skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just read an adjacent banger that interrogates the underlying reasons why our (US) education system is broken, how it got that way, how it's influenced culture beyond our (individual) control, insinuates why these institutions are so preposterously expensive, and proposes thoughts on how to fix it (TL;DR prolly won't get fixed)

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/12/meritoc...

https://archive.ph/OC81c
I forget the design of the experiment but I remember feeling that my prior assumptions (which were in line with GP) were potentially wrong, so it must've been moderately convincing. I work in clinical trials so I'm not a complete buffoon on experiment design, but accordingly I'm also aware a good experiment is obscenely difficult to conduct, and obviously this was nothing close to an actual RCT.
Or they know the history all too well.
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> It is ironic and indefensible how a company known for storing and gathering the world's information, engages directly in a massive evidence spoliation... That is deletes information.

Not at all. Obviously, Google's mission is to organize the world's public information. You don't want Google organizing your personal Gmail for the world to see, do you? So why would you expect Google to organize its own instant messages for the world to see?

> You have the DoJ and three judges looking at you with your pants down.

Judges disagree with each other. All the time. Investigations often don't even make it to trial because there isn't a good case in the end. And just because you have judges investigating you doesn't mean you're guilty. Presumption of innocence and all that, you know?
I was watching Kennedy's (RFKjr's daughter) interview with Tucker and she talked about her first day at work at C.I.A. and instructions on how to tag emails. She said there was a huge drop down and she was told to just set a default (which turns out is the highest possible security setting) "even for things like 'want to go get a coffee?'" Quite clever since that set of emails will be an enormous pile of mostly useless chit chat with other matter buried in the mess.
So, lots of foraging for food that grows on plants and the occasional bison?

Would that we could convert the world to diets like that.
This is most likely a good thing. It isn't killing cardiac myocytes, it's probably assisting with reverse remodeling. Fits with why we know it helps in heart failure.
Americans eat a shit ton of protein. No idea where you got idea that from.
Article title: Department of State Begins Risk-Limiting Audit of 2024 General Election
Historically for echo gear the answer is no. No idea about this one but willing to bet also no

The hardware is subsidized so they really don’t want you using it for alternative purposes
> The irony of these two guys starting off their piece about how they plan to reshape the government with this

Did you read the next sentence or did you accidentally omit it from your excerpt? It says: "That isn’t how America functions today."

Then, "Thankfully, we have a historic opportunity to solve the problem."
Yeah and not having to breathe leaded fuel fumes and getting that stuff on our hands when checking the tanks.
You're suggesting that we ought to pass laws to reflect colloquial usage of all words that are also used in a technical sense in a legal context?
No one ready for purchasing it. Even though it's nice on demanded domain name. I didn't renewed it so, keeping the name secret :)

With a website I could sell it at least for 1000 USD.
There is a perverse pride in knowing you tamed that unwieldy beast.
MIT is a huge outlier in terms of R&D and the population it selects students from, it would be more fair to compare Oxford to Harvard. Oxford...really is about as far from commuter schools than you can get, for example having to wear robes to the dining hall...that is straight out of Harry Potter (and indeed, where they filmed the dining scene at one of the colleges).
How do they manage the OS-specific stuff with pure TypeScript? How does it compare in benchmarks against Tauri for size and speed?
> definitely don't say "we will kill the competition!!" in email or chat

My first reaction when I went through this training was that the US legal system is completely absurd in the context of corporations, and can't result in anything but absurd outcomes, whether the litigation is successful or not.

There's quite literally a guidebook that says "don't say 'kill the competition', say 'we will make the best product' instead", etc. It's an obsession with words, and while I can understand how that's important in some civil cases, it's (a) trivial to conceal the coded speech to the point of cringe (see exhibit A: the TV show Billions, where the phrase "I am not uncertain" is used to somehow create plausible deniability), (b) you're gonna get a bunch of false positives from non-decision makers talking colloquially and sarcastically to each other and most importantly (c) it's completely meaningless anyway because intent means nothing to an amoral corporation. Wrongdoing by giant behemoths should be judged by what the company does, did they compete unfairly or not. Their nifty word-weaseling, or a random employee's clumsy lack thereof, should have no bearing on the case.
It turns out that flooding your own lies is far more effective than trying to censor information.
> It's a bit difficult to add more weight lifting because I tended to hurt myself

Did you try slightly lower weight and higher reps? It is worth trying as an experiment. Current scientific literature says that 5-30 reps is the ideal range for gaining muscle mass. And, as you said, the relative heaviness of weights to the person makes a big difference for injury risk.
Except it actually is a false equivalence.
Sawmill Creek might be what you're looking for:
https://sawmillcreek.org/
What’s the lizardman constant? 4% or so? There’s some of it.
Depends on the specific circumstances, but the prosecutors are usually happy to focus on the company, because it has the money to pay out a big settlement (which is how these things usually end).
Redundancy is not error checking. The "error correction" mechanisms are actually just "proofreading" mechanisms and are almost entirely local and centered around transcription. Common mode errors are harder to induce due to the plain redundancy of DNA pairs but also not impossible, and once induced, are impossible to locally notice or correct. In some cases the "error correction" machinery is the cause of these induced errors. The result is genetic disease and/or cancer and is a case of missing error _checking_. Perhaps my definition was exceptionally parsimonious.

> with no medical care [...] something no computer or man made complex machine comes close to.

That's because we get far more units of "work" out of our machines than the person living for 70 years with "no medical care." Some people live just 30 years with no medical care too. And the machine does not need to sleep. We eat food they eat lubrication oil. I don't think this was a good analogy.

> it's still mostly a total mystery why we aren't immortal

While we haven't pinpointed the mechanism, we have a pretty good idea of why, and where in the system we should be looking for the answers.

> but for some reason get worse and worse at doing so over time.

You are a living Ship of Theseus and these "error correction" mechanisms are not perfect. Aside from this there are known genetic disorders which alter the rate at which people age. This is not nearly as mysterious as you're making it out to be.

> there are many animals that live ~4x human lifespans

And what are their resting respiration rates?

> and at least one species of jellyfish that is biologically immortal.

In theory. We haven't found an immortal one yet. They all die. They're also nowhere near our level of biological complexity or capability.
Objc2 – Safe Rust bindings for Apple's Objective-C frameworks
A corporation is just a business incorporated as a separate legal entity.

If there were huge "unfair" advantages to being incorporated, then surely "normal" businesses would simply pay the modest fee to incorporate.
We got engineering notebooks once and then never again; I think something happened to patent law that obsoleted them. Which could just be that it became much harder to get software patents.
This isn't really a special case. Google provides similar retention policy settings to other organizations that use Google Workspace [1]. Any large organization that's a target of lawsuits will likely find them useful.

[1] https://support.google.com/vault/answer/2990828?
The story is simple:

Google communication culture started as open and relaxed so people could go on a public internal forum and say their opinion "I think if we add x, y, z feature we can kill the competition". This is nothing specific to Google, it happens perhaps everywhere but Google wasn't policing it in written communication.

Then all these written opinions were gobbled up by lawyers during the discovery phase of endless lawsuits Google has to defend. It created constant headache so they said, we'll auto delete chats older than a few days unless you opt-out.

Now a court and this article say they are destroying evidence.

I've personally lost my trust in both the media and the legal system honestly. The incentives are just not aligned with good outcomes. The incentive for the media is more and more drama and the incentives for lawyers is always adversarial depending on who they represent.
But how would you have time to study full time and work full time?
Seems to me the solution is end the liability shield incorporations provides.
America hasn't arbitrarily invaded any country since the Philippines.

Grotesquely and profoundly false:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Iraqi_Freedom
The first part is the problem, even when the last part is “aunt Jemima to the corner store”
> I’m not any sort of expert but that sounds frankly, dangerous. I don’t see how you do something like that without damaging your liver.

I haven’t seen any credible research that a healthy person can damage their liver from excessive protein intake. Someone suffering from liver disease needs to be careful, sure, but evidence that it would harm a healthy liver is practically nonexistent.

That said, PSMF is explicitly not a sustainable diet and proponents generally don’t claim it to be. It’s a short term diet meant to preserve muscle mass under extreme caloric restriction (under 1.2k calories).

> Eat a balanced diet without junk, work out regularly, and keep the calories to only what is necessary.

If it were as simple as that, we wouldn’t be having this conversation.
If I take your car, you are now without a car.
If I copy your software, you still have your software.
If I was never going to buy your software in the first place, you have lost nothing.

Enough with the false equivalence.
While you weren't paying for it with currency, the service is most certainly not "free". There's still a transaction happening when you use the service, albeit a transaction the service provider refuses to acknowledge outside the terms of service.
Given the javascript is still inside a <script> tag I would presume any editor that can handle a normal HTML page with some inline javascript wouldn't notice the difference

i agree. it's been a while that i looked at vuejs, and i don't know why i came away with a different impression before. must have not looked closely enough.

i haven't seen mobx before, but when i read the description i wonder why i need it. my preferred framework is aurelia and as far as i can tell aurelia already does what mobx claims to solve, in particular this part (from the mobx github page):

Trying to update a record field? Simply use a normal JavaScript assignment — the reactivity system will detect all your changes and propagate them out to where they are being used

it is actually the primary reason why i like aurelia.
with aurelia i don't even have to mark properties as observable. it figures that out on its own based on the bindings i make in the html template.

though mobx may be interesting when i work with other frameworks that don't do that. i'll have to keep that in mind. (edit: it looks like it may come in handy when statemanagement becomes complex: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39454579/best-practice-u... )

keeping things as simple as possible barring some slight effort towards ergonomics, plus knowing that I understand every part of what's going on

yeah, i like that too.

I just thought you might find my setup vaguely interesting

i do indeed. thanks a lot for that. my own setup is actually also quite simplistic, but not deliberately so. it's mostly lazyness. i simply don't want to be bothered to put a lot of effort into a better dev setup. i'd rather work on actual code. so i start with plain vim without any addons, and only slowly change stuff when i run into a problem that really bothers me. solaris, AIX, irix is where i started.
"Fiduciary duty" as people imagine applies to companies almost entirely doesn't exist.
Yes, change the response appropriately.

And if "kick the door in" is Standard Operating Procedure, then change the SOP, or have some more conditionals prior to "kick the door in".
Pretty solid product but you definitely need to check your face recognition feature, whether it complies with laws.
Exactly!

That's just what I used it for, early in my career, in a software troubleshooting case.

I was a newbie dev, tasked with converting some data from another machine / OS format on tape to a Unix machine format.

Was fairly new to Unix too.

Looked through man pages, found dd, could read and copy the data from tape drive to disk using it. But the data, while in ASCII, and English letters, seemed garbled. Seemed like actual words, but not quite, if you know what I mean. Something seemed off a bit.

I puzzled over it for a while, then checked the dd man page again. I saw the conv=swab option and its meaning, which is to swap adjacent bytes. (Typical Unix cryptic syntax, and I say that as a long term Unix guy). I probably was new to endianess at that time. This was in a pre-Internet time, so I could not google to check what endianness meant.

I added that option to my dd command line, and what was my shock and pleasure to see all the words coming out as proper English words, now, on the screen!

Then I knew that the tape contained actual data, not garbage. I saved it to disk under some file name.

Job done.
I agree 100%. Those kinds of comments have no place, and add little to nothing to the discussion. Many HN discussions outside of pure tech invite all kinds of crazy and uninformed comments -- health/diet, finance/economy, etc.
> and their customers are still outnumbered by Android users, last I saw.

Apple could sell 1 phone a year and still have a monopoly if that single user can only install apps by using Apple services. You could argue the harms are irrelevant in that situation, but they certainly aren't with millions of users in the equation.
Jobs was really selfish as a person but he wasn't anti-LGBT like Musk. Nor getting involved in politics. He was just like that to the people around him, not the general public.
> Sorbet (DHH hates types).

I believe Sorbet is from Stripe?
One lone case doesn't remind me of early covid. Many cases reminds me of early covid.

Though this case is concerning.
But he didn't choose any more than a soldier chooses to bring a gun to the battlefield. It's not a few guys in one party. The whole thing is covered in mud.
Xamarin is officially in End Of Support. But Maui has definitely missed the mark. I was deep in it around net6/net7 timeframe, and net8 was supposed to be a big step forward, but they burned a lot of good will with the rollout. I saw a lot of hubris not only from the Maui side, but also from the .net ecosystem as a whole. Specifically whoever was pushing workloads. The pain points around that were huge sources of unnecessary friction, on top of the really buggy initial versions of Maui.
Totally agree.

I was there two weeks ago. The tour guide took us through a route that bypassed the longer lines and through some underground areas—culminating in an entrance that completely blew my mind. I never realized how huge the interior was until I stepped in and saw it firsthand. There are few things in my life that completely took my breath away, this ranks in the top 5 for sure.
Seems like some of the comments need to learn that a big hypertrophic heart is much worse for you than a normal sized heart. Folks: GLP-1s have demonstrated benefit from heart failure, and this heart muscle change is probably mechanistic in that.
Why everyone missed solar's exponential growth
The article title is “DOJ proposing forced sale of Google Chrome, could fetch $20 billion if judge OKs: Report”

The US department of Justice is not buying google chrome, they are proposing to the courts that google be forced to sell chrome.
Exactly, the legal system's job is not necessarily finding the truth. It's who can convince the judge/jury better even if they use nasty tactics.
Something like this is true of Colorado's risk limiting audits as well. It's a cheap way to get a decent pile of random bits. Sensible governing.
I don’t know what your intention is but I imagine that’s how more and more are going to push LLM slop on all corners of the internet. It’ll be easy to do in massive quantities.
I'm a little skeptical of the article, because I know that it's not a legal shibboleth, and I think I learned it when working at Google quite a long time ago.
A lot of what Americans consume is really crappy carbs and sugar, unfortunately. Even fatty meats would be better than that.
What do you see as the major threats to validity for your approach?
> My best guess is it's because they finally have a real competitor in ChatGPT.

Bingo. I always chuckle when people here say Google has lost it, and become incompetent. Well, they all make the mistake of assuming that they’re trying but failing, rather than that it’s deliberate simply due to boring economics.

Now look at how quickly decades-long problems, so big they have an entire cottage industry built around it, suddenly be cleaned up. Incompetence? Nah.

Of course, this does nothing to convince regulators and not even average HN user that innovation is harmed by these dominant players. Someone’s gotta think of the poor mega-corps.
REPL, Polish notation, extensible language, recompilation of software functions without stopping the software.
Almost as bad as a fuel oil fire on a cruise ship.
Any Millennial could tell you that that particular social contract was already well on its way through the shredder, even as early as '96 (traditional pensions would have been gone at that point). The people who came before us have done quite a bit of their own thievery.

IME, the expansion of piracy follows a contraction of purchasing power without a commensurate contraction of the expectation to consume media/information. E.g., young people would still be surreptitiously downloading ripped MP3s if Spotify didn't exist, because the economic wherewithal to buy a bunch of CDs just isn't there anymore.
> When I hear multicore, I assume we're talking about parallelism, not concurrency.

Parallelism trivially enables concurrency. The lack of parallelism magnifies the issues emacs has with concurrency.
It's been a long time since I had any school studying to do but just curious: what is the benefit of something that answers questions for you? It seems to me if you don't know the answer you need to review the material not have the answer handed to you.
The words are irrelevant; outcomes matter.

And yes, why on Earth should laws not have the outcomes that the citizens electing the government that passes them expect?

If people don't want a thing they call monopoly or any other word (and wanting that does not violate or contradict other norms or constitutional principles they want even more) isn't that what they should get in a democracy?
Utah is embracing its news NHL team. But is the frenzy sustainable?
Depends on the focus group. Some are put together too establish that a product is wanted. Those are junk and useless. Others like this are designed to tease out trends and their accuracy is very valuable to the companies that commission them.
I take mirtazepene because it's the only antidepressant that works for me; unfortunately, it's also a massive orexigetic. And also unfortunately I have original Medicare that doesn't cover semaglutide until I develop additional heart problems or diabetes, so I'm forced to buy compounded semaglutide for 10% of the retail cost (but still higher than the rest of the world) out-of-pocket from a local large, retail, independent pharmacy that wouldn't risk bankruptcy selling fake medications.

And I don't eat meat for non-dietary reasons that include existential risks to all of humanity:

- Pandemics - Where did the "Spanish" flu (and influenza A, Asian flu, HK flu, and 2009 pandemics) and COVID come from?

- Antibiotic resistance - Most classes of antibiotics used in humans are also used to make industrially-farmed animals grow faster, leading to greater antibiotic resistance and more potential bacterial pandemics too

- Climate change - 17%, at least

- Air pollution - Not just the smell of pig crap in the air

- Water pollution - Ag runoff has been ruining river delta systems

- Soil pollution - (It's gross)

- Fewer available calories for total consumption

- More expensive foods by less supply and more demand

(Never bother with "meat is murder" dramatic preaching because most people who eat meat suffer from cognitive dissonance preventing them from admitting their lifestyle choice causes animal cruelty.)

When I was on and could afford semaglutide, I improved my diet by consuming a high protein product with a low calorie breakfast nutrition supplement. I'm sure I probably could've accomplished similar with a multivitamin and a protein product. What I need to change is eating more low calorie, high fiber fruits and vegetables that don't taste like cardboard or a mowed lawn. My diet has gone to shit again because the insatiable, all-consuming (no pun intended) hunger has returned. I can't afford semaglutide right now so I must become unhealtier than simply obesity in a similar but lesser way than women who can't get surgeries until they're septic and dying from failed ectopic pregnancies before it will be covered... because somehow obesity is completely my lack of willpower when I wasn't obese before mirtazapine.
(this may be an overly naïve or slightly overloaded question) would it make sense to treat salaried individuals as one-person businesses? this approach could grant them access to opportunities like these which typically reserved for businesses, especially considering that in many countries, businesses are increasingly being granted the same rights as individuals.
Lots of people are spending a lot of money on in app purchases in these games already.