skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve emailed Dan and received the same response. My suspicions completely mirror yours.

I find this line particularly weak:

> We can only guess why users flag things

It’s not that hard to do some clustering analysis to see if bad-faith actors are repeatedly flagging posts in a coordinated manner. Maybe he’s trying to avoid giving away anti-spam secret sauce, but that doesn’t seem likely given the language of the copypasta. Speaking for myself, I would like any sort of assurance that anything other than a 100% laissez-faire approach to flag abuse is happening.
A lot of the culture war topics seem deeply weird. mRNA vaccines that absolutely do work and are safe somehow get all kinds of things ascribed to them.

Prayer in schools, which has passed out of the Gartner Culture War hype cycle, seems like another one of those head scratchers.
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As an AI engineering consultant, I’ve seen both sides. This guide cuts through the noise, outlining the right and wrong ways to integrate AI into your operations, ensuring it drives efficiencies, generates revenue, improves quality, mitigates risks, and reduces costs without costly missteps.
One item not being discussed is this took place during the last administration - not Trump 2.0. None of this is new - it's being going on for years.
Microsoft Edge had a release based on the relevant Chromium version on Oct 17, 2024. That is release 130.0.2849.46:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/deployedge/microsoft-edge-...

https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/en-US/vulnerability/...
The Collective Ambition Behind Odysseus, a Game-Changing Sci-Fi Larp
I draw the line at the 2006 release of the Horse Armor DLC for Oblivion:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_of_The_Elder_Scrol...

This is the turning point where the industry began to change from selling products to selling services. Expansion packs existed before then, but they were sold as complete experiences, essentially mini-sequels sold at a discount because they reused the same engine. The horse armor was something different and controversial at the time.
If you read the complaint, the allegation is that controlling for performance evaluations, members of certain groups were preferred over others for promotion.
Were their any options or competitors that came close to FaunaDB's abilities?
> GrapheneOS has only been problematic with Revolut

That's odd, did it complain about anything? I use GrapheneOS on my Pixel 8a and Revolut works without any problems for me. It's also on this list of banking applications that have been verified to work on GrapheneOS:

https://privsec.dev/posts/android/banking-applications-compa...
> This study has a few that we know of:

The International Nut and Dried Fruit Council may or may not be a conflict of interest about seed oils.

NIH and Novo Nordisk wouldn't be.

> I wish we could get studies without any conflicts of interest

You'd need to have a whole lot more public funding of research than we already do, if we're going to have the entire academic world not do any research for industry.

In this case, they didn't produce new data and made a relatively straightforward analysis. So the opportunities for shenanigans when other people can reproduce and evaluate the results are limited.
Looks great!
Thank you very much for this.
Wow. You should go on baby leave more often!
It does not make sense to eat things with of a lack of intelligence as the guiding principle. Would you eat a human if he or her were stupid enough?
Notably, North Korea only made hacking an industry after it's "SuperDollar" USD counterfeiting industry became too expensive and difficult to run because the USD had a design update that introduced significant security upgrades.

You would think "just manufacture cash" would also offset billions and yet it didn't really. End result, there are way fewer counterfeit USD in circulation now.
Psychology has determined there is no non-racist way to evaluate performance: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43407157
I have this book called "Practical Electronics for Inventors". It starts from absolute basics, but it's also very comprehensive.

https://www.amazon.com/Practical-Electronics-Inventors-Fourt...
They just need to rewrite the rest of Chrome to use the native Rust<>Rust interface.

(in reality Google is investing a lot of effort into automating the FFI layer to make it safer and less tedious)
I understand you're making a brief comment outlining a position, but personally, I don't see how you can be satisfied with that explanation.

Say I have two opportunities, one pays $200/hour and one pays $100/hour. But I can only do the higher-paying one for 10 hours a week. If I have more capacity and I want to have more than $100k in annual income, I will work the less profitable job, even if it doesn't provide the maximum profit.

Similarly, in the market in general, if there's demand for housing at a lower profit margin, and there's spare capacity to build it, it should happen. People don't just take the highest profit margin opportunities and toss the rest in the rubbish. So I think there has to be a deeper issue, for example there are costs that make the profit margin so low (or even negative) that the opportunity doesn't attract sufficient labor to build the supply.
DirectWrite doesn’t apply subpixel anti-aliasing by default [0], and an increasing number of applications use it, including Microsoft Office since 2013. One reason is the tablet mode starting with Windows 8, because subpixel ClearType only works in one orientation. Nowadays non-uniform subpixel layouts like OLED panels use are another reason.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClearType#ClearType_in_DirectW...
Your statement isn't false but it isn't the norm. Unionized employees have much higher retention rates and that comes with better skill growth within an organization which generally leads to a more competitive entity. The modern market driven employment process causes massive long term inefficiencies while optimizing for short term valuation which can increase debt accessibility but generally lowers long term value. I think this is a wider discussion however and it'd be better to focus any examination of unions on the employee outcomes who are effectively the consumers of union.

Whether a company prospers or fails the employees working for that company will, in nearly all circumstances, have much better quality of employment while that company lasts. I'd argue that long term company health is supported by unionization but I understand that there is a massive entrenched cultural rejection of that notion.
> financial outcomes are a lot easier to secure (and defend) than political outcomes.

It's also way easier to game, which is the problem here: the asymmetry of information is almost total as the consumer will never know anything behind what the supplier is regulated into saying, and even when it is, then anything that will present itself as an alternative will be massively overpriced (that's why organic stuff is twice as expensive even though it has less than a 25% difference in actual yield in the fields).

And again, your belief has zero empirical evidence, products never improve on that basis.
no disagreement from me!
A separate issue, innit ? There is a broader consensus on the capacity of mammals for suffering. Plus the issue of the innate value of life at some level (let's say, vertebrates).
Unit 8200 is cyber ops and the main people of this company are all from that unit.

https://undercodenews.com/from-idf-intelligence-to-a-2b-goog...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_8200
Cool!

I've looked into accounting software for our startup in the past. Xero, Quickbooks, and simply hiring an accounting firm.

We ended up hiring an accounting firm for full service so I can totally not focus on this at all, and we don't have to have an operations staff member dealing with bookkeeping.

That said, I feel like there should be a solution that is totally automated, that can just sync with our bank account and handle everything. The full service accountants aren't perfect, the interface is just phone calls and emails. The bookkeeping itself doesn't seem like too much human work for them; they mostly just load things into quickbooks anyways and send us a report. it's mostly the tax filings where they come in handy. That and on the off chance we need audited financials for diligence, we need an accredited third party firm.

Bookkeeping. It's something I'm perfectly capable of doing, but it would be a mistake for me to be spending my time and energy on this; myself and our staff should be focused on unique things that advance our core product and business.

On your pricing page you say 'growth: request a quote." Solutions like pilot are transparent about their pricing but it's actually no better than the more traditional accounting firm we chose. I realize it's early, but it would be important for me to be able to estimate the pricing before I invest any time or effort to try this out -- even for a free trial.
Products are developed for a specific market. If the market of the given minority group where large enough, there would be special providers only for that. If I go buy an Italian Pizza place, I expect to receive an Italian Pizza, and not an Italian Pizza with a Chinese nuance to it. That's when I go to a Fusion place. It's by definition impossible to make product that satisfies everyone.
Dockerize it to easy selfhost !
Brown adipose tissue enhances exercise performance and healthful longevity
I thought chrome was already doing this for some google domains and using their own DNS vs. the operating DNS? Maybe I’m wrong, but I thought this was a thing.
> equinoxes (equinoxii?)

nox -> noctes, so equinoctes, if you're feeling Latin
> in Germany, some buildings and art installations are copyrighted which means they aren't allowed to be photographed for non-private usage despite being literally out in the open for everyone to see [1].

I think most people agree that that is ridiculous. I'm not sure how they manage to enforce that, even with Europe's generally strong ideas around copyright and moral ownership and such.
I was thinking something similar. Participate online without feeding models via a self-selected DNT-like tag...
I didn't go out and ask random people, but as far as sales figures go from what I find Baldur's Gate 3 has sold more copies than Halo 3 has. Of course it's not a fair comparison since Halo 3 was released in 2007 and only on a single platform, but I would imagine if I went around and asked a random group of people they'd likely be far more familiar with Baldur's Gate 3.

Halo 3 seems to also be very popular only in the U.S., while Baldur's Gate 3 is more recognized internationally.
If the anti-seed-oil narrative is correct, then Novo Nordisk would have a conflict of interest because the narrative says that seed oils cause metabolic disease, of which type-2 diabetes is an important one.
It didn't. Some parts of the UI are using grayscale AA, some are on subpixel AA. And sometimes it's just a blur, to keep things fun I guess.

Pretty sure phones do grayscale AA.
Drug drogs I suspect.
I already generally hate the experience of travelling through ports of entry into the U.S, have been searched numerous times, and often on the way back into Canada but it's usually much less onerous; every country I've visited has been much more tolerable, regardless of Trump. I'm travelling in soon for a reason that's almost work for the first time—attending a work related event—and technically should be able to visa-free, but these stories are making me a bit nervous. Flying 10hrs back is not ideal, but being stuck for 2 weeks would fuck up my year.
Hi folks. Congrats on this launch. As someone who's used Quickbooks for years, there's definitely an opportunity to build something that's a better experience. We're hearing about other new platforms like Rillet emerge in the market too. How do you folks think about their approach vs. yours?
Yes saw that but no suggestion that perhaps consciously or subconsciously they followed the Dead's template since the article focuses on their business model
Who is getting paid
Vogtle 3/4 (USA): 10 years.

Shin-Hanul (Korea): 12 years.

Olkiluoto (Finland): 18 years.

Flamanville (France): 17 years.

I did not even need to cherry pick those. Your estimates are wildly unrealistic.

Also note: Those times are from begin of construction, not start of planning (!!).
People really love the idea of a quick, easy fix; a single solveable problem that explains a vast swath of issues.
It also saved licensing costs to MPEG-LA too I guess.
Added to my list of troubles & worries I avoided because I didn't rely on a random external company for critical infrastructure.
This is so cool. I modified the script so that the countries are a bit darker (#777), and I found that it helped the borders pop a lot more. It would probably be equally interesting to play this game with no borders at all.

Not to scope creep, but it would be great if users could pick from 1 or 2 themes. Or maybe just refactor it so that changing a global var from the javascript would let you change the colors.

edit: also the collective north and south poles take up about 60% of the zoomed out map. I bet you could crop most of antarctica and a significant portion of the upper northern hemisphere without degrading the experience.
LVMH is French, not German. But to be fair, this distinction is likely lost on Putin's president.
canada just revised the rules to allow border agents to revoke your visa / work permit, fyi. so look out. it might be better to go during "normal" hours and at major ports of entry to try to get a more senior officer.
Another reason to at least learn the default tooling is that often I find myself SSHing to another machine which has only the barest of default packages installed (often busybox, sometimes just a stripped-down docker container).

If I didn't know how to use "find" and "grep" (though I prefer rg) then I'd be at a disadvantage in these situations. Also command-line git.

It's why I learned to use Vim well, though I daily Emacs.
> The Japanese mostly think like Yoda. They first establish some concepts and facts, like when you're pushing data to the stack of a scientific calculator, and finish it with the intended action.

Thanks, this actually explains a lot. Korean is like this too. I'm realizing that a lot of communication difficultly comes from my aging mother speaking more slowly with words coming out this way. I get impatient thinking 'what are you talking about? get to the point' and frustrated if it takes very long or if I'm already busy or in a rush. It's like watching a movie with no context and an extended set up--not great if you weren't expecting the pace.

It definitely does extend beyond sentence structure. There will be preamble that sets the stage and covers considered adjacent points, then finally get to the ask/point.
I’m not dismissing the concept of masculinity but rather this contemporary pattern of speech that involves terms like “fragile masculinity”. I’ve yet to encounter such a term in clinical psychology literature, but I see it every day on the western internet
> What law in any country requires this?

Any sane antitrust laws require this. Not that they have to provide compatibility, but they cannot inhibit compatibility. But that's what they do.

> Apple is not a public utility and people don't have rights to access.

Your iPhone doesn't belong to Apple and Apple trying to retain ownership control over it after they've sold it is the evil to be prevented.

> I am arguing that incompatibility is there, could be resolved if the companies chose to.

There are two different kinds of incompatibility.

One is, each model of car has its own type of oil filter, which is an inconvenience but then the third party suppliers just produce all the different kinds, and filters with different specs legitimately should have different interfaces and then you're going to have 100 different filter interfaces regardless and it doesn't matter much if you then need 100 SKUs or 250.

The other is, they purposely thwart compatibility by actively inhibiting third party interoperability, even when the third party is willing to support the vendor-specific interface. There is every reason to prohibit the vendor from doing this because there is no legitimate reason to do it, but a strong illegitimate motive for them to do it in order to inhibit competition.

A strong heuristic for telling the difference between these things is, what percent of the ancillary market is controlled by the seller in the primary market? Third parties being excluded in practice strongly implies malfeasance.
The protocol is; the implementations weren't, in this case. (To be fair, the specification didn't explicitly say "validate the origin of the pairing secret to actually be a QR code scanner", but that's still more of a missing (important!) implementation warning than a protocol design flaw.)

Compare this with passwords, where the protocol is fundamentally phishable, with partial mitigations requiring user discipline (e.g. only ever using password manager auto-fill) and a lack of local or remote vulnerabilities.
I can't tell if this is downvoted because I upset someone in sorry if the the left or the right. I don't think what I said is untrue in any sense?
I'm clearly out of the loop on this, how did seed oils become a big news topic? I've seen random posts on Reddit and now this.
Naomi Klein’s Doppelgänger is an absolutely brilliant read on why you see this kind of consonance between the fringe left & right (although fringe may not be the right word anymore):

https://bookshop.org/p/books/doppelganger-a-trip-into-the-mi...
> Social media is currently awash with influencers promoting butter as a health food and claiming that seed oils are deadly

Ok, I guess soon there will be no buying options then.
I found that difficult to read and annoying. Having to scroll to get a new word visible felt like work, and slower than reading plain text.
Wow! I was looking at Fauna for a new project just yesterday. The tech looks good but a custom query language put me off pretty fast. Is this a real language or just an ORM syntax? Can I push code into the DB, or is it like the HCL of SQL?

Even so, I hope it takes on a new life as an open source project and finds success. Looking forward to reading the code.
Is ghee better than seed oil?
> He's just the head of another political party

Oh, here we were believing Trump when we are told Musk isn't in charge of anything, either administratively or politically.
very interesting, but I wonder if it would hold for clustering with other distance metrics such as dynamic time warping (DTW).
I understand the terminology. I even took a graduate course on the subject. I stand by what I wrote. Better yet, this describes ASLR when the AnC attack applies:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240123122515if_/https://www.sy...
updates are malware
Unsurprising that it did after the story itself devolved into a partisan flame war though, emotions are running high when the same sort of misinformation and lies are finding their way into previously sacrosanct topics like space exploration.
I wish articles like this would engage in a bit of critical analysis of the studies they are reporting on. It's no wonder people are confused as hell about the latest science about what foods are healthy when there are seemingly new contradicting studies coming out all the time and the news about them just parrots the contents of the study with no critical analysis why this new understanding might be better, or worse, than what we had before.

That said, I hope this is right. As someone who is allergic to dairy it would be nice to know that the substitutes I'm consuming aren't significantly worse for me, and it would be great to see more dairy free options for foods although the trend seems to be going in the opposite direction (for example, the amount of "dark" chocolate with milk in it is astounding, and brands that were reliably true dark chocolates have started adding milk too)
Quit policing other people’s speech, please.
I watched the video but I found his premise that there's extreme market pressure to keep prices low lacking. I think that could be true some places but in highly populated areas like California I think prices could be much lower. Whenever the topic comes up people will highlight how laws/regulations like cage free don't raise prices by that much. Which could be true. What this point sidesteps though is that as a collective these limitations make prices much higher because they mean a large amount of product can only be sourced in-state. In short, they collectively act as a form of protectionism that jacks up prices even if their regional impact is minor. It's minor because they're playing into a paradigm that already wildly jacks up prices. What would bring prices down a lot and by extension benefit the poor Americans in these places a lot more is removing all of the barriers to importing these products from other states where they are significantly cheaper.
Hackernews has those monthly official posts from that immigration lawyer proberts, immigration stuff is highly important to HN and the users here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=proberts
Appreciate it! We love to hear this! I've been hearing a lot about QBO popup ads recently
Sadly I’ve already deleted every single tweet I had under my Twitter account (other than a pinned tweet saying I’ve moved to BlueSky). It’s mostly symbolic, but I felt it was necessary.
Saying "most of this is wrong" is not an argument. How is it wrong? Which parts do you dispute?
The real test is to just test the quantity of trans fats in all oils under various conditions. Like when they are cold and at various temperatures. Why don't just do that and share data.
A few thoughts after ~5 minutes:

* I like how the map moves around. It helps nail down relationships to neighbors
* I don't mind a few extra "Where's canada", even though it's not that useful
* I'd like the pause between answers be shorter.
* Small countries are impossible to see when zoomed out on the first exposure, even when selected right. I find myself knowing the area it's in (ie, central america) but not which exact country. So selecting it right when zoomed out doesn't get me the correct answer.
I'd suggest engaging with this question, which I think you ignored:

> Are the contents of files text?

It is perhaps the most prescient of all. What is the OS interface for files? Does it tell you, "This is a UTF-8 encoded text file containing short human readable lines"? No, it does not. All you get is bytes, and if you're lucky, you can maybe infer something about the extension of the file's path (but this is only a convention).

How do you turn bytes into a `&str`? Do you think ripgrep converts an entire file to `&str` before searching it? Does ripgrep even do UTF-8 validation at all? No no no, it does not.

I'd suggest giving https://burntsushi.net/bstr/#motivation-based-on-concepts and the crate docs of https://docs.rs/bstr/latest/bstr/ a read.

To be clear, there is no perfect answer here. You've got to do the best with what you've got. But the model I work with is, "treat file contents and file paths as text until you heuristically believe otherwise." But I work on Unix CLI tooling that needs to be fast. For most people, I would say, "validate file contents and file paths as text" is the right model to start with.

> but IMO it should be pointed out in the man page

Docs can always be improved, sure, but that is not what I'm trying to engage with you about. :-)
I always think of what time is sunrise where I am. Watching it get earlier/later every day by a couple minutes.