skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You seem to come from a perspective that we should consider these chemicals to be safe unless proven otherwise. That is an extremely naive perspective.

Whatever you’re talking about has been ingested by millions or billions of people, so I don’t think it’s “naive” to assume a certain degree of safety for…whatever you’re talking about in American food.

Yeah, America’s health profile is different than other countries and we have a high rate of obesity, but only to a certain extent. We don’t have a whole lot of people who walk into McDonald’s and then drop dead after having the fries.

There’s a degree of reasonableness between “we should assume nothing is wrong” and “we should throw our food economy into chaos by outlawing ‘chemicals’ until we can have a two-generation double-blind randomly controlled study of every single one to prove safety.”

And this would probably have to include herbicides and pesticides which might get taken up or broken down by the plants, or which trace amounts might still exist on the product if it isn’t properly prepared, etc.

It’s a dead-end proposal because you can’t shut down food production to that degree without, you know, starving people and causing the collapse of modern society. Which, I’m just spitballing here, is probably going to have worse acute effects than all those “chemicals” put together.

So clearly you need to prioritize what you think is causing harm, and I suspect that’s exactly what relevant research is doing.

Reminds me of a particularly sassy medical paper:

> Advocates of evidence based medicine have criticised the adoption of interventions evaluated by using only observational data. We think that everyone might benefit if the most radical protagonists of evidence based medicine organised and participated in a double blind, randomised, placebo controlled, crossover trial of the parachute.

https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1459

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300808/

https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
>Bill Gates is no longer at Microsoft. Neither of the Cheneys hold any political office.

Yes, certainly lobbying and policy advocacy don't exist, so there's no actual way to be involved in politics other than holding public office and voting.

>None of this wishy washy treatment that Israel, a U.S ally has received from the current administration.

Providing the bulk of weaponry and auxiliary infrastructure to a country actively engaged in a conflict whilst offering full-throated moral support is 'wishy washy' now.
> against a nationality

No, the targets are only contractors of specific firms.
Have you ever heard of an IOMMU? Talking to hardware is not a god mode cheat code. It's long been feasible to limit a drive's access to hardware it's supposed to manage. Why should I let my NVMe driver talk to my NIC? It shouldn't even be able to see plaintext disk sectors! If you're going to make sweeping statements about others being incorrect, it would behoove you to become familiar with the material.
The analysis is dead on. In the American political system, a two party system, the lily-livered SPD's and Victor Emmanuel are represented by those who fail to vote, or actively work against a dastardly outcome; whether they're the abstainers, or GOP fellow-travelers who believe they can control the maelstrom. As the piece says: if you fail there is no next time.
j_maffe here. Sorry if you found this insulting in any way. I wasn't referencing you in particular as several other comments pointed to the very obvious fact that chronological sorting is an algorithm so I was referring to this overarching theme.

However, the entire point of a forum is for users to "butt-in" on threads. If you didn't find the reply contributing anything meaningful, you're very much free to not reply. And if you don't like random people replying to your comments, you really shouldn't be using forums. cheers.
I’ve been hearing about access to DOM APIs from WASM for years now. Does anyone know why this is such a difficult problem?
I feel guilty every time I turn on Factorio and basically no longer play it because I know I could have just as much enjoyment building something for the real world.
Walking to and from the grocery store carrying a family’s worth of groceries, inhaling exhaust fumes and trying not to get hit by a car, sounds fucking miserable.
No serious software company would ever look at php for their new project. Except for some legacy reasons.

Also, don’t base such decisions on current job market snapshot whatever it is.

If you don’t feel like throwing up every time you deal with microsoft universe - c# is overall a solid choice, engineering and caree wise.

Rails is pretty big in North America, not at all in europe and it has strong bias towards startups.

JS(ts) is a solid choice overall - all sorts of companies from crappy devshops to faang on all continents use it for various projects.

Java (and other jvm stuff kike scala kotlin) is also a solid choice, but with a strong bias towards big boring corporations and large slow complex, often over-engineered projects.

Python has a strong bias towards AI/ML world. It’s rarely used outside of it for critical production software.

Ruby is a great choice for your first programming language to learn and as an example of a dynamic language with amazing devx. But it is limited mostly to rails based companies.

I suggest getting some commercial experience with 1 dynamic and 1 statically typed languages early in career.
This is only true for LTI (linear time-invariant systems).

Nonlinear systems responses to a sine signal are in general not just a change in phase and amplitude.

It works if the perturbation stays small and within a linearised version of the dynamics.
I can't tell if you're being serious or not here lol
heh, yeah, that's where i started too. i don't know how or even if LPC did it, but in pike the transition really is seamless. give it a try. as a naive user i can't even tell the difference (you can see it though if you compare typeof(1) vs typeof(20000000000000000000) (i hope that number is big enough))
Yes, at an industrial level it's a problem. But as a small scale regenerative farmer, its the thing to do.

Like many things, poop doesn't easily scale....
> Are there any modern CPUs that do what RISC did and the instructions were directly implemented in circuitry, bypassing microcode translation?

ARM, mostly. Instructions are 32 bits wide and aligned on 4-byte boundaries. This simplifies instruction decode. IA-32 does not require this, leading to considerable complexity in superscalar instruction fetch and decode.

The ARM instruction set isn't very "reduced" any more.[1] Despite this, on larger CPUs,
most instructions in modern CPUs have direct hardware implementations. There are enough transistors available to do it that way.

[1] file:///home/john/Downloads/arm_instruction_set_reference_guide_100076_0100_00_en.pdf
> 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later still, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
“Before this decade is out… “

When Kennedy committed us to go to the moon, the first American hadn’t even orbited the Earth.

Previous generations just used to get shit done.
chuckle yes, because there are many areas which have norms which don't satisfy the triangle inequality.

I know, it came as a big surprise to me too.
Cursor can index your entire codebase and help you implement changes across multiple files. No idea what sort of limits this feature has, but for me it's worked well enough for things like rewriting list pages with a new table component.
Thanks for highlighting Lexra, my first startup. After becoming a patent agent and strategist 15 years later, these are my takeaways.

1. Little companies don't sue big companies. No need. Startups exist because they have something new and move faster.
2. Big companies don't sue little companies. Too little money, it would look anticompetitive to the gov't, and most startups fail, anyway.
3. Medium companies sue little companies when they start taking away prime customers.

ARM sued Picoturbo and they settled. Lexra chose to fight MIPS. Lexra and MIPS hurt each other. That gave ARM the opportunity to dominate the industry.

On an unrelated topic, readers looking for concise basic info on patenting that your attorney might not mention might enjoy.
https://www.probell.com/patents
Improving documentation is an often underrated contribution.

Have you read man pages by the same author as the program itself? When you can tell before looking up the name, there's a needed and worthy contribution waiting to happen.
Overall most wildfires (in at least the US west) are human caused:

"People — whether purposeful, reckless or simply careless — are responsible for about 95% of California’s wildfires."

https://calmatters.org/environment/wildfires/2024/07/califor...
iPhone sales make up 46% of Apple's revenue, so it has expanded beyond just being "a phone company". They offer an integrated experience across their products.
The $1B/yr is revenue too

...probably at a way lower profit range than most corporate contracts given how demanding gov deals are.
Previously, people raked the forest, and that worked OK for 1000’s of years. Before that, fires burned uncontrolled, which also cleared out the underbrush.

The problem we have now is due to almost a century of fire suppression. We stopped raking the forest and also stopped letting small fires clear out the accumulated fuel.

Of course, global warming doesn’t help. Neither does PG&E’s historic lack of line maintenance.
Discussion (954 points, 2 days ago, 357 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41940580
Yeah, but unless you wrote the article, the fail isn't on you
https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/mr-plan-publication/...
WaPo endorsing Harris would have changed exactly 0 minds. Everyone that would have read it already agrees with them. But it would have made them feel good about their existing world view.

Them _not_ endorsing _will_ change minds. There are people that read Washington Post that would take that as a sign that not even their trusted left-leaning paper is 100% comfortable with the candidate they should have endorsed, so maybe there's something there they should have hesitancy about too.
Defining “active” seems like the tricky part
You are talking past each other. GP is using politics in the "what is happening right now with specific players sense". You are talking about politics in "everything since Cicero with generality" sense. Both of you are correct. Military needs needs to stay out of the former and be aware of the latter.
Why are you paying for blogs, ostensibly static content, at all? Vercel and Netlify are both basically free for both. I use Hetzner too, but only for application services, not static content.
The idea is unique, but I think very few people will be interested in working with this, as coworking spaces are already available and usually affordable.
Living stuff contributes too. Anything under 20 feet tall. If it was just dead material, tree farms would not burn. (But they do, they certainly do)
JetKVM: Tiny IP KVM That's Not an Apple Watch
I don't use the autocomplete very often. I do use the chat window to do rubber ducking about potential changes. I ask it about features of the libraries I'm using, the built-in features of the language, ways to restructure the code, various suggested improvements to the algorithms and so forth. After a short discussion about various options, I'll ask you to generate code which I use either as a reference or verbatim. For me rubber ducking and discussions are much more valuable than generating little bits of code using autocomplete.

The next interaction mode I want is to have the AI as a pair programming partner, making comments as I type code, including suggestions and pointing out potential errors, and allowing me to ask questions. That is, similar to the rubber ducking, except that I'd like it to interject comments at the right moments automatically.
Actually, most of these regions have rain. (The Atacama does not!) And you do not need lush green forests right away, prairie grasses are a good start. Well-applied rain retention measures do work.
I think the point I’m making is we can’t really. Organic farming would potentially halve the world’s food output.
Sounds much better than what they used to do which was glue an eePC to a roomba via a terrifying number of dongles
I think you already know the reason why, to defeat adblocker extensions on the mobile web.
I’m the only local admin on my mother’s laptop, she’s never noticed and I’ve not logged in to do anything in over 2 years.
> the air is toxic.

Oxygen is the oxadative species that drives our biochemistry. It's a fuel.

Oxygen is highly reactive. It is a fantastic evolutionary gradient as it has tons of free and readily available energy to harness. But of course it's also what also wears us down by putting oxidative stress on our cells, DNA, and molecular biology. It causes all sorts of damage as a byproduct of what it is.

Oxygen is life and death.

The particulates suspended in the air are yet another problem ...
I do get the appeal of games, it is one of my long-time passions, but indeed that's the issue with games like Factorio specifically, they feel too much like work, so might as well do work.
It’s easy. They’re draining the phrase “open source” of meaning while gaining by marketing themselves that way. It’s fraudulent but also just exploitative.
It must be an FM encoded tape, which can record DC. There were upgraded versions of both VHS and Betamax with FM audio support (although I expect in practice the inputs were AC coupled).
I think that's helpful for me and my theory. Informed by Socrates I will refine my theory. O:-)

There's three forms of disagreements.

1. Disagreements on definitions

2. Disagreements on facts

Kind of hard to disagree on logical implications

3. Disagreements on value systems

Not to be dense, which is most difficult?
Because nixos manages your system and nixpkgs only contains packages. Packages cannot do anything outside their installed location, so can't touch udev or groups to make the changes. There will be other apps split in the same way.

The benefit is that just adding some package will never break your own configuration.
Boston Dynamics' Push for the Responsible Robotics Act
> It includes exemptions for the US Department of Defense, military contractors, and companies with special waivers for testing anti-weaponisation technologies. The Act also allows bomb squads to continue using advanced robots for public safety purposes, such as disabling suspected explosives.

So basically, it can still be used to harm people, but built by companies that have connections to DoD? This does nothing to prevent the misuse of robots, drones and AI to bring something worse than a nuclear disaster. This only serves to strengthen their foothold in the market of weaponised robots and drones.

Isn't using guns and bombs on robots is already illegal? Why do we need another act for this.
4chan is waiting for you.

The ride never ends
The plants were healthy until the bugs. The vines were growing, the leaves were huge, and they had just started to produce flowers. I've never seen the type of bugs, some stink bug type of beetle, in my yard ever before. Now that I've removed the dead plants, there's no sign of the bugs. For as many as there were, I'd expect to see some remaining. It's always a learning experience growing new plants
I get a real kick out of playing builder games with my son. We played Jurassic park evolution a lot, I would direct contracts and what to build and then we’d discuss and he would build it. Heh it was like being team lead without the pressure and anxiety.
Sekino's Art World
We'll have the technology in 10 years.

Just like 20 years ago.
Seems like the headline should be:

Is Goodhart's Law as useful as you think?
I feel the same about another pretty chill game, Dave the Diver. It has a great feedback loop, at the beginning

Once I get successful in it, I'm like "but I should be making money in the real world, not this world" as I do have side projects. the game does turn into a slog, if you approach it that way
The Australian.com, news ltd flagship web in Australia is one which consistently fails to show the hamburger menu.

WSJ and Others render body text partially off screen and it won't scroll: no left margin

This is all in chrome on android 13
Nothing more embarrassing than someone who has a tiktok account.
Are you talking about the article or section 8 housing?
Libraries Libraries Libraries [video]
Free is ambiguous term. It might be free in code and price. Or it might be free in price, but closed source. It could be free for me as private person, but not for business.

Is freeware free software? It is rather murky term for me.
> Any empty domain starts with the same reputation

What basis would you have to do otherwise, and if there is something (like TLD), why wouldn't "resetting to zero" in terms of past content just mean resetting to that zero?

> Registering a new domain is a 0 cost action

No, that registering a new domain has a similar cost to renewing an existing domain, which is a valid assumption. In fact, the new domains are often cheaper because registrars often discount the initial registration as a loss leader with the expectation that people will make future renewals at a higher price.

> The eng effort to reset domain reputation is 0

It is the job of the party operating that system to make it operate as correctly as feasible. Needlessly causing collateral damage purely out of laziness and unaccountability is how you get people showing up at government offices demanding for you to be regulated or broken up, if not showing up at your offices with a disposition to cause bodily harm.

> Certain domains are used by abusers more often, usually due to them being cheaper.

Running out of domain names is physically impossible. There are more possible domain names in any given TLD than there are atoms in the observable universe. So the low price is going to be the price set by the registry for that TLD.

Whether the TLD itself has some reputation is orthogonal to the reputation of one domain in that TLD relative to another one in the same TLD. Moreover, you would presumably do the same thing for the TLD -- if one TLD is doing promotion and has $1 registrations this year and then gets used for a lot of scams, and then next year it costs $15 and so do the renewals so the scammers move to a different TLD, the reputation of the TLD should be reset just the same as the individual domains.

> Even if the new system was marginally better, it could be a large eng effort and not worth pursuing.

If the primary goal is to reduce engineering effort then the obvious solution is to delete the entire reputation system so it doesn't have to be maintained anymore. If the primary goal is to make it work well then you have to, well, you know.
Good one, I didn't look as far as ten places.
Are there any popular games with copilot like AI suggestions being part of the core gameplay?
Amanatides and Woo's fast voxel traversal
The fact that it not only doesn’t have a built in build tool/package manager, but that the author has also said he doesn’t believe in them and will never make one was very off putting to me. I love how languages like Rust have cargo, or gleam has it built right into the compiler. I’m so fed up with how in C++ or Python there’s a billion competing tools. The language looked really cool, but without good author-blessed tooling, I doubt I’ll ever use it myself.
Drawing to canvas means recreating the UI and all its wide-sweeping concerns, which is quite an undertaking. And even if it were accomplished in a central open source library like Flutter, that adds a considerable amount to the package size of any application. Acceptable (or even preferred) for certain applications but not for most.

Providing access to an already proven DOM would be the better solution.
What's your definition of "mass movement"?

An anecdote that I find has some[0] parallels:

In 1936[1], when the League of German Girls and Hitler Youth had open-air camps at the Nazi party meeting in Nürnberg, many came back pregnant.

This was enough of a scandal that they got rid of the girls' open-air camp in 1937; not only because one of new mothers named 13 people as possible fathers, but also because they were all going to be new mothers: Nazis had pushed to largely outlaw abortion in 1933.

see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinder,_Küche,_Kirche#Third_Re...

[0] albeit much sketchier than the 4/4 (elements of fascism), or 14/14 (Eco's elements of Ur-Fascism), evaluated in TFA.

[1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichsparteitag#:~:text=Zu%20d....

EDIT: another loose parallel: if you do a search for the word "Nazi" in german language newspapers, they occur pretty often in the years leading up to 1933, but after that year the word suddenly occurs only in foreign-published german-language papers — even back then, even the historical Nazis didn't like being described by that nickname:

https://www.deutsche-digitale-bibliothek.de/search/newspaper...
Early voting has advantages, one being that once I drop my ballot in the local ballot collection box, I can more easily ignore political ads. It's liberating.
You don't even have to travel that far. The air between middle of nowhere US and everywhere else USA is very different. It is amazing how quickly we get used to our local environments (order days/weeks).
You're clearly interested in operating systems. I hope you learn about them one day so you can contribute to one. You might want to start with, e.g. infiniband drivers, which somehow allow programs to communicate "directly" with hardware without having unlimited privilege. There's a lot more to OS design than a user/kernel dichotomy, and user mode can do more than you think.
Is this a thing that is easily discoverable in settings where people can choose to use a different directory? OR is this buried and hard to find or know it could be a thing?
Not what the author is doing here, but you can also connect them over standard Ethernet. Any standard USB-C to Ethernet adapter will work with the iPad automatically.

Came as a surprise to me a few years ago when I first ran a that it.

Makes sense, I had simply never considered it.
Conflict free replicated data types
Are you sure the address isn’t disabled? It is a feature. A “hide my” address can be set up on your account but disabled, meaning that you own that address but it will not forward the email to your mailbox. You can enable it at any time, at which point the emails sent to that address will be forwarded.

I’ve used this feature many times and never had any problems.
I've yet to find something I can do in the real world that's as enjoyable, accessible, affordable, and easy to pick up and put down as Factorio, or similar games (that scratch a "builder" itch). What sort of things do you have in mind?

* edited for clarity, typos
Inversely I can tell you what factors contribute to my good days.

Primary factor is when my manager and his manager are out of the office.

We do an hour long project update every morning and afternoon so that both managers can poke at our progress and make sure it's "meeting the bar". And my direct manager isn't trusted by his manager, so my skip is in there and they squabble around task prioritization and tasks get re-assigned randomly half done between developers when they don't feel enough was done on the task in the last 3 hours.

There's plenty of good stuff at this job, but that part drives me insane.