skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
all the more incentive to behave like an illitierate dick
In a pre-industrial economy, size of your economy was dependent on a) having a lot of peasants, b) having a lot of reasonably fertile soil.

China and India between them counted for at least half of humanity during that period, and probably more. No wonder they were the largest economies.
wow i never knew that was a skill, and that it could be taught in school! TIL
Hope the software insurance does the equivalent of inspecting your infra and discovering drums of inflammable paint in the fire escape. All the attention is on shipping features and there are zero consequences for ignoring security.
Usage duration and frequency?
He probably played it himself back in the day.

Its interesting how games and other things like songs, stories etc. persist and/or disappear over time.
I did not know it was possible to break those things to be honest. We made a circle with a string or something, and then let the two spinning tops (as we called them) duke it out, and the loser is the one knocked out of the ring.

Ours were made from a very tough plastic, either nylon or HDPE.
How about for cavities? I remember reading an article recently about major increases in the number of cavity related treatments because $$$. My kid has had multiple recommendations for cavities and I've got some suspicions about the absolute necessity of all of it.
Bullying an old man with cancer over off-colored jokes made half a century ago and opinions that he publicly retracted is "the right thing"? That's absurd.
For the curious the search string you want is "Maersk cargo ships in Loch Striven".
No grievance. We've never interacted before (nice edit, btw). Yes, the outsized defensiveness did prompt to see what I was dealing with.

After rereading my initial reply I am still puzzled as to why pointing out that ambulatory measurements matter got you bent out of shape. I can concede that "Idealizing conditions also gives a misleading reading." could probably be better worded as "gives a misleading picture", but I don't think that warranted such defensiveness and hostility, you seem to have ignored the overall point made in that comment.
Well, I went to primary school with a heavy christian tradition and would probably have felt the same.

I'm very happy that someone decided to tell me at about age 12 that perhaps it's not all literally true and some people have other ideas. Some not even involving concepts like eternal damnation, original sin, an omnipotent being that turns women into salt pillars but allows for children with bone cancer to exist, and something as undefinable as an eternal soul. This ended my suffering. We have to feel bad for the people still in that system.
It got downvoted because it's an anecdote and an anecdote isn't a substitute for a study that covers eighteen million people. We know the odd person can do it, 1 in 1667 per year if you're very overweight. That doesn't mean that 1 is representative of the set. In fact we know it's not representative. Because we have data.

It's like interviewing Michael Phelps and he's like "just swim! I did it! Anyone can win a gold medal by swimming." No, they can't.

And the reality is average weight gain over the 5 years following weight loss is 80%. Everyone who participated in the Biggest Loser weighs almost as much as when they started and has a metabolism an average of 17% slower than would be expected for someone of their new body composition. [1]

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4989512/

I'll push back and say anecdotes need more downvotes because they're actively harmful to the discourse, and are a large part of how we got to this point of just abject unhelpful information being passed off as useful.

This is how we get all sorts of medical misinformation like "I ate some almond seeds and my cancer went away." We don't accept these kinds of anecdotes in direct opposition to medical evidence for any other disease, we shouldn't accept them here either.

It's survivorship bias -- where are the anecdotes from the people who did exactly what parent said and didn't lose weight? They're in the study. Will OP update if they regain weight?

You can look up any of OPs rules, they've all been studied, and they don't work for most people.

You know what works? GLP-1s.

What matters for your health isn't that you tried real hard, what matters is that you lost weight. Nothing wrong with losing weight via GLP-1s then going to the gym and trying real hard to get jacked.
Would the word not be in a dictionary?
The Epstein quote is taken out of context and his controversial opinion about age of consent (which isn't even that different from the opinions held by esteemed philosophers like Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir) was retracted publicly by him years ago.
When postgres deletes a row, it marks a disk space unused. If you delete a lot of rows, there will be plenty of unused space, but that space will not be released to OS. To release that space to OS, you need to run vacuum full or perform backup/truncate/restore.

In normal circumstances it's not needed. The unused space is reused for further inserts and if your database maintains steady rate of inserts/deletes, this won't be an issue.

However I experienced situation when database starts to grow uncontrollably and it was happening for weeks (when actual workload didn't change). I don't know what causes that behaviour. The solution was to run `vacuum full`.
AirBnB did 'eliminate' the NIMBYs by sidestepping local zoning laws.

And the outcome was bad for people living in these targets for mass tourism. Unless they were a YIMBY of course and wanted a hostel in their backyard.

'NIMBY' is like 'Karen' or 'boomer'. Some sort of convenient scapegoat, deserving or not.
Is 21 a big number? At most places I've been (in various European countries) 12-15 direct reports has generally been considered on the lower side and 30 wasn't considered abnormal in any way.

If each manager can only manage 5-10 people doesn't that just lead to unnecessarily many layers of management?
Uhm... was it a known issue when you released it or you didn't even try it on Firefox before release? :(
I find it highly suspicious that the reigning champion gets to drill the holes in the conkers. You can intentionally make some of them weaker by drilling closer to the edge or something.

I assume the conkers are provided by the organizers, and the participants must select their conker from the collection or given one at random. Prevents tampering I guess.
More UK people will have played conkers then soccer.
My wisdom teeth came in like you describe. They meet my back molars at a 90 degree angle. They never bothered me, though - I have had two removed because they got infected, but otherwise they never caused any issues.
There are a couple posters on 4chan's /g/ threads on AoC that create "Big Boy" inputs, which is what you're looking for. It's unofficial, though.
Parking the obvious sentiment here which I agree with. Is there a market for human controlled robots like this ?
Since the university News Center couldn't be bothered to link to the actual article:

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2024.105908

"Here, we propose that ultrasonic vocalizations may affect what rodents smell by altering the deposition of inhaled particles and that rodents coordinate active sniffing with sound production specifically to enhance reception of pheromones."
Right on.

Contrast the BBC's take: First American wins World Conker Championships[0], which focuses on the winner's family's pride, the "lovely little village" where the tournament was held, the American visitor triumphing over churlish natives heckling her, and concludes with a cozy panegyric embracing both tradition and the New World Order (of conkers):

> "Our overall champion, Kelci Banschbach, is our first American Queen Conker and David Jakins, previous finalist and long-standing committee member, very much deserves his King Conker title."

In typical fashion, the Establishment's champion declines to even hint at the underlying corruption.

0: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr75xyn1rd8o
PayloadCMS is looking really nice for us. However, for us a as a small non-profit organization with ~100 people having access to our systems the missing SSO feature (enterprise only) is really a blocker.

I understand what the idea is to make SSO an enterprise feature but I really think this hurts security for small and medium sized organizations as well (not only with this project, as this is a common pattern in my experience).
The non-bovine examples are in a way more complex (but also more common), since they involve multiple possible causes for an event. In software engineering, bugs and outages and so on are not just caused by lack of testing, but lack of failsafes, lack of fallbacks, coding on a Monday morning, cosmic background radation, too many/few meetings, etc. etc. And it's hard to pinpoint "the cause" (but perhaps we shed some light on a graph of causes, some of which may be "blocked" by other causes standing in the way).

Are there any good examples of gettiers in software engineering that don't rely on understanding causality, where we're just talking about "what's there" not explaining "how it got there"?
any reccs for an open source logic analyzer on par with saleae?
Which is wrong on almost any modern architecture.

For small size functions inlining is almost always preferable because (1) the prefetcher actually love that and (2) a cache-miss due to a mis predicted jump is way more costly than anything a bit of bloat will ever cost you.
I think you must have written your comment right after Dang changed the title, and so were not aware of this change, nor the original title here on HN (~"3500-year-old Greek structure found in Croatia"). It doesn't make sense otherwise TBH.
Hi! I've created a simple tool that extends HuggingFace's daily papers page, allowing you to explore top AI research papers from the past week and month, not just today. It's a straightforward wrapper that aggregates and sorts papers, making it easier to catch up on trending research you might have missed. Check it out and let me know what you think!
The linked blog post seems to have been deleted
To summarize: "It'll surely work this time. Please invest."
Very neat, bookmarked. Read through the readme.md and would be nice to show an example of using with Ollama or LM Studio running locally. Would guess you just setup an OpenAI model, set the baseUrl to the local instance / API and go from there? For something that is Fully Local connecting to a provider with an API key is iffy at best, unless you are paying for enterprise keys. I guess the first line says used by ‘Enterprises’ but to be fully local that would include running the LLM locally also?
>If you want to discuss our report on Hacker News, you will have to help us overcome the systemic reactionary bias on HN.

The message is clear: HN has a "bias" (according to them) and their readers must take action in order to discuss it.

It could be that readers here disagree with them, it could be that readers don't buy their attempt at character assassination, instead they play victims as if there was a grand conspiracy to keep a homeless old man with cancer at the head of a nonprofit.
the reasons PM stuff is ‘hard’ in my, admittedly limited, experience often seems to come down to

- saying No, and sticking to it when it matters — what you’ve mentioned.

- knowing how the product gets built — knowing *the why behind the no*.

PMs don’t usually have the technical understanding to do the second one. so the first one falls flat because why would someone stick to their guns when they do not understand why they need to say No, and keep saying No.

there are cases where talking to customer highlights a mistaken understanding in the *why we’re saying No*. those moments are gold because they’re challenging crucial assumptions. i love those moments. they’re basically higher level debugging.

but, again, without the technical understanding a PM can’t notice those moments.

they end up just filling up a massive backlog of everything because they don’t know how to filter wants vs. needs and stuff.

—
also i agree with a lot of what you’ve said in this chain of discussion.

get it right first time, then keep it right is so on point these days. especially for smaller teams. 90% of teams are not the next uber and don’t need to worry about massive growth spurts. most users don’t want the frontend changing every single day. they want stability.

worry about getting it right first. be like uber/google if you need to, when you need to.
> if someone could actually afford a ball

Round here, in the olden days the kids would fashion a crude type of ball called "basse" by cutting up a broken bicycle inner tube into a bunch of small rings, threading all the rings on a piece of string and tying this mess up in a particular way to form a roughly spherical object.

It does not roll well at all, but the kids stand around in a circle and kick the basse around to each other, trying to keep it in the air. If you cause it to fall to the ground, you lose.
I thought it might be like formula 1 where having the right equipment is part of the challenge.
It's not banned, but the Daily Mail would like you to think the EU banned another British tradition.
The BSD logo was originally drawn by John Lassetter, who would later write and direct Toy Story
and a couple of other successful movies.

https://www.jacobelder.com/2024/01/17/director-of-toy-story-...

Previous discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39030991

EDIT: While the John Lassetter version became most popular he did not draw the original. Thanks to dagmx for pointing that out and the additional background info in their comment. Also there is a Wikipedia article about the BSD daemon with even more details about the history of the logo.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon
Replying to myself to note that Matt deleted the blog post. Not sure if that's because he's gaining some self-awareness or if he's finally taking some outside advice?
Upvote for the subtle reference to the conkers story (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41844545).
Having lived through the 90s as a young adult, I can assure you back then the Family Values crowd was just as annoying and censorious as the Woko Haram is today. 2011 seems a bit late for that kind of thing, but it's entirely plausible a few NPCs didn't get the patch yet.
I developed a strange fascination with Horse Chestnut trees.

I remember in the nineties when I noticed Horse Chestnuts laying on the pavement, and felt a tinge of sadness kids would normally by scouting areas to pick up all the chestnuts like competitive squirrels.
I think they’re on to something, but the solution needs more work. Sometimes it’s not just individual engineers who are playing defence, it’s whole departments or whole companies that are set up around “don’t change anything, you might break it”. Then the company creates special “labs” teams to innovate.

To borrow a football term, sometimes company structure seems like it’s playing the “long ball” game. Everyone sitting back in defence, then the occasional hail mary long pass up to the opposite end. I would love to see a more well developed understanding within companies that certain teams, and the processes that they have are defensive, others are attacking, and others are “mid field”, i.e. they’re responsible for developing the foundations on which an attacking team can operate (e.g. longer term refactors, API design, filling in gaps in features that were built to a deadline). To win a game you need a good proportion of defence, mid field and attack, and a good interface between those three groups.
It's Not Cricket
Yes you are pointing the top 1% of the most skilled people in the world and you do know most men don't own firearms unless you are talking about US which seems to be the "whole world" for you people.
We randomly had something like this in our kitchen draw...

https://www.amazon.co.uk/SpitJack-Trussing-Butchers-Roasting...

Attach string, push through, detach string and remove.
You're downvoted because you're repeating unfounded tabloid rage-bait, hours after someone else posted a reliable source showing the opposite.
Yeah obviously fake, who ever calls people. It's not the owner of the hotel, it's the person / company who setup their WiFi. Presumably on the wifi connection page there's a number to call for tech support.

http://lariat.net/
Uhm... Most of my life I went to a doctor that simply checkeed my teeth "physically". Then a couple of years back she send me to get x-ray to her's son place "just in case". And then she retired and I moved to him. And while he does x-ray more often it's mostly as a fallback when he checks my mouth and has some doubt/x-ray was done more than 2 years ago.. but again - it's not very expensive - like $25 :D
1 bar is atmospheric pressure. I.e., as far as you in your kitchen are concerned, no pressure at all.
How when the Chinese won’t let people from China use it?
I have checked your busy / free calendar information and it seems you do nothing around here. We thank you for your service but it is no longer required at this organisation.
Those prices are insane... I wonder if it's due to the insurance f-up of the whole health system in the USA (i.e. ballooning the prices because "insurance will pay"))
Was bitten by a swan as a child. Painful by all accounts, but not enough for me to remember the pain, though I recall being more careful around swans afterward Probably more scary for my parents.
How holding a feather and you’ll get a “red ring of fungus” in your hair.

I thought that was stupid then as well.
I remember my wife describing the funny look she got from our "traditional" next door neighbor as she took the latest edition of the BSD journal out of the mailbox. Never went any further than that.

But if you choose to use a literal hell-themed demon as your product's logo, don't be surprised if it limits your user base.
Staring into space is when I am busiest of all.
> I don't know why you're being downvoted

Because it's unrelated to the article, doesn't have a source, has multiple typos, and even if it's true, I'm not going to give up hot beverages and food just to avoid (what I assume they're implying to be) a tiny increased mouth and throat cancer risk.
There is no required account :)

The app just allows to connect over Bluetooth to the battery if you want to set a wifi password to retrieve your data and set alerts!

It also lets you configure your battery for any type of e-bike system
This is kinda addicting to play, ngl
No, the app is never needed! It's for extra features and configurability
I believe traders call this Lambda.
No! The casing contains the explosion. We just used steel bar to be extra safe, and make sure the batteries don't move while filming
Not yet! If you have interesting applications or contacts, we'd love to know! Send us an email at contact@gouach.com :)
What's "MTB?"
We used to have something similar at one of my previous jobs, a piece of paper that was red on one side, if red side was up on the desk, you don't disturb them.
printf makes no sense in this context, because the conversion happens in the other direction.

The article doesn't change that. It also lists scanf...
Chicago train stations have overhead heaters, you press button the heat you up with infrared, but they look more like 10KW devices.
Wow this is incredible. I had no clue. Indo-European language high-five moment?
I don't know if this story is true, but the story of Greek police raiding my local D&D store and confiscating all books to check for satanism in 2001 is very true. For a long time, Kaissa (the store) was left without manuals or adventure books.
My favourite is Link Suggestions which recommends relevant pages and databases to link. It helps to build a more interconnected knowledge base in my Notion
Doesn't seem egregious.
I’m do not think you always want to hit them hard. If our understanding of physics is right, it doesn’t matter whether you hit them or they hit you.

the two conkers hitting each other harder likely will lead to an earlier result, but it will also favor the conker that can withstand few hard blows over one that can withstand many softer ones.

So, assuming you can somehow judge how well your and your opponent’s conker do in this regard, you may want to go either for brute impact or for many rounds.

> What's the optimum strike angle to crack a chestnut along its natural cleavages?

I think that’s more important. Even idealized conkers are fairly asymmetrical, so possibly, the ‘bottom’ of one hitting the side of another is a winning or losing strategy. If so, it’s more a matter of timing than of being brutal, at least for hypothetical perfect players. Whether humans can do much here, I wouldn’t know.
I assume the conkers are provided by the organizers

Going around the conker trees in your area and finding the perfect conker is a huge part of the game. There is also a certain amount of pre-game 'modification' that are generally allowed, like soaking them in various solutions, or baking them in an oven.

Having to use a provided conker would be like showing up to the Tour de France and being assigned a bike by the organisers.
I don't read the daily mail. Try again. Maybe be less partisan.
I was replying to the claim that Abraham's DNA (if he existed) could be traced in today's Jewish population. And that _is_ impossible.
In any case, it's not like you identify Ashkanazi Jews from DNA, instead it's that when DNA-checking people who self-identify as Ashkanazi then you find Middle Eastern ancestry. To recite Wikipedia's citation: '.. while certain detectable Middle Eastern genetic components exist in numerous Jewish communities, there is no evidence for a single Jewish prototype, and that "any general biological definition of Jews is meaningless"'
It's such a shame, because I really like the FreeBSD/NetBSD daemon logo, the FreeBSD project had a lot of nice variations in the past for the Walnut creek CD-ROM sets [1]. The 'glass ball with horns' is far more boring, and I'm sure would still offend some people because it has horns.

[1] E.g. https://i.redd.it/ha7w5438mq031.jpg
This is sort of incorrect. The BSD daemon was originally drawn by Phil Foglio. As seen here https://www.mckusick.com/beastie/jpg/foglio.jpg

Lasseter did a later (more current and iconic) revision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_Daemon?wprov=sfti1

Also John did more than just direct Toy Story.

Lasseter was one of the founders of Pixar , directed several movies, took over the chief creative officer role for both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation, before eventually leaving after several allegations of sexual impropriety. He’s now heading up Skydance Animation for Larry Elissons son, and has a contractual liability clause for any further impropriety.

One of the big “never meet your heroes” examples, along with the other Pixar co-founder, Ed Catmull who was behind the industry wide wage fixing scandal. On the flip side he also invented so many technologies that are key to computer graphics today, including the alpha channel.

Somehow Steve jobs, famously abrasive, was the least problematic of the founders.
Palantir operates Drones without GPS [video]
Resolved: WORKSFORME

Comment: cats are also horned devils but they seem to be universally accepted anyway
> You'll get to have fun for maybe a day before they ban you.

Source? I heard of many cases when ChatGPT notified users about policy violations (including https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41583605), and I have seen these warnings too, nothing happened. I agree that they can do whatever they want, I just never heard of bans on personal accounts on the next day.
> Once again, you cannot trust what so-called "normal people" say.

Yes you can. That's what a democracy means.