skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Didn't know about your second point, makes sense
Don't degrees of latitude have varying arc lengths as latitude changes from the equator with a major axis to the poles with a minor axis?

What with the Earth being an ellipsoid and not a sphere and all that?
As an employer, I'll push back on this. I'll start by saying that if you want equity, then by all means seek out jobs that provide equity.

In mu experience, people don't want equity as much as they want a living wage. They want a proper salary, every month, not some mythical payday in the future.

If you can find a place that does both, thats fantastic.

Incidentally if you have meaningful equity that comes with a bunch of stress as well. Our responsibility is to make payroll every month. In good years we get some profit (so do employees) in bad months we get paid last, sometimes short, sometimes late.

I've voted you up, not because I agree with your point, but because you help readers to understand that different people have different goals. And the trading of stability for equity is not necessarily exploitation.
NERV First Division is in Massachusetts but that doesn’t mean it’s at MIT!
Scientists are not more rational people than $anyone_else. And being more or less rational does not make one any less capable of emotions, hatred, evil, or all sorts of other bad things.
> one party becomes too extreme for people with moderate viewpoints to consider

CA Democrats have been that way since CA became a one-party state. It is not new, sadly.
I often read just the HN comments, without ever looking at the article!

The comments often provide a great "preview:" a short summary and/or let me know if the article is worth reading.

Other times, I'm just more interested in the discussion related to the topic more than the article itself.

That's why https://hw.leftium.com dropped the links doesn't even link to the article; I always open the comments first, then (maybe) open the article in the background while I read the comments.
It's ruined a few of my friendships and been fine for a few others.

I'd recommend doing some high-stakes conflict-generating activity with the person as a test-run beforehand, e.g. run a local event together, travel together, do the same things you'd do as an early couple to suss out where the pain points will be.
What If Men Could Produce Their Own Eggs?
As someone who suffered awfully low testosterone for years due to a brain injury (but still not 0), that sounds awful.
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Not terribly useful to assume supersonic airflows are occuring at sea level.
IIRC, bikes are limited to 187 mph via inter manufacturer agreement. See? Private sector self-regulation works great for this. No need to legislate.
OP said "65% of men are obese or overweight" but your source is only obese.

CDC says 73.6% of adults are overweight or obese (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/obesity-overweight.htm)
CNN: "Chinese people have TOO MUCH freedom of speech " [video]
You could use the API: https://github.com/HackerNews/API
It's only years later, well into my adult life, that I learned that "melanoma" was actually skin cancer. I always thought it was just a nasty mole.

Various members in my family and circle has had a melanoma, my father had two in the last 10 years. It was only when a friend of mine was diagnosed very late, after the damn thing spread to his lymph system when I realized "holy shit this is actually cancer".

Another friend had a "cancer scare" and broke contact with all of us for months while she was dealing with the trauma and anxiety. Only much later did we learn she had a /possible/ melanoma. Most of us were kind of baffled by the reaction.

It's interesting how naming scary things sometimes greatly contributes to the actual scare-factor of the thing. Where if it's unnamed, or receives a benign name, then most ignore it.
iOS too

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/vision/vnrecognize...
>So why do developers get the choice but not the consumer?

because you can't just push a button and port Fortnite to Linux. Or maybe you can, but expect a lot of bugs that will ultiamtely be negative PR for Fortnite instead of a boon for consumers. What benefit does this give consumers?

Besides, this metaphor doesn't work. You do not have to play, pay, nor install fortnite to do anything except play fortnite. With this ruling, you need IOS to do anything involving making an IOS app, even if you do not need the app store. I don't see the use in being charged for hardware and dev licenses and ALSO be charged per install because your free app chose not to be on the app store.
Thanks I just connected to write that, but you were first.
Chip smuggling operation that sent 53K banned chips to China gets busted
Older ambient / minimal music / soundscapes.

Try this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-OAHzyBIas

or this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WGx5z9wVNY&list=PLfimnwaZdu...
You claim it works.

Allegedly, they did this to reduce the burning of fossil fuels, not (as seems more likely to me and others) to act like a bunch of poorly-socialized three-year-olds throwing a tantrum.

How many fewer barrels of oil would you estimate will be burned over the course of the coming year as a direct result of this "protest"? Say, to the nearest million. Be sure to show your work.

Any? No? Then it didn't actually "work", did it?
>187 mph

I hope this is sarcasm?
My bad then. Hope they indeed do that.
Researchers falling behind on mathematical results? Government can lend a hand:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indiana_pi_bill
Higher Order Derivatives of Transforms
As someone with multiple projects, it helps with “good enough” or time-consuming tasks like filling out interfaces. basically it cuts down on context switch/flow state/ADD tendency time loss.
A one time administration fee for account creations would make most of these spam tactics unprofitable. People are probably too used to having everything for free online (paid for by ads) for anyone to try this right now.
One big problem today is, that professionals have voted to reduce screening because of the side-effects of treatment. Especially on those, non-threatening, low risk cancers, which would (likely) never have posted a risk.

If removing the cancer label on those, and thus remove most of the useless treatment, this would be a net positive for all men. As we could start to role out society-wide screening. And really catch the problematic cases. Like men in their 40s or 50s getting prostate cancer.

Today we have voted (in most western countries) to not screen at all because the cost (in human suffering, not money, although that’s surely also a problem) of over-treatment is higher than the cost for those who die early because their cancer wasn’t found early enough. Which basically means we let people die, because we are not able to manage low risk cancer cases correctly.

Source: I’ve once been the tech part of a prostate cancer patient network startup for seven years. Turns out it’s hard to make it cash positive.
The general public definitely doesn't have a great understanding of the word "cancer." Patients often don't know that prostate cancer is not the same as lung cancer is not the same as colon cancer, etc.

And unfortunately, cancer is a lot more nuanced than that with a lot of heterogeneity even within a cancer type, e.g. an 80 year old male incidentally found to have an elevated PSA and subsequent low grade prostate cancer has a biologically different disease than a 35 year old who comes in with de novo metastatic prostate cancer.

I wish we had better ways of predicting what a patient's life will look 1 or 5 or 10 years down the line. We're developing the tools to do that, but there is still a significant amount of uncertainty and we can't eliminate that anxiety for patients. I don't know if re-naming low risk prostate cancer will do that either, but I can't say I feel strongly about it one way or another.

I hope that the population starts to get a better understanding of what "cancer" really is (i.e. a very wide spectrum of diseases), the inherent uncertainty associated with the diagnosis, and that we continue to get better predictive tools in the meantime.
It does push down filters! Not sure if other nodes are pushed down, I think for now the database boundary is at the scan node, but you could add additional optimizer/rewrite rules in the postgres/sqlite/mysql extensions to push down other parts of the plans when applicable.
You have no choice if you want to serve IOS users, even if you do not need the app store to sell your product. The #1 questino for any IOS/Android exclusive app is "are you making an Andoid/IOS version"? And saying no because Google/Apple won't let you isn't a resolution that satisfies any party.
Making waves in the realm of personal development and life advice
This one always seems silly to me. If you wanted to use SI units, it'd be meters/second. Or maybe km/sec if you were going really fast. Having hours in your velocity units means you've got a dumb 3600 in there if you wanted to do any math with acceleration.

I guess the real benefit to km/h is that it allows people to act superior without knowing it's just as dumb as imperial units.
Or you could just put your money where your mouth is and stop using anything made, transported, or grown with fossil fuels.

Those CEOs are only in business because people like you (and me) burn a fuckton of fossil fuels.
I do not. None of the books I know of are very good because they are mostly targeted at Mathematics majors rather than physicists or engineers.

Gerard ’t Hooft used to have a humongous list of textbooks for aspiring theoretical physicists. I'd sure look there for starters.
My head went "Vangelis"

(And then it repeated "Albedo, zero point three nine"...)
Is something wrong? you're sweating.
Sounds great, until you add pretty much anything to the water.
No this is on point. Managers often have multiple people on different roles but are still forced to stack rank them as if they are equally comparable. The analogy is sound and illustrates the problem.
EM’s vector fields formulation is fairly straightforward: it’s all curls and divergence. Any 3rd (-ish) semester undergrad multivariate calculus course is likely to cover it in sufficient depth. “Mathematical Methods for Physicists” covers it in sufficient depth, for example, provided you already have a thorough understanding of the prerequisite material. Most undergrad physics degree curriculums should have E&M courses whose texts (e.g. Introduction to Electricity and Magnetism, Griffiths) cover enough of the details. If you want to pursue it further than an undergraduate level study, you’ll also want a good text on differential equations that has or is supplemented by material covering, e.g., spherical harmonics and Bessel functions (among other things). I wish I could remember what I used, but it was…more years ago than I care to say when I was an grad student.
> The harm here isn't AI, or if it is the harm is minimal.

> AI is going to make life pretty miserable for good looking women in the public eye.

Could you help me understand how you reconcile these two statements? Is the harm minimal, or will women in the public eye be miserable? Or is making women in the public eye miserable not something to take seriously - and if so, why?

I'd also be curious if you think the harm will stop there - could you foresee maybe, high schoolers using deepfake porn to bully each other, con artists using cloned voices to commit fraud, deepfake evidence being used to frame someone for a crime, etc? Is there a reason I shouldn't be concerned about these prospects?
PyObjC is shipped by Apple, yes. (It even used to be installed by default.)
What are the chances of Fossil making the software open source? How cool would that be?
I'm still waiting for Weber to win out.
Well, ISPs can hold their customers accountable as well. Get told you're running malware, you got 24h to get it fixed, or you get disconnected.
Elitzur-Vaidman Bombs
Everyone seems to think they would have figured out Einstein’s theory but they didn’t until Einstein did.
PS2Linux was the evolution of Net Yaroze introduced in the PlayStation 1.

What PlayStation had into that sense was the demo disc shipped with the Playstation 2, that had a BASIC environment like on the 8 bit home computer days, called Yabasic.

Here is a demo about it,

"How/Why Sony Classed the PlayStation 2 as a Home Computer - Demo of Yabasic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnXpzczPc38
that really doesn't sound like a them problem.

they gave a fraction of a fraction of a percent, from a particular share class that likely was subordinate to other liquidity preferences.

like, even if you were personally more informed the outcome wouldn't be different? you would have rooted for an even bigger upside for the whole company.
No, I don't mean the observer pattern. I mean publisher subscriber pattern.

Observer pattern is fine, because there is still a link between the execution flow; basically any time you register a callback you're using the observer pattern.

Pubsub adds a middleware, typically in the form of a message passing framework, so that both publisher and subscriber aren't necessarily aware of each others existence. The publisher throws its data into the framework hoping someone finds it useful, and the subscriber listens for those messages hoping someone is publishing them. Think of it like multithread asynchronous goto of your execution flow, except with a lot more boilerplate.
[dupe]

With a url fix, more discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39165486
Plenty of chips integrate a voltage regulator so you can run digital logic from as much as 300 volts. Used in the controllers for some dimmable AC Led's for example.

I believe the linear regulator is implemented as a large resistor followed by some zener diode or something. I assume that's so the high voltage doesn't need to touch the silicon, merely the other end of some not-very-good insulator put on top.
If the founder retains a controlling interest in the business (say 51% stock ownership) are they safe from these shenanigans?
I’m curious where you got that impression from? The people in California might have a different view but the majority of us hate the nanny state that our government has turned into.
> To the extent that I have a point, the rejection of the human mind as the measure of all things is my point.

I see life in general, but yes humans as well, as the makers of value judgements. Measuring is a judgement. Without a person to deem it worthy and implement it, even a holy text is just words on a page.

To me Platonic ideals such as gods and souls are things to aspire to, not things which already exist.
Wouldn’t you still miss the part about storing tables column based in your database rather than row based? Would be nice to have “create table” or “create materialized” view with columnar storage option.
For me it's useful for new languages that I'm not familiar with, saves a lot of googling time and looking up the docs.
> Scientists are not more rational people than $anyone_else.

Well, scientists disagree with you [1]

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scientists-think-...
>Hiring standards absolutely went out the door. I remember being on interview panels in 2020-2021 and it was - more open roles, less candidates per role, higher fill rate per role, fewer interview rounds per role.

I sure wish I had that experience. I went some 6 rounds at my pre-COVID job and when layoffs hits I was 4 rounds in with 3 other companies before I accepted my next job (which was 3 rounds, but I had a referral from a very early employee)

now I'm laid off again and it's still 4-5 rounds, but less vibes on if that even leads to an offer. I went 5 rounds with one studio and then they ghosted me for 3 months. Unthinkable in 2022.
What if you're a library and don't want to alter global signal handling?
Maxwell's Equations have already been superseded by Quantum Electrodynamics, in the same way that Newtonian gravity has been superseded by General Relativity.

Both Newtonian gravity and Maxwell's Equations are still very good approximations in their regimes of validity.
You're the one dunking here.
I originally submitted this article because I saw the NYT (maybe?) started using them. If you can view this: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/28/world/asia/ch..., I had to squint and saw that, "yes! that's a different 'F', and that's a different 'L'". It made so much sense, I thought "surely they didn't hire an artist to handwrite these captions. They must be using some kind of 'variable font'", and I googled just that and this site popped up. :) But then, maybe that's just an artist that works on these sorts of presentations.
Ive seen a few articles about this topic.

I’m a new homeowner and have been looking forward to getting rooftop solar within the next year (recently swapped to a heat pump instead of gas furnace).

The local (PDX, OR) companies seem a bit sketchy but I do have at least one solid recommendation from a friend.

My mother however wasn’t so lucky and experienced something similar to the article where the salesmen claimed it would all be free and pay for itself but the. She ended up with a $16k loan. When she called to clarify they offered to double the number of panels on the roof and install for free, which she agreed to.

Any one else here with experience getting rooftop solar?
Prompt boxes don't offer much affordances, one of the basic UX concepts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance
Instead of using labels (e.g. to avoid unused_label) and because labels are most commonly used as the target of a goto.

gdb also supports `break -probe foo:bar` when placing some `DTRACE_PROBE(foo, bar)` at the appropriate line. I think this is likely preferable to `break func:label` now.
Reading: It Can't Be About the Numbers
[dupe]

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39124972
No but they should be forced to open up the specs after the manufacturer support ends, so that the free market can decide for itself.
Could Sinking Tons of Seaweed to the Ocean Floor Help Combat Climate Change?
Navigating the hard 10 tag limit of S3 objects with Terraform
I recently fell into a hole of googling trying to solve this problem at work. So I decided to write a quick post to hopefully save some people’s time when encountering this issue.
Most of the LED candles on eBay just have a one shot timer. If you're looking for the "6 hours every day" candles, here's an example:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/254879583371
Your analysis is contradicted by the evidence presented in the article.

> One study took 1,600 men with low-risk prostate cancer in the U.K. and randomly assigned them to get surgery, radiation or active surveillance. Fifteen years later, the researchers found that mortality rates for all the men were low, and similar for each group no matter which approach they took, according to the study which was published last year in the New England Journal of Medicine.

If aggressive treatment regularly saved lives the healthiest 35% of the population, one would probably see a noticeable difference in mortality between the randomized groups.

Maybe it would be possible to find flaws in the study, or an interpretation of the results that would align with your analysis, but it seems like you haven't engaged with the evidence at all.
Such situations make me furious, but not so much at individuals as at the system. Getting equity in a startup is ridiculously high friction. It's often been a deal breaker for me; not because the founder themselves had personal objections, but because of bureaucratic nonsense such as; it was too much hassle legally or other large investors wouldn't like it, etc, etc...

IMO, it should be illegal to launch a limited liability company/corporation and only allow specific people to buy shares. I object to the idea of incorporation and limiting directors' liability to begin with but since it is allowed, at the very least, it should be a requirement under the law that the shares be on the open market such that anyone who wants them can buy them and resell them at any time.

The current system is a scam. They can select exactly who gets to ride the ship to the promised land. That's completely wrong, discriminatory and evil.
They've joined the Linux Foundation, does that mean the models are going to be eventually censored to satisfy the foundation's AI safety policies? That includes ensuring the models don't generate content that's non-inclusive or against diversity policies?
I started exactly like this. I wanted to get more and more points as soon as possible; You would ask why ?

I wanted to appear smarter than I actually am :(

One of the reasons was to fill the void of me not being able to socialize. Eventually as time progressed, I stopped caring about these fictitious karma points and use this place to improve my self.

I think it is not bad to want more karma, IMHO, the thing that matters is how does one gets there.

This may not be something that helps you immediately, but I feel, if you stick around enough; karma will follow :)

Good Luck!
While I'd hope a friend would call me out if they felt things were going downhill in our friendship, I wouldn't say I'd expect it. But I would definitely expect the friendship to go downhill for me too, even if from my side it just looked like an innocuous "drifting apart".
An Introduction to BCn Texture Compression, Part 1: BC4
Any west coast representation from Stanford/Berkeley/Caltech?
In principle it has no context size limit, but (last time I checked) in practice there is one for implementation reasons.
On the contrary, I quite like how it's a very elaborate and useful ad. The link to the paid service is very discreet and the website provides real and free educational value even if you don't use their service.
As much as they'd like to otherwise, when at work, they see you as an employee. Depending on their personality, they may continue to see you as an employee when you're not at work.

So, what does a prospective employee do? You treat your employer like you'd treat any other employer. This is best for both of you. It is better that their feelings get hurt due to you, for example, negotiating a better employment agreement elsewhere than, you getting hurt because the company makes money but they take advantage of your friendship to not give you a raise or promotion. Do not let your friendship be the reason you do more work for them than you would for any other employer. This will ruin your friendship and your desire to work.
I dunno man, I'm rest of the world and my dad uses pounds/feet/miles habitually despite obviously knowing kg/m/km and using SI units professionally (He's a mechanical engineer...). I grew up on metric but eventually learned the conversion factors anyway because it's still in common use.. and for some reason we still measure houses in sq ft and tire pressure in psi...
Insurers are incentivized to set standards for spending as much money as possible on all health care.

They have maximum profit rates, as a percentage of revenue. So the two ways to grow the revenue, and therefore profit, are to 1) capture a larger percentage of patients, and 2) make sure that all patients, including competitors, start using more expensive care options all together.

System-wide cost savings do not increase insurance company profits. This could be considered a good thing or a bad thing, depending on your point of view, I guess.

I had always considered it a bad thing, but given the thrust of your comment, perhaps it's good that there's no incentive for health care companies to push cost-savings measures as an industry.
> PyObjC

Ah, thanks, I totally overlooked this. This is what brings all the Apple's Objective C API to Python.
Have these men considered self improvement (including having less abhorrent views according to the other gender) in order to become datable?

Everyone makes their choices. If 45% of men are choosing to drop out of ever having a relationship without even trying, maybe that’s on them.