skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> where you literally would have no idea what it would look like until several minutes later when it finally came out on the printer?

That is why print preview is a good idea (which is possible with most modern computers; this can be done independently of WYSIWYG editing). For example, if you write a TeX file and then make the DVI file and use xdvi or another previewer to display it on the computer before you print it on paper.

Reveal Codes would be another possibility, perhaps in combination with a "partial WYSIWYG" editor which does not display reflowing etc in the editor and only in the preview; if you use Reveal Codes then formatting codes are displayed (e.g. bold, italics, etc), but you can also display the bold, italics, etc directly during editing. This can be a in between way, which gives you some of the benefits of WYSIWYG and some of the benefits of non-WYSIWYG.
North American Conservatives (i.e. citizen of the United States) have done olympic-worthy gymnastics to align with the aforementioned felon's redefinition of conservatism belief in America, even while those beliefs actively contradict their religion and life-long belief systems, or even their own on going behaviors and decisions.

I say this as someone living in Pennsylvania, drowning in the hypocrisy and escalating hate this group of people has been spewing for the last ~8 years.

Therefore I can completely understand why someone might focus on that as the most relevant definition on 'conservatism' today in the USA.
Be a foster parent [1]. Adopt [2]. Volunteer with in need kids [3]. Lose yourself in the service of others. Life is short, everyone dies, you must find the meaning with the short spark you've been given. If you're prone to self deletion because a door closed you wish had not, grieve, pick yourself up, and get back on the horse. Also, therapy and cultivate a support system. "Embrace the suck."

[1] https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/research-data-technology/statisti...

[2] https://www.adoptuskids.org/meet-the-children/children-in-fo...

[3] https://pudding.cool/2024/03/teenagers/
Smart use of a prop!

I also didn't think about how an older can might not look as good on camera as a brand new can.
Not many models can produce the Microsoft logo like that.

Wonder if it’s just Flux
Consumer Reports just published (as in last week) a report[1] surveying a number of these services and found almost all of them to be a little bit effective, none of them to be highly effective, and the cheapest of the lot to be the most effective (EasyOptOuts).

Of note, opting out of a service by yourself by hand was only 70% effective ($0). Using EasyOptOuts was around 65% effective ($20) and using Confidently was only 6% effective ($120).

[1] https://innovation.consumerreports.org/wp-content/uploads/20...
Unfortunately, you have to make accounts on each agency. You need to find the way to "freeze" on each site. They will try to sell you a "lock" option, but the "freeze" option is free (federally mandated).
Show HN: Egg Timer with customizable presets, sound alerts, and dark mode
I built a sleek and functional egg timer with customizable presets, sound alerts, and dark mode.
On the bottom right there is an ID that looks like a YouTube video ID
should be mentioned that Go has optional flags already built in to the compiler for detection of data races.
I noticed the "Polish" too but thought it was too funny to fix it
Correct, police have no statutory immunity from criminal prosecution, except where a statute explicitly states it (a few statutes say "Except when committed by a peace officer in his lawful duties" etc).

OTOH, judges are mostly ex-prosecutors, and if I were this cop I would take a bench trial and gamble on the judge acquitting me regardless of the evidence. As one judge said to me, on the record, "police officers are allowed to commit crimes to gather evidence."
Why do all those graphs peak at the same ages so clearly?

I am probably missing something, but if this phenomenon is so clearcut in the graphs, how come it took so long to be discovered?
Good. Natural parks are not the playground for rich people.
Joe Biden was pressured to drop
>"This means 40% of the planet’s total habitable land is dedicated to animal products, despite the fact that meat, dairy and farmed fish combined provide just 17% of humanity’s calories."

It's complicated. Not all calories are equal, this obviates the fact that those calories may be the main sources of specific proteins, vitamins and minerals etc. that are essential to human health and not easily obtained elsewhere.

I get what they're trying to promote but its not a completely valid standpoint to take, and I say this as a vegan.

Plus its not something easy to transition from for the majority of people because so many complex systems are involved that are resistant to change for a variety of reasons. Including profit motive and general resistance to change. (e.g. Just think about the amount of time it took the wine industry to move away from using cork even though it was proven new bottle sealing methods were superior.)

I still applaud the general idea, and they mention vitamin's, advantages of fermentation etc. later - but this paragraph really irked me.
> Why aren't companies treated the same?

It's more of a hostage negotiation. You want to hurt the company and it's owners, but if you sue too hard, you're likely to just hurt it's workers and it's customers.

It's why preventing companies from reaching _anything near_ monopoly size is so important for corporate jurisprudence. "Too big to fail" is just the tip of this insane iceberg we've allowed to grow into our economy.
Suno admits it was trained on 'essentially all music files on the internet'
Nice try, but:

"According to The Original Series (TOS) writers' guide, the effective range of a transporter is 40,000 kilometers."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transporter_(Star_Trek)
Show HN: Beating OpenAI's structured outputs on cost, accuracy and speed
I've never heard of this "peanut cake" but am very interested, does it taste horrible or what's the reasons that it's not sold for humans to eat?
Case Study: IPng's mail servers
For non-Americans (and Americans) that don't quite understand what SSN is and why it's a problem, CGP Grey [1] has a great (and short) video about the history and why it's not technically an identifier, but has become one.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
No unfortunately we do not currently support US citizens residing abroad. There are a few restrictions on opening an account, namely: must be 18 years old or older, has a U.S. social security number, a permanent U.S. residential address and phone number, and currently resides in the U.S.

Feel free to check back here for updates https://help.double.finance/en/articles/9457976-who-can-open...
I think it’s important to distinguish between identification and authentication. As a unique database primary key, they’re fine. The problem was when a bunch of businesses decided it’d be too expensive to check things like government ID and started using them for authentication purposes. Nobody blinks an eye at using a phone number or email address on an application, but we should treat using your SSN or past addresses for authentication the same way we would if someone says they could approve a loan if you know your phone number and zip code.
Wow. Well, I'll take the correction. I've never heard of anything like that. However, while this is also scary, I still think its unfair to say the evidence of a potential problem type in a new technology like EVs is not concerning, and to say that the likelihood of fire is greater in ICE (because I don't think its fair to add in the comparison of fire risk while turned on to that of fire risk when turned off)
Then it would be vulnerable to MITM.
It's hard to criminally charge someone for non-violently violating someone's constitutional rights.

You can, perhaps, use an "Official Misconduct" statute as the basis for the charge, but I've not heard of it done.

There are federal criminal statutes for violently violating someone's constitutional rights under the US constitution.

Edit: I'm probably wrong:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41241327
Baijiu latte, thats quite the concept. I wonder if it’s baijiu flavored syrup or the real deal.
Yeah, I entirely agree that it's a system set up for the benefit of the rich.

Historically speaking, that's pretty much all we have ever had.

I do want to echo the difference though. In the 'old system' of hoarding dragons, the money was useless. In this 'new' inflation system, the money is being sent out into the economy to invest in things. See the ZIRP of the 2010s. The money is working, not the dragons, but at least that is something.

As for the elderly, the maximum outflows of social security in the US will be in ~2030. So expect a lot of chatter leading up to that year and then for it to die down (literally).
> "Buying Positive or Negative Reviews: The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives conditioned on the writing of consumer reviews expressing a particular sentiment, either positive or negative. It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed."

Sounds like Amazon's review structure requires a complete overhaul...
Love 4.
This is pretty interesting. It looks like solein has about 1.5x the protein content of whey protein and a much lower cost. It seems like they could compete in the supplement or meal replacement markets pretty easily.
> Portofino has been part of a regional national park since 1935, and up until a few years ago, the installation of AC units on its pastel-coloured buildings was entirely banned.

The difference is in the fact that we do not care about profit - natural parks exist to preserve the nature. Period. No dogs, no AC, no people, we do not care. Nature is the priority. No discussion allowed. Portofino lies in one of such parks. Adapt or leave, if you are uncomfortably hot.
Generate videos and graphics from a phrase using AI assisted design
Genolve is launching a major new feature: AI assisted design. Create videos, slideshows or graphics from a single phrase while the AI does the heavy lifting to choose the perfect fonts, matching colors, animations, text and images generated specifically for your purpose.
Got questions about shadcn/pro, Next or React? Feel free to ask—I’m here to help!
SwiftKey and Niagara.
But it basically is about that?
This is a cool project!
> If you want to replace by pasting, you'd lose the first selection by selecting what you want to have replaced.

Yes, that's the tradeoff; you'd have to delete that separately. This would be quite close the X11 primary selection and middle-click paste. I think that works reasonably well on its own, but trying to provide both models as X11 does is a mess.
The key thing to note here is that it is completely _lexical_ in scope - this only generates one tagged template even when called multiple times:

function lexicalMagic() {
const callHistory = [];

function tag(strings, ...values) {
callHistory.push(strings);
// Return a freshly made object
return {};
}

function evaluateLiteral() {
return tag`Hello, ${"world"}!`;
}
return { evaluateLiteral, callHistory }
}

We can create multiple "instances" of our closures, just as we expect and they do in fact produce distinct everything-else:

> const first = lexicalMagic()
> const second = lexicalMagic()
> first.evaluateLiteral === second.evaluateLiteral
false
> first.callHistory === second.callHistory
false

Using them doesn't behave any differently than the unclosured versions (as expected):

> first.evaluateLiteral() === first.evaluateLiteral()
false
> first.callHistory[0] === first.callHistory[1]
true
> second.evaluateLiteral() === second.evaluateLiteral()
false
> second.callHistory[0] === second.callHistory[1]
true

However, there is only one instance of the template literal, not two as we might expect. This is really helpful for some cases, but it definitely is surprising given the rest-of-JS:

> first.callHistory[0] === second.callHistory[1]
true
Had a similar idea, https://pypi.org/project/ai-alchemy/
That kind of blanket statement is not only factually wrong, it does no one any good.

Almost all food consumed in the world is mass produced, and most staple foods (rice, grain) have been mass produced for centuries now. While we've increased automation in some things, using a robotic metal arm to harvest grain doesn't change anything about how healthy the grain is.

Now what sorts of pesticides are used can change things, but being "organic" doesn't change this, as some of the initial (early 2000s) organic pesticides were found to be horrifically toxic. Each substance applied to food needs to be judged on its own.

The real problem with food designed for mass consumption (different than mass produced!) is that it is engineered to be hyper palatable, so people want to eat more of it. Think potato chips (very few people ever open a bag of chips and have a reasonable number!) or any other "snack" food. Individually the ingredients may be safe (in moderation, and note that plenty of "healthy" foods are bad for you in excess), but when packaged together in a way that encourages over-consumption (and then backed by an ad campaign that does the same), negative health effects start to appear.

And FWIW plenty of "highly processed" foods are healthy, the issue once again comes down to most foods in the highly processed category also being engineered to encourage over-consumption. However things like whey protein are highly processed and healthy.

All that said, eating nothing from a bag or a box or a restaurant will generally improve a person's health, but that is largely due to the reduction in calories.
> It's hard to make collection, aggregation, and sharing of facts illegal.

Sure, but the US has a precedent in HIPAA. Not saying it's copy-paste, but... maybe it should be.

I would prefer the law be more restrictive than less, because I don't believe this is true:

> law is justifiably looking for a scalpel treatment here to address the specific problem without putting the quest to understand reality on the wrong side of the line.

I believe the law may use that noble goal as cover for the actual goal: restrict the ability of capital holders to accumulate capital as little as possible. Data sharing isn't a public good in any way. It's mostly not even useful for the targeting purposes it claims. It's extremely reckless rent-seeking that knowingly allows innocent people to have their lives wrecked by identity theft.
"Normally I’d rather not be operated on by a surgeon so strung out that"

Normally no one wants to be part of a "mass casualty event" but if one ends up in one, I would be glad if competent people do the best they can and not stop on arbitary regulations meant for normal times.
> It is always "running" and if you flip away you will miss it.

Throw in some ads and it will be everything I hate about broadcast TV.
Lubricating a sliding door
Quieting a squeaky door hinge
Lubricating an HVAC register lever

Wd-40 is not really a lubricant. You can use WD-40 to clean gunk out of things, but you really need to follow it up with a proper lubricating oil
I didn't realize that statute applied to non-violent violations, thank you.
Apple Aiming to Launch Tabletop Robotic Home Device as Soon as 2026
Sounds like a made-up definition of Conservatism as 'that which I do not agree with'. It is not a very good definition, if you really want to find out what it is about you could read (or listen to) some of Roger Scruton's works. Here's an interview with Scruton to give some ideas of what it is about:

https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/07/roger-scruton-meaning...

You do not need to agree with him or his definition of Conservatism and there are other definitions of the term which are also applicable but none of those definitions have any resemblance to what you posed.

Musk is a centrist, not a conservative. He used to stand to the left of centre but has been moved to the right of centre by virtue of the left moving further left, thereby moving the centre to the left as well while Musk staid put.

Society needs conservatives just like it needs centrists and progressives and whatever other names you want to give to these philosophies and/or ideologies. A world made out of only progressives never gets anywhere since they will never find out what works well and what does not since their aim is to shape the future by means of societal change. A world made out of only progressives will eventually grow stale when the rate of change in the environment outpaces societies' capacity for change. Progressives can make good innovators but tend to be less able at keeping things running. Conservatives can be good at keeping things running but tend to be less inclined to innovation. These are broad brush strokes but the essence is sound, society tends to work best when there is a balance between conservatives and progressives.

You might notice some parallels: architects tend to be lousy builders, builders tend to be uninspired architects. Developers tend to be less gifted at UI design, UI designers tend to be sloppy developers. Copy editors tend to be unremarkable writers, writers tend to be less effective copy editors.
Not playing a game of word association. When accusing a public figure of being a criminal, focus on explicitly illegal, not immoral acts.
It's one of the regrets of my life that I didn't take start calculus my first term in college. I'd done pre-calc in high school, but I'm a Humanities guy, and maths - even when I "get" it (and I'd done fine in high school) - drops out of my head pretty quickly. By the time I had an opportunity to continue, and signed up for a "refresher" pre-calc course, I realized I'd have had to go right the way back and re-learn enough algebra and geometry stuff that it was too heavy a lift. Maybe when I'm retired and have time on my hands I'll sign up for some courses at a community college. I still remember how satisfying it was to grok a problem or a concept that had seemed impossible.

So, ahem: is there any possibility that I'll be able to understand "the sum of the sequence of the reciprocals of the natural numbers is equal to 1/12"? I understand (I think!) each of the words in that sentence, but I can't make them make sense! I've got as far as

1 + 1/2 + 1/3, etc.

So how does something that starts off with 1 + [something] end up < 1?
I've actually been on a team that did agile well. (XP, which is a subset.) It worked just like it was supposed to...

... until an upper manager couldn't understand our progress without documents the way he was used to. He also insisted on a large increase of scope without a change of schedule. And that was that.

It wasn't that we were failing to deliver. It was that upper management couldn't handle the lack of their normal process.

It also put too much pressure on the person playing the "customer" role - perhaps because we were a very large XP team (30 people).

It worked well as long as management let it, though. We delivered some releases, with solid, maintainable code, on time.
I spent many hours many years ago studying CT and I was left very frustrated. Endless definitions without any meaningful results or insights. My (admittedly cartoonish) takeaway from Category Theory was: "We can think of all math as consisting of things and relationships between things!"

Like, ok?

It seems to appeal to computer science folks who want to level up their math chops, enjoy an exclusive "boutique" branch, and long for grand unification schemes. But IMHO it simply doesn't deliver. It's a whole lotta talk to say nothing.

I always compare with abstract algebra, where you start with a basic definition of groups and within a few pages you reach Lagrange's Theorem and now you understand something amazing about primes and sets, and you can keep squeezing and twisting the basic definitions for ever-more complex and brain-punishing results.
IANAL; I believe you are referring to the second prong of the qualified immunity (QI): "right infringed has to be "clearly established" at the time of the official's conduct."

We should maintain QI but this second test needs an update.
What if it's a large nuclear power plant?
Or, someone steals your car, commits a murder with it and places it right back at the same location in the exact condition.

The police will come after you and you will need to explain. But you still have your car.
It is actually the proof that the institution in power will do whatever it takes to remain there
I suspect the downvotes are just because this is a well-known result whose proofs are rather easy to google. But I like running into one of today's 10,000, I guess. https://xkcd.com/1053/
We already went through this with synthetic meat. It’s really hard to beat the efficiency and self replication of plants and animals. Keeping everything sterile and exchanging gases and nutrients is not an easy task in a lab.

https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/lab-grown-meat-carbon-foot...

I have experience growing up human cells, fungi, and bacteria in bioreactors and it doesn’t scale like a chicken house or field of corn. Maybe the Finnish bacteria is better than meat but I have my doubts it gets to where it needs to be.
All sorts of things - network blocking, devtools extensions, job-site salary revealers, design tools
No particular disagreement there!
How to sell some secondary at Series A or B
Great response. The value is in depth not just soundbites.
Mass Market DVDs Are Dead: Long Live Heritage Physical Media
Nope. They shut down in 2012 and their campus was taken over by a popular coding bootcamp.
That 8th entry pouring loads on WD40 on trees is just crazy, that thing is petroleum distillate !
I knew someone falsely declared dead (probably a paperwork mixed up around pensions when his ex-spouse died). Without warning, he lost all of his pensions, social security, medicare, etc, along with most financial institutions freezing accounts and canceling credit cards. Many long phone calls, letters, and lawyers eventually resolve most, but that never fully purged the public and private death records so there would be random issue for the rest of his life (failing fraud checks, brief interruptions to pensions, trouble with the cable company).
The complexity involved in maintaining space partitioning, tree subdivision etc can end up being a big hassle, especially if you have huge numbers of moving objects.

It's much easier to write, debug and optimize something that manages a single list of entities, or a grid of i.e. 256x256 'cells' that each contain a list of entities, than it is to set up a complex partitioning scheme that maintains all your tree invariants every time an object moves.

In the days of i.e. DOOM or Quake the performance of these underlying systems was much more important than it is now, so it (IMO) made more sense for the authors of those engines to cook up really complex partitioning systems. But these days CPUs are really good at blasting through sorted arrays of items, and less good at chasing linked lists/trees (comparatively) than they used to be, due to pipelining. Your CPU time isn't going to be spent on managing those entity lists but will instead be spent on things like AI, rendering, etc.