skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily fully homogeneous, but with a pretty wide common base.

To trust someone is to predict their actions in a number of the most important aspects, and these actions must be in agreement with your values and expectations. It's most easily achieved when the key values are shared, and even easier when cultural backgrounds are also shared. (It, of course, works if you trust people like yourself, which is not always the case, curiously. Moscow, Russia is about as diverse a place as NYC, but with a markedly lower level of trust.)
There's also an interesting SWI-Prolog mode that embeds the language runtime with dynamic linking and integrates quite deeply.
Many people suggest to start gradually migrating to either Rust or start investing much more seriously in formally proving C/C++ code (which is IMO a huge endeavor).

As I said in multiple other comments, I know there are valid cases for C/C++ where various factors prevent migration. I am not playing a little rebel revolutionary here, I am addressing the people who can migrate away but refuse to do so based on hand-wavy philosophy clashes (or my favorite petty rebellious take: "people praise Rust, I must resist using it!"). Petty stuff and I am pretty disappointed that people who bill themselves as "engineers" refuse to see objective evidence and hold on to only what they know.

Those are the people I address with my comment. Not the people who will be never allowed to migrate away a 2 million lines worth of C codebase. They have my deepest sympathies.
> The robot creates a small plastic structure with a 3D printer, records its shape and size, moves it to a flat metal surface—and then crushes it with a pressure equivalent to an adult Arabian horse standing on a quarter. The robot then measures how much energy the structure absorbed, how its shape changed after being squashed, and records every detail in a vast database.

So, something that humans absolutely could do.
Is this site still working? I get no response when doing a search and can’t add my site either.
"What Our Users Say" - Unless you have real testimonial skip the section. AI generated photos and wishful praise are a turn-off. It looks non genuine
I also used to think I had this issue when reading your blogs at work. Turns out, nobody really cares and if they do, a quick explanation suffices entirely. I no longer care as well.

Your imagery is part of who you are as a writer, and it's part of your work. People need to take it or leave it.
> By that logic it's up to you to die or not from being shot in the face.

No that’s an issue directly caused by a 3rd party. Hunger is imposed not by an individual but by biology.

> doctors are obligated to provide emergency cares by law in many regions.

There’s some confusion around what is the responsibility of an emergency room and individuals, but UK, USA, Canada, Singapore, etc don’t require doctors to act in an emergency. The US requires emergency rooms to protect treatment in an actual emergency but not everything qualifies. https://www.acep.org/life-as-a-physician/ethics--legal/emtal....

Every country is different but few require doctors to act in an Emergency and non for general care, it’s basically a handful of European countries and Australia. Even then it’s a minimal level of treatment.
Many many years ago I participated in a national history competition and went to nationals. The participants were almost entirely white, and there was absolutely this "well its obvious the parents didi this" thing there too.
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For convenience here’s the paper: Integrating human endogenous retroviruses into transcriptome-wide association studies highlights novel risk factors for major psychiatric conditions by Duarte, Pain, Bendall & others: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48153-z

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48153-z

Open-access PDF.

(Kudos to the medicalxpress writer for actually linking to the paper.)

It seems to be quite readable. Just go fast enough to hydroplane on the surface, and jump as usual between the abstract, conclusion, abstract again, the middle part, the introduction and then put it away and sleep on it and come back to it and hydroplane and jump and… you know, all of that. Paper reading.

Before reading, in the headline I sort of saw the question whether embedded viral DNA might be getting “deployed into prod” and causing bad stuff to happen. The second ha-ha-contrarian-I-am-very-intelligent thought—also cheap to produce—was whether the ability to survive a viral onslaught brutal enough for the virus to embed itself in its quarry might be an indication that ancestral individuals had a more robust and aggressive immune system than peers who didn’t survive to reproduce. And if this could show up as a runaway inflammatory response in the current era. (From what I understand, psychiatric disorders are very very often accompanied by neuroinflammation. Practically… always?)

Such a great paper! I can speculate all this before I’ve even read the thing!!
isn't 90% of the videos compress-able to "cute kitty playing with something in a funny way"
In Germany you are arrested for home schooling. Different cultures have their flaws.
Plane (YC W17) is hiring product engineers (Rails/Remote/Americas)
If you look at the inflation rate graph for the US there wasn't any pick up after 2008 https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/B8B2/production/...

There's a blip now because of the pandemic policies - hand people a bunch of cash to sit at home which means less goods made, let them out again where they can spend it - prices go up. I'm not sure that's Keynes fault - he never had a covid policy.
There are signup and login links on the top-right of the page, it's not just a content page.
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I'm interested in what you're comparing against. Denmark is typically towards the bottom of any measure of cultural or ethnic diversity - e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_ranked_by_et...

I have been to Denmark many times and it strikes me as considerably more homogenous than the UK or the US.
It seems to me that the most important factor is not being mentioned here. That is money - who funds the research.

Its a simple enough problem - eg if you wanted papers to show anything - eg 'that koalas cause forest fires in Australia' (I know that's ridiculous!) - then you simply fund a bunch of papers. If you have 10 papers, and 2 are supportive, 2 are against and the remaining are ambiguous - you have a start! You take the supportive ones, and fund similar studies. Soon you have a lot of data that seems to say something in support of the thesis you like, but this is nothing to do with uncovering some underlying principle.

If you have a big enough pocket, you get the science you pay for.

https://www.threads.net/@tmurrayhimself/post/C56uXtKM0y0

"studies show that all studies can be traced back to the guy with the most money"
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You said before ...

> for most use-cases [reinforced concrete is used] because it gives freedom to architects to make buildings that look more appealing: it's a fashion driven disaster.

and yet you say I am giving too much credit to my imagination

> Nobody is talking about forbidding anything, and you can't be serious when arguing that living in a seismic area would be an unfair advantage, I mean for real?

Well then you seem to be saying nothing. You suggested alternative materials for reinforced concrete that really would not work in the real world. Even stone buildings use reinforcement to be able to better withstand earthquakes. Read about the Lisbon earthquake to get a feel for the sort of things "concrete cancer" can prevent.

I'm ending this exchange with a simple Quora question on this topic:

https://www.quora.com/Do-stones-and-bricks-help-protect-hous...
Just use good old /about or equivalent. For most people who aren’t thinking about their website every day, /now will inevitably end up as “what I was doing when I last remembered I have a /now page” instead of what they’re actually doing now.

Idea for the future: in a few years, check how many /now pages were last updated in May 2024.
Usually having index.html in /now would behave as if the /now was the page. Other index.extension files (like index.php) might also work depending on the server configuration.
Yeah, triangle mesh library and NURBS are very different, they do different things. Interesting to know that the solvespace folks wanted to try integrating manifold. Feel free to open an issue or discussion if needed, there were many changes as manifold was actively developed and gaining more users.

I am also interested in having a simple constraint solver for some kind of constructive geometry useful for CAD modeling, but not necessarily a full-fledged NURBS kernel. I think it can be interesting for text-based modeling, probably similar to some of the CadQuery APIs.
There is nothing free in the Apple ecosystem, neither as n free beer or in free speech. You can't even install an app that isn't approved by Apple on an iphone of ipad
AI used to be autonomously controlled systems. Now AI is re-brand of machine learning by marketing departments, etc.

This seems more like AI than the very recent rebrand of ML. Machine learning can be a sub-system of AI systems but in itself was not thought of as AI for a long time.
Whatever it is, why do people scream about buffer overflows and insecure passwords and overcomplicate everything in the name of security...

... and after that they run externally sourced scripts without even making a local copy ... let alone give them a cursory look ...
Yes, but the robot is presumably also ranking them and doing some clever "ai" thing to actually generate the model, like a genetic algorithm or something. It's also working 24/7, and I think if you make humans work 24/7 they get angry and ask to go to the bathroom and such
If it is actually as much better as it sounds, even apple users will find a way to set their search engine to what works once word of mouth gets around. (Until Apple turns that option off and waits for for the EU to pass another gatekeeper law anyway.)

If it is actually as much better as it sounds, one wonders why Google or Duckduckgo doesn't do this already. For Google, killing the advertisement incentive is probably counterproductive in the long run, but why doesn't DDG?
I was born in 1983 and it is wrong to make profit off of someone else's art without their permission. It isn't strange at all. This includes using an impersonator. This excludes parody intentions.

So the overall argument isn't strange, you just disagree without having articulated exactly what biases you to disagree. It is moral disagreement ultimately.
Have you ever left the united states?
Sure, for data-interchange. Good luck convincing normies.
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There are many, many bad small tutorials on youtube where the presenter has something that works for them but fails to understand the core principles. Or it's from way back before the 0.18 redesign of Part Design.

The Mango Jelly Solutions videos, the Joko engineering videos, the Adventures In Creation videos and thehardwareguy's videos are excellent.

There is no doubt that understanding how to mitigate TNP is important, though. Many of the videos do not go into this each time (which will be good once the issue is mitigated, very soon, but is obviously an issue at the moment).

The fundamental issue I see with bad Youtube tutorials is people skipping from Part Design to other workbenches without understanding that they are not wholly interchangeable. That is, all Part Design Body objects are Parts, but not all Parts are Part Design Body objects. Part Design is a subset.

There is at least one excellent video by Mango Jelly Solutions going into the detail of why you should choose one over the other.

But the guts of it is that Part Design does have an ordered flow -- it's a sequence of steps from a simple to a complete object, executed one after the other and implicitly booleaned together. So it has additive features and subtractive features.

Whereas in a non-Part-Design workflow, you are in charge of when something is cut from something else; there's no subtractive tooling, only boolean tools. More CSG-ish.

A good grasp of FreeCAD involves understanding Part Design's relatively special guided flow, and that outside of it is a more open-ended approach.

The RealThunder developments to Part Design after TNP was fixed do go a long way towards making this less relevant (Part Design can work with multiple bodies rather than being focussed on a single body, and you can "wrap" non-Part-Design objects in a Part Design Body object more freely without using a macro). And that way you get to use Part Design much more like Fusion 360.

But there are definitely FreeCAD proponents who would say that Part Design is training wheels for what is really going on, and that there's no substitute for many general concepts inside Part Design. The latter is true; also the implicit booleans in Part Design make some of the PD operations slower.
I wish I could set my Meta Glasses to do this for special occasions where it's socially acceptable.
Might be relative to your baseline, but it's one of the most common complaints I hear among immigrants.

Not only that but the huge social pressure to conform especially in work settings.
> Does the order typical matter that much in CAD? I went all in on this thinking it was a simple object and how hard can FreeCAD be. Turns out, very hard.

Yes, it does matter. I discovered this through my own self learning with OpenSCAD, FreeCAD and OnShape. I actually prefer the workflow of FreeCAD to OnShape for a lot of tasks.

FreeCAD isn't that hard, cad isn't that hard. Especially for any developer with some level of XP in breaking down a complex problem domain into smaller composable parts.
I'm an immigrant (see my other comment) and I do everything I can to continue the "high trust" atmosphere.

A simple example: If the bike stoplight is red, I'll sit there and wait even if no cars are coming. As an ex-Manhattanite, this feels weird every time. But it is part of the larger society of hard-core rule following.
It's interesting that whenever Russian apologists see pushback, they resort to treating Biden and the US government as a etalon of morality that others should be compared against. I don't share this view. If you want to lock up Cheney next to Putin and his gang, then go ahead.
> same language and the same (shallow) history

Yes! Just Dutch, German, English, Spanish, Algonquin, Nahuatl, ... or, did you mean the European invaders? Native Americans had been doing their thing for a for thousands of years when the Europeans showed up. If you're talking about stuff, I don't think old buildings really means culture? The Saxons squatted in the Roman ruins, but that doesn't mean the luster of Rome wore off on them. Certainly far less than the Byzantines being the real Romans.

Also, Americans seem to have fought an awful lot of wars to build a shared polity in its "easy" process.
Not trivial. Factors: Local labor costs, PV import tariffs, net metering arrangement, roof space and tilt angle, electricity prices, local solar irradiance levels, solar seasonality, and large cost difference between grid tie versus hybrid battery systems.

If you live in a reasonably sunny country, the shorthand you can use is 4.5*(system size in KW), which equals the daily number of kWh your system will produce. Say that number is 30kWh. Then multiply 30 by your per kWh electricity costs. Say $0.2*30. That's your daily savings estimate, $6. Then you can figure out how many years to ROI by comparing it to the system cost. This approach will be more or less accurate if you have a battery or a nice net metering arrangement. It will be less accurate without either of these things.
I am happily taking all this feedback from HN to improve the learning experience, add more graphs for v2, thanks all!
> The mystical two-headed dog… born with only one head!
This is a cool idea. I also really like simonw’s TIL feed:

https://til.simonwillison.net/

Like a microblog of little learnings in day-to-day development.

One interesting thing that occurred to me recently is that my personal site (https://amontalenti.com) is more an essay archive and identity verification tool, than it is a “blog” or “microblog.” That is, the timestamps of the content on there are the least interesting thing about it. The most valuable page, for me, is https://amontalenti.com/archive.

As for something like /now, the most fascinating implementation of this is an old friend of mine from college. He and I were both early 2000s bloggers, but he came up with the idea, in 2001 or so, to keep a nearly-daily one sentence personal diary on his blog. He kept that up for the last 20+ years (he is nowadays a CS researcher and inventor in HCI). Very impressive near-daily microblogging habit over a lifetime!

https://www.chrisharrison.net/index.php/Home/Log
I read the article without trouble with both chrome and chromium (under windows)
This is the exact talking point I used to defend React on HN. Yes, you may not like it or even hate it, but the fact that it has some degree of industry-standardness makes React a good choice simply because you can hire for it easier than for your bespoke javascript framework.
I liked the way you added YouTube videos of trailers. This is a nice project, similar one I saw on Peerlist Project Spotlight where someone added a book recommendation based on mood. You should also launch this on Peerlist.
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You mean like /now/index.html. Yeah, that could work! Thanks!

But "/now.html" feels "cleaner" to me. I know others might disagree.

If this now thing could support just "/now.html" or even "/now" redirecting to "/now.html", that would be swell! Maybe they already do support it? Hoping to learn from the community if these alternative paths are supported.
If Germany would, the Dutch have to follow.

But with Geert Wilders and the PVV in the lead, likely it will be the other way around.

Europe has had it with migrants, that much is clear. Either deal with it, or set up a breeding ground for more right-wing voters.
Great tip for the smart keyboard search! I was wondering how can I do this is Safari...(this AI crap is not live in the UK yet btw)
What country is that? I thought the dogs were out of control in Austin...
It has some times been a political theme in Denmark that we have to attract highly skilled workers and how we can do that best. Often the talk has been about for instance giving foreign workers tax exemptions.

On those occasions I've often wondered how much of an impact the high trust and high social of safety has - for instance compared to salary. I'd imagine that it plays a big role in making people stay.
> This was an important reason why I switched back to C from C++ and why I don't have much interest in Rust. I can't quite stand the the "holier than thou" attitude in.parts of those communities.

This is 100% baffling to me. Let me explain.

1. Every single area has zealots. Yours included. And we're not talking only work. Every hobby area as well.

2. What the attitude of the most toxic 0.1% of the users of a thing is has exactly ZERO correlation with whether the thing is good and worth using.

3. By resisting only those 0.1% toxic zealots you are only demonstrating meaningless rebelliousness. As a supposed adult you should be immune to what are people hyping up and form your own opinion. INFORMED opinion. Not one based on the "many people praise it hence I, the intellectual, will stay far away from that obvious nonsense" stance.

4. Have you considered that maybe, just maybe, Rust is praised because it's actually good? Have you considered that the Rust community is not trying to cheat its way into your heart, and that the love Rust gets is justified by the people who need its features? Seems like you did not, and that's disappointing.

In other words, I have zero clue of your thought process here, maybe you can help me understand?

Back in my home town the VW Golf had an ardent fan base, yet one of my friends still bought one after he graduated. He didn't call the people who loved VW Golf zealots. He did his research and concluded that with his budget and mechanic skills the VW Golf is the ideal option.

Food for thought?
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I agree that I've never had a problem with terminal speeds on Linux. If you're using urxvt, that's probably going to do just fine.

Where I have had problems has been on the Mac, where the system default "Terminal.app" or popular alternatives like "iTerm2.app" can each be catastrophically slow if you have a lot of control codes (as in, for example, rapidly paging through a large document in vim with an intensive color scheme active), and it could just take noticeable fractions of a second to redraw a fullscreen terminal window.

Moving to a faster terminal emulator like alacritty or kitty did make a good quality of life improvement for me in that specific use case.
My strong suspicion is that, for, say, the CEO of Google, this is less about "this will improve the product", or even "LLMs are the future, so we should use them in the present even though they don't work", and more "this is what the markets, which are collectively kinda dumb, have decided they will reward this year, so we will appease them until such time as they move onto a new toy."

See Our Lord and Saviour the Blockchain; for a year or so practically every company was announcing some sort of blockchain thing. Did any of these come to anything? Of course not, but that was, when it comes to it, hardly the point.

LLMs are a particularly dramatic example, but I suspect the dynamic is, in reality, more or less the same as metaverses, blockchains, the _previous_ AI bubble (remember the year or so when everyone was announcing chatbots, until Microsoft Tay kinda scared everyone off it abruptly?), and so on.
Tangential but, why shouldn't universities be afraid? The value of higher education for many subjects is existentially threatened by AI. In 10-20 years, it's not unrealistic that the only justifiable subset of subjects will be those whose practitioners cannot be replaced by AI.
Microsoft will allow businesses and developers to build Copilots
Yes, but the article doesn't say "done much more efficiently than by humans", it says "impossible for humans to do".
thanks for the mention. it's not great to hear we are a rip-off of Linear, but i get why you are saying that. there are quite a few differences between Linear and Plane starting with how unopinionated Plane is compared to Linear, but we need to do a better UX job to call that out in the product.

work's ongoing. expect changes soon.
Nevermind the bribery aspect, I would not put my internal reputation in jeopardy for some random account of a stranger on the web