skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
[0]Barbra Streisand
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Another one of those things that as soon as you start throwing legal threats around it get much much more interesting.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VQdVA2hjsA
Sure it can - there's a ton of red tape and regulations around childcare. Whether that's good or not is up to the parent, I guess.

When we were children child care was getting dropped off at a neighborhood lady's house who either didn't work or worked part time at off hours. Often time trading days or just paying a nominal amount.
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Don't make it sound like a zero-sum game, because it is not. They don't have to drop any of the support they provide for other languages right now.

In fact, they don't even have to do that much for Swift. They don't have to develop neither the language nor the compiler.

They need to do similar to what The Browser Company did, exposing and allowing usage of their APIs from Swift, and maintain it as their API evolves.

If The Browser Company could afford it, while developing the browser, Google and Microsoft can afford it as well.
Code uses much more punctuation than prose, and punctuation is hard to discern in a proportional font.
Gitea Cloud – New European Region, Add-On Packs for Storage, Unlimited Traffic
In your vscode settings, there is checklist options you can use to enable/disable browsers that you want to check compatibility for.
Federal taxes aren't about funding spending, no matter how much politicians and pundits say otherwise. State and local budgets are different, but since the federal government literally prints its own money, its budget isn't limited by how much they take in from taxes. Inflation is the real limit.

Taxing the ultra rich makes sense to me with the aim of preventing concentration of wealth though.
It was more than 5 years ago and was not a direct commitment. Another company was being used for their data centers, and this was a lease/rental agreement of equipment; Think colocation model, but where you're like 50-80% of being the main client of the data centers.

Add 10-25% profit for that company to get closer to true "raw transit" pricing from the carriers directly.
It's about destroying monopoly power. If you allow an entity to reach this size there's no incentive for it to follow the rules. Getting the executives would be a nice bonus, but I'm not going to stand ceremoniously when there's more important structural changes to be made.
You want a shareholder lawsuit? That's how you get a shareholder lawsuit.
If we both went into a time machine, and had to make the choice, I think both of us would still end up drinking the small-beer over even the most pristine local water.

But regardless, this is still not a strong argument that we need to "debunk" the history as the original author is trying to do. We have written primary sources from the dawn of writing until the modern temperance movements in the 1800s that all basically say the same thing - humans in any agricultural society ended up supplying the majority of their hydration from prepared sources of water. Access to clean water was about bathing, preparing food or drink, and the occasional drink of water.

Regardless of how safe their water was or was not to drink, medieval people still ended up drinking small-beer a majority of the time if they could help it.
Show HN: Browse the Internet in Any Language
TL;DR – Babelfish translates your queries to any language and translates the results back to your original language.

Hey HN!

I was in Mexico City last week and had to deal with some road closures, but couldn't find any news on them in English. After coming back, I threw this project together.

The functionality is pretty simple: it translates your query to a given language, searches the web using the Google programmable search engine API, and then translates the results back to your original language.

It's been pretty fun to mess around with– some things I've looked for are Luka Doncic MVP news in Slovenian, the top songs of 2023 in Urdu, and the wikipedia page for Russia in Ukrainian. I also found out that the closures in Mexico City were due to teacher's day protests.

I've been reading the webpages by using the built-in browser translator. Give it a shot and let me know what you think!
This is about fair taxation, not government spending.

If you want to propose a method by which we could reduce government spending, that would be very welcome! But we are currently discussing (from the article):

>an annual levy of 2 per cent of the wealth of the world’s roughly 3,000 dollar billionaires

and we are discussing it because (also from the article):

>the wealth of the very richest had grown by 7-8 per cent annually in recent decades — on top of inflation — compared to the 2-3 per cent growth rate of average wealth.

There is a widespread belief that the wealthiest people in the world pay less than their "fair" share of taxes compared to working class people. Whether you believe this or not, bringing up government spending feels like changing the topic...
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Thanks for sharing. that was a very interesting read.
> The ignorance you display here is truly breathtaking.

Remember when I said "if you disagree, give me an example of such research"? Now is the time to do that.

> Here is an existence proof that you are wrong about that:

No it isn't. Because they have lambda defined as an axiom. If you define lambda in terms of lists, and lists in terms of lambda, it's pretty trivial to say you have a circular reference on your hands.
The point isn't to do anything more than appease the pitchforks. Headlines like this with vague "Taxing the rich" will just let everyone who has their own idea on what taxing the rich is be happy. In some people's minds it will bring down the deficit. In some it is about sticking it to the man more than anything else.

What will end up happening is they will make a wealth tax, companies will stay private and hide behind accounting for their income and it will shut off wealth building for many.
A Tour (De Force) of APL in 16 Expressions
I have no idea who I'm arguing with here. And I have no idea what distinguishes a "monistic materialist" from a non-monistic materialist. AFAIK, there is dualism and there is materialism, and that is an exhaustive partition of the philosophical idea space regarding consciousness.

I also know that you think it's necessary to assume that consciousness exists rather than inferring its existence from (physical) observation, which makes you sound like a dualist to me.

(I also find it rather frustrating that you complain about a lack of philosophical rigor while at the same time being so cagey about your actual position.)

But please set me straight: what is your actual position?
I'm still in contact with former colleagues from 4 of my 5 former employers over the last ~20 years (no contact from 1 of them that I left in a hurry). That's how I know code I wrote back then, alongside code that was even older, is still in use today.
But is it a normal Windows PC that supports normal Windows software or the weird abomination they had last time that supported a few specific apps and nothing else?
Taking Risk
I'm not a geopolitics expert, and I assume you're not either, so I'll just say what I feel. As an European, deep down my unconscious mental picture of the situation here is probably this: USA is a geopolitical and economic power, China is a far away country that assembles parts and devices for western companies. This mental picture is wrong and hilariously oversimplified (I know rationally that it's wrong), but this is the stereotype I've absorbed from my society.

If both counties actively tried to win, and China managed to build a Moon base before the US that would probably make a huge blow to that (subconscious) mental picture.
What makes Lisp macros so intuitive is not the prefix notation

The culture is the ultimate "reality distortion field." Prefix notation would be seen as intuitive, if that were culturally established. We'd see something like PEMDAS as arbitrary and silly.

Just look at how much content there is around PEMDAS and interpretation of math problems. Clearly, it really isn't "intuitive." We just have this enshrined in the culture. (That said, one of the biggest UX mistakes the designers of Smalltalk made, was to eschew operator precedence!)
They do if your want to fill them out in the browser coupled with an authenticated context, which is usually pretty important for forms. Usually you don't just want random users filling out any data within your enterprise.

You also can prepopulate the form with user input from previous webpages/the user account. This is how a lot of HRISes do it.

Usually people want onboarding to be as frictionless as possible. Downloading the PDF and using some editor outside the website then coming back to upload it counts as friction.

And this conversation is still far away from the point: you need JS for a JS based PDF renderer, and there are valid uses cases where one is required.
> appreciate what you have and live in the moment.

It's always easy for people who have everything to say that, they're not the ones lying in bed at night watching roaches climb the wall with no dad to phone and stop it all.
On the other hand, leaving the length of the original text unchanged can leak information. Imagine a person's full name is redacted but it's only 7 characters long in total. That massively cuts down on the possibilities and may be enough to unmask their identity if there are only a few thousand names that might plausibly be listed.
Just to nitpick the gravity argument:
I think a major reason there currently is no spacecraft with artificial gravity is that microgravity is the whole point of space currently. You could probably build a spacestation with two sides and a long tether, but you don’t want that because you couldn’t do the interesting research anymore.
to qualify, unions may have solved this problem in the US. in europe, which has a stronger apprentice culture, unions don't have any role here.

(i am not saying this to criticize the comment but just to point out one of the many differences between unions in the US and europe)

the problem with apprentice programs is that they lag behind the changes in the industry. when i was in school there were none for software developers for example. there are now, but the second problem is that apprentice programs are considered of lower status compared to studying at a university. think blue-collar programmers vs white-collar software developers. the pay is also different.

i don't know anything about union accreditation programs, but i can imagine that they would be targeted at the available jobs, and with unions in the US having more influence at who gets hired, they probably can make sure that an accreditation actually leads to a job.

apprentice programs traditionally also promised that you'd get hired at the company where you learned, but this is no longer certain. together with the status and pay differences it is no surprise then that the number of people starting apprentice programs is declining.

on the other side university studies are not targeted at the industry. which only adds to the perception of candidates not matching employers needs. as an employer it is difficult to tell whether a candidate with a diploma is actually capable of doing the job.
Wonder how much one has to pay for this.
The fact that self-directed learning is so rare even among programmers will never cease to baffle me. I got into computers precisely because it was so perfectly suited to self study. It appealed perfectly to the autodidact-venerating Frank Zappa fan in me.
Impressionism has scope. Most people can tell a [famous] Renoir from a Monet and would not think Renoir copied Monet (in general). The devil is in the detail, courts have too decide what is too close and what isn't, but it's very much 'I know it when I see it', I feel. Allowances to be made for distinctiveness.

I'm not a movie buff, I know a few films from Spielberg's oevre, but I've never seen anything that I thought was a copy of his style ... perhaps you have examples you feel are so close that 'a blind man on a horse' would see (sic) that they are copying Spielberg's style?

I like the change of tack though, would appreciate some more push back.
This is pretty amazing. I would love to get my hand-writing as a font!
What plastic is elastic at those temperatures? (-182 °C)
I am not surprised. This worked out fairly well for them in the past.

While I dislike this personally - I'd rather have competing chips on the best node - I don't think this violates any moral principles. I do wonder if there is a bidding war with other companies for this capacity, though.
Imagine you owe $15k to a hospital, and someone knocks on your door saying “hi, I’m from the hospital, can you pay us $5k?” You, in your naivety, head up to your mattress, get $5k in cash, then pay them. Turns out, they are not from the hospital. What happens if you say to the hospital, “unfortunately your identity was stolen, and now I only owe you the $10k left.” Given bank deposits are debts owed to you, this is exactly what the bank is doing to you.
There is a space race now, between the US and China. It is tempered by China being only a non-NATO regional security threat, especially in the form of forcibly uniting Taiwan with the PRC. The modern space race is one branch of a many-faceted technological rivalry. So it doesn't have to make business sense or scientific sense in any strict way. But it also can't consume a large fraction of the GDP, or blow up a crew if that can be avoided.
The new, faster Surface Pro is Microsoft's all-purpose AI PC
Regardless, he knew

> At the time, Johnson said, he didn’t think PFOS caused significant health problems. Still, he told me, “it was obviously bad,” because man-made compounds from household products didn’t belong in the human body. He said that he argued against using fluorochemicals in toothpaste and diapers. Contrac­tors working for 3M had shaved rabbits, he said, and smeared them with the company’s fluorochemicals to see if PFOS showed up in their bodies. “They’d send me the livers and, yup, there it was,” he told me. “I killed a lot of rabbits.” But he considered his efforts largely futile. “These idiots were already putting it in food packaging,” he said.

> Johnson told me, with seeming pride, that one reason he didn’t do more was that he was a “loyal soldier,” committed to protecting 3M from liability. Some of his assignments had come directly from company lawyers, he added, and he couldn’t discuss them with me. “I didn’t even report it to my boss, or anybody,” he said. “There are some things you take to your grave.” At one point, he also told me that, if he were asked to testify in a PFOS-related lawsuit, he would probably be of little help. “I’m an old man, and so I think they would find that I got extremely forgetful all of a sudden,” he said, and chuckled.

> Out the windows of IHOP, I watched a light dusting of snow fall on the parking lot. In Johnson’s telling, a tacit rule prevailed at 3M: Not all questions needed to be asked, or answered. His realization that PFOS was in the general public’s blood “wasn’t something anyone cared to hear,” he said. He wasn’t, for instance, putting his research on posters and expecting a warm reception. Over the years, he tried to convince several executives to stop making PFOS altogether, he told me, but they had good reason not to. “These people were selling fluorochemicals,” he said. He retired as the second-highest-­ranked scientist in his division, but he claimed that important business decisions were out of his control. “It wasn’t for me to jump up and start saying, ‘This is bullshit!’” he said, and he was “not really too interested in getting my butt fired.” And so his portion of 3M’s secret stayed in a compartment, both known and not known.
HN isn’t Reddit.
It'd be great to see some comparisons to other fields/industries versus just looking at computer science in a vacuum.

It's quite possible there has been a slow down in tech hiring from the mid 2010's with multiple offers and signing bonuses/RSUs but relatively I suspect its still easier to find positions than in other fields. There have been mass layoffs in many other industries. I can't imagine hiring is as robust across the board as it was during ZIRP.
Title here dropped the word “possibly” from the linked article’s title.
I have uBlock Origin.
Probably just a pass through of the big check they get from Google for doing basically nothing. The Tim Cook era of innovation never disappoints.
Supermicro
https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/nvme?pro=formfactor%3...
Details matter. Pixelation is fine, but only if the pixels are large enough that there's 1-2 vertically per line of text.
Every software engineering company I have worked for (5) still exists today. One of them was started in the '40s, so it clearly wasn't always a software company, and wouldn't strictly define itself as one today, either, but software is a critical component of their product lines so whatever. My current employer has been around since the '80s. Another was started in the late '90s. The others were startups that are younger.
Great write up. I hadn't seen the original post, and now I have. Mutacin and ethanol production does sound problematic. It is a product that I would have tried otherwise.

It is also kinda hilarious that the guy is related to the most overrated escort in the Bay Area and is using her to further his product.
Google famously exited China while refusing to censor search results.
JIT compilation only works if functions can't change at run-time, which is true for most languages, but not for Bel.
Something much like this is used for wells - both simple and effective. I wonder why it wouldn't work here (or if just hasn't been tried).
Most plastics are very brittle at the cryogenic temperatures. Also if you are using that method for a liquid oxygen tank, you need to make sure that the plastic you choose doesn't spontaneously combust on contact with LOX.
From my experience, neither has been efficient.

I could not get rid of warts for 3 years. The plantar ones were unkillable by cryotherapy and small warts that were spread throughout hands would come back. I took HPV 9-valent vaccine, I am not sure whether it helped or not but it could have increased immune response to the family of viruses. About 6 months after the last dose, I started eating garlic every day and increased dose of vitamin D-3 and C (6,000 iu and 1500mg to be exact) which I have already been taking daily. I have noticed that 5 days in, a hard to treat wart on my thumb started getting smaller. A few weeks later there was no signs of multiple plantar warts. Ever since I am just not getting warts. Sometimes when I miss a lot of sleep one will pop up on my hand for a few days and disappear. It's an immune system issue. It was not placebo either, I have increased vitamins doses / started eating garlic for completely different reasons and was surprised to see the wart disappear all out of the sudden.

Also there were multiple studies where the efficency of inter-lesion administration of the vaccine had quite high success rate. This is a recent one I could find now: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1346-8138.1... I'm guessing this is not going to get very popular though, cryotherapy is like SaaS, the vaccine is buy once. The doctor I visited earned good money to run his freezing device which accounted for a 10 minute visit. It's a shame because while having persistent warts is not the end of the world, it's a really pesky problem to have and there are solutions to it, but they are not easily available.
It seems LedgerStore is not open source [1], and finding any info on it requires following a trail of backlinked Uber blog posts. Here's one with the most info on LedgerStore that I can find, from 2021:

https://www.uber.com/en-US/blog/dynamodb-to-docstore-migrati...

[1]:https://github.com/uber
Honest question, people keep hyping about these "forever chemicals" but the hype seems to be around the fact that they're "forever" rather than what the effects actually are. I hear tons of people talking about them, but never any discussion of anyone actually harmed. It kind of reminds me of the conspiracy around Glyphosate and the efforts to demonize Monsanto, eventually resulting in the company being sold to non-US company Bayer, even though no human damage was ever proven. This seems to be a repeated pattern in recent years toward old and storied US companies.

They just seem to really heavily play into people's luddite-based fears and lack of understanding.
It's also a big risk on Apple's behalf, as the node could have serious delays/problems
This product appears to be no longer available for sale... based on the patent at https://patents.google.com/patent/US20180098989A1/en , the active ingredient was Fluorouracil, which turns out to be a pretty potent chemotherapy drug for skin cancer patients. https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-16269/fluorouracil-topica... https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/treatment/drug...

So that's probably why it is no longer being sold over-the-counter as a magic wart cream. It is used for warts and generic Fluorouracil cream can still be prescribed by a doctor, but it's probably a good idea to pay attention to the cautions/warnings.
That would make it even easier to determine the length of the redacted word.
I did this several times, and what worked on the successful attempt was to engage the valve partially, creating a slow trickle of the cold liquid. I placed the end of the tube to the wart, and let the liquid pour over it until it visibly turned a lighter shade (presumably from freezing). The previous times, just a few drops was not enough to achieve this. The challenge was to balance the valve just the right amount so that it doesn't overshoot the affected area.
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Wow, it's not every day I hear about 5FU! It's an incredibly potent anti-cancer drug and one of its quirks is the active dose is very close to the fatal dose, and there is high variability amongst individuals wrt dosage. It (probably) works by inhibiting a protein that makes the T DNA residue from making more T, which is fatal to rapidly growing cells.
What dose of any substance is harmful instead of harmless? Is this a philosophical question or a practical one? If it's a practical one, we don't know, because if there are any effects they're too weak to infer with certainty. Unlike for example those of benzene in your sunscreen or acne products, or flame retardants in your furniture.
Hierarchical model for the win. Consistent with Jeff Hawkins research as well.
Yeah, I worked for an embedded company for ~8 years and there was a lot of old code kicking around that had been carried forward across product iterations. I know, from talking to colleagues who are still there today, that code I wrote ~20 years ago is still kicking around here or there in the current offerings.

> A bit unsettling when I think about the varying quality of software though.

That's just the business.
Next life hack, resurrect the 3.5" floppy disk.
I first heard the saying I think sometime around the loss of Colombia. Maybe before, maybe after. By the return to flight, it was most certainly more true than false. By that time the shuttles performed very few non-ISS flights. I think that Atlantis flew a service mission to Hubble, other than that I can't think of any other shuttle flights that didn't go to the space station.

Columbia was heavier than the other orbiters, so she was flying the non-ISS missions from about '98 until her demise. After that US satellites were launched on disposable, unmanned rockets like the Deltas and Atlas.
At least for a biomedical implant, you're probably benefiting more from the implant than from the long-term accumulation of these chemicals. Sucks to be a healthy person who gets the accumulation for free, though.
This time it has AI in it