".

Legal or not, it's an outrage. Did the FDA allowed this in the end?

From their web[2] << Headquartered in Smithfield, Virginia, Smithfield Foods is an American food company dedicated to producing Good food. Responsibly.® >>

[1] https://fayobserver.com/story/news/2022/05/05/nc-pig-feed-pl...

[2] www smithfieldfoods com
Rate cuts will still likely happen, just look at what's going on with the bond market; we're already in conditions similar to the 2010's. The US Gov can't afford it's current debt load at the current rates.

We're probably never going back to ~0% interest rates again but current inflation numbers show that the inflation we felt in 2021 and 2022 were transitory because of supply-chain shocks and corporate greed. Now we'll have to deal with the boomers retiring and moving into consumption-only mode instead of consuming AND producing, the former of which is inflationary.

Besides, corporate and white collar donations are Biden's bread and butter, and they're pricing in cuts of 75-150 bps over the next year.

TL;DR - Don't discount that we're on the up from a low in a slow-rolling business cycle.
http://www.phrack.org/issues/49/14.html#article
Well, it’s the first time since the 70s Americans have had to deal with high inflation (for developed world standards)
I believe the military had one of the biggest recruiting misses ever in 2023, so that branch of the government at least seems to be shrinking.