skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they both go together. It might take about 10 minutes to give a good high level explanation of it, including how the S3 syncing works - that the S3 lags slightly behind the caching layer for reads, and that you can still write to S3. 2-way sync. I imagine that S3 would be treated sort of like another client if updates came from S3 and the clients at the same time. It would probably be not so great to write to S3 if you aren't writing to somewhere that's being actively edited, but if you want to write to a dormant area of S3 directly, that's fine.
What usecases are you finding for this kind of a tool?
Pretty sure "scientific racism" owes more to pop versions of evolutionary theory than it does to a near-Eastern religion that endows all people with immortal souls, spreads the faith in all languages following Pentacost, tells parables about Samaritans, and makes a point of adding Galatians to its sacred book.
The HL physics demo was mind blowing to the entire gaming community when it was first shown and caused some insane hype.

There was absolutely nothing like it before it. It's like claiming no one cared when Halo 2 and 3 was released.
To everyone criticizing this project, you should probably dig a bit to find out what's the context of this project.

From the integuru page:

> We build integrations with platforms lacking official APIs. We specialize in low-latency integrations via reverse-engineering. All integrations are open-source.

So these warnings are probably wasted on someone that is very much aware of what he is doing.
I typically drink 2.3-3.4 liters of water a day, in addition to the water in food I eat.

I imagine that recommendation does take into account water content in food, though.
> Remember Scientific American already endorsed Biden last election which was a wtf moment.

In his first term the Trump administration tried to massively cut scientific and medical research, tried to change the rules for the board of outside scientists that review EPA decisions for scientific soundness to not allow academic scientists so that it would only consist of scientists working for the industries that the EPA regulates, tried to make it so that most peer reviewed medical research that showed products causing health problems could not be considered by the EPA when deciding if a chemical should be banned, tried to massively increase taxes on graduate students in STEM fields, wanted to stop NASA from doing Earth science, and let's not forget repeatedly claiming climate change is a hoax. I'm sure I'm forgetting several more.

I don't expect my technical publications to have an opinion on things politicians do that have nothing to do with the fields they cover, but when politicians start doing things directly concerning those fields I don't see how it is a WTF moment for them to comment.
Yes, rather we should relieve ourselves on the street like our ancestors. Very powerfully written article.
As usual, when a "Christian" wants to be un-Christian, they do it by mining the Old Testament.
The typical sources are:

- Lead paint

- Water supply

- Lead in cookware

- Lead in spices, especially tumeric, where leaded dye is used to make it more yellow

- Industrial airborne emissions

Leaded gasoline used to be on that list but not anymore. Not sure about the specifics in Bhutan.

If you'd like to help prevent lead exposure in countries like Bhutan, the two charities I know about are Pure Earth and LEEP. Not sure if they have Bhutan programs.
On the topic of toilets, is there an explanation for the continued lack of dual flush toilets in the US? It's been common in Europe for as long as I can remember and now Latin America seems to have lapped us.

Separately, but still related, I've been thrilled by the rapid adoption of bidets and rarely see a friend's bathroom that doesn't have one. What are the chances we start to get bidets in hotels and restaurants? What the hold up?
Presumably an American motorcycle purist's brain would simply explode in such an environment. :)
Books?

I fondly remember the tradition of a stack of books on the back of the toilet.

Sort of the same issue with phones, but every book or magazine has a distinct end.
Ask HN: How do you do feature releases?
Curious how other people handle feature releases at their companies. For my company, it's usually going through various tools to flip a feature flag, enable an experiment, close JIRA tickets, post to Slack that the feature is launched etc.
Pull your pants down to your knees; your knees are in front of you when squatting and your pelvis rotates, so the feces will land behind your heels. Maybe wearing very baggy pants there might be a problem, so don't do it if you're a teenager and the year is 1994?
"If you’ve had these symptoms of constipation or sitting on the toilet for a long time for more than three weeks, Monzur said it might be time to bring your concerns to your doctor."

I've never sat for more than three weeks on the toilet, so I'm good.
That's why I said choose a region to get regional time. California's chart shows the time in Pacific time: https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor/dashboard/electr...

They have this summer's data too, though no way to link directly, and it still peaks at ~7pm: https://i.imgur.com/16mssuH.png . Using the 16th as an example, a peak demand of 44,008 megawatthours @ 20H PDT. Comparing that to their generation graphs, which you can separate into sources, like solar. On the 16th, peak solar generation is at 11 @ 13,201 megawatthours. By 6PM, it's down to 853 megawatthours. By peak time, it's nothing. My own residential solar matches that curve on that date.
It's really annoying that Microsoft-owned Github and Microsoft proper both have AI-based systems called "Copilot" which are unrelated.
In my family, we read novels on the toilet. It’s worked out well for 60 years or so with nary a hemorrhoid. Maybe lucky genetics or something.
What a crazy time that was. Gibson got raided by heavily armed agents, got wood seized, became viewed as the victims of political intimidation, paid a fine while refusing to admit guilt, got the wood back, made limited edition guitars from it, and sold out in minutes.
> I've been thrilled by the rapid adoption of bidets and rarely see a friend's bathroom that doesn't have one

You are living in a bubble.
It’s strange. I’ve only seen one restaurant in the US that had a bidet.
You just kicked at least one elephant in the room, smack in the nads. I sincerely think this is an underestimated issue. It reminds me of the Jewish family afflicted with neurocysticercosis - a disease normally precluded from those not partaking in infected porcine products, but rather normal if the folks handling the food do while neglecting hygiene. I presume grooming, particularly what remains under the fingernails, is the culprit. Tapeworms are quite adhesive.

Anyway, if you wish to inflame your cellphone hygiene nightmare, look no further and behold: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJM199209033271004
First of all, why should I want them to set a cooky on my system? I don't want them to do that. Yeah, I do use session cookies. However, I shouldn't have to have a company set one on my system to get around their stupid CAPTCHA!! In other words, I shouldn't have to disclose anything to them. I could be an AI for all they care.
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Western toilets seriously weaken the pelvic and hip muscles. Squat on them, either directly, or using a stand, or using an Asian style squat toilet instead. There is no other alternative. Weak pelvic and hip muscles can be painful.

In addition, there is also the issue of worsening constipation and making it needlessly harder to produce output.
Americans are about to get intimately familiar with this mode of governments anyway
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I used to (got sick of it) tally up the number of times "AI, CoPilot, ChatGPT" got said during the weekly local MS 30 min meetup.
Not including the number of times it was written on the presentation.. just the number of times it was said.

the average was 80 times in 30 mins.

utterly ridiculous. Like being in that film "being John Malkovich".

I no longer want to attend any MS "catch up" meetings... its all they want to talk about.
In the early 70's I loved The Amateur Scientist, "conducted" by C. L. Stong. Great articles, with real technical details, giving you a real chance to build real equipment. To pick one article at random, from February 1972: "A Simple Laser Interferometer, an Inexpensive Infrared Viewer and Simulated Chromatograms". Very, very cool.

There's nothing like that out there now.
I asked my kid to bring the litter box home from the school bathroom.
good, its been hours since i saw a "well actually" comment on HN
Perplexity introduces a shopping feature for Pro users in the US
Like I said, I agree with you on all that. I develop mobile web sites, I’m very familiar with all this. I still choose to use Safari on my Mac, it should be my choice to make.
The Spam I get from "gmail" and ends up in my spam folder is spoofed. The Spam I get from gmail and ends up in my inbox is from gmail. Spammers will mass-create accounts and mass-sell them to spammers.
You can’t. Everyone is going to be looking for it now.
Mistral unleashes Pixtral Large and upgrades LeChat into full ChatGPT competitor
I looked at the website before commenting just to be sure. Judging from the quality of the design (which, yes, I think is an appropriate way to arrive at this conclusion), I would not be surprised to find out that this is a couple recent college grads who don’t realize what this business entails.
Because of collusion. Believe it or not, it's cheaper on the US west coast to buy some types of Russian* and Vietnamese plywood than it is US sourced sheets. The US plywood cartel is alive and well, apparently.

* sanctions, you say? what are sanctions?
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If one were to sit on a toilet and read a book in its entirety, that would certainly be the book to read. Vonnegut includes a crude drawing of an asshole in it.
Increased magnesium dependence compared to baseline bacteria.
Unclear if that applies to the whole group or not.
That's the buried lead.

Very annoying writing style to the article
I have never seen a public bidet anywhere in America, and I've traveled quite a bit. Are they more popular in certain areas?
Yes, do it. It's doable if you're not a very large person. Just position yourself accurately so the output goes in the exit, not in front of it or behind it.

Or if you're in Asia, just get an Asian style squat toilet.
And also Ireland escorted a Russian spy ship away from their cables:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/16/russian-spy-sh...
Why does a scientific magazine have an Opinion section in the first place? Has it always? I would guess the number of Opinion pieces has gone up dramatically in the last decade.
That's a great way to spend even more time on the porcelain throne.
I really don't care if she went on a political rant on BlueSky. What I do care about is that SA has become a click-baity site without much depth. I don't know if she's responsible for that, though (I doubt that she alone made that happen).
10 November 2008. Legacy content filed under technical debt.
Obvious answer is to run something on top of UDP like QUIC does
We installed several dual-flush, including an aftermarket kit, at our place. I haven’t seen them at the hardware stores yet.

IME the home ones can be finicky in terms of reliably resetting and fail more easily, but i still like the water savings.
If an editor of a science magazine chose to publish op-eds about how 5G causes cancer and then went on a Twitter rant along those lines that impugns her credibility and judgment as a whole. Similarly here.
Same. In San Francisco. Make of that what you will.
Senator calls Steam unsafe for teens, calls for action agaist extreem content
And what about adding in the chances of a Russian spy ship seen relatively near by only a few days earlier:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/16/russian-spy-sh...
From the linked article:
"This recommendation includes all fluids and water-rich foods such as fruits, vegetables and soups"

Most people get 20-30% of their water intake from food. But they never seem to explain this in articles. It's a great example of how health/science journalism has been failing us for generations.
Ford sold almost as many trucks as Tesla did units total for 2023, so there's no source, unless things changed very recently.
Is malicious data falsification feasible with git?
I once put in an e-mail the following "best practice applied for the sake of best practice, is bad practice" to consultant who chalked up an awful decision to "applying best practices"
Safari is mandatory to have on iOS - it's preinstalled and can't be removed. It's also propped up in the sense of being built on apis and OS features that other browsers aren't allowed to use.

I mean, imagine if DOJ forced Apple to divest Safari and treat it the same as other browsers. What would happen? Parsimonious answer: the same thing that happened everywhere else.
Bet the danger isn't present in low gravity like the ISS or planets with lower gravity.
Automation tools for your own use. I did my own job offer web scraper. I've saved lots of time and pain automating work.
> It does for office workers what a belt sander or a table saw does for carpenters.

Jobsite table saws are a thing as are portable belt sanders, but those aren't the most common carpentry tools.

Or is that what you meant?
I'm not sure which product(s) you're referring to.

Apple has like 6 apps in the Play Store and one of them is for helping Android users migrate to iOS. On the other hand, Google has dozens of apps in the App Store.

And Flutter Web not working on iOS doesn't even help Google. If anything it just hurts Flutter's adoption on the web which is already low. So I don't think there is some grand conspiracy within Google to take out Safari by withholding Flutter support.
Regardless of all of that, monocultures are bad.

Monocultures that allow for one company to make it hard to avoid advertising and data tracking on the web are even worse.
How would a blockchain help compared to a regular db maintained by a trusted party?
Actual headline says 'extremist content'. 'extreem' seems like a typo?
Why should I or you care if your elected officials make a solution I don’t like? I’m not a citizen of Portugal, not a resident and an only occasional visitor. If the government massively decreases the supply of tourist accommodations in favor of residents, then I’ll just see that it’s a bit too expensive and possibly visit somewhere else. Exactly like the regulation of capitalism should work.

Not sure what kind of empathy you are looking for. How could I possibly solve your problems? Only when you take responsibility, as the only people in the world with a vote, can you change the situation.
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1. they are increasingly seen in the US, i see them all the time

2. if where you live does not have a "water cycle shortage", it's really not necessary. North America is huge and nowhere near as densely populated as Europe or Japan.

when I visited Hong Kong a loooong time ago, we were told that the water system for the toilets used salt/ocean water. Hong Kong is a small island, that was driven by their need. if you don't need it, you don't need it.

rapid adoption of bidets might increase public health/comfort by some measures, but it actually also increases water use. I feel you are influenced as much by familiarity/fashion as by a coherent water usage strategy
You think Japanese auto imports was good for American auto manufacturing jobs?

Don't you remember American auto workers beating a Japanese man to death? You probably don't, because they beat a Chinese man to death by mistake. [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vincent_Chin
My current bathroom read is "Ayoade on Ayoade: a cinematic Odyssey"
Ah, these are sommon in parts of the middle east I've lived. I've always done a few minutes of slavic squatting a day just to make sure I'll never crap my pants if I find myself constrained to using one of these.
I live in a big city. But I've seen them at friend's houses in lots of places in the US. You can order one on Amazon for like $40 and install it in about 30 minutes.
It works fine for now. As soon as Manifest V2 is officially gone you will certainly see an increase in ads. What ad company wouldn't take advantage of more limited ad blocking capabilities in the most popular web browser?
I've heard 8 ounces each hour, which gets close to 128
Hardware Retailer Breached Law Using Facial Recognition on Customers
They are doing very well if you measure them by income, revenue, running successful platforms or trying new innovations.

They are not doing well as a non-live-service game company. Which is a very limited metric, but the one many people think of since that is where they got started.
Announcing Aesthetic Inc.
thats basically AWS
I'm OK with reCAPTCHA, but uh... Just not a fan of Google!! I'm an expert reCAPTCHA solver.
I still don’t understand what you’re trying to say about Safari. After reading the response (outlining draft vs support dates) to your initial comment it seems like the reality is that your primary complaints dont make much sense. Maybe there are some other features that they were late to start supporting. Seems more like other browsers jumped on new features before they were standardized, and maybe that is at the heart of your original complaint? Safari taking “too long” to support things that dont have a standard?
It is exactly why most people should never go to outer space in the absence of artificial gravity and shielding.
I have 4 dual flushes that get fully flushed each use. The low flow option doesn’t even move enough water to clear the bowl of a single bladder full of urine. That is to say, it doesn’t flush. So we don’t like them. I also heard women tend to really dislike them, something about the flush mechanism is gross. Pushing a button I suppose.
US produces an huge surplus of corn and soybeans for exports, but not enough fruits and vegetables. We import a ton of produce from refrigerated containers on ships across the globe.

Commodities have minimum price controls and federal subsidies. Produce doesn’t have the same.

Corn produced for Ethanol is grown in 100s of acres. The problem is plants are barely 0.5% efficient at capturing solar energy. Add further that barely 10% of corn makes it to Ethanol.

We’d be far better off removing Ethanol subsidies and encouraging owners to grow produce instead and add solar panels. Solar panels are 50X more efficient than trees at capturing solar energy.
I wish you luck, having looked at doing something similar years back, I don’t see the market. In the case of what I was involved in, it pivoted to enterprise backup.
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See also, the rest of the simian army: https://netflixtechblog.com/the-netflix-simian-army-16e57fba...
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yeah was trying to cut down title to fit length restrictions and entered a typo
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Can you have them translated into your native language? I mean I imagine if your using Google from a different country, it might take notice. Maybe it doesn't apply to reCAPTCHA, Google can be stupid like that!
People used to fork the JavaScript process according to the number of cores present, but it’s less popular now because most infrastructure is provisioned by vCPUs.

So people just provisioned for vCPU=1.

Node.js (v8) already offloads io tasks to their own threads so it’s already horizontal to some extent.
iOS has an option to set your default browser and mail client, and it works fine. There is nothing even vaguely difficult about sending an email or creating a calendar item without using the Apple apps. Google is in fact being an asshole by prompting every time if you want to ignore the default app and use chrome in the hopes that you'll finally accidentally hit it.
That‘s one of the cables mentioned in the CNN article.
No we do not. Saying it with "confidence" and "authority" doesn't make true either.
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ADL found 15k users and 10k user content that is offensive.

For a site with 458 million users and 610 million comments.

So 0.0033% users and 0.001639% user content, so this is unsafe?
And what about all the illegal old growth being logged in sanctioned areas in bc Canada?
In Physics, the log part comes in when you use the Stirling approximation for large N.

Ideal gas: https://bytepawn.com/entropy-of-an-ideal-gas-with-coarse-gra...

Physical gas: https://bytepawn.com/the-physical-sackur-tetrode-entropy-of-...
>Now something like every other new car on North American roads is a Tesla.

That’s not even close to being true. Toyota, alone, sold more vehicles in the US than Tesla did globally.

https://ir.tesla.com/press-release/tesla-vehicle-production-...

https://pressroom.toyota.com/?generate_pdf=91364

Perhaps you meant electric vehicles? Which your statement about count sold more accurate, but overall sentiment, still off.
Axon-like active signal transmission
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I'm unsure that helps things? Maybe if some of the excerpts were jokes? The criticism of JEDI is particularly laughable. If sad. I say that as someone that finds the acronym cringe worthy.

So, yeah, I agree that the standards are lower in these sections. I question if they are non existent.
You've heard of SIMD - it's possible to do both, in terms of throughput, with instruction/scheduler/port complexity overhead of course.
Well, the prosecutors would decide that, and preferably announce what they decided along with the underlying facts. Then people reading the news article would weigh the info for themselves. That's at least part of why we have news articles in the first place.
True, but it's the exception that proves the rule; it's also the same company responsible for delivering a staggeringly high percentage of internet video, typically without a hitch.
So when someone says "trust the science!" they mean "define your null hypothesis, design an experiment to test it, run said experiment, analyze the data for statistical significance and submit for peer review"?

Or do they really mean "trust the scientists"?
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