skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s really a bigger conversation about all condo units and boards. Sometimes the reserves are chronically underfunded and purchasers of resale older units don’t know the condition. Assessments and full transparency of previous board actions would be very helpful to have as required disclosure to future purchasers.
Then help them. If a few bad actors is the price of a free internet, so be it. I'd rather deal with those than have a whitelisted internet where you need permission to start a website.
> 100% agree. We don't expect human developers to be perfect, why should we expect AI assistants.

I think the issue is that we are currently being sold that it is. I'm blown away by how useful AI is, and how stupid it can be at the same time. Take a look at the following example:

https://app.gitsense.com/?doc=f7419bfb27c896&highlight=&othe...

If you click on the sentence, you can see how dumb Sonnet-3.5 and GPT-4 can be. Each model was asked to spell-check and grammar-check the sentence 5 times each, and you can see that GPT-4o-mini was the only one that got this right all 5 times. The other models mostly got it comically wrong.

I believe LLM is going to change things for the better for developers, but we need to properly set expectations. I suspect this will be difficult, since a lot of VC money is being pumped into AI.

I also think a lot of mistakes can be prevented if you include in your prompt, how and why it did what it did. For example, the prompt that was used in the blog post should include "After writing the test, summarize how each rule was applied."
I don’t think it leaves behind a trail of ionized gas. The positive and negative ions get recombined.
Theres an app for that
I did check for myself. And failed to find anything in the clauses on litigation or branding that obviously violated anything in OSI's Open Software Definition (OSD).

Hence, the question.

Simonw's response points out some unusual clauses, and at least one of them looks like it might go against one of the requirements in the OSD but it is not a litigation or branding clause and the article specifically called out the litigation and branding clauses.
> Let's assume you're right

Why assume? There's multiple studies showing microplastics in human brains. Are they all "sketchy" too?

What organ in the body hasn't been shown to be contaminated? Significant and increasing levels have been found in lungs, livers, kidneys, spleens, intestines, hearts, placentas, blood, fat tissue, lymph nodes... All sketchy studies in your view? No? Then why the exception for brains?

Microplastics have been found from the top of Everest to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. They're in 60-80% of all wild species examined. Sketchy? Exaggerated? Bring the data if you have it. It would want to be very strong stuff..

To loudly cast doubt on a study like this, and claim you know the weight of microplastic in people's brains is under 3.5g, you'd want to bring some substance... You haven't brought any; none at all.

> Are you dead? No? Hm.

Do I really need to explain that health is a spectrum - that 'alive' is not equivalent to healthy? That "not immediately sick" isn't the same as thriving? Binary thinking isn't very helpful on issues like this, and it's hard to believe you're arguing in good faith when you say things like this as if you've made a substantive point.

> Perhaps you ought to rethink your priors.

Which priors are those - that I don't want foreign substances accumulating in my brain, much less most brains on the planet?

Why would I? This is a plausibly catastrophic scenario, and you've brought absolutely no evidence that it isn't. None. At all.

> maybe the answer is that it doesn't matter that much, and you're exaggerating the impact.

I don't want to roll the dice on this one, and I think that's the only sensible approach. We have all sorts of alternatives; they're just not quite as 'cheap'.

People have posted elsewhere in the thread about a growing body of scientific links between nasty health outcomes and higher levels of microplastic in people's fleshy bits. You ignored that though... Why? ... Do you have a vested interest? Are you scared that this could actually be an issue, and you don't want to face it? What are your priors - that if you haven't keeled over yet then you're healthy?

> maybe the right answer really is that "0 is the right number"

It is. There's no conceivable advantage from having more than that.

> maybe the answer is that it doesn't matter that much, and you're exaggerating the impact

It's baffling to me that anyone would assume that it's fine and dandy that we're finding increasing amounts of plastic in human brains, or even deny it. To me, that's a ludicrous leap of faith; requiring an utterly unhinged level of naivety or optimism.

> maybe ... you're just panicking.

... You remind me of that old cartoon about climate change - "What if it’s a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
The Japanese word isekai refers to the desire to escape your miserable life and start from scratch in a new, better place /s

Jokes aside, I live in Japan, and I wouldn't take them as the example of a happy, balanced society. Given the explosion of popularity of isekai animes in recent years, quite the opposite.
Anyone else have alternative takes on cholesterol based on personal experience?

Some alternative theories I've come across:

- There's a theory that cholesterol is good for you. It's necessary for brain functioning. Low levels of "bad" cholesterol have been linked to depression.

- There's a theory that the high levels of cholesterol in blood clots found around ripped arteries may be due to the body trying to heal a rupture with cholesterol.

- There's a theory that seed oils and table sugar, which have only been mass consumed for the last 100 years or so, are what cause heart disease.

Personally, I have a very high level of both good and bad cholesterol. They shot up after I started eating a lot of non-veg food. And after they shot up, I stopped having depressive episodes.
So this site was a simple timeline of the actions Matt Mullenweg took regarding the recent mess. It makes it clear what kind of deal people are getting into by using WordPress, which is crucial considering that half the internet depends on it. There's no excuse for threatening to doxx the author for this, and it's ironic considering that Mullenweg himself has accused others of stepping on his free speech rights, according to his own blog.

> 2024-10-20

> Matt accuses WP Engine of attempting to curtail his First Amendment rights

https://archive.md/IyFla
Stored Procedures: The Good, the Bad, and the Elegant
That doesn't have to be true.

Eventually WASM will get direct access to the full browser API, without going through JavaScript.

well, that is what i am waiting for. my point is that it's not the case yet, while the gp seemed to suggest that it's not needed because access through the host is available
That would be an interesting and defendable argument. It’s not the argument you made though.

You started off by pinning the blame on the US alone
It's true. I ran into a friend of my wife's yesterday who is a nurse. The topic of food came up and I mentioned I haven't eaten any plants in over two years. She snidely remarked "How's that constipation going for you?" She's 150 lbs overweight and looks 15 years older than her age. Meanwhile, I lost 20 lbs and cleared up a bunch of medical problems. (Including constipation.) People love to sit on their high horses and make snide remarks while evidence is staring them right in the face. It's wild.
The reasons one diet is typically accepted and the other isn't is because the two diets are materially different. It's possible to have a nutritionally complete diet of only plants where the vast majority of the nutrients are naturally occurring in the food. The same is not true of a diet without plants; it's not possible to have a nutritionally complete diet without plants without a significant portion of nutrients coming only from supplementation.
You picked out the one result in five or six from the summary of result that supports the reducing saturated fats and ignored the rest that said it disnt matter (and of those result all cause and cardiovascular mortality were in there in the saturated fat doesnt affect category). There are straight up lies here but they are in your response.
A Healthier Future
I would, this would hint google's classifier that I want a tl;dr and not temu's website.
The definition I've heard of his for "food" in this sentence was "things your grandparents would recognise", although by this point it might be "your great-grandparents".
One of the most "useful" insights I ever had is that

0. Any transfer function higher than 2nd order overshoots.

1. Society is super complex, has a ton of internal feedback loops and would easily be higher than 2nd order.

2. So of course it overshoots all the time.

I haven't been able to actually "use" it for anything but it does describe a lot of what we see every day in society.
I am finding numbers that US tap water has on the order of ~10mgs minerals/L water. Doping water with some combination of calcium/potassium/magnesium/whatever certainly sounds easier than alternatives.
you are not answering my question. most existing webapps are not running inside WASM.

i am only talking about webapps running inside WASM. are there any WASM based webapps that are as fast as pure js webapps?
Best way to protect windows at home is actually to have two accounts - one standard you login with and use day to day and another admin account you really never need to login as. Anytime you need to install something or get admin access a pop up asks for your admin account and password.

Basically this is the default way Linux works (not entirely the same but similar enough) with sudo. And the way that every corporate IT department runs windows.

Another advantage is that if some malicious app tries to access something it shouldn't you will immediately know as the admin pop up will trigger.
I'm always leery of translations like this, as they are often translated with the world view of the day.

Interesting regardless though.
Nutrition science is hard. The effects are long-term and easily confounded by all the other things one eats. Randomized controlled trials are not easy to pull off. It's only loosely regulated and and a big market. And everyone eats, so everyone has an opinion.

Perhaps that's why there is a lot of sketchy results, hyperbole in communication, and a cycle of debunking (of the debunking) around.
This is also a result of the detachment of TC39 and the developer community. Just how many JS developers are participating TC39? I can recall multiple TC39 proposals that didn't even consult opinions from authors of notable open-source stakeholder libraries, and went straight into stage 3.

And btw, the TypeScript tooling scene is far from being able to get standardized. TypeScript is basically a Microsoft thing, and we don't see a single non-official TypeScript tool can do type-checking. And there's no plan to port the official tools to a faster language like Rust. And the tsc is not designed for doing tranditional compiler optimizations. The TypeScript team made it clear that the goal of tsc is to only produce idiomatic JavaScript.
“ As of the end of 2023, Opera Software was 72.4% owned by Kunlun, a Chinese public company, making it a subsidiary of that company. Opera CEO James Yahui Zhou is a controlling shareholder in Kunlun.” [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opera_(web_browser)]
Could you link an ergonomic example? I have cemented in my memory that DOM access in WebAssembly is not trivial and I suspect others too.

This is what StackOverflow tells me (2020):

> Unfortunately, the DOM can only be accessed within the browser's main JavaScript thread. Service Workers, Web Workers, and Web Assembly modules would not have DOM access. The closest manipulation you'll get from WASM is to manipulate state objects that are passed to and rendered by the main thread with state-based UI components like Preact/React.

> JSON serialization is most often used to pass state with postMessage() or Broadcast Channels. Bitpacking or binary objects could be used with Transferrable ArrayBuffers for more performant messages that avoid the JSON serialization/deserialization overhead.

This feels like "we can have DOM access at home" meme.
Ask HN: Halloween: What would be classed as a "Ghost" detection?
Hi HN,

Strange question, I know, but I feel this is a good place to ask the question: What would be classed as a "Ghost" detection?

I do not believe in anything; ghosts, deities, witches, skeletons with bows and arrows, zombies or anything else. But I'm obsessed with Ghost hunting YouTube channels. I know it's a load of nonsense, however, like Mulder, somewhere deep down "I want to believe". I understand it's all side effects of being human with good filmography that make this entertaining.

These hunters use some strange equipment, "Rem Pods", EMF testers, "Spiritboxes", etc. These are all easily debunked.

But it got me thinking; What would actually prove the existence of a ghost? What phenomena and what evidence would actually be required?

I don't think anything will ever be found as concrete evidence, but without knowing what the acceptance criteria is, we're ultimately always going to be looking in the wrong place.

PS. It's Halloween soon so thought this may be a fun thought experiment.
I do have a fear that staying vegan will have other negative effects, unrelated to cholesterol - esp brain and bone density related. For me that means cutting out cheese, milk, and butter as much as possible. But having fish and lean meats 1-2 times per week.
I think "forced upon" could also read as:

- at work they expect me to write code with the latest features

- my colleagues write code with the latest features and I have to review/extend/build upon using the same style

- the community, books, copilots, LLMs, libraries, tooling are "forcing" all that new stuff upon me

- etc.
Minimal mistakes is a great theme. I had almost decided on minimal mistakes when I wanted to upgrade my blog from a simple two column Hyde theme. But then I wrote the template from scratch using bootstrap-5 as I felt that gave me more control and I took it as opportunity to develop my frontend skills. Here is my blog:

https://prahladyeri.github.io/
Computer based agents have no limits, that’s the advantage. Sure a proper automation hook is better if its available, but a lot of the time it isn’t, either due to lack of resources or monopolistic behavior
*Original article submitted to HN: https://www.eviemagazine.com/post/american-heart-association...
Ah yes, the “you touched it last” or the venerable “you brought us the bad news” schools of management.

I also love the “we’ll do the meta-work that improves work velocity after the work is finished. Not before! We’re too busy for that now.”
Factorio has reached 110k concurrent players on Steam
In practice there's no good defence against this, but Windows is designed to protect itself against these kinds of attacks if all components work together. With secure boot + driver signature validation + DLL signature validation, you can't just run any code by putting it in a DLL file. You're not hacking any normal computer by replacing user32.dll with virus.dll.

Downgrade protection is quite a hard problem to solve without at least breaking the automatic recovery tools. In theory Microsoft could register the versions of every system file somewhere, sign+hash that, and store it some place secure, but then they'd need to deal with reverts of system components after a failed update or restored system images becoming unbootable.

In practice, I don't see the use case for this attack, though. You can just put a legitimate, signed driver with a known exploit inside your executable and load that. Microsoft chooses to keep unpatched, vulnerable drivers rather than break hardware support for millions of users.
For me it was both.. I had pretty bad BP and high enough cholesterol to that my doctor wanted me on a statin. Now my BP is normal, and my cholesterol is in the "low risk" range. My doctor said she'd never seen such an improvement before.

In my case it was not the suggestion of a doctor, but rather dating and now marrying a vegan. I converted to a plant based diet starting with eating plant based just with her, and then I became fully vegan for health reasons.
To move past this barricade you must show your identification card. And a dank meme.
The same could be said for R and Tidyverse crowd. Honestly two entirely separate visions.
I like to live dangerously so I have my keys slapped on in whatever orientation and order they happened to be at the time.
Latest Internet Archive link; may be slightly dated, because of IA's recent troubles due to the attack.

https://web.archive.org/web/20241008203501/https://bullenweg...
“open source” doesn't only mean what the “open source community” has memed it to mean

personally, I think the term should be avoided if its not what the open source community has made a culture around

but I cant say its weasely corporate “open washing”, either. because its the open source community that appropriated the term to mean a subset of free, open, commercial use licenses and everything digital thats necessary to replicate the product, not the other way around where corporations are suddenly using some legalese to turn it into a marketing term thats technically okay
What is the difference between doing something illegal and having consequences and doing something illegal that has no consequences?
It’s not an excuse, almost everyone agrees they screwed up. But it’s an explanation. They likely signed a long term contract. Then a few years ago they allowed franchisees to use another brand.
A handful of us are wondering the same thing.
An Accidental Invention of a Mathematical Bomb
This work is, in essence, a mathematical bomb—a finite-based framework designed to dismantle civilization’s illusions. VOID Theory, by challenging the assumption of infinity, exposes limits where society pretends there are none, undermining the myth of unending growth, limitless resources, and boundless potential.

This journey begins not in mathematics but in the perspective of an outsider—a cultural scholar immersed in thermodynamics, probability, avant-garde art, philosophy, cinema’s critique of the middle class, and video games. My goal wasn’t pure mathematical exploration but to answer a larger question: What structural flaw made the world feel increasingly broken? Years of studying civilization, art, and social systems revealed an unsettling truth. The issue lay not with people or free will—which I doubt exists—but in society’s foundational flaw, a shadow veiling human potential.

Then came my terminal diagnosis—a death sentence I’ve improbably defied for years. The prognosis liberated me, severing ties to conventional ambition. I had little left to lose, no more reason to pursue academia’s standard paths. This freed me to explore without expectation, driven only by intuition and curiosity.

The VOID Granularity Framework (VGF) originated from studying ancient systems, notably Ma’at in Egyptian cosmology. A discussion with AI on Pascal’s probabilistic model veered into questioning its reliance on infinite coin tosses—a notion absurd given our finite reality. Instead, I suggested probability constrained by real limitations, a model where life doesn’t endlessly toss a coin. This shift, an amalgam of my questions and AI’s structured insights, birthed a new framework: a dance between our respective voids—my curiosity and AI’s computational limits.
I bought a house with an electronic front door lock. One day a few months later I used the wrong code (a few times I guess) and I got fully locked out. I don't subscribe to the $60/month service that could have remotely reset the system so I had to get a locksmith to break me in.

After that I replaced it with a plain old mechanical lock. Never again touching any smart home crap.

I'm sure I didn't use the wrong code three times, something must have happened the 2nd/3rd times like a key didn't get pressed hard enough to register. But regardless, the lesson is there's a bunch of possible failure scenarios you won't think of.
We appeared on a list of the top 10 most egregious users of github so I assume they had database entries for these…
Just that atrocity propaganda is the modus operandi of the US and its protégés. We see it again and again.
The site listed the timeline with Matt Mullenweg randomly trying to crush Automattic competitors by using the non profit organisation as leverage.
Not on the internet.
> Open-source-ness only depends on the source code being released under a suitable license. It has nothing to do with complexity or maintainability of it.

That's a definition, but I think that stavros was proposing that, much like Microsoft's "open" formats for Office, if a codebase is so complex that no-one else, not even with the resources of a full company, can maintain it, then at best its open sourceness is pro forma.
It may it matter to you, but it certainly matters to competitive, speed run, and enthusiast communities around different games.

I mentioned Sonic 3 because it’s not the same music after the initial release. Depending on the version, Symphony of the Night is not the same levels or graphics. There are multiple versions of Revenge of Shinobi which replace various bosses for the Sega Genesis. Final Fantasy VI may or may not be the same code. Later versions may or may not use resources from earlier versions, sometimes a release is a completely new game with the same gameplay and aesthetic (this was especially true in 16-hit and earlier eras when arcade and home versions were complete reimplementations of the same game).

They might have the same name, but at what point does the Ship of Theseus become a different thing?
The latest snapshot of the website may help:

https://web.archive.org/web/20241008203501/https://bullenweg...
That actually worked really well, and provides great branch search features when you have lots.
I've been interested in the progress of the PineNote since the reMarkable company decided to put certain advertised features behind a subscription paywall.

Does anyone have any information on the OS being developed looks like? I have not been able to find any videos or screenshots that indicate what interacting with the device is expected to look like. I found this blog post here, but it shows it running a GNOME environment which is... Not at all what I would hope for in this type of device: https://pine64.org/2024/10/02/september_2024/#pinenote
- "ideal power plant that can output 1 kW per kg of weight"

I wished I remember where I read about this engineering problem, because it's an entertaining one. The main constraint on your [kW/kg] past a certain point is heat dissipation—the mass of the radiators rejecting waste heat into the vacuum of space. Thermal radiation scales like [temperature^4] (a very fast-growing function), so that parameter's obvious—you have to scale your exhaust temperature as high as you can engineer. That's how you shrink the radiator size. And you still need to run a heat engine—you need a significant temperature gradient, on top of the already-high exhaust temperature, to get useful work out of it. That's the temperature output of your primary heat source. So, the high-level design solution is: you have an array of infrared radiators glowing red, and a nuclear fission reactor glowing orange. That's the way to get a high power/mass ratio in space.

Also, everything's built around pipes of molten metals of different species (optimized heat transport), and the heat engine is like a steam turbine that spins on boiling molten potassium metal. (I think?) They're really exciting-looking machines. I wish someone would build one!
Consolidation hasn't improved radio or music. I'm particularly annoyed by the trend of remote/virtual DJs serving bland robostations across dozens of localities.

Add in a decline in listeners (vs. streaming, podcasts, etc.) and this is what you get.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_homogenization
Plastics Unfairly Maligned