skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you read the article:

>A study of more than 200 people undergoing surgery found that nearly 60% had microplastics or even smaller nanoplastics in a main artery1. Those who did were 4.5 times more likely to experience a heart attack, a stroke or death

They weren't comparing against people with no microplastics whatsoever, only the ones that had no detectable amounts in their arteries.
You're mixing together matters pertaining to criminal cases (a DUI is a threat to society) and civil disputes (people have a disagreement about money) in ways that don't make sense at all.

Copyright infringement aims to compensate the original author for the work he did that was not compensated for. There being a statutory fee not only streamlines the process and simplifies the otherwise hard evaluation of potential loss, but also discourages copyright infringement to begin with.

A DUI is more about making sure you don't put other people at risk, so instead the government will take away your driving license or put you in prison.
I thought this had to do with biological cell programming but it looks good.
Restricting student loans for non stem degrees, student visas, and eliminating the non-profit status of higher ed institutions would go a long to reigning in the fat and excessiveness of tuition.

Look at the salaries of college admins and board of trustees. Harvard pays their president over $1million one year. It's gone beyond ridiculous.
Single dose of LSD provides immediate and lasting relief from anxiety, study say
Ask HN: What reviewers do you trust for honest evaluations of a product?
Not limited to just product reviewers - media, travel, restaurant are all welcome additions.

A few notable websites I trust:

https://www.consumerreports.org/ - This one is fairly obvious.

https://www.americastestkitchen.com/ - Excellent combination of kitchen hardware reviews, recipes, and best practices cooking techniques.

https://www.rtings.com/ - I have less experience with RTings then the other sites on this list, but the purchases I have made off of their recommendation have been very solid.

https://www.tomshardware.com/ - The official reviews on Tomshardware are excellent for PC parts and laptops, and the forums provide a wealth of useful information on niche/hardware adjacent topics.

Youtubers:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDKLZBNM9XZ7pHPZF9D8xDQ - Monitors Unboxed does great reviews with good detail on everything from the viewing experience to the menus on any given monitor. His ~quarterly monitor roundups are useful for anyone looking to go out and make a purchase that needs a "one stop recommendation".

https://www.youtube.com/@theshoppingexpert - A bit of a hodge-podge review channel with a general focus on homegoods, but branches out to various other areas as well. If you don't like short-form style content you probably will not be a fan.
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Hey , I've created Pixeleye, a cross-browser visual review and testing platform.

I've found the pricing of visual testing platforms quite absurd, with companies often opting out of testing their UI's across different browsers.

We offer a cloud version of our product but also provide the tools to self-host it for free. We hope this will keep our pricing honest and promote a sustainable open-source community around the project.

Some of our main features include:

- Cross-browser testing

- Lots of integrations: Storybook, Cypress, Playwright & Puppeteer

- Permission syncing - We'll sync with your Github team permissions

- VCS integration - We'll automatically add checks to your GitHub commits & pull requests

- Anti-aliasing detection
Last month I was working on something that involved very complex SQL queries using recursive CTE

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/queries-with.html

We try to avoid tests that really hit the database because they are expensive to run (like 20 seconds for those SQL queries, more like 5 seconds for all the other unit tests) but in a case like that you are not so concerned that the system generates the right SQL but that the SQL really works against real data structures.

20 years ago I thought mocks were a terrible boondoggle, then frameworks like Mockito came around which make them easy to write. Still there is something to say about having a system where you can test with true unit tests without mocks.
The RED cameras are perfectly capable of delivering great picture quality and good color science. The "Netflix look" doesn't come from cameras, but from the fact that everything in their cheaper productions is rushed, including the color grading.

Portrait of a Lady on Fire for instance, was shot on RED cameras at 8K. And it's one of the most beautiful digital films ever made, IMO.
Sounds like true love and you can't put a price on that.

Why stop at 10% ?
But that's the true nature of division. Unless one can prove that the denominator is non-zero, then the computation is not well defined.

Practically speaking, languages like Haskell and F# have a monadic syntax that makes this considerably less ugly.
This is a terrible idea, and already bearing fruits of disrespect. Once they get married, they're going to answer to each other, and treat you as a "3rd" wheel. A lot of times (not even trying to be sexist), the opposite gender have power over us through love and intimacy that can blind us from logic; this can affect family, friendships, and sense of self in being an autonomous person.

Worst case scenario, you piss off the incumbent employees (which could cause them to go elsewhere, where their contributions are respected, and further down the line you wield no power as it's 2 of them vs you.

You need to be steadfast in your resolve, and have a private conversation with your friend and cofounder talking about these things. Stressing that although love is a beautiful thing, it's not always permanent and to focus on yourself, and what you've built first. It does sound like she has been contributing, but adding her as a co-founder with equity like that, is just his pants speaking.

Draw boundaries, and stand tall. Propose the following, if he wants her to have equity.. maybe he can sequester some of his to her? After all, they're gonna be married soon right :^)?
Something that industry hasn't seemed to have noticed is that Nikon has recently released a couple of camera bodies that are very capable hybrid shooters. The Nikon Z9 and Z8 cameras can record up to 8.3K 60fps RAW video in-body[1], and the shutter speed is fast enough to be very nearly "global shutter". They also inherit features common to stills cameras but rare in video cameras such as eye-detect auto focus.

Some samples I've found online:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bR5BV1L7tCg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFkgs0GsbpA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3cAwDwvK-M

Notably, these videos were made by essentially amateurs. Even if the shooters are industry pros, they're still taking these shots on their own without a film crew and a professional setup. Just running around with a "normal" camera you can carry in one hand.

I wonder if this is going to be a dead end now that Nikon has acquired RED. I have a sinking feeling that the product lines will be split again, and that the stills bodies will not get any new video features, which will be relegated to dedicated video cameras.

[1] Something I've heard is that perceived video quality is more strongly correlated to the data rate than pixel resolution. These cameras can record at about 6,000 Mbps which is in the same league a "large format" and IMAX style cine cameras.
Immutable variable isn't a oxymoron. It can still vary between instantiations. If you have (a)=>{const b = a}, b can have different values even though it can't be reassigned.
Serious question, why do we need yet another C compiler?
Seriously. Is anyone able to defeat it? Is there a trick? I was only able to win a handful of points across multiple games.
The website is the German ministry for civil protection, who seems to have gotten it from the German Aerospace Center (DLR). I have not seen a good source in English yet. The page title is rather undescriptive so the title is rather a summary of the contents than a translation. More links:

Possible impact corridors (mostly visual/numeric): https://bbk.bund.de/ueberflug

Orbit (English): https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=47853 | https://www.satview.org/?sat_id=47853U

Discussion thread (German, containing some local news article links also): https://www.astrotreff.de/forum/index.php?thread/289262-de-o...

2021 article about the battery pack (English): https://spaceflightnow.com/2021/03/12/garbage-pallet-jettiso...

The public is being sent notifications through the emergency information app NINA (like the cell broadcast alarm system used in other countries, except you need to install the software and it needs internet access to function)
I remember reading the first edition back in maybe 2011 when I decided I should sit down and actually learn JavaScript beyond the superficial grasp I had of it from working on web things (mainly via Rails at the time). What a great book, I learned so much from it at the time. For years after, whenever anyone told me they wanted to learn programming, I told them to pick up this book as a first introduction to it. Plus, it was available for free on his website.

I've gotten rid of lots of old programming books over the years, but I've held on to my first edition copy of Eloquent Javascript. Lots of thanks to Marijn for writing this!
Cliff of 1 year and vesting period of 4 years
And also, the surrounding 10-200 miles outside of town is a National Forest.

These mountains towns are idyllic because they haven't been built up.
What were the death tolls from pandemics in history? (2023)
I think this is very common playbook those days - Overdeliver to your customers whenever with Free Tier, Everything Open Source, Extremely Low Prices to get market share... when do a switch and focus on profitability.

With killing free tier I wonder if it just was not generating a good conversion to paid users or is it killing a golden goose to get one time customer injection from folks choosing to move to paid tier
You're about to get screwed. I'm sorry, the future is going to get difficult for at least one person.
Actually, I don't really care. I always promptly admit when I'm wrong. Just the way I live.

I just felt like being a bit of a pedant, by pointing out your unnecessary, unkind, and inflammatory comment. I took it exactly the way that you intended. You admit that you read the comments, but made the decision to post this, anyway (sack dance).

There's a better than even chance that we would actually find a lot in common, but I guess that's not to be. I also happen to have a fairly unique perspective, here. Not everything that I wrote was wrong.

Have a great day!
> In Texas, a dramatic increase in data centers for crypto mining is touching off a debate over whether they are a costly drain on an overtaxed grid. An analysis by the consulting firm Wood Mackenzie found that the energy needed by crypto operations aiming to link to the grid would equal a quarter of the electricity used in the state at peak demand. Unlike data centers operated by big tech companies such as Google and Meta, crypto miners generally don’t build renewable-energy projects with the aim of supplying enough zero-emissions energy to the grid to cover their operations.

> The result, said Ben Hertz-Shargel, who authored the Wood Mackenzie analysis, is that crypto’s drain on the grid threatens to inhibit the ability of Texas to power other energy-hungry operations that could drive innovation and economic growth,
Delete this. Tell him if they marry they can just have a shared bank account, if he insists, get a lawyer involved.
There's a thing called Trusted Execution Environments, they're provisioned by the phone manufacturer which is why most people who play with ROMs aren't familiar with them either. But they're heavily related to TPMs.

Basically TEEs allow code to be executed that the OS has no control over and the OS cannot hope to even touch the memory, it's hardware separated by the SoC (system on chip). There are cryptographic accelerators which can be used to sign things and encrypt things, again which the OS has no ability to see this and secrets can be held in ways that the OS can never touch.

Use of the TEE depends on the bootloader being signed and the OS boot process being authenticated. There are other aspects around Android as well, not specifically related to TEE, around user processes never being able to have privileged access, but TEE is a less known part of the modern Android ecosystem.
If that is a differentiator in the market that allows them to charge more upfront, obviously not.
I’d note that navigation was most important on oceans while terrestrial navigation relied on landmarks and maps.

I wonder though how much exploration helped lead to an advanced civilization. The exchange of ideas with different cultures was crucial as was the necessity to develop the technologies for exploration beyond navigation alone. It wasn’t until we broadly navigated the planet that we advanced so rapidly after tens of thousands of years of relatively isolated stagnation.
Studying leetcode and IQ both correlate with better performance in leetcode.

There's no raw data to back either statement up, but both are very likely to be true via common sense.
Beautiful bit of history. I remember quite a lot of it being old.

Nice work by the author. Without people taking the time to write things like this up history gets lost.

Years ago I build one of the first local search engines for the Netherlands called Search.NL. I am indebted to the writer of the only page that refers to this history any more here:

https://www.eindhovenfotos.nl/1/ilse.nl.html#news1-y8
Xcel Energy says its facilities have role in igniting largest Texas wildfire
There's a lot of weird stuff going on here. First of all, someone new joined your lab one month ago and in that month, your friend not only started a personal relationship but even plan to marry? That seems like a red flag to begin with (although to be fair, I know multiple people who got engaged after 2-3 dates and have had long and happy marriages... so not saying that it's a problem, just a red flag).

Second, your co-founder wants to grant co-founder status to his girlfriend. That seems like an odd request. I think I'd be uncomfortable with this even if it was my best friend and he'd been married to his wife for over a decade. There's plenty of things that can go wrong in a startup to begin with, no need to add the possibility of divorce and other relationship issues to the mix.

Finally, they "often reach consensus without involving me in the preliminary discussions"? That's very odd, assuming that you and your friend have roughly equal shares of equity. I personally would shy away from partnering with two romantically involved people, but at the very least, I'd want to feel like I'm not being crowded out and having decisions made behind my back.
There are several issues here:

1) Having a relationship with a subordinate is not normal today. Planning to marry a subordinate that one has been dating for only a few weeks isn't normal at all. Your co-founder's behavior with a new employee opens your company up to harassment lawsuits by his fiance if the relationship fails, and by other employees whatever happens to that relationship.

2) Being a co-founder wouldn't give her the right to make decisions for the company. It's a label, not a meaningful legal title.

3) She is not a co-founder and should not be made one if the business already exists as a legal entity. You can consider bringing her on a a high-level employee/executive, since it sounds like she has already done executive-level tasks like bringing in partnerships, but that is something you need to discuss with a lawyer.

3) Your co-founder and fiance already making decisions without you is a huge red flag, and it is likely that after they marry they will formally push you out of the company. She is not a co-founder, or executive, or even a long-term employee. She's literally someone he met a few weeks ago. She shouldn't be involved in decision-making at all.
> the stuff we learned by having a night sky

You are forgetting stuff like platonic modeling of the real world, testing hypothesis on the basis of their predictive values, and integrating the smart people as a community where they exchange ideas.

We learned all of those by observing the sky.

Of course, there are probably other ways to learn it. But it's not clear at all how viable they are or how long they would take.
100%

I don't know what my life would like without such decisions...
Is this satire? I feel like I'm reading commentary from a strictly classical economist lamenting that our economy is worsened by all those pesky market participants that are ignorant of economic theory and therefore make irrational financial decisions.

Then there's this line:

> The implication is that [my critics are] the smart ones because they live in a world where the ultimate marker of intelligence is not the ability to discern sound action from unsound, but instead a grotesque meta-intelligence which manifests as the inexplicable belief that no action is ever deserving of contempt, and any deviation from this belief is a humility problem.

What about Chesterton's Fence? Or root-cause analysis? Those aren't just for code! Contempt is an ugly word, so the burden of proof should be pretty high. After all, we're trying to understand and fix and prevent "actions that harm everyone" and not just classify them, right?
Sorry to hear this. This will end in drama.

Work out what drama is acceptable to you and work towards that. This will get ugly.

Your partner clearly makes quick penis driven decisions for good own benefit. This can’t work.
Wondering why the heat isn’t harvested for something useful like district heating? Too far from cities I assume, but just discharging hot water seems like a waste of energy.
I mean sure, I could solve the issue with a better strategy, but what bugs me is that this is a problem in the first place. Should accurate time really still be an issue in 2024?
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You'll get a lot of misguided advice on an app like this. At the early days of a startup you need people who care, who will find a way to succeed despite the odds, who will stick around even if it doesn't make economic sense for them. Friends, family are often some of the best people to work with. (if, its an important if, if they are excellent)

I would only be upset about this if people who have a personal relationship are held to a lower bar. The bar should be higher for them to avoid any doubt about favoritism.

In your case the real question is not their personal relationship, its more about if the team is excellent and if you trust them.
I'm building a puzzle room type experience with some friends. There are sensors and actuators that need to be controlled according to some logic. My read of these docs is that this might be a good fit for something like that.

The way it compiles to several other languages reminds me of Nim (which I rather like).

I think I'll give this a whirl.
The “multiple options” are frequently all owned by the same company, and the store brand is made by one of their subsidiaries too. The wide variety of brand names is there specifically to conceal how much the industry has consolidated.
HbA1C has been checked by all of my primary care providers across several locations in the US.

I also had an insurance provider who gave us a cash bonus if we had it tested (they paid) every year for a while.

It’s surprising that some doctors aren’t checking it still.
If I suspected I could hire someone that would never write a line of feature code but could make everyone else on the team 20% more productive, I’d hand-walk their application through HR.

Have you ever considered specializing in platform and tooling work? Become the office hero!
Stable Qubits at Room Temperature
Seems like a nightmare.

It sounds like the two of them want to have a majority position to be able to make decisions without you.
It's clearly wrong, and it will be a nightmare down the road, period. So you know the path to take even if it's meant to break the relationship or the company. There goes your negotiation skill 101.
The actual content I would expect is the following 3 points.

1. What the old clause of the license was
2. What kind of unintended side effect it had
3. What the new clause addressing this is

Summing up those 3 points results in a clear paragraph of maybe 5 to 10 lines. Meanwhile I challenge anyone who hasn't read it to extract that content from the article in less than 15 minutes.
Unicode Lambda
> If you take any current functional language, and add the criteria that it must only use pure functions, then Int->Int is the same as described in the Total Language.

The function above is pure. In fact, all functions in Haskell are, even those returning IO.
Because that's not how variables work in JavaScript/Python etc (though it may be fine for say C++ in the case of value types and copy constructors). For example:

I'm typing on phone so for a quick example:

let a = [];
let b = a;
a.push(1);

and consider the value of b now (or the fact that we could write "const" above because the binding is constant, even though we mutate the value). Or see the equivalent for Python by Ned Batchelder, which has more examples and elaboration: https://nedbatchelder.com/text/names1.html
You missed the irony entirely: there's no club and no gatekeepers.

Stupid people and hypocrite will use the same banner you do and sometimes it will be false flags as well, such is life and that's why you should never judge a group on their most stupid members, because on the Internet there's no barrier to entry and anyone can claim to belong to the group, even if everyone else in the group thinks they are morons.
If someone is willing to sell themselves out by becoming a high end call girl/boy, my main feeling towards them is pity rather than jealousy. I am not implying that's going on in this case, work is also a natural place to get to know someone well.
From my own personal experience and observations, I would add the mass prescription of SSRIs to the list in your comment’s parent. While it is true they _do_ help _some_ people, it seems they are very likely to cause a slew of new, long term problems for their medicatees, especially for those who are young.
Don't know about VR, but Space Engine on Steam seems to have tidally locked planets...

https://forum.spaceengine.org/viewtopic.php?t=206
I don't disagree, Apple's brand was built before the current shenanigans were even possible. "Think different", am I right? I'm just saying that the previous investment in brand-building can now be leveraged into defending the indefensible.
Any reading recs for actual info on bird brains?
> Photography in particular is frustratingly easy to get wrong.

Not directly relevant but this reminded me of an article I probably saw linked here a few years ago where two photographers took nearly identical photos and people on the internet accused both of them of stealing the other's work.

https://www.dpreview.com/articles/7338941576/how-two-photogr...
> They were not recruited with the kind of mental stability in mind that you need to deal with all the BS cops need to deal with

I honestly can't tell if this is meant to be serious or in jest.

I agree with the sentiment, but the reality is neither are cops.
Like Elsa said, you can't marry someone you just met.
And there is a way to pay no taxes on the growth. You need to have

1) a tax advantaged account
and
2) a regular brokerage with 2x your savings

Technically tax is deferred or literally not paid if tax advantaged account is a Roth.

https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Placing_cash_needs_in_a_tax-...
"AI, no ads please": 4 words to wipe out $1T
I never played this version of it, but I remember playing Sumo Volleyball as a kid. Same thing though. Good times.