skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do modern South Koreans really feel more resource-constrained today than they did in the 1960s,

Probably feelings wise, yes. It's one thing to be dirt poor along with everyone else around you, and another thing to be dirt poor in 9m2 apartment, and seeing skyscraper lofts from your window where 1 month rent is equivalent to your yearly salary.

> Korea is perhaps the clearest disproof of the resources -> children argument,

Wrong. Korea is, in reality, a perfect example of resources -> children argument, a perfect example of how bad capitalism is for society.

Korea has a huge income inequality: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_inequality_in_South_K...

That means a huge portion of the population is considered poor. Hence, a large portion of their population feels like they don't have the resources to have children, afford daycare, rent, food, etc.
The line is wherever Phil Schiller fucking says it is.
Three Studies of MDMA Treatment Retracted by Scientific Journal
Eager loading is a technical term with a specific meaning, contrasting with lazy loading.

Be the text came out of an llm the real question for the user is, does this technical term actually to this situation.

If it does, then it's an appropriate word choice carrying additional information.
Not sure what you're comparing to, but Go modules are probably the best dependency management system in any language.
This is worse because it implies "up to 700 miles" of range, which is not supported by the source.
Ok, what's the underlying storage?
Biggest problem is that manually adding/removing forwards in a session is a hassle. There is no standard way to communicate (to user or to ssh client) that application wants something forwarded. Finally tcp sockets do not have any sort of access control, which is problem especially on server-side.

Smaller problem is that because the applications all appear as localhost you lose some of the compartmentalization that browsers have, so different applications might end up seeing each others cookies/localstorage/cache/etc.
How much of this is explained by the increase in obesity in young adults? I don’t think it’s a coincidence that the first specific cancer TFA mentions is colorectal. In the last sixty years the obesity rate has tripled with morbid obesity growing nearly ten fold.
Show HN: usBabyNames.js – historical data on US names 1880-2023
Try using `kitty --single-instance`.
https://archive.ph/afDtp
I second this suggestion. For one use-case that it’s just a single page, I’m using SVG + rsvg-convert.
It feels like everyday a new paper is published showing either massive levels of compounds that interfere with endocrine system in the blood. Microplastics, being the biggest one. So when I see headlines like this, "Cancer is up in young people." I can't help but sigh and think, this is expected.

I'm not sure what the right course of action here is, but do we really want to continue with a model where we continue pumping new and unknown compounds into our bodies and the ecosystem with little thought to the downstream impacts?

Some of these compounds have made our lives orders of magnitude better and yet they are wreaking havoc in our lives in ways we'll probably never understand.
Do you know what kinds of cars exist where you don't have to inspect the UI before you begin driving to make sure critical features haven't moved?

All of them except Tesla.
In Apples case they changed that several years ago so you can definitely charge your Apple users more.

However you will get the app rejected if you show any sign of showing users that you can buy it cheaper elsewhere than the Apple system. You can potentially get away with it by keeping things vague, but even then you might get rejected for “discouraging the in-app purchase system”. This doesnt apply to the EU in which these specific rules were changed very recently.
Easy: because it costs a lot.

Average annual tuition at private 4 year colleges is $38k. Average faculty to student ratio among these schools is 10:1. Average salary for a professor at these schools is $134k.

In other words, about 35% of college tuition revenue is going to faculty paychecks. This does not include staff, who are lower paid but far more numerous. For context, in a for-profit business, typically 15-30% of revenue goes to payroll. Then you have overhead for all these employees.

And it's not like these people are being paid particularly lavish sums. If anything for their experience level they are typically underpaid. Education is just an incredibly labor intensive field. It doesn't help that having a low student:faculty ratio is seen as one of a university's most important metrics, so efforts to improve labor efficiency are disincentivized.

Throw in facility upkeep, insurance, costs of marketing and recruitment. These institutions are generally not printing money.

Yeah, the top few dozen schools with strong alumni networks and massive investment portfolios are flush with cash, but there are thousands of schools that aren't.
The problem I find is that, other than my iPhone, the reason I often can't find an iDevice is that I haven't used it recently and have no idea where I left it. Unless it was attached to a charging cable it probably isn't in a position to ding or otherwise be found.
Colorectal is also related to bad diets: too much processed food, not enough fiber, questionable additives, possibly microplastics, etc.
5 days ago | 97 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41178776
The one that keeps popping up for me is "fosters"...
PGLite is amazing for integration testing of queries against a real in-memory db.

Is it possible to use PGLite for that purpose in non-JS environments, like e.g. golang?
Show HN: Coompare – A daily contest to upload and rank AI-generated images
I made Coompare after experimenting with many different image generation models such as Midjourney, Dall-E and others. Each model has different prompt and language requirements in order to extract the most out of it and generate the best image possible. I wanted to make the process of learning to write prompts much easier and to visually demonstrate the differences in image results with prompts using different models.

Coompare hosts a contest every day, each with a different theme. Users can upload a maximum of 1 picture per day (they can delete and resubmit at any time) to the contest. Head-to-head matchups are generated for different pairs of images with the results affecting that player's rating. By the end of the contest, the photo with the highest rating wins!

I hope that Coompare becomes a place to browse some really cool artwork from many different artists and models and to inspire creativity through friendly competition. Whether you're an experienced prompt engineer or just starting out with image generation, Coompare offers a unique platform to showcase your skills, learn from others, and see how different models interpret the same idea.

- https://coompare.io

Any feedback is appreciated! I've built the site in ~2 weeks so there is certainly plenty of room for improvement and new ideas.
I vaguely recall them imposing an anti-steering kind of provision, though, didn’t they? Where you can do what you want on your own channels, but you can’t tip off the iOS user to that fact at the point of sale in the app?

I vaguely remember the courts being unimpressed with that requirement, and Apple maliciously complying with the judgment by allowing something hilariously minimal and uninformative, like “one tiny in-app link to your main website but you can’t say the word ‘cheaper,’” something along those lines.

(Edited to add: yes, sounds like that came post-Epic, and involved an even more Dantean set of caveats than I’d remembered. Among other things, not only can there be no more than one link, but that one link can only ever appear in one place in the app, it can’t “discourage” in-app payment, and its one appearance can’t be during the payment flow:

https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/01/16/apples-app-store-... )
What opposition to delivery drones shows abt big tech's disrespect for democracy
My lab is trying to purchase a new office computer with heavy enough workloads to justify a mid-to-high tier CPU. I recommended that we buy an AMD machine primarily because of the current intel issues.

The first problem I ran into is that the majority of companies selling pre-built computers do not offer an AMD option (and pre-built is a must. We are not allowed to use grant money to buy all the parts and assemble ourselves, which would have been my preferred option). And when they do, they are often limited in selection and might only be older generation or budget-tier CPUs.

I did eventually manage to find an AMD option that fit our needs and my boss forwarded to billing for approval. We got significant push back with IT recommending various intel machines that they claimed were "better" (although also several hundred dollars more expensive), but were also available through the universities preferred sales partners.

We could probably fight and get them to allow us to purchase what we want (the fact that they have to "allow" it when 100% of our funding is non-university dollars is a separate, ridiculous issue), but honestly, at this point we have probably already spent more staff time on this than the real world differences, even including the micro-code problems, are worth.

I'd bet that a lot of corporate contexts, and even home enthusiast customers, operate on the same momentum: they have always bought intel and so they will continue to buy intel. Even in the absence of some strong belief that intel is "better".
Might make sense to net zero tax sugar (and hand consumers the taxes at the end of the year). Obesity is the main correlate according to most of these studies.
Or come in too steep and burn up. Or miss the target drop zone and possibly come down in the wilderness or ocean (it's meant to land on flat and level land.)
My understanding (which may be wrong) is that they don't really understand how it's failed at this point so it could be anything from "no thrust" to "explodes and sends debris into the ISS".
Ah I was wondering why you can't actually see the finish line in the image. This wasn't really described well. Are the shadows of the runners artificial then?
The problems we need addressing could be happening in decades (some are manifesting already) so the rates of today do not have to be the ones in 50 years. I would rather focus on the closer dangers, than on what might happen in centuries... we are already over 8 billions, why would I worry if in centuries we are a billion less? Humanity will be still around and that looks to me like the only important gain.
Well, all I'll say is it's about time
Yes, it’s an even larger format than traditional 70mm. The cells are physically larger. Anecdote: Nolan worked with Kodak to invent black & white IMAX film for Oppenheimer.

https://www.kodak.com/en/motion/blog-post/oppenheimer/
Hmm -- call me crazy, but I feel like the positioning of the camera might have wrongly decided the race for Lyles. The first torso to cross the line wins.

If you look at the still image in the article, Lyles' right shoulder is leaning forward and visible to the camera, positioned to his right.

But Thompson's left shoulder seem to be leaning forward, but is hidden in the camera by his head and neck. It's possible Thompson's left shoulder is ahead of Lyles' right shoulder, but the image doesn't seem sufficient evidence to conclude on that.

What do other think?
This topic has been beaten to death, and being pedantic about the definition of an enum to say "actually go has them" isn't helpful. There are dozens of articles from the last decade which explain the problems. Those problems don't exist in plenty of programming languages.

No language is perfect, but go's particular set of bugbears is a good tradeoff
High speed cameras usually record into RAM and then dump the recording out to an SSD in slower-than-realtime when it ends. Since the recording duration is limited by RAM capacity they have rolling modes which record continuously into a ring buffer and then store the current contents when the shutter is pressed, so that unpredictable events can be captured after they happen.
I was going to say I've only ever seen it in the specs of hobbyist-level devices and I doubt it's being used anywhere on scale even inside China, but El Reg says:

> The C910-based TH1520 SoC is used by French cloud Scaleway.

https://www.theregister.com/2024/08/07/riscv_business_thead_...
It's hard to take such a conspiracy theory credibly. Police are consistently conservative with a strong authoritarian bent. Even in so-called "blue" cities, cops vote Trump. Thin blue line, defund, all that.

To suppose that the police have been consistently, across the entire country, coordinating this massive coverup for the sake of Democratic talking points, is beyond absurd. Not a single Trump-loving whistleblower, across how many police departments in the country? Absurd.
"Tapestry" is another frequently used word I've noticed.
This is no surprise.

We had a major surge in violent crime associated with COVID. Which makes sense - COVID was very stressful for all of this, and stressed out people act out in a variety of ways. Now that the stress is better, crime is dropping back to where it was headed before.
reddit's printsf subreddit is the best place to discuss sci fi and fantasy imho. Low spam rate, good, in-depth discussion, and obscure recommendations from people who genuinely love the genre and aren't judgy about it.
That's one possibility.

Unfortunately, failure modes are not limited to "the thruster(s) shut down before the desired burn was completed".

Worse case looks kinda like this, but in space: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/spacex-explosion-destroyed-crew...
> miss the reentry cone and skip off the atmosphere into space?

My layman understanding is that this was never an option even for the Apollo trips from the moon - the problem was that a wrong re-entry angle wouldn't slow the capsule down enough to bring it down to the surface, and it would have to orbit several more times before finally slowing down enough to return.

This was a problem for two reasons: (1) the landing site would be unpredictable, and it wouldn't really do to land on the Kremlin, or in the middle of the Sahara, or in the middle of the Pacific. (2) The capsules didn't have enough supplies to keep the astronauts alive for too long, and too many orbits would mean that they'd be dead on arrival.
No Pain No Game
Ah, I was working on a mistaken assumption about the Go example code (I thought the function returned Thing, whereas actually it returns *Thing). That will teach me to RTFA...
This isn’t allowed in the US, not sure about the new EU rules regarding this specifically. Best they can do is show a “deduction” only on web/other platforms that shows they’re getting it cheaper than iOS iirc.
This is a bit of a surprise given how the prevalence of smoking and drinking in the younger generations is steadily declining. We also have a lot more effort put into reducing emissions from all industries. The idea that kids of the 70's chain smoking in the smog have lower cancer risk than the teetotaling youth of today is just sad.

The article touched on it a bit, but apparently obesity is a huge contributing factor and is one major area where today's children are far worse off than their historical peers.
And yet, in the US, you can have process servers publish a notice in a very specific law newspaper that only lawyers ever read, then claim that you couldn't reach someone who would never in their life read such a newspaper for decades simply to see if they've been served.

If this sounds ridiculous, it's because it is, and yet somehow, we still do it. What Sweden does sounds no different, except it's companies with millions of dollars who could actually afford to check these things.
It really is, it’s just that I don’t want to live in the world where his proposal is the main way to discover and deliver information. His solution to semantics going unused is motivated in the last paragraph, and I just can’t bring myself to feel any of the enthusiasm the writing attempts to convey:

> The parts of the web that have actually delivered are the ephemerality and the security model, the indexability (but only for content, not apps), deep linkability, and the platform-independence. We can keep all those, and throw out the decades of legacy that's holding us back, and we will lose nothing, we will only gain as we unleash the kinds of amazing interfaces that developers can build when you give them the raw bedrock APIs that other platforms already give their developers.

I also have to admit I simply don’t—can’t—trust a proposal to make the (path of least resistance of the) Web less inspectable when it comes from the general direction of Google, even when it’s honest-to-goodness Hixie writing one upon evidently deep reflection; the same way I don’t trust a proposal to make a compiler toolchain collect user data by default when it comes from that direction, even when it’s honest-to-goodness Russ Cox writing one upon evidently deep reflection.

(In the case of Go telemetry, I still remember how Cox responded to a privacy-related question I raised on HN—but don’t even remember now—by proposing the organization maintain an anonymizing proxy for its many employees. Which was a fairly satisfactory solution, if you’re an organization and have many employees. And it seemed clear his mind had no other cases in its working set. Maybe it’s just something in the air there.)

I don’t mean to pass judgment here, to be clear. Hixie in particular has done more to improve the open Web than most people whose explicit job it was to improve the open Web, let alone web programmers, let alone programmers in general (the only cohort of those to which I can lay even a vague claim of membership). I don’t even mean that my upfront bias here is correct or should be emulated by anybody.

I only mean to warn you that I’m just unable to engage with the proposal without considering its source, most of all emotionally, so you should keep that in mind when I say it and its apparent excitement feel bleak, like a coat of bright paint on a rusty playground slide in the midst of a concrete Constructivist slum.
I'm going to guess that the antitrust lawsuits don't stick because iOS has a 27% global marketshare, and because Apple has a very well-paid legal department.

The difference between iOS and a game console in terms of antitrust law is "not a whole lot."

The EU has been able to get further with restricting Apple's policies because their laws and courts work a lot differently than the US courts. The EU is all about preserving an equal single market economy in every aspect of their economy. The US will let corproations do whatever they want until they are 1990s Microsoft-level dominant.
Apple isn't unintelligent. They know what a horrible look this is and the press + government scrutiny it will generate. Thirty percent of all Patreon donations made on iOS is revenue so tiny it's completely insignificant.

Honest question: Why are they doing this? What's the angle I'm missing?
This is all well and good, if it can be turned off if set.

People used to find out about financial transactions monthly with their bill in the mail. It's fine to have more info, but that doesn't mean it must be forced upon us.

And the transactions described are not really out of the blue financial transactions. The first message is about transactions that happen every. single. month. There's no need to say "we're going to do what you want us to do". That's silly. An agreement was already signed to that effect. The person knows it's going to happen. It's just 100% wasted, useless info.

And while I know you're responding to the 'first part' of the post, the communication I'm describing in my (GP) post, is about just random emails with no actual value.
You can, it's the white bit. It just doesn't move.

The shadows are what's projected on the line from the stadium lights, and the shape is how they changed in time.
I've only had an inside view of academia since the mid aughts, but it was already a well established issue then with departments trying to institute p-hacking controls and citation rings being a known thing. I think a big part of why it's exploding so hard is the scarcity of academic jobs combined with the big push to increase STEM PhD production leaving people to a cutthroat competition, where you have to either cheat or be absolutely brilliant to have a real shot at a tenured position.
Email works just fine? Seriously, absolutely hate the trend of making apps out of websites.
Except that there's only 1 sentence.
Fallacy of the Undistributed Middle
A Will Smith movie called ride or die came out in May and grossed $400M. Probably explains the jump in that phrase. I had heard it before but you only hear that phrase every couple years or so.
By explained do you mean cause and effect? What is the link between the two? More cells = more that can become cancerous?
pg-gateway from Supabase does exactly this, you can start a PGlite and then connect to it from any standard PG client: https://github.com/supabase-community/pg-gateway
Idk about Tesla, but for many manufacturers, the cost of incorporating physical buttons and the wires, mounting holes, switches, and buttons actually significantly reduces the margin they make on each car.

Profits on low margin models can be as low as a couple hundred dollars. Obviously some are more like 10-20 percent over build costs, but in general the margins are low and an extra 20-30 dollars of manufacturing cost really matters if they can’t pass that along to the buyer.

Not that that makes an excuse for making an unsafe and crappy product, but it helps to explain the situation.

As for myself, I would vastly prefer a car with a small non-touch enabled MFD and a regular analog dash with knobs and switches over any kind of touchscreen. Problem is that is a lot more expensive than a tablet that runs everything.

Touchscreens as a primary interface is the mark of cheap, low quality, serf grade engineering in the modern age.
> Can someone spell out the consequences of a failed thruster? Eg miss the reentry cone and skip off the atmosphere into space?

With no thrusters Starliner can’t orient itself during reëntry, which almost guarantees burning up. I’m not sure what the minimum number of thrusters Starliner needs to safely deörbit.
Even elite marathons now are almost always ending in sprint finishes which is a bit dumb but an obvious problem. The women's olympic marathon was won by less than 3 second after more than 26 miles?

Photos no matter how fast still require human objectivity in evaluation.

Instead there should be some digital signal or laser reflection that is precise?

I don't like the rule where it's any part of the athlete's body first to cross the line, it should be the first athlete to ENTIRELY cross the line, no part of them still remains before the line, not even their trailing foot.
While that's all very true, I find it notable to point out that the company stopped making butterfly keyboards 5 years ago. The folks out there that are still bitter about this really need to find something else to occupy their mindspace.

In related news, I just got my keyboard settlement check!
> Why are they doing this? What's the angle I'm missing?

Services are a more reliable source of revenue for Apple than hardware is.
would have liked to have seen a better explanation of the red lines in the image. it sounds like those are added by humans to outline the runners' chests; how do they ensure the lines are drawn on the frame exactly at the finish line?