skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> > Racism, for example, is a genuine problem. Not a problem on the scale that the woke believe it to be…

Rich, coming from a rich white male. Hey, we're not lynching people anymore!

The whole point of "wokeness" is being legitimately aware of these issues and not just sweeping them under the rug with an "it's a problem, but not as bad as they say".
Skull measurements perhaps?
They did, does mean they will let Valve screw SteamOS on their face.
The fresh water that the PNW currently has access to is mind boggling. If it even comes close to being scarce, the whole world is probably in trouble.

We irrigate millions of acres with the Columbia, and it’s still the largest river to hit the Pacific once it gets there. Every city gets their drinking water from their own personal watershed. No one needs to bother sucking water up from far below ground.
I believe they were £500 when I first checked (approximately an hour after the video was uploaded).
They can on the studios they own, and publish.
Maybe a hybrid approach (like adding a tutorial) can be valid. Because not everyone has the time to make their own laptop stand
I find this highly highly suspect as an anecdote without some supporting evidence

A quick search suggests this is a bit of a running meme used to discredit and poke fun at such trainings rather than something you’ve honestly experienced.
A feature flag can still be fully on or fully off.

Why they might conflate A/B testing with gradual rollout is control over who gets the feature flag on and who doesn't.

In a sense, A/B testing is a variant of gradual rollout, where you've done it so you can see differences in feature "performance" (eg. funnel dashboards) vs just regular observability (app is not crashing yet).

Basically, a gradual rollout for the purposes of an A/B test.
So basically you are agreeing with the GP that it's regulated?
This feels like one of the weakest PG articles

The writing quality feels like that of a university student

Just lots of assertions thrown out without any real backing
How did it form?

How does it affect tectonics on the western coast of the US?

Cascade Range > Geology: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cascade_Range#Geology

https://www.sci.news/othersciences/geophysics/hikurangi-wate... :

> Revealed by 3D seismic imaging, the newly-discovered [Hikirangi] water reservoir lies 3.2 km (2 miles) under the ocean floor off the coast of New Zealand, where it may be dampening a major earthquake fault that faces the country’s North Island. The fault is known for producing slow-motion earthquakes, called slow slip events. These can release pent-up tectonic pressure harmlessly over days and weeks

The "Slow earthquake" wikipedia article mentions the northern Cascades as a research area of interest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_earthquake

They say water has a fingerprint; a hydrochemical and/or a geochemical footprint?

Is the water in the reservoir subducted from the surface or is it oozing out of the Earth?

"Dehydration melting at the top of the lower mantle" (2014)
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1253358 :

> Summary: [...] Schmandt et al. combined seismological observations beneath North America with geodynamical modeling and high-pressure and -temperature melting experiments. They conclude that the mantle transition zone — 410 to 660 km below Earth's surface — acts as a large reservoir of water.
Excessive fructose consumption is more harmful than excessive glucose consumption.

It is more prone to lead to fatty liver or obesity, because fructose is not consumed directly in the body, but the liver uses it to synthesize reserve fat.

So excessive consumption of high fructose corn syrup is more harmful than excessive consumption of plain corn syrup or of sugar.

Nevertheless, the source of fructose does not matter much, but only the total amount that is consumed.

It is recommended to avoid a daily intake above around 25 g of fructose per day for someone of average size and having a sedentary life style. This corresponds to 50 g of sugar, but with a lesser amount of high fructose corn syrup.

Very high amounts of carbohydrates including fructose can be consumed without any risk only when a proportionally high physical activity is performed, using the high energy intake provided thus (for example by athletes during competitions or intensive training).

The harmful effect of excessive fructose consumption has been used for several millennia, for making "foie gras", by force feeding geese with fruits.
It's rather ironic that this is the exact priggishness he's talking about.
Because until recently SteamDeck was a non issue for Microsoft.

If it starts being a big issue, they won't ignore it.
Downsides of Tech Convenience
So is the burden of playing with other people toys.
So let's test this approach out. In your view, is this man a woman?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj4V-Nme86U

Should he be allowed to whip his dick out in women's bathrooms?

If actual women complained about his presence in, say, a support group for mothers, what would you say to them?

Should he be allowed to join a women's boxing club and punch women in the face?

And so on. I'm sure you get the idea.
Is there anything exactly like Warlords? I'd love a similar game, just more modernized.
Regular A/B testing has the same kind of randomness. But this is more complex for other reasons.
Discussion (20 points, 5 hours ago, 25 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42692007
It prioritizes short-term cost efficiency over long-term sustainability
Ahh right. Makes sense. Thank you. I know lots of people that use FreeBSD as their desktop so I hadn't clocked this aspect.
There is also something to be said for having the writing there when someone wants to find out something about you. I get hardly any traffic on my blog, but it still has helped secure jobs because the right person was looking for info on me and liked what they read.
True, but relying on old units available on eBay is not a long term solution.
It just kind of sucks I wasn't born 80 years earlier. I ran a simulation once. With my business brain and only a $20k loan in 1920 I'd have been a multi-millionaire within 10 years.
Albion’s Seed is a more rigorous work.
People are hard for statistics to understand.
It's nice that open firmware exists

but why on earth would a soldering iron need firmware to begin with?
“Nonsense . We have a pond barrell with pond plants in and occasional fountain and we have attacted the dragonflies the size of your hand. Dragonflies love pomd plants becsuse it's where they lay their eggs. Line an old whiskey barrell, fill I'm holes with filler, add rocks, plants and water and they will find it ”

“I have lady palms and there are tons of dragonflies that live in them. When I walk by I have 10-15 fly out at any time, babies and adults. I don’t have a water feature but live in Florida where it’s always pretty humid this time of year.”

“ I'm in the Austin area, and have had great success with a very small water feature made from a 90 quart (about 18 gallons) Sterlite storage bin. I dug a hole deep enough to bury it flush to the ground, filled it with large rocks and water. I bought a plant with a tall stalk. Within 2 weeks a great big red dragonfly had claimed the spot as his. I've have them back every year since. Posted a pic DIY back yard dragonfly pool”
> it's called "hacker" news for a reason.

exactly, so why is a long political opinion piece from PG on wokeness here in the first place?
The fact that the title of that article includes the word "scandal" would imply that his peers weren't actually ok with his homosexuality, no?
Because in some countries you must run some government sanctioned apps that require a "blessed" device, or you are a de facto non-citizen?

If Americans had anything like BankID or MitID which would refuse to run on their devices and they would be prevented from paying a bill, transferring money, buying tickets, or reading their mail they would go apeshit in 5 seconds.

Some apps are no longer optional in the world we are living in.
This reminds of the fantastic lecture 'A world from a sheet of paper' given by Tadashi Tokieda at Oxford: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p02DtmyQhU
You posted this twice yesterday, this is probably a bit too frequent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680710 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42677728
How to Validate Business Ideas: Step-by-Step Playbook for Smart Entrepreneurs
I guess I will never really understand the aesthetic preferences of the majority. But.

>Because its easier. Because it fits together nicer and more consistently. Also because UV is well written and written in rust so all the parts are fast. You can recreate a venv from scratch for every run.

This is the biggest thing I try to push back on whenever uv comes up. There is good evidence that "written in Rust" has quite little to do with the performance, at least when it comes to creating a venv.

On my 10-year-old machine, creating a venv directly with the standard library venv module takes about 0.05 seconds. What takes 3.2 more seconds on top of that is bootstrapping Pip into it.

Which is strange, in that using Pip to install Pip into an empty venv only takes about 1.7 seconds.

Which is still strange, in that using Pip's internal package-installation logic (which one of the devs factored out as a separate project) to unpack and copy the files to the right places, make the script wrappers etc. takes only about 0.2 seconds, and pre-compiling the Python code to .pyc with the standard library `compileall` module takes only about 0.9 seconds more.

The bottleneck for `compileall`, as far as I can tell, is still the actual bytecode compilation - which is implemented in C. I don't know if uv implemented its own bytecode compilation or just skips it, but it's not going to beat that.

Of course, well thought-out caching would mean it can just copy the .pyc files (or hard-link etc.) from cache when repeatedly using a package in multiple environments.
So is this the difference between capital gains and income tax?
A/B testing has the same problem unless you figure out how to treat the same user the same way each time. But yeah I generally don't give much credence to an assertion like this that isn't based on a real-world experience. It's not even like "this algo might help," it's "will beat A/B testing every time."
> democracy is almost always a roadblock to a great leader's ability to execute their vision quickly and fully

Quickly and fully, sure. In the end, however, good ideas see daylight. (Even if it means the other side co-opts and renames it!) That doesn’t happen in autocracies because the same people remain in power longer; this means by the time the opposition dies everyone who supported or potentially remembered it (or the opportunity it was meant to capitalise on) is gone.

More than that, republics have historically been far superior at integrating other cultures. That process of appropriation means the source for good ideas is wider than the population, something autocracies can only achieve with money and thus not at scale and in limited scope. (Engineers working for the KSA aren’t changing its culture, they’re building a block.)
Hi HN! I've developed an approach that adds a button to the Playwright HTML report, enabling you to fix failing tests using AI. It works well on the Playwright site tests, but I'm curious how it will behave on other projects. Would appreciate your feedback.
> ...the conversion rate for both sides goes up equally.

If the conversion rate "goes up equally", why did you not measure this and use that as a basis for your decisions?

> its aggregate conversion rate goes up faster than the control - you start weighting even more towards that variant.

This sounds simply like using bad math. Wouldn't this kill most experiments that start with 10% for the variant that do not provide 10x the improvement?
Just because "you know it when you see it" doesn't mean you don't understand it or don't have something coherent in mind.
Ask a legitimate question, and you'll likely feel it. But here's an example I picked up within a minute: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/78580749/draw-a-cube-wit...

The code is neat. The person clearly says what they tried. It is an answerable question. Maybe it would be better or more useful if it were a wiki-able question. But also this person was new, and was not guided in any way how to improve the question.

There's a review queue for cleaning up first questions but all these moderators don't give a damn about that. They're just mods because they want to hurt people.
Discussion (on the block) (133 points, 1 day ago, 46 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42680769
Look at the table of contents, the fourth topic down:

https://www.scribd.com/document/394284634/The-Beginners-Guid...

Now go to page 17 to read how "OKRs do not cascade".
How does this compare to vlang's compilation time? Isn't vlang even faster?
i was wondering whether this could be hardware accelerated.
Note that the CC -ND licenses are not Open Source either.
Table sugar is 50% glucose and 50% fructose; the most common form of high fructose corn syrup contains 45% glucose and 55% fructose. The article you linked just talks about the dangers of a diet high in fructose at all. The parent you replied to was talking about why HFCS was seen as more damaging than table sugar.
Wasn't this supposed to be fixed in NPM? I remember a talk by the researcher behind portswigger (sorry blanking on his name) doing this a while back, with great success (apple,ms,meta, basically all faang were vulnerable at that time).
I giggled at what you did here! High five!
I don't think this scheme is a recent addition, I've seen it years ago
GitHax is a labour of love right now and is in heavy development. I'm going to create a small beta testing group soon. Hit me up if you want to be in that group. Contact deets are in my GH profile.
Temperature control.

It can be done w/o software for sure, but it's easier to do PID with.
He did. Hergé wished that the series should not be continued after his death.
No surprise that Paul is on the Elon, Mark, Trump side of things — like 99% of the American rich.
Sometimes I am frightened by the fact that even now we are (sometimes) powerless against nature
On the other hand guy has history of lying and scamming the public https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...
Mail got category buttons on top that split your inbox so now to check your mail you have to click around because shipping notification are in a separate list from work emails.
Photos had a perfectly fine interface with tabs that got changed into a long list of often redundant categories. Thankfully it can be customized a bit.
New control center (wifi toggles etc.) was replaced with a customizable grid of widgets that is buggy, slow and looks ugly and unprofessional in comparison with the old interface. Gimmick.
Home screen icon size and color is customizable now and it looks out of place. Gimmick.
If you have a dark theme enabled then icons in settings become themed and look different than icons on the home screen with is weird and inconsistent with the rest of the interface.
All animations were reworked and feel like crap. There is a delay to every action and it feels like animation smoothness takes priority over interface responsiveness. Home screen swiping animation stutters every time.
Even though there is not a single new feature available for EU users other than the interface changes the entire OS feels sluggish, bloated and unfinished.
Performance is terrible. This update made my iPhone 12 slow down to a crawl. Feels like running Vista on a Windows XP machine and since they dropped security updates for iOS 17 I had no choice but to upgrade. This combined with the recent news about iPhones listening to people at homes makes me want to get rid of my phone entirely. I don’t want a new iPhone and I sure as hell don’t want an Android.
It is a 100% not open-source. It won't be maintained besides pull-requests AND if another company or individual develops this further, it can not be used commercially by anybody else but the company who released this. It this fair? Open source goes both ways.
TIL semiconductor manufacturing uses a lot of water, relative to other production processes? And energy, for photolithography.

(Edit: nanoimprint lithography may have significantly lower resource requirements than traditional lithography? https://arstechnica.com/reviews/2024/01/canon-plans-to-disru... : "will be “one digit” cheaper and use up to 90 percent less power" )

Datacenters too;

"Next-generation datacenters consume zero water for cooling" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376406

Most datacenters have no way to return their boiled, sterilized water for water treatment, and so they don't give or sell datacenter waste water back, it takes heat with it when it is evaporated.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42454547#42460317 :

> FWIU, datacenters are unable to sell their waste heat, boiled sterilized steam and water, unused diesel, and potentially excess energy storage.

"Ask HN: How to reuse waste heat and water from AI datacenters?" (2024)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40820952
I don't think that's true. When you and I up- or down-vote a comment, we are a part of expressing what will end up being the community's consensus. That's not censorship.

When Twitter's algorithm promotes certain topics and demotes others, that is a unilateral act made by a single, unaccountable entity that has full control over the platform. That is (or at least can be) censorship.
That 1 to 4 gauntlet sounds orfully close to: https://youtube.com/watch?v=nb2xFvmKWRY
Did they promote "trans ideology"? Did the ad say anything about trans principles?

Or did it just have a trans person in it?

Because if you are saying employing trans people is woke, that's pretty messed up.
> It certainly is, in what concerns NVidia, they keep innovating first with Microsoft on DirectX, and then eventually come up with Vulkan extensions.

I don't get that impression. I can't remember the last significant feature that was present in DX first, and not immediately or shortly available in Vulkan.
The whole point of ssg is to run those "PHP includes" once.
Still a lot todo.

https://github.com/douglascrockford/Misty
There's only the spec and parser yet: https://mistysystem.com/doc/road_ahead.html

Giving that he was at same state a year ago also, I see not much progress
I'm not even a U.S user, and I heard about rednote on... Threads! From Meta. Kinda ironic.
> The only way to move forward is to put that past behind us.
I think a distinction should be made between revisiting history (in a bid to understand how we got where we are now), and assigning blame.

I'm not sure how we can move forward without some degree of empathy; "Yes, you got the short end of the stick, but how about if we try such and such to ameliorate the impact of the past on your present".

I don't think you are advocating sweeping the past under the rug, I'm just saying that telling a person who is still feeling the sting of a perceived slight (real or imagined) is unlikely to result in moving forward.
All this does is give more options. It’s "free our feeds," not mess with your feeds. If you like Xchan, you can stay there, or join the flat earthers on Dorsey's Nostr. Nostr does actually have cool tech. Nobody is taking anything away from you.
Environmental effects of large-scale solar development on desert (2024)
I run all my dev environments under LXD. Even the IDE: full graphical Emacs (or Vim) over X11 forwarding over SSH. Host is Wayland, so security concerns with X are handled. WayPipe also works, but is jankier than X, probably because X, unlike Wayland, was designed for network transparency.

LXD, unlike Docker, doesn't play fast-and-loose with security. It runs rootless by default, and I don't allow non-root access to the LXD socket on host. Each container is a full userspace, so it's much more convenient to configure and use than Dockerfiles.

SSH from a container to a remote works transparently because I forward my SSH Agent. This is secure because my agent confirms each signing request with a GUI popup (on host).
I wonder as well how much the early Finders were platform-independent: are there builds that ran on MacOS 8, for example?
This is where it went right: https://stackoverflow.blog/2009/03/09/the-value-of-downvotin...

They thought about the system really well. It's based off HN's. And it worked. HN's system still works.

Years later, they removed the reputation penalty from downvoting questions. They trusted the community to be mature with this new privilege. And it all went to hell.

I don't have the data for this. I found the article above while searching for it. But this is the hypothesis.
They have given us a gift with the code being availabile as it is.

It would be fair for them to have released nothing.

I do think its a shame that it can't legally be combined with GPL'd free software
> well designed and poorly designed glass towers

Can you share some specifics that made some well-designed and others poorly-designed? To me, when I work inside a glass tower, they all seem the same to me -- great views and great natural light. Another thing that really matters: The floor height. I once worked in a glass tower that had double height floors. The natural light was unbeatable.
Good point about fluctuating rates for e.g the sales period. But couldn't you then pick a metric that doesn't fluctuate?

Out of curiosity, where did you work? In the same space as you.
Which director would you trust to take on such a project?
Definitely, why isn't there a code assistant that just uses the LSP to query the info you need straight from your language-specific tooling.
No it isn't. Sucrose and HFCS have ~the same amount of fructose (the HFCS in soda is HFCS-55, 5% higher than sucrose; the HFCS in food is HFCS-42, 8% lower). The notion that HFCS is distinctively bad for you is folklore.
> it's muuch faster on mobile

This isn’t 1998. Mobile keyboards autocapitalize. You have to go out of your way to avoid capitalization on mobile.
I have had office desks professional adjusted by an occupational safety orthopedic person and that has always been the advice I was told.

Another piece of advice was that on a standing desk your forearms should not be parallel to the ground but slightly below your elbow.
I had this article show up for me today and thought it was interesting: https://glassalmanac.com/china-confirms-covering-deserts-wit... so shared (what I believe is) the paper cited within.

Apologies if this is a repost, a quick search didn't yield anything relevant.
>The authors of that paper surveyed Latinos, found that those who disliked the term 'latinx' had moved toward voting for Trump between 2020 and 2024

It's strange for the author to distinguish "those who dislike the term" from those who don't, considering that the term is overwhelmingly unpopular (https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/12/ho...).
Since the website doesn’t have pictures or videos… Is “webtop” a way to package GUI desktop apps in a Docker container so that the only dependencies to run the app are Docker Desktop and a web browser?
That book exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Right
ZFS 2.3 released with ZFS raidz expansion
After years in the making ZFS raidz expansaion is finally here.

Major features added in release:

- RAIDZ Expansion: Add new devices to an existing RAIDZ pool, increasing storage capacity without downtime.

- Fast Dedup: A major performance upgrade to the original OpenZFS deduplication functionality.

- Direct IO: Allows bypassing the ARC for reads/writes, improving performance in scenarios like NVMe devices where caching may hinder efficiency.

- JSON: Optional JSON output for the most used commands.

- Long names: Support for file and directory names up to 1023 characters.
I heard about Rednote on Bluesky, from the biggest non-employee code contributor.

TikTok is the most popular platform for the youths. They make waves everywhere.

People choosing to go there makes my head explode. The world is a big joke, and I ain’t laughing.