skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Statically typed languages have vastly improved since Ruby and Rails came on the scene. Your fizzBuzz example can be done in a type-safe way in a variety of languages: C#, Kotlin, Dart, Swift, Nim(?).
Or like gun manufacturers are liable for crimes!

Oh they've been sued and lost [1]? Maybe not that one.

[1]: https://apnews.com/article/sandy-hook-school-shooting-reming...
In my opinion, whether or not a website uses JS is orthogonal to this (though, I would argue websites shouldn't need JS just to repeat some elements). The issue is web has changed from JS enhancing a structure defined by HTML to JS subsuming the role of the web entirely (see HTML-in-JS, CSS-in-JS). Perhaps the greatest issue is that people don't realise that this is an issue.

It's a useful paradigm for people making highly dynamic websites like Google Maps but the vast majority of websites are not Google Maps. Since 2011, browser vendors and standards bodies have expended an astronomical amount of time, effort and resources into designing and implementing the Web Components spec. The resources used to develop Web Components came at the expense of other features that could have improved the web. More than a decade later, adoption into non-Google websites is a rounding error.

Web Components are designed as a behavior (JS) first standard, not a structure (HTML) first standard. This is not the way many websites are designed, it's evident in the popularity of structure-first frameworks like Vue and htmx. You can't force a website into a web application shaped hole.
I inserted these because I personally like reading related discussions and articles of topics at hand. Not sure how this is a negative :/
> cheaper than I could make... as a single man cooking for one

I don't understand. Why should economies of scale ever expire?
Normally an organization would have this protected via SSO & thus the deactivation of the employee's account on Gizmodo's systems would have kicked them off of the company's slack. Just another reason why it's valuable to avoid non-SSO 3p cloud apps so that "who's an active user" has a single source of truth.
I’ve tried MuseScore several times over the years and just this year realized that 4 is actually pretty dang good. I haven’t reached for anything in awhile.
Oh sure, I'm just thinking in the realm of HN... perhaps it's more common than average! But having a networked UPS is non-negotiable for me, as far as I'm concerned it's no use if the servers power off hard anyways. It's on a VLAN without internet access so really not much risk either.
Alternatively, you allow this technology to be sold as a clearly labeled "not accurate enough for treatment of diabetes", and the profit allows more investment in the tech so that one day everyone can benefit from accurate, non-invasive blood glucose monitoring.

Or perhaps we should ban everything that can enable "the stupid" to harm themselves.
The scale of the cloning is quite fascinating.

As I said, the entire world needs to shift how they percieve digital media. People are used to seeing a photo/video and thinking of it as representing something real... that's not the case. Now it's a fantasy, with the degree depending on the source.
it was a joke Verge
More people need to realize that utilities are not at all like normal businesses, so to spell it out in more detail for those that don't know:

Normal businesses make more money when they cut costs. Utilities (typically) get to charge a fixed upsell percentage and so they make more money when they increase their costs.
If Windows chugged along happily without user involvement for a decade, it'd be used for servers. Stuff breaks on Windows all the time
Doesn't using platform-specific webviews mean you get inconsistencies between OSes?
This seems to assume that intentions "don't count" in some way, as if they were nonphysical, whereas unless you presume a supernatural soul, they are as physical as any other part of the experiment.
If this is personal backup, you can usually find another tech-savvy friend who will co-locate a secondary NAS for free.
ahh, you don't have enough olds or youngs on your support list, lol. Crowdstrike has saved me at work numerous times from the over 55 crowd's inability to comprehend basic security practices and not having it at home has meant a few times completely wiping windows and restarting for my under 15 nieces and nephews.
Oh yeah. A Google Drive link, controversial topic. Yeah. That seems safe…
Chemists synthesize unique anticancer molecules using novel approach
That has indeed been the outcome in many countries, e.g. authoritarian regimes and such.

But I suppose there is some philosophical difference, as to whether or not human actions are part of the natural world.
I'd love to see your macros if you have them online somewhere. I've lately started spending lots of time notating music in LilyPond and am seeing the need to build tooling along the way.

I started a personal folk song collection using ABC notation. For simple tunes ABC is fantastic, but now that I'm doing more choral/four-part works, I'm reaching for the more powerful tool. Yet there seems to be a huge gap between ABC (simple things done simply and in one way) and LilyPond (do literally anything you want following any format you want, dropping into Scheme as necessary). Ease-of-use/quality-of-life tooling to fill that gap is appealing.

P.S. I'd also love to hear the story of your music publishing venture. It sounds intriguing!
Generally, I believe in the right to the pursuit of happiness.
Again, that's a total midwit dismissal.

Scuttlebutt has a context and a meaning behind it. People might hear it without knowing the context, think "that it's a weird name, why is it so?", and then judge whether they like it or not. But to just hear the name and claim that it is inappropriate/bad/not-to-be-used because it reminds you of something that has nothing to do with the original context is ridiculous.
IKV is a managed DB solution ex. a user does not need to build data replication or backup pipelines. A "local" Redis instance is not fully managed - the instance goes down - your data is unavailable (unless you build a full distributed system around it).

The benchmark is done considering what an end user will use directly in their application. The performance gain comes from avoiding remote network calls and minimizing serde.

The landing page is under construction :)
In the future someone steals his frozen head to scan it and try to recover the Satoshi wallet keys...
I believe the correct approach is to create a non-medical label for the test. Our watches have heart-rate monitors, not EKGs. An EKG is a medical device with highly accurate measurement of heart-rate for medical purposes. A heart-rate monitor, gives a decent approximation, not good enough for medical purposes.

Nobody calls an EKG a heart-rate monitor. The correct term would let a consumer have some insight into their blood sugar levels, but a diabetic would clearly not be confused into thinking this was a replacement for the monitoring they require.
>lets burn down FICO and the credit reporting bureaus.

This seems to be the harder problem. I read potentially better solutions all the time, but I never read about how to get to that point first.
Do not use Ruby. Or Node.
> heart disease have never been higher.

As I understand it, this is false, so I'm going to ask for a citation.

Between the decrease in smoking and the usage of statins, it seems that heart disease has dropped dramatically.
This is where years of bad governance gets you.

Not to mention, the previous government kind of set some time bombs before passing the government over to Milei.

https://www.ambito.com/opiniones/las-bombas-que-le-dejan-jav...
Some things really can buck the trend - ChatGPT is a _terrible_ name but provided so much obvious utility that it managed to reach a large consumer market despite that.
Angle-dependent holograms made possible by metasurfaces
>We currently don't measure fructose level

Apologies, but I'm unsure if you're saying that no devices measure fructose level, or just the watch doesn't measure fructose level.
That's just 9to5Mac's editorializing. The actual FDA article [1] reads to me like "guys' heads up that none of these are approved". I see nothing to suggest the FDA means "we will never approve one" or "we doubt the underlying technology can ever work".

[1] https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/do...
If you see a snake, kill it - and other management advice
This is just an argument from faith and predisposition at this point. All the positions people have taken have now calcified into non-falsifiable nonsense.

For myself: if we were going to get evidence for WIV having engineered a pandemic virus we'd have had it long before now. Biologists aren't spies, and they're not good at coverups. Someone would have blabbed or lost a laptop or took a position at a western university and then fingered their coworkers, etc... Sure, it could have been manufactured, but it probably wasn't.
I guess the US are different from other places

In Europe plenty of people only want new cars
I read his article about this and he seems to have some kind of a chip on his shoulder. It was full of attitude.
I’m not diabetic, but I can have intense energy/mood swings likely related to blood sugar. Non-invasive monitoring does sound nice to have a better understanding of what’s going on.
Populism to me is rallying people based on gut feelings while knowing that they have no basis in reality. And then usually voting the opposite way.

Populists usually know that their points are fallacies, they're just telling people what they want to hear. But they're doing nothing to solve the problems because really they're not caused by the things they claim.

And of course actually solving problems is not in their interest because they thrive on the anger of people with those problems.
It is vastly improved, yes. I’m not ready to say it’s better.
If Google is largely buying carbon offset contracts, it's likely not carbon neutral. Most of them are junk and don't actually end up doing what they promise. Convince your employer to plant trees itself.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37660256
Although in a blind smell test, I wonder how well would you do? I've seen people fail hard at identifying what food their eating when blindfolded, and they have the additional power of taste rather than just smell.

We're wired to be able to pull up those memories and imagine a smell, but not to be able to identify what we're smelling when it's right in front of us.
These balloons are launched all of the time by radio amateurs:
https://amateur.sondehub.org/#!mt=Voyager&mz=5&qm=12h&mc=42....
You know, as much as I dislike Temu for many reasons, including it's slot machine gamification of shopping.

I can't help but think Amazon is beyond the lobbying of politicians here...the same as Facebook was ultimately revealed to be behind the ban Tiktok shit a few years ago.
Its lack of motivation really. I think people have become ingrained / numb to them that they don't really think about it until they have a problem, or some sector of society gets repeatedly screwed by the bureaus etc.

There's been no systematic callout of the bureaus in wider society, that I can tell.
Are you sure he's not cryptopreserved?
> You can have nice things like this till they get abused.

That can be interpreted both ways. Keeping people off the land is also a type of abuse, as is misuse of the land by a large amount of people roaming there.
Thank you for the excerpt. I attempted to read the article but have a firmly negative reaction to the auto-playing video that CTV chose to pop over it.
All benchmark details are linked in the Github readme.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1aDsS0V-AybpvXEwblBlahGLp...

For Redis - The benchmark client and remote server (ie AWS ElastiCache) were in the same AWS availability zone (us-west 2a) to minimize network latency as much as possible.
Lol, with record low unemployment and more +inflation stats?

No one is lowering rates anytime soon. January is running too hot, CPI and PPI too high. Inflation remains the core problem on the Feds mind and is corroborated with the latest stats.

In fact, people are whispering the chances of a rate hike (!!!!!)

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Im no short, because I'm not risky like that. My bet is simply MMFs / holding cash like instruments. MMFs, FRNs, 3month treasuries and the like in ~15% numbers, which is healthy and just slightly conservative.

Im no permabear predicting a crash. But you don't need much cash to weather a downturn.
Ok, there's also the problem of accesses through the web interface, but it probably wouldn't take much to provide a short-lived log of them as well
This is the main reason I still use Objective C, better C++ integration.
This reminds me of a glorious day at my consulting company ca. 2016 when we discovered that we could change each other's names on Slack. At one point everyone was just named dad.
Satoshi regularly took two spaces after a period. He uses vocabulary tied to British

There is a famous British cryptographer called Adam Back, who is also the inventor of the proof of work method laid out on the paper “hashcash”. He also leaves two spaces after a period (or used too)

I don’t think it really matters who created it. If you read the political story of bitcoin things look a lot clearer.

“The Blocksize War: The Battle Over Who Controls Bitcoin's Protocol Rules” is a good entry point
I know you're talking about GUI editing, but I've found libqpdf[1] incredibly useful for making programmatic PDF edits with minimal (typically no) structural disturbance.

[1] https://qpdf.sourceforge.io
I think it will be like blockchain integration where it takes a few years to really start showing its value.
What??

Apple fans are still bitter at Masimo, evidently.

Masimo doesn't sell a glucose monitoring watch[1]. And is not trying to. The continuous health devices they do sell ARE FDA-cleared, because Masimo makes 99%+ of their revenue from selling accurate medical devices. That would be, to use a crude analogy, dangling your private parts within snapping distance of a crocodile.

Your whole statement is just inaccurate and derogatory.

The W1 watch doesn't do glucometry. It does heart rate and oximetry, with FDA clearance. The upcoming Freedom watch will also do hydration, pulse rate variability, respiration. And will do all of those with FDA clearance. And not glucometry.

Your whole stance is not grounded in reality.
Has anyone tried the new anker or ecoflow lithium portable power stations as a UPS?
I think we're talking about different things then. I don't think you need to document every single line of code. That would be insane and is absurdly pedantic. No one is suggesting you (more than) double the amount of text in a codebase.

But you should write summarize your abstractions. So that's your classes and functions. I agree with the other commenter that what is of most concern is the method's signature. Also, a naming might be obvious, but I assure you it is not. What is obvious to some is not obvious to others. In addition to this, the code changes over time. What once might have been obvious no longer is later down the line. Expect this to happen because you want to handle failure in your "system" (in this case, the style in which you write code). The more complexity in a method, the more important it is to document.

If you need an example I think both the main article AND the comments here are quite enlightening[0]. In fact, I'd say the comments perfectly prove the author's point. The author writes very clearly how when playing the game you should operate under purely the letter of the law but top comment claims crystal clarity yet mentions "intent." A point explicitly mentioned that one should ignore by the author.

Just think of documentation as information entropy. By adding a few words you increase the information gain for someone who has never before looked at the code. I've also given you reasons as to why you are likely to also benefit, so if you need a purely selfish reason to document, this too exists. But we must differentiate long term utility vs short term to see the reasoning.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36453856
Ensuring that `if x == 1` works when x == 1.

Very important. Very valuable.

Imagine if `if err != nil { return err }` just stopped working tomorrow. Your tests would detect it! Outage prevented!
Take that, SHRDLU!
An economic system where people can only get closer to living wages now that surplus labor has left the labor force through death and retirement should expect forward looking challenges, to say the least.

We can only hope the labor supply tightens further if that’s the only way some cohorts will see quality of life improvements. Prices are approaching true costs, very similar to how insurance prices are recalibrating towards proper pricing for climate risk. There is no guarantee discounted prices persist (energy, labor, insurance, etc).

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/16/the-missing-workers-who-are...

https://www.axios.com/2022/12/01/jay-powell-explains-america...

https://www.businessinsider.com/baby-boomer-retirement-surge...

https://www.axios.com/2023/05/08/us-labor-shortage-older-wor...

https://www.axios.com/2022/09/03/a-deep-dive-into-the-labor-...

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/27/labor-shortages-air-traffic...
Seems like you asking if you just throw out an idea on a GitHub page and then someone will come along and hand you a finished product.

Yeah, no, that won’t happen and isn’t at all how open source works.

There are two types of open source projects, small ones, and large ones.

Small ones have one, or maybe a few core contributors. These people do the bulk of the work and open the code up for a variety of reasons but often these are passion projects. The contributors work in their spare time, and generally the project has no or very little funding.

Then there are large open source projects, these typically have a foundation behind them. The foundation usually has big corporate donors and will have full-time paid contributors.
This is clearly wrong. 1 quadrillion for wireless? That's 125k per year per person... That's over 10 times more than global gdp.
> I’d love to be able to highlight a name in my ereader

I do this on my Kindle. Highlight the name, search, and the first occurrence is usually their introduction. No AI needed.
That could more or less be true for unimproved land.

Improved land had has an investment in time and money to make it productive one way or another.
My fear is that "a diabetic would clearly not be confused into thinking this was a replacement for the monitoring they require" is an impossible bar to clear. We've seen how good ordinary people are at using technology even when it has clear documentation.

Another post on this article also points out that traditional monitoring costs money on an ongoing basis, which would create a temptation to try and 'get by' with tech like this even if it's not adequate.
Ask HN: How do I enable the Meta Business Suite?
I've been added as an admin on a Facebook Page, and would like to use the Meta Business Suite Business Feed tools. However, my account appears to not have access to this nearly two year old product. Is there any way to get Meta Business Suite enabled for my account?

When I go to business.facebook.com, I just get the old Business Tools. I have no button to access the Meta Business Suite from the All Tools menu. I've compared my view to another person on the team who does has access, so I can see where the button should be but it's not there.

Also, if I attempt to load the Business Feed URL directly, I just get an error saying "Sorry, this content isn't available right now".
For an interesting exploration of this, I suggest watching the Black Mirror episode “The Entire History of You” (S1E3).
why are these general purpose robots always so slow? Intuitively we expect machines to be able to do tasks faster than humans, but even the 5x speed video is much slower than a human could do the task.
That's amazing. Have you looked up whether this ability has been observed in other dogs? Do you think your Shiba is counting the days, or maybe there is something different about Thursdays (besides your family member visiting) that's giving him a hint?
A big point of the article is about "open source" but no link to the github repo? Am I being blind? I scanned the article twice, cannot find it!
If you want to carry water for a predatory corporation so be it. There's a reason your comment sounds like an ad.
Seems more possible than before. El Salvador has done a pretty substantial about face on safety.
In disaster-prone Japan, some communities consider major moves
If a human, rather than an LLM, put this list together, and managed to decide that 1102=1.7>5.2, then… I don’t really know what to say.
My niece and nephew are being raised semi bilingually and they were happy to accept things could have multiple names before age 2 IIRC. The youngest only just turned 2.5 and can happily flick between Chinese and English (though has a bias towards English because that's what she hears more by a big margin)

Will be interesting how my future kids will be as they will be pretty much exactly 50:50.
The name was the part I liked best! "Scuttlebutt" is a naval term for a water keg, and it became slang for conversation around the watering hole. In other words, it was gossip around the water cooler from before we had water coolers.
> UPS fires are the primary cause of datacenter fires

Do you have a source for this claim? I can find no documented evidence of it being true.

The Uptime Institute found[0] data center fires of any cause to be exceedingly rare. Data Center Incident Reporting network reached similar findings[1].

The only example I could find of anyone claiming data center fires have a principal cause is this article[2], and while I'm not saying it's wrong, I've never heard of these folks before and have no idea how credible they are:

"Electrical failures are the most common cause of data center fires. These failures can stem from overloaded circuits, malfunctioning equipment, or defective wiring, each capable of generating sufficient heat to ignite a fire when in proximity to combustible materials."

(Note: they break out battery fires separately, so they are not supporting your claim that batteries are the most common cause of data center fires.)

But, in any case, with details about data center fires being so rare, either because they are rare or because people don't want to talk about it, stating a primary cause accurately seems to me to be very difficult.

Lastly, since you've run multiple data centers, surely you understand the scale of the battery strings involved. Total energy storage is way higher, ampacity is higher, and to the extent lead acid batteries are involved, much, much, more hydrogen off gassing is possible. I just don't see how you can extrapolate that down to fire risk for a 12V, 12AH battery found in a typical home UPS.

0 - https://journal.uptimeinstitute.com/datacenter-fire-frequenc...

1 - https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/opinions/how-frequent-...

2 - https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-fires/#:~:text=Electrical%....
From 1993 to 2008?
You can also debug by putting each method on a separate line, which allows for debugging by commenting out individual methods one at a time. It enhances readability too.
Example:
(df.method1()

.method2()

.method3()
)
When does a journalist become a hacker?
>Being presented with lots of double colons, <T> when I'm not sure what T refers to, a wall of interfaces and more is an upfront cost on me, the reader.

I find this an odd point to be arguing given that in a dynamically typed language you have no idea what _anything_ refers to.