skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Murdering meteorologists won’t stop hurricanes

But even before the Speed: Horseback tech upgrade was discovered, "kill the messenger" was an all-too-common human reaction.
I actually disagree.

This is what you get when scandal after scandal happens to public institutions. People go flat earth most often, not because of the "science," but because they do not trust the government for honesty.

This also happens whenever there is an apparent "win" even if it isn't quite so. For example, when a judge last week ordered federal Fluoride standards to be re-examined. It doesn't need to be a total vindication of the conspiracy theorists, for trust to be substantially damaged. Same for the Iraq war, with "weapons of mass destruction" - imagine if your child died from that lie. Repeat this every year, in multiple institutions, for 20+ years straight; and yes, observant people might well think that everything the government has ever said is a hoax. It's not about the science, or their ability to track truth from falsehood, but their reactionary hate of anything the institutions say.
Microsoft did open source a bunch of their mediawiki extensions. https://github.com/microsoft/mediawiki-extensions

Last i heard though they were moving off it.
I have to disagree with you here. Most of the Senators from the GOP have been happy to share the same drivel. Indeed, Senator JD Vance and Donald Trump — arguably the most powerful men in the GOP are as unhinged as MTG.
> Geoff Hinton was denied an academic position at the University of Sussex's CS department

These kind of anecdotes are fairly common I believe. Understanding anyone's academic potential is enormously difficult, and the competition is fierce. Hindsight is 20/20 and whatnot.
This was going full force well before COVID. Before 2016, though that was when it became a lot more overt.
I thought inetd let you conserve memory because rarely-used daemons don't need to run continually.
Yet this is something where it should be possible to produce evidence. Paperwork like is needed is generally available if you ask the right place. Any company trying that was rejected is has a bunch of people who did that paperwork and they could talk about it - indeed if the company was serious they have incentive to talk about it.

Now it is possible that the paperwork required means hundreds of companies never even tried, and evidence of that chilling effect is hard to produce. However that is not the claim.
not really -- rather consider the ability of a very small minority of voices to amplify tremendously without sufficient dampening.. stability in public communication is never simple. A psychologist might say that social rage itself, or anger with blame itself, is the root of the behavior. Every language group on Earth has rational, constructive people in it.
> That’s what the law is for: for the seller and producer not being able to hide the awful conditions in which the eggs were produced.

AFAIK, those laws are about eggs getting silently contaminated because their shells became porous during the wash.

But that one is a really nice side-effect.
During a recent visit, I mentioned my "White Coat Syndrome" was probably affecting me right there, so they selected their most attractive woman with the best perfume and a manual sphygmomanometer for a hands-on measurement, before releasing me.
The World According to GaWC (2022)
Yes, there is a public health system, but people tend to avoid it when they can. Most opt to go private for their dental, for example. And if they have any kind of systematic (sibo, ibs, autoimmune, etc) problem the public system is useless and they will have to travel to find a private specialist. On the other hand, the private system is really good here, and also pretty cheap.
>Even in countries with robust (ie expensive) pro natalist fiscal policy

Nit: This patently does not exist. Zero countries pay or provide anywhere close to the actual cost of raising a child, let alone the lost opportunity of choosing to raise children vs living a life dedicated to yourself.

That actual cost is horrifically high, but I promise you if it was offered, people would have more children. We WILL have to have that discussion eventually, unless we somehow return to a society where women are property and don't have rights, or unless we just outsource the whole baby making process to the places of the world that DO work like that, but people hate immigrants, especially when they are poor (for some fucking reason).
Is this what hackers do all day? Watch mainstream media articles talk sh* about politicians they don't like?
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/tcfaqC.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency_Active_Auroral_...
https://patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/ee/53/36/ac05709...

It's an interesting theory, at best this is virtue signalling taken as GOSPEL by the other side.. so BAU.
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.NET introduces Arm's Scalable Vector Extension.
My interpretation of their comment is that it's the other way around. Democrats tend to use "science" to justify political decisions. Because people don't like those political decisions, and/or because pop science is allegedly used vs "real science", it devalues "real science" and causes people not to trust it as much
I didn't see anything in the article about setting up incentives to keep the same thing from happening to Weird Gloop that happened to Fandom, which means the blog post is just empty marketing.

The only difference is that Weird Gloop is the little guy. Competition is good! That might be a good enough reason to choose them if you're in the market for wiki hosting!

But the moral posturing won't last if they become dominant, unless they set up incentives fundamentally differently than Fandom did, which doesn't seem to be the case.

As long as advertising is one of their revenue sources, the user experience will get crappy as soon as the network effects make it hard to leave. The cycle continues.
Great read.

Side note: please fix your header. Makes the website appear so much less professional than the information it provides really is.
If the rest of the GOP actually didn't want her they could vote and expel her today.
> “Nowadays, there’s so much bad information out there that if we spent our time getting rid of it, we’d have no more time.”

Are they referring to the Mayor of Tampa warning "you will die"?
Yeah anytime I'm on a fresh install of Windows, it seems to happen pretty quickly and then I turn it off.
Show HN: Classic stylesheets for web applications 2.0
This is a collection of CSS stylesheets emulating the GUIs of various 90s and early 2000s operating systems. At this point it consists of 5 themes and over 200 unique color schemes.
Trailers give away the entire film these days. No surprises allowed
Sweet summer child. If only he could have seen what games had become in 2024, where every other is a copy/pasted survival game on Unreal 4 pre-released as soon as possible.
Anything with oil in it can get rancid. Including nuts.
I'll go one worse: The trailer for City of Ember spoiled the big reveal that was at the end of the book.
Rapid intensification, extreme rapid intensification–and then Hurricane Milton
NB: Title shortened for length from "Meteorologist John Morales: There’s rapid intensification, there’s extreme rapid intensification—and then there’s Hurricane Milton".
Huh, I thought that most work that used to use workers switched to Webassembly.

Talking about JS proposals, I'm looking forward to this one: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-record-tuple

Records and tuples can make a lot of logic much more easier to read, and way less fragile. Not sure how they would play together with the shared structs though.
> People go flat earth

Isn't the joke here that for most of modern history the flat earth discussions were a debate contest by people who didn't actually believe the earth was flat but enjoyed trying to prove it was? And then it leaked out and found a welcome home amongst people gullible enough to believe all of the "evidence" that had been concocted.
Proton is able to run just about anything now, not just games. Stop using Microsoft Operating Systems where you can and mark them as needing replacement with real software in all your reports.
People going to flat earth and believing in flat earth are two separate things. As OP said -

> People lose the ability to separate fact from fiction, lack the ability for critical thinking.

Distrusting governments is not the cause of people believing flat earth, people believe flat earth because they are unable to separate fact from fiction, which, I believe is a consequence of poor education.
Misrepresenting that they had a bad childhood? What makes you think that's the case?
AI Generated "Book Club" audio sounds real
There is also left wing violence, more often from the right but not zero from the left.
Constantly, to keep the results of a calculation on screen. It's fallacious to assume that your own usage patterns are common. Hell, with as much evidence as you (none), I would venture that more people use the Calculator app than know that you can type calculations in Spotlight at all.
Guys I am not disagreeing with anyone here but the patents for weather technologies are very real and gag orders are also very real so could someone please explain or link to info on why these things exist instead of saying covid made people stupid, which I assume means you also think yourself and all government leaders are now dumber? That does not mean anyone is causing hurricanes but maybe if more information on technologies that has been for decades was explained it would not be so confusing and these things would not get so out of hand.
When hasn't it been mainstream? It sure qualified as mainstream for JFK assassinations and arguably Roswell as well. And that is before going to the Know-Nothings and their anti-catholic conspiracy theories.
I will add to this that a very common line among republicans during COVID was "it's no worse than the flu". I heard this from my family members even though I lost a few from COVID. I nearly lost a sister-in-law in her 20s from COVID (she came DAMN close) and she is still anti-vax/mask/etc.

We can also talk about misinformation about covid vaccines. I mean, it's really kind of depressing that one of the best decisions of the Trump administration (IMO) was project warp speed which got mRNA vaccines approved and on the shelves in record time. But now, he can't really talk about that as a positive thing because the entire republican party is against those very vaccines.
I think it's wild how much misinformation and confusion there is about this minor change. I blame this on the legislature trying to hype up their nothing law into some major achievement, and news agencies shamelessly trying to make a story out of it.

The law is simply that you cant use various labels like "enjoy by" or "Best by" and instead, all non-safety dates must use the exact words "best if used by". It wont reduce food waste by 20% as claimed.

82001. (a) On and after January 1, 2025, a food manufacturer, processor, or retailer responsible for the labeling of food items for human consumption that chooses, or is otherwise required by law, to display a date label to communicate a quality or safety date on a food item manufactured on or after January 1, 2025, shall use one of the following uniform terms on the date label:

(1) “BEST if Used by” or “BEST if Used or Frozen by” to indicate the quality date of the food item.

(2) “USE by” or “USE by or Freeze by” to indicate the safety date of the food item.

(3) “BB” to indicate the quality date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the uniform term described in paragraph (1).

(4) “UB” to indicate the safety date of the food item if the food item is too small to include the uniform term described in paragraph (2).

https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB660/id/2837671
Between covid brain, ipad kids, heavy metal poisoning, and decades of attacks on the education system the US is dropping IQ points while mental illness is on the rise.
Did you leave out the /s? Or are you seriously implying the crazy conspiracy garbage we're seeing recently is a result of COVID? Because that sounds just as deranged as <waves hands at all the other dumb shit on the internet>.
Real utility bills of real citizens have doubled. All the associated taxes, delivery fees, etc. are clearly not included, or they’ve used substitution to alter the baseline basket they’re using to compute the metric (a common tactic).

Ask 10 citizens who own/rent the same property what their utility bill was a decade ago.

You’re being gaslighted.
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> Distrusting governments is not the cause of people believing flat earth, people believe flat earth because they are unable to separate fact from fiction, which, I believe is a consequence of poor education.

That's what your gut reaction may tell you; but I don't believe this is reality. The refusal to accept widely-accepted science is often rooted in distrust of the official narrative.

It's like saying people commit violence, just because they like violence, or must be stupid. Most of the time there's an underlying cause.
No one said to hire developers. Even L1 phone support would be a great improvement
It is global. I was just in Poland. Literally same thing as in the US just a bit different flavor. Mainstream media bad, covid fake just a little flu and used to control society, proud for not wearing masks, did not vaccinate because some crazy reasons.

Not everyone obviously, but I was visiting smaller cities where I grew up. I always thought I could go back one day but I don't think I would be able to deal with people there. The customer service is non existent and when you are shopping/getting services you are an inconvenience. Crazy.
It's not hard to accept that stupid people fall for these kinds of conspiracy theories, but I'll never forget that one professor I had in uni who was teaching us chaos theory and dynamical systems and was convinced that the government was controlling the weather. I'm kinda skeptical how much education can do to fix conspiratorial thinking. If even a professor teaching chaos theory is convinced that the government is controlling the weather then frankly anyone could probably be convinced.
It’s complicated. You need blood pressure to live…

Too low heart rate can also be a problem.

talk to your cardiologist about your specifics.

At the population level, the guidelines have backed off over the last 20 years. What’s normal now used to be called high blood pressure.
TD Bank aka Toronto-Dominion Bank. This is a bit more substantial than the $9.2M penalty they got 5 months ago in Canada https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40248857
The lunacy is definitely worse in the Anglosphere. I moved to Eastern Europe a few years ago and it's way more sane (and yes, I speak the local languages here).

See this article about Emmanuel Todd forecasting the collapse of the West using the same methodology he used to successfully predict the collapse of the Soviet Union: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/09/opinion/emmanuel-todd-dec...
> That is what you get when you stop funding general education because you think people should pay for it themselves. People lose the ability to separate fact from fiction, lack the ability for critical thinking.

On the other hand, this sounds like something you just made up and decided to connect to the current topic. Is this fact or fiction?
Unhealthy people get left behind in Europe all the time. I hope as a European you’ll never have to go through the hell of trying to deal with any kind of complex chronic illness. The doctors have no clue how to treat these kinds of problems, and any specialists are very few and far between. Go spend some time on forums for people dealing with chronic health problems and you’ll find many Europeans who’ve had to empty out their savings in order to get treatment.
Twinkies are made up almost entirely (by mass) of the things listed above. The only major thing missing is sugar.
Huh, no types. So every field is 8 bytes I guess?

I suppose if you want a defined/packed memory layout you can already use SharedArrayBuffer and if you want to store objects in it you can use this BufferBackedObjects library they linked. https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/buffer-backed-object

I also expect that in browsers this will have the same cross-origin isolation requirements as SharedArrayBuffer that make it difficult to use.
Does anyone know any good "debloat" scripts to disable all these modern features of Windows 11 and bring me back to something that resembles the Windows I grew up with?

I'm having a hard time keeping track of all of the registry keys and config settings I need to update to keep this crap at bay.
A typical bit of Forbes scaremongering.

According to the local the threshold for share gains is 3 million kr, about 300 thousand USD. You only pay the exit tax on amounts above that.

"Those subject to the tax will have to address their tax obligations related to gains exceeding 3 million kroner on shares acquired during their time in Norway.

They will have several options to fulfil this obligation, including immediate payment, interest-free instalments spread over 12 years, or deferred payment with accrued interest.

The changes are part of the government's efforts to counter the recent outflow of wealth from Norway, with Switzerland being a popular destination for tax exiles."

https://www.thelocal.no/20241007/whats-the-latest-on-norways...
Tables are something I want to tackle and I'd like to do them right because (as you point out) are crucial. I didn't get there yet...

I want to make it such that you can code on the left and then hide everything
and share that with non technical folks. That's why I did not use a Colab, creating something interactive with it (and I did that quite a lot in the past)
it's a bit of a PITA.
To get clicks, or to keep people alive after a few storms in the not-that-distant past were not recognized for the monsters they were until it was too late for people to evacuate?

There is certainly a risk that people will take the next warnings less seriously. And then an unexpectedly large number of people will die, and we will cycle again.
Just a thought: rightie parents naturally put the crib along a wall oriented so they can interact with the baby with their right hand, which means most of the world is to the right from the baby's perspective.
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oop, my bad. it got oomkilled somehow - should be back up now :3

original post is at https://j3s.sh/thought/stop-using-fandom.html
"Craft beer in a can will not age gracefully. Even in a bottle, while it will probably be fine, how much light exposure are the bottle getting, have they been left out in the sun at any point etc."

A modern beer can, on a newer canning line, is superior to a bottle in every single way. This debate about bottles being better than cans is from years ago. Cans and especially the canning machines have come a very long way in the last 15 years. That is one of the many reasons why almost every brewery is slowly switching to cans.

In regard to aging beers, there are a many important factors. The biggest enemy in aging a beer is oxygen. Oxygen gives beer a cardboard, paper flavor or a very raisin-y flavor, eventually it makes the entire beer taste like soy sauce.

As you mentioned zero light in a can so no skunking, although brown bottles stored in a dark cool place don't experience much of this. But clear, green and other bottles do. Bottle caps slowly leak oxygen in over a very long time and is why you might see a oxygen absorbing material in the under side of some bottle caps.

On the flip side one majorly common way a can will go bad in aging is from a seal alignment issue. This is especially common in smaller breweries as automated seam inspectors are quite expensive. The seal will visually look great. But if you tear it apart and measure the folds its quite common for them to be a little bit off, which can slowly leak out carbonation and in oxygen.

I'm a huge fan of packaged on dates for beer.
I like this idea, but seems like a bug factory. Going to break lots of downstream assumptions and create duplicate workflows for these (hopefully) rare events.
Internet Archive is being DDOSed
When you defund science and education, these institutions have to turn elsewhere for funding, and now you're at the mercy of the one providing the funds...
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what is a VHS tape
Just because no one acted doesn't mean that "they essentially found nothing".

The Muller report described Russian interference in the 2016 election as “sweeping and systemic.” The report spent a bunch of pages saying that there were “numerous links between the Russian government and the Trump Campaign.”
I went to see Rocky Horror Picture Show and everyone kept getting up and singing!!!
Varnish caching really only helps if the majority of your traffic is logged out requests. Its the sort of thing that is really useful at a high scale but matters much less at a low scale.

Application level caching (memcached/redis/apcu) is super important even at a small scale.

Most of the time (unless complex extensions are involved or your wiki pages are very simple) mediawiki should be io-bound on converting wikitext -> html (which is why caching that process is important). Normally if db is healthy, db requests shouldn't be the bottle neck (unless you have extensions like smw or cargo installed)
When you said "propaganda" I thought meant from official sources or statements by well-known public figures - not random chatroom stuff on the internet.

Either way - you've answered the question. All I can suggest to you is -- just forget about all those social media channels. They're an extremely warped reflection of reality and not representative of anything. Looking for sample material in these places from which to draw inferences about the broader sociopolitical situation (or even as to what Ukrainians or Russians are actually like as people) is like looking for dating advice on 4chan.
This isn't just distrust of the government and other public institutions. It's also distrust of:

- first-hand reports from other people

- private news networks

- the governments of other countries

The scale and degree of this distrust of other people is new. Arguably the US government was far, far less trustworthy in the past, such as when it was massacring people in Vietnam or secretly conducting experiments on Black people. These revelations did not lead to meteorologists getting death threats.
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I'm not a windows user myself, but I'm curious what you windows users think about this.
The official React docs now instruct you to go straight to Next.js: https://react.dev/learn/start-a-new-react-project

When React "is just a library" but the installation instructions tell you to install some large, VC-backed framework immediately - it just doesn't sit right with me.
Greene is a top fundraiser for the republican party. Part of the reason she gets so much attention is because she is bringing in more funds than most.

You can call her weird, I agree she is, but she's clearly representing a significant portion of republican voter sentiment.
Ive also seen trailers for the movie I am about to see, that revealed things I didn’t know already.
It's a theory, that may need validation ;-)
I'm not a doctor, but my understanding is that lower blood pressure can indeed lead to a higher heart rate under certain circumstances. For instance, people taking minoxidil for hair loss can experience lower blood pressure, which leads to higher heart rates and increased left ventricle thickness as a side effect.

My suspicion is that this happens because the heart is trying to maintain a constant oxygen supply to the muscles. However, if blood pressure is lowered by improving factors like arterial flexibility, stroke volume (amount of blood per heartbeat), muscle oxygen efficiency, or oxygen content in the blood, the heart wouldn't need to pump faster.