skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does. But like nettle and bramble, it's pushing out other species.

Bramble, nettle, elderflowers (sambucus) are marvelous and valuable plants. And they have important roles in an ecosystem.

It's just that the extreme nitrogen deposits have severely upset the balance. Maybe it'll settle on another level: nature commonly does that. And we'll then have to live with some species gone. I'm not yet ready to just accept that. Given how easy, technically, it is to prevent and turn it back around.

To put some perspective: the Netherlands emits over four times as much NOX/km2 as the European average. With areas going over 10x the average. That is five times what was deposited around 1900. If you look at some maps with nox deposit, the outlines of the Netherlands are clearly visible: https://nos.nl/collectie/13901/artikel/2436073-het-stikstofp...
Crypto conferences liquidated after Biblical flooding in Dubai
I haven't actually lived in the UK, but from what I've read, the person working there is called a "chemist". However, that's (finally) changing and they're being called a "pharmacist" more and more.

Apparently, the whole thing comes from a century or more ago when you'd go to this "chemist" shop to get anything related to chemicals, whether it was drugs, arsenic (to kill rats, or perhaps your spouse), developing chemicals for your camera film, or petrol for your motorcar. Like so many things, the British simply refused to change when newer, more modern ways came along, and they kept calling this place and person "chemist" even though the person had a degree in Pharmacology.

Maybe one of these days, after they finally all call this place a "pharmacy", the UK will finally have sink faucets which actually mix hot and cold water like every other country on the planet, instead of having separate hot and cold ones.
Performance Benchmarking on GPUs with Theseus – GPU Query Engine for Petabytes
Bronze Age and late Neolithic archeology is the best archeology.

Hidden substructures of our cultures and all that.

A bit of a tangent but this always blew my mind: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/*K%C3%B3ryos
I see we have a Florida voter here.
No, I think it's much more likely that dark matter is just a by-product of some very sloppy spaghetti coding.
There's a big step between big cloud and being your own hosting provider. A more traditional VPS (or dedicated server for larger sites) is more reasonable for most and since you control all the software it should be relatively easy to switch to another prover or move to a completely self hosted setup if you need to / want to.
These happened to me. Its kind of a curse. And with only so much time in the day I can't fix it all.
Yeah bro I never said anyone should be cancelled. I have a problem with people calling the statement "Blacks are stupider than whites" "accurate".
I hope I don't sound rude, but this whole text looks like a procrastination.

The economic scenario isn't good, but you also look very confused.

If you want to get a job in tech, you need to put the effort into it; you seem lost by your interests(games) or side hustles.

Most people really lack focus. They start 10 things and never finish one, and I think you are in this situation because of this.

It's very hard to have the discipline of studying constantly and following up on what you need to do to get what you want (a job in a competitive field without a degree).

If you really want this, you should consider even getting a degree, or do it what it takes, and stop wasting your time with other things or thinking you are some sort of special creature "an obscure fine artist", this looks like storytelling for your procrastination.

Life advice is useless, I bet lots of people have given you advice previously, or you've looked it up before, it isn't possible this is the first time ever anybody is giving you advice to this, the issue is you following up in what people tell you, and also being strategic about it, and taking the time to figure out if that's what you want.

Nowadays there's Youtube and too many gurus to give advice and make people even more confused than they are, back when I started working in Software, there wasn't as many distractions, first you need to fight against them, make your own bed and take care of the tasks you need to take day after day.

Another thing is "Right now, I'm not making much money, and that needs to change relatively soon." -- truth being said, no company or person cares about your needs, politicians and governments will pretend that they do, but ultimately you are responsible for your own well-being.

If you'll need more money soon, you need to start figuring out what to do now. This doesn't mean necessarily you will work in tech, it means you need to figure out how to make money, not follow your "passions" or "interests", those are the things holding you back, it looks like doing anything for you it's a big exploration of your self-being, when in reality in the real world it's about just doing what you have to do.
Update on my post: you need to enable "Screen time" in your phone :-O
I've absolutely no idea about the closure, et al. I also don't flag or downvote anything on HackerNews. But hey, between you and me, I love reading your comment. Thanks.
Are Q-switched / pulsed lasers common in industrial applications?
Ask HN: Is there a way to customize the stories on Hacker News?
I just want to remove stories that link to sites like bloomberg, New York Times, Wired, etc. because they are paywalled/account-walled articles.
Doors. That one is a double whammy, because even if I force myself to unsee that a wing was installed unevenly, eventually gravity itself will remind me, as it will start closing on its own, or stopping at a different angle than other doors in the house, etc.
love all of this drama, which is overblown partially because of the ai craze imho.

the OGs would know when Brownlee would openly criticize Beats headphones before they got acquired by Apple (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsxQxS0AdBY).

although things changed afterwards because of the product quality improved for the money. yet nobody batted an eye back then and Beats only grew bigger.

while i personally think that he has always been soft towards the apple ecosystem, he has been consistent and reviewed things as he would like them.

this entire debate could be summed to him giving his opinion and should be removed from his success.
As much as I agree that people should try to avoid companies with bad ethics, it is not always that simple. I know some junior in tech that need to send 300+ applications for even just an internship and it is not uncommon for even more seasoned people to have to send 100s of applications to just even get a decent number of interviews. It is just hard to get a perfect view of the ethics of these hundred of companies. And if you just do that check at the interview step, which I am sure quite a few people will do, it can be tough to refuse 80% of your interviews because of companies have bad practices, when you struggled badly to land these few interviews.
Not really the same, but a game in kinda similar style is in development by this studio:

https://www.wateredplants.com/
I would say police unions are the most successful. Doctors’ are currently being assailed by much larger counterparties (government, managed care organizations) and utilizing nurse practitioners and physician assistants to reduce their market power, hence more and more doctors becoming W-2 employees.
There are still active forums you know.
1.8% vs 1.5%? I believe a wise man once said that without error bars: "Not only is it not right, it's not even wrong!"

Also, how much of their estimate is based on self-reporting?

Disclaimer: I am very biased against Russia since their crimes in Ukraine, but I still think my questions are valid.
I can see the difference between practical design and bad design. A misaligned button is usually the latter.

Those who just want the thing to work without much regard for the looks of it will tend to use whatever default their UI package comes with, with minimal styling, if at all. It is often not bad in terms of correctness. Defaults may not look great, but they are usually well designed and consistent.

If you have alignment problems, it is often because you tried to do something to the looks, but did it poorly.
Yup. Like are we moving the goalposts as to what racism is. I'm not sure how you could come up with a statement which is more unequivocally racist.

It really is telling that somehow none of these people that care about reasonable debate are criticising the guy saying that implying some racists are stupider than others is "accurate and mild". Apparently, him saying that is fine. But ever suggesting anything is racist is not.

Clearly, the only logical conclusion here is that nobody is allowed to call anything racist. This sounds like something you would only try and enforce if you are invested in more rampant racism.
The part is to be innovative and disruptive. Copying someone’s look is the opposite.
It really is something. 40 FPS on a 4090, damn.
travel amazing, especially during pregnancy
the talk link will appear as soon as Everything Open uploads it
Northwestern Mutual: I’ve been diving into some fascinating research, and let me tell you, the findings are eye-opening! There’s a number that’s making waves when it comes to planning for retirement—$1.46 million – Northwestern Mutual. It seems this hefty sum is what many of us might need to relax and live comfortably in our golden years. This insight comes from Northwestern Mutual’s latest study, which took a deep look into the costs that could affect our future nest eggs, including the ever-persistent rise in the cost of living, healthcare expenses, and expected lifespans.
Earth at risk: An urgent call to end the age of destruction (2024)
> Mathematically speaking, no modern lanaguage is turning-complete because memory size on any machine has a fixed upper-bound.

Many languages have no memory limit. Some do not even have a notion of memory (e.g. lambda calculus). Language implementations on physical machines do suffer from memory limits though.

Meson only allows bounded loops, so technically it's not Turing complete. But the author claims:

> ## Loop over 2^64 elements, this is effectively an infinite loop
This comment is all over the place. Is the market for marble good or bad in this case? Is it producing an efficient outcome? Can it be made to do so? What are the non market solutions? You fault something just because it exist but give no alternative.

Species like Dodo are expected to go extinct as humans flourish and move other things out of our way. All species eventually go extinct. We only exist because we out competed what came before us, which out competed what came before it.

You can mourn the loss of the Dodo not existing in a zoo for you to gawk at but I find that to be on the level of complaining about a TV show being cancelled. If it filled such an essential biological niche that its loss is noticed (it obviously wasn't - hundreds of years went by before anyone noticed it was gone) - if it were noticed, and was such a heavy loss, that's the first niche that will be filled by something else. You can't have Darwinian evolution without this.

The Galapagos Giant Tortoise will never go extinct because the market for protecting and investigating and gawking at them is too strong. If that interest ever wanes the animal will no longer occupy a useful niche and will cease to exist, unless it adapts.
Cosmic Desktop: Hammering Out New Cosmic Features
The issue is people taking “tables are bad for non-tabular layout” and just remembering the first three words. People like stark binary yes/no rules, so “tables are bad” was born and spread widely.

If your layout is intended to be a table, then a table (styled with CSS) is the way to go, otherwise use semantic HTML (styled with CSS) and you will (in theory) have an easier time making the design work well at different sizes/resolutions and in alternate UAs like screen readers.
All of those are manifestations of the same thing: not caring enough.
XAML/Silverlight was pretty fantastic. Significantly more sane layout model (by virtue of having more than a mote of sanity at all). It did handle a very wide gamut of clients during its time.

Why? Because it was designed for creating apps, not documents. HTML is great for creating documents, most of the examples in the post are not documents.
Yup, I"m British and can confirm this was the case and it makes just as much sense as any other categorisation of black. Its almost as if race is a made up social construct. Even within Africa there are many different ethnicities, many of which are not very represented amongst African Americans, which is probably what the majority of people here see as black. That's just a subset of West Africans who are pretty mixed at this point.
> Unfortunately my css seems to break with every other Firefox release.
It almost feels like it's being done intentionally. I recall how after one of the updates the entire contents of my custom userchrome file was automatically bracketed with css equivalent of `if false then`. It could simply be fixed by setting read-only attribute for the file but after some time they started randomly renaming css features without any obvious reason. It's like they are trying to make you to give up on customization and force to use the crappy default ui.
WhatsApp update brings tiny change to design – prompting widespread outrage
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40073039 for a discussion.
You can still simulate it as a whole and have it scale:

- You can simulate whatever is not observed statistically and collapse to a discrete reality only when actually observed

- You can handwave away whatever is outside the observable universe since information (and thus effects) will never reach the observer

- Heck you can even handwave whatever has been observed and over time return to statistics thanks to n-body problem, n>2; it would be somewhat incorrect but no one would be able to check that it is wrong as long as it fits within a lightcone

I think that it's actually more "perfect" than simulating every atom, in the sense that it matches quantum mechanics, foregoing the intuitive model of a fully deterministic Newtonian universe that would need to be simulated "perfectly" everywhere all at once down to Planck scale.
Oh yeah, ignorance is bliss. :)
Up to IE7, non-standard elements couldn't be styled without a shiv.
For me, it's the all-lowercase style of some of the current in-vogue AI leaders like Sam Altman that drives me crazy.

Is your shift key... broken? No? Use it please.
Yup. Thanks for talking sense. There are tons of ethnicities in Africa. Which one exactly is the genetically stupid one?
Possibly, but that's not my suggestion.

A crude--but in this case useful--measure of inflation is just average house cost + average education cost. This is enough to understand the woes of generation Z because education costs and the costs of houses have been increasing by a huge rate and more and more of them require higher education, and then their parents are less and less able to help them with that education due to their own fights with inflation and (in America) that private education becomes more and more necessary.

Their salary to CPI ratio may be better than millenials at the same age, but that just isn't a meaningful indicator of purchasing power for the things they want to buy or for the reality of their financial situation (education debt).
I've also noticed this. On more than one occasion I've been left completely bemused by someone insisting that a teenager couldn't possibly have been seeking out sexual content themselves, and must have been groomed into it by an adult. Sorry, have they met a teenager?
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Interesting evaluation. For large-scale projects, a high-performance runner is essential.
Interesting. And https://www.acs.org/education/policies/acs-approval-program/... also says that chemistry has about equal numbers of men and women graduating.

Other stem fields that pay more, tend to have more men. (I will not speculate about causes. I'm only noticing a correlation.)
If you think back to Descartes and a lot of the philosophy about determinism and free will, they had quite a naive understanding of systems and determinism because their mental model of a complex system was a clockwork watch or a steam engine with lots of gears.

Because their argument was, that if the universe is deterministic everything seems a bit scary because whats going to happen is already 'known' and so we have no free will.

But now we have a better understanding of how mind bogglingly complex deterministic systems can be - broadly this is what Chaos Theory is all about - e.g. sensitive dependence on initial conditions - you can model how a magnetic pendulum moves between three magnets, but the tinyest infinitessimal change in the starting position makes a big difference to the eventual path. And we know that through various fundamental forces, every subatomic particle interacts with every other one in its light cone.

And so if we assume that the universe is deterministic, we can see it would be impossible to build a computer to exploit that determinism and 'calculate ahead' to see what state the universe would be in at some future point. Two main reasons - (a) the computer would inevitably use more atoms than the atoms it was trying to simulate and (b) sensitive dependence on initial conditions.

And so even in a deterministic universe, the future is literally unknowable. So you can think of the universe as a computer that is calculating its own future, one picosecond at a time. We can't jump ahead. (we can, of course, use simplified models to give us good guesses for specific short term situations)

That means determinism is nothing to worry about, in terms of free will. (and anyway, how would the opposite - randomness - be any better for free will?)

(so what is Free Will? Its not really a concept that makes any sense - "I chose to do X but in completely identical conditions I could have been free to choose Y" - how do you even test that? But if you want a colloquial definition: Broadly I'd say we have something that you might choose to call "free will" because what we do next is (usually) proximately determined by processes inside our skulls. And yes, if you want to trace the state of our brains back in time eventually all of it originated from outside our skulls, memories etc, but lets set all that historical complexity aside. What we do next is broadly determined by processes within us. As opposed to a rock rolling down a hill which is just subject to external forces. I think thats the only thing Free Will can really mean)
Hey comics, Thanks for sharing. Here is something I made. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/introducing-web-designers-dev...
This is first thing my parents taught me to make. So when I was a kid and I was hungry I'd make myself some Matzah. Now I am too lazy, so I sometimes buy Matzo. Not quite the same, but it's okay, brings me back to childhood.

I am not Jewish, but I often wonder why my family knew this and other things seemingly from Jewish culture. One of things I couldn't get an answer for.
As other top-level comment indicates, this is debatable: https://github.com/xorvoid/meson-brainfuck/issues/1
Each state is an experiment. The results we all watch with interest.

Florida is Faustian independence.

Let me enjoy my meth in peace
Hmm. The big assumption is that centering is the intended thing and the most desirable thing in all of those examples.
I think the issue that most people have is also that companies expect a certain level of respect and dedication from their employees but are not willing to reciprocate.

Make sure to work as hard as possible for us, pleas work extra hours if the company is doing bad. Don't take your vacations when it might impact team performance badly. If you leave give up a big heads up.

However we'll refuse your raises and bonuses if we feel like it. Also must be willing to move and uproot your whole life with no guarantee we'll keep you for long. We'll fire you one day after telling you your job was safe, and close all your company accounts before you get to save any of your documents or say bye to your colleagues. And remember no complaining after you leave, or we'll get you. Happened to quite a few people I know, not me thankfully.

And just "get an other job if you company sucks" doesn't always work. You might not know that your company sucks until you're out the door, or finding a new job in your field or without moving your whole family might not be easy
Future of Humanity Institute 2005-2024: Final Report [pdf]
"Normally manifestos are written first, and then hopefully stimulate actors to implement their vision. This document is the reverse: an epitaph summarizing what the Future of Humanity Institute was, what we
did and why, what we learned, and what we think comes next.

It can be seen as an oral history of FHI from some of its members. It will not be unbiased, nor complete, but hopefully a useful historical source. I have received input from other people who worked at FHI, but it is my perspective and others would no doubt place somewhat different emphasis on the various strands of FHI work. "
Odd phrase here:

[They had recalcitrant and comatose students, witnessed bullying and homosexuality, and were still subject to the hazardous authority]
Ye Olde Bay Area House Party
> They send out the drones, the Patriot systems shoot their load to get them down, the air defence is defeated and then the hypersonic missiles come in.

Patriot is not used to shoot down drones.

> Why repeat the stupidity, for weapons fetish reasons?

It's a good reminder that Ukraine has no wish for this war.
Is there any empirical evidence to demonstrate that AI can read my mind?
>So, in a weird way, money may very well fix the environment.

But they make that money by first destroying the environment. And there's no guarantee they'll save/invest enough of that money for cleaning up the environment later if all the money goes into the hands of a few super-wealthy individuals/corporations while the state's coffers will still be empty.
While I agree, it usually seems the majority of HN does not, and sees it as promoting the boring corporate web of today instead of the creativity of MySpace/Geocities pages -.- Accessibility is often frowned upon by commenters.
Knocked it out! Nice work!
Do you also boycott farmers for using tractors instead of thousands of laborers?
I’m not sure I understand the bit about cops. I’m interested though, please do tell.
Birmingham's Oracle ERP system still not legally compliant 2 years after rollout
you can have a look at ML, many of my preferred Saas boilerplates and starter kits here: https://microlaunch.net/category/starter-kits
The Youtube/Nebula creator 'Mustard' has been mentioned a few times here already, and rightfully so as their videos have really high production values and obviously plenty of research behind them.

Since I don't see it linked, they also made an excellent video[0] on the real life soviet aircraft mothership Tupolev TB1/TB3 which is mentioned in the OP article.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjCylxs8hZU
But that is the point. CSS arrived, and people started saying you "just need to distinguish beteen the semantics of" a table "and the layout effect". Back then, the chant of the day was, "blood for the blood god, tabular data for the <table> god, layout for the CSS god".

And then it spiraled into general "separation of content and presentation" nonsense that, like in any good cult, people believed with their whole hearts, preached to make new converts, then did the opposite because reality demanded it, and couldn't see the problem. CSS Zen Garden notwithstanding, we ended up with div soups (later, semantic div-equivalent soups) inseparable from complex CSS, because form is function; your content is always designed with a particular form in mind.
There's probably not such a feature now. But if HN could provide such a function, I would wholeheartedly support it.