skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry, but I'm not going to engage in a hypothetical conversation about possibility that unimaginably small gravitational fluctuations affect brain composition to a noticeable degree.
Because that’s the sad reality of the world we live in.

As I approach my late 30s, a constant question in my head is: is this whole sensitivity/cancel culture really a problem, or is it some sort of rite of passage to think things have just gone too far.

I’ve tried adjusting for those variables as much as possible and still think we’ve taken things too far, but alas, it might be by definition that I’m unable to talk myself into a different perspective.
It's on the bucket list. My wife and I keep talking about planning a trip to see them one day.
Sounds like "the semantic web", which has been a great idea just about to take for about 20 years now.
Previously, some were in cars, but others in public transport.
>1 in 6 people think your app is broken

>16% of people have some kind of accessibility requirement

16% is 4 in 25 people, also no guarantee you'll be able to accommodate their specific accessibility requirement, depending on the app, and depending on the requirement.

That's not to say the app shouldn't be accessible, more that, you should think about when you spend the money to implement things like this, and how that money may best be spent to accommodate the highest number of people. Figure out who those people are, then figure out what your revenue growth would be if you captured those people, then compare those numbers to how much you'll have to spend to accommodate their needs. That's no different than any feature upgrade really.

Where you'll likely arrive at is the same place many apps have, unfortunately, arrived at, which is to probably just get text scaling quasi working and leave it at that because anything more is throwing cash into a black hole.
Things to consider when deciding to start building with "AI" in libraries
Yes, it's fat soluble, and you don't lose fat soluble vitamins in urine the same way you do with vitamin C, but that's only a small part of the puzzle.

Questions you should ask:

1. OK, so fat soluble vitamins aren't excreted in the urine. But are there other processes by which the vitamin is consumed? Because if so, you could quickly run short on the vitamin whether or not it's fat soluble. If deficiency of the vitamin is known to be widespread, that's probably a sign that there is some form of consumption process like this.

2. What is the mechanism of toxicity? This matters because if the mechanism of toxicity is different than the normal mechanism of action, the dose you need to reach toxicity could be orders of magnitude higher than the dose you need to reach physiologic activity.

Regarding point 1: Vitamin D is inactivated inside mitochondria.

Regarding point 2: It's hard to get vitamin D toxicity because active vitamin D (calcitriol) is created "on demand" by cellular processes by tapping a much larger reserve of inert substance (calcifediol). Vitamin D supplements increase the amount of inert substance, not the amount of active substance.
>In Economics Do We Know What We're Doing?

Economics is pure research.

If you look away for a minute, or even blink, you might miss something important.

You can't be much of an economist without being immersed in research, so much more than anyone else would think reasonable.

Quoting one of the more mathematically gifted Nobel Prize winners;

“If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?”

- A.Einstein
The image in the parent we were commenting on, and many others I searched for as well. I couldn't find any interface for identifying which resources on the remote sites were of reasonably high resolution that would be useful, and which were not.
I hate to say this at risk of seeming like I'm over-exaggerating but Severance belongs on the list of best TV shows of all time.
They get into it at the beginning, from the second minute. I didn't get much out of it, it's more on a personal level, but the readers here seemed to be insatiable for info when it happened.
WebFinger sounds like it's a cyber proctology exam.
Sure, I even have a similar taxonomy of foods. I think of pizza as high tech good. You need agriculture, all the knowledge of yeast and fermentation you need cow farming, cheese making, meat curing for the toppings etc. You need centuries of knowledge and an entire economy to make pizza. Compare all that to grilling a steak or making a fruit salad.
Were the books excellent? I've heard that the sci-fi concepts are great, but that the writing and/or translation to English are poor. I also wonder if the books fall foul of the same tropes I see in some other Chinese storytelling, where themes are very obviously different to those in non-Chinese media. I love good sci-fi but haven't committed to the books yet because I'm concerned I might be wasting my time. Truly interested in opinions!
I don't see the upside to it. Jobs are not 1:1 with code repositories. Jobs also don't get created/deleted in conjunction with code changes. It doesn't make sense to me to put this information in a repository when we have things like job boards already.
References for the Future of Programming
The accompanying Safari update seems to have re-broken the GitHub IDE as well – trying to select text is "off" by a few lines. This was pretty annoying when it was broken previously and I was glad for the fix in 13 – oh well...
Programmers these days like to overcomplicate things for some reason. I’m as puzzled as you are.
Sounds like this is a "Validate and benchmark your workloads on the latest Supermicro hardware..." test drive/sales pitch.

Vs. "bare metal control over the Supermicro servers in your DC, via logging into your free account here at Supermicro" - which might have some serious security implications.
> For its study, the company used computer vision to analyze nearly 5,000 retail transactions, comparing items the shoppers picked up during their shopping trip with transaction data to see what was actually purchased

Then

> According to Grabango, checkout-free technology powered by computer vision can help eliminate self-checkout shrink by tracking what shoppers pick up and charging them exactly what they owe. The company also stressed that average supermarkets could increase bottom-line profits by more than 50% per year by eliminating partial shrink from self-checkout alone.

First, I don’t trust a company selling something to say they did a study, literally using that product, and the result of the study was to sell you something new. Not only that, but everyone knows computer vision isn’t always perfect, it’s similar to LLM AI in that when it works it’s amazing but it’s hard to get working. For this study it seems like they trusted their CV product to be perfect and compared it to the human scanned item list and assumed that was inaccurate.

This article is literally just an ad, not a reliable source!
Without claiming these issues are solved, I thought the translation and editing improved over the course of the books so it’s less of a slog than you anticipate.
M1 MacBook Air is now available on Walmart.com and stores for $699
Works with bog-standard Apache prefork and PHP.
The third book is incredible. I actually started with that one accidentally but don't regret it at all; it gets more interesting much more quickly than the first book.

It's definitely the case that the characters are just a vehicle for exploring these science fiction concepts, but the ideas are so clever and imaginative that I can forgive it most of the time.
It's a great example of correlation vs causation.

"Processed" or "ultra-processed" foods are often unhealthy, but they're not inherently unhealthy. What matters more than anything is the specific ingredients in them, like how much salt/sugar has been used to alter their taste or keep them preserved.
There are guidelines for how much saturated fat, sugar, and other things to have in your diet per day (on average). These are based on many health studies over time.

I try to stay at or below the numbers on average and I do treat myself sometimes. But, I can't very much because it would lead to overeating things that would drive up my cholesterol and cause other bad things. Have to eat lots of fruit and vegetables.

A problem is that most people eating ultra processed foods blow those category numbers away. I was looking at the label on some food this week. One serving size, which is about half of what an American would usually eat, was over half the saturated fat and sugar someone should have per day. For people who eat processed food for most meals, it's easy to go many times these numbers which has a lot of long term consequences.
EFF replied this in their page: "A forced sale based on objections to content acts as a backdoor attempt to control speech". Saying that it is not a ban is just a way to find an excuse so that the government can accomplish indirectly (forcing the sale so that it tries to get rid of unwanted content) what it cannot do directly (just directly censor the content).
A small base of users at any given time. Almost everyone needs "accessibility" eventually. You will, too, if you're lucky enough to live that long.
As much as I love severance, a show like it will never come to a satisfying ending. Half the appeal is the complete mystery. Any revelation will be absurd and unsatisfying, as nothing coherent could ever explain all the strange things shown in the first season. I think this is how many people felt about lost as well? Seems like there should be a term for this class of storytelling.
"Stripping down has massive 'corner' cases. If you are alone, good luck find one on your back, between ass cheeks and few other places."

Mirrors or camera phones are handy.
I work for an information service that sells subscriptions to academic and other users.

We don't have a legal mandate per se to be accessible but many of our subscribers do have a mandate that services they buy have to be accessible. Many of our customers insist on it because they have a legal mandate to be accessible. The university that we are a part of got sued because it made web sites that were not accessible

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2018/12/10/fifty-college...

and in principle any school could get in trouble for buying products and services that aren't accessible. So it is part of the contracts we sign now, we do accessibility audits regularly to stay ahead of issues, sometimes we have have customers who do their own audits. Thus a11y is a major priority here so I have learned all about ARIA (our app is a great fit) not to mention the real formulas for color spaces, contrast ratios and how to use a screen reader.
Your App is successful because you didn't spend time on useless things like a11y, i18n during the p-m-f stage. If you look at every successful product in history, they didn't focus on a11y or i18n right from the bat.

Now, that it is successful, you can think about it and spend resources.
You could use this in style, and return this image: https://www.safetysign.com/products/9050/get-off-my-lawn-sig...
> Plus, its not that hard to do correctly, so the “we’re a startup on a critical burn rate” stops working as an excuse rather early

It's not a question of it being too hard or easy, but as always, a question of priorities.

Say you can either build feature A which is expected to open up the product to be used by 1% more users, as people been asking for that feature. Or you can build feature B, which enables motionsick people to use your app without getting sick from your wasteful animations. This will help 0.001% of your current users, when you have 10,000 users in total lets say.

Not saying it's right or wrong, but I understand why people (managers/owners) make the choice to do feature A instead of feature B, especially in a startup-context where it might be the (imaginary or not) choice between surviving or not.

I'm personally in the camp of thinking about accessibility as part of all the work done, but it's not exactly the mainstream workflow.
I am a few minutes late to meetings probably once a month because Zoom forces as an update right as I'm logging into a meeting.
In my mind, the "Right Thing to Do" would be to follow the precident established by OpenPGP's `.well-known` email-hashing in Web Key Directory (not the prefix of course, and barring technical arguments justifying deviation, which may be considered on merit).

> https://example.org/.well-known/openpgpkey/hu/XXXX

> SHA-1 hashed and z-Base-32 encoded [to distinguish it from a fingerprint]

> The local part is always lower-cased before the encoding. [...] A common example for case-insensitivity are visiting cards which capitalize the canonical lowercase mail address for easier reading.

https://wiki.gnupg.org/EasyGpg2016/PubkeyDistributionConcept
Absolutely underrated.
> A better analogy is to say that BMW has a monopoly on making BMWs

BMW is a trademark. You can't take a Kia and put a BMW badge on it. You can, in principle, make an exact replica of a particular BMW model and put your own badge on it, and in that sense BMW doesn't have a monopoly on "BMWs" except insofar as some of the parts may be patented or (for the software) copyrighted. But that isn't an analogy, it's the original thing.

Notice what happens when you take the original thing (intellectual property) out of the equation, your statement becomes "Bayer has a monopoly on aspirin", which they don't, because the Aspirin trademark became generic and it's not under patent.
there's plenty of this for JS too and somehow it's much much better at that... I wonder what the difference is, JS is more logical?
I didn't like the book, would I enjoy the movie. I did learn many of my issues with the book are related to the translation, but it's mostly the weird particles that made it feel off to me.
> I guarantee the industrial-food-complex is paying scientists to identify potential benefits of ultra-processed food.

I just don't think that this particular mode of "money corrupts science" is happening much. I mean the kind of thing where a big industry facing an image problem would say: Hey, let's bribe some scientists to do bogus studies, and use the "findings" as ammo in a public relations war.

Maybe that kind of thing was happening when the tobacco industry was lobbying against regulation. But nowadays, I'm having a hard time believing that. Because, nowadays, science is the weakest it's ever been in history (going back, maybe to the middle ages, where it might have been even worse), as a method of actually changing minds. So public relations wars would be fought differently, in a way that didn't involve science much.

Second, I think it doesn't jibe with the personality structures of most scientists, as far as their motivations go. They've already decided for themselves that money is not all that high on their hierarchy of motivations, otherwise they wouldn't be scientists.

What I think is happening instead is that money is an instrument that corrupts science in a direction of confirmation bias.

Essentially you have to ask yourself: What happens if scientist X tells us about their research on YouTube? Would that person be able to build a successful following? -- Even if that scientist despises YouTube, there is a ton of institutional pressure on scientists these days to communicate their work publicly, so to a first approximation, thinking of the "YouTube court of public opinion on science" to decide a scientists' career fate, is an approximation that's not too far off the mark.

"Ultra-processed foods are bad for you" is currently very much the way the wind is blowing. Any scientist who claimed otherwise would be seriously sticking their necks out with regard to the institutional context they're embedded in. Any scientist who goes an YouTube and tells people "my research shows that ultra-processed foods are bad for you and, oh by the way, here is a food product I really recommend" can become world-famous and rich. You do the math.
Time to get a real job bro.
Some opinions are that it might not really be possible at all because many of the more accessible critical resources have been depleted and the harder to access ones are too difficult to harness without significant technology already.
I loved/hated the books. I made it through the first two, and I loved parts about them, but I couldn't get myself emotionally invested in the characters enough to drag myself through the third. Maybe something was lost in translation. There are some great plot twists that I really enjoyed.

I'm hoping the series goes through the third book, because based on my reading of the plot summary that's where things get really crazy.
I follow this as part of my role and the number of lawsuits has been increasing steadily over the years. Last year was 4,600 (for websites/apps) in the US. So might not feel a lot but of course the bigger your app is the bigger the target.
Isn’t the issue made worse by the fact that Vitamin D absorption is way lower if not in conjunction with Vitamin K? Or is this a myth?
>Some examples of content that require disclosure include: [...] Generating realistic scenes: Showing a realistic depiction of fictional major events, like a tornado moving toward a real town.

This sounds like every thumbnail on youtube these days. It's good that this is not limited to AI, but it also means this will be a nightmare to police.
I'm in the same boat as you and have decided to focus on vacuum infused resins for my production process. I don't plan on high volume and although the article states that composites use more energy than steel I have a hard time believing it.

I decided on this process becuase I can pair almost any material with the resin. I can also select resin for particular properties.
Well the ocean was filled with free floating ammonites, so maybe food wasn't an issue. Another commenter suggests a volcanic winter to lower the sea temps enough for the seals to cross.
Agree that Node is easier than SpringBoot, But
Writing a simple app is easy.
Not so for transactional app that needs to scale and be reliable and be fast.
Add to it:
docker
Kubernetes
Provisioning on cloud
Log collection
Observability
....... and much more

You need a team of several engineers ?
SQLGlot brands itself as an sql optimizer also: https://github.com/tobymao/sqlglot?tab=readme-ov-file#sql-op... but I haven't tried that aspect of it personally
Which was probably written (even if not by the legal team, but someone they consulted) with an eye towards keeping more data than legitimate interest allows under GDPR.
Richard Stallman.
For me, I have a cheap cloud server that handles multiple low-traffic personal websites, side projects, etc. Each project has a different tech stack and it can be months or years before I circle back to one to bring it up to date. I don't want to wrestle with making sure that I have the right versions of php and apache for my ubuntu. Having them all as docker containers makes it a lot easier, and a lot easier to move to new servers, too.
How does the writing compare to The Martian, if you have read it? Objectively, The Martian (and Artemis, and perhaps to a lesser extent Project Hail Mary) are not particularly great prose, but I felt this was more than made up for in story content. I'm similarly concerned about this with 3BP though because of what I've heard of it, the translation, and the tendency of media from that part of the world to have significantly different values to me that I find hard to connect to.
> lack of story was clearly just one of many huge problems

this wasn't THE problem? it seemed to go really well before they ran out
All my cats, dogs, horses & chickens have all been drinking rain & groundwater.

They've never died of any infectious disease, nor needed treatment.
> What is the real liability for a scenario like this?

In the EU:

As of 28 June 2025, companies must ensure that the newly marketed products and services covered by the Act are accessible. Member States may decide to make some exceptions. For instance, they can allow more time for the application of the new rules to service providers using self-service terminals. Microenterprises (i.e., a small business with fewer than 10 employees) which provide services also are exempted from the obligations of the Act. Nevertheless, all microenterprises are encouraged to make their products and services accessible to persons with disabilities.

https://ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?catId=1202&intPageId=55...
I was kinda shocked at how bad the UI framework broke down when the text size increased. I always thought iOS widgets seduced developers at the expense of users but here is the proof.
Until you're disabled.
First of all I agree that it's no big deal. But it's also a nice convenience feature; I'm pretty happy that my computer works for me automatically.

Then to reply to your points. I don't use a VPN, but I regularly travel between south-western Europe and north-eastern Europe. The timezone is CET everywhere, but the actual solar time differs by about 2 hours. It may be a niche case for you, but can't I enjoy that it just works (for now)?

(Reasonable people may also disagree that traveling with your laptop with night colors is an "extremely obscure use case". It's a builtin feature on KDE. The night time also depends on the latitude which is not something captured by the timezone)
Consider the goal of these things. It's not to be scientific. It's to lead people make healthier choices and to lead decision makes to guide for healthier outcomes. Most people don't read labels. They don't even read articles. They see headlines.

"Ultra processed" is headline friendly and can steer people away from things.

This is health marketing for the masses.
I'll use your comment, which I agree with, to spring board into deeper thoughts I have about frequency since I love to think about this kind of stuff.

There are frequencies within frequencies. For example, yes you eat every day, but how often do you eat healthy? How frequently are your meals junk? How frequently do you eat fish or red meat? How frequently do you eat foods high in fiber? How frequently do you eat sugar? I think it is useful to consider the fractal nature of frequency in this way. Repeated activities "break down" into smaller frequencies and "add up" into larger frequencies. (Consider how this relates to cheat days in diet plans).

There are also coincidences, and I mean that in the sense that some frequencies overlap. Consider eating, you can combine that with meeting friends. It's like a two-for-one activity - you satisfy both habits simultaneously. How often do you eat, how often do you meet friends, how often do you eat with friends?

The above ideas mean that even simple foundational activities are rich with possibility.
The opposite of that actually. Nobody is going to bother with websites if it's just data that gets slurped up by AI and fed back to people, it's a lot of work for no payout. People who make websites are going to make them interactive multimedia experiences that pull you away from the chatbot to feel something. The New York Times the information dump has no future, the New York Times the interactive multimedia social game and event hub with emotionally stirring stories, pictures and video can survive.
As a person who uses accessibility features on his devices, this attitude is why we depend on regulation to ensure that we (disabled people) can do stuff. No company implements accessibility features out of the kindness of their heart.
I don't think they really need to try to explain everything. The HBO show The Leftovers never really spent much time explaining the central mystery and (IMHO) was better for it.
Yeah, every time I've attempted to read these the translated prose is really tough to enjoy.