skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People generally see work because they need money, and meanwhile a business is one of the biggest money sinks when starting out. I don't really understand why people suggest this as general advice. If you're not already extremely experienced and established in your field, or if you don't have years of savings to live off, I can't imagine starting a business impromptu going well. You need a plan.
Is there a "Deobfuscated" code?
Consider yourself lucky.

I've wasted at least a full work week's time figuring out whether speaker/keyboard/suspend/lid/forcepad/stylus/overheating/GPU/scaling/dock/HID audio/application problems in my Z13 Gen 1 were caused by Lenovo, one of Lenovo's partners, the Linux kernel, Fedora, Wayland + GNOME, or just cosmic radiation.
Most of it isn't even made to improve human life, it was just a matter of time until people wake up they're getting a downgraded experience to please shareholders and business owners.
Having types in Gradle by using the Kotlin DSL, with IntelliJ auto-complete, solves ~80% of that pain.
Assuming that's correct about 5-10 years (though honestly I doubt it takes that long). The question is - why do you assume that after 10 years gas suddenly stops heating atmosphere? Gas will stay there for the practical purpose "forever", enough to heat atmosphere for thousands of years.
I was surprised by how complete some sets of mine where when they came over. I don't doubt the 99%, although in my case they are not mine any longer as such, but my five year old son's.

Lego stashes do indeed get hoarded for a generation at a time; a lot of it is kept as valuable for the next generation (lucky bastards).
Same, tho it'd be interesting to see if this behavior holds if the file ends without a trailing newline and your match is on the final newline-less line.
This barrista asked me "what kind of milk do you want? " I told her "I want oat milk, the creamy nature reminds me of you.. " LOL. Then she banned me. WTF?
Long-term leisure computer use 'linked to increased erectile dysfunction risk'
> I agree, though in practice with many Rust programs that iteration cycle is actually not "edit, compile, run", it's "edit, save, wait for rust-analyzer to update" which is generally much quicker (even if it is sometimes still a little slow).

This is one area that I think Dart did a good job on. They support both a JIT (I am not sure if it’s tiered) and AOT modes of compiling, the JIT targeted for development and AOT for production. This is the ultimate extreme of optimizing for both use cases, obviously it’s a ton of work, but I would love more languages to be like this. (I believe the JIT mode works directly on the source so there isn't an intermediate compilation step like Java, but it’s been a few years since I’ve used Dart)

[1]: https://dart.dev/overview#native-platform
You remind me of https://xkcd.com/592/

For every point, you have to take a subjective decision that is in no way trivial.

1) Additionally to what happens today now you need to compare patents (how would you increase the cap for non obvious if you can't say A is more non obvious than B)

2) Additionally to what happens today now you need to decide if something was possible 9 years ago. Our search tools are not that great at "present me the image of 9 years ago" and even then not everything is public, etc.

3) Additionally to what happens today now you will have same patent applied to multiple domains with small variations.

4) Yet another process, which now happens in court if someone thinks the patent must be defended (a granted patent does not mean it can not be later invalidated)

5) How do you decide very clearly first ? No improvement versus today.

I do agree with you though that the current system is not ideal. But a simple change like reduce to 10 years the duration might be the best next step (and while I like 5 years idea, making big jumps has more chance of push-backs from invested actors)
Is it the greatest day or the worst day (or both at the same time) of humanity when CRISPR is invented ?
Late-stage capitalism nightmare examples:

* Inequality in societies is as large as ever, and inequality is one of the main predcitors how happy a society is

* Influence of people and corporations with money on politics and society is unprecedented (i.e. lobbyism)

* In the US, but also in many Western European "developed" countries, basic human rights like education, health, housing and food are fucked by capitalism

PG is putting a big emphasis on getting rich and building your own company. Better advice for 14-year-olds would be, just off the top of my head:

* Money is important, but it's not the most important thing

* You are not your job or your company. Find something interesting to work for, but don't define yourself over it

* Participating democray is important: Fight for a more equal society and help make your community better

* Don't focus your education on one hard skill like computer science. Learn about arts, literature, philosophy and all other things that interest you
There are other things that are contributing to society that are not paying taxes.
There is no ongoing pandemic. There is now an endemic virus that's part of the regular rotation of pathogens that cause colds and flu, and covid doesn't seem particularly more dangerous than the rest (NB: influenza can be very nasty too! I'm not minimizing the harm of covid).

The pandemic was a unique situation because the entire world population was immuno-naive to covid. This is no longer the case; we all get exposed dozens of times per year and keep our natural immunity up.
Not quite, there are standards for this behaviour (formal and de jure).
Any promo codeS?
I just hope they upgrade their 1992 speakers to something useable.
So maybe that's why magicians are so good at illusion: as we think about what we expect to see, we don't process information of our eyes correctly...
I didn't say you can't have a responsive site with JavaScript, I said that you can have one with plain HTML. HN may use JS for a few things (upvotes?), but it's mostly full page reloads including for loading threads and posting comments.
Josef H. Reichholf, a German evolutionary biologist, writes that the first grain cultivations were not as nutritious and productive as they are today. His thesis is that grains were first used in fermentation – not for food, but alcohol consumption, along with other drug substances like poppy, betel nut, coca and others. Then, storage of these (luxury) goods reduced mobility of hunters and gatherers, which led them to settle down (still eating mostly a hunter and gatherer diet).

His book "Warum die Menschen sesshaft wurden" is summarized in https://oe1.orf.at/artikel/213690/Warum-die-Menschen-sesshaf...

For a scientific journal reference, see "The role of cult and feasting in the emergence of Neolithic communities. New evidence from Göbekli Tepe, south-eastern Turkey", Antiquity (2012), https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00047840
I'm glad to see someone else that has stumbled over his content. Seconding the recommendation.
The List of Companies That Stopped or Still Working in Russia
Example? I meant under 8080. Seems to have sector size using x86?
> Patents worked fine 100 years ago, when there were fewer of them.

I don't think it's about the number of patents. In the distant past, patents were intended to allow individual inventors to monetize their invention for some time by selling licenses to companies.

Today, patents are mostly used as a weapon in corporate warfare and by patent trolls to extort money from companies, both a complete perversion of the original idea.

Not sure if it is possible to return to (and enforce) this original intent of protecting the individual inventor, but if not we should just get rid of the whole broken patent system in general.
Most people are rich because they were born rich. Very few millionaires and billionaires were middle-class or poor and then started a company to get rich. And even those had an unfair advantage (e.g., born at the right time, at the right place, have the "right" genetic makeup, etc.).

There's another comment here that links to staticstics regarding this topic here somewhere
What about doing the opposite: get an image and stimulate the brain to perceive it ?
I looked him [0] up. They were trying deflation because they'd tried inflation in the 1920s and that, spectacularly, didn't work. The issue at the time seems to have been that old favourite; the Treaty of Versailles. Germany at the time was under what was described as a "Carthaginian peace" by Keynes who took the opinion that it was trying to destroy Germany's economy.

Given that the German economy then failed; I don't think that is necessarily a reasonable example of failed internal policy. It would be reasonable to interpret it as a society burdened with too many debts to foreign powers with no way to recover.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Br%C3%BCning
I'm not that cynical, and I do think that a lot of tech has done good things for people. Even something like Facebook was useful at the beginning, even if that is obviously no longer the case.
Oh, and stop leaving the EQ/optimization to drivers or Dolby Access. Those don't make it into Linux.
Such a Californian, colloquial tale.

I'd had never seen an avocado in any grocery story growing up, never tasted it until I visited California.

Is this "changing the world"?

Well I suppose it could be, after all myriads of people have never used or even heard of slack.
> The vast majority won't and don't know people who commit suicide,

That part I seriously doubt. I personally know of 2 suicides in the last 20 years. Not people that were close in any way, but people I had met. (Like the brother of the best friend of my wife or a classmate of my daughter.) One more accident where suicide is suspected to be the real reason by many. There are probably not many Finns with no relative who died from the consequences of alcoholism.

I would claim everybody should know someone suffering/having suffered from depression or other mental health problems.

And I have witnessed one suicide, which was not a pleasant view (that might be more of bad luck, probably fewer people have)
It's not possible at our current levels of understanding. Forget about AI, and step it back to things we've been collectively trying to understand for hundreds of years:

Dominant models of economics don't work, we don't understand consciousness, or understand human motivations with much clarity (e.g. what causes people to become entrepreneurs).

AI would be built on models, yet how do we model the complex biologically-derived survival instincts and biases that have evolved in us over hundreds of years? It has to be impossible unless the AI has a biological component as models aren't reality. Yet our emotions are the underlying - often subconscious - drivers of our actions.

Even your phrasing. There is no "median human", and how could there be? To calculate a median relies on variables, yet the number of variables is practically infinite leading to different "medians" depending on the input variables.

Toning down expectations - e.g. to avoid aiming for capability "in all tasks" - is likely to lead to great benefits, but without a biological component I just can't imagine AI ever reaching the levels you mention. It currently can't "learn", only infer, combine, replicate and predict patterns.

In general, for the last 200 years we've thrown out the importance of consciousness hoping to find mechanical explanations for the universe and complex phenomena such as financial markets and economics. But those models just don't work. Fortunately progress is being made with studies into biases, e.g. behavioural finance & economics. Yet their potential for leading to prediction is still questionable, at both individiual and group levels.

So I think the goal of non-biological AI is fundamentally impossible since it's based on a flawed premise of mechanical humans interacting in a mechanical universe.
I ferment a lot, and know of only a few dangers: some rare fruits or veggies can produce toxins when fermenting, but non that I can easily buy in a European market. Spices and some herbs can be dangerous too, but the quantities needed for toxin levels that pose a danger, are insane.

Fungi are more dangerous. If something starts growing hair, it's out.

Dairy fermentation is more dangerous ¹, and quite hard, so I avoid that.

Alcohol is obviously a toxin too, and rather common in fermentation ;)

In nearly all cases, I'll trust one of the best fine tuned measurement devices to protect humans from toxins: my taste and nose.

(Q: how do you know the milk is beyond it's expiry date? A: Smell it! Far more reliable than a date printed on some package)

¹https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6356804/

Edit: another thing to be careful with, are kernels, pits, seeds and peels. Peels can often contain lots of sprayed on chemicals that will probably kill your fermenting bacteria. Pits and kernels can contain insane amounts of toxins that we usually won't eat because they are enclosed. But crushing/long fermenting might release them
That's the most likely explanation. Companies don't want to go through a whole hiring process just to have a candidate laugh at the offer. Whether or not companies have any sort of formal don't hire in CA or NY policy, I see a lot of non-SV companies informally pulling back from CA--closing offices and the like.
Software engineering at the CTO level, sure. Coding? It’s looking like the chess versus go of jobs.

My bartender and ski instructors’ careers are secure. My friend whose ten year old stayed indoors for a few years to play around on REPL, less surely.
> PFAS are a special set of surfactants because, being perfluorinated, evolution is unlikely to have endowed us with effective ways to neutralize them.

I mean...maybe? That's a huge statement without any evidence. There are tons of other organic fluorines in common use, so while I'm not rushing out to bathe in firefighting foam, if I got hit with some while escaping a burning building, I'd be OK with it.

> I think our (the anti PFAS crowd) concern stems from being able to identify many chemical pathways that can make these very dangerous and therefore believe that they should be proven safe by studies

That's not how empiricism works. You can't prove that something has no bad effects. That's called "proving a negative", and it's an infinitely high bar. Remember: millions of people die from dihydrogen monoxide exposure every year! We must ban it until proven safe!

Also, this:

> stems from being able to identify many chemical pathways that can make these very dangerous

...is pseudoscience. Everything is resting on the "can make" part of that sentence. There are so many "chemical pathways" (most of which we know nothing about) that any claim about a particular chemical triggering a particular pathway to negative human outcome absolutely must be backed by solid empirical evidence, and not just speculation or theory.

See also: "the dose makes the poison." Even completely innocuous -- or beneficial! -- chemicals are harmful if you consume too much of them. There are "chemical pathways" that can absolutely kill you if you take too much Tylenol, or drink too much alcohol, or eat grapefruit when taking certain statins, or a large number of other innocent things.

My current summary of the state of evidence around PFAS is that there's a constellation of weak/bad studies suggesting that the water-soluble variants might have bad effects in some animals. Bioaccumulation clearly occurs, and therefore caution is warranted (particular with certain manufacturing processes or pollution), but the people who are extending that to egg pans and sandwich wrappers are way out over their skis.
The problem is we were being very stupid about fascist regimes for a very long time in the West - the peace dividend of the end of the Cold War was treated as permanent even as we watched states like Russia and China become more and more authoritarian again.

Basically the belief that "economic ties would supercede ideology or meglomania". I suspect if Europe had taken a stronger line on Russia and the strategic threat it represented, then they'd have a stronger launch market since "we'll just buy a Russian launch" wouldn't be treated as a serious option (i.e. even the US was treating this as an option for manned spaceflight, and ULA using old Russian engines on their rockets without a home-grown option till Falcon 9 is ridiculous).
The original use of "disrupt" was in the sense of, we're going to disrupt these porky record labels and rotten taxi medallion cartels. This got a bad reputation for two reasons.

The first is that the industries being disrupted were the bad guys, but that doesn't mean they liked it. And because they were the bad guys, they couldn't just come out and say "Uber sucks because we don't like having competition". So what they do instead is turn over every rock looking for something to blame them for in the hopes they can get the government to thrash them hard enough to make the market uncompetitive again. Which, of course, damages those companies' reputations, as was the intention.

The second is that a lot of the companies that used to go on about disrupting things are now the incumbents in need of being disrupted, e.g. mobile app stores and big social networks. People look at them as the bad guys because they are, but the problem there is not that disruption is bad, it's that the gander should get what came to the goose.
Ireland gambles on China's big tech billions
Paywall-free: https://archive.is/ozkrJ
High fat and protein is keto right? What's so dangerous?
As with everything else unknown, no one knows yet.

Remember that only 100 years ago you could die from an infection.
Hi, PocketBase author here.

Keep in mind that PocketBase do a lot more than just executing a raw DB query. We perform data validation, normalization, serialization, enriching, auto fail-retry to handle additional SQLITE_BUSY errors, etc. All of this comes with some cost and will always have an effect when doing microbenchmarks like this.

The performance would also depend on what version of PocketBase did you try (before or after v0.10), whether you used CGO or the pure Go driver, etc.

For a benchmark closer to "real world" scenarios tested on various servers you can check the results from https://github.com/pocketbase/benchmarks.

There is definitely room for improvements (I haven't done any detailed profiling yet) but the current performance is "good enough" for the purposes the applications PocketBase is intended for (I've shared some numbers regarding a PocketBase app on production in https://github.com/pocketbase/pocketbase/discussions/4254).

Hope the above helps.
I’m not sure I understand why editing an html template requires to recompile the rust project. I implemented a static site generator in rust for my own projects, html templates are simple liquid template files, it’s instant to recompile them. Same for stylesheets. Is the author generating the html from rust directly? If yes that sounds like a painful strategy
Then it works as intended, the pharma company at first enjoys a cheap patent, but gatekeeping the drug for years, until way after the r&d costs are recouped from sales, becomes prohibitively expensive.

If the drug doesn't sell a lot and is never profitable, then the patent gets dropped earlier to avoid sinking more costs.

If the drug cures cancer and makes millions, the company can easily recoup its cost up until the upkeep is too much, at which point surely it would be better for society that the drug be open for everyone?

Pharma companies are massively profitable, the argument of "think of the poor pharma companies doing r&d and their costs uwu" isn't really valid.
Why did this get flagged? It contains interesting quotes from ex-googlers and covers a relevant topic. Are we really going to try and bury this blatant attempt to push a particular agenda using AI?
I have tried quite a lot of alternative discord clients, my favorite is still Abaddon[0]. It works great, and its UI is fonctionnal enough for my needs.

[0] https://github.com/uowuo/abaddon
Humans (since Erectus) _can't_ eat more. We don't have a big enough ingestion system for that. Our guts are tiny compared to other great apes. We're completely unable to survive on what chimpanzees eat, not to mention gorillas.
The fire/cooked food hypothesis (and now this speculative one about fermented food) is that it made it possible to greatly reduce the guts, as well as chewing muscles. More calories and better nutrients (both cooking and fermentation greatly improves the nutritional value of many foods), and less need of energy for guts is what's supposed to be the driver here (and seafood has also been mentioned as a possible source of important amino acids which is necessary for brain development)
Thanks, this is the link I've been looking for with regards to this thread.
I thought you'd be linking to 793

https://xkcd.com/793/
You don't need to have 'greek' yogurt for this. What folks call 'greek' yogurt is really just strained yogurt (you can do this yourself with regular, plain yogurt). Any yogurt with the live bacteria in it will do.
Those kinds of benefits is what allows Europe to attract talent from across the world. I have lost count of the number of times I’ve heard people who have moved here (northern Europe) say that they couldn’t dream of having kids anywhere else.

It’s not like Europe is ever going to compete with USA or China when it comes to throwing a ridiculous amount of money at you as long as you work 24/7, 365 days a year. Or would you prefer that Europe entered this game and pushed work conditions to even tougher standards?

.. no, so it’s better that Europe tries to compete on other qualities. We might not get the same kind of talent as USA, maybe not the most extremely driven ones, but I still see plenty of very talented people coming here every year.

Europe still has many world class industries doing just fine. Most notably these days is Airbus, which seems to have benefited from a lack of relaxed regulations and hard work culture.
The official spec is a combination of hundreds of tiny specs and extensions, akin to XMPP. There may be one single reference, but it's constantly evolving.

> It is a very simple format.

In a best case scenario, sure. The Discord version of your example would just be "Hello, world" without any of the other JSON.

In practice, you need to deal with a whole range of message types with various references and slight variations. Inner Matrix message bodies are essentially freeform, which makes Matrix quite powerful but also difficult to deal with compared to the "different HTTP endpoint per request type" approach Discord takes.

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

Sure, if you accept having your users install two different apps, one for encrypted chat and one for group chats.
No billionaire made the world a better place.