skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chinese version of the text has an extra header line that translates to "to prevent abuse via GitHub Issues, we are not accepting general issues". An earlier commit has this for the English text:

`you-get` is currently experimenting with an aggressive approach to handling issues. Namely, a bug report must be addressed with some code via a pull request.

https://github.com/soimort/you-get/commit/75b44b83826b3c2d9a...

Maybe they got too much spam.

By the way, `tests/test.py` seems to just run the extractors against various websites directly. I can't find where it's mocking out network requests and replies. Maybe this is to simplify the process for people creating pull requests?
I'm unable to open your link (phone issue perhaps). I've heard that in WA state most fires (over 80%) are human caused. Given CA is at 95%, why is oregon so different? Are we talking different measures somehow? I'm wondering where the discrepancy is - I doubt that OR would be that unique of a situation.
As cyber threats evolve, so must our defenses. While many organizations still focus on traditional encryption methods, the rise of quantum computing challenges the status quo. With the potential to break widely used cryptographic algorithms, quantum computing could expose sensitive data, compromise communications, and endanger the privacy of billions. Here’s why quantum-resistant encryption isn’t just a futuristic consideration – it’s an immediate priority.

The Quantum Threat: What Makes It So Different?
Quantum computing can process information in a fundamentally different way compared to classical computers. For standard encryption algorithms like RSA and ECC, quantum computers could rapidly factorize large numbers or solve complex mathematical problems that would be infeasible for today’s systems. This capability renders many of our current encryption standards vulnerable to attacks, potentially dismantling the cybersecurity infrastructure that underpins global commerce, government, and personal privacy.

Why Move to Quantum-Resistant Encryption Now?
For industries such as healthcare, finance, and defense, which depend on long-term data security, quantum-resistant encryption (QRE) offers a path forward. Data that needs to remain secure over decades – such as medical records, financial transactions, and intellectual property – faces an imminent risk. Transitioning to QRE ensures that even as quantum computing advances, this data remains protected.

Organizations should act now, incorporating quantum-resistant protocols into their security roadmaps. These strategies will protect them not only against current threats but also against future quantum-enabled cyber attacks.

QECNet’s Approach to Quantum-Resistant Encryption
At QECNet, we’re pioneering solutions to address this need by integrating quantum-resistant algorithms into data protection frameworks. Our approach focuses on:

Layered Security – QECNet utilizes multi-layer encryption protocols to reinforce data integrity, creating multiple defense barriers.

End-to-End Quantum-Resistant Encryption – From data at rest to data in transit, our solutions protect every stage of data handling.

Future-Proof Security – By anticipating quantum threats, we ensure long-term security for sensitive data, safeguarding it from rapid advancements in computing.

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The transition to quantum-resistant encryption may seem complex, but the risks of inaction are far greater. By adopting quantum-resistant protocols today, organizations can outpace threats and foster trust with their clients and stakeholders. As quantum computing becomes mainstream, QECNet is here to offer forward-thinking solutions to protect against these emerging vulnerabilities.

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For organizations and individuals alike, the transition to quantum-resistant encryption is a critical step in ensuring data security. Join us as we explore these challenges and pioneer innovative solutions to meet them. The future of cybersecurity starts now – will you be prepared?
The Print Magazine Revival of 2024
Anyone who's worked a few jobs would read the comment and go "sure, I've worked under managers like that". It's not obvious sarcasm when the description is just something that happens.
Both of those cars have more real world (i.e long distance) towing capacity than a cyber truck.
Title should say it's 13 years old and currently unmaintained.

BTW: a modern, maintained alternative (With Python instead of Lua) would be Pyxel (https://github.com/kitao/pyxel -> discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40899520).
American Airlines tests boarding technology that calls out line cutters
Is this really a "technology" or just some PR intern applying the wrong word for a business rule?
And apparently that's also true for many people who buy these monster trucks that also push 100k use.
Factorio makes me realize that I don’t really like solving problems for the sake of solving problems (or optimization, for that matter). I like solving them for a tangible reason or because I I’m making someone’s life better.

Problem solving and optimizing in Factorio is different than a grind in some game like Diablo. That sort of grind uses a completely different part of your brain (movement and in-the-moment decision making), and I find that I need that kind of change after a week of real-life problem solving.

I imagine people who gravitate to Factorio are probably better problem solvers and optimizers than me because that’s what they truly enjoy for its own sake.
Amazon identified internet domains abused by APT29
> losing the skill to actually run your own hardware

i see a trend in recent years in losing the skill for making proper software too - Something that works and is usable and is not about changing colors and pixels and protocols everyday for the sake of it. Maybe the opposite trend of the everybody-can-program since 1995? Or maybe not - not sure how ML-generated stuff will impact all this.

btw there was ~2021 talk/article by same guy about how outsourcing-everything leads to total deskilling:

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/how-tech-loses-out/
That reminds me of a question I was asking myself: instead of using rare gas for ion thrusters… why not ejecting very high velocity electrons ?
Their mass is much, much smaller than any atom, but why wouldn’t that lead to a thrust ?
Possibly without limit except power - no limit on a “tank”?
https://home.omg.lol/ perhaps?
Indeed - the fact they were cut down nearly to the point of extinction is something of a tragedy. The trees that replaced them are not fire resistant. Thus is counter evidence for the idea that humans need to be cutting down anything to improve the fire resistant of forests.
But national sugar consumption has fallen since the early 2000s despite rising rates of obesity

https://marginalrevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Su...

I think it has more to do with 'too many calories' than blaming sugar.
Tangential: staring at a computer screen while having a phone call is distracting. Recommend looking at not-a-screen while talking on-the-phone :)
The claim is not that French people are resistant to heart disease. It is a datapoint that reality may not fit the "fat -> heart disease" model.
> given the underlying insinuation that scaling back the government would solve the problem

This is almost never actually stated in comments on HN. This is statement is just projection and/or inventing hypothetical strawman positions.
I'm not into fonts, but reading anything on the web sucks after you get used to LaTeX.

- Justification is not there and it just looks bad.
- Paragraph width is arbitrary, which makes reading some emails (from folks who apparently think the earth is not only flat, but 1D) awful to read. I'm shown a 2000px+ wide, 60+ word line for a message.
- Long words or non-English destroy line breaks and lines break at odd places.
- There's widows and orphans around. I think I didn't even saw this one until I was told to fix my stuff during peer review, but now I see it everywhere and it only took a couple minutes to explain the issue and kind of ruin me.
- Non-english keeps breaking the web.
- Probably not just on typography, but many websites are still unable to deal with not so special characters like á, à, ä ø, £ and you get to read gibberish.
Memories while working with outstanding people
I noticed intense fatigue wandering Tokyo with my friend who wore magnifying lenses and he could not understand why I was tired. I said it's all the visual stimulation, the signs, the lights, the billboards. I think he was at an advantage with the eyewear, in retrospect.
Erlang is not very backward compatible. At least not at OTP 22.
Aren't you suggesting that we use the ear term for the eye term instead of the eye term for the ear term? ;)
Well, if they have hearing, they can build a world model based on that sensation. So when someone talks about the fall, they can remember the sound of leaves hitting other leaves when they fall. The senses give us measurement data on reality that we use to then model reality. We humans then can create concepts about that experience, and then ultimately communicate with other using common words to communication that conceptual understanding. Word data alone is just word data with no meaning. This is why when I look at a paragraph in Russian, it has no meaning for me. (As I don't understand Russian)
Games are much easier than real work and provide more consistent dopamine hits with their graphics, sound effects and feeling of progression. Factorio while fun is a long way from real work.
Environmentalists are pissed wind turbines kill birds. We should stop paying attention to people who want us to live in a cave licking moss.
Not sure if I agree with this. Obviously if you have a natural talent for something, it’s easier to be good at it. Most people though can be very good, great even, at something they simply decide to practice. Most people don’t “actively” practice though, even if they are “doing” something. Purposeful practice is very different from doing.
Right, crap throwing left and right. Every single participant is awful, hi-five all around.
But in SF, and a bunch of other places that have a lot of visible drug use, I think the "gateway drug" has often been legally prescribed opioids. You could be prescribed opioids for any number of legitimate reasons (injury, post surgery, whatever), get hooked, and the addictive wiring in your brain pushes you into a spiral. Whereas most of the people I know who use marijuana use either just marijuana, or dabble in some psychedelics.

I think if you're worried about people getting addicted to "nastier" drugs, multiple valuable steps to focus on are:

- we need predictive tools for health care providers to consult before they prescribe opioids to evaluate whether someone is more or less likely to develop a habit around their use, and better alternatives

- we need better routine support for people getting off of opioids, rather than just "take this for x days, possibly with a refill, then stop".

- we should have a better integrated medical information system so all healthcare providers who interact with a patient can see their full medical history including all prescriptions. Take opportunities away from "drug-seeking patients" that go into a new clinic with complaints about a recent back injury or whatever.
I have no problem with the concept of nation-states. People will always seek to find their tribe.

That is what makes America exceptionally unique on the world stage; it is seemingly becoming more tribal anyway, but the mix is unusual.
Intuitive Eating for Athletes
Trump says...I'm sorry, but I don't believe a damned thing Trump says. This particular claim doesn't pass the sniff test. why would Tim Cook call Donald Trump? Donald Trump is a private citizen with no power to do anything. Donald Trump is an absolute idiot when it comes to anything involving business, except to con and scam people. So no, there's no reason to believe this happened.

Now, if Americans are stupid enough to make Trump president again - well, that's a different scenario because Trump would be president. Then Tim Cook has incentive to try to convince Trump to not thoroughly wreck and destroy the US economy. Tim Cook can wait until after the election to see if he has to cross that bridge.
The other commenter, Throwaway3... is getting downvoted but I agree with the costs being excessive, tech-wise.

This didnt need kubernetes, datadog, all that stuff. This needed a couple of hundred a month in S3 or cloudflare or whatever storage/CDN bills, and a couple of 40$/month hetzner boxes.
They really should let it go for common communication.

It’s beautiful and culturally significant, and that will never be forgotten. But it doesn’t fit well with modern writing.
It’s probably better off if we don’t give a handful of biased people control over the diets of millions. Maybe it is better to make decisions locally from personal connections. Maybe the transmission of knowledge through local groups had the positive effect of a sort of charcoal filter for knowledge. A bit of humility could be good for us. We spent all this time building and abusing a global authoritarian control network without ever considering the side effects.
Deposit Guarantee Scheme of Japan: DIA and DICJ
Zero oranges is different from zero apples, because you can have ten apples and zero oranges.
it's not a defense because despite your efforts to antagonize, I don't need to defend myself.

i'm over our little interaction. cheers.
Where do the extra electrons come from?
If I have one apple I still have zero oranges.
In Memoriam: The Unused Posters in Your Closet
It works awesome.
No worries of api documentation maintenance.
It can. I have the developer edition and it came with a primitive but functional android version which I was able to get Fdroid installed and subsequently, KOReader and Termux.
Being someone who grew up on these games, I often think of the steep trade offs I made in childhood playing them.

If I’d spent all the time playing Guitar Hero playing an actual guitar instead, I’d be a real guitar hero.

I could also be a pro skater.
At one point, apparently it was fashionable amongst teens to type characters by using pinyin and always selecting the first character in the list of options, regardless of the intended actual character. That was essentially phonetic writing, but as a result, texts were incomprehensible to parents (the desired outcome).
The food pyramid put whole grains specifically at the base of the food pyramid. Not sure why you consider this objectionable, the body of evidence overwhelmingly points in the direction of benefits for wholegrain consumption.

Reduced fat is an interesting one. If you actually look at what Keys was investigating all the way back in the mid 20th century, the hypothesis was always that saturated fat increased CVD risk. The translation of that into policy and marketing aimed at total fat cannot be placed entirely at the feet of mainstream nutrition science.

As to the claims that sugar is addictive, this is unsupported - sugar does not meet the DSM-V criteria for addictive substances based on current evidence (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4899-8077-9_...)

As for added sugar - again, you’re labelling policy decisions as nutrition science. The DGs that I’m aware of recommend as little added sugar as possible, but when you’re making policy you have to strike a balance between strict enough to make a difference, but not so restrictive that no one listens. That’s different from what mainstream nutrition science would claim (which is indeed that there are no benefits to added sugar and several risks).

The same point applies to your claim that nutrition science has a role in getting people to adhere to satiating diets. No, nutrition science is to help us understand what those diets might look like. It is not responsible for getting populations to adhere to them.
You might apply that to yourself.

I know more about the situation and you do, the person question is a relative I care for deeply.
What is antirez doing these days? His github history suddenly dropped to zero it seems.
> they have a unique feedback mechanism that suppresses endogenous cholesterol synthesis that most of us don’t have.

What unique feedback mechanism is this and how can i find out if i have this too ?
circular reasoning "what makes them different is that they are shown to be different"

> they manage to escape heart attacks because their vessels are larger than average. Wow. I don’t know what to make of the Masai, except that they are indeed a unique people.

Maybe they are not "unique people" and there are other non-genetic reasons their blood vessels are larger.

I call BS on this so called review because author didn't bother to explain his points.
Some figma boards end up looking like someone vomited a pile of confetti. A prime example of visual clutter for me.
Watching Youtube videos can make us believe we understand a topic better, but that's not necessarily the case. And without a good understanding of that topic to begin with, it's hard to know why we're wrong.

Imagine watching a super compelling Youtube video explaining why dinosaurs never existed, and so you now think that's a credible hypothesis. You would probably know more facts about dinosaurs and paleontology than the average person, but I'd argue that your understanding of dinosaurs has actually gone down.

I see a similar thing happening here. You and Paul are able to cite lots of facts about Linoleic Acid. But there's a whole body of experimental human research showing that, if anything, LA-rich oils probably slightly improve insulin sensitivity, inflammation, lipids etc. But Paul either isn't aware of this or chooses not to show you because it contradicts his claims. So you're left with the wrong impression about LA and seed oils, despite thinking that your understanding has gone up.
Honestly, that fits into the same boat for me. I like fixing problems for people and I’m not particularly creative in the classical sense. So messing with visual effects for the sake of it doesn’t really do it for me. Weirdly, if someone needed it for something, I’d probably pull a 60 hour shift to figure it all out ;-P
Sounds like a real opportunity for someone with your skills.
Cool! Another federated doohickey nobody asked for and will never use
Easy to say but does that really represent the statistical reality? Does higher acceleration cause more accidents? Sports cars have more accidents. Sports cars that are driven by young people that want to show off. Cars with a high top speed. But do you think people will try to corner with the Cybertruck like they're racing? Yes they will spend a few seconds after each stop sign at hogher speed than if they weren't driving a Cybertruck but then they're just coasting down the suburbs with 30mph or whatever. But it is not obvious to me at all that Cybertruck driving should occur significantly often in dangerous fashion just because you can get to your cruising speed and overtake a bit quicker. You need statistics to back up these claims and these don't exist yet.
Given the collapsing demographics in China, many of those rural hukou holders are obviously not going to receive the promised retirement benefits. The surplus resources to fund those payments don't exist so either the retirement age will be raised or benefits will be cut (either officially, or unofficially by just not sending payments and ignoring any protests).
I mean, I used pyright (the free one) in emacs for years, and it was fine. Pip installable et al, maybe this all happens automagically in VSCode?
The article lumps together writing characters slightly incorrectly and failing to come up with the character at all. For instance, the game show contestant wrote the word "烹" with one extra stroke, while the writer of the shopping list writer gave up entirely on the characters for "egg" and "chives". (This is analogous to the difference between misspelling an English word and not being able to think of the word at all.) In the story of three PhD students who couldn't write the characters for "sneeze" (打喷嚏), it's entirely unclear if they were completely stuck, or if they just made small mistakes.

My question is if "character amnesia" describes trivial errors or if people are forgetting characters to a significant extent. In other words, is this article genuine or is it the equivalent of claiming English writers suffer from "word amnesia" because they sometimes need to look up a spelling?
That seems intuitive. E.g. It is pretty common for people to turn down the radio in their car when they are looking carefully for an address.
so much new JWST stuff, it's fantastic

first brown dwarfs seen in other galaxies too

https://bsky.app/profile/philplait.bsky.social/post/3l7bssmh...
I partially agree with you but have some counter thoughts.

Tone is something that can be adopted intentionally or unintentionally. If you hear a pilot on a radio dryly say something in a calm and detached tone, it could be in the context of an emergency. Pilots are enculturated to adopt that tone (for various reasons). Meanwhile particular cultures have different levels of acceptability when it comes to tone: some cultures perceive other cultures as more angry, or detached, because of the norms of communication within those cultures.

In short, I think the tone of “calm, scientific detachment” is often weaponized to lend undeserved credibility to an argument, because people tend to believe people more when they adopt that tone.

Furthermore, tone does have a purpose if used alongside a well done argument. For example, in the article the OP linked to, there is a rather exhaustive refutation of the book in question. The tone of the author previews that their entire opinion on the book is negative, given all the arguments they put forth in their review. If the author of the review had adopted a calm and thoughtful tone, perhaps it would indeed have been more effective because the reader would decide. On the other hand, most people won’t read the entire review, so the tone of the author makes it clear what their opinion is.

That said I am not wholly disagreeing with you: would be interesting to do a study using some varying markers to identify tone, and identify, I don’t know, argumentative complexity, and see if snarkiness is associated with a lack of complexity. Assuming you can find markers with predictive power.
also hard and sharp
If you're on a smartphone, the Youtube app probably works better than whatever browser you're using. On the flip side, it probably has ads.
2012 is a very long time ago given LLMs. Curious, I asked Google if it still used Google Knowledge Graph and got this answer: “Google's search results sometimes show information that comes from our Knowledge Graph”.

A little more info here:
https://support.google.com/knowledgepanel/answer/9787176?hl=....
Yep. I found using they/them often too disruptive to my understanding.

English needs a gender neutral pronoun because, imo, the gender of the pronoun person is almost never relevant (as in this case).

Being true to my culture, I felt it appropriate to appropriate it from another language.
So your claim is that one can learn how to do something simply by being told, and not doing any practice problems, thought exercises, reviewing solutions, etc?

No, your claim is even stronger - that anyone who doesn't learn that way has a learning disability?

I think either version is far too strong a statement.

Regardless I think it's trivially true that one learns by doing primarily or possibly exclusively. When I think of all the practice problems or "think through implications" that I have to do before being competent enough to claim i know something... Let alone my first attempt at applying the knowledge. That's all "doing".