skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ugh, I hate writing this but that's where docker and microservices comes to the rescue. It's a pain in the butt and inefficient to run but if you don't care about the overhead (and if you do care, why are you still using Python?), it works.
Those things were all totally standard and normal by the time Microsoft Bob came along
If only... Majority will use whatever is shoved up their a## be it docker or anything else.
It is very interesting when capitalists confess that capitalism itself will never solve these issues. It throws away delusional thinking by the uninformed. Any hope of solving environmental issues rests in having a government that is powerful enough compared to the market and willing to work against businesses main financial interests.

We're just seeing the example of tech companies, which for years paraded around as earth saviors with pledges of "carbon neutrality", just to discard any such plans when competition for AI supremacy makes them spend as much energy as they possibly can, as quickly as possible, the environment be damned.
It's just standard practice here. See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
Another way the rich get richer is simply taking their money and investing it.
Are you tired of spending months turning your ideas into reality? Meet Forgezap—Full-Stack Software with AI Magic. We take your vision and transform it into a production-ready app in minutes, not months. Our intelligent platform automates design and development, so you can focus on what matters: your brilliant ideas. Skip the coding grind and launch your product faster than ever.
> watch -n1 date

Um, that's a pretty inaccurate way to notice an offset in the millisecond range, isn't it?
Kefir is a lot easier to make than yoghurt as it's not very temperature sensitive - cold temps just make it slow down a bit and room temp is fine for it to ferment. It's also cheaper as once you have some Kefir grains you just keep feeding them with milk and they'll continue growing so you end up throwing away unwanted grains.
People create value for shareholders because doing so creates value for themselves and their households. Humans brains are wired to hog resources at the expense of others. We generally share with our neighbor to the extent that helps us have more in the future. You can't weasel your way out of human nature.

Also thinking we can write better laws if we start from scratch is typical hubris from someone who's never really studied Law. Just another variant of the most common SV syndrome.
In the same way that we shouldn't outlaw murder because sometimes people get away with it anyway
Yes, and someone called Gabriella Gonzales happens to have a blog post on how objects are like comonads:

https://www.haskellforall.com/2013/02/you-could-have-invente...

And someone called Samuel the Bloggy Badger happens to have another blog posts on how comonads are really more like neighborhoods:

https://gelisam.blogspot.com/2013/07/comonads-are-neighbourh...

...so it might all just be a scam!
It's illegal to auto-click on ads that are automatically delivered? That's good example of a law I don't care about.
Those predated Bob, by a long time.

I remember encountering them in an old Xerox system, in the early 1980s.

Bob was awful. However, I have to confess that I once tried designing UI like that, and learned painful lessons, in the process.
Once started, your body will usually stay in ketosis even with a modest and non-trivial budget of carbs, on the order of maybe 10-20g, excluding fiber.

That allows for a wide variety of veggie choices, as well as a some wiggle room for modest servings of nuts, legumes, beans, etc

But basically there's no room at all for stuff like breads or rice or potatoes or sweetened drinks except as the finest accents. Never as the centerpiece of a meal.

It's a very different way of living and eating, but can feel extremely invigorating and seems to be broadly healthy for most people.
> people pointing out the obvious declination in living standards and increase in societal problems

But it’s not like you’re not doing the same thing in the opposite direction.

The only thing really factual here on your list is wealth inequality, although as recently in history as the gilded age it was the same or worse. You barely have to go back more than 100 years to witness children working in factories with no safety standards in the USA.

And really we don’t have to involve the totality of human history to talk about major problems in the 1960s/1970s or even 1990s that we don’t have anymore.

- Lack of regulations that led to the EPA. Your parents probably grew up in a more polluted environment today breathing leaded gasoline.

- Extremely recent prevalence of easily immunized diseases. Smallpox was eradicated in 1980 which wasn’t all that long ago. Polio also comes to mind.

- Developing countries like China where living standards have very obviously shot up by magnitudes in living memory

- Crime in the US at generally declining levels since the 1990s, which has resumed its decline since the pandemic spike.

- Arguably a decent amount less societal friction than the mid-century in America and more recently like with the LA riots. You don’t have to go far back in time to have civil rights problems like gay people being excluded from marriage, women being disallowed from opening a bank account on their own, Black people being prohibited from getting mortgages.

- Just the last decade of cancer treatment technology improvements has been incredible for late life longevity, and America’s best universal healthcare program (Medicare) has better outcomes than other wealthy countries’ universal healthcare systems.

- The continuation of life expectancy gains has only recently stalled and IMO this will likely tick up again as obesity becomes a treatable disease with simple pharmaceuticals.

- Safety standards and behavioral changes related to common causes of premature death. Factors like a more regulated tobacco industry and lower rates of smoking and motor vehicle safety improvements come to mind. A society that allowed cigarette companies to advertise with doctors as spokespeople is a society where you’re more likely to die early. A society where the youngest generation has lower usage of alcohol and drugs like Gen Z/Gen Alpha does is one that is going to have better life outcomes compared to one that has higher use rates, and that behavior is a result of improvements to the environment around them.

I could go on and on…yes things like housing and university have become very expensive, yes there are problems, but holistically you’d probably right rather be alive now than in 1970.
To me, "MVP doesn't count" feels like a crazy take -- in many roles, the _only_ ask is to produce a series of different MVP's. I guess maybe the definition of "MVP" is a bit squishy, and these people-who-ship-MVPs themselves make MVP-MVP's, which shouldn't count as shipped?
Well given that intense heat wave that hit the UK a couple summers ago where the country went from green to brown from space, I’d worry about forest fires
Ruby has a number of solutions for this - rvm (the oldest, but less popular these days), rbenv (probably the most popular), chruby/gem_home (lightweight) or asdf (my personal choice as I can use the same tool for lots of languages). All of those tools install to locations that shouldn't need root.
By hanging out in the smaller communities and leaving the larger ones behind. You can't change the world, but you can choose how you live in it.
https://www.patagonia.com/our-footprint/pfas.html
They have the same problems of overwork and stress as the US though- plus adding in western diet getting more and more popular.
Looking at numbers from 2021 Japan had about half the rate of diabetes compared to the US: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/diabetes-rates-by-countr...
Another idea is to use a separate browser or profile just for those web apps that need notifications and other settings you wouldn't want mixed up with your daily driver.
They seem prone to leaking. Like they develop some kind of siphon or capillary flow of the ink out the open end of the ink tube.
Those concepts were invented at Xerox PARC in the 1970s; certainly UNIX had them before MS windows, and "bob" was just a windows application anyway.
I'd be maybe willing to buy this if we were still in the '80s, but this is 40 years later. I'm not sure what the point of suing them now is, at least as far as actually attacking climate change goes. For justice-serving purposes, OK, sue them out of existence. But how is that going to fix the climate?
Sure, but in light of recent events I am not going to be too quick to say shallow lip service to a cause is that bad compared to actively running away from it, which I would not be surprised to be the next move whenever people feel like they've done enough on the ending diversity front.
Yeah, the best analogy for people that know a little physics is aether - it’s obviously ridiculous now, but there was a time when it filled in some unknowns and people took it seriously. It would be nice if it weren’t presented as fact in tv and planetarium shows, but what can you do?
I have some books that I use as melatonin.
Earth cannot be pristine. In fact global warming isn't bad (or good) for earth. It's bad for humans. And what you describe as pristine is a state that is from the perspective of humanity.

What I mean is earth doesn't "care" in what state it is in. It will just simply continue in whatever state it will be in. With or without humans.
I thought it was fairly on-track idea until I saw the meme images you threw into your marketing. Then my thoughts changed to "Ah, these guys aren't serious."

Maybe I am being a stick in the mud, and you deserve to have fun with your branding. On the other hand, if I dismissed you because of it, other people may do the same. Not to mention that meme images on reddit are one thing - but images of real, well-known people as part of your sales and branding is asking for cease-and-desist letters.
> just don't know what to replace them with.

Which is fine, but every physicist seems to just assume that it must be a "force", a "particle", or a "field".

It can be other things, including errors in the math, errors in the models, errors in the observations, invalid assumptions, etc, etc...

It's rather irritating to see the n-th experiment "searching" for some previously unseen particle while literally only one team thought of revisiting the maths to see if something was missed.
Measuring How Far Pens Write: Writing Distance Test Pattern
You're right. How do you square that with the fact this generation is also having less sex and having a harder time meeting romantic partners?
Homeowners policies generally pay replacement cost, not market value.
I can really understand. It's quite clever marketing and non-experts (media and politicians) are quite easily drawn in. Then of course, they can't admit they're wrong so they'll build a multi $B boondoggle with little to show at the end.

And maybe they'll destroy the dark skies while they're at it. Lot's of horrible outcomes are just stupid mistakes that profit no one. If they CAN discredit solar for a while longer then more money for them.
I wonder what the cost savings of placing the CEO with AI would be? Less dilution of shares, for one.
All good, it's a valid question.

I'm actually using cesium.js for the replay mode (https://cubetrek.com/replay/6638) using Google Earth data.

For the 3D mode I was evaluating both Three.js and Babylon.js, and back when I started Babylon.js seemed a bit more exciting as I could set everything up a bit faster, so it was not an objective choice. But perhaps it was the wrong decision in hindsight...
Procedures for Recalling California State and Local Officials [pdf]
> How many people travel to a tourist destination without flying or driving a car?

That point was acknowledged in the second paragraph of the article. "His career led him to a tough lesson about his field: it’s a failure that perpetuates the very systems driving global warming".

> How many of Patagonia's rain jackets are covered in forever chemicals like PFAS?

From this year on, none of them (as linked in the policy above).
As of a few months ago, patagonia don't use pfas.

https://eu.patagonia.com/ie/en/our-footprint/pfas.html
Browser Use – Simple Web AI Agents
I spent most of my career, shipping finished product, which, in many cases, probably could have benefitted from an MVP-like "tuning phase," but we called that "beta." I think MVP generates more useful feedback, but I really don't like thinking of an MVP as "shipping software."

I also worked for hardware companies, where shipping stuff had some pretty serious stakes, and learned how to make sure we got it as good as possible, before getting it out the door.

I like the idea of evolutionary design, and "tuning," but I think it's a bad idea (for me) to deliberately ship bad software as an end-product.

(Also, MVP, by definition, generates lots of trouble tickets. I am allergic to trouble tickets. It's totally a personal thing, but I live by it).
That's the 30s-60s car people primarily. They charge admission "for a good cause". Show me a picture from your local car show with a 1985-1995 working pickup truck in it; honestly I'd like to see it, and know Santa Claus lives somewhere. But we're off the track.

So about this car show: does it have an internet presence, or is it AOL^H^H^HFacebook? A mailing list? IRC? Slack? What's it got? Is it actually "alive"?

Calling (phone calls, not internet) around, it became apparent that there is more interest around vehicles like this in "farm country": if I'd wanted to drive 50+ miles I'd have several mechanics to choose from.
Assuming you could get to the fire in the first place.

The winds prevented the use of aircraft, either for direct attack or to insert handcrews.

That means firefighters need to drive/hike in, which can take hours. By that point, it's grown to the point where the wind is blowing embers over your head and causing spotfires miles away.

With the winds again, your containment options are limited. It's already too large for a direct attack. It'll jump your mineral earth containment lines, and you can't light a backburn.

The only real option then becomes property protection, and with a water shortage and finite resources that becomes a challenge.
This is why it's important not just that people do the right thing but also why they do it. Circumstances can change, but if people do the right thing for the "right reasons", then what they do won't change.

Doing sth because of somebody's spouse is a bad reason, imagine the relationship goes sour and they face a divorce, boom they change their tune.
Does anyone know of a paradigm original to Microsoft Bob that survived? Other than Rover the Windows XP search dog.
Do you have a plugin for MSVC?
Hi
I made this to play with the concept of echo-chambers, filter bubbles and algorithmic curation.
Every n hours it reads news from newsapi.org and runs them (Title + Description) through a LLM with an intentional bias towards far-left and far-right perspective, and craft 4 parallel headlines: two with an obvious clickbait tone and two with more explanatory informative one.

enjoy
> differences are too small for me to care to learn the details

Better response than doubling down on being corrected, which makes the original comment look like a lie, might be in editing.
The art of outlasting: What we can learn from timeproof Japanese businesses
I don’t exactly remember the situation but a user created a python module named error.py.

Then in their main code they imported the said error.py but unfortunately numpy library also has an error.py. So the user was getting very funky behavior.
The FT article by Thiel: https://archive.ph/fp0cH

The purpose appears to be to show his fawning support for Trump - knowing that Trump is likely to read it? Being part of the rich boys club is a good financial move at present.

Unfortunately The gizmodo riposte is even worse than Thiel's conspirist rant. "Was COVID-19 a U.S. bioweapon?" is the articles misinformative rewrite for Thiel's "Did they [the administration] suspect that Covid spawned from US taxpayer-funded research".

The only conspiracy mentioned that has a good answer is "Venture capitalist Marc Andreessen recently suggested on Joe Rogan’s podcast that the Biden administration debanked crypto entrepreneurs" which was answered by Patrick Mackenzie (patio11): https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/debanking-and-debunki...
There are no reason, except greed, that explains why Xyrem is so expensive! It cost almost nothing to produce. It's an old simple molecule, GHB was know for it's restful sleep since at least the 90's and so was it's safety profile.

In a fair world the patent would be voided and it would not cost more than 20 dollars a month.
Townhouses with no intervening space would likely be an improvement. Browse Altadena in streetview and you'll see loads of houses with vegetation -- tinder -- stacked between them. Getting rid of those intervening spaces entirely would reduce the surface area exposed to embers while simultaneously depriving homeowners the temptation to store fuel in unwise places.
None of those are easier than not needing to do it at all though; if your functions exits are only where you specify, you can cleanup only once on those paths.
It's the water that allows the fuel build up though.

So a drier California might actually not burn as much, because, as the article points out, there's not much to burn in a desert ?

Also, this being more about human behavior, people might be much less interested to build in a desert (in this case, I doubt it, see also : Saudi Arabia). (Up to a point of course, worst case climate change scenarios involving these latitudes becoming uninhabitable in the next centuries.)

Otherwise, I was wondering whether, under a still "wet" California, but under still mild climate change, the more frequent both rains and droughts, might increase the frequency of firestorms just high enough so that humans actually start taking them seriously.

(EDIT : And looks like they already did, if those 2007 building code changes aren't just for show ? How is the correlation between the post-2007 buildings and those that survived firestorms?)
Which is an easier way to interact with your bank? Writing a business letter, or filling out a form?

I suspect that we will still be filling out forms, because that’s a better UI for a routine business transaction. It’s easier to know what the bank needs from you if it’s laid out explicitly, and you can also review the information you gave them to make sure it’s correct.

AI could still be helpful for finding the right forms, auto-filling some fields, answering any questions you might have, and checking for common errors, but that’s only a mild improvement from what a good website already does.

And yes, it’s also helpful for the programmers writing the forms. But the bank still needs people to make sure that any new forms implement their consumer interactions correctly, that the AI assist has the right information to answer any questions, and that it’s all legal.
Your first sentence is a false factoid repeated online [0][1]. And anyway, there is always more work to be done, so I don't understand why people think working hours would ever decrease; as soon as we build one thing, another problem crops up. We would only stop working until all problems in the world would have been solved, which is never.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/z38k5p/i_h...

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/AskAnthropology/comments/im1lqu/is_...
> You ain't building a solar array or a mega windmill farm in Appalachia - it is a significant upfront cost and very challenging.

Why is it only limited to solar or wind? Nuclear is a viable option and requires a shit ton of people to operate and pollution is nil compared to coal and O&G.

There are plenty of ways to get this done. However our shitty economic policies based on neo-liberalism economics of the 1970s to 2010s have put us in a place where we are powerless to do anything about it. Decades of deregulation, tax cuts for billionaires and multibillion dollar companies, stock buybacks, subsequent cutting of public services, corporate glazing, hyper capitalistic culture have left us with very little to tackle this issue.
Except python builders in nixpkgs are really brain damaged because of the writers ways they inject search path which for example breaks if you try to execute a separate python interpreter assuming same library environment...
There are quick drying gel pens. I have some Zebra Sansa Dry’s that are pretty much impossible to smudge.

I have some fountain pens just because I like overly complicating simple things. One good paper, they are awesome. Unfortunately, I’m mostly writing ephemeral notes on lower quality paper so a ball point (or pencil) makes a lot more sense.
This is very very interesting.

It reminds me of how furries treat IP, art theft is a big no-no, but sharing is encouraged and a community norm.
Game that teaches binary exploitation with no prior experience
Thought I'd give these guys a shoutout, I managed to land my dream job as my first job in security largely in part thanks to this game

(Not an exaggeration, I was literally asked how to get around multiple protections that were mapped to levels in this game)
I think Bob was more (in)famous as the product which served as the origin story for Clippy in MS Office.
To be fair, Python itself doesn’t follow SemVer.
Not in a “they break things they shouldn’t,” but in a “they never claim to be using SemVer.”
The problem isn't so much the flatness of the rotation curve, but its continued high value: as you go farther and farther out in distance, it should drop rapidly because most of the visible matter is concentrated toward the center of the galaxy, but it doesn't. This implies that there is more matter, less centrally concentrated than the visible matter.

Note that most "rotation curves" are actually measured from gas, not stars, and also that strong gravitational interactions between individual stars are extremely rare except in very dense star clusters and galactic nuclei, due to the increasingly large distances between stars as you go out from galactic centers. The time required for individual stellar interactions in the main or outer parts of galaxies to significantly affect their motions is much larger than the age of the universe (see, e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar_dynamics).

Finally, this wouldn't address other evidence for dark matter, like the halos of hot (millions or tens of millions of K) intergalactic gas in galaxy clusters. The pressure of the gas should have driven the gas to expand way billions of years ago, if you assume that only the gravity of the individual galaxies and the gas itself is restraining it.
>You grant us a perpetual, worldwide, royalty-free license to use, modify, distribute, and display any images you create or upload

This is a dealbreaker.
Show HN: TypeAPI – Describe REST APIs for type-safe code generation
I don't understand how things like this get approved into PEPs.
It really surprises me how much competition YouTube videos have gotten over the years. Back in 2009, I recorded a video of burning a Coke can soaked in alcohol, and it got 20,000 views.
18 years? Filthy casual, jk ;)

I can't remember how long, but I started when you had to make a stack of 3.5 floppies to install... More than 30years ago.

Long before that, I was using 4DOS to create best "shell" possible on Microsoft. ~14 yr old.
Let's use the clickbait title as a brainstorming prompt: what do other folks think is a better candidate for the biggest flop [in tech] of the 1990s?

Also, I kind of wish Microsoft Bob failed a little harder— the agentic stuff I'm hearing about these days sounds like the kind of software assistants they tried in the 90s, and I fear they have the same likelihood of poor execution.