skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I know enough about optimization problems for what I need, but GNSS seems like a step up. I guess my though is that optimization clearly works fine within a single constellation because all of your information is definitely good, but across constellations are you guaranteed that they will necessarily agree? Or maybe more concretely - are my position and time in a theoretical "perfect" fix the same on GPS vs Galileo vs GLONASS etc exactly the same?If not, is splitting the difference closer to ground truth? I think that depends on what reference datums they use, and they're not the same [0].

Regarding the political aspect - you're right, and it's easy to forget about. I could say something cynical about that but I'll leave it.

[0] https://gssc.esa.int/navipedia/index.php/Reference_Frames_in...
that patriotism cant fix a dying system?
I thought this was AI generated too, but then looking at their comment history, they claim to be from Ethopia at least twice, the most recent time 8 months ago.
I really wish people wouldn't use AI-generated images for blog posts, it's so distracting! I clicked the link wanting to read the article, but instead spent several minutes looking at the image to find errors: what's shown on the screen (apparently it's "Jot Commeditin") looks like something between a hex dump, git blame, and occult incantations written in a long-forgotten alphabet. Probably you need a keyboard like the one on the desk (with keys arranged in a fractal pattern) to write something like that. And a mouse with a cable going nowhere...
> These people literally come to the event to learn about new things, and even they are gagging on this stuff.

I remember the reactions on /r/technology when the iPhone or the iPad were announced. I remember the reactions when the M1 processor came out. Just like this audience, lots of people who subscribe to this stuff nominally care about new technology. But the truth is that where I religiously chant "We're ARSENAL, ARSENAL FC, we're by far the greatest team the world has ever seen" they chant something else.

These reactions are meaningless. "The iPAD?! It's four iPhones stuck together HAHAHAHA and named after a MENSTRUAL PAD HAHAHA this is going to flop".

The difference is that Arsenal will only fail to win the Champion's League once every year. These guys die a thousand deaths every day they see new technology.
As I understand it (and I would like to know if this is wrong). Carbon dioxide emissions take 5-10 years for their heating impact to work through into warming.

So even if we could get to net zero today we'd still be in for 5-10 years of worsening impacts.

And we're not even talking about getting to net zero today. Even in the UK where we've exported and reduced emissions a long way net zero by 2035 is seen as a wildly optimistic scenario.

So it seems to me inevitable that we're going to need to do geoengineering. We mustn't let this delay emission reduction but I think at this point we should get to where we're going asap so we can research it properly.
How? Please tell us as we desperately need an answer. They just go and infect every company. It is still generally considered an achievement to get a business degree from an elite school in some circles so the pipeline is not going away either.
space race for happiness?
Entropy-Based Strategies for Multi-Bracket Pools
> The primary benefit of the rust compiler, at least from my point of view, is telling me what's wrong, where.

Incredible! Rust developers have invented "IDEs"!
cm and square miles in the same sentence

You're half-way there, keep it up !
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I would rather keep my 2 hour lunch and 3 months of vacation, anyway, thanks
It must have been something that predates arable farming (sowing seeds on acres), just timeline wise humanity spread before farming became a thing.

On the other hand I don't think that this must be a one-factor kind of a game changer thing. I could totally think that two to three changes occured in the food chain (meat, starches, food preservation, improved social skills), that combined amplified each other's effect and lead to the development.
I nearly poisoned myself making kombucha at home, despite careful sanitizing and careful monitoring of pH and temperature. As a result I'm really not fond of casual recommendations to brew kombucha. Seems easy to mess up.
Is it USB-C fault in general or a peculiarity of the Dell? I'd be rather pissed if that happened to any laptop and wonder what the precautions should be.
What’s PEM?
It's beer, isn't? Completely makes sense...

If they find evidence that the next step was caffeine, I have no more questions...
I declare that I patented human breathing. Every human who is breathing is to pay me the, really very cheap, fee of 1 cent per day. O there is a tax? So now I only get half a cent per day per living being.
Are you a lawyer? Are you willing to assume the liability I may incur if I follow your advice? Or are you at least a business owner/manager who's had to deal with this crap?

Or are you in the peanut gallery willing to believe that there is some conspiracy where all websites have suddenly decided to obliterate their user's UX when GDPR appeared just because they are evil?

I live in the EU and I can tell you: ALL banners/popups are obnoxious. They ALL get in my way when I want to do something entirely different. As a (non ad/user-tracking) business I would never afflict them on my users if I had a choice.

The productivity loss here in EU since the GDPR would be staggering - if there was much productivity to begin with, of course.
I really don’t want Cloudflare to take over even more of the web
I have to use a Mac for work.

I'm fine not being subjected to MacOS in my spare time.
https://archive.is/VRaEO (doesn't have full article)
You try to avoid oxidised UFAs and you get oxidised cholesterol instead [0], which is at least as bad and probably worse [1].

[0] https://sci-hub.se/https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/jf97...

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mnfr.200500063
It seems to work perfectly fine for me. What kind of issues do you have with it?
well kimchi and kombucha for breakfast
It's the other way around here. I always run a different platform at home to work. It's part of keeping sane in this industry.

Then again the latest macOS broke me completely. But it's not like Microsoft haven't done that several times...
I remember Steve Jobs being heavily mocked at the time of the iPad release. So this maybe isn’t as new as the author claims.
And look at Google Search now, it's become dogshit. Sure, it took 20 years, but still.
After a quick look at their ToS I too do not see a clear mention.

In a previous HN discussion from September 2021:

> [zorkian] It's still against the TOS -- my point is only that we don't specifically look for third party client users and we have no specific plans to do so.

[Note zorkian’s HN profile: “VP, Core Tech @ Discord. Opinions are my own and I do not speak for my employer (unless noted explicitly.)”]

> [tumult] Just curious -- where in the TOS are third party clients forbidden? I've read it a few times, and I'm not seeing it.

> [dge2020] Probably:

> You agree not to (and not to attempt to) (i) use the Service for any use or purpose other than as expressly permitted by these Terms;(ii) copy, adapt, modify, prepare derivative works based upon, distribute, license, sell, transfer, publicly display, publicly perform, transmit, stream, broadcast, attempt to discover any source code, reverse engineer, decompile, disassemble, or otherwise exploit the Service or any portion of the Service, except as expressly permitted in these Terms;

> It's a catch-all but the best restriction that prevents third-party clients is probably 'prepare derivative works based on' and 'reverse engineer' (which you would need if you want your third party client to use any regular client API calls, or if you want to support signing in with the user-facing login page/qr login).

> [tumult] A third party client like Ripcord isn't a derivative work. It also wasn't made by reverse engineering any of Discord's code. Even if it were, these rules still wouldn't apply to using third party clients.

So it seems that, as you note, the ToS do not explicitly mention third-party clients but Discord themselves believe that it forbids third-party clients.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28435490
>https://archive.is/VRaEO

that doesn't work? I only see half a page there.
You’re a front end developer but you don’t need to make small tweaks all the time? “At the end of addressing all of the obvious errors, I have something that works.” is irrelevant to large swaths of front end code, which is basically always in a “working” state (displays something without error), but needs to be continuously expanded and refined.

TFA talks about reload times of 20-30s before their optimization, on a powerful computer. It’s certainly not “a few seconds” especially for people on less powerful hardware. That’s a ridiculous wait time for, say, tweaking a CSS class.

I find this comment highly suspect.
Or we could just abolish the concept of patents entirely. All they do is stifle progress so that somebody can make money at an unfair advantage to everyone else.
Amazon.com/s?k=camm+memory

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Sounds pointless.
I can't pinpoint exactly when it happened, but in the last decade or so, the message coming from the tech industry has been less "technology will improve your life and help you be a better human being" and more "technology will replace you as a human being and make you obsolete."

I think this is a big, big mistake and a large reason why AI specifically and the tech industry in general is being perceived negatively. SV seems less interested in making "cyborgs" that enhance human abilities, and more interested in godlike AIs that aren't human at all.
I remember the reactions when the first M1 macbook actually landed in people's hands and honestly can't remember a single one which wasn't at least 'well I'll be damned this is actually ok' - and the great majority was 'this is a revolutionary device'.

This kinda never happens in football, sorry ^_^
Unpaywalled reporting from a more international perspective at https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/mar/20/young-people... .

There are several front-page stories about youth happiness on the guardian today.

This struck me:

"""

It was the hush that worried the US’s top doctor as he toured the country’s university campuses last year.

Dr Vivek Murthy went to places including Duke, University of Texas and Arizona State, but so many youngsters were plugged into earphones and gazing into laptops and phones that it was incredibly quiet in the communal areas. Where was the loud chatter Murthy remembered from his college days?

"""

from https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/mar/20/vivek-murthy-u...
Interesting, the Eve example. Are the higher-in-command in the root/parent rooms and then it's hierarchial down the line? Or can you just listen in on certain rooms as well as whatever you are talking about on?

Never got big into Ventrilo back in the day.
> I'm not sure that sounds like food...

A lot of things don't when you describe them in such detailed, clinical ways.

You can also buy (just like you can with quality olive oils) cold pressed canola which is manufactured simply by crushing the seed. The seed oil folks would have it that this is no better, AFAICT.
I think it's a bit of both. The USB-C connector design isn't great. And some vendors have worse connector shells then others. Dell and Lenovo seem to have terrible ones. I haven't had any problem with Apple USB-C connectors or anything on Anker or Google Pixel devices.

I really wish they did design USB-C in a way like lightning. It was very difficult to screw up a lightning port unless you were really determined. At most the connector blade would snap off in the device thus breaking the cheap end of the connector, not the expensive end.
Ideally OEMs are best able to provide parts and service. The problem is too many have abused their position to restrict consumer choice. As long as parts and manuals are available to the user I've no problem with choice. The free market keeps everyone honest.

The problem is we have too many captured markets. I have a furnace yet as a user I'm not even allowed to see the manual. The HVAC people lobbied the EPA to make it hard for anyone but them to work on furnaces.
That is one of the most "arrogant asshole" comments I've seen here on HN.
The list…

World’s 20 Happiest Countries In 2024:

Finland

Denmark

Iceland

Sweden

Israel

Netherlands

Norway

Luxembourg

Switzerland

Australia

New Zealand

Costa Rica

Kuwait

Austria

Canada

Belgium

Ireland

Czechia

Lithuania

United Kingdom
This. We know for a fact that there's a huge gap in PPP between licensed and unlicensed sets.
Unfortunately, without this distinction, the data is basically worthless.
Fermented meat would be a combination of both interpretations.. (sausages etc)
> Point four applies to the US and EU: While Ariane Space is private, the money comes from the EU and the partner countries (mainly Germany and France). Engineers did not design Ariane 6; it was created by politicians who squabbled about where which part would be developed and manufactured. There were two competing plans, one driven by Germany and one by France, based on which country would benefit more. I'm unsure about ULA, but at least SLS had the same problem.

This isn't surprising, considering that Ariane Space is fullfilling the role that NASA internal rocket development has in the US.

What Europe lacks is an investment culture, both from governments and private investors. Sums it up pretty much.
I'm not sure if you're familiar with front-end developer tooling or the development process, but my editor will not tell me what error a browser is going to throw.
Same news from CNN:

https://edition.cnn.com/travel/worlds-happiest-countries-202...

1. Finland

2. Denmark

3. Iceland

4. Sweden

5. Israel

6. Netherlands

7. Norway

8. Luxembourg

9. Switzerland

10. Australia

11. New Zealand

12. Costa Rica

13. Kuwait

14. Austria

15. Canada

16. Belgium

17. Ireland

18. Czechia

19. Lithuania

20. United Kingdom
> "I actually think that AI fundamentally makes us more human"

Whether you are excited by AI or not that phase is just cringe BS and deserves all the booing, so maybe the crowd wasn't "booing ai" but just booing the crappy presentation full of corp speak.
Also Polish. I always found it ugly though and I use the "English" one (which often annoyed my Polish teachers).
LPDDR will never come in SODIMM. Hardly pointless.
I'm just waiting to eat a donut and an exercise pill for a hearty breakfast.

more seriously, I don't do high-impact running, but I love minimalist (but not weird) zero drop shoes (merell/xero). I love being able to walk and be closer to grasping the ground instead of pounding it.
Sequentially incrementing serial numbers used as a login credential... That's a junior dev mistake, and a very very easy mistake to catch. Doesn't inspire a lot of confidence.
More discussion here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39755758
Btw ws4sqlite rewrite in rust that's allegedly faster: https://github.com/proofrock/sqliterg
Work backwards: which companies do you want to work at? Where are they located? And do they have connections to the local universities?

These universities are all more-or-less on the same level, reputation-wise, so it's not like you'll lose out significantly by picking one over another. (As would be the case if you were comparing Stanford to a random state school.)
I'm early, so to say, in biochemistry, but could any of this relate to the level "below" neurons - to ion channels?
Ha yes that is a diplomatic way to put it. To the commenter's point though, I too question some of the defaults. mold does seem to be objectively better than the default linker. Stripping debuginfo does seem like it would have been a better default, which is why it was made so recently! Pipelined compilation also falls into this latter category, so perhaps because there is (understandably) just a delay until adoption to stable Rust.

I know you mean it as a figure of speech, but I would consider the complexity (and build time) distribution for Rust to be heavy-tailed and skewed right, more so than a flattened normal.
Abolish software and "business-method" patents.

Until that's done, patent "reform" is a sham.
Anything will blow off the charts if you have the wrong scale.

Not saying this isn't bad, its just such a silly headline.
Maybe what you are saying is that you want to use the proof assistant like a computer algebra system. You apply correct transformations, and so you are at the same time proving and exploring.

I would agree that this aspect is underdeveloped in proof assistants. At the root of it is that people believe that logic is different from algebra, while it really isn't.
Counter anecdote for neutrality, I brew Kombucha and have done for a few years, worst I've done is make vinegar, YMMV
Consider making an Obsidian[^1] plugin, or writing to Obsidian-compatible Markdown files :)

I use Obsidian + Rollover Todos[^2] plugin with Cmd+Enter set to cycle through checkbox states for todos.

[^1]: https://obsidian.md/

[^2]: https://github.com/lumoe/obsidian-rollover-daily-todos
Because it would add multiple dollars to the BoM.
In certain countries like India and Sri Lanka, fermented rice and lentil cakes (Idli) are extremely popular too as a healthy vegetarian option that is good for the gut.
Yeah not sure I understand the entire idea behind correctly.

To stick with other primates for now. Gorilla's have an obscene amount of muscles; adults need 8000 calories per day, compared to 2000-3000 calories for an adult human.

Somewhere, even though they eat low bioavailable food, even though they had to eat all day the heave muscle guys & girls had better chances of survival. Why do we think the brain's need are more special then a feature like muscles? Am I missing something here?

There is a decent amount of unfermented and uncooked food with lots of nutritional value a smarter brain can find, mainly meats (fatty parts especially) & nuts (if you are smart enough to open them), that would relatively on parr with the Gorilla way.

I'm sure as soon as tools, fire etc, became part of human culture it became even easier for those with more intelligence to became favorable. But that also needed to be in line with the development of more complicated social structures, either genetically or culturally.
There are barely any breaking changes, I could still run a graphical application written by a prof in early 2000s, served on his website as a jar. No other language comes remotely as close to this level of stability.

As for the changes in 8->9, there was a stagnation period in the last year of Sun, and many people overfitted their libs to 8, by e.g. making use of internal APIs made accessible through reflection. This was never a good idea, and all that is happening now is that you have to explicitly state at invocation what kinds of non-future-proof modules you make use of, so that you are made aware of what could potentially change, plus it disincentivizes libraries from accessing these non-public APIs.
The swappable ports are my single favourite thing about the framework. I love them. I, personally, still use a microsd card reader all the time, and having one just there, not sticking out, is really useful.

I no longer need to carry a hub or dongle or whatever when I take my laptop places. Just a power adapter (though tbf I wouldn't even need that if Framework had figured out battery life better).

Though as much as I like upgradability, I'm not sure it will make financial sense to upgrade instead of buy a new machine.
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Probably security vulnerabilities necessitating a change in the driver model.
It's both extremely sci-fi and incredibly terrifying that one of the steps for a cure is to quote unquote kill all living bone marrow. Modern medicine is fascinating in how advanced it can be.
Yup. Over the last 10-15 years the innovation in tech has gone from cool tech that serves users, that improves lives, to instead legal engineering, user hostile tech and behaviour that milks users for every last drop of revenue.

AI might be a cool tech that can serve to make the lives of actual humans better, but it might require breaking up big tech and fostering customer centric competition to realise any benefits to society at large.
I too believe my long covid symptoms were an autoimmune issue. Read my HN post from 2021 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26350951#26355878
Otherwise known as - people will follow incentives. Trying to change behaviour by moralizing while keeping incentives in place that reward people who dont do the thing you want, is a fool's errand.
Brand partnerships are a part price multiplier
Precisely what happened to me. Doctor botched the disgnosis, my department in local government did everything in their power to push me out immediately upon sharing an honest assesment of how I was feeling, asserting that I was voluntarily resigning rather than genuinely ill - which came across as retaliation for some of them having to return to the office in my stead, as prior to catching covid-19 and suffering the above effects I had been the sole volunteer to work from the office and liase with the public on everyone elses behalf. There wasn’t much if any info about ling covid at the time, and HR ignored emails sent over the next year as I tried to apologize for my illness and communicate what it clearly turned out to be.

Completely healthy now, but passed over after every first interview no matter what I do or do not share about what lead me to leave the previous role. If you had to leave work, do you have any suggestions as to how I may come accross as employable again?
> Matrix has a billion different standards

There is one specification, available on the official site. It isn't, and never will be, required to implement all of it.

> a complex message format

It is a very simple format. Here's an example message (as sent by a client; additional fields are added by the server, such as server-side timestamp):

{
"content": {
"body": "Hello, world.",
"msgtype": "m.text"
},
"type": "m.room.message",
}

> and encryption to deal with

This is also optional. If you want to talk in unencrypted public rooms, for example, you needn't bother with it.

The spec is so simple that you can send a Matrix message from a shell with curl. It's just JSON over HTTP.
Technics is badass though. Still remember my set.
Gotcha, I respect that. With a few privacy-minded devs like you, I have offered them a custom compiler toolchain (and happy to make the source available) that they can "self-host". If you are interested in trying it out, I'd be happy to get you set up.
I just wait for them to explain their problem. If they don't, guess it wasn't that important...
JavaScript errors only occur at runtime. It's very common, especially in legacy codebases, for issues to just fly under the radar, even if they are obvious to the seasoned dev. There is a reason why one of the most popular JS books is called 'Javascript: the good parts'.

With rust, it's very refreshing in that it's idiot proof, which JavaScript is not.
CSS is not relevant, since it is not actual programming.
This is a democratic worry: unhappy people are pliable people and are more likely to vote for demagogues, demagogues who are more a wrecking ball than a manager of state.
The paper addresses that, the tl;dr is that there is no evidence for hunting from this time period and that scavenging wouldn't have provided enough meat to make a substantial difference.

It's of course entirely possible that both fermented foods and a meat diet were pivotal, just at very different time periods and in different contexts.