skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He also wrote countless essays justifying the war.

Yes, that's part of him supporting it. He was a DC correspondent, who else would he meet with but the current administration?

> What is your definition of combative to the whole region?

Hussein invaded Iran, Kurdistan, and Kuwait, three neighbors. Was probably active elsewhere westward. Saudis were certainly scared.

> Are you including Iran, Russia, or China ... global war?

Russia probably fits that right now. I think you know the answer but seem to be unsure for some reason, but no—no one is invading a gigantic country with a huge army and nukes.

No one influential is even contemplating expanding the war with Russia that I know of. So, let's keep this to the realm of possibility and not start imagining new world wars we could get into, please.

> was nearly common sense that the war was a bad decision.

This is the kind of lazy, comfortable "2000-era liberal opinion", for lack of a better term, I was writing about earlier and was Hitchens' main point.

You've forgotten how unfathomable Hussein was; tried to minimize it. Erased his genocide and chemical warfare from your mind. But if you're truly a liberal you should be willing to fight against these things, really f'ing hard.

Again, imagine its 1942. The holocaust is off to a fine start. You say, "well due to geopolitical realities, (nudge, nudge) starting a war would be a bad decision. Just give them Nazis a little lebensraum, that's all they want!"

We had a word for that not long ago, it was called "appeasement" and history does not look kindly on those folks. If we had lost WWII, I bet those appeasement folks would be feeling comfortable too.
Many tech corporations appear to operate under the "its easier to ask forgiveness than to ask permission" mantra. So they simply don't care about copyright. They will happily break the law by downloading millions of copyrighted works, make billions from the results and then eventually pay back a few hundred million to those that it has wronged.
>Like if you have two people with Down's would there be a possibility of offspring with an extra chromosome pair? Could that in the long term lead to speciation?

A similar phenomenon is common in plants. While humans have two copies of DNA, one from each parent, many plants contribute more than one copy of DNA to their offspring, resulting in plants with many more than just two copies of DNA. The number of copies a plant has can vary within the same species. Notably, domesticated plants often have more copies of their DNA than their wild counterparts have, yet they are still reproductively compatible.

In animals like us, multiple copies of DNA, or even just of individual chromosomes, are much more risky, which is why it's so rare (those embryos are typically nonviable).

However, different animal species do often have different numbers of chromosomes, which does provide a pathway to evolutionary divergence and speciation. Typically, species with different numbers cannot reproduce (e.g., humans and chimps), and when they can, the result is often sterile (e.g., horses and donkeys).

There are several ways that species can gain or lose new chromosomes as they evolve, and you are right: duplication of an existing chromosome is one of them, although pretty rare because it often leads to serious health problems or sterility. (More common is the splitting of a chromosome or the fusing of two chromosomes, since these preserve all the genes without duplication. Another possibility is the total deletion of a chromosome, but this is extremely rare because it typically kills the embryo.)

So yes, theoretically, fertile men with trisomy 21 Down's syndrome (they are usually sterile, but there have been exceptions) and women with trisomy 21 Down's syndrome could get together and start a new hominid branch. Over time, the twin chromosomes would undergo selection and diverge from one another, likely in a way that would improve on the general health and fertility issues that people with this syndrome commonly struggle with.

The chances of this happening are very low, but it is certainly not unprecedented in the history of evolution.
What celebs taught me about how to use my phone
I have three floppy albums in my collection, and all three had different approaches to fitting an album on a floppy. Namely:

- one is vaporwave, and it's in 24kbps mp3 iirc (need to dig out the floppy drive to check)
- another one is chiptune, and the floppy has the source .mod files. They take about 100kB of the floppy I think — good for another 12 albums or so.
- my favorite one is a split album by two grindcore/noisecore bands. The songs are just very short.
I looked into this a while ago, but as I live in a block of flats with multiple locked entry doors needing the intercom etc it’s sadly not an option.
There should be a mandatory warning before sending people to accountwalled links.
Until the new engine rules when it will be removed because it was deemed to expensive, complex and the technology didn't translate to road cars enough for them to justify the R&D.
> Sure we need contrast, but the absence of pleasure does not have to be pain.

The contrast was the idea I was putting forward. Pain defines pleasure if that makes sense and visa versa.

> Pain is a signal from your body telling you something is going awry.

I would say it is a signal from the mind (emotions can be painful) but I agree with your general point.

> Now if you are talking about effort that's something else. Your body and mind are normally equipped for effort and will reward you according to the result of this effort.

Cue, craving, response, reward. Is the craving not painful? If the response requires an unanticipated level of effort is that not painful?

Do you see how it isn't so much about avoiding pain and more about choosing what cues you respond to and understanding what pain is unavoidable and/or what pain you are willing to endure.
> Why NOT pay for software you use?

[Not] paying for winrar was a meme. Hence my post. I buy everything I use.
Didn't he also told you about nostalgia? ;)
Interesting, I wonder how they process them and what they become after recycling. Here in Antwerp diapers are explicitly supposed to be put in the rest[0] though.

[0]https://www.antwerpen.be/info/restafval
>Until someone develops some sort of multi-spectral imaging that can reliably sort plastic based on it's composition

Funny you phrase it like that, because that's exactly what the STEINERT UniSort does. Plastic waste is finely shredded, dumped onto a conveyor belt, imaged, then passed over air puff sorters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3QHa9oQshw

Is it worth it? Of course not. Far cheaper and easier just to burn it. But for EU nations that are really dedicated to recycling, it can be done.
Superb tool!
Really loved how I can experiment in javascript just like I can in Python. Game changer!
Culture and regulation, and.. enforcement. In the Netherlands we have separate garbabe bins for various waste streams for many years. Culturally accepted by now. But there's not much enforcement of people who make a mess in these bins. In Switzerland when hiring a vacation appartment I noticed how people are frantically trying to separate correctly, and you receive strict instructions to do so too. There's enforcement and fines if you are too lax.
Nintendo's Yuzu Lawsuit Aims to Pour Banana Peels over All Emulators
My native language is Russian, which is very non phonetic, but it's nothing compared to English. Russian just has some vowels and consonants pronounced and written differently in some situations, but there are rules and nothing like "ghoti" is possible. I think English and French take it way out there.
Food containers are tricky. Huel ready-to-drink seems to be 49%, because they need the inner coating to be virgin plastic.
> lithography isn't why they lost mobile to ARM

I'm pretty sure that ARM won mobile because it is much lower power.
> there's no real reason to run everything on the one system you happen to be sitting at

theoretically.

in practice the added latency is a problem outside of casual use.

update: clarification seems to be neccessary as i was talking about audio/video/gaming type workload, NOT office stuff
Hack Club Bank was awesome back when I was helping organize HackSC. Thanks for the software!
I recall reading that the off-by-2 is because a Caesar decided to insert the two months named for Julius and Augustus.

But I guess this idea is wrong ?
My school had one of those too. We also had swings with 15’ or more of chain. I remember regularly getting nearly parallel to the top bar of that during recess and bailing out and even doing backflips off of it.

There was a particularly dangerous piece of playground equipment that the kids called the “witch’s hat,” which was a 15’ or so tall round central metal pipe maybe 3-4” in diameter, which had a cap on the top that could freely spin. Attached to the cap were maybe 12 10’ chains attached, which linked to a giant octagon or decagon made out of 1-2” or so straight pipe sections which were fitted together in angle brackets. It was essentially an inverted merry go round which you would need a few kids on opposing sides to operate, all running in the same direction. It would cause a kind of wave as the weight distribution shifted as kids were lifted off the round while hanging on, and then your side would come back down and you would hit the ground running while hanging on for dear life.

Some kid flew off and broke their collarbone and they ended up soft-banning it except when the teachers weren’t looking, and eventually they decommissioned it. It was a sad day on the playground when that happened.
Where's GitHub Fraud Detection Team?
> The original books are great but honestly the characters aren’t even in the books long enough to really develop them beyond the crises at hand, it’s more like a collection of short stories

The original three Foundation books are collections of short stories that Asimov originally wrote for magazines.
Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman Retires
The new CEO, Sridhar Ramaswamy had joined Snowflake through acquisition of his previous company, Neeva in 2023.
Differences:

* Single-use plastic bottle have a 25 cent deposit in Germany. This is 5x the 5cents in California.

* Germany has enacted this legislation federally.

* The legislation also requires that any retailer that sells plastic bottles (and glass bottles) must also facilitate the return of these bottles.

I lived in California for a couple of years. I never saw a recycling machine at any Safeway, Walgreens or even Whole Foods while I was there. The closest thing to a "recycling machine" is the army of homeless people pushing trollies filled with bottles to take to a recycling center. I don't think that really counts.
I know that but the idea behind my question was this: the knowledge we need to put in such a program doesn't move as fast as the program evolves. Therefore, given enough time (say 20 years), the open source solutions will cover more or less the same ground as the expensive solution. Of course the expensive one may always have an edge but that edge should get smaller over time. For example, Oracle remains a gold standard, really expensive but postgres covers many needs. Linux-on-the-desktop is also quite good, although not as good as, say, MacOS.

In the same vein, I was expecting SymPy to be like 80% of Mathematica but the given benchmark says it's about 25%. So I was suprised.

And I'm not thinking about UX, support, etc. which are indeed not often very good because, I guess, people prefer to put their energy in things that have the bigger leverage.
Good idea to buy futures in dry ice?
Remember Ubers global rollout? That certainly felt like a “ask for forgiveness later” approach to compliance
>but this is sadly unlikely to ever be a viable one.

I'm not a medical expert by any means, but you claiming this is unlikely to ever be a viable idea makes me think of the sheer number of things we take for granted today in medicine that to a 19th century or even an early 20th century doctor would seem flatly absurd, or completely incredible. A supposition of never makes a bet that one's own limited frame of knowledge, cognitive capacity and imagination has a leg up on all the potential decades ahead of us worth of new discoveries by a vast number of other very clever people. It' s a bet I wouldn't make in my own favor or anyone else's.
> you seem to be assuming that I was suggesting the Fake should only implement the happy path

There is no such assumption. The assumption is that if you rely on a fake to service all your testing needs it cannot be tested against the real implementation as, in many cases, you do not want it to work the same way.

I don't know if a network connection failure is the greatest example, but let's run with it. Why bother adding simulated network failure into your fake, which, due to the problems you point out, won't be touched by your double-duty test suite anyway, when you can just create an additional mock that does nothing but simulate network failure? Why add needless complexity to the fake? You haven't gained a testability advantage.

That's not to say that a fake isn't also useful, but you haven't made a case for why it has to be the be all and end all. You can use both.
Classic thread: https://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=354
1. People had way less free time / resources to be able to watch over their kids

2. Children used to die all the time from various causes. I remember e.g. the case of Mozart who had just one surviving sibling and 5 who died early. I can't imagine what the parents had to go through - their first 3 children died early. You have to become desensitized to not go crazy.

2. Social status / value of children grew a lot.
https://nitter.poast.org/k2pilot/status/1763007610993991722

Seems to be the last one online

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances
Those tools look awesome! Makes me wanna make a movie :)
If the US economy would falter from that I think it deserves it. It’s immoral to have an economy that’s exploiting below-minimum wage workers who can’t complain or will get deported and it suppresses the wages of citizens who want to work in those fields.

There should be full enforcement of both illegal immigration and against the hiring of illegal immigrants.
Same as demoscene: use samples, mods. If you don't use too big samples you might even have a dos mod player in the floppy.
Nintendo needs to stop with this bs
I've never heard of an affordable 65+" monitor.
Well Microsoft is one of the members...
I hear this argument a lot from people who don't consider themselves quick thinkers and honestly it sounds a bit like cope. Many such people might be confusing perseverance for skill in analysis. Not saying that's you, OP. But many people make similar claims.

That said, I don't think it's set in stone. As someone quick on their feet, I can tell you that it feels like flow state. I don't think it's innate, so with practice you can become just like the other jokesters at work. Also try to loosen up. Anxiety is anathema to a quick wit.

When I notice smart people appear to be slow thinkers, it's actually still obvious that they're fully engaged but that they have recessed themselves a bit in their minds. They are processing everything but for some reason feel there is a cost to start speaking so they don't jump the gun. It's not a terrible quality. So if you're a solid thinker people will still see it, don't worry about appearing like a midwit if you're not. Otherwise your anxiety will eat you up.
Huh, is-number is indeed available in quite a few of my node projects. It imports another library "kindOf"... guess that support was needed as well.

Looking at it, the check might not be trivial in untyped JavaScript. Not sure which edge case this covers, so maybe you actually do need to know all the ins-and-outs of JavaScript to be sure that what you are dealing with is indeed a number.
This is a side effect of the internet becoming more accessible to everyone.

Keep in mind that the number of children on the internet is higher than it has ever been, and children typically also have more free time to comment than adults have.
> Reading between the lines, there is likely no legal obligation for Amazon to attend those hearings

Is there a legal obligation for Amazon to have access to the European parliament?

When Amazon is ignoring the Parliament when they seek to talk to them, it just seems fair that the Parliament is ignoring Amazon when they want to talk.

Checks and balances.
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Bluesky is rolling out Hashtags
Kagi uses the Mojeek API.
I understand your idea and like it, but...

The resulting headlines (at least) are pretty misleading.

Examples:

https://newshavn.duarteocarmo.com/482308c4511050464f22b4f40d...

The AI makes the headline "Courses in crisis are being cancelled", the correct headline should be "Courses in crisis are selling like hot-cakes".

https://newshavn.duarteocarmo.com/a416902f09c27c7411907a519b...

LLM: "... (danefæ refers to good weather or fine days)"
Me: really not, it refers to the law that all significant finds (historically or financially) from the ground belongs to the state, but the finder receives a finder's fee.

I haven't read the articles line by line, just skimmed the headlines and the two above really stands out as really wrong..
That's really good to hear, but I hope you go much further than you have imagined, getting to some kind of Norway or Sweden level, or beyond it, to drive us back to where we ought to be.
Show HN: Capture emails with 5 lines of code
Capturing emails always sucked. I don't want to add a full-blown newsletter API. That's why I've created my own tool. Would love your feedback on this
Memecoin market surges, DOGE leads with 34% increase.
Analysts predict bullish trends may continue, but caution overbought conditions.
The crypto community is jubilant as market bulls make a strong comeback, with the entire market capitalization up 8% in the past 24 hours, standing at $2.3 trillion. The total trading volume is at $194.22 billion, representing a surge of 103.91%, and importantly BTC nearing its ATH which was hit 3 years back. Amidst this, investors are keenly observing the trading actions of memecoins, which have hit monthly/ yearly highs and also seen a significant increase in trading volume.
> The smallest distance in relation to the target set for SDG 7 can be observed for Sweden, Denmark, Estonia, and Austria

To me, that says Estonia is among the closest to reaching the targets. How do you read it?

Another quote in the paper says something similar:

> the group of countries that came closest to the 2030 target in 2021, apart from the three Scandinavian countries, includes Estonia, Austria, and Slovenia
It depends on what you consider an acceptable marketing lie.

Tbh I used to not care until they started lying about power consumption too.
Because they don't contribute to latency. I can start reading the content for 1 second they would take to load.
The term is free to find new meaning, but so far nobody has found any scenario that is in need of differentiation.
All my ketchup comes in glass
You can word it as "believes in it", but I prefer to say "understands it". Belief suggests that you're basing your judgement on a feeling, rather than a scientific grasp of it's fundamental properties and how it's destined to perform in a given environment.

Many people "believe" in the dollar, but really, most have no understanding of why it has the particular value it does.
Last time I looked this up, I found out that recycling being worth is is highly dependent on where you live and what laws and regulations apply there. Don't quote me on this, do your own research, but I think some of the "recycled" plastic just ends up being shipped overseas and then ends up in the ocean.
> how fragile software supply chain security is, despite the abundance of tools and available security mechanisms

There seems to be a fundamental trade-off at play. I often see security portrayed as a hindrance, requirements thereof as a drag on productivity. That is in line with a strong trend in developers with a very narrow skill set. The ability to throw framework at the wall and see what sticks pays very well. No one wants a stick in the mud asking why on Earth dependency management is at the state it is, or imposing reasonable security practices. I have been there, I have argued with developers from teams that had been breached before saying "no, this is safe because I can't see how this could be exploited". Security by obscurity so deeply ingrained one takes obscurity from oneself as evidence of safety.
With a large enough TV at a close enough distance, it can make a difference. On my 55" at about 4m distance I can see better detail in 4K but 1080p is still very good. Anything larger and/or closer, and the difference will be a lot more pronounced.
> making the best possible, smallest decision will rarely get you into trouble

It's like gradient descent for humans
I thought of that as a plan B if I couldn't make the audio fit, but practicality is not so much the goal. The episode is released online at full quality anyway and almost nobody has a floppy drive these days. It's more about having a physical release that listeners can get as a cool looking commemorative item, and preferably one that doesn't cheat (by not actually containing the episode).
What about getting a large set of programming challenges as input and finding an esoteric standard library using some optimization algorithm, when combined, can solve any challenge in minimal program size

Such standard library could contain weird operations that, while not specifically solving a single program, would each be pretty hard to grasp in order to use to do something useful
Sounds like a good reason to use Qubes OS, where everything runs in VMs by default (my daily driver).
The way large numbers of particles come together and start to behave like a continuum, is quite well represented by looking at simulations of a bunch of spheres with forces applied.

For example the phenomenon of surface tension, which is usually taught as "surface energy" in a continuum way, but you can also view it "bottom-up" by looking at attractive forces between the individual particles. (Video by Eugene Khutoryansky, who has a large number of these sorts of animations):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKy6137F7OY "Surface tension as you've never seen it"

Similarly, statistical mechanics is the "bottom-up" view and thermodynamics is the "top-down" view.

EDIT: perhaps more relevant ones:

Molecular Temperature & Degrees of Freedom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqGtji3ZjoI

Brownian motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7VtOa8pHno
The same thing was said about housing, the internet, blockchain, etc.

Meanwhile most people are sitting on the side line paying rent and hoping to be able to pay it next month…
A simple case of marking these officially would get some attention.
Oh year and the "diapers one" is also not quiet right

https://newshavn.duarteocarmo.com/5be0716b00833a04bbd1406880...
Inger Støjberg with new concept: One will be able to smell the dirty diaper "decidedly"

I can't read the article due to the paywall, but the correct word in the headline would be "sawdust" (not that it makes any sense without context, it is not a common danish saying).
For all the shit that Google gets for introducing new APIs at least they go through the regular standards tracks.

This is just some bullshit Apple pushed onto the web without talking to anyone about it just to push their own proprietary UI.
https://www.sustainableplastics.com/news/germanys-plastic-re...

https://www.eea.europa.eu/en/analysis/indicators/waste-recyc...

I am unaware of the percentage of rejected contaminated plastics you mentioned, but Germans being Germans I assume it is not scandalous
But instead of using the aeroplane you could just use a conventional first stage rocket? I don't think I understand what advantage the aeroplane gives.