skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It goes with food if you are European. It's part of the hospitality.
You can see it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zxVcpOzOPY Both the Italian man in the mountains, and the Greek lady in the mediterranean. As well as various Georgians in this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFFZpLbvJqQ

Not saying you have to do it, but it's part of European cultures for centuries. There is no need to be dismissive of it. My partner is Indian, doesn't drink, and Indian food is no more or less delicious than genuine European food.

I have no problem with people not drinking, just the smugness of those who make it a personality trait.
Same here. Brave on android
My keyboard has a built in USB hub and ports. They key lives there. They keyboard travels with me. It's hard to lose.

I have a backup key in storage. I have escrow mechanisms. These would be inconvenient, but, it's been 40 years since I've lost any keys or my wallet, so I feel pretty good about my odds.

Which is what the game here is. The odds. Famously humans do poorly when it comes to this.
I remember the giant astroturf campaign when he first took over and Microsoft started "heart"-ing open source and Linux. Everyone/bot on the internet said that Microsoft had really changed and that anyone who was still skeptical of them was being irrational and out of touch.

That's all.
Good. His business is malicious bullshit and grifting.
Project Rosalind: developing prototypes for an API to distribute retail CBDC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor

> In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate ("shave off") unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.

I'd say maybe the rule here allows one to eliminate the useless parts of an explanation, thus simplifying the process of coming up with explanations for complicated things.
Only 1 coal plant in the US is economical to run, and yet an entire industry continues to desperately attempt to continue to exist through various appeals. The market is made up by human rules, they are not physical laws, nor are they a reasonable final arbiter to what is rational.

So it’s not always just simple humans, but also malevolent ones too creating the uphill climb. Such is life.
Researcher suggests that gravity can exist without mass, mitigating dark matter
The source is a paper which was posted today, but it got little traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40611180
EA also released their own implementation of the C++ standard library. As a games company, this makes sense as performance can become a bottleneck much faster in games than in a lot of other applications.

https://github.com/electronicarts/EASTL
No, that's pretty much what the word "paradox" used to mean, but logicians of the late XIX–early XX century had hijacked it.

PARADOX, in philoſophy, a propoſition ſeemingly abſurd,
as being contrary to to ſome received opinion, but yet true
in fact.
No ſcience abounds more with paradoxes than geome-
try: thus, that a right line ſhould continually approach
to the hyperbola, and yet never reach it, is a true para-
dox; and in the ſame manner, a ſpiral may continually
approach to the point, and yet not reach it, in any number
of revolutions, however great.

Encyclopaedia Brittanica, 1771,
Vol. 3, p. 455
I mean if you’ve been using their products for years or even decades, it would be a hard pill to swallow that to now get work done for a client you have to move over to gimp or photopea because of this ridiculous new license.
No mention at all of the strongest type of study on alcohol consumption: Mendelian randomization studies [1]. These avoid the problems of self-report, recall bias, etc., that confound most nutritional epidemiology.

[1] e.g. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
How were all security council resolutions on Israel blocked, until one got through, 2 months ago?

How can a security council resolution be blocked?

Who is on the Security Council?

If you just don't know the basics of what you're talking about, my apologies, not a troll, just ignorant, opinionated, and willing to claim anything and everything for your argument, and make others do the work of explaining why the refs aren't rigged while you weaponize dead bodies to make your argument for it
Right, that's why I've been recommending dedicated OCR tools (Textract etc) over vision LLMs: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Apr/17/ai-for-data-journalism...
Kind of. According to polls there are 52% of Americans supporting this. In the EU we have elections this weekend so there's no reason to come up with polls, just follow the results!
The standardization of medical alarms was important when introduced, providing consistent and clear communication across devices and countries. However, with modern technology, these standards may now limit innovation.

It seems to me that clear verbal alerts like "BLOOD PRESSURE VERY HIGH" could be more immediately understandable than tones. A hybrid system combining verbal alerts with alarm tones might be a good compromise for clarity and international usability.
Tech worker unions?

As well as designer unions?

Basically empowering tech workers to refuse unethical work, collectively, without the threat of losing their jobs and becoming homeless.

And, sufficient diversity to ensure representation of vulnerable populations in the workforce.

For example, a product team having women in decision making positions is much less likely to ship a product lacking basic protections from types of abuse that only women experience - compared to a product team consisting of tech bros.

Mike Monteiro has a fantastic talk on the topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIcM21l61TE
Pretty sure alcohol has much higher margins. Most first, second and third line of treatment psych meds have been out of patent for a while now and cost pennies.
If not, why do you think people drink?
There is also endlessh, a very fun project to deploy
I’m assuming that’s a benchmark that runs a lot of hot code? I wonder why the start up is slower, if it’s based off an interpreter, and all current VMs start that way too
Have you read how allistics talk about that sort of thing? Pick up a 19th-century romance novel, or just head over to Reddit: finding a partner is about status hierarchies, too! This observation has even got its own witty aphorisms: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2018/06/05/sex-power/

> “Everything in human life is really about sex, except sex. Sex is about power.”

It's salacious daydreams and status hierarchies! All the way down!

I do find it really hard to imagine how raising children could fit into these categories – I was figuring out how to word my concession on that point from the moment I read your comment –, but then I turn to my fiction books, and what do I find there? So much talk of honour, or parents projecting a desired future on their children, and such little mention of anything else except when it's actually happening. In the real world, too: how often do we see people hurting their children "for their own good", where the only possible good is to the future plans or social status of the parent?

I'm sure many allistics are capable of loving their children for their own sakes, but from what I've seen, it's not the norm: it's something that has to be learned, and actively practised ("engagement in a task"), rather than something that comes naturally to most. (And there's nothing wrong with that – provided that one puts the effort in. There is something wrong with being a self-absorbed, neglectful parent, too absorbed in the Proper Way of Parenting to let the village make up for one's own deficiencies.)
Cheyenne (WY) Mayor Race: AI Candidate Vic Shakes Up Politics
The energy sector is heavily subsidized by governments because it's important. "Market reality" doesn't work here.
ARM exists because of the tarpit's ecology. The ecology permits an IP monopolizer to become entrenched in it and to suppress other players.
Can fasting help you live to 100?
Maybe this tool is a bit more comprehensive. After configuring a stripped down image, Windows can be installed in what is almost like a headless mode in literally 5 minutes with no user intervention:

https://www.ntlite.com/
Spaces instead of tabs are an accessibility problem for some people. Being able to read and write source code is priority #1.
One drive is awful. It keeps crashing and forgetting where it was. I have 3 copies now. I have to waste time to sort it out. And it messes up the dates. It is disgustingly f our workplace enforces this.
"We strongly recommend becoming best friends with your fridge to get the most out of all its features. Please follow this guide on how to cultivate a meaningful relationship with your new AI-powered(™) smart fridge."
It's the same story in Australia. Several large slow creatures that disappeared shortly after the arrival of humans. I think trying to pin the blame solely on the weather is simply because it's much more in sync with the "stewards and custodians of the land" narrative that is currently so fashionable.
this one https://www.applause.dev/
This is a popular misconception according to the askhistorians faq. I don’t think you’ve ever had beer either, thinking that you could possibly replace water with it.
Good rabbit hole (cat tree?) to dive into. Thanks!
Gluttony is definitely a sin in the Catholic Church and is one of the well known seven deadly sins.
Hard like the people that got it cheap? Or hard like the people that inherited such things?

I guess you can fuck off to the sticks, but I'm not sure that works as a defense for a society that has made an element of participation contingent on absurd expense or debt. Does 'work hard' feel good when the thing you purchase with your labor is expensive in order to service the desires of the wealthy?

I'm not going to say our current setup is indentured servitude or serfdom, it clearly isn't and social mobility and changing your station are possible and even commonplace. I will say that our current system has resulted in a large class of people whose productive excess is routinely paid to a small group for the benefit of being allowed access to a residence (they don't provide other services or benefits, they don't actually labor to produce the house as a finished good).
I agree on it being self satisfying. I wrote a short story on my blog once that I seriously doubt anyone ever read. It was a cyberpunk story, but the themes were really very much about how I felt about having my startup crash and burn early on. After finishing it I felt like I'd finally been able to express how I felt about everything.
Other people are addressing those points better than I would. I think it is out of proportion to denounce and name the individual developer. Why does everything have to turn into a witch hunt? And why do you have to call me ignorant for not thinking like you?

Would any hacker be proud to explain to their grand parents that they got very upset that their icon hiding app was sold?
I never really got how you can go beyond absolute zero. Temperature is the movement/agitation of atoms, absolute zero means the atoms are still and don't move anymore, by definition. Lower than absolute zero temperature should mean the atoms should be "more" still than still.
Which is nonsense to me.

And what's even more nonsense, it's that temperatures "lower" than absolute zero are hotter than absolute zero.

Can anyone explain this discrepancy ?
If you built solar and energy storage that was capable of powering an entire house for less expense than the grid can do it, people will buy that, subsidies won't matter.

There is a lot of "green washing" that intentionally ignores this outcome because what it really wants to do is capture the subsidies for itself. Which is what I was alluding to originally.
We don’t spend much time dealing with mega fauna like moose or brown bears anymore so are generally unprepared for it. But if it was a bigger part of our lives I’m pretty sure we would dominate even with cavemen level tools.
Looks like I was wrong about that. The README was updated to explain how after I'd started using it.
Why We Migrated from LuaJIT to Lua 5.2
I don't understand why Hacker News and Reddit block self promotion.

"Hey, look at a thing I made!" is a lot more interesting than a lot of the other drivel that gets posted.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/EPR_(nuclear_reactor)#Flaman...

France, 13.2€ billion, 17 years, still not producing. Started loading fuel this month.
Islam is the exception not the rule in human cultures. Every human tribe which has figured out fermentation has used it extensively.
Why in the world would anyone use gimp for “art” when there is krita and Inkscape?
Don't bring monads into this
This- people are 'min-maxing' on single isolated dimensions, and not looking at the bigger picture. Sun does a lot more than increase vitamin D, it also increases metabolic rate by acting directly on the mitochondria, lowers blood pressure, calibrates the circadian rhythm, coordinates eye development, and many other vitally important things.... and it turns out the most of the most deadly types of skin cancer aren't even caused by sun exposure.

When you unnaturally radically alter your diet, physical environment, or lifestyle to an extreme outside of normal human experience based on trying to optimize a single variable in attempt to be healthier, it is almost guaranteed to backfire.
"Canagliflozin extended the lifespan of mice with premature aging even when treatment was started in middle age."

Canagliflozin is an existing prescription drug, with possible side-effects: https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/canagliflozin-o...

A previous study showed a gender effect: Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male (14%) but not female mice (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7710304/)
The Haast Eagle too. They hunted Moa, and as you’d expect from an eagle that hunted 200kg birds, it too was a monster.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haast%27s_eagle
> learning apps.

So fun to spring for the paid duolingo only to realize you can only download the next lesson up, not like the entire course.

The lessons are like 5m long wtf am I supposed to do with that? I just want to spend my idle time on the plane or camping disconnected from distractions so I can learn, but app developers have made that effectively impossible

And this is why I don't pay for, or even use duolingo even though I'm actively learning a language
Yeah but that's because "trans" is nothing more than a sexual fetish to these men. They objectify women and get off on it, using their own bodies to construct the erotic target.
Amen. I used to be a pacifist before the Ukraine war. Now I feel like a completely different person.
Right -- you have to know something that people don't ever tell you:

Photoshop is a medium as much as it is an application.

As a medium it has fundamentals, and once you know those fundamentals, you're not really chained to Photoshop.

In my experience it's the occasional users of Photoshop who have the most trouble switching to anything else, because for them it is still icons and buttons and sliders and menu items they expect in certain places.

If you've spent enough time with Photoshop and learned what is really happening, what blend modes are, how layers work deeply, switching is easier because it's much easier to recognise those same principles elsewhere.

This, I think, is why Adobe has the predatorily priced Photoshop plan and is unwilling to put true power into Photoshop Elements (which was last a "cut down Photoshop" back at version 3.0 or so).

They know that the underlying skills are portable.
Mesa 24.1.1 Released with Many Graphics Driver Bug Fixes
This is generally true, but Windows is the standard for far more SMBs than larger enterprise customers, and in that context it’s not nearly so straightforward. I have a client, a health insurance benefits broker for other local businesses. They do very well for themselves, but it’s just 2-3 full-time people, so there’s never been much cause for a full-on domain with GPO policies to maintain a strict, stable state across their equipment. Traditionally, off-the-shelf systems with SMB-targeted software had been more than sufficient.

When Microsoft decided to push a feature upgrade last year that automatically enabled OneDrive backups for their home directories, it technically violated HIPAA by moving electronic patient health information contained within their scanned files folder onto OneDrive servers without any prior consent or authorization. They literally called me when they were unable to find their files, Microsoft had (laughably, if it weren’t so serious) placed a text file on the desktop titled “Where Did My Files Go.txt”, and then directed them to the OneDrive folders where it had moved their desktops, documents, and pictures without their knowledge or approval.

I have since moved them to Microsoft 365 accounts where I can apply GPO, but my clients were understandably unhappy about having a new annual subscription that didn’t add any tangible benefit, rather they’re now on the hook for a couple hundred bucks a year for what’s essentially a shake down. Pay for the new service that adds nothing meaningful to their experience, or else face the consequences of Microsoft ruining your business on a whim.
That's old information. This is how Microsoft is intending to change Recall based on these criticisms:

Microsoft will also require Windows Hello to enable Recall, so you’ll either authenticate with your face, fingerprint, or using a PIN. “In addition, proof of presence is also required to view your timeline and search in Recall,” says Davuluri, so someone won’t be able to start searching through your timeline without authenticating first.

This authentication will also apply to the data protection around the snapshots that Recall creates. “We are adding additional layers of data protection including ‘just in time’ decryption protected by Windows Hello Enhanced Sign-in Security (ESS) so Recall snapshots will only be decrypted and accessible when the user authenticates,” explains Davuluri. “In addition, we encrypted the search index database.”

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/7/24173499/microsoft-windows...
About 15 years ago I worked for a medical usability firm. We did a review of the Baxter Large Volume Infusion Pump. Among dozens of other issues[1] we found, the absolute mother of them all was the stop button, which had been overloaded to have multiple functionalities:

If you push the button once, it would stop infusing drug into the patient.

If you push the button twice, it would EMPTY THE SYSTEM - as in, run the pump continuously, infusing all remaining drug into the system, at high speed.

We ran usability tests where we'd say to the nurse "wrong drug! stop! you're giving the patient the wrong drug!"

90+ percent of them did what any human would do - jab STOP over and over. Whoops, patient's dead.

In part because of our report Baxter was forced to recall[0] hundreds of thousands of the pumps and pay for their replacements with competitors' products. The stock dropped by 30% in a day. Sadly I didn't short it, or I'd be [checks notes] in jail.

[0] https://archive.is/s1wEU

[1] like drug libraries where sometimes the units were displayed, sometimes they weren't, and sometimes they were displayed in your "preferred" units even though the number being shown was in a DIFFERENT unit and the system didn't translate it, just showed the wrong value.
Obese people generally have lower lifetime healthcare spending. The third knee replacement and a year in assisted living is expensive, and in the US that senior-care cost is primarily borne by the government as opposed to the health insurance paid by the working. Which is why ozempic blows up the federal budget - obese people dying young is a very cheap solution to the problem, and it’s not a cost that’s borne by the government.
Coal was being displaced by Natural Gas well before Solar added to the fight. Is the issue that Coal didn't just stop existing one day immediately? With power plant lifetimes of 50 to 100 years why would anyone rationally expect this outcome?

This is not a change you will see in your lifetime clearly. This is clearly a change that _is_ occurring during your life time.
I agree this is true if your goal is to inform. If, however, your goal is to increase clicks, decrease support tickets, and get engagement, I'd be surprised if being technically descriptive and accurate is better than dumbing it down to the point of inaccuracy.

None of that is to say that I agree with the goal of engagement over conveying information.
That is an opinionated decision to make tabs a compile error. It sounds like it offended you somehow, since nowhere does it even imply "tabs are stupid".

There could be a reasonable explanation, for example, that having two different characters for white space is redundant and unnecessary. We may not agree, but making it an error to use tabs is an effective way to avoid any bike shedding about this contentious topic.

It's similar to the Go formatter enforcing tabs for indentation and white space for alignment. It doesn't matter what I may think is the correct answer to the tabs/spaces question because I would never bother doing that manually. Either let some tool do it automatically, or don't allow tabs at all - which I'm guessing is how Zig's formatter works, by replacing tabs with white space.
Maybe. I think Feynman had a point.

From my experience “experts” who are unable to explain well typically have an incomplete understanding.

Language and knowledge are linked to a degree.

Personally I have had subject I thought I was an expert an and when I went to explain them I realized the shortcomings of my understanding. Later when I was truly an expert my ability to explain them improved.
Agreed. To be fair, personally I don't blame billionaires per se. They are mere proxies for the real issue: the profit motive.

But it's easier to sell that billionaires should not exist than it is to sell that we shouldn't seek to profit over each other, given how profitable it is for a few and how much some people hopelessly seek wealth.
There are roughly 150,000 police encounters per day in the US. Cut it out with the hyperbolic “default to executing.” It’s destructive to a very real conversation we need to be having as a country and it’s discrediting to your otherwise decent point.
Yep I’ve used it for all sorts of things like UI widgets and basic photo editing and animated gif creation. I wouldn’t know where to start with photoshop. I imagine going the other way after being a pro with photoshop for years would be jarring and make you think it’s the worst software ever created because you have muscle memory for everything in photoshop.
Yes, it's extremely sad :( He was a giant in the Ruby and Truffle communities, and TruffleRuby was a monumental work for both projects.
Isn’t “Show HN” a thing that exists for self-promotion? It doesn’t guarantee anyone will upvote it, but seems like it’s fine?
1 is an insane amount.
Funny thing is I think this about Feynman’s own writing for “the layperson”.

I think things like Feynman’s “little arrows” descriptions in QED only muddied and added to the mystique and mysticism of the physics he loved.

Which is interesting because his written lectures[1], though, in their breadth and complexity require effort, seem as if they are intended for experts while being approachable to ”the layperson“.

My only real complaint about those lectures is that even when I understood I rarely felt I had actionable tools for that new knowledge.

The best descriptions of physics I feel that can sufficiently inform “the layperson” are ones that implements the physics in code[2], or through numerical methods.

[1] https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu/

[2] https://www.lpfp.io/
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Not from D-Day or the European theater, but “With the Old Breed” is a really well done personal account of combat in the Pacific. It was part of the source material for Ken Burns’ “The War” and for the “The Pacific” miniseries on HBO.