skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dunno know I've ever heard conventional wisdom that said NAND flash was particularly short lived on the shelf vs other options. E.g. never heard of mass deaths of files on USB drives from sitting in drawer for a year or two, usually just typical endurance/usage deaths from cheap flash.

Hell, I just took my very first SSD (60 GB OCZ Vertex 2) and booted the old install fine after it had sat on a shelf for ~7 years. Of course that just had the Windows boot files on NTFS so I can't say for sure no bitrot had occurred. In the same bin/nostalgia period I had an old 2 GB USB 2.0 flash drive with Ubuntu 9.10 on it that did validate the fs image fine from the same bin as well.

I remember https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igJK5YDb73w this guy was doing some intentional tests with modern cheapo drives but it hasn't even reached time for the year 2 check quite yet.
Eh. Copyright doesn't care how something is meant to be experienced.

In the US though, architecture copyrights don't protect against people photographing building exteriors.

That said, if your building was covered in a mural or some artistic façade that you held the copyright to, then one can assert copyright against people posting videos of the building on YouTube. Of course, there's exemptions for various forms of fair use like critique.
I mean it isn't particularly hackerlike but you could at least check the guidelines.

Even if you don't intend to be bound by them it always pays to know the rules. Who knows, there might be a couple you can abuse.
Elon Musk denies tweets misled Twitter investors ahead of purchase
“Back in my day” the best we had was ELIZA [0] (which was honestly not by a longshot nearly as convincing as some people claimed).

- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I'd call their interference something a bit more serious than trolling.
Hard to believe there was enough demand for such a thing that it was economically viable -- I guess if you had a secretary that had to produce a lot of copies of virtually the same text, and you wanted it to look genuinely typewritten and not pre-printed... maybe...
Who captures the surplus is dependent on how competitive the market is.

In highly competitive markets, any substantial profits get competed away, and captured by the consumer.

In monopolistic / uncompetitive markets, profits are captured by the monopolist.

Of course, this is a spectrum not a dichotomy. Last I tried to quantify this, I got numbers like 50-60% of the US economy is at least somewhat uncompetitive. But I’d like better numbers. (It’s easy to come up with examples on both sides, IMO)
they're under a consent decree if I'm not mistaken from a lot of lawsuits that took place in the 80s and 90s.

big tobacco also funds organizations like Truth, which put out anti-smoking advertisements that really look and feel like a reverse-psychological smoking advertisements in a way (apologies for the dose of conspiratorial tin-foil in this thread).

EDIT: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agre...
On the other hand "1700s art" sounds like trash compared to "18th century art".
I agree that it's sufficient to bootstrap to an older Linux-based system, since the path from there to a full modern system is well-trodden. That's very cool then, thanks for the link:)
Two years after Oncology said they'd take the whole thing Very Seriously and Do A Thorough Investigation, Frass's article is still up on Oncology's website - not a single disclosure, notice, etc when it should have been retracted:

https://theoncologist.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10...

He even got caught modifying the procedures of his study part-way through: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9470608/

What infuriates me is that health insurers in my jurisdiction are required to pay for "naturopathy." yet if I ask for the non-generic version of a medicine because the generics only have to deliver between 80% and 120% of what the non-generic does, different non-active ingredients, and different delivery / time release mechanisms...I get denied!
When you know better you do better.

I was originally diagnosed 20+ years ago. Back then it was even worse, appointments with an “ADD specialist” were 3-4 hours, blood draws, etc and it was all very thorough. So once my meds were stable and not changing, going through my GP (and not having to take a day off work) was an improvement.
Packaging on homeopathic products should have at least the same size warnings as tobacco products.
There is the exemplary manga Blame!, in which the intelligent machines have run amok and turned the whole Solar System into one dystopian megastructure, and the safeguard protocols, like an immune system gone awry, have wiped out the majority of humans. The hero is an agent tasked the reviving humanity, which requires him to embark on a centuries-long journey through this megastructure, which is something like Journey to the West meets the Odyssey.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!
It would be nice to have free AGI lawyers, agreed
I would also accept that the 1st century has one less year than future centuries. Everyone said Jan 1, 2000 was "the new millenium" and "the 21st century". It didn't bother anyone except Lua programmers, I'm pretty sure.
UUIDv2 uses Mac addresses, but those turned out to be mostly a bad idea. Today when people say UUID they mean UUIDv4, which is just 124 random bits (and 4 version bits). Assuming a good random number generator it's basically impossible to generate the same UUIDv4 twice by pure chance. Even if you make billions of them per second it's vanishingly unlikely to happen.
> How Much Longer Do You Live on Statins?

TL;DW ten years

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-longer-do-you-live...
> clearly the tap water coming into your house is horribly contaminated with the fish pee, ozone (from UV purification treatment) and the pipes themselves.

But then, the next concept is "like cures like". Why do you think people are so immune to fish piss?
I dunno, I'd make the bold claim that most rocks will repel almost all tigers when deployed energetically enough.
This makes me want to restart working on Owky - my 2FA open-source pet project.

Owky is short for “Own your keys”. Therefore the user owns the data - can easily be exported, and there’s no server sync (on purpose). No iCloud sync, nothing.

The app needs some love indeed, but it’s in a usable state.
Heartbreaking: The Worst People You Know Just Made A Great Point
And look at the bloodshed that caused!

https://douglasadams.com/dna/pedants.html
It seems this article is trying argue in favor of deregulation of production of drugs, such that drug companies can more freely produce to fill demand. Is that necessarily a good solution with addictive substances like amphetamines?

We saw that production and consumption of opiates was far too high, eventually leading to the bankruptcy of Purdue Pharma. In that case it seems like the DEA was not taking a strong enough regulatory role, leading to much harm to Americans.

Are we facing an upcoming epidemic of amphetamine addiction and the DEA is holding it back, or is the DEA causing more harm through regulation of production? It’s impossible to tell from this article alone, but it seems clear we need at least some regulation of production, since the pharmaceutical industry cannot completely self regulate.
To those interested in these dynamics - particularly the interactions between massive wealth, inequality, and the natural world – I'd recommend "Billionaire Wilderness" by Justin Farrell.

https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691176673/bi...
I agree they are chemically different, but their effects are the same. Dosage is the most important thing here.
I still don't understand why these can be sold in American pharmacies.
They didn't use proper html syntax like <article>, <h2>, etc.; only <div>.

With this it's not possible for the browser to know what is the content of the article.
In big tech lots of managers are highly technical all the way up.

But there's two problems: they can't get into the weeds, and they also are subject to the perverse incentive of being rewarded for generating complexity.

Some people fight it, sure, but those who fight it are less likely to be promoted. You don't get rewarded for having less staff under you or eliminating your own role.
Of course, Adobe Compare does this too.

https://www.adobe.com/acrobat/features/compare-pdfs.html
It feels quite plausible that soon enough we’ll be able to ask it to replace copyright music with generated “soundalike” music.
> Hearing a piece of music is the same as hearing the piece of music.

This is way overly reductionist. Hearing a few notes of a piece of music in the background with crappy quality is not the same as hearing the full ucompressed piece with top of the line equipment. It is remarkably analogous to seeing a picture of building.
YouTube doesn't respect fair use anyways in any country.
You could probably still do it. It'd just have to be a distillation system that's not explicitly branded as a countertop water distiller but still describes its function and effects as such.

You see plenty of examples of this on the market already as-is in different sectors. A part for a Ford GT could cost 500 bucks where the same part for a Ford Fiesta could cost 50.
"Q3" just started, so that's 1/3 of the posts that will eventually make up that bar.
You mean, the BDXLs that I keep in a box? They rely on a 3rd party making them and another 3rd party making drives to read and write them I guess, but I'm not sure if that's what you mean?
I'm not sure you should be mixing perfectly rational buyers and imperfect markets together and then hypothesizing A therefore B from those assumptions.

Are there better economic theories than traditional microeconomics? Something that (a) models information asymmetry, (b) models measurement risk/variability of expectations versus actual reward, (c) doesn't assume a perfectly rational consumer or producer - instead follows what we see in the world better?
!!

https://www.toureiffel.paris/en/business/use-image-of-eiffel...
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40884356
Many people who are into homeopathy have no notion of "mechanism". They don't know to ask such questions, or perhaps they don't care to.

In the worst case scenario, they accept lack of mechanism because "there are things science doesn't know", especially if their personal experience (random charlatan demonstration) is duped into belief.
Higher frames rates are good, when you actually get more frames. But motion smoothing is a fraud. It interpolates additional frames. In order to make things look consistent, it has to apply addition filtering to the original frames. The result is you get less information overall, not more.

Even worse, it tends to ruin production values when it's a film with a DoP who knows how to exploit the characteristics of film.

It's like interlaced video. Yeah, you motion that looks like 50 or 60 fps, but the actual information is still only 25 or 30 fps, and it's degraded due to the effects of interlacing.

Motion smoothing is this century's interlacing, and in a few decades we'll have archivists running video through a motion desmoothing counterpart to QTGMC.
Homeopathy is BS, but understanding of edible foraging and plant chemistry is surprisingly helpful for better health and diet.

As an example onions and garlic do nothing to cure or address asthma. They do contain an active chemical that vaporized when they are cut which causes uncontrolled tear production. That same chemical agitates the throat in a way that arrests some amount of night coughing induced by asthma.

Another example is that wild lettuce is a drug like opium. Opium is a thistle, as are artichokes, and thistles are closely related to the lactuca genus that comprises lettuce. The drugs in both opium and lettuce are found in the plant latex containing two analgesics and a depressant. Lettuce drug, lactucarium, is not known to be habit forming and is minor though. It is just recommended as a topical treatment for minor skin injuries.

Another is that common fruits like pears, apples, and citrus contain drug like chemicals that alter the metabolism. This is super potent in grapefruit and has been known to cause fatal drug interactions in people on prescribed medicine. These chemicals are again magnified in commercial fruit juice since commercial fruit juice represents a high concentration of juice than found in actual fruit and without any fiber to slow digestion. If you find yourself mixing gold flakes with liquor and orange juice you might be inducing long term metal toxicity to your body even though gold is inert under normal dietary conditions.
You're much better off getting an older TZ/TZe P-touch with a USB port from before the more recent enshittification. CUPS supports them well and there are utilities that can print images direct to them.
> juniors & seniors as interchangeable cogs

welcome to the car factory
Any plans to release an Apple Watch app? That’s my one requirement for a 2FA app.
"It's a miracle! Take physics and bin it! Water has memory, and whilst its memory of a long lost drop of onion juice seems infinite, it somehow forgets all the poo it's had in it." --Tim Minchin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtYkyB35zkk
I agree with what you say above, but my perception is that most people still view the current crop of models as a step or two away from superintelligence. That superintelligence, or AGI, is a matter of continued improvement along the current lines, rather than along entirely different lines.
Boy, I bet all those people in Flint, Michigan are glad they're immune to lead now.
Another day, another article saying not to use UUIDs as PKs. I've maintained systems using UUIDs stored as char(36) with million record tables without issue - This is not an endorsement, just explaining that this is bikeshedding. Should you use v7 when you can? Sure. Would int/bigint be faster in your benchmarks? Sure. But the benefits totally outweigh the speed differences until you get to a very large system. But instead of worrying about this, spend your energy on a million other things first and then celebrate when UUIDs become your bottleneck.
How many countries does that? Why do people allow it?
I for one am glad they they sell clean water in pharmacies, and support its continued sale!
I feel like if any meaningful amount of society adopted a “avoid copyrighted music” behaviour, the problem would resolve itself pretty fast.
Because copyright holders hate Fair Use
Because they are not labeled as medical products. It is a loophole.
It's all about picking the right tool for the job. I don't see easily constructing a Discounted Cash Flow model in a relational database making a ton of sense. Sure, you could have the data in one, and use a php script to handle the modeling, and output it on a webpage, but the reality is, a spreadsheet just does it a lot easier, and is what most people would want.

For handling structured data, spreadsheets can do it, but they're not always going to be the best tool for the job, as they do a lot of other things, too, which means if you're not careful, your data will lose its appropriate structure.
Neat idea.

Board makers, please make 11.5”x16.5” boards of whatever type. Despite use of US units, this is a universal size - it will fit in the bottom of a half-sheet pan (13”x18” top dimensions with sides tapering to bottom) which is AIUI an international standard. Standard size kitchen towel on counter, pan on towel, board in pan to catch any juices that spill off. Works best if board has feet to elevate it a bit and catch more volume.

Obviously useful for large roasts, but also superb for watermelon. Also a good size for standalone use, but the sheet pan method really helps. If you buy one fancy-finished sheet pan, it looks good enough to use at the table for service and keeps things clean.
Just watch all the Rich Hickey videos on YouTube and you’ll understand where it’s all gone wrong.
It's definitely an old law that never took data cables into account, but the current interpretation is that any cable that carries electrical current has to be installed and certified by an electrician.
The 10,000x YOLO Researcher Metagame – With Yi Tay of Reka
Graphene OS user, don't use they FUTO keyboard but I do use the audio to text app from fdroid. Its really good and accurate, and can handle background noise quite well
what if we have grossly anthropomorphized consciousness, and it is really a simple, or fundamental [universal] process of informatic mis/matching rules.
This is exactly the approach I'm planning on for my own language.

I have a 3-way split:

1) core.* - basic support things like builtin traits, etc; this is the only namespace/prefix that is "special" to the compiler

2) std.* - things you might see in a minimalist stdlib. String manipulation, some useful algorithms, math, etc.

3) etc.* - technically part of the package ecosystem, but officially supported. All the usual suspects like advanced I/O, networking, base64, and whatnot would be found here. Making it part of the package management means it can be versioned independently from the compiler and in principle even broken between major versions (not that I'm planning to, but design mistakes happen)

(Exact name of "core" TBD)
We'll see. Rightsholders are doing everything they can to fight that, and having the laws and giant corporations all doing their bidding makes them much more powerful than "the people." They will fight this with everything they have, which is a considerable number of billions.
Yes, this is on our roadmap: https://github.com/ente-io/ente/discussions/485
Eventually you realize that a lot of these tech companies are simply "the blind leading the blind."
I’ve never understood why this isn’t explored more.

It’s like, at some point we discovered the placebo effect, which has got to have been a pretty shocking result, right? I just can’t fathom that the entire scientific community just went “ah, hm, right, placebo. I see. I guess we need to do our random-controlled-trials with a placebo control group now”. Wait, that’s it? Nobody went “wtf woa we can cure a % of people with empty pills, how does that work and how can we up the %?”

I just don’t get it, it seems to me that the existence of the placebo effect is hard evidence that there’s a mind-body connection and we can cure body stuff with mind stuff (and vice versa, probably), so why does nearly all of that remain firmly in alternative woo-woo land?
This is what happens when you reject S-expressions as the only true form of syntax. People will keep arguing all kinds of nonsense, for the same reason that in logic, falsehood can be followed by anything you want.
Tangentially: I just got rid of Authy, it took me 2h to to migrate everything, moved to apple passwords (yea yea, still propriatary) which has a so far solid export feature.

I will never forgive Authy/Twillio for deliberately making exports impossible.
On your sixth birthday we put a big 5 on your cake and call you a 5 year old all year.

Can't say I've ever had to refer to someone's first year or first decade of their life, but sure I'd do that if it came up. Meanwhile, 0-indexed age comes up all the time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Loko
The first link in the article points at some interesting data sets

https://studentaid.gov/data-center/student/portfolio

About ~1/8 is in 30-90 day delinquency per: https://studentaid.gov/sites/default/files/fsawg/datacenter/...

So ~3/8 are in some other non-pay situation, with some anecdotal stories in the article sharing some of the reasons
AFAIK a lot of Hollywood visual effects are done on Linux + Nvidia so they probably support that market.
With a splash of Joe Armstrong!
I still haven't settled the nature of free will and determinism, aka who's actually controlling the trains, them or their drivers?
Is it really 3/4ths the language? (mostly culled libraries, or features?) I remember reading an old pdf published by the US air force about the subset of c++ features you're allowed to use for contracted software, and it's so different it may as well be a different language.

I think I found it via a stackexchange answer about how the "Wiring" language for Arduino sketches differs from regular c++. In Wiring, it's mostly things like no rtti, no virtual methods not resolvable at compile time, no exceptions, unsafe-math, permissive casting, pre-build system concatenates all .ino files into one .cpp file, very limited libraries, and some default includes.
How'd she take it?
I'd be curious to ask someone from outside the UK and the US which version of the show they thought of first
Well, we all know what else fish do in the water and I don't want my kids being born with gills.
> I don't think we have a software crisis. Millions of programmers are able to create more or less useful programs all over the word; everything including your toaster is running software on it succesfully enough; and the community was able to build programs that are accessible to all from a 5 year old kid all the way to your grandparents. Where is the crisis in it?

About that toaster point; this is the actual, real, concrete example of the software crisis. Your toaster runs bad code. Bad code that is not designed with resiliency or security in mind but is connected to internet. It reduces your toaster's lifetime. In the past, you might have had a toaster which lasted 10 years. Now, because of the bad software and maybe even mandated Wifi or Bluetooth connection, your toaster is garbage after 2 years because the vendor stopped pushing updates. Or maybe there were no updates at all. But because we might not always directly see it, or because the current hyper consumption and never-ending buying of new products, the crisis is not always that visible.

We might be even okay that toaster stopped working after 2 years, and did not pay attention or knew why that happened. But maybe it was part of Mirai botnet https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/ddos/glossary/mirai-botn...

Likely toaster was not part of that, as they use simpler chips, but who knows.
There are all sorts of homeopathy theories depending on who you talk to and what day of the week it is.
It's still really impressive! Comparisons were thrown around to nushell, which is also a really impressive project. I can see the vision and I hope to follow along! :)
The calendar goes from 1 BC to 1 AD, there is no year 0.
The joke about homeopathy is that the guy that invented it knew that it didn’t work. He invented an heal plan that included fresh air and forrest walks and good food and exercise… the obvious today. But his patients wanted also medicine too … because you know that’s how people are apparently… so he invented homeopathy and the nice story to it. But people should primary do the other things.
It’s funny that only his fake medicine is so successful today.
In the U.S., sometimes a medicine is marked as “homeopathic” just to avoid regulation, and actually does contain a real active ingredient. This is the case with zinc lozenges (for colds), which contain an actual therapeutic dose of zinc but are presumably marketed as “homeopathic” since the FDA doesn’t regulate herbal or homeopathic “treatments.” Not sure if anything like that happens in Germany as well though.
Oh my, now I'm imagining a hipster bar that uses "only playing non-copyrighted music" as a way to incentivize all the wannabe youtubers and instagrammers and tiktokers to record their content there.
I had horrible pollen allergies.
My mother took me to a homeopath (in addition to regular doctors)
She prescribed some tablets / pills to dissolve under the tunge,
that had some pollen in them.

It worked pretty well for allergies but not the best for teeth.
Just building up resistance I would think.

I know you can get similar treatment now from regular doctors.

So my one and only interaction was fairly successful.

I have never sought one out for anything else.
I'm curious about how the project name was chosen considering there are existing tools with the same name.