skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say they're more a threat because of iOS than macs. This thread is replete with everyone ignoring that your average laptop/desktop user who wasn't much of a gamer probably abandoned laptop/desktops for a mobile phone only life years ago. PC Gamers may well be the largest remaining consumer segment on Windows but that segment pales in comparison to the corporate space where Windows is going to remain strong for the foreseeable future.
Just for anyone wondering, the article author seems to confusingly insist on calling these "plant-based drinks" rather than "plant-based milk alternatives" which the study uses.

That language choice alone made me suspect it was conducted by a dairy lobby. But it's the article author who made this decision, rather than the University researchers or funding institutions (which appear to be medical and pharmaceutical R&D firms).

Interesting case study in how writers using ideologically driven language can make their reporting so unclear as to be almost meaningless (there are people who insist on avoiding the word "milk" to describe anything derived from plants, but "plant-based drinks" is such a vague label it can refer to anything from juice to hot chocolate)
I still like what you did on break. FWIW GEOS provides Fire Temperature: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/goes/sector_band.php?sat=G1...
> IMO, a better prevention measure would be to not build houses out of sticks. That's already the case for much of the housing in Europe. Alas, here in the US the colonial and cabin aesthetics still win out, even when fire-resistant options aren't more expensive.

It is not an aesthetic preference, the US used to construct housing like in Europe through the 19th century.

That style of construction was repeatedly catastrophically destroyed by severe earthquakes, killing many people needlessly, and is now illegal in many regions.

The US became strict about seismic safety after the famous 1906 San Francisco earthquake[0]. A few decades earlier, the 1872 Lone Pine earthquake[1] literally flattened entire towns of European-style construction; some of these are now ghost towns that were simply abandoned and never rebuilt. When you see surviving old masonry buildings, they usually have been retroactively refitted with steel frames to make the masonry mostly decorative.

The regions of the US prone to wildfire are also prone to severe earthquakes, so your options are wood or steel frame construction, neither of which is particularly wildfire resistant but at least it won't collapse during a severe earthquake. Many parts of the US also have to engineer for much higher wind loadings than in Europe.

You can build masonry buildings that meet the seismic standard but that requires a lot of steel and is expensive. Where I live, all modern construction is required to survive a M8.5 earthquake; I've never seen a house in Europe engineered to that standard.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1906_San_Francisco_earthquake

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1872_Owens_Valley_earthquake
could you use checkboxes for display? I'm no sure if you can style them, but I think you can access them in JS, and that should result in having basic "pixels" which you can use to draw anything.
Toaster-looking gadget boosts your phone's battery in seconds
Intermittent fasting is effective for weight loss and improves cardio health
Just wait until you start hearing the birds.
The freedom and optimism is always rooted to the communal and ritual release in dance, the freedom to be as you are, or dance as you are. This gets harder and harder when there is fear of "documentation', if one can't "dance right" or "doesn't fit in".

Don't beat yourself up too hard though, you can always pickup a DJ controller and start again :)

And too: the scene has radically shifted, so being a promoter is a large part of the work. It's kind of like eSports in a way.
The article speaks as if cow milk and plant milk are directly comparable. Plant milk isn't meant to be a direct one for one replacement for cow milk. The nutrition profile isn't the same regardless of heat treatment or shelf life. It also talks about heavy processing, but plant milk super easy to make at home with a minimal setup.

Also cow milk is full of hormones and inflammatory substances and most humans are not adapted to drink it.
In meditation, instead of the breath you can use your thoughts as an object to observe dispassionately. I believe we all have what this author is describing, basically language based thought that we have no seeming conscious control over (I would argue all of our thoughts). We can just sit back and watch the show. My sense is that some people see this more readily than others and are more sensitive to it, probably good correlation with different types of artists. For me personally, it took a while to see this for the first time, but it was a revelation and completely changes your perspective on what/who you think you are.
For better or worse, Aquilo is designed to be a limiter against end-game tech. All the other planets you can drop in and get everything going from scratch; Aquilo is there to gate legendary items and railguns and fusion power, essentially, and it’s the first time that the quality of your shipping logistics really matters to the player, esp. through high danger areas.

That said, I loved the redesign work needed on Aquilo, it took me quite a while to get the hang of cascading temperature brownouts, heat fluid dynamics, and adding piping to layouts. I found that fun.

Eventually, Aquilo can work like any other base, with rare - legendary bots, it can be remotely laid out and expanded as needed; in reality, very very little needs to be built on Aquilo to support even relatively large economies. I’m on my second playthrough, I have legendary-only production lines up for everything but railguns and fusion power and I’m just thinking about adding my second pump jack for fluorine.

Anyway, come back to it in a year - you might find it’s fun after all. :)
Multiflow Computer: A Startup Odyssey (2013)
"The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work."

-- this comment made my me laugh/choke on my coffee and I have no regrets.
It definitely reads like a cow milk marketing letter.
Besides Bluetooth usually reecodes your audio before streaming it, which means even if you used the best codec to encode it from FLAC with carefully chosen settings, it will still suffer from being encoded from a lossy format to another lossy format at the moment you listen to it.

I read Apple avoids that with their AirPods if your audio is already encoded in a supported format, but I don’t know if other general systems are smart about it.
> Once you are in prison, choosing to work or not is a free choice.

It is literally not in California (though which work, within bounds that differ by prisoner, may be), and California this year defeated a ballot proposition which would have made your claim true.
> You data will not be sold, shared, or given away. Your medical data is the most private data you have, and we respect that.

So you're hack proof and idiot employee proof?
"until I ran into roadblocks with the dev team." What kind of roadblocks?
/me skims, reaches footnotes

Sometimes you've just gotta love those auto-shortened URLs: security.googleblog.com/2013/12/internet-wide-efforts-to-fight-email.html

Hopefully one day we'll win the fight.
1. how? healthy chickens lay an egg every 1-2 days. a small number of chickens produce more than enough for an entire household. everyone I know who keeps chickens gives most of the eggs away.

2. chickens are the ultimate garbage disposal. you can feed them any excess food from your household and they turn it into fresh eggs.

3. see 1. the volume of eggs gets out of control fast, but not quite on the scale that it’s viable for random people to build an FDA compliant business out of it. it’s hard to get rid of all of them, even for free.
> Ported everything from Python to Javascript for simplicity and performance

ROFL
I personally know of one ambien addict and it's scary. He just went through a divorce and lost his job. His barely coherent (and angry) voice messages while off the drug don't seem too different from addicts of illegal substances.
> Overloading deleted_at to have a semantic meaning for an active account is just fundamentally bad design.

Then don't do that. It's kind of a leap to say soft deletes are categorically bad because someone might confuse "deleted" with "inactive". My users table does the super-advanced thing of having both columns. The ORM also doesn't forget to add the not-null criterion. There's also zero databases in active use where it poses a problem to indexing.

Soft deletes suck in their own way, but none of the alternatives are perfect either.
That's not for any of us to determine here. A lawyer can answer that.
Same for me, I couldn't recall the title or author of _Hit the Bike Trail!_, but someone on the /r/cycling subreddit had the thought of looking through _Publishing Weekly_ archives to identify it.

Still much appreciated, gifted it to some cousins of mine who are the age I was when I read it.
If your data's large and changing enough that you have to care about vacuuming, any reasonable database is going to require some tuning, tending and management.

I'd posit that only a tiny fraction of PostgreSQL uses have to know or care that vacuuming is a thing because the autovacuum default handle it for them.
Ostrich farm showing resistance to avian flu
It's such a beautiful poem, and it's now making me realise how much of a background influence reading Brautigan's <i>Trout Fishing in America</i> as a kid had on me.

Some other short poems from Brautigan here (not really that representative, but fun): https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/richard-brautigan
Adult humans (really, anyone older than a toddler) do not need milk of any type.
Coming across stuff like this is why I value the hacker news community.
> Unfortunately mods are not very good quality, or too difficult to enjoy.

Most of my playtime in Factorio is with overhaul mods, there's a lot of quality content there. I'm not sure how many of them have been brought to 2.0 or even will be. I'm curious where you think quality lacks.

Space Exploration has been my favorite, but Ultracube, Krastorio2, and Nullius were all quite fun. I'll admit I haven't finished Ultracube and Nullius, but I have restarted my Ultracube run in 2.0.

> Space age is interesting because new planets are being added by fans, but I don't think they're going to be as well designed and really bring anything interesting.

Check out Maraxsis and/or Cerys, these were the kinds of planet mods I was hoping for in Space Age. Maraxsis is an ocean planet and you build underwater and in deep trenches, and the planet's building has a base 50% quality. Cerys is a moon of Fulgora that's really quite small and it's more of a puzzle than anything.
How stupid do these CEOs think people are?
What if blood magnesium levels tested normal?
'Worst in Show' CES products put data at risk and cause waste, advocates say
Me neither, and if I wanted to play the fanciest mobile games, or something else that truly needs the compute, I'd get the tool to do it. A simple app that provably worked fine on a low-end device being ruined by added bloat just because they restyled the visuals still sucks. Especially because the app (Flashfood) is for budget conscious shoppers, who may disproportionately have lower-end devices.
> I reality no one writes from scratch with threads, processes or asyncio unless you are a library author.

Is that really true in the case of asyncio? From my experience, it isn't.

I am not familiar with the other three libraries you mentioned, but gevent predates asyncio and is separate from it. It does not build on top of asyncio, and is outdated because of that. It doesn't even have support for WebSockets.
This was a popular topic in '80s linear programming books. Chvatal's "Linear programming," for instance, is carefully-written and devotes about 100 pages devoted to network simplex. Papadimitriou and Stieglitz's "Combinatorial optimization: algorithms and complexity" explicitly goes through primal-dual derivations of algorithms for shortest path, max flow, and min-cost flow (including bipartite matching). I haven't read it in any detail, but https://math.mit.edu/~goemans/PAPERS/book-ch4.pdf is online and might be to your liking.
Somewhat true … maybe it’s really a hybrid, subtractive usually includes generating the initial sound to subtract from though (the oscillator) and even basic subtractive synths often have capability there (different waveforms, octaves, PWM, etc)
The protest/rally at Toronto City Hall in 2000 was a one-of-a-kind event which united ravers across the city. Organizers set up a mobile stage with sound and lights, had DJ lineup, speeches by public figures (including Olivia Chow), and 10k+ ravers.

Party People Documentary: Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUqlAUh4_3c

Party People Documentary: Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQZAwIHhOnc
My understanding is that it is a browser that supports uBlock Origin. It isn't distributed with it, so the GPL restrictions don't apply.

It is essentially just a fork of Chromium that keeps Manifest v2 support, so that uBlock Origin continues to work.

The branding is concerning though.
It's also not 56 vs 46 commits but 56 vs 63. 46 is the second biggest committee but there are 17 more commits from the other 4 and my initial point was that it was odd for him to not mention the other contributors at all. Even if he did the major part, I would never say I created something if it was a team effort. He lead.
I doubt they are.
Tried going all out at ~45deg angle until fuel is finished hoping to go into orbit, but no luck.
> Most software vulnerabilities aren't intentionally added backdoors, but flaws in the software that shipped on a device.

Disagree, it is extremely common for e.g. TVs and smart phones to ship with malware included. In fact it is almost impossible to buy some classes of devices that aren't intentionally compromised.

Having the thing never connect to the Internet at all and never receive updates is a far better security posture, and is the common recommendation among knowledgeable people for e.g. TVs.

In practice, your neighbors are almost certainly quite a bit less malicious than whatever a smart device might talk to on the Internet. Your neighbor isn't going to hack your cordless phone. Your TV manufacture is definitely going to drop malware onto it, disable functionality (i.e. damage it), etc.
I think the issue is that native OS things like the windows command line, say, don’t always do this. Check the results of their ‘cd’ commands with Japanese Yen characters introduced. You can see that the path descriptor somehow has updated to a directory name with Yen (or a wide backslash) in it, while the file system underneath has munged, and put them into an actual directory. It’s precisely the problem that you can’t control the rest of the API surface to use W that is the source of the difficulties.
Woah woah woah, unlimited saves for only $2/mo?

Clearly, we need an ad-supported $0.99/mo tier with a limit of 50,000 saves per quarter (additional saves $0.01 each).

$2.99/mo is what gives you unlimited* saves to disk.

* C:// drive only. External drives are limited to 10,000 saves per period)

Contact sales for enterprise pricing
VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos
>"1. The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. The resulting paper just has a static image and the controls no longer work."

Just wait until e-paper replaces the real one ;)
This one has almost 600 so only a few thousand to go.
well he managed to turn the twitter blunder into literal political capital with trump. so it all worked out in the end.
I was joking in 2007, when I was working at Siemens, to my boss, that an Excel cell can contain God and the Multiverse when I put an ActiveX inside that was basically a program I made which would draw a 3D animation based on parameters contained on other cells. Let's say the boss was impressed though for me was just basic OLE.

I see from time to time that younger generations reinvent/rediscover the wheel and I chuckle.
Is any company?
The header link of static pages like https://katesapp.org/static/What%20Is%20Kate's%20App.html doesn’t work.
Yeah, if you wanted a low power x86 device (which pretty much means iGPU) then AMD is the only game in town. The open source drivers probably helped in this regard but if things were different I doubt Valve would have turned their nose up at Nvidia.
Leetcode is slavery for developers. Shun any company that uses that for interviews because they are cargo culting idiots.
I think the problem with your bullet points is that something like an ESP32 beats a Pi at all of these criteria (as well as on cost), and can be wired/wirelessly tethered to whatever PC you have handy if you actually need a bunch of compute.

With the exception of the Zero, Pi has always been playing in the realm of "this is a real computer, except cheaper". And that's a pretty crowded space these days.
Former CEO of MoviePass' parent company faces up to 25 years in prison
46,864,037,361 unique starting positions in chess
If chess players could arrange their pieces in any way they wanted, there would be 46,864,037,361 unique starting positions.
Agreed. I started playing Satisfactory a few years ago, before I ever picked up Factorio. And I played A LOT of Satisfactory. Into the thousands of hours.

I'm currently at a couple hundred hours into Factorio and I can safely say I like it better. It is way more polished and way more in-depth. It has definitely had much more time to mature and respond to user feedback. Also the threat level keeps it more interesting. But I do find Satisfactory much more beautiful, and I think the idea of having belts go directly into/out of buildings, etc, without the need for inserters, a much better style than inserters.
Same for pi^pi^pi^pi

https://youtu.be/BdHFLfv-ThQ?si=HhkJnLU3EVGAbwvz
Linez: Approximate Images Using Lines
They rarely happen in winter (in modern times at least) because it usually rains starting in late fall. But there's been zero measurable precipitation since, I think, May 2024. It's that issue combined with the extreme winds this week that made the conditions on the ground ripe for this type of fire. Note that the winds themselves are somewhat typical (they're called Santa Ana winds and they happen every year like clockwork), but the severity of the winds this week was extreme. Don't think there have been winds as severe in decades. It was a somewhat predictable cocktail and all of these ingredients aided the severity. No moisture + high winds = high fire risk. High winds = embers easily carried forward igniting additional fires. High winds = grounded firefighting planes and helicopters.
It wasn't cheap but also it wasn't better either. The controls and physics are very stiff in Great Giana Sisters. To me it always felt more like a tech demo, though that could be said for a lot of games of the era.
There's another comment in here that talks about thinking of NULL as UNKNOWN, and I quite like that. It makes a lot more sense, and I think it would've been a better choice to standardize on. UNDEFINED would also be an improvement.
Indy Autonomous Challenge (Autonomous Car Racing) Live Stream
Elon Musk calls on California and Delaware to force auction of OpenAI stake
Mitigating attacks based on knowing the length of a Windows Hello PIN
"You will even notice how it neatly covers everything I could remember – giving equal weight to each data point and deftly joining them all together.

And again, what ChatGPT here had to offer was utterly – absolutely – false.

Like a fluent and practised (but unwise) liar it had contrived an account that fitted only the available information."

A fundamental flaw in modern "AI" is that it has no model of reality against which it is checking its (or anyone else's) words. It isn't even lying; it has no concept of the difference between truth and lies, therefore it cannot be made to stop lying, because it isn't even lying, it's just spewing language that sounds good.

This makes it a passable tool for sales, but an extremely poor tool for anything which requires accuracy of any kind. It's not that it is trying to be accurate and failing (in which case further work on it might be expected to improve it); it is not attempting to be accurate; indeed the concept of accuracy is not anywhere in its architecture. Vocabulary, grammar, syntax, yes; accuracy or truth, no. It will not get better at being truthful as it is worked on, it will only get better at being persuasive.
Where archive.is is blocked:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250108140722if_/https://www.40...
It wasn't meant to be a moral judgement on iPhone vs. Android users. But Apple clearly targets the upper income demographic. None of their products are cheap. It's pretty frequently advised here to "raise your rates" or "charge more" in part because once you cut off the customers who are bottom-feeders, a whole bunch of problems go away.
A free but ad supported app with a button to pay to remove ads for some context.
Why are my live regions not working?
Very nice and clean implementation, awesome work!

(obviously can be further optimized but hey it already beats the alternatives)
This used to be a huge craze back in the early internet. I did a couple of interesting magnet stuff myself and also zapping the back of the brain with electricity.
Linux Foundation Announces the Launch of Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers
Defraud, investors.. go to jail, but not much consequence of defrauding consumers.
Now imagine you are a candidate interviewing with 3 companies and they all give you a take-home assignment and each one takes a weekend to complete.
A Deep Dive into JVM Start Up
How the JVM builds a universe !
My Summary:

> cow's milk used in the study contains 3.4 grams of protein per liter, whereas eight of the 10 plant-based drinks analyzed contained between 0.4 and 1.1 grams of protein.

3g/liter won't help people get enough protein. Neither will most plant milks, but cow milk has saturated fat that contributes to LDL cholesterol and diabetes and has a dense caloric content

> The levels of essential amino acids were lower in all plant-based drinks.

This is virtually the same thing as lower protein levels.

> seven out of 10 plant-based drinks contained more sugar than cow's milk.

So, don't buy the plant milk that has sugar added!

> The compound was measured at levels so low that it poses no danger.

ok.

> Both are reactive substances that could potentially be harmful to human health when present in high concentrations, although this is not the case here

ok.

Protip: drink flaxmilk! it has high protein, low calories, and high good fat content! protein content is the same as 1.5% milk

Almond milk is mostly just water. so while it doesn't have much beneficial, it has less harmful stuff () than cow milk

() sat fat, IGF-1 and other hormones, acne-causing, allergic to large % of world, possible (though not conclusive!) prostrate and ovarian cancer
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