skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it just attracts those types of people so they can try to figure themselves out.
There was a fairly recent issue of the Fantastic Four about this as well.

(where "fairly recent" means part of Ryan North's excellent run)
Nice find, short-lived explains why I'd not heard of it.
"the ISP argued that DMCA subpoenas don’t apply to mere conduit providers"

Didn't they argue the opposite for the Net Neutrality debate? ISPs were more than a series of tubes, they "added value" somehow.
d-ala is not incorporated into the protein main sequence (it's part of a D-ala D-lac sugar)
2008. Wow.

But I do remember going back to the 90s that there was at least one senior exec at a computer company I worked for who basically didn't touch his terminal as I understand it. His admin printed out and typed everything.
But what policies work in regulating them? Street drugs are bad, and outright prohibition in the war on drugs has failed for many different reasons. Figuring out how to stop incentivised organized crime, street gangs is hard. Understanding how decriminalization does or doesn't work is hard. Does giving out free needles reduce harm by preventing disease or increase harm by enabling use? What economic or social policies would indirectly help? Does high housing costs drive homeless, drive addiction so we should all be YIMBYs or does abuse, lead to job loss, lead to homelessness. The truth is very complex and hard to figure how how to fix it.

Social media is a similar type of problem. You probably can't outright ban them, in democratic countries there is too much demand and there would be backlash. Even if not, underground social media would arise, as it does already in countries where it is restricted. Can you regulate it? If so, what works? Certain ages? Restrict algorithmic curation? Chang liability rules? Better educate people about the costs and benefits and good use? Enable more heavy handed censorship and content filtration? Require real names and public have strong libel laws that are enforced? What about foreign ownership or influence campaigns? Corporate advertising? Monopoly and anti-truest issues? What about standards around interoperability and federation? Should they be free, or require subscriptions?

Tons of stuff to figure out.
A few papers are interesting to read. However I don't have time to read all the papers on even on of the above, much less all. Thus the original point that these things are valuable to society in small numbers but not in larger numbers - except as job training of some sort.
Inb4 the first part of Texas to actually achieve independence
2 pounds = 1 kg

Just like 3 feet = 1 m and 4" = 10 cm.

Those are not "good enough for XKCD" approximations, but they are good enough to understand what people are saying.

Now, if I had something similar for Fahrenheit! One could use the hash of the temperature number and it would mean the same to me.
> I'd argue for the converse: Computer Science is Mathematics

The space of programs is arguably larger than the space of mathematical systems, because programs can be logically inconsistent. This suggests that mathematics is a logically consistent subset of computer science, not the other way around.
I love that one of the examples is a shopping list for groceries. Given the cost of the system...
Carbon Nanotubes Show Promising Developments at IEDM
Tumblr adds Reddit-like 'communities'
> The biggest problem I've had so far was that Amazon seems to only stock used/counterfeit units. Buying direct from OXO got me on that hadn't been used and didn't reek of volatile organic compounds on the first try.

This is slighly terrifying; and interesting that something like this would be counterfeited. I too would make any and all efforts to ensure I was using something legit where mains (240V for me) are concerned.

I once bought a knock-off hot-air soldering station without knowing, and once I looked into it, people were complaining they'd received units where the live was "grounded" to the case.

I opened mine to check, not quite as bad, but the live in mine wasn't attached to the metal case, just bare, and within about 1cm of it. I reported it to the retailer (we all know which major online retailer this was), and they did nothing. Let's just say things changed, seriously, for me that day when it comes to buying anything mains powered with uncertain origins.
If that is the case we need to force everyone who tries for such a degree to spend time with a proper psychologist.

If is key.
That's why those programs are some of the exceptions in being good at job prep, but rates of college attendance remained very low for another 80+ years until after WW2, so the elite who could afford to study whatever still made up a big chunk of most schools' income. As college attendance rates went higher and higher the job preparation need became the primary one the school is serving, which changed the economics in a way that simply having a few job preparation programs didn't.
I'm making and selling a couple of LED pin badges on my site https://hortus.dev.

I wrote about my experience doing these last year (previous hn post here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38904255) and since then it has really taken off! Not enough to live off, but certainly enough to sustain itself and fund some more projects in the future.

I never expected it to turn into anything more serious than a novelty and I've learned a tonne about running a small business as a result. I'm really looking forward to (hopefully) learning how to grow this into something bigger over 2025!
What Learning by Doing Looks Like – By Brian Potter
Accepting suffering as part of the human condition. In the Christian faith, Christians are taught that suffering is part of life and good things can result from it. Like what? Empathy, love, and compassion from caregivers, friends, and family to the suffering person. Also, the suffering person may express love to those around them. Jesus allowed himself to be crucified and suffered one of the most horrible deaths imaginable. He did it as an act of love for humanity. A Christian might argue that it was also to serve as an example of enduring suffering.
Clean Code: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Yes let's bring back the company towns of old. That can't ever go wrong.

What's next? SpaceX paying their employees with X-coins which are only usable in their own company store?
Since we are living in another Gilded age (previous one 1870's to 1900), look to recreating earlier arrangements of employees and employers [1]. Modern day company town.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Acemoglu and Johnson on the Past and Future of Work
> My argument isn't about if it's advantageous or not.

I don't know if you're being fair to yourself. It's probably advantageous to have simple heuristics for determining if you should care for something, if that something will turn out to be your offspring 98% of the time. What possible pressure would there be to push that to 100%?

It would be possible for DNA to do better with some sort of signalling. Select for kids that inherit a smell, for example. But to develop that you'd have to start with a bunch of false negatives, and a bunch of deceptive smells would develop to start giving you false positives again.
no. antibodies will work just fine on a d-protein and one of their mechanisms of killing is to generate ozone, which is an achiral molecule.

there is currently ~no risk because generating mirror life is such a monumental task. we dont have a full biological bootstrap sequence currently. even syn1.0 which was a synthetic genome transplant and rebooting operation, required a living host cell to transplant the DNA into, and the genomic dna does go from a computer file, but only the smallest ~100 bp fragments are made by robots and chemistry; intermediate fragments are assembled and amplified in enzyme reactions, bacteria, and yeast.

in principle you could get these to be entirely in vitro, but the yields would be nearly nil. and the expense of mirror dna monomers is... i can't even imagine. you'd probably bankrupt a midsize nation on that. and theres no motivation to decrease the cost because there's not really any other practical use for mirror dna outside of fucking around scientifically. and thats just the DNA. our ability to synthetically make proteins taps out at around 150-200 residues (maybe 2-4x that if you can get clever with native chemical ligation) and the purification and isolation at that length is truly a nightmare, not to mention refolding longer sequences is also hard.
You also have to consider the risk, however small, that mirror bacteria released in the wild survive just long enough to naturally evolve to consume the common chiral form of whatever molecule. We've observed that bacteria can evolve rapidly to changing environments, so it's not out of the question.
Why are crocodiles so bumpy? A dermatological mystery has been solved
Well, we don't have studies proving it's a scam. We have papers that show that specific homeopathic remedies don't work. That doesn't disprove homeopathy in general. So - we should fund it until funding it is fully disproven from all angles?
Independence from... what?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Apparently in the US, illegal immigrants have a lower crime rate.
https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/undocumented-immigrant-o...

Not sure if it's not good for a scientist's career to study this, seeing as we both just cited a study with minimum effort.

At any rate, New Zealand is not interested in this or any other research, apparently. Which is definitely political-induced blindfolding of society.

Also bad for a scientist's career: when there is zero funding.
KDE Goes Nagware (and Income Skyrocketed) [video]
I fully expected this to be a joke until I tried it. This is so horrible it's underflowed back around to being amazing to me.
Coal mining certainly can a hell of a lot of non-workers all at once

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aberfan_disaster
or https://archive.is/ellJy
>Michelle Johnston Holthaus and David Zinsner - who were tapped as co-CEOs after the ouster of former CEO Pat Gelsinger last week - were asked if the company's continued combination of manufacturing and design was tied to the success of a new chipmaking technology called 18A due next year.

>"Pragmatically, do I think it makes sense that they're completely separated and there's no tie?" Holthaus said of the company's product and manufacturing divisions. "I don't think so. But someone will decide that."

The "Co-CEOs" are already inspiring confidence with their vision, decisiveness, and accountability.
I'm adjacent to the world of sign language translators in the US. They are legally obligated to translate EVERYTHING, regardless of whether it's legal or not, and they also have to maintain client secrecy. I personally know some who have facilitated drug deals and another who has facilitated an illegal discussion about Trump.

We decided as a society that we're not going to use translation services to catch citizens in crime. This AI situation is so much milder--we're talking about censoring stuff that is "harmful", not illegal. The content is not being published by Anthropic--it's up to the users to publish it or not.

We seriously need regulations around AI "safety" because of the enormous influence they bear on all human discourse.
*replace air fryer with coffee machine https://www.reddit.com/r/Millennials/comments/1gu4m07/buying...
One reason it didn't take off was probably lacking compatibility layers to Win32 apps though.

And a world were you provision apps only through the Windows Store is pure hell. Perhaps it was a strategic decision to not support "legacy" apps. If so, Windows RT was killed by just that.
A moka pot isn't an espresso machine. It only generates around 1.5 bars of pressure which is only slightly higher than what you get pushing an aeropress by hand. Espresso needs at minimum 6 bars, although traditionally it's 9 bars.
>Each computer had BASIC.

And each BASIC was usually capable of direct hardware control.

That was one of the differences between different proprietary BASIC versions.

They each had the same "framework" but were enhanced with the extra commands or syntax to accommodate the specific hardware they were intended to be used with.

I would say that ROM BASIC, and even better combined with an industrial-grade ROM OS, was the desktop paradigm that should never have been compromised.

Too bad ROM chips were so much more expensive than floppy disk storage, so we got "Disk Operating Systems" instead and here we are.

Then as soon as the IBM PC was beginning to be well-adopted by businesses, no more BASIC ROMs for you.

After that BASIC would be supplied on floppy disk, and you would have to pay extra, if you even knew it had been the key to user programmability on everything comparable that went before, most of what was still out there.

Like Commodores, TRS-80's, Ataris, Apples, and all early IBM PCs up until that point.

But most people weren't going to pay extra for many reasons and the user-programmability of the PC, as well as it's widespread readiness for any PC to run anybody's BASIC program with no other dependencies, dropped to an abysmally nil level compared to how it was the year before. Never has recovered either.

Even though there was very little software yet that did lots of things that specific users might have been wanting to do, so with a desktop computer boom there was a need for more user-programming than ever. On what started out to be a universal platform, pulling those ROMs was like pulling the rug out from under the future as it was intended to be up until that point. With 20/20 hindsight it looks like billions in lost opportunities for PC owners or operators to make the most of their PCs across-the-board for decades. When you think about it, simplicity & availability, or lack of it, can be worth a lot and really add up over that much time.

But losing the integrity level traditionally needed for an immutable ROM OS, that truly had to be a finished product before release, had been the bigger blow to begin with.

"This is by design."
ĀN ĒXAMPLE is "An Example".

Uppercase characters are represented using a bar/macron over the top - I was a bit slow to work that out and I don't remember seeing that convention before.

Link just to video: https://youtu.be/UhpTiWyVa6k

Edit: pulvinar said "It's clearly a vector display". You can see a graph using vector lines at 24:13, zooming at 20:50, and there's graphic lines mixed with text at 28:36.
> There are non-computable objects that mathematicians study.

What's an example of such a non-computable object? Constructionism is based on the fact that every proof is a construction, which corresponds to a program, so you're claiming that there are proofs that do not correspond to any construction/program, and I'm curious what that might look like.
Not that I recall — closest I can think of would either be TOS evil twin made from antimatter, the mirror universe in general, or Nelix' coffee.

But I have seen it as a short story about how the world ends, some synthetic bacteria that was meant to be reversed chirality for safety, but eventually it went wild and could eat everything without itself being eaten by anything.
I didn't dig beyond what was reported in this article, but my suspicion is that economic research will be excluded from these cuts. Assuming that to be true, that is where I'd expect to see a lot of social sciences research to be carried out.

Some disciplines in the social sciences in recent years have taken a pretty hard turn towards qualitative methods and epistemologies that are either misaligned with or explicitly reject the scientific method.

I think dropping funding for social sciences is a mistake, but at the same time (and I'm tipping my hand a bit here), the social sciences might benefit from a renewed emphasis on methods that can result in generalizable findings. I've read some case study / qualitative papers in recent years that, uh, do not give me the strong impression that some parts of the academy are serious stewards of the funding society entrusts to them.

In short, I think a correction is warranted, but I hate to see it happen as part of a charged ideological / political process.
"unused memory is wasted memory" is a meme, technically true from a narrow point of view, but leading to bloat and encouraging bad practices. A little bit of care could shave off orders of magnitude of memory use, as well as performance, which could ultimately allow for cheaper computers, sustainable use of legacy hardware and keeping performance reserve for actual use. In reality, I the idea of increased efficiency by using more memory ultimately leads to software requiring that memory that used to be optional, and software not playing nice with other programs that also need space. Of course even with the idea to have everything ready in memory, software is not generally snappy these days, neither in starting up and loading even from fast SSDs and during trivial UI tasks. Performance and efficiency is also generally not something that programmers regularly seem to consider the way real Mechanical-, Civil-, or Electrical Engineers would when designing systems.

I accept trade-offs concerning development effort and time-to-market, however the phrase "Unused memory is wasted memory" does not seem appropriate for a developer who's proud if their work.

Little friday rant, sorry :-)
Hmm... consider instead the possibility that it is actually remarkable but just isn't your cup of tea, as reviews for the combat system have been overwhelmingly positive.

I will concede that the aiming specifically isn't S-tier, but then again this is an "action-adventure" game, not a shooter, and everything else in the combat system more than makes up for that one less-than-perfect feature. Not to mention the fact that the game is much more than just the combat system. "Action" was just one of the characteristics I listed. The aesthetics and paranormal lore are reason enough to play it regardless of any combat.

It's incredibly satisfying to destroy the environment, throw objects and enemies around, levitate, dash in mid air... just thinking about it has me wanting to replay the whole thing even if I already know the mystery.
Lotus Symphony was a (later?) incarnation. Basically things evolved to more loosely coupled incarnations of office suites which ended up being pretty much from Microsoft (OK, LibreOffice) and then Microsoft and Google online. The end result was pretty much the same. If you weren't in a dominant office suite, you pretty much didn't exist except for specialized users.
Dipco's Easy Reader
Instead of compiling and running code, just replace all of your code with composable functions that are each small enough to lookup the results for in a precomputed hardware dictionary. In this way you have a Turing complete cpu with only one instruction.

I started this comment as a tongue in cheek satire of yours, but now I’m honestly wondering if it could be a viable idea for a radically simplified cpu (I’m not a computer engineer). I suppose the lookup tables rapidly become too large, possibly before they are useful?
It seems like much is missing from Ukrainian history. I did notice the brief appearance of the Hetmanate(1648-1667).
"The US Government studied what regular sonic booms do to people during the supersonic jet craze in the 1960s and 70s! It drives them to murderous rage. While the 1964 OKC test had multiple events per day, they were limited to 2 psf."

https://bsky.app/profile/bsky.esghound.com/post/3lc43jtf5422...
Is the term "Barrel file" somehow in common use? I've never heard of it (not a js dev though).
I would expect some kind of "umbrella file", "public interface", "reexport facade", or something along those lines.
I watched the short gif/video and I had the same thought. If you don't pierce the object/meat in a manner that its centre of gravity is on the very centre of this contraption, it would skew the spin and it affect its randomness in the movement.

But totally a fun project and cool topic to discuss on any BBQ
You know more than me on logic so I defer to your expertise.

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4753432/g%C3%B6dels...

Andreas Blass in the comments says that the Incompleteness results don’t apply to the second order Axioms (tabling about PA_2 here and not Z_2) and that the second order axioms are not computably enumerable. Maybe that’s the correct concept I was remembering from mathematical logic class. Don’t know if computably enumerable is the same as recursively enumerable but given what you’ve said I’m guessing they are different notions.

Consider the standard model of ZFC. Assume ZFC is consistent. Within this model there is one model of PA_2. Collect all true statements in this model of PA_2. Call that Super PA. That’s now my axiomatic system. I now have an axiomatic system that proves all true statements of arithmetic. Surely this set of axioms is not recursively enumerable.

Full semantics, on the other hand, are categorical (there is only one model), but this has nothing to do with the axioms not being recursively enumerable -- it is just because we use a different notion of model.

If those axioms were recursively enumerable then the Incompleteness theorems would apply, right?

What Noah Schweber says here seems pertinent:

https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/4972693/is-second-o...
> And which email provider are you using? You rely on them too, right?

Not really, as I use my own domain so can just move that between providers. Exactly because I also don't want to be beholden to a free mail provider either.

> Personally I'm a big fan of letting someone log in any which way they want.

Sure, if people do want to use oauth by all means the should. I just don't think the short term signup convenience outweighs the longer term stuff like:

- annoyances of remembering how you signed up, the initial context I replied to.

- Having a extra service mixed in

- The privacy implications of your oauth provider having a neat list of the services you use.

> Here's a link from Auth0 which references some other links talking about double digit increases in conversions when social login is available: https://auth0.com/blog/how-to-use-social-login-to-drive-your...

Not relevant to me as a user ;) I get why companies provide it. I just choose not to for the reasons already mentioned.
In the older Indo-European languages, like Ancient Greek or Latin, evidentiality was also important and it was expressed using different verbal moods, like the so-called indicative, subjunctive and optative.

Many modern European languages have been simplified from this point of view, but some still have remnants of the older uses of the verbal moods, like the use of some kind of subjunctive for anything that is not known with certainty, e.g. from direct experience.
Love the decision tbh. Social science does not deserve money. There has been too much fraud going on and I'm not sure about the benefits compared to hard science or medical science. I do understand why this impacts Maori disproportionately but making this matter about race is unfair. we're talking about a very small number of researchers here. The average person of whichever race is only affected in the sense that his tax dollars are spent more effectively.
Key word is "often", I have heard too many stories where that is not the case.
The claims here of 0.01% plastic are a straight up lie though when you factor in the wires and power brick.
As the US targeted them in Yugoslavia...

I dunno. This one seems to be a universal war casualty.
Chances are only a small portion of the lookup table is used. It's conceivable that this is almost entirely L1 access.

But I'm also very skeptical that this is actually faster. Would have been nice to see some numbers
weirdly accurate joke
I'm sure that this won't end up going the way of Fordlandia.
Question: if it gets banned, is there an alternative?
I also saw a 2-part documentary recently about someone who caught a highly contagious virus (the so called "rage" virus) that led to disastrous consequences. We know these risks are real.