skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is insane how much of a difference it makes. I grew up in a household/culture where flossing was basically an optional “once in a while” event (brushing teeth 2-3 times a day and using mouthwash every time was mandatory though). Once a year dentist visits were also happening on regular. By age 15, i already had mid-upper single digit number of cavity fillings, and it just seemed like it was the norm, to a degree, for a lot of people around (including my parents).

Then my family moved to the US, and the first dentist I got here drilled into my head that flossing was a must. I didn’t look deeply into it, as a teenager with no expertise wouldn’t, and decided to just blindly listen to that advice and apply it.

That advice ended up working really well. I am in my 30s now, and had exactly zero need for any “functional” work on my teeth since then (cosmetic orthodontic work doesn’t count). No cavities, no fillings, nothing. The improvement was just that massive.

I gotta say, one thing that helped me a lot was getting a waterpik/equivalent water picker from another brand[0]. String floss was too unwieldy and made it kinda difficult to reach some of the nooks and crannies in the back of the jaw, and my dental hygienist pointed it out before that those areas need better flossing. Which took me a ton of effort and time every single time using a string floss.

This is merely anecdotal, and I am not educated enough about the subject matter to make any generalized statements. But for me personally, getting into the “flossing is the main event” mindset made a massive long-term difference.

[0] No, I am not advertising for Waterpik brand. In fact, I switched to another brand eventually, because i found one that was more portable, but still had strong pressure. But that’s just nitpicking, as i was satisfied with the functionality of the original one as well.
> There will be interesting culture clashes, because different places will apply it at different rates to different priorities. What do you think the real priorities will be for Saudi Arabia to adopt? How long would it take for Egypt to adopt, and for what purpose? Kazakhstan? Libya? Pakistan?

I'm curious about what ways of using it will make a country outperform its peers that at some point all others need to copy, like capitalism hundreds of years ago.
That's a dangerous feature set for Altium and friends. Multi channel is one of the last major features that Kicad was lacking. Hell of a turnaround from the project of 10 years ago.
Funny how this whole reply of me was just a misunderstanding after reading https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42497747 and even more funnier I'm doing this and most of my friends but nobody calls it Stammtisch here. It's usually just called Treffen. Stammtisch is so hard wired in my brain to bars full of smoke and people drinking beer at a table called Stammtisch.

It's all a complete confusion. My comment has little to do with your comment. It's two completely separate things.
Title is clickbait: abort test is where they break the capsule out of the nosecone so it can escape.
Exploring LoRA–Part 1: The Idea Behind Parameter Efficient Fine-Tuning and LoRA
> The Lizardman's Constant is lower than 20%, more like 4%

Lizardman’s Constant is, per Gwern, “‘jokester’ or ‘mischevious responders’.” They’re being disingenuous; think: “deez balls” voters.

I don’t think the 17% of respondents who think favourably of Mangione are trolling. I don’t think the 10% flat earthers (or, including those who are “unsure” about the Earth’s roundness, 19%) are bullshitting [1].

There is simply about a fifth of the population—and it’s a moving fifth, there isn’t a permanently-braindead section—that tends to respond one way in just about any survey about fringe or stupid theories. So 17% supporting Mangione (while making it seem like it’s everyone online) isn’t particularly surprising. (Even if a good fraction of them are responding provocatively for fun.)

[1] https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/conspiracy-vs-science-sur...
We Set the First Tesla FSD Cannonball Run Record
He tried contacting Sony several ways, but Sony dgaf about anything these days.
It's still 20x their GDP per capita - given that Greenland isn't really an independent country I would feel pretty tempted to switch overlords for twenty years of wages.
You probably have to think this way: Anything added to C++ will only get to be used in for real for real in 10 years minimum.
Thanks!

That's a wonderfully hard problem, I'd love to see it get solved.
They posted on Twitter to find people who wanted to get involved

> With no time to lose, Shank posted a call for help on Twitter, hoping someone in Osaka could investigate. Enter Abebe, a stranger who volunteered to check the location.

The restaurant was about to be demolished.

I don’t see any problems with this process or outcome. I think you’re comparing this outcome to an imagined alternative reality (going into a museum) that wasn’t even an option.
Kinda nitpicking, but why is "SIM" allcaps here but not on the source article? It's a "sim" (short for "simulator"), not a SIM card for a cellular phone :'D
OT, but that's the second time this month I'm encountering TLS issues with arstechnica.com... seems to be some mixup with the domains for intuit.com.
> Back in the early 2000s the US government offered people cash incentives to dispose of their fuel inefficient cars, and by disposal they meant running the engine with an abrasive liquid instead of oil until it is totally ruined beyond repair.

So. Fucking. Stupid. As though Joe Consumer with a V8 Mustang he puts a few thousand miles on per year is the boogeyman of climate change, and not, hell just off the dome:

- Every standing military on planet Earth

- The global shipping industry

- The fossil fuel industry
I'm curious to hear more about this use case. The DMA I do in rust is generally static buffers, because I'm not sure how to pass the borrow checker otherwise. (There are ways). Generally, you set up a static [u8] buffer, and pass its pointer to the hardware that's doing the DMAing. Then magic, then the buffer gets read or written by the hardware. In this scenario, the variables never go out of scope. Am I cheating, and avoiding this issue by using static buffers? If the buffer drops during a DMA transfer, I believe UB happens.

I'm suspicious a similar principle happens with memory-mapped flash memory as well, e.g. QSPI.
Parsing millions of URLs per Second (2023)
Come to Harry's on 15th on Thursdays (8:30 pm + ). It's where the local hackers (2600 and DEFCON crowd) usually hang out and socialize. Ask Will (the bartender, who's great) for the hacker crowd and he'll point you in the right direction.

I moved up here 6 months ago, and it's been a great group of people to hang out with. The conversations are tech/tech-adjacent for the most part, but I've also spent hours chatting about Magic The Gathering, Seattle Public Transit, and Neal Stephenson. I got my HushCon invite just from showing up regularly enough that people recognized me.

I actually found out about this because of another meetup on Thursdays: Black Lodge Research up in Redmond has an open night from 7:00 pm onwards. Great little makerspace, and a welcoming community. But it's definitely a schlep up there, especially after a workday so I haven't been back in a couple of months.

I'm not a big drinker, but it's nice to have a constant event on Thursday evenings that I can look forward to having a beer or two at (I actually have a custom drink that I came up with Will called "Pondwater" -- building up some lore like that is fun and is a sign of setting down some roots). I'd say Harry's is my "local bar" since I live about a 15 minute walk away. On the note of social drinking, there's a few sober people who come as well, and there's no compulsion at all to drink alcohol to be a part of the in-group. Hope I see you there sometime and I'd be happy to introduce you to the crowd; look for the Indian guy :)
They want the book not to exist.
I would like to be included in this collection of Julii.
Yeah, I mean for at least a couple major versions, Apple stated Python was going to be deprecated in a future major release.

I learned this the hard way. I wrote a ~1,000 line Python script for our giant fleet of Macs only to discover Python was finally removed and that it was only present on my system, because I had installed the Command Line Tools.
It's interesting that they say they had such a hard time finding help, I have never heard about this entire endeavor until now, and the video mentions them desiring contacts at Sony with the display division, which I happen to have, and would have helped if I had known about it.
Electronics can handle quite a lot. I often rinse PCBs in boiling RO water (after ultrasonic cleaning with speciality detergents for flux removal) post rework. After this, drying at 125°C for a while to get those nice and crispy again. You do not want to increase the temperature above 100°C too fast, however, to avoid “popcorning” — little steam explosions due to absorbed moisture.
It's only been done a twice? in America in Florida and California and both had protests from environmental groups worried about bird/bat populations. Similar to any time a construction project is being done.

https://foe.org/news/ge-mosquito-experiment-halted/

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/florida-key...
Hey Jonathan!

> each interface should pay us back for the trouble of defining it—and the more payback the better

This seems to be the core question of this comment. I'll make the boring claim that every piece of code should pay us back for the trouble of defining it, which doesn't leave much more to say in response.

An important thing in this kind of conversation is to keep clear track of whether you're talking about the general idea of an interface (the affordances offered by something for using it and the corresponding promises) or the specific programming construct that uses the "interface" keyword. When you talk about defining an interface, you could mean either.

Another thing to remember is that, when you use "interface" in the former sense, everything has an infinite number of interfaces. For example, your fridge offers a dense map of the different temperatures and humidities at each spot. You could "learn this interface" by mapping it out with sensors, and then you can take full advantage of that interface to keep your veggies slightly fresher and have your meat be defrosted in exactly 36.5 hours. But if you get that information, there are countless ways to forget pieces and go from "the back left of the bottom shelf tends to be 35-36 F" to "the entire back of the bottom shelf tends to be somewhere between 0.5 and 2 degrees colder than the top of the fridge" down to "idk the fridge just keeps stuff cold." These are examples of the infinitely many interfaces you can use your fridge at, each offering a different exact set of abilities, most of which are irrelevant for the average user.
Google to court: we'll change our Apple deal, but please let us keep Chrome
If we reach the point where we can ask AI for the answer to open questions and sometimes get correct answers, two things will happen:

1. It will be unable to answer some of these, and mathematicians will disproportionately focus on these.

2. Its answers will lead to questions that it can't answer, and again, mathematicians will focus on these.

One nice thing about math is that once something becomes trivial, math seamlessly re-forms itself to account for that triviality; it's always looking at the horizon.
Currently half the world's wealth belongs to the top 1%. I think the only thing preventing them from taking more than 50% is at some point it gets unstable.

Stuff like UBI is just another mechanism to redistribute it. UBI favors venture capitalists more than, say, Unilever. 50% will still belong to the top 1%, it just shifts who exactly the top 1% are.
i don't get the skepticism, yes a youtuber did a thing but without them probably no one would have cared and the TV would've ended up destroyed in the rubble of the building

he even went to the lengths of calling up different CRT experts trying getting them to fix it

all this negativism just feels like older people being all "zoomers bad" because the medium is not what they prefer. maybe we should just be happy to pass the torch and glad that younger generations even have interest in this sort of thing
It's a real computer, for the price of a toy.
>Why the fuck are these sodding tic tacs putting 3D printer plastic into tea bags

PLA was around long before 3D printers became known to everyone under 30 years of age. It was first discovered in the 1920s by Wallace Carothers.
I’m pretty sure mine doesn’t engage the rollers unless it’s on carpet, so that’s something.

Related, my second most hated aspect of it, is that it doesn’t empty its dust bin in mid-clean. Oh, it can empty its dust bin at the end, and it knows how to empty in mid-clean, because it empties it when it’s washing its mop (which it does know to do mid-clean, and you can even configure how many minutes it should go before re-washing.) But noooo, it has no idea that maybe its bin will get full and that it should empty it even without needing to wash the mop.

Because I have a German Shepherd and it can easily fill up its bin with dog hair after 10 minutes of carpet cleaning, and after that it’s just pushing clumps of dog hair around from one end of the room to another.

It’s so frustrating because the engineers did a great job of making the thing able to self-empty its bin in the first place, and thought enough to code for and allow configuration of mid-clean mop washing. But they didn’t connect the dots and consider that some people have large pets and may need the dust bin to get the same treatment as the mop.
> Of the 13 stores they opened in canada, 7 were the "nordstrom rack" discount brand, which is really not nordstrom

Though it's not like these all served different geographic markets - e.g. My local Nordstrom Rack was a 10 minute drive from my local Nordstrom.

FWIW my local Nordstrom Rack was an old Future Shop location. Now it's a Marshalls.
You can set `browser="firefox"`, but there's no stealth mode for it.
This presupposes that the move won't be forced. It'll show up as competition in the gig economy. And there will be slower adoption in the long-haul or commercial receivables market since someone will need to be responsible for the cargos.

In the end it will be forced, even if it's not a layoff. Fewer gig rides. Cheaper competition for hauling contracts as the driverless fleets grow and customers adapt. Forcing people to do more for less, or leave.

But where do those people go? The slow decline that forces people out by starving them out does not suit the situation well for retraining in a different career path.

The truckers will join all the tech support and customer service people queued up to interview for a smaller allotment of jobs. Then the programmers. Eventually even the business people who take up space following random business workflows that don't require an ounce of creativity will follow.

When automation starts to be really good, it will be the restaurant cooks. Servers will still be around, for dine-in restaurants, and personal services like massage therapists. But how long will it take for competition in the labor market to drive those wages down? Demand certainly won't be increasing since the pool of potential customers with disposable income will decrease.

The shrinking of the middle class that we've seen up until now is nothing compared to what we'll see in the next decade or two. This should not be handwaved away with an "Oh, those people? They'll just go do something else."

If we need to turn a 15-year long haul trucker into a solar power technician, what's the time frame and cost to do retrain, how does that trucker afford and avoid starvation while he does so?

Hopefully whatever minimally viable level of support we decide on as a society will be higher than "living in one of the growing tent cities while eating at the local soup kitchen". We're already struggling with those in the current labor market, which is a sign that the existing support system is insufficient. We're totally unprepared for the future labor market.
Can anyone recommend some good “modern” C++ books in this spirit (writing software for fun, not large enterprises)?

Preferably for Linux and/or Windows.
The Container Store files for bankruptcy
Citron (who founded Discord) also was involved in OpenFeint, a mobile game social SDK that started out originally as a game for the iPhone called Aurora Feint. So it's kind of cyclical in a fun way - game, social tool, game, social tool.

I expect this is a pretty common story on a wider basis and people sometimes overlook it. How many bug trackers or build systems started out as internal tools for managing some other product? Etc.
Seems to be PE owned. The Canadian equivalent (but I think unrelated from a business perspective), the Solutions Store, went bankrupt and closed all stores a few years ago.
I’m hearing that Lexmark/Unicomp keyboards were/are a cost cutting project compared to original Model F. Interestingly there is a company that resurrected true, pre cost cutting, model F: https://www.modelfkeyboards.com
This is not a comment about the main story in the article, but about a paragraph at the end:

"My boss came to see me. He told me that the team’s productivity was dangerously declining. That we should use artificial intelligence more effectively. That we risked being overtaken by competitors who, without a doubt, were using the very latest artificial intelligence."

This is the oldest scam in the book. A boss will never talk to you if there is any kind of problem with your productivity, they will fire you and that's it. Any boss talking about needing to work harder etc. is only trying to squeeze out some extra juice from workers who are already working perfectly fine.

But the author and his team seem to be willing victims of scammers and exploiters, so what else is to be expected?
I really can't resonate with this. The type system is obnoxious (and you don't even get proper memory safety out of it), the "most vexing parse" truly is vexatious, there's all the weirdness inherited from C like pointer decay (and then building new solutions like std::array on top while being unable to get rid of old ways of doing things), and of course the continued reliance on a preprocessor to simulate an actual module import system (and the corresponding implications for how code for a class is organized, having to hack around with the pimpl idiom etc....)

Essentially, the warts are too large and numerous for me to find any inner beauty in it any more.
Is this a rhetorical question? The answer is clearly yes. I never studied organic chemistry.
Surely there's a step between self-hosting on your home computer and colocating a server you buy

Surely a $15 per year vm would be enough to receive a few thousands POSTs per day (https://tinykvm.com/), or if that's not enough, paying less than $5 per month for a VPS is still cheap

Surely transposing a binary hosted on vendor A to vendor B is as minuscule in involved labor as configuring a webhook

I'm not trying to diss on your own reader which is an awesome thing to do, I'm just sad that resorting to a fully proprietary architecture is an automatism when considering a protocol that can't be more open than RSS
Weekly Influenza Surveillance Report (USA)
Apparently the US is having a flu surge at the moment.
We don't have Amazon here in Malaysia (not counting AWS, Kindle, Prime Video). But I think life hasn't become any better or worse with the alternatives. There's the big 3 e-commerce companies (Lazada, Shopee, TikTok). But even if we didn't have AWS, there's still Azure, Alicloud and so on, same with other products.

I'm curious what kind of conveniences Bezos did that wouldn't be around without him.
cash back to the user is a cut of the affiliate revenue/commission they get for the sale. this is commonly how all third party ecommerce cash back programs work (honey, klarna, etc.)

the video explains how honey has the same thing but the cut they give you seems to be tiny - like less than a dollar to users for a $30 commission for them as one example.

i dont know if this is common practice or not but i'm not a user of these extensions personally.
Exact same boat here, Ioniq 5 owner. Destination charging and trickle charging at home does everything I need. I will still apply for this though! Super cool.
I'm a volunteer firefighter. One of the drawbacks of being a volunteer is that we don't typically get as much experience as our career counterparts, and that means in particular that we get less chance to develop muscle-memory and actual-memory of how to do things [0].

Consequently, I've come to have a much greater regard for simple checklists that make sure that we're doing basic stuff, we do it right. My favorite example: switching the fire engine's engine from driving the transmission to driving the pump. It's basically 3 or 4 steps, but when you only do this (at most) once a month (typically), remembering the steps is challenging, and it is even harder to remember to do the mandatory 2-3 second pause between each one.

The contrast with my life as a C++ developer for 35+ years is telling. In that world, almost everything is memory, and what isn't is both (a) look-up-able online (b) not time- or life-critical.

The brief time I've been a firefighter has made me very aware of a totally different side of my cognition - no, Paul, you actually don't remember most things at all - and has given me a great deal of respect for checklists to help prop up our minds in one of their weakest areas.

[0] truth is, I doubt that even the career firefighters in a lot of departments get enough daily experience for most things to become memorized, certainly not without many, many years responding to calls.
The short story is that teaching is, by far, the hardest thing I've ever done. It was also extremely rewarding, and I'm very grateful I did it. But it was not going to be sustainable for me. I journaled my experience here: https://acjay.com/a-former-teachers-story/

In my second and final year of teaching, I knew I couldn't go back, so I decided to go back to grad school for a second masters, in Music Technology, at NYY. I felt it would buy me some time to figure out my life, while easing me back into tech and being fun. I cofounded a startup when I was there, which failed, but introduced me to the NYC tech scene in the process.
Show HN: Organize Your Blood Tests into a Beautiful Health Dashboard
I've been really into tracking my biomarkers lately. However, I've found it a pain to deal with blood test reports from different healthcare providers, each with their own unique format.

So I built a solution - a web app that automatically extracts biomarkers from any blood test report and organizes them into a beautiful health dashboard, complete with trend graphs. No more manual data entry into spreadsheets!

Check it out: https://www.biotracker.me

It's a free web app that:
* Automatically extracts biomarkers from any blood test report (PDF or image)
* Creates visual trends of your health metrics over time
* Provides basic medical information about the extracted biomarkers

You can try it yourself or check out the demo dashboard on the website to see how it works.

I’d love to hear your thoughts and ideas on how I can market it.
Check my sibling comment, and thanks for your interest!
Depends on the 15 years. If the government’s fiscal policy is zero inflation, except houses, sure.

It’s really a war bubble, which will pop, with pretty devastating impact.