skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This topic is one of my biggest pet peeves. The hypothesis that sub-clinical lead exposure _causes_ IQ loss is, in my opinion, much weaker than most people realize. Observational studies (which are more or less all we have) tell us that Pb exposure correlates negatively with IQ, and that the correlation is moderated by a multitude of variables that are subtle and difficult to model. These studies do not tell us in which direction the arrow of causality points - they merely tell us that not all causative pathways are accounted for by the study's model. The idea that causation points from lead to IQ loss has some issues - e.g., that developmentally delayed two-year-olds ingest more dust/dirt, which increases their lead exposure.
I mean I do agree with doing at school and that’s exactly what I suggested.
It sounds very cool. I've been following them since watching a couple interviews with Jim Keller, and then seeing they're (in part) a Toronto area local company. I don't work in machine-learning but find the HW direction really interesting. I could think of a few uses for that kind of high bandwidth vector/matrix crunching that aren't restricted to ML purposes.
There's a lot of great servers mentioned here, but there are two that I haven't seen yet:

- QuiltMC, which is a fork of FabricMC
- NeoForge, which is a fork of Forge

Both have their own benefits and downsides, and are mostly comparable with their originals.
using tos to neutralize consumer protection laws definitely sounds like an unsustainable practice.

avoid clicking and set up a class action, the rquirement to agree to new tos is damaging, and loss of access to property unless accepting a damaging tos is also damaging.

this also undermines the rule of law

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_protection_law
The customers bring baggage so they should be ignored? What does that even mean? This kind of sounds like a grooming mindset. Parents know a whole hell of a lot more about their kid than any teacher will.

You could turn it around and say, "I work a menial government job. If I know so much about learning, why am I incapable of getting a job teaching people with brains larger than a grapefruit?"
A better example than dedicated social media apps is perhaps Baike, commonly described as China's Wikipedia. Except it isn't, because it's not a non-profit organization with a mission to provide free and unbiased information to the world, it's a locked-down product of Baidu, one of China's major tech companies who once upon a time (much like Google) owned domestic search and maps, who also run Tieba (something like Reddit) and so on. This is the biggest difference I find on the "chinanet" - all of the top sites are owned by one of the major tech companies, and all of these companies have an interest in trying to keep you inside their ecosystem.

Outside of the chinanet this also happens, where Google, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft all try to keep you inside their ecosystems (to say nothing of the traditional media companies like Disney, WBD etc), but outside the chinanet there remains a small but influential "information wants to be free" movement that is unaligned with any government or corporation. So we have Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap and the Internet Archive... It's not much, but it's something.

From my perspective if people really want to see a free and open internet, where information is never hidden in gated communities, the only choice is to support non-profits with aligned missions. Then people all over the world - including China - can contribute.
Is this a journalistic photo, though? It’s reportedly taken by William himself. It’s a PR photo, at best.
AVGAS 100LL has half the lead content of AVGAS 100.
There are already existing laws to compel one company to do business with another, in America and in the EU, even before DMA...

I think in the US it's refusal to deal.

And the EU can make companies do _anything_ they want to, within the jurisdiction of the EU. If they want to ban phones that are coloured green then they bloody well could, with the repercussions being fines, legal action and bans from the market.
> It’s parents responsibility to feed a child’ - cried the generation that drank free baby formula provided by the state.

Brutal and accurate. So many accusations are just confessions. So many lazy people complain about 'lazy youth', so many people living on social welfare complain about 'greedy pensioners' or 'welfare queens'.

I truly do not understand it.
The average student doesn't learn. They toil away, fruitlessly, get their diploma, and then spend a lifetime doing labor with no academic component. Lately we've been forcing them to go to college, pointlessly, to get their foot in the door. Often saddled with criminal levels of debt.

Even now, even in the US, only 30% of children grow up to be college students. So when we're talking about the average, the median, what I'm saying is in fact typical.

They learn to read. Which they would have done anyway. They learn what arithmetic means, sort of. Might pick up history and geography if they're natively interested in it. At no point is the two hours of homework they're forced into every night of any benefit to learning these things.
>a compulsion to demonstrate the possibility of unending growth which is, frankly, impossible.

I hate this saying.

Why is unending growth impossible? Nobody seems to every try to explain it.

Economic growth is generally improvement of society in some way. Usually it's about new inventions and ideas that spread more. Better ways to make things that people want, more efficient ways etc. if you come up with a more efficient fuel then that's still economic growth and the upside is that resource usage can decrease for the same benefit.

Math is essentially proven to be unending. There's always going to be something more to be discovered. Doesn't this mean that unending growth is possible?

Of course, in practice "unending" only means "for a very long time". We are nowhere near a point where we have exhausted new advancements.
A ban means when you operate in a country, you violate their rule, or whatever they call rule, then you are banned.

In this case, you haven’t operated in this country, the government of this country tells you that if you want to operate, you have to follow rule a, rule b… Then you choose to not follow these rules, and quit.

These are different.

Another example is you are operating in a country and not violating any rule from the very beginning. One day when you are strong enough and the government of this country feels you’re threaten. Then they tells you that you have to sell your branch in their country, if not you will be banned.

Now you get it?
Probably because IQ is based on 100=average, so if the average moves down and you stay constant, yours would move up.
I had no idea the tokenizer was a secret. How do you know if they're overcharging you for tokens?
I'll always bet on the self reliance of a people not coddled and extorted.
How to Win an Oscar?
som1 consider making 1 in bluetooth since now bluetooth web api exists
> I have destroyed many relationships by simply asking, “If you know so much about learning, how come you were not top of your class?”

If you're so smart, why do you do this?
Possibly parent is assuming that because IQ is a distribution with 100 at the center, any movement results in a shift of that median.

Potentially you could interpret this as suggesting a tacit (mathematical) increase elsewhere, but I don't think the math works out like that.
This right here.

Also, you can just import immigrants enmass to make up for the pension problem and expect it to work long term. It just leads to spiraling costs of living in the short term which has the secondary effect of suppressing birth rates even more for the above poster's reasons.
> getting mad at the crowd for saying it is not likely to help

Except the emperor does have clothes, this pessimism simply isn't based in reality, it's based on a rose-tinted view of the past and a misunderstanding of why people use these services over the older alternatives.

The author seems to have such limited life experience that he can't even fathom why someone would prefer Uber over the taxis of old, or find great value in using generative AI every day, or prefer Spotify over something like the iTunes Store. The value proposition is so obvious and clear, and yet the author can't even see it.
what does widespread mean I always use https://www.sharedrop.io/ for myself only tho.
I'm sure the scientists considered "correlation does not equal causation" before publishing.
I just received an Arduino Edge control unit to run some 9v valves but it was DOA. Well, it worked when I threw a bench supply at it but USB doesn't work. FWIW support has been amazingly responsive but not a great first go around with their professional line. Super curious about that WiFi enabled PNC controller though...
Underscoring the "HN comment" part. This is a userbase who are presently interfacing with a wall of text, some tasteful greytext and a coloured bar. This appears to be a crowd with low visual needs.
wifi direct would be nice
_If_ there exists such a function. Does such a function exist? You seem to be simply assuming that. In that case you’re assuming something is true in order to prove it is true.
Exactly.

And if copyright applies, wouldnt it imply that someone learning something from a book could also then be controlled by the licensing of said book on how their gained knowledge could be utilized in the future?
Because there’s only so many people in the world and of those people they only have so much money.
Imagine being a dev and thinking that it's the EU's fault for the malicious compliance cookie popup.

They should've fined every company that does that into the ground. Tbf it's mostly non EU company sites' terrible implementation of it.

"Oh no the EU is stopping me from being tracked by cookies how terrible"
Contraception is a means to an end. It only gives people a chance another way to choose. It doesn't change the calculus of why they choose one thing or another.
Crypto is finally in the rear view mirror, he says, as Bitcoin hits another all time high...
You sure? "Taildrop is only available on Synology NAS" could certainly use some workshopping.
But it also take t time to encrypt?
Apple Vision Pro Enhances the Spatial E-Commerce Experience
Two questions. Why did he bring ammunition if his only intent was to be shot on arrival? And why are you carrying so much water for a terrorist?
I find that a lot of future doomerism is rooted in not doing anything now:

“We have to build a world where human society retreats and tens of millions die alone unsupported, because [insert warning about centuries away based on dubious assumptions].”

We don’t have to, we’re celebrating failure because of nebulous future concerns that seem post hoc rationalizations.

I think at a societal level, abuses of psychology in marketing, PR, propaganda, and all its euphemisms have driven us collectively mad.
The dates on that graph track pretty closely to the availability / legalisation of effective birth control for those countries. Surely it isn’t that simple?
I had a teacher/coach who always said "practice makes permanent."
Is it? What about the page cache impacted by those applications’ file I/O?
There are still a bunch of industry research labs. Here's a currated list of just those doing computer science research:

https://cra.org/cra-wp/research-labs/

Just because Boeing sucks these days doesn't mean there isn't good research happening in industry.
This is a big part that is overlooked. Our cities in the US are hostile towards anyone who doesn't have a car, honestly. Kids suffer quite a bit, and although I think they _would_ deal with it in earlier years, they don't now when they have the internet. I renember when I was a kid that if I wanted to talk to my friend, I usually had to go locate them because even if the phone line was free on my end, it probably wasn't on their end.
Why is the applied pedagogy of teachers in classrooms even falling way behind the educational psychology and neuroscience research anyway in most of the world? It's been long known that things like active recall, spaced repetition, immediate application of knowledge, interleaved practice, and maximizing intrinsic motivation are the most effective ways to learn. There are even meta-analyses that outline each of these techniques effects and nuances. Shouldn't future policy build around what's proven to be effective and further figure out how to extend the effect sizes of such? Instead, we continue to go on education fads with vague terms and gur feeling much like some of the business management world (e.g. some people don't like "frameworks" such as Scrum when it comes to achieving objectives).
Show HN: TypeORM-Strict-Type – safer typing for TypeORM repository
I have created a package introduces type-safe repository type for TypeORM. Its find** functions return only the actually joined relations by checking relations option.
You can easily use just with annotation and type-casting.
We live in a world where you are charged per megabyte of RAM you allocate to your VM's. Sure, they have the occasional peak that lasts for a few seconds, but if you provision RAM for that peak it's costing you money. The cheap way out is to give it swap.

My rule of thumb is on an average load there should be no swapping, meaning that vmstat or whatever should be showing mostly 0's in the swap column. That doesn't mean it has 0 bytes in swap, in fact it probably is using some swap. It means nothing in swap is in the working set. For example, the server I'm looking at now is showing 0 swap activity, has 2GB of RAM and is using 1.3GB of swap. When a peak hits you will get some small delays of course, but it's likely no one will notice.

Doing anything else leaves money on the table.
That is one factor and the article did touch on it a couple of times.
And for those, like me, that are way out of the loop in the whole situation I found this to be an interesting if long read:

https://www.niemanlab.org/2024/03/this-is-just-weird-buzzfee...
Yeah the useSolder method is pretty straightforward and hasn't changed in quite some time.
Microplastics linked to heart attack, stroke and death
Most perpetrators of political violence are trying to make the news. I’m not claiming that this guy was some sort of killing machine, but I do think you’re carving the joints on these categories too finely.
Shouldn’t a truly black suit, by definition, not reflect any (noticeable) colour in the presence of light? I haven’t really noticed my black suits reflecting green.
I was up cleaning a wasps nest out of our panels yesterday (not because it was affecting the panels, just causing trouble for the people sitting under them). The panels are still working fine but 10 years of accumulation of leaves and organic matter has left them not as shiny as they were.

But if there were any moving parts I couldn't imagine them still being operational after this time.
The geographic distribution of the population affected by lead - it seems clear that car dense populations would be more affected that open sparse rural populations, and so the question of distribution of exposure levels across humans becomes of interest.
> There is, and on the face of it, it seems almost identical to the one I started with. Instead of asking what would the best essay be? I should have asked how do you write essays well? Though these seem only phrasing apart, their answers diverge. The answer to the first question, as we've seen, isn't really about essay writing. The second question forces it to be.

I'm reminded of a philosophy joke:

An angel came down for a meeting of the American Philosophical Association. Greeting the assembled philosophers, the angel offered to answer any single question for them. Immediately the philosophers set to arguing about what they should ask. So the angel said, “Alright, you figure out what you want to ask. I’ll come back tomorrow.” And he left the philosophers to deliberate.

As the philosophers argued about the best question to ask, one philosopher suggested: “What is the best question to ask?”, in the hope that some day another angel might make a similar offer, at which point they could then ask the best question. But this suggestion was rejected by those who feared that no such opportunity would arise and did not want to waste their only question.

Another philosopher suggested asking "What is the answer to the best question we could ask?" Which was roundly criticized because of the possibility that the answer would give no hint to the question it answered. One philosopher cheekily pointed out that the angel might reply "42 of course."

Finally, the philosophers agreed on the following question: “What is the ordered pair whose first member is the best question to ask, and whose second member is the answer to that question?” Satisfied with their decision, the philosophers went to bed.

The next day, they posed their question, and the angel replied: “Of course: it is the ordered pair whose first member is the question you just asked, and whose second member is the answer I am now giving.” And then he disappeared.
Pretty sure you're romanticising the Amish and that they're increasingly reliant on modern society.
For reference, here's all three of those dyes next to each other, on the same wool tapestry [0,1]—and also the black made by mixing them together. Says [2]: "Blue and black are the most stable dyes; the bright blue sky, woven with indigotin-containing dye (probably woad), has barely faded over the centuries. To achieve brown or black, a combination of madder, weld, and an indigotin-containing dye such as woad was used."

[0] https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/467654 ("The Unicorn Surrenders to a Maiden (from the Unicorn Tapestries)")

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unicorn_Tapestries

[2] https://sci-hub.se/10.1086/met.45.41558055 ("Three Fragments of the “Mystic Capture of the Unicorn” Tapestry")

edit: Here's an article [3] about the digitization story of these tapestries (presumably what's used in that hi-res zoomable image in [0]): "“It took us three months of computation,” Gregory said. “We should have just dropped it.”"

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2005/04/11/capturing-the-... ("Capturing the Unicorn")
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I highly recommend not caring about what others value. Unless the only thing you are passionated about is to make $.

Instead notice what makes you excited. And whatever it is do more of it. It doesn’t matter if it is gardening or reading or painting or whatever.

You might be able to start a business focused on what you are excited about or get a job getting paid to do what you love. That’s what I did. I used to be deeply passionated about games development so that made my career choices super easy. However most people are not that lucky.

So focus on what excites you. And if that is not $ valuable then pick a career that minimises your misery and lets you do what you truly care about when not working.

You can’t force yourself to be passionated about things you don’t really care about.
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They're also on relatively long stalks, which makes the shared support not very rigid, and the individual stalks are seemingly random heights, which might desynchronize the effect.
Published source: "Oxygen production from dissociation of Europa’s water-ice surface" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02206-x
I've been working on this: https://github.com/pvik/simple-file-server/releases
My main gripe with this (and guix mentioned in a sibling comment) is lack of macOS support. I believe macOS support is a large part of why Nix is able to become so popular.
Yeah, as an American, I only know one person named John. He happens to be a good friend, but I can’t think of anyone else with that name that I’ve met in recent time. Just because John or Mohammed are very popular names doesn’t mean you’re running into one each time you turn a corner.
I know that the people still trumpeting about the relationship between college degrees and income definitely don't. Ahem, Destiny, ahem, ahem
sure. 'some work' under communism will yield you a bed and and a few bowls of gruel per day.

in the US, there are 'working poor'. under communism, there are 'working poor and starving'.

at the time when skilled blue collar workers in the US had two story houses and multiple cars per family, the same people in the USSR lived in communal apartments (with 3-4 people per room and 3-4 families per bathroom and kitchen) and commuted to work in overcrowded buses.

even towards the end, in the 80's, after several decades of relative peace and prosperity, even engineers and scientists had a standard of living far below the level of 'working poor' in the US. having a small concrete box in a commie block and a shitty car (that you had to wait several years for the privilege of being allowed to buy for a very sizeable amount of money) was the Soviet dream.
I have exited two careers precisely because doing work outside of working hours was considered the norm. (Not so ironically, one of them was teaching.)
There is literally an solar system, galaxy, universe for the taking. We have not even scratched the surface of the resources available to us.
The most direct conclusion is that people didn't really /want/ to have kids, they didn't have a choice or they felt they needed to have large families for other social reasons (like risks of those kids dying, the need for people to take care of you later in life, cultural assumptions).

If you change contraception and push culture a bit, people's revealed preferences are saving money or spending it on themselves over having kids, is all. This seems to basically track across every region.
Models are hard and causation near impossible, but feel pretty safe being on the "arrow of causality pointing from lead to low IQ" rather than the hilarious inverse...
There are a few browser based p2p file sharing tools [1] and a bunch of CLI tools out there as well for the same job.

# Browser Based

1. FilePizza https://file.pizza/

2. SnapDrop https://snapdrop.net/ https://github.com/RobinLinus/snapdrop. A fork PairDrop https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/pairdrop

3. Instant.io https://instant.io/

4. file ai http://fileai.com/

5. Send Anywhere https://send-anywhere.com/

6. Just Beaam it https://www.justbeamit.com/

7. Yt2fb.in https://yt2fb.in/file-transfer/

8. drop.lol https://drop.lol/ https://github.com/mat-sz/filedrop

# CLI

1. croc https://github.com/schollz/croc

2. p2pcopy https://github.com/psantosl/p2pcopy

3. pcp https://github.com/dennis-tra/pcp

4. wormhole-william https://github.com/psanford/wormhole-william

[1]: https://gist.github.com/SMUsamaShah/fd6e275e44009b72f64d0570...
> not authorizing his contributions to be used

Actually, it's a lot more interesting than that. My understanding was that said contributor realized that since Bukkit is GPL, it can't be legally distributed combined with proprietary Mojang code. His takedown notices were based on GPL violation, not just revoking authorization (which he probably can't do with the GPL?)
I had a visual of walls built for the purpose of hanging vertical solar panels. Sure, didn't make much sense but I was just being clear.
For feedback loops, I found study groups to be very very useful in university. Reflecting on high school it seems weird they weren’t used more often.

After trying a problem on your own, taking your results and collaborating with peers is a one of the best ways to learn. Sometimes you have to assume the role of teacher and share your idea, which requires you to really understand it.
Mhm, and I'm sure it has nothing to do with the laws that punish men into oblivion, and deprive them of their own children if they dare to divorce huh?

Unless of course you have a spotless record, your ex is verifiably insane and you are one of maybe 5-10% that can actually afford to double your household expenses for the next decade, then maybe you'll get 50/50, which still puts your kids at a disadvantage.