skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the topic of obesity... next time you go to a grocery store, check the ingredients of the food you're purchasing. It's surprising to me how much added oil and sugar there is.

For example, it's not uncommon to see olives sold in a jar which have added olive oil. Why do we do that? Or, for example, peanuts in a bag with added peanut oil. Why? We apparently also add sugar to fruit juice, even though fruit juice is already really sweet. We should have accessible whole foods in abundance without added bullshit.
any website? that's a rather tall order. Does it cover js navigation?
I was looking forward to some guidelines/docs. It would be great to know what it can't do, if there's anything, save some dissapointment :)
I wouldn't call drawing a distinction between an isomorphism and an analogy to be maths snobbery. I would call it mathematics. :)
management systematically replaced people like that as a) expensive b) rivals in power. The idea to build replaceable-parts operations by workers, instead of University skill level super-admins, was by design and implemented with plenty of capital behind it.
Such a weird world. These numbers are so absurd, I can’t even imagine it.
Cool but why should I use a scraper as a Browser extension?
The use case of a scraper is to scrape data of web pages regularly. As a browser extension I could simply visit the pages by myself
Detection Techniques for DBI Environment in Windows
It's my dream to see Eclipse someday..
At my old job we snapshotted CRAN and pinned versions of package dependencies _against_ CRAN.
Radar faces the same inverse fourth power effect.
OED has /lʌɪd/, like lied (to my ears)

https://www.oed.com/dictionary/lide_n
Interesting project! I’ve never gotten past brief tinkering with Forth, so this might be a good excuse to get a little farther.

It’s named in Esperanto, too — “ilo” being “tool,” “koni” being “to know,” and so “Kon/il/o” meaning a “tool for knowing.”
>denying the inevitable

I mean, you spend a lot of time in your own life denying the inevitable, humans spend a lot of time and effort avoiding their own personal extinction.

>The best chance is still

The best information we have now is if we create AGI/ASI at this time, we all die. The only winning move is not to play in that game.
Sure, you'd still have benefits but salary, equity is reduced by 25%.
>For those of you who us R still what is your use case?

Still the best replacement for EDA and reproducible analysis that used to be done in Excel.
Question, regarding 4:00 in that video. Dr. Becky states that GR, our best theory of gravity, at large scale, predicts dark matter. Is this correct? My understanding is that the models that predict dark matter use Newtonian physics. And more, the problem with GR is that its calculations are complicated, in a partial-differential-equations sense.
I'm trying this out right now, since I'm writing a database exam on thursday. Is there a way to provide feedback?

I feel like the game has a lot of potential but some stuff feels kinda painful.

Like figuring out all constants for example.
> who the heck wants to "host a livestream" when they're barely awake?

Morning people I would assume. It's a point of pride among them.
In the Netherlands we have them all the time too. Also on Synologys.
This is a long overdue but promising trend toward a JavaScript-less website.

Yeah, I am one of the few outliers who still host JS-free out of cybersecurity reasons.
Thats the creepiest thing Ive heard in 2024.

whats wrong with a simple message or phone call in the morning ?
> decision makers have little knowledge (or don’t research) the implication of their choices.

I hate how true this statement is within the industry. To many of these C-level executives base decisions off whatever CEO summit they recently attended.

“Every app to use microservices!111!”

“Hybrid cloud. We are doing it”

“Serverless, let’s start using this”

“We are fully going to the cloud!11!!”

Then when the results come in, the complaints start rolling in:

1) wHy iS aPp SlOwEr (after MSA)

2) gUys, iNfRaStruCtUrE cost is SoArInG (shifting to “cloud”)

3) the ApP is ToO cOmPlEx (after MSA, and “serverless”)

Some of these aging dinosaurs need to be put out to pasteur
I insist that the shortened form of "laying off people" should be "offing people".
Why small developers are getting squeezed out of the housing market
He was talking about Po vs PO.
NAS's aren't expensive, 4K@10bit is.
As far as my imagination goes any efficient seatbelts for a person lying down will be very painful in even a small incident if the passenger has a scrotum.
Perfection is the enemy of Good Enough.
Not sure. But to map polar ice in mercury it was necessary to use the Arecibo radio telescope as radar[1], with the benefit we knew previously where to point the instrument, exactly. Given planet nine is hundreds of times more distant, it would probably take a humungous radio telescope and a lot of power to conduct the search.

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/369213a0
This is my attitude towards security disclosures. In this case, Amazon approved the disclosure. But even if they hadn't, it's better for the good guys and bad guys to know about problems when the alternative is only the bad guys knowing (or the bad guys and a few good guys at the affected company).
> Not every language is unrepentantly unsound.

For sure. Coq does a decent job, but it's also a complete bear to use. Tradeoffs, as always.

> I continue to identify a confusion in this thread between a property of the languages, and a property of particular code

Go on. The original statement was that C and Go do not have type-safe enums. But there is no evidence of that being the case. The types are safe.

Indeed, the types are limited. An integer type, for example, cannot be further narrowed to only 1-10 in these languages. But the lack of a feature does not imply lack of type-safety. It only implies a lack of a feature.
There absolutely are [0].

They're also used in DC's as a buffer as other energy sources spin up. Lawrence Systems did a neat walkthrough of that infra recently [1].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flywheel_storage_power_system#...

[1]: https://youtu.be/gsN_CJJDy_o
I don't doubt Swiss made stuff is much tighter and has better detailing than North American builder grade crap.

For the "leaks bugs" part - ladybugs here will find a way in as soon as you have a 1.5-2mm gap. They find them all. It can be between the frame and the siding, the silicone caulk cracking, a mechanical window that doesn't quite close tight, or anything else. It's a nice confirmation that your window has failed and leaks air.

With that said, I mean no offense to your beautiful country, but Swiss weather isn't as rigorous as Canadian weather. In the last week we've had a 36hour period with both +14c and -19c outdoor temperature. Our weather puts a lot of expansion stress on any outdoor facing material.

> Overall, some folks love repairing old broken stuff (or need to due to financial circumstances).

That's true. There's also a philosophical position that I don't like buying new when repairing isn't that hard. I've done it for TV's, computers, windows, etc. It's fun to learn how things work around you as well.

> Investing into relationships and intense experiences work generally better here.

I don't think they exclude each other at all

> I see plenty of older folks who maintain their houses and garden around themselves

For what it's worth, it's one of the better hobbies for retired people. It gets them outside and moving. Being close to nature is good for you as well.

Ideally they'd have hobbies that would keep them close to other people (the best thing for you), but all in all it's much better to be out gardening than on Facebook rotting their brain.
Or add to your collection. Depends on how many people you are who use the same NAS and how many photos you take.

Sure, if you upload 10 photos a week and never do any other reads, go with a SSD for all I care, it'll last long enough.
Managing R environments using conda
In this case, that does not prove much.

For big companies like Microsoft it is normal to have both some employees who may be security experts and also thousands of others who not only are ignorant about security but they also do not seek the advice of those who may be more knowledgeable.

So without other information, the fact that some document about security comes from Microsoft cannot be used to guess anything about whether it is valuable or not.
I find it’s usually worth the noise to catch weirdness
(and only unencrypted rooms from the webapp)
Your comment was flagged by users. We can only guess why users flag things, but in this case I think I know why: comments that do nothing but quote from the article, or try to summarize the article, are considered too formulaic by readers here. If you want to say what you think is important about an article, that's fine, but please do it in your own words and share your own thinking. To simply paste a quote from the article, or a summary, is too superficial. On HN the convention is to assume that readers are smart enough to evaluate an article for themselves.

(I copied this from the parent comment so I can link to it when this comes up in the future).
Data Center Tour and Technical Deep Dive into the Power, Data and Cooling Infra
And since readers may find this interesting: The various writeups all say that relativity explained the precession of Mercury's orbit, but they never say exactly what factor was accounted for by relativity.

The answer: Mercury is heavier when it is at perihelion in its elliptical orbit, because it's moving faster. The increased relativistic mass makes for increased momentum at perihelion, which carries the planet a little farther than expected before it starts to swing back up out of the gravity well, so the perihelion precesses more.

And the effect exists and is known for the other planets now; the mass increase is proportional to velocity-squared and the velocity difference depends on the eccentricity of the orbit, so it's an order of magnitude smaller for Earth, but still measurable and now known. It's also known for other objects: one example is stars in elliptical orbits around the galaxy's central black hole, which undergo extra precession in the same way.
I'm with Edward Abbey on this one.
To everyone claiming that the Google engineers just make too much money to unionize. You seem to have a very short memory.

https://globalnews.ca/news/1776324/apple-google-join-tech-co...

There was a tacit agreement between big tech to engage in wage suppression and no poaching agreements. This is why unions exist -- to protect workers and their rights. It doesn't matter what kind of wages are in play.
No, you don't want that. You want your windowing system & UI/graphics layers working in display native range (see eg, Apple's EDR). The consistency of appearance of the SDR range is too important to leave it up to unknown tone mapping.

Also it's too power expensive to have your display in HDR if you're only showing SDR UIs, which not only is the common reality but will continue to be so for the foreseeable future.
No.

Edit: though I thought about it a little more. The more interesting question is regarding the standard library, rather than the compiler. Applying different licenses to the two is not unusual (gcc is GPL, glibc is LGPL). From what I can see, the standard library is embedded entirely into the compiler, and thus yeah, I do think programs that use this would actually have to be GPL. Not that that's a bad thing though :)
I think that's precisely the point. You wouldn't want to touch your security key every time you commit anything. Given the (intentional) high friction, it's probably best left for operations that are high value, such as tags or releases
You're free to make your toilet paper as expensive as you like, as long as you pay for it legally.
arXiv link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.07696
That’s what the "dwarf planet" term is.
containers are for packaging and deployment NOT for isolation
The OP means Wilderness (capital W), not wilderness. The former is federally designated as protected from just about any development. The latter is just undeveloped backcountry without the restrictive regulation.

And I tend to agree that the designation should not be loosened.
Because bamboo is really bad at many things we do with wood.

Wood is different. Each type of wood has its advantage and disadvantage. A pine tree is more different to a Maple tree than you are to a great white shark in the evolution chart.

If bamboo could be easily used to make SPF studs we'd be all over it - it's a $100B industry and bamboo grows extremely easily.
Can you please stop posting summary comments like this?

For explanation, see:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39572941

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39504137

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39308859
it feels perverse that their pay could be inversely proportional to how much they prevent other people from getting.
Oregon and Washington (and California) have clumpy/non-uniform population distributions. Each has a geographically small, dense, blue, city population surrounded by a geographically large, low density, red, rural region.
> The Safari version is exposed and the Safari version is tied to the OS version for iOS.

User agents can be changed by users in Safari. I wouldn't recommend doing so, but it is possible to tell Safari to stop reporting the version number to websites. I'm unaware of any way to do the same for native apps.

> There is also a battery level API that is not supported by Safari.

Note that native iOS apps do have access to battery level, which is another fingerprinting vector that can be avoided by using websites through Safari or Firefox.
Yeah, drying wood in the sun in one big reason for warping.

Big box stores sell you wet wood - when you have it on the construction site it'll start warping and checking as it gets exposed to sun
GenAI poses a much deeper pickle for Google
credit: https://twitter.com/paultoo/status/1763616814498795853
It's been that way for a long time. Einstein published a paper in support of Bose's statistics for integer-spin particles, explaining that no, that's not an off-by-one error, and now they're called Bose-Einstein statistics.
When you run a single, simple Python service, it's fantastic. When you scale your Python, it's an awful dependency hell.
> I guess my feeling is that if you want to make it a standard, it should be unencumbered by patents, paywalls, and NDAs. Otherwise how can you expect me to implement the standard?

Well, when you are developing a standard, there is no guarantee that every person who owns a patent will reveal themselves. There’s no guarantee your due diligence will find them all either. You could develop a completely open standard, someone announces they’ve got a patent, and if they win in court, that’s the end of it being an open standard.

> These companies often make these advancements because it's beneficial to their bottom line, because they can utilize fewer resources or provide a better product to their customers.

That’s just called business. That’s not evil, and if Linux didn’t benefit their bottom line, it would not be usable today (considering over 90% of contributions are from the big evil companies).
This is great.

I wish it worked with glass :-) :-)

I sometimes sweep up broken glass from bike lanes in my community. I need gloves, a broom, a dustpan, and a trash bag. Not as efficient. Needs a car, not a bike.
Mathematicians prove that you can deduce the shape of disk based on the frequencies it produces when you hit it with a stick.
Hey, not yet.

Currently you've to pass build time flags[1] to modify the endpoint.

Providing an option in-app to change the endpoint is under discussion[2].

[1]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/blob/main/server/RUNNING.md#...

[2]: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/504
I remember learning about keyboard matrix encoders because I got into building MAME arcade projects when it was still a fairly young idea and consumer products that integrate arcade controls with computers were not commonly available. When you learn about them, you'll understand why older and/or cheaper keyboards have artifacts known as blocking and ghosting. It's something that I at least found interesting, but I doubt most people can be bothered to care. And as far as how that keyboard encoder is creating the ones and zeroes and then sending them over the USB bus - that might as well be magic to me.

I suppose we all live at the abstraction level that suits us. I'm of the opinion that a lot of the modern infrastructure we work with is over-abstracted. I'm not sure that most developers even know that an HTTP server exists thanks to the work of modern devops where you push a commit and it gets automatically deployed to some sort of container orchestration system. At some level it has to be this way; we stand on the work that was done before us; "the shoulders of giants" it's often said with more poetic flair. So I wonder if it's just me getting older and not understanding the new, or if we have genuinely gone astray in some ways. And those need to be mutually exclusive either.
Good point. Some mutations cause the sperm, egg, or fetus to be unviable, so those are definitely underrepresented in the population.

Perhaps it's still a useful heuristic for the purposes of rejecting a claim like "Some single mutation might cause 200 IQ and super-strength".
My suspicion is that you'd have a really hard time doing that. For one, if so little of the light from the sun (notably the brightest thing in our solar system) is being reflected, we'd be hard pressed to build something capable of spraying the whole search area and getting back enough particles to detect and count.

But even more than that, the power requirements would be immense. We have retro reflectors on the moon, and even with knowing where the moon is and where they are on the moon, we get almost no photons back. From Wikipedia:

> Out of a pulse of 3×1017 photons[25] aimed at the reflector, only about 1–5 are received back on Earth, even under good conditions.

That's with a dedicated reflector positioned well on the moon's surface, about 0.002au away. You're talking about hitting a rocky lump in front of a bright background 400-800au away. The power requirements wouldn't be five orders of magnitude more, it would be perhaps hundreds of orders of magnitude more.
You can own more than one type of computer
They are clearly extremely young and in new relationship.
On the trail of the Denisovans
Ah, thank you. I understood that it was a Clickhouae schema, it's not.
This is what any business does and what you would do with your own growing business that you one day will no longer own too. You need defined roles with responsibilities and required skills that you can hire people to fill as people come and go in their own lives. Sucks to be a cog but cogs we are
Isn’t there black bunting?
> None of those games are going to be fun, engaging, thought provoking or expressive.

I think you're vastly overestimating what entertainment means for most people, and underestimating the capabilities of AI today, and in the very near future.

People spend countless hours in idle clickers, chance games, and many other "simple" time wasters. Entertainment doesn't have to be thought provoking.

Though what makes you think AI couldn't craft such experiences as well? Can't it already come up with thought provoking stories today?

FWIW, I used to think like you a ~year ago. Art is art, AI can't replace artists, etc. And to some extent I still think that will be true. There will always be a demand for human-created art and products.

But for the vast majority of people, the ability to say what they want to experience, and be able to control all aspects of that experience, will be much more engaging and personal than anything another human could ever create.
I'll believe it when I see it. I'm sure they'll find new ways to drag their feet.
A few of the main issues I see, as a R user who built his company on python

- when we wanted to build a web app that processes data, it was a lot more straightforward to build both in python, so we can process data within the web servers instead of having to manage multiple stages of infrastructure and different languages. There's no Django for R.

- R will often do something instead of explicitly failing. This is the wrong tradeoff when running a production system, as if you're returning the wrong results to users you may not realize it unless there's an error

- R reproducible builds are worse than python. That's saying something because python is a pretty low bar. But running production systems you can't have builds suddenly fail week over week because one of a hundred packages was updated
Two things that made me giggle:

"Still, the lawyers described the nearly $6 billion in shares as “conservative” under Delaware law, which they said entitles them to 33% of the 'quantifiable conferred benefit.' - “Nevertheless, in an effort to be conservative, Plaintiff’s Counsel does not seek the 33%” warranted by previous cases, they wrote. "

-

"The lawyers wrote that, throughout the history of the case, they collectively logged 19,499.95 hours — meaning that a nearly $6 billion award would equal a per-hour rate of $305,550. They argued, though, that the hours worked was of secondary importance, if it was worth considering at all. "

A nice and conservative $300k an hour.
I liked the post, excluding the closing phrase which implies that what Google did wasn't a mistake but rather a missed opportunity. It was both at the scale of MS missing out on mobile for an analogous faith in its desktop os/software market. I suppose it could be read as 'recent' mistakes. If Google cared about their users they would have recognized it sooner, but they'd long since chose profit over better Search.
> People who have had some experience with it are their strongest opponents.

Rather depends what you mean by "it". I've know many addicts and I've known many people who have enjoyed drugs recreationally with no long-term ill effects. And plenty of people in-between the two extremes.

> Any drug with side effects should be, of course, criminalized, if we want healthy individuals and a functioning society.

This is a bizarre statement, even ignoring my pedantry about your use of the word "drug".

Any recreational drug?

Any side effects?

It's hard to understand what you really mean because taken literally this would be a really odd stance to take. So I presume you don't mean what you seem to be saying. Therefore I don't really know what you're saying.
You think a small amount of PWA users getting affected by this actually matter to "public opinion".

It is probably safe to say a random person on the street in EU doesn't know what PWA is.
I'm looking at R seriously for the first time.

I've got a decade in with Python numeric computing, and I'm interested in Julia and all of the cutting-edge stuff.

I've only dabbled with R until now, and I haven't researched it enough to know if rumors of it's inevitable demise have any substance.

There are a lot of interesting math problems other than training gigantic neural networks on NVIDIA gear, and I've got some Computer Algebra System / ergonomic linear modeling needs on a current project:

I need the best tool for someone who is messing with Black-Scholes type stuff, who is still building the fidelity with tricky antiderivatives by hand, but I have enough fundamentals to check the computer's work.

What role should R play here?
Not the same. MOND adds a parameter - the non-newtonianness which is purely a function of the masses and the distances. DM lets you add a new parameter (the DM density) at each point in space. That's effectively an infinite number of parameters, whereas MOND has very few.