skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are other comments, dead, that talk about the wife having a "female body part" pass because she is not sitting in jail. Those comments are just hypothesizing but add nothing to the conversation.

Is not hypothesizing when you say it is "clear this guy is an abusive relationship. Your wife doesn’t up and poison you one day."

You are accusing the guy of committing a serious crime because he was poisoned, unless you have some additional information that was not in the article I am not sure how you can reach that conclusion.

There are many reasons someone's wife could poison them, aside from abuse; insurance money, having a boyfriend that you wish to elope with but fear the cultural stigma of divorce, psychosis.

My only agenda is to drive exploration of ideas rather than just making blanket statements where we have no evidence to make a determination.
> and also requires way less (if any) contribution from other sources.

This part is wrong. Electricity demand is varies about 50% over the course of the day and about 50% over the course of a year, so a 100% nuclear grid would only be operating at ~50% capacity which would double the costs.

On a local scale, renewables aren't predictable, but over large areas (e.g. US/EU), almost all of the variability cancels out (especially since wind and solar are anti-correlated with each other).
Both nuclear and solar/wind grids (or a combination of both) will require some amount of over-capacity/hydro storage/battery storage/gas-peaker plants to economically provide consistent power. My guess is that we'll settle on some combination of over-provisioned solar/wind for seasonal variation combined with hydro/gas for daily and battery for hourly and faster variation. (and possibly using demand side shaping like desalination/water heating to use excess energy).

I find it somewhat hard to believe that nuclear plants could easily be made dramatically cheaper and easier to build if regulation wasn't a problem because if that were the case, we would expect to see China and India building lots of nuclear reactors cheaply. There's obviously further room for reactor design optimization, but I don't think it's as simple as just blaming regulation.
IRC? I'd be amazed if that was used at Apple at this time.
Sometimes appeal to engineering is skipped because if the engineers knew what the product was really about, they would revolt against it before the sale was closed.
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> Were smartphones more like PCs, you could buy an iPhone and put Android on it, then use any of the iOS, Google Play, or Amazon stores to install apps.

It's never been like that. What you wrote is fundamentally the same idea as: "If consumer computers more like consumer computers, you could buy a MacBook Pro and run RedHat Linux on it, then run any of the macOS applications or Linux applications that exist in the world."

While the mobile computing ecosystem and details are quite different, it's mostly same cocktail of things: Commercial hardware that is either open or closed, a [maybe commercial] OS, and applications that execute under version X of the OS and version Y of a runtime.
What you're describing is physical determinism which is related but not equivalent to the question of free will.

Compatibilism is a belief that physical determinism and free will are compatible - e. g. it is predetermined that you will read this article, but it's still an act of free will.
This may not be a popular opinion, but this news reminds me how much I miss the Block-era Engadget, and even the old Gizmodo. Both have woven politics in so deeply and the writing at times so clearly uninformed that they are not enjoyable.
I love it... that's a great way to present it.

Man, those folks were impressive to be juggling all that information and have the communications processes in place manage it all... and calmly. (Steely-eyed missile men, indeed.)

I was born a month after they landed, and while growing up, the Apollo program was the inspiration for becoming an engineer.
I love this question! I’ll start:

Portland, OR for Comic Books.
I just want to discuss tech ideas with people, project ideas, ideas they’re working on, what they’ve tried, what’s worked and what hasn’t

In conversation, listening is more important than talking. How enthusiast are you to talk about what other people want to talk about?
Worse than what?

Windows Defender? Defender for Endpoint? Microsoft 365 Defender? Defender for Office 365? Whatever the Defender that comes with the product formerly known as SCCM is called?
I’ve assumed you still have to have a ticket and they’re matching ID to the tickets in database. Anyone know otherwise?
I can say, I asked the airline for a pass to accompany a passenger to their gate in ATL. If ID was enough I expect they would have told me so, but they gave me a paper pass and said it’s only good for one entrance into secured area.
It is ridicoulous. Why do browser developers cooperate with ad companies? They were supposed to protect us from them.

It gives no benefits to end users. Ad companies will not stop using old methods, they will just add one more method.

I hope responsible Linux distributions will patch this out and disable by default.

A fair model would be if this feature was opt-in and if Mozilla paid to the users who enabled it.

> The purpose of this API is to provide a privacy-first design for advertising companies to be able to measure how advertising drives conversions. That is, answering the question of whether advertising effectively achieves its goals, such as increased sales.

Not my problem. I don't earn anything from their sales.
After being away from it for a couple of years, I checked out Apple News+ again, and it's added a lot of newspapers and magazines in the time I was away.

The newspapers are almost all American, with a smattering of Canadian, but there seems to be a ton of British and Australian magazines.

It might be worth checking out to see if what's on offer matches your interests.

Unfortunately, unlike Apple Music, it doesn't have a web client. https://www.apple.com/apple-news/
Visual Chronology of Science and Discovery
There might be a difference between engineers, admins and all the people who want to get work done and are tired of technical gatekeepers.
Worse yet is when the influencer is being paid to peddle the bundling of a handful of technologies that have existed for years and that you're already using, and everyone who doesn't understand that you're already doing that won't listen when you tell them.
Yes. Close to us, there was a landslide-caused tsunami in Nice, France back in 1979: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Nice_tsunami
> "The main perceived barriers remain range, access to charging points, and cost to purchase"

I'm no longer buying range as a primary driver keeping people away from BEVs. The way I see it, the problem you have now is people not having a garage where they can charge their cars. Without that, BEVs lose their biggest selling point: convenience. Come home, park the car in the garage, plug it in, and forget it about it. Smart charging determines when to charge, so I pay the least in power, and ensures I don't overcharge. All I have to do is plug it in and forget it. Convenient.

If you don't have a garage? It's a nightmare! There have been some brave souls who've done it, but even many of them get tired of it after a couple of years. Long story short - public charging is a shit show and highly dependent on your current location. For some people, it's great. For many people, it's not.

While plug it in and forget it works for a lot of households, it also doesn't work for a lot of households. I'm not surprised at all that BEV sales growth is starting to decline.
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For examples of larger queries, see here for all TPC-H queries in standard syntax and converted to pipe syntax:
https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/zetasql/exampl...

And several more examples with pipe syntax here:
https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/zetasql/exampl...
AI-generated memes are changing the 2024 election
During Covid I was forced to write a bot just to sign up for swim lane reservations at our local pool. Spots opened up at midnight two calendar days before. Most folks looking to regularly swim at 7am don’t make it a habit of starting up to midnight, and all spots were always booked up by the time I would wake up at 6am. So I wrote myself a bot, which was surprisingly fun and effective!
This is tragic when you think about all the people that died of obesity in the mean time. By now, the patent would have expired. Many more people would have survived Covid.
I like how much more prevalent subtitles are now, but I don't think that most people are going to read them. People are astoundingly good at ignoring things they've decided are irrelevant.

> Even then, I think readers overestimate the amount of people that are/were actually reading serious literature. Even when literacy and books were at their peaks, most people were reading pulp novels and other low-end books.

Oh, absolutely. People into 'serious' literature have always been a minority and definitely never close to the average person's experience with the written word. I think what we're seeing is more that less literacy is needed to be functional in society. The average PMC/middle class person in the 1970s needed a higher rate of literacy than they do in 2024 because video used to be a lot more expensive to create and disseminate: I work in corporate training and the videos we create now would have been handbooks or factsheets in the 70s/80s. For domain specific or technical knowledge, the written word was basically the only option for several decades (aside from like...audio tapes, which have their own issues). Housewives used to have to grab different flyers from grocery stores and price compare, everyone had to be able to read maps (with no spoken directions), mechanics had to consult the Giant Car Books, etc. This did present a lot of problems for people who didn't or couldn't reach that level of literacy for whatever reason, and I'm glad those people (e.g. those with dyslexia, those who were forced to read in a language they didn't know well, etc.) have better options now.

> So while I don't really disagree with you per se, I do think it's unnecessarily pessimistic, and it's a better approach to try and approach this new media format with fresh eyes and optimism.

I'm neutral on the shift from a societal perspective. My main point of judgement is more 'our changes are happening because we lack the political will to address issues' rather than the changes themselves. For example, if we want to commit to video being the default form, we should have video literacy classes in the same way we did written literacy: People should know basic video creation techniques, be able to determine what makes a video more/less trustworthy, how to effectively navigate through a video, how to use videos as reference pieces, etc. I'm displeased because the post-literate world is coming about due to a failure of education and governance rather than due to the positives of video. But objectively, the shift from the written word to video isn't any worse than the shift from oral tradition to the written word. It also makes sense since humans learn by imitation and are very visual animals.

I'm personally pessimistic, but that's because I'm visually impaired, so everything being primarily focused on inalterable visuals is a loss for me (whereas an article I can make big text/zoom/print/whatever for accessibility purposes), but I've also been sad about that since Instagram started and made everything about pictures. Video is an improvement there: At least I can follow videos by sound.
Thanks!

I liked reading this extensive accunt of all apollo missions and what each accomplished --

A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
Andrew Chaikin
https://www.amazon.in/Man-Moon-Voyages-Apollo-Astronauts/dp/...

I wish there was an "annotated verison" or enthusiast discussion forum that corss-linked footage like this to the corresponding passages in the book so we can live it more fully
Nah. I’ve seen similar stunts pulled off with companies like Microsoft.

Sales teams who believe a full funnel is in front of them are capable of incredible feats. You need to have the aircover and willingness to scorch the earth.
This is a very clear case of a restraining order being used punatively. The body of first amendment case law is very clear. The city has no reasonabel expectation that they will win. Their intent is to restrain, and intimidate legitimate criticism.
It's a truly fantastic paper, but like many things the idea that it's impossible to have a perfectly consistent global view of time doesn't mean it's not possible to have a near-perfect one. The blog mentioned AWS's Timesync which lets you be synchronized into the microseconds (https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/11/amazon-ti...), and Google's TrueTime is used to give ranges of times that you're guaranteed to be within (https://cloud.google.com/spanner/docs/true-time-external-con...).
Mpox vaccines are available – why are they not reaching Africa
PearAI – Open-Source AI‑Powered Code Editor
I concur on all points, though I think there's something else than public ownership at fault per se. Publicly traded corporations were once considered an innovation and improvement over private ownership. Something went awry over the years, and private equity is presently giving a bad name to private ownership too.
This is a human rights violation. Humans have a natural right to discuss the overthrow of their governing authorities.

I'm not even sure why this is controversial for Americans. In school, we are all taught about the times when our government attempted to do this (and sometimes succeeded), as examples of what not to do. Thankfully, the SC has reversed most of these convictions. Long live the American revolution. Its ideas are needed today more than ever.
You can be correct and pedantic at the same time, like in this case.
Imho quite bad example.

Not even one tubo-fish. No multiple lines of `where` clauses. No (dyn) trait impl. Not even a lambda!

On top of that Rust's syntax is full of noise. Curly braces, semicolons, ugly angel brackets, `::` instead of points for namespaces, etc.

Rust is a quite good language on the technical level. But the surface syntax is really ugly.
My original post was intended to clarify why I believe Libertarian ideology is distinct from and incompatible with Utilitarianism, particularly since in your response, you conflated the concept of the greater good as a core principle of Libertarian ideology. This is quite surprising given your claim to have "studied philosophy and ethics".

To address this misunderstanding, let me break down the logical fallacies I alluded to earlier:

- The "tyranny of the majority" problem: Since happiness is determined by the number of individuals, a simple majority can impose its will on the minority, potentially denying them their rights or freedoms.

- The "moral arithmetic" fallacy: This assumes that individual well-being can be measured and added up like numbers in an equation, ignoring the complexities of human experience and the difficulties of making such calculations.

- The "majority rules" fallacy: This implies that whatever the majority wants is automatically just or right, without considering the potential for mob rule, manipulation, or coercion.

- The "ignore individual rights" fallacy: By prioritizing the greater good over individual interests, Utilitarianism may lead to the trampling of human rights and dignity.

No offense, but it's worth noting that a more nuanced understanding of philosophy and ethics might be beneficial for more accurate representations of complex concepts.
I don’t trust you or anyone to be the moderators of what’s rational and what’s working back from what they want, though, in all honesty.

Further, the people working backwards sometimes end up right anyway.

I just don’t see the risk of letting some tin foil hatters do their thing, or much much less risk than letting our discussion platforms become censorious, propaganda machines. Maybe if we let the less censored versions run and there ends up being negative effects then I can re-assess, but until then the default should be to let people be dumb and invest into better education.

For the record, I saw very little of the full on conspiratorial stuff, and lots of the more sane lab leak stuff, but I saw it basically entirely de-boosted and censored. So we have already a really strong case study for why we shouldn’t let people even attempt to split those hairs.
While Firefox is great, they should not sell their userbase to Facebook with such proposals. If ad companies want to know about ad effectiveness, they must pay the users for collecting the data, not collect it for free without asking the user.
>MetaBio went down because there were mistaken ideas about what was possible and what was not in the realm of metabolic therapeutics, and because proper corporate structure and adequate capital are always issues when attempting to survive predictable setbacks

Like many startup failures, funding issues and corporate structure were more pivotal than the progress made on the actual problem.
> Our much-beloved RSS (and old-school email newsletters) were the start of the slide here i think.

I'd place the shift happening earlier with early web portals. People made (or were coerced by their ISP) web portals their home page. The model of portals was show people headlines with direct links to the articles.

Hyperlinks are fundamental to the web so it's not like portals were doing something bad. It is just a model that's difficult to monetize for the destination site. More difficult than a traditional magazine or newspaper since the site only gets paid per actual impression vs paid per square inch from potential impressions estimated by circulation.

RSS readers were more about the democratization of portals since a site feed let the end user build their own "portal" from their collection of feeds. In terms of traffic patterns an RSS user was pretty similar to a web portal user, just a visitor that dropped in on some deep link and didn't necessarily hit any additional pages.
Montreal and Vancouver = Porn
The iSight has a really cool shutter you can close.
Fair point. Though, the code in question was a trait definition.
Looked like a "just asking questions" question. Like it had a point to make and an axe to grind.
And they negotiated an Enterprise rate that was 20% higher than the small team rate!
The difference of note is when the problem statement has an implicit constraint that makes the bounds reasonable vs. when the bounds are arbitrary and artificially constrain the problems that can be solved.

Sorting integer elements that can only be represented by 64-bit ints and smaller? Radix sort for the win (*). Sorting strings which may be of any length? Well, saying you can do that in linear time is a bit disingenuous.

It is always important to recognize the properties of the problem domain when stating complexity bounds.

(*) of course, any vanilla comparison-based sort is a better first-implementation than radix sort, but we're talking about linear time algorithms here
It would be easier just to use a longer hash with fewer chances of collisions.

In the past, for non cryptographic uses, I've also just appended two hash algorithms one after the other, figuring that the same collision between two algorithms would be exceedingly improbable.
The Docket: https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/68023366/x-corp-v-media...

The actual ruling: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.38...

It is consistently infuriating that reports on law don't actually link to the documents they report on.
CL is better than Python for very short scripts that will be called repeatedly (e.g. from a makefile), since a python already has a slower startup time than a CL binary, and for every import you add it gets even slower.
It says "optimized", but those pages seems to be very slow.
First try on the showcase(!) gives only 55% on performance:

https://pagespeed.web.dev/analysis/https-eightshift-com/c5vu...
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Some more discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41396883
One I would recommend for anyone's bookshelf at any level because it is so good: https://natureofcode.com/
What is wrong with the JVM? The JVM is utterly amazing and you know very well that you can target native, even with Clojure.
Hopefully not as douchey as notion. The only SaSs that I know of that actually wants to vet people referring business to them.
Asking AI to Make a Hit Country Song – Glue Balloons [video]
It is, using table-valued functions (TVFs).

There's an example at the bottom of this file:

https://github.com/google/zetasql/blob/master/zetasql/exampl...
Interesting that the author highlights Telegram as associated with crypto bros and the far right. In my circles, Telegram is most known as used by whistleblowers and uncensored Ukraine war reporters. I suppose this is the obvious niche for "alternative" platforms - take anything that's banned or downranked on the mainstream platforms but for which there is still a substantial consumer demand.
Containers is a good example of how things can go wrong as well, especially when you aren't familiar with them, and you are looking into related technologies, like kubernetes, and suddenly you fine out you have 10 layers of terminology to understand before you can even get started.

There is a joke about functional programming: in order to understand functional programming you must first understand functional programming, and once you understand functional programming you lose the ability to explain functional programming.
This reminds me of Google Nest's three thermostat models: The Nest E, Nest Learning and the Nest. It's confusing even in their own marketing and support info.
According to a HN post from 2015, Buenos Aires is the bookstore capital of the world. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9747230
Proof-of-payment works on Caltrain because they have conductors who will walk up and down the aisles to examine your ticket/scan your Clipper card for payment. On busses, which don't have conductors, it really is an honor system.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so...

The short summary is you can't retitle things with what you think is important from a story, you can write that in a comment though.
Elderly people usually don't work shifts anymore.
A detailed blog post formatted entirely as footnotes! Not my preferred style, but I appreciate the impact of the "real" content being provided as "mere" context.
Obesity was about 17% in the USA in 1990 and is now at an incredible 40%.

One wonders how many lives were lost by abandoning this in 1990.
Nobody seems to mention there are no cables. It's a g5 model.

I don't think (personality-wise) he would have a non-apple look-alike device on his desk.
So the thing I find most interesting is how "cluttered" his office appears to be. Like it looks a lot like my cluttered office. (I have no room to judge). I'm not a big Steve Jobs superfan or anything, but his public persona was always so groomed his (and Apple's) brand is always so curated, I kind of half thought his office would reflect that. But hey, I'm glad to see he worked in an office that was just as cluttered as mine!
This is fantastic, I could play StarCraft II forever:

> Understanding that developers and publishers can't support games forever, the initiative would expect "the publisher to provide resources for the said videogame once they discontinue it while leaving it in a reasonably functional (playable) state." That means giving players the tools to host the game on their own servers, for example, and removing the requirement for games to connect to the publisher's (defunct) servers in order to be played. This is what the developer behind Knockout City did when it pulled the plug on the game's official servers.
A perfect case for the EFF or ACLU to pickup and help defend against such a silly and weaponized restraining order.