skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the most notable difference between Hacker News and Reddit is that it's impossible to downvote anything on Hacker News. [..] It's an interesting design decision, but ultimately a bad one, in my opinion.

That's not true (as the author realized himself). And I don't agree with the author; letting people downvote is unfortunate in my opinion, and a bad design decision. The possibility to downvote encourages misuse. I don't see any reason for the majority of downvotes I come across; mostly it's just other opinions that don't suit a few people; often it's even the correct presentation of the facts that has been downvoted.

Most people on HN are anonymous. Downvoting is even more anonymous; there is usually no record from who the downvotes come. If you're interested in the effects of anonymity to people, watch this part of Zimbardo's very interesting lecture: https://youtu.be/OsFEV35tWsg?t=959. The anonymity of the web, or the masses, gives these people a power that obviously overwhelms them. There were experiments which demonstrated how it can play out when ordinary people suddenly gain power (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_prison_experiment).

The possibility to downvote promotes the bad in people. And it is not even necessary. If you like a comment or story for whatever reason, you can upvote. That's already enough to promote popular content, and demote unpopular content. And if a comment violates site rules, it can be flagged. Of course also flagging can be misused (as it is very popular e.g. on Lobsters); this can be mitigated in that the admin kicks out people who misuse flagging. And that's likely the issue: the admin prefers delegating work to the community, which is likely the main and only reason why the downvoting features persists.
It's not a unique opportunity in any way, if the German government somehow decided that it would be awesome to hold $2B or $20B of BTC, they can simply buy it at any time.
I'm not sure this is proper usage. Virgule is French for Comma, not Slash. And to my knowledge, there is no French equivalent for Slash and if there is, it's not commonly used.
Acoustic cameras can see sound [video]
ryzen desktop chips can support ecc, the consumer mobile range can´t.
> (Under the assumption of concave utility, insurance is a better deal than it seems, but lotteries a worse deal than they seem -- even when one diversifies.

Indemnity insurance and lotteries are actually symmetric to each other: indemnity insure is about preventing big losses in a rare event, and lotteries are about winning big in a rare event.

The central difference is that the behaviour of people with respect to wins and losses is not symmetric, that is why insurance policies and lotteries are marketed quite differently.

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What is the exact shape of the convex utility function you theorise these people have? And what data supports that?

I am very sure that big lottery companies have data available to answer this question, but they won't make the data available. So I honestly admit that I don't know the answer, but I can propose an experiment how one might get a partial answer:

Create some lottery offers, paying out, say, 1000, 10.000, 100.000, 1.000.000, 10.000.000 $ with probabilities such that the expected payout is 5 $ for each of them. Now sell/auction the lottery tickets and look what prices customers are willing to pay. This should give a rough idea how the utility function might look like.
I'm trying to think of a middle-ground. Plain text and files are really great in so many ways. I think _folder hierarchies_ are the problem.

Maybe a virtual file-system...
Show HN: `<button-play-audio url="HTTPS://w.wiki/8$sT"/>`
An example web-component for a button to play a sound when clicked (and some extras).
this is completely undifferentiated. whole wheat bread may work well for you but it completely fucks me up. a few slices a day for a few days and i'll start being at risk for throwing up at random times. nutrition is a hightly emotional laden topic and criticizing someone's diet often means criticizing their core values, but that doesn't mean medical experts can't bring their patient's dietary preferences into question.

while you are _probably_ correct that a whole food-plant based, balanced diet is the best way, it just does not work for everyone the same way. some might have allergies and intolerances, some might have a microbial gut biome that doesn't do well on certain foods, some might have other medical conditions (i.e. diabetes) which influences things. for all of them, having a "balanced diet" that doesn't fuck them up means different things.

many of those "fad diets" are actually nothing but tricks to actually introduce something that resembles a balanced diet into the lives of people whose diets are critically off. keto doesn't work because people believe in quick fixes, it PROBABLY works because you can't subsist on dougnuts, frozen pizza and beer anymore. suddenly it's water, spinach, broccoli, carrots and nuts for snacking. for those people, "carbs are ok" doesn't just open the door to bread but also to cake.

furthermore, keto wasn't invented by a snake oil salesman to get rich quick, it's been used as a medical intervention for at least a hundred years.

if you had actually read the article it's precisely about the scientific support for "this fad diet" keto for its effects, which actually aren't well understood. it's clearly stated that there are actually benefits for some people suffering from certain mental illnesses. don't just discard that.
The measured mitigation cost overhead is very interesting. Those XG machines have very fast syscalls (<100ns), but are more than twice as slow with mitigation on, even though they are fairly recent and most meltdown/spectre bugs should have been patched out.
If I were you I would look for product owner roles in a tech company building a product for sales operations. That way you can a) get paid again soon b) really use and build on your sales operations background c) work closely with a development team and see their code and how they work, d) do some non-production prototyping of new features etc. which can help you learn a bit of coding without actually destroying your company and e) learn how to explore and analyse business problems and requirements (which can get quite technical!). Based on that, you'd have a great basis on which to decide whether you want to actually become a developer, or whether you are happy helping a development team decide what to work on in an area of interest to you personally, which in my view is just as rewarding.
This is why I need the CCC in my life
> When I was little it was still married-with-children by default, probably at relatively young age, and people had to decide not to have children.

Don't ignore selection bias. When you're a kid, almost everyone you know is a child, and so almost every adult you know is a parent.

I don't know how old you are, but most of those societal changes - no need to marry and contraception - have been in place for decades. I'm in my early 30s and I wouldn't say staying single and not marrying is the "default" - yes, there's more people doing it, but I still know a lot of people who have coupled up and got married. I don't think I know anyone who's completely checked out of the idea of a relationship yet - the single people are still dating, often with the expressed desire of finding someone.

I have 2 kids, and the main reason people I talk to aren't considering a third is cost. Cost of an extra bedroom, cost of a larger car, incredibly high childcare costs - there's a very large real reduction in living standards that comes from going from 2 to 3. Compare that to my parents generation, where 3 or more siblings was the norm. I suspect a large part of falling birth rates isn't that loads more people are living child free lives, but that the people choosing to have kids are having fewer of them.
It's forced labor, they don't have a choice.
I wouldn’t use the word “hate”. But.

On resource use:

If it’s just one app then ok. But if it’s several (VS Code, Slack, Figma, …) then it adds up.

Plus there are other things I want to use my laptop’s resources for (hello docker).

It’s simply not reasonable for apps to assume they’re the only resource heavy app I have running.

On being accessible / fast / secure:

It may be _possible_ to write electron apps that are these things, but is it easy? Does electron encourage it? Or does the path of least resistance lead to a bloated mess?

(Genuine question. I’ve never written code that uses electron. My point is that _possible_ isn’t good enough, especially when speed of development is such a selling point.)
My comment was implied aspirationally. US legal issues may (or may not, see sibling comments) prevent a provider from sending health info via email. If it was/is allowed, I think many would like to opt in (but never the default).

As I understand HIPAA (I'm not a lawyer), the patient can send info to the provider via email. In fact, since my last comment I emailed a test result of mine to my doctor (in the US).

Outside the US, email is sometimes used. I've had a couple non-US doctors send me my health data via email. I don't know which foreign laws applied, but I assume they were permitted to do so.
I was expecting it to be a pet project that took an old telephone that had the extra ABCD keys, run it through an arduino/AVR and into a USB port.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_sign...

https://www.tech-faq.com/abcd-tones.html
Why is counterfeiting money still a thing (2023)
Exactly -> " Corporate entities are a lot like paperclip optimizers "

We are so scared of AI paperclip optimizers, but don't see that humans are machine s that optimize to have as much sex and food as possible.

Our society is optimizing for producing Doritos and Taco Bells and McDonalds and Porn.

Wasn't there a George Carlin bit about men only went to the moon so they could brag and get laid? All our better 'accomplishment' can be reduced to sex. Art, Music, Writing, is sex.

And, Capitalism just smooths the way to the lowest common denominator.

Unless people wake up and put limits on it, like a regulator on an engine so it doesn't blow up.
Encrypted Phone 'Sky' Linked to Murder-for-Hire Plot in Maryland
My only nitpick is that the URLs contain a complete UUID. I personally think that shorter URLs like https://wayf.social/a4YnB would look nicer when shared in a chat.

But otherwise UI/UX look and feel great!
The paper discussed in the video is: "Genetic variation, brain, and intelligence differences" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41380-021-01027-y
Date picker (https://datumprikker.nl/, dutch focus but has english as an option) seems similar. Any significant differences between these tools?
That is self-evident.
I believe this is the right direction - IDEs must become more intelligent. Are they already (really) intelligent - the answer may vary on your competence (it's more useful for beginners) and your expectations.

Even as an experienced developer who wants to learn a new framework/language, I prefer Copilot + VSCode ($10/m) as compared to a paid IDE (~ $10/m).

JetBrains cannot be the Nokia of IDEs and let the opportunity pass by, they need to play the game and hopefully, they will (as in the past) remain the top choice.
Time spent with healthcare professionals does not account for time spent being impaired and adapting to those impairments. That's 3 weeks a year doing health care AND your entire year spent using a walker to get around your house.

There's also a distribution here, there's a fair amount of seniors with fairly minimal health problems at any given time, and some who are in more dire straits. You hear more from the people in dire straits.
SummerCart64 – an open-source Nintendo 64 flashcart
My understanding is that the most meaningful and controversial of those rules, the one which states you can't do illegal drugs or be under their influence while at the shelter, is one which is frequently demanded by the shelter residents themselves.

I mean it makes sense, if my child and I are homeless and I'm sharing a room with people in my situation, my preference would certainly be for them not to be smoking fentanyl right next to me. "People need freedom" is a nice truism, but I don't think it's unreasonable to expect the "freedom" provided to shelter residents be similar to the "freedom" one might expect in other types of shared housing.
They'd be footgunning their own revenue stream; JS performance on iOS has been a priority since day one. PWAs are a crucial part of the Apple ecosystem.
Yes, I have just noticed this too.

Even weirder is that the AMD specification pages have stated that both Rembrandt (Ryzen 6000 series) and Phoenix (Ryzen 7040 series) support ECC, for about a year and a half.

Then suddenly, some time in Q3 2023, they have removed ECC from their specifications.

Because Ryzen 8000G is just Phoenix or Hawk Point (the AMD information about this, i.e. about the speed of the NPU, has been contradictory) in another package, I was initially surprised that they have decided to support ECC in it, but now I see that they have reverted again the decision.
I carried a butane torch soldering iron for years before the pinecil. I wasn't expecting it to have nearly the capacity but I've soldered some 8ga with it.
> One Java architect can make the code unreadable, even for himself.

I agree, even in my original post.

> But even those DSL language patterns can be learned. In many non-Lisp projects, the DSL gets implemented in C/C++.

The friction is everything, otherwise we'd all be programming Turing machines. In Lisp, it is zero, by design; it can be good or bad, as most things in engineering. Consequences of uncontrolled growth of a DSL vs imposing artificial process limitations for the future of the software project must be considered explicitly; this is automatic when the cost of starting a DSL is non-zero.
Since you are in the know, what exactly is a practical application of quantum computing?

25 years ago I took a class in quantum computing and at the time it looked to be just around the corner, and that look didn't change. I concluded during my class that quantum computing depends on keeping qubits in a delicate balance. Although some quantum computing algorithms (quantum Fourier transform, and by extension Schor's algorithm) offer exponential speedup, adding new qubits to a quantum processor is also an exponentially hard problem, so it's a wash.

People then redefine the concept of qubit to be weaker, but then it's not clear how many algorithms still enjoy an exponential speedup. As far as I can tell, they only enjoy a quadratic speedup, which is nothing to sneeze at; but there are generally classical options that offer the same quadratic speedup.

I'd love to hear from you that the picture I just painted is wrong, and there are actual concrete application that will work in the next, let's say, 3 years.
While this comment doesn't seem 100% serious, I wonder if this kind of attack is made less effective by the trend in mechanical keyboards to isolate the PCB and plate from the case acoustically, e.g. gasket mount, flex cuts, burger mods. In my experience the effect of these changes is each key sounds more similar to the others rather than the traditional case mount setup where each key sound changes drastically based on its proximity to mounting points.
Memory bandwidth is severely limited compared to m1. So, not yet
All the inconvenient of using an AS/400 without the advantage of having an IBM designed coffee table in the living room as a conversation piece.
>Dentists had more cases of alzheimer than other groups of doctors

Herpes?

1. Travels along nerve cells

2. Causes lifelong infection

3. Can enter the brain (HSV encephalitis)

4. Herpetic whitlow used to be an occupational disease of dental workers (still is to some extent)

"Overwhelming Evidence for a Major Role for Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV1) in Alzheimer’s Disease (AD); Underwhelming Evidence against"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8234998/
I used to work for a state agency and there was a truck that delivered office supplies called "$STATE Correctional Enterprises", all the office furniture was made by prisoners. I didnt have a problem with that to be honest because the cost savings were benefiting the taxpayer in theory. I have also looked at many prisons on google maps and you will see tons of blue collar businesses (Cintas, Pitt Ohio etc.) within the perimeter road of the complex.
The UK has nicotine concentration limits. British vapes are significantly less addicting than American ones.
That occurred to me as well. Also, it seemed notable that the one meeting that was not marked by connectivity problems seemed like the one with the audience least likely to have regulatory implications (SFPD/SFFD).
That, my friend, sounds a lot like The Cat Ate My Source Code [The Pragmatic Programmer]

Price, lead time, quality, (and scope) — pick any two. When the stakes are high, don't rely on your manager to pick quality — that is your responsibility.

And if you can't convince your "boss" to give you enough time to deliver something that meets your bar, quit.
I've been using one called FLOWN. It's not just for engineers, but some community sessions are themed (writing, coding, etc). There is not much chat in these other than sharing your intentions and reflecting on how you did afterwards--the main point is focusing in a video call with other people.
Why I don't like electron or electron-like apps:

1. Slow & memory intensive.

2. The web browser has gotten terrible with memory optimization

3. Can't Detect which `browser` is the bad actor (RAM or CPU)
This looks really cool, for sure I will to try this out ! I will look into it for Italian.

I'm not sure how much work is it for you guys to add a language, maybe it's easier for you to add languages than for other mainstream platforms thanks to the use of AI ? If it the case, it would be really nice to have one serbo-croatian language, such as croatian or bosnian.

I struggled to find ressources for these languages. Since a few months I have been trying to learn Bosnian (going on a long trek in the balkanies this summer) and I was just not able to find any "modern" service (Duolingo, Babel, etc ...) which supports these languages. I guess it makes sense since almost no-one wakes up and decide to learn Montenegrin, but maybe you can find a niche market.

Anyway, cool product ! I hope you guys make it.
I don’t think it’s facetious, I think it’s inspirational to point out that most of the time it’s just about hard work and doing the jobs nobody else is/wants to be doing.
It is always crazy to me the ratio of damage done to benefit received by people committing crime and fraud. I don't know how much one could possibly pocket using such scheme, but I'm certain that compared to the destruction of the entire project it is not that high of a percent.
> To optimize this further, you need implementation dependent code and replace abstractions of S-expressions with native machine code

This can be done by a program called a compiler. There are many compilers for Lisp.

(In other words, the same argument applies to every language ever which doesn't exactly correspond to machine code.)
Agreed, I often email results to my spouse so they can review as well. I don't think many health care systems permit spousal access to results (although I can see my young kids' data).
I would not dismiss his complaints as broad brush IT disparagement. Despite the title, I think the author is referring to the EHR (Electronic Health Record), specifically of Epic which is unique in that it is essentially a "benevolent tech dictatorship" imposed upon 90% of hospitals through owner/lead programmer Judith Faulkner at Epic (no medical background) lured initially by federal incentives then married to it in perpetuity. That's not really anything like operating system software you can uninstall today (e.g. Microsoft, Linux, Apple). With the onerous hospital system transformation contracts and non-disclosure agreements - Epic exec customers are more like cult followers than standard software consumers.
Rewarding the reckless egoists is immature, it demonstrates a lack of understanding of the larger system, and by not addressing or acknowledging this issue we get our current situation. Knowing and not fixing is immature.
Compared to other economic systems, capitalism hasn't been around for very long. How fast do you want things to happen before evaluating the economic incentives?

My point here is that incentives can work over time and interact with environmental factors. You're making essentially the same argument Larry Summers made against greedflation, "I don't think corporations suddenly became more greedy, so this can't be a phenomenon". Sure, greediness didn't change, but the economic and political environment did, giving the actors cover to collectively raise prices. It's the same as an algal bloom, the initial amount of algae was constant, but at some point the amount of fertilizer in the water increased and it multiplied at greater rates.

Or, empirically, you're making an argument against evaluating any economic system. The fall of the USSR couldn't have been due to communism, because communism was in effect the whole time. The fall of Empire X couldn't have been due to feudalism/mercantilism, because feudalism/mercantilism was there the whole time.
[looks] Yep. Ta.

Think I was on them in '03 when they were shiny and new and I was commuting from Morecambe to Bradford due to getting unceremoniously redeployed from Salford to Bradford after an acquisition.

I do not recommend this as a life choice, though other than the toilet door problem they -were- rather pretty rolling stock.
> this is meaningless rabble

That is rich coming from yourself. Are you at all familiar with German law?
Where can I find more information on this exact idea? I would like to learn more.
> The repositories include a large amount of intellectual property… connection strings, cloud access keys, blueprints, design documents, [single sign-on] passwords, API Keys, and other critical internal information.”

Any senior developer or a security researcher knows this kind of secrets should not be part of the source code repository. Has Mercedes-Benz a rotten software development culture?
> Well you build OpenSSL as a static library, and you use that...

I mean yes that's what I do but see my comment, I was asking specifically about dynamic linking mentioned by the parent (OpenSSL is definitely a "core library")

> I think there is fundamentally no way (and that's by definition) to support two explicitly incompatible versions in the same build.

Yes, that's my point - in the end static linking is the only thing that will work reliably when you have to ship across an array of distros even for core libraries... The only exceptions in my mind is libgl & other drivers
Fwiw, we're only using Discord for disposable communication. We have a docusaurus site up for the docs, and otherwise all the development is taking place on Github. Discord seems very popular with the board game crowd, so it was kind of the first place we went to try to reach gamers before we started reaching out to developers.

What do you prefer to discord for disposable communication? Certainly open to suggestions.
Also

$ virt-builder fedora-39

if you wanted a Fedora 39 disk image. (Can be later imported to libvirt using virt-install --import).
That is a relatively consistent story across all the US-related industrial articles I take notice of on HN. The US can't build semiconductors, the US can't build ships, the US isn't building houses, struggles with infrastructure, etc. masks and ventilators through COVID. Now planes.

This isn't being driven by management. Everyone can see what is happening from a mile away including shareholders. This is a rational response to the regulatory environment that US manufacturing operates in. And a specific symptom of that which is the US has failed to secure its access to cheap plentiful energy.