skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forking and typosquatting. If, for example, Google is famous for HIRING.md and someone squats The username Goog1e with their own nefarious HIRING.md, it seems like a great vector for phishing.

Hiring scams are increasingly common since the pandemic, as far as I can personally gather from linkedin.
I am so old that for many years I only had Z80, Timex 2068 BASIC and whatever came on magazine listings as software, besides pirated games.

Know why double deck tape recorders are usefull, what a tape and a pencil have in common, why rotary phones had long cables,....
Psychological Reactance to AntiPiracy Messages Explained by Gender and Attitudes
This directly addresses one of the core gripes about Rust - long compile times.
Very nice to see efforts to address exactly that.

Would be quite interested to learn how this was achieved.
https://laterdu.de
Very cool!

He just needs to write a book on obscure cartoon history, and I'll be shoe-in. Until then I think I will just have to deal with living in envy.
+100...I love driving and will miss it with autonomous cars but I like being able to ride my bike without being nearly killed in the city every week. Autonomous cars (assuming they're trained to deal with bikes) would be a massive benefit I'm keeping my fingers crossed for.
Taking up land is an externality, it’s not something that can be solved with a supply/demand curve. So, we tax it to encourage efficiency since our usual method if encouraging efficiency doesn’t work.
I get my teeth cleaned every 3 months because I've had trouble with lichen planus. Costs me $270/yr, including the cost of dental insurance. 19000/270 is 70 years. I think I'll stick with going to the dentist more often.
Airflow drastically alters cooling.
Implementing Vertical Form Controls
>"Schwartz is an actor."

Such a beautiful, subtle pun.
Optimizing the Particle Life: From 400 to 4M particles
Gaza Strip: Acute Food Insecurity Situation for 15 February - 15 March 2024
I don’t get it, eventually you have to pay back the loan and pay the capital gains tax, so what? People do what you suggest and there isn’t anything wrong with it, they still pay same taxes eventually.
That customer support looked like an automated AI response..
But I’m not surprised of the scale, years ago same thing happened with AWS cloud XY service, and you would find the token literally in plaintext in millions of smartphones apps.
Typst 0.11
And today we have US and UK regular garden hose threads: same TPI, same diameter, slightly different thread pitch. You can turn the former about 1.5 turns onto the latter before it jams up.

Standards!
I was diagnosed with low serum levels of vitamin D so I take daily supplements. The general guidance for my condition is 1000 IU daily.

At one point in time, I discovered I had been taking 5000 IU/day instead of 1000 IU/day for about 180 days because of the bottles being identical except for the dosage printed in Flyspeck Times Roman 4pt. Fortunately, I alerted my doctor and a followup blood test confirmed I was still in normal range. Scary to think how that could have been a much more serious problem if I were more sensitive.
Because inclusion on the NIH website, in the same general format as peer-reviewed articles are given, can give it the aura of being promoted or at least vetted by NIH, even with the disclaimer.

If you look through Snopes there are tons of examples of hoaxes and false gossip that end up spreading because they are found on an "official" website (or official-looking website), even if that official website is just a library where anyone can publish.
> I can't believe Lyft would loose money by continuing to support Minneapolis, passing on this per mile/per minute floor to the new cost to the consumer

I can. They have to pay for when the drivers are earning revenue as well as not. At the same time, support the local infrastructure running a ride-hailing service requires (e.g. government relations, customer service, et cetera).

Minneapolis and St. Paul are not super wealthy cities.
Human proinsulin production in the milk of transgenic cattle
For most day-to-day things you don't need to cycle longer than 15 minutes in most bike friendly cities. In addition to recommendation by others I would also add that for journeys significantly longer than 15 Minutes you can take public transport for part of it.
Yeah but it's more time when you're older instead of right now /s
In case you're interested in finding out the exact age of your Microsoft account: A few years ago I opened a support ticket with Microsoft about how old my account was and they were able to tell me the date my account was created. In my case, it was 22nd June 1998.
The villages and areas outside of Chandigarh had active guerilla conflicts in the 1987-1995 time period.

When my parents were growing up in Chandigarh back then, there were soldiers at checkpoints at every block and the law and order situation outside of the city was horrible, and bus massacres were very common, for example at this village in the outskirts of Mohali [0][1] (there are way too many to count so I won't even try on here)

There was no point rebuilding after the fire when guerilla warfare was happening 1-2 miles away.

It was dark times and my parents are definetly messed up from that experience.

I recommend watching the art film "Chauthi Koot" to get a feel of those times [2]

[0] - https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/cover-story/story/1987073...

[1] - https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/04/world/44-slain-in-sikh-hi...

[2] - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=n8CBqMc-Kbw
Isn’t that why you’re also suppose to take K2 with Vit D?
"Isn't palatable" isn't the same as "isn't drinkable".
I see a lot of these types of tools, each with some essential support, but usually they don't work. I would appreciate what is support what is not.

Tried this tool:
go run gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate@v0.1-beta.2

select TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'month') from dual

-- TRANSLATION ERROR at +1:8: unsupported date format: "month" rule="replace trunc() by date_trunc()"
select DATE_TRUNC('month', LOCALTIMESTAMP)exit status 1

Also, at least, it would set the latest git tag, currently command from Readme.md doesn't work:

go run gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate@latest

go: gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate@latest: module gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate@latest found (v0.0.0), but does not contain package gitlab.com/dalibo/transqlate

latest should point to v0.1-beta.2
By favor I simply mean the property tax level required to support a trillion dollar defense + VA + courts + police etc budget is larger than the current property tax rate. And without that type of spending owning the deed to some property would be pointless.

Obviously we could lower defense spending but that's a separate question than simply the justification for property taxes.
He is also saying that animals are fine. Animals are not fine. Many animals that consume water out of the river only live for five years or so. Diseases still get them.
Sweet. What is the concordance with cologuard and this blood test?
The Rise of the Super Console
The right bank is going to be really overcrowded this spring, for sure. Left bank have wider roads and less bikes, but right bank is insane.

It's now up to the point that i rather wait for commute hours to be over before i take my bike to that side.
Yea, the dosage and labeling for sure needs work. I see 2000 IU doses regularly sold in stores and the bottle says you can take 2/day. Obviously no doctor would recommend that for anyone not sick. I also get regular blood tests since, I'd guess most people using supplements do not.
Nah based off this comment and your previous one, you're choosing to be bitter and critical. It's not the content of your argument but how you're saying it.
US cities should probably first start focusing on pedestrians.
ftp.funet.fi still exists, by the way :) Downloading a Linux distro or something from funet used to be a common way to measure your connection speed in Finland because you could be pretty damn sure the other end isn't going to be a bottleneck!
Call me a cynic (many have, especially on this topic) but I can't help but think that the majority of what AI will "successfully" replace in terms of craftsmanship is going to be stuff that would've never been produced the "correct" way if you will. It's going to be code created for and to suit the interests of the business major class. Just like AI art isn't really suitable for anything above hobby fun stuff like generating your D&D character's avatar, or product packaging stock photo junk or header images for LinkedIn blog posts. Anything that's actually important is going to still need to be designed, and that goes for creative work like design, and proper code-work for development too, IMO.

Like sure, these AI's can generate code that works. Can they generate replacement code when you need to change how something works? Can they troubleshoot code that isn't doing what it's meant to? And if you can generate the code you want but then need to tweak it after to suit your purpose, is that... really that much faster than just writing the thing in your style, in a way you understand, that you can then change later as required?

I dunno. I've played with these tools and they're neat, and I think they can be good for learning a new language or framework, but once I'm actually ready to build something, I don't see myself starting with AI generation for any substantial part of it.
> does not follow that economists should take the place of politicians

It's basically settled science that economies with independent central banks outperform those with politcally-captured ones.
OK, fair enough. pg's point still stands I think - I believe that most users have zero idea what that popup is and don't bother doing anything but clicking on it immediately even if they do have some idea.
I'm in a Paris suburb. Lots of e-bikes and lots of electric scooters.
Hahaha.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39734943
The threat of deprivation if people don't do labor is omnipresent. If Hunter gatherers didn't gather berries and hunt for food, they faced starvation. At this point, the definition of coercion has been expanded such that humanity's very existence is inherently coercive.
I went to the American History Museum for the Smithsonian a few years ago, and they had a floating exhibit about the history of the refrigerator.

For reasons I don't really understand myself, I sort of became transfixed on it. I became fascinated with how recently we have been able to preserve food, and how quickly the fridge just became "boring" and cheap. 200 years ago, a real, working mini fridge could probably be sold for basically any amount of money, but today you can get a cheap one for basically any college dorm for like $50.
> applying intention to evolution is a bad habit

I think it boils down to the directionality of time. let me explain

applying intention to evolution does mean re-imagining what may have happened, but I put that it's an extremely natural thing to do. when I reimagine some historical sequence of events as if it had intention I am making it easier to remember for me.

but this is only realistic in retrospective. this whole argument is also applicable to conpiranoic thinking.

what one does in a conspiracy mindset is exactly to attribute agency and intention into events; this is very easily done in retrospect, when we know what the outcome actually was. doing this for future events is difficult and always comes with a risk of guessing wrong (this is why I say this has got to do with time-directionality: looking backwards into the past in contrast with guessing the future)

but does this even mean that historical people (the participants of the historical events) knew what would happen in the end? maybe or maybe not. that is not the point. I'm saying that projecting non-existing agency into historical evens is a memorization technique

this all becomes really funky whenever anybody assumes the memorization technique (what I say/do to remember) is the same thing as that which I'm actually remembering
not sure about the title, but i guarantee that usage has exploded. It's really obvious (and starts to become a problem in certain areas).
Guitar strings
> They have to pay for when the drivers are earning revenue as well as not.

Where are you getting this from?

"The ordinance requires rideshare companies to pay drivers a wage of at least $1.40 per mile, and 51-cents per minute on rides to, from, and through city limits."

I see nothing about paying them when they aren't earning.
Sustained or multicore clock speeds cannot really go up. But it's easier to force a single core to go up to 6Ghz for 30s or so, which is really what this is talking about.
Leptos Islands – 0.5 and Beyond
I’m in favor of cycling infrastructure in the US, but it’s important to remember that the latitude of the Netherlands (like most of the European cycling cities) is north of the entire continental US.

I’m in decent shape, but will sweat at a resting heart rate in a Southern US summer.
Quilt is building AI assistants for solutions teams
Solutions professionals are the unsung heroes of the B2B sales organization and yet they are consistently under-resourced and overlooked. TL;DR; Quilt is changing that with AI and saving SEs a ton of time on tasks that weigh them down.
Shouldn't encrypting all databased records be the only sane, safe and legal solution with decryption key sent to local (to the website owner) law enforcement when site owners aren't responsive?

Not saying you should do that given the current state of the laws.
> Many are using bicycles not by choice but because they're broke. And it shows when you see the kind of bicycle they ride.

I'd be careful to assume people's social/financial status based on the bicycle they ride. Where I'm from, you get the cheapest bike possible not because you cannot afford something else, but because eventually it'll get vandalized or stolen, so if you only spent 20 EUR on the bike, it won't hurt as much to replace it with another 20 EUR bike.
Nowadays you can design closed-loop system if there is not enough water. It's more expensive, of course.
I mostly marvel at how cheap/non repairable/made to break things are these days. Most of new items seem necessarily complex and solve tasks which are becoming more and more meaningless

Although I do marvel at some items, especially the ones we've been used mostly unchanged for centuries: opinel knife, cork bottle opener, moka pots, a good wooden chair, willow weaved baskets
What AI Safety Should Be
> kind of obvious that if you build out dedicated bike lanes, cyclists are more likely to prefer them to alternate routes.

That's not obvious at all; it's not even true. It's not uncommon in US cities to install long, wide bike lanes on major roads which see close to 0 daily users. Significant problems include:

- complete lack of physical barriers between cars and bikes

- bike lanes terminating at dangerous roads

- density is still low and there are dangerous parking lots at every destination

- bike lanes are exposed to direct sunlight in 100F+

- a non-trivial number of American drivers need extremely little push to intentionally hurt or kill bibcyclists
Probably lost in translation, should have phrased differently. A <something> Valhalla is seen as an alternative phrasing to <something> paradise but probably does not translate well into English and might be a specific cultural thing (and not even Nordic in use, since I'm talking about the Netherlands). It has a bit more "promised land" tone than paradise without the baggage of a large faith behind it.
Except the electorate is comprised overwhelmingly of people who aren't ride share drivers. They could easily be passing laws opposed by the majority of drivers because it's supported mostly by people who aren't ride share drivers.
Exactly! Anything that has two types, colors, hardness' of plastic is made this way. Also things like screwdrivers are plastic oveplded onto metal.
Visual Editor for Document Templates
What is the best solution for creating document templates, best with a with an web-based visual editor which can be integrated into the application in order to generate PDF documents based on the document templates?
> but it looks like bullshit to me.

Can't it be used for things like smart power meters, water supply, or myriad other non-mobile 'smart things' or even that is tall order considering their capabilities?
There is a famous music producer that I follow and he once said something that I think applies to everyone trying to be successful in any industry.

He said he knows people who are more talented than he is, but they tried to be successful from their keyboard alone, and he became wildly successful because he hates sitting behind his computer all day. Early in his career he was out at clubs meeting people, which led to volunteering in recording studios, which taught him a solid foundation, which led to getting hired for larger gigs, concerts, and then music festivals, a Las Vegas residency, etc. Like you said, he persistently rolled the dice on as many game boards as he could find and his number eventually came up.

Now, another person could have done all of the same things and not been as successful, and those are the two different sides of making your own luck I suppose -- even in making your own luck, there is an element of luck.
> shoes and pants get dirty from the road

Most bikes sold in the US are historically not sold or marketed for transportation, they’re aimed at fitness/sport users. So they don’t come with fenders that would keep your pants clean, and racks you could put your bag on.

To keep from getting sweaty you’ll need to intentionally ride slower, again US bikes are not designed for this. The classic Dutch bike has a much more relaxed and comfortable posture that helps remind you not to work too hard.
Yeah, all the time. Most recently I was marvelling at the new tethered lid on a bottle of fizzy drink. They'd designed it so that as you unscrew the cap, it twists enough free material to form a hinge and then it has a little lip that catches to hold the lid fully open. When screwed back down it takes up no more space than the previous, untethered design.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cpfdhKLW3A

(I apologise for the big jazz.)
> Vitamin D is a steroid hormone, in the same category as sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone, and glucocorticoids like the stress hormone cortisol. Steroid hormones are all made from cholesterol, and looking at their molecular structures, you can see the similarities

Does it matter that 2 different things have a similar molecular structure? Surely a tiny little difference can have a huge difference in how a substance interacts with our body?
Nothing prevents adding adds, trackers and dark patterns in a static website, I would assume most of it is served by 3rd party servers that handle the dynamic widgets. Isn’t that easy to insert in an otherwise the static site?

To be clear, not saying this is a good thing, just don’t see what prevents avoiding much of the bloat on top of that which supposedly adds “business value”.
> It's not the content of your argument but how you're saying it.

Sounds quite bitter to me.
This is coming up on 20 years old soon. Maybe add [2006] to the title :D

https://web.archive.org/web/20060315081659/http://www.ex-par...
Optimal Implementations of 8B/10B Encoders and Decoders for AMD FPGAs
WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport
Agreed. I use LLMs quite extensively and the amount of production code I ship from an LLM is next to zero.

I even wrote a majority of my codebase in Python despite not knowing Python precisely because I would get the best recommendations from LLMs. As a frontend developer, with no experience in backend engineering in the last decade, and no Python experience, building an app where almost every function has gone through an LLM at some point, for almost 8 months — I would be extremely surprised if some of the code it generated landed in production.
It is so incredibly cool that solar flares can leave a radioactive signature in tree rings. Like that sounds like it should be fake - corroborating it with written accounts must've been such a mind blowing process.

This also reminds me of the national parks up in NorCal that have cross sections of tree trunks that show which rings of the tree correspond with significant historical events. It's great perspective to see that a tree was halfway through it's life when the magna carta was written.
The oldest one I'm aware of that still exists and that I can still log into is my ICQ account (from 1997). My Slashdot account is still active (1997 or 1998).
I believe I have a Hotmail account from around 1997/8 which I still use indirectly for some services although I never read my mail there and Microsoft cleared out all my old mail automatically so I can't see when it first started.

My first order from Amazon was in 2001, not sure what date they started in the UK, but I seem to remember that was fairly typical for my friendship group. I knew some of the UK guys at EBay who I used to work with from around 1998, but I never use my account there and I don't think it's quite that old. I feel like I joined HN around 2006.

I do have some PHPBB site logins from the late 90s as well I guess, which I can probably still connect to!
People got by using non-English languages in the 1980s when most computers only used ASCII due to their US/UK origins. Many languages already had such substitutions established, for example in German umlauts can be replaced with a following e, which were sometimes used on signs using block letters where there was no space for umlauts.
Seven Bridge Problem: How an Urban Puzzle Inspired a New Field of Mathematics
The NYT Connections benchmark sounds interesting, are the results available online?
How can they deduce human population from global CO2 levels? Humans are far from being the dominant form of biomass, even when accounting for oxygen-breathing biomass only.

Edit: The real paper says "Reconciling ice core CO2 and land-use change following New World-Old World contact". Journalists doing the journalism thing again.
The issue isn't cookies vs. no cookies; it's tracking cookies vs. other cookies. Session cookies in and of themselves do not require consent.
This was written and posted by the person who did a hostile takeover of Freenode.
Yes, and that 'movement' went absolutely nowhere bill-wise. For the longest time in the US, the proponent of a ban was the DJT administration, which saw it as a threat to their election chances.

Suddenly Congress' 500+ members come together like a bipartisan Voltron to draft, vote and pass a bill about Tiktok, matching the speed and urgency of military aid bills for foreign countries? When there is a much more domestically significant border security bill that's been stuck for months, in an election year?

It doesn't add up. Congress can make a case for the military aid, it hasn't made one for TT.
Terlingua nearby is a vibe too. Sadly I do fear a spill over from Marfa might ruin Alpine.
> The threat of deprivation if people don't do labor is omnipresent. If Hunter gatherers didn't gather berries and hunt for food, they faced starvation.

I didn't say it wasn't. But don't you realize the different social dynamic here from being a hunter gatherer? Uber and Lyft were exploiting that for their own gain, and ran away from the corrective action because they think they have the power to bully it away to maintain their gain at the level of which they've become accustomed.

> At this point, the definition of coercion has been expanded such that humanity's very existence is inherently coercive.

Only if you miss the point.
I use the Firefox extension Consent-o-matic which clicks those quickly away - rejecting what can be rejected. Or you see popups about other things than cookies?