skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> what is the alternative

Shrubs [1]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrub_(drink)
Won't go into detail. Recovery fellowship.
OpenAPI Is Hard
Also good that GLP-1s have been found to help people patch the reward center around unhealthy diet demand signals. We know these things are bad, we know will power isn't a solution, and we have a fix we can deploy at scale relatively inexpensively.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41988285 ("HN: GLP-1 for Everything")

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42579445 ("HN: Weight loss drugs seem to be driving down grocery bills")

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5073929 | https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5073929 ("The No-Hunger Games: How GLP-1 Medication Adoption is Changing Consumer Food Purchases")
When you talk to people who are successful in their personal lives, that's how they treat life goals. Sounds over-formal but that's life.

1. Get married

2. Buy house (by 30)

3. Have kid 1 by 32, to allow 2 year birth spacing for X children

etc.

People like to be wishy-washy and romantic about finding partners, settling down, having kids... but the people who end up where they want to be are usually far more intentional about it.
TLDR; Just use http://www.unsplash.com for free professional photos.

100% agree. Years ago I signed up for Getty images (royality based) back when they were competing with Fotolia (royalty free) before they were bought by Adobe, and actually clicked through the shopping cart to see how much it would be to license a picture of some nice autumn leaves for a billboard or a calendar. It was an insane amount in the hundreds of dollars, and it was time limited, and only for a limited run (if you used them for example, a calendar), the usage rights were insane. And if you wanted the full resolution it was something like $1,000+ dollars. Our minds were boggled. We honestly legitamately thought Getty images was some kind of money laundering operation. It was cheaper to hire a photographer to get the pictures you want, rather than license them from Getty.

Yes they have some nice rare photographs of political events (wars, earthquake response, important cultural news photos) but they are insane for thinking their entire catalog is deserving of royalties and time/run limitations. The only thing Getty did was convince me that copyright needs to be heavily reformed. (The photographer isn't paying royalties to all the people who made the objects in the photo, yet they're asking for royalities just for taking the photo)
I stopped using DDG, which pulls results from Bing, because Bing fell very easily for SEO slop; yes, even worse than Google.

The most painful for me was a set of wikis filled with AI-generated nonsense about OCaml and some other niche languages, which completely shadowed genuine content on the first page of any search.
Trump refuses to rule out using military force to take Greenland, Panama Canal
No, you’re expressing a different, more lucid point of view (“the people who conceivably might take issue generally don’t”), which can be engaged with. For example, I would argue that it’s reasonable to take offense on behalf of people who can’t be part of the conversation at hand. (Otherwise it would be fine for whites to spew racist slurs in a group of only white people. If we disagree on that, we’re having the wrong conversation.) I would also point out that taking offense on behalf of others is a time-honored practice (“nobody says that about my little brother and gets away with it!”) But the GP (GGP?) did not say “the people who conceivably might take issue generally don’t.” They didn’t say “no one has standing to be offended by this term.” They just said “it’s not offensive” about a term that is offensive enough that we’re having an entire argument about it. That’s schoolyard-level discourse.
In my experience the search results on bing are a spam filled trash fire.
That depends on what "most applications" means. I remember a paint program I saw in high school that some kids had written to draw sprites and backgrounds for their video games. The documentation explained that it could only edit 320×200×256 images, but that that should be adequate for "most projects". Depends on the context!

In the contexts I'm thinking of, I would think that, if your load is drawing 5 amps of current at 3.3 volts, which is 16.5 watts, an extra 0.25 watts in the 10mΩ current shunt is not likely to be a big problem. And if it's 5 amps at 48 volts or 240 volts, it's even less of a problem, relatively speaking. I guess you're thinking of different contexts, contexts where the power-measurement system is paid for from a different budget than the load, but I can't figure out what they are.
???

Aside from maybe "whether crime is up or down" (because of under-reporting), everything else can be objectively measured. The measurements might not fit with everyone's specific circumstance (eg. earth is warming as a whole but it's unseasonably cold where you live), but that's not a reason to throw up our hands and say "those things are actually not verifiable measurable facts within any useful definition".
I'd bet a dollar per gram additive sugar tax in excess of 5g would immediately flatten the chronic disease curve. Maybe double that if it's marketed towards kids. There are a lot of problems besides sugar/HFCS but it's easily towards the top of the list.
> Who cares about real-world reflections?

Me. I do. I *love* raytracing; and, as has been said and seen for several of the newest AAA games, raytracing is no longer optional for the newest games. It's required, now. Those 1080s, wonderful as long as they have been (and they have been truly great cards) are definitely in need of an upgrade now.
The problem I have with fact checkers, rather than "context expanders" is that their end product is a simple answer for things that may not be trivial. There may not be a clear binary answer.

> whether crime is up or down

Was the reporting consistent between the two timeframes (apathy, directions from police station, etc)? Was the reporting system fully operational both timeframes being compared? Is the reported vs actual crime ratio the same between the two timeframes?

> how many people live in poverty

> what the rate of inflation is

Is the metric calculated the same way between the two timeframes? If not, what's the justification for the new metrics? Is the answer the same if the old and new metric is used with the same data?
And what fraction of the people this affects do you think care about the difference?

What fraction even know the difference?

My guesses are not very big.
I'm surprised more startups don't just copy the most famous landing page of all time.
I think it's hilarious because they're doing the same shenanigans that Google does.

When you search on Google everything above the fold is not "a list of search results". Often it's a definition or conversion calculator or some other custom UI that isn't "a list of search results".

Microsoft has programmed Bing to do the exact same thing. Everything above the fold is a custom UI that coincidentally looks a lot like the Google Search engine. The Chef's kiss is that it scrolls down just the tiniest bit to put the Bing UI above the fold rather than hide it. This gives them plausible deniability.

It's brilliant and hilarious. I love it. I'm still not using Bing (or Google for that matter) but I love it.
Is that a hard wired limit? I know nothing about game engines, so I'm a bit in the dark why it would only support up to that resolution. Is this about optimized code in terms of cpu cache aligned instruction pipelines etc?
If A causes diabetes, then it causes C outcome of diabetes. It’s a tautology.

((A → B) ∧ (B → C)) → (A → C)
Synopsis for just me: Something more distressing than Wikipedia's endless give-boxes has impressed me to give to Wikipedia.
That's why I was talking about Silicon Valley, not SF or east bay. They're much different places. Besides that, a corporation giving lip service to diversity =/= "extreme left-wing" views. These billion dollar corporations are still capitalist, through and through. Actual extreme left-wing views are staunchly opposed to capitalism.
I prefer bing + copilot as a search engine over google if I must use one. Been using it since the beta, have a corporate/business account now. It (usually) provides a good description of my answer and gives sources I can click on to verify. No other search engine I am aware of is doing this right now, although I know chatGPT has recently introduced or talked about a feature like this (I don't really use chatGPT). This is exactly what I want in a good search tool. However, my frustration with bing arises in that from one day to the next there is absolutely no consistency in how "good" the tool feels - almost like there are times they downgraded the underlying model to reduce load/cost without informing the user. They should focus on a better user experience than google, which if I can interject my opinion, is a shockingly low bar these days, and let growth happen by simply being a good tool - all the gimmicks and attempts they've made at mass adoption has seemed very forced. And yes, I'm aware of the natural lock-in advantage google has and how hard that is to surmount, but bing has a large enough percentage of search userbase by now to achieve its own critical mass if it needed to, IMO. Forcing adoption and locking it into microsoft ecosystem will probably eventually be the reason I stop using it.
It sounds like the sort of thing Sam Vimes would say before being begrudgingly forced to admit, after being forced by Sybil to undergo some painful personal growth, that maybe, sometimes, a thing might need to be more than just a thing.

And that Vetinari’s entity component system might seem complicated but it works, damnit and it makes the city function.
>$Employer spends rather a lot of time replicating official inflation numbers

Well? Does it match?
>There isn't some industry saying "yes we could cut and cover here, but we prefer the slower more expensive option of a TBM"!

At least for Vancouver, there was absolutely an industry arguing for the slower-more-expensive TBM option on a route that followed exactly a road (the Broadway line extension) - local businesses along the route. The previous line which was mostly done by Cut-and-Cover (the Canada Line) had a very major impact on businesses along the route for years.

There are plenty of people who will acknowledge that something is cheaper _overall_ but the impact on a small group being higher can make them extremely vocal, and that has to be managed in public projects.
This only happens if one searches for “google” in the Bing search bar. This is less deception and more a fun dig. Try searching for “askew” in google.
Show HN: A Lived Expert's Journey to Reform Foster Care
Yup.

I live in New York, and have a friend from Atlanta. He has that "meandering" style, where it can take him a while, to get to the point.

I swapped "weakness" for "dishonesty," because that's what a lot of New Yorkers think of that style.

He's a really decent chap, but he seems to get a lot of New Yorkers pissed at him.
I don't feel bad for them. Fuck them. It's a delicious taste of their own medicine.
WBUR just aired an interview today with Brewster Kahle. It would be a very sad day if the Internet Archive stopped resolving, or was stopped from benefiting the common good.

https://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2025/01/07/internet-archive-way...
Memory is not exclusive to the brain: Non-neural cells also remember
Univer-clipsheet: A powerful Chrome extension for web scraping
Don't worry, there will be community notes and some form of eu/us/state notes.
The paradigm has changes, moderation has to be separated from censorship and transparent.
I would love to hear/read Audrey Tang's take on this, as CPP has been heavily involved in manipulating Chinese public opinion.
Do a lot of people use HN clients? It never occurred to me to look for one.

Looking at the feature list here, most of them I can already do (comment, vote, submit, etc.). Some of the other features I feel like would degrade my experience (polls, notifications).

If you are someone that uses a 3rd-party client to access HN, can you sell me on the killer features (of whichever client you use)?
Am I missing out?
The German Society for the Irregularization of Verbs
Can you integrate AI to summarize the talking points from the comments?
Show HN: I Built an AI Tattoo Generator Using Flux
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CoRemote – Discuss Code in Your Editor
2008 is 25 years ago?
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Yes, actually. A lot of games use water, a lot, in their scenes (70% of the planet is covered in it, after all), and that does improve immersion and feels nice to look at.

Silent Hill 2 Remake and Black Myth: Wukong both have a meaningful amount of water in them and are improved visually with raytracing for those exact reasons.
It's widely regarded as a slur.
I always find it embarrassing when a colleague opens up a new tab while screen sharing and Bing / Edge starts spamming trashy news.

Given Microsoft is “soo enterprise” it’s always a source of amazement that Microsoft feel it’s acceptable to default to this kind of spammy behaviour.

It just goes to show how running businesses by engagement scores really is just a race to the bottom.
Interesting. I think folks in the comments here maybe missed this paper is way more about the beverages part making it important. The research is around sugar sweetened beverages (SSBs). If I'm reading it right, the SSBs have a differentmetabolic effect.

"Due to their liquid form, SSBs are rapidly consumed and digested, resulting in lower satiety, higher caloric intake and weight gain. High doses of rapidly digested glucose also activate insulin and other regulatory pathways, which can result in visceral fat production, hepatic and skeletal muscle insulin resistance and weight gain. High doses of rapidly digested fructose directly activate hepatic fat synthesis, leading to ectopic fat deposition and metabolic dysfunction in liver and muscle"

Unfortunately I can't find where they define high dose, but if you look at what they say is high elsewhere, it seems to be around 9 servings a week of "any beverage with added sugars and >50 kcal per 8 oz serving, including commercial or homemade beverages, soft drinks, energy drinks, fruit drinks, punch, lemonade and aguas frescas." - A can of coke is 12oz I believe?
This is partly preying on the fact googles 'doodles' weaken their brand/trademark.

Back when every google doodle clearly had the word "Google" in, that was okay.

But often now, the doodles are just some random picture. At that point, there is no brand recognition to their homepage beyond a blank white background and centered search box, which microsoft has copied here because those elements alone are not enough to form a legally protectable brand.
I think I take a slightly different view, which is that H1-B use is a combination attempt to depress wages, and age discrimination, which is related to depressing wages. https://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/h1b10min.html

Seen through that lens the dichotomy you present may be better reframed as:

Do we need to import labor?

Yes, in the case of jobs that Americans don't want to do. Most of this doesn't fall under the H1-B program however, it's generally menial or agricultural labor. Plenty of people would jump at the chance to take an H1-B visa holder's job, just not at the wages offered to a new hire who's stay in the country depends on their employment, and who is under 30.

I'm sure there IS a racial component for some, especially in the "MAGA" sphere, because racists are going to make everything about race. That doesn't change the underlying concern about these visas however, and I'm really tired of "racism" being the kneejerk reflex of any criticized group.

"The Russians shouldn't invade Ukraine" is met with "You are racist against Russians."

"China shouldn't invade Taiwan" is met with "You are racist against Chinese people."

"Arabs shouldn't own slaves and treat women like property" is met with "You are racist against Arabs" and so on.
Textures are bad, but screen resolution is good.
I see what you’re saying, but I also think the user demographics of Hacker News reduce the likelihood of moderation to begin with.
You're assuming there's a significant, positive correlation between voter motivation and voter quality (thoughtfulness?). I wouldn't assume that.
IMO it's hardly more of a stretch to say that your C++ compiler is just an obtuse chatbot. If it doesn't complain with template error vomit, you understand its response is 'done'. Otherwise, it's chatting back the errors of your ways.
Everything they've done for the past few years has been desperate.

If you try to download Chrome on a new Windows install, at every step of the way, it begs you to reconsider, shit talking Chrome, saying Edge runs on Chromium so it won't make a difference, trying to throw pop ups at you to distract you. At some point, Edge would literally open a tooltip in the top right corner of the page where the download button on chrome.com used to be. And it continues as you try to make Chrome the default browser. After all that, there are still plenty of tasks in Windows that still open Edge...
That's the silver lining through all of that: when right-wing ideologues start imposing their own groupthink model on social media, it stops being fun and people start to leave. Just look at Twitter. It's just not as fun anymore on there.
That's a great thread[0]!

[0] https://ask.metafilter.com/55153/Whats-the-middle-ground-bet...
Did they say anything about power consumption?

Apple M chips are pretty efficient.
I certainly would have thought this 'book' could encompass the Great Depression (1929 and on). It is the most defined 'doomsday' we should all learn from and act upon. I bet it is hard for anyone to learn from a distant past. Then I understood it was very law centric and that nothing was made to prevent a blackout, but mainly to escape any legal process that could interfere with any crisis management.

But my main focus was on the use of the Comic Sans font on page 1.
It also only lands because Google has so thoroughly genericised its brand as to be unrecognisable at a glance.
Back in the day when cameras still took better photos than phones, I've always wanted to backup vacation photos without bringing a computer.

I still remember getting so close with the Google Nexus 4 to being able to connect an SD card reader. It supported OTG, but did not have the required charge pump to supply 5V of VBUS. (Supposedly you could hack together something using a 9V battery, some resistors, and a kernel patch, but that was a bit more than I was willing to risk for the convenience.)

Finally, the Nexus 7 and Nexus 5 supported it out of the box, and while Android didn't offer a FAT32 implementation back then, there was (is?) a USB host API which let apps supply that instead, and I think somebody actually ended up implementing FAT32 in userspace to make it all work!
The study... marks the first time a complex memory phenomenon thought to be exclusive to the nervous system has been observed in non-neuronal cells.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-53922-x
dude it's period correct just hit ctrl/cmd and plus and zoom in like the rest of us.
I hope I don’t sound condescending, that’s not my intent, but this made me smile, it means you think Wikipedia is special. I like that.

But, for the record, they regularly get sued. I think they are being seriously sued in India for defamation at the moment, for example.
The difficulty has always been in how many things you look at. Tiles or objects. With static maps you can quite easily structure things so that you don't have to look at very much at all. When things are dynamic tests such as 'look at the thing in the way' suddenly get harder because you have to determine for any given point A) is something in the way? and B) what is it?

The simplest and most memory hungry thing would be to have a tile map where every tile has a precalculated map on the direction to go to reach every other tile. If you used that as a basis for optimisation you can rapidly improve, for instance an easy first step is to not store any direction data for areas where the path in a straight line is optimal.

Optimize more and you can reduce the scale of data and compute required to calculate the map you can eventually calculate the map quicker and often for only the start and end points you care about. Follow those optimisations far enough and you end up with many of the algorithms used today.

If you have a lot of things moving in a dense area, often the optimal is to maintain a bitmap of 'Something is here' making presence detection trivial.

If you then do a 8 passes over that bitmap for each direction you can go (for square tiles) you can create 8 further maps with a count recording when that pass last saw an obstruction. That lets you implement a very fast jump point search where instead of scanning tile by tile you can jump to the next obstruction in order to either find the way around or find the dead end.

I think the algorithm mentioned in the article is essentially a jump point search but not going into how the "select the optimal point for bypassing the obstacle" is done. Again this comes back to static/dymamic and how to determine that point. If using object outlines, can objects scale or rotate? You could probably do a reasonable version of jump point with convex hulls around objects and simple fast-out distance functions. A single object system would have difficulty dealing when multiple objects have overlapping bounds though. Two S shaped objects that are overlapping in their bounds might have a path possible through them but it is likely to not involve the optimal passing point of each individual shape alone is not on the path between them.

So the ideal is different for static/dynamic, dense/sparse, or memory availability, but all of those factors come back to how they influence how you decide what to look at and how to ignore irrelevant information.
It’s funny that the "turbo-" prefix is simply derived from the word "turbine", as in a turbocharger works by means of a turbine, similarly "turbojet" or "turboprop" or "turbopump", but has turned into an augmentative prefix due to the connotations, and also because of the parallelization of "turbocharger" with the earlier term "supercharger", meaning a charger powered mechanically by the crankshaft.
I'm getting to the "semi-pro" level in photography; two years I was getting bored w/ photography then looked out the window of my office to the sports center and then I started going to games. Now I'm pretty good

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lewyzub3pc2s

and my pics are better than the pics other people are selling to local papers. I also know there are parents who really want pictures of their kids performing. In either case it's a marketing problem, the first case is a matter of "just do it", the second is a matter of figuring out how to reach those people. I'd love to be able to write off a $5k camera off my taxes.
No, this is 1000x more deceptive than the askew thing.