skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hope you and you're family doing okay. This is not an easy thing to deal with. A relative of mine has died because of glioblastoma. He survived 14 months after the diagnosis.

I know this might come as very harsh from me but to this day glioblastoma is a death sentence.

I remember myself and others spending hours on the internet looking for trials, resources, success stories and what not. Later I realized that was just part of denial and negotiation.

He went through 2 operations where the portions of tumor were removed. Each time he came out with sort of personality changes, degradation in cognition.

The only thing that helped was that I scored thc oil - it's illegal where I live - and administered it to the relative just for the sake of better mood and quality of life.
> It must be a very individual thing

I suppose that is true because I can't remember more than 3 of my shell git aliases but I'm the most basic git user you can get and I don't use them for work.
What other play he has for prooving how much he won the election? Asking Puting to prove the results? Have a North Korean child song sing about his glorious win? Need to build a wall forming 'I won!' visible from space? Have his win being tatooed on each newborns forehead in Venezuela? Why does he need this kind of grandiose validation if he thinks the facts and the people are behind him? Oh! That's why, because it is not true. Well, sorry Maduro, you are a looser only kept alive by your mercenarys. For now.
It means whatever bullshit the CIA pulled, that we'll probably find out about a decade from now, didn't work.
I was too succinct in my previous message, I guess.

To you and I there is a difference between tracking and metrics. To everyone else there is none. All my Mom knows is that the software dialed home. It is impossible to verify what it said to the mothership. The popup promised "Metrics only!" but then Little Snitch lit up like a Christmas tree 4 times! It's stealing my info!

How does the consumer know that the "metrics" didn't include home IP, OS version, and god knows whatever else? Again, metrics are a subset of data. Even the internet request to ship a fully anonymized usage info like "saved_files: 10, opened_files: 11" metric set contains Gobs and Gobs of identifiable information on and around the request itself. Does the company stash inbound request data for troubleshooting? That's fucking tracking bro. Your data dog instance is chock-full of tracking info.

It is not reasonable to expect end-users to be able to verify the claim that "only metrics are tracked". It is safer for everyone to assume this is a bald-faced lie, because at the end of the day it is impossible to verify to any level of certainty.
I personally would not call that a reasonable policy proposal but it is (unfortunately) constitutional due to an oversight by the US Framers in 1787. The appropriate way to stop it from passing would be to vote against politicians who advocate it as they are unfit for office.
My gym uses TopLogger. It's not super bad, but it could use a nicer design. Are you making an app for indoor gyms or outdoor boulders? Or both? Sounds good with another alternative in the market.
A similar sentiment: when one can talk about past trauma without reacting negatively, even more joking about it, one has overcome it.

While euphesim displacement is naturally occurring, it doesn't mean it is the best course for the common's sanity.

Not to mention the namespace exhaustion that goes along with it :D
Ask HN: Why is Gnome so inceridlby, insanely, bad?
I was trying various linux distributions in virtualbox to check out how they look and feel because I might switch from windows 10 in near future and I heard good things about linux recently, especially about games due to Valve's Proton.

I really liked Fedora as the primary distro I would go for and I like the look of gnome in it, but i could not figure out how it could have such a horrible user experience in 2024.

What am i talking about..

Firstly, there are no min/max icons on the windows. Only close. So you have to sherlock your way through the internet and find out you need a third party extension that will enable this basic functionality, which has been part of any mainstream operating system for decades as absolutely basic standard for window managers and absolutely no person in the world who has ever used a computer would expect NOT to have it available in their operating system.

Second, it has a top bar that is like on a mobile phone and has no real functionality on desktop(ie. it shows time and not much else). In order to see the task bar, you have to press top-left icon that will bring it up. And it is not a task bar, it is just a dock ala apple mac os. So in order to switch between applications, you have to use tab or get into this desktop section by clicking on said icon(possibly win-key or some other functional key). This takes so much time and requires so many actions that I am probably simply too retarded to imagine a person who came up with such behavior and on top of that other people deemed it to be so good to make it the default behavior in the entire gnome project.

When you sherlock through the internet yet again, and waste many more time, yet again, you will find there is yet another third party extension what will allow you to transform this hidden dock into constantly visible dock, maybe even make it look like a proper task bar by removing that useless top bar.

These are mere two examples. I simply cannot imagine how in 2024 linux is still so incredibly stupid when it comes to desktop. I've been using computers since 1996, am no it/tech newbie, but this just takes my breath away.

Can someone explain why that is going on?

And yeah, I tried KDE as well. That was issue-less from the get-go, like any desktop environment is supposed to be. My gripe is with gnome due to its popularity. I would expect it to be long dead when the user experience is worse than a $2 philipine whore.
Someone posted one of these not too far long ago. This one has the same issue of accepting non-food, including harmful items as ingredients.

Title: HCl-Infused Caesar Lettuce Salad

This unique recipe creatively combines the fresh crunch of lettuce with the robust flavors of classic Caesar dressing while incorporating HCl for a twist in taste.

Ingredients:

Fresh lettuce (any leafy variety)
Caesar dressing (2 tablespoons)
HCl (a small drop for flavor enhancement)
Optional: Drill bits (for decorative presentation, not for consumption)
I have been looking for an alternative for Arc for some time and this seems promising. Doesn't have folders and peek for now, but excited to see how it's going to evolve. Atleast this project isn't just firefox slapped with a wannabe arc theme.
that they aren't going to build a new embassy
FDR tried it during his time, wanted to expand it to 13 I think. It didn't work. But what we really need for SCOTUS is time limits and automatic replacements at intervals to take politics out of the process a little bit.
Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_xhMykK5Hw&t=1s
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luddite
The Surprisingly Empowering Loss of Zeal
>nor can you mention anything PG-13 like bathing suits.

That's like the killer use case for image generating AIs
“Why is this on HN?” comments are often a mark of an intellectually interesting story…but not always of course.

As for quicksort in Drakon, if you need quicksort you might have an impedance mismatch between the application and language…might be knee deep in the Turing Tarpit. For example if you are building a real-time system, sorting to the degree quicksort seems like a good idea might suggest a design error.
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>Odds are the hospital will settle this out of court for an undisclosed sum because they can't realistically have their records on the matter brought to light

IMO it should not be legally possible to settle something this dire out of court. You shouldn't be able to bury anything simply by paying a large sum.
In a sufficiently large codebase, this is just simply inevitable and you just have to accept it as a fact of life. If you have millions of lines of hand-written code, you're going to have archeological layers and some pockets that are more modern than others. It's not great but "everything is locked into a pattern established in 2003 and you can't innovate" is a worse problem.
> Last year I got my hands on a rare, black PlayStation 1. This is called a Net Yaroze and is a special console that can play homebrew games as well as ordinary PSX titles. It was part of a special Sony project to get hobbyists and students into the games industry.

I wonder what the post-mortem on this initiative was like. Seems like they didn't pursue it in future consoles but dang it would be pretty cool if there was a hobbyist section of the PS5 store that anyone could put small games in.
I guess it's down to personal experience but I've never gotten much out of "going to the water cooler / coffee" breaks. There was something magical about the smoke break where you had to go outside and talk for a few minutes. I've never been a smoker but I usually joined people on those breaks. You can do the same with a short walk and talk, but those aren't something you do every hour or two.

> Interestingly, in my experience, a "quick call" has been something where the other person doesn't want an email to get forwarded. That's why they don't include the subject in the message/meeting invite.

I think there is certainly some of this.
It seems much more effective on plain 1000Base. It's the difference between 850Mb/s and 975Mb/s for me.
Have I got a game for you: https://www.gtbikev.com/
Vegetation doesn't just draw on water... it also protects the soil from excess evaporation of water when foliage dies and provides cover.
How do I handle server-side logic? Let's say I want moderation or rate limiting in the chat app example.
> It doesn't try to call the method. It never gets there.

Sure, same as any other language with duck typing. Consider Ruby, which is famous for its duck typing. `variable.not_a_method` raises NoMethodError. How do you think it knows to do that? That's right, it first performs a type check and, since that check fails, it doesn't try to call the method and instead raises the exception. Exactly the same as Go panicking under the same circumstances.

> and then to something with a specific interface.

That is a type assertion, not a cast (Go doesn't have support for casts anyway). It merely asks the runtime: "Does this value satisfy the given type?" There is no change in type.

Now, let's take this further: It is generally agreed upon that duck typing differs from structural typing only in that it is evaluated dynamically instead of statically. Go's interface is quite clearly a structural type when evaluated statically.

And what do you think the type assertion does in the example given? That's right: It performs a type assertion on a "structural type" at run time. Duck typing, by definition!

> I don;t consider C a duck typing language too, because you can write ((Bird) ptr)->swim(), but perhaps you do?*

No. First and foremost, where would the typing come into play? That will actually try to call the method, whether the pointed memory is suitable or not. There is no type checking to steer you around mistakenly calling something that shouldn't be called. Not at compile time, not at run time.

It is literally called duck typing, not duck valuing. "Type" has significance. Where do you find it here?
I'm somewhat confused about how the Red Cross is involved with shallow water hypoxia... could you clarify?

Also, now I'm curious about "drown proofing," if you wouldn't mind elaborating!
Black people wear sunscreen too
> In the Netherlands and Switzerland the articles of the law don't always mention if they allow deviation by agreement. In those cases the assumption is: No, unless the legislative process documented that it was intended to be.

That's literally what I wrote. Why are you telling me that I'm wrong, when you're restating my point.

> Your example concerning drunk-driving is troubling, because that would usually be treated as a misdemeanor or a crime. Not as part of a Civil Code violation. You could claim damages under the Civil Code, but then you are asserting a violation of the 'Public Order' Code, which you then have to prove.

What does this even have to do with what I wrote?
Top in crypto is in.
> Second, I've not once in my life had a productive "water cooler" conversation.

I just realized it's worse than that. If the old adage on innovation "1% inspiration, 99% perspiration" is true, then water cooler simply cannot help much. Then, what you need for innovation (and not just a warm fuzzy feeling of a possibly good idea) is actual time to work on it, not a water cooler.
> What is the inherent value Verisign offers here?

Given most other TLDs have a similar price, it’s fair to assume that’s roughly what it takes to run a TLD. For the 2014-era of gTLDs, you already start with a $180k/year ICANN fee before you even have a DNS server online.

> Is it hosting an entry for my domain in a database somewhere that someone can lookup using DNS?

I’d say the main value comes from making sure the DB record isn’t tampered, so you can trust that you own the domain and no random actor can take it from you. Value would tank significantly if you couldn’t trust that. Although most of that work is done by the registrars nowadays, it’s on the registry’s behalf.

> can't we just solve that problem using some sort of decentralized solution

There are over 1500 TLDs and Verisign controls only a handful of them. For me that can be seen as decentralized already.
The ghosts of the sailors would never allow the brass to be tarnished.
Loved this:

> While the much celebrated ideal of a “full stack engineer” is valuable, in deep and complex systems it’s often even more valuable to create cohorts of experts who can collaborate and get really creative across the entire stack and all their individual areas of depth.
I read what you wrote. But that's not how economics works. You don't base your conclusions on actors at the extremes - the people who wouldn't buy a used one at any price (do these people actually exist?) and people who would never buy a new one.

Peloton cares about the price of used Pelotons because they understand that economics regards the decisions made by the marginal consumers - the ones who would buy a new one if the resale value of used ones was $1 higher.
Now you're not only moving the goalposts, you're fabricating your own! App Store is not organized under marketing at Apple. Simple as that. You think there are too many "marketing types" running the App Store. Fine. That's not what you said and now you're trying to rationalize it.
as a reaction to the current court being stacked, not as an overall it should be done kind of thing.
Earlier you said "There’s just too much opportunity loss compared to lower income / less rich countries." I think the lost opportunity value of dicking around would be about equal between wealthy countries and developing countries. You can go to the beach/lake/woods, drink all night, play video games, and binge TV most places in the world. Maybe the wealthy countries would have nicer TVs and more expensive intoxicants, but it's basically the same thing everywhere.
> aerc is really weird in the sense of being designed as a client, not storing the mails on your computer.

Isn't that true for mutt as well?
Let me give an example: soundbars for TVs. Reddit will tell you to never buy one, because a dedicated speaker system sounds better at the same price. This is true-ish. However, a speaker system requires a large, heavy A/V unit, lots of wires, lots of space, and highly noticeable, if not outright ugly, speakers. A soundbar doesn't have any of those problems, is usually the cheaper option, and still sounds much better than built-in speakers. They're the right choice for most people, but it takes reading between the lines to parse that from reddit posts.
Ask HN: Encryption algorithm with *multiple* decryption keys?
Sorry for what might be a dumb question but, does there exist an encryption algo that allows something to be encrypted in such a way that any number of n keys or passwords or the like might decrypt? (Obviously to obtain the same cleartext)
Yes, by now we all know that every zoning decision 80 years ago was racist and evil. I'm talking about today.
So much low-background steel!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel
There's plenty of studies that compare locales with fluoride in the water to those that don't, eliminating time-based correlations like improving diet. There are other things to criticize in the data though (most of the data shows results with children, and not a lot that accounts for fluoride toothpaste).

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ipd.12928

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26092033/
Is it really true that there's no scalar FPU at all? What about x87?

The instructions are still there even in 64-bit long mode, they use their own registers, and there are enough idiosyncrasies (80-bit extended-double precision, stack-based operations, etc.) that I would expect it to be easier to just include a dedicated scalar x87 FPU than try to shoehorn x87 compatibility into the SIMD units.
The Carter Center never claimed the results were fake. That would be a massive claim. They criticized "short deadlines, relatively few places of registration, and minimal public information", barriers to citizens abroad voting (which skew very heavily anti-Maduro), and "unequal conditions among candidates" (Maduro was much better funded than the opposition). It sums up with:

> In the limited number of polling centers they visited, Carter Center observer teams noted the desire of the Venezuelan people to participate in a democratic election process, as demonstrated through their active participation as polling staff, party witnesses, and citizen observers. However, their efforts were undermined by the CNE's complete lack of transparency in announcing the results.

I would also check out the UN's July 28 report on the matter: https://news.un.org/en/sites/news.un.org.en/files/atoms/file...
> In all cases, the apps affected ran on Java 21 with SpringBoot 3 and embedded Tomcat serving traffic on REST endpoints.

Blessing and curse. Java’s libraries-built-on-libraries are fast and robust but hard to all upgrade everywhere. Coupled well overall, but not for language upgrades.

Why migrate this to virtual threads at all? Thread per request is so convenient. Then observe “realSpan” a tracing related object is on the glitchy stack in that blog post. Lots of stuff reinvents thread per request, like contexts and spans or whatever you want to call it.
More realistically: they'll just brick your expensive brain implant directly with a remote update, and cryptolock it.

Try sending that back in for repair :D
Reminds me of the furnace that kept throwing a low combustion air pressure code (by blinking an LED). Turned out to be a now-dead bird that got sucked into the cold air intake.
Thanks for playing, this is useful info!

There's a big difference between the nature of fraudulent documents submitted to our customers today, and the ones that one might create knowing that the system is build with LLMs - we've mostly optimised for the former so far.

I'm also glad to see it took a number of attempts - security through obscurity is not something we want to rely on but the real system requires your identity and will offboard you without explanation at the first hint of misbehaviour.

We'll continue to improve our system to be more vigilant and make fewer assumptions.
>unless you referenced both of them in later code

Generative AI: hold my bear
Thus people will spend less on bitcoin than aircon

Or is the market broken? In which case in which way? And why not tackle that brokenness directly.
> X already has been happening and yet life is just fine

The OP doesn't say life isn't fine. He says that if we don't aim for perfection, if art ceases to matter because we cease to truly care, then there's no point. We'll eat shit and reproduce just the same -- but there is no point.

He's got a point.
I did the even more dumbass version of this once.

I had DSL with a router and modem. I never had problems with it, never required reset etc. Over the years somehow I forgot and thought it was a combo router and modem.

Then when I finally had a problem, I insisted to customer support I had done many power cycles already. They scheduled a tech to come out, but I realized my mistake before it went that far at least.

A power cycle fixed the modem, of course.
There has been no vote; as it says in the OP, "For this vote to continue, one more core developer must agree with me that it should happen." (Mr. Furman is citing official policy there - see https://peps.python.org/pep-0013/ .)
> encrypted in such a way that any number of n keys or passwords or the like might decrypt

I'm assuming you mean "it requires 2 or more keys but less than all of them", so I'd check variations of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_sharing

The cases for "any individual key is enough" or "all keys required" are much simpler.
A 1970s text book by ecologist Eugene Odum suggests that environmental pressures will eventually push people to meat substitutes. His brother Howard developed a system of environmental accounting that tried to track back all the energy in a product or service back to sunlight

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergy

Inevitably you find that there are some parts of the product where you can calculate the emergy directly, but some things you can't. You take the dollar value of the remaining parts and multiply that by a factor of emergy/dollars across the economy.

Practically what that means is that expensive things are probably ecologically bad because money is a license to spend resources. If you can track down exactly where the money goes in an $8 gallon of e-Fuel maybe it really beats a $3 gallon of gas, but money in general is a license to buy stuff that has environmental impacts so if the administrators of a solar plant in texas are driving around in a big-ass track or the investors in a fake meat company are flying around the world in a private jet to conferences to spread the word of the great work they're doing, that's an environmental impact.
I heard it from my brother who visited one such company, where they use explosive forming to shape metal parts used oil refinery; if I remember correctly for the corrugation on the metal that separate the hot and cold liquid in an heat exchanger, with the idea behind using explosive forging was that it allowed them to shape a big sheet in one go.
Isn't that like saying steel armor doesn't improve ship battle resilience, it just replaces wood? There are multiple aspects of oral health that it might not help, but it can e.g. help prevent cavities and infections from them.
I'm sure it's on Apple's best interest to make it suck as much as possible within safe margins.

So they can go like: "Seee! I told you it would be bad! Blame EU!"
It was odder than no errors, they weren't seeing any funnel drop off at all.

It wasn't worth investigating and fixing for them, at the time I figured they were excluding traffic incorrectly or didn't know how to properly query for "session" data... could have been any number of things though.
I'm not sure I follow how the irreversible contraction of Western economies would lead to the cessation of industrial fertilizer production. Unless you are assuming that such contraction would inevitably lead to 0 population which seems an unlikely outcome compared to it just finding some new equilibrium. It also seems to assume that no other productive economy could pick up the slack.

In some civilization collapse scenarios that I am vaguely familiar with, they may have been proceeded by a dark age (like post bronze age collapse or post Roman empire collapse). But the world is connected in these days in ways that make that scenario seem less likely. Knowledge on things like fertilizer production are very wide spread and not central to one specific culture.