skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Are you just wholly rejecting the concept of expert knowledge

I am embracing expert knowledge in trusting meta-analyses and the decisions of EU health experts.
Regarding Screen: Agreed.

Originally I was going to say that's not what I'd assume "Support" to mean (Personally, I would differentiate between patches/updates and support, as in, customer support), however, we should point out that in their own words, on Screen Studio's own site, the fine print under "Pay Once" Says:

> Renew to get the latest updates or keep using the version you have forever.

So indeed, that's disingenuous in my opinion as a "one time purchase" option for the reasons you point out.

Sizzy however states:

> The lifetime plan includes all future updates

So I would think that passes the muster of "one time purchase", not just paying lip service.

Broad picture, I think you bring up an important distinction regarding "one-time purchases" and the expectations therein.
7mg/L? Where the heck did you get that figure?
The correct value is a tenth of that: 0.7 milligrams per Liter (mg/L)
The limit is 2mg/L, and that's only found in places with naturally occurring high levels of flouride.
By default, we should not add anything to the water.

The burden of proof should be on the people who want to add it. Because that is extra cost, extra chemical. If they can't prove it, then we don't do it.
Yes, but without rent control landlords will charge as much as they want to charge. The price of what the market will bear just goes up because everyone will raise prices. Software like RealPage will become even more prevalent. It really only helps the landlord, who is already well off to begin with.

Additionally, I can’t think of any homeowner who will vote to increase their property tax, especially if it’s already based on a $1M house.
yea I used to work for an advertising network and every game that implemented the Android SDK ended up with this permission, it was a way that we used to not show ads for games that the user already had on their phone
Whether it worked under a Democratic system depends on whether the legislation you are concerned with was passed legally.

Democracy would have worked perfectly fine if democratically elected officials made decisions and passed legislation that they were legally allowed to pass. We may disagree with what what passed, bit that's a concern of the outcome rather than the process in which those people were elected.

I very much agree with you with regards to the problems of big tech, big business, and lobbying in general. They are technically operating within the laws created by democratically elected officials, though. That's the problem.

We need a smaller government with less reach and fewer powers. We don't need to claim that those who were democratically elected somehow escaped democracy while working within the bounds of the rules they were given, we need to limit the rules.
Could you give a broad outline of how you'd make this list? The government is currently not run efficiently, so clearly we can't rely on people who already have lots of government experience, because that just means they've been doing a poor job for a long time?
Probably because it's implicitly pirated. No one is sharing windows freeware this way, because there's no demand for it. It'll be MS Office, Photoshop, CAD, etc. -- stuff for which there's still no good OSS alternative, and for which the barrier to entry is high.

It would take a large organization with enough connections to cut through this. You'd probably need to cut a deal so you could distribute their software, and you'd need to provide a mechanism for users to be able to make purchases. Even then, there are various licensing challenges, because you would be distributing the same install, so thousands (or millions) of "installs" would effectively have the same serial or license number.

It's nontrivial, but the basic idea is straightforward and doable. The challenge is how windows software is distributed and licensed, not anything technical.
> Google revealed to TechCrunch that a second Google employee had also been caught violating user privacy and was also dismissed. Google didn't reveal any details about what or when this occurred, other than to say the other case didn't involve minors.

I agree largely that the efforts have been successful but there’s more than one incident. I’ll even speculate wildly without any evidence that there have been more than two.
What I love about this comment is that one person thought "of course every other country just does the right thing when the US doesn't" and posted it, and then a bunch of other people thought "of course every other country just does the right thing when the US doesn't" and upvoted it, and not a single one of them thought to check what the "right thing" is.

Meanwhile, back here on Earth-1, there's no right thing, and countries all over the world have "by and large solved" the issue by doing completely different things: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_fluoridation_by_country

> Water fluoridation is considered very common in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Chile and Australia where over 50% of the population drinks fluoridated water.

> Most European countries including Italy, France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Hungary and Switzerland do not fluoridate water.
I had a media center PC that was usable with a remote control in 2008.
> Try doing the same with a Linux binary that's just a year old.

I do that all the time. Just link to a static glibc or musl.
The question there still comes down to what they did with the memorized content. There's nothing wrong with memorizing copyrighted content, there's legally a problem with trying to resell it without paying royalties under contract to the owner of the copyright.
I don’t.

Because your banana example doesn’t have additives meant to be reactive — so is unlike adding fluoride to water at levels which impact dental health.
I’d agree that Europe has solved this issue by removing fluoride from drinking water.

But beyond Europe there’s still no global consensus.

I do agree that the US is an outlier with fluoride being nearly universal.
Correct. Parent is misinformed.
RFK, Jr. Laying Off Entire Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/Aids Policy
This seems like a good packaging alternative to containerizing for smaller utilities. Now to convince all my coworkers to install uv..
Scale is a scapegoat. Take the US region by region and you can find analogs around the world.
Has anyone gotten this to work on Windows? I wanted to use this trick for some tooling for a game mod I'm working on but couldn't get the shebang trick to work.
> This resulted in pretty much zero rent increases across the 15 or so total years renting from such individuals. I had exactly one rent increase during that time due to a large property tax increase which I found to be reasonable.

I tried to rent most from mom and pop landlords but the ones here in the Bay Area have been mostly terrible to deal with. I even had to take one to court. I think you’re extremely lucky to just have one increase over 15 years. Conversely, the corporate ones were much easier to deal with it (although the promptness of repair is 50/50).
The levels of fluoridation in order to cause difference in IQ as I understand it, from the Chinese studies, suggest that basically the effect if true occurs at around 2x+ the concentration found in supplemented water supplies.

My understanding also is that if you’re a dentist wanting to get rich, move somewhere that has unfluoridated water.
I remember the first time I went to a German dentist and he told me how amazing my teeth looked and that he could tell I must be American. Fluoride may have some downsides but it definitely has upsides.
Most developed countries have stopped using fluoride. I think that’s the commenter’s point. The US and Australia are outliers here for sure.
Best enough to even sing about it :)
F# was never really "OCaml on .NET", though, not really. ML on .NET, sure, but it is (and always has been) missing OCaml's most interesting features, such as functors and OO with inferred row-types.
'Catastrophic': Canadian bookings for U.S. travel drop sharply
Big discussion (765 points, 1 day ago, 1220 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43509923
There’s also fluoride salt added to table salt that is widely used to accomplish the same thing as fluoridating water.

https://www.acffglobal.org/salt-fluoridation/
Are bodily orifices covered by the 4th amendment?
>Apple calls these Smart App Banners. Webkit cooperates with iOS to present them according to a meta tag in the page

JFC. Are they disabled if you ask for the desktop site?
Dentists have to spend 8 years at school right? …and do various annual training to stay licensed?

I’d say that’s a reasonable sign of someone qualified to have an opinion.

I think you’re getting confused with a dental technician.
fingerprinting is the best case scenario
Americans seem to love to gatekeep what the poor are allowed to have or not have.
They have this image of the Welfare Queen driving a pink Cadillac to cash her welfare checks at the liquor store.
It seems that no matter how desperately destitute someone might be,
there's a person who will point at something they have,
whether it's a tent to sleep in under a bridge (a gift from an organization providing assistance to the houseless),
a bicycle that's their only means of transportation,
or a garden planted on public property,
and say "they can't be that poor if they have that!
This is for screens usually controlled by microcontrollers, nothing running close to an operating system like Linux and rarely coming with a GPU.

See for examples ILI9341 or SSD1306 displays[1] or integrated boards with (often) an ESP32 microcontroller and a display attached[2].

[1] displays: https://www.google.com/search?q=SSD1306+OR+ILI9341+display&u...

[2] integrated: https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-ESP32-LVGL.html?spm=a2...
Is it impacting your actual usage? If not, it’s just yak shaving.
Spending $30/mo means this person has definitely not dug in very hard on Claude Code. My partner and I are spending more like $30/day using it for vibe coding.
This looks more like an advert for Altium.

The majority of laptops are made by a few OEMs:

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

...and their circuitry is extremely similar, being based on the Intel/AMD reference schematics. Anyone who has done computer repair and troubleshooting and seen the various OEM schematics will realise this; they each have their own style, but there are otherwise few differences.
The untold story of America's hidden role in Ukrainian military operations
get a separate device for work ?
Rust is easy to understand as "a language by browser writers for writing browsers." That statement alone gives you most of Rust's design choices:

* Safety over everything else

* Very good single threaded performance

* Javascript-like syntax and a Javascript-like package manager

I have been working on some software in Rust recently that needs bit and byte manipulation, and we have "unsafe" everywhere and hugely complicated spaghetti compared to the equivalent code in C.
Al Capone ran soup kitchens. He seemed like a good dude. What percentage of their global wealth is $1 billion? I wish I knew but for some reason they keep that a secret. And don't leave or they'll expect your family to cut you off.

*: searches suggest the wealth of the church to be around $265 billion. So their members give 10% annually to the church and the church gives less than 0.5% of their total wealth to the poor (but mostly to other Mormons or prospective converts). If you're wondering why they keep this massive horde of wealth, it's because they think it'll be needed for the apocalypse. Yes, it's for the apocalypse.
10x pay is significant. Personally, I would remediate asap even with $1500/hour on the line. I do have ethical standards.

But would I be as motivated to stop the root cause of the recurring issues that keeps giving me an extra $3k every shift? Well, I probably would, but my coworkers already need to be goaded into fixing root causes, and they're not getting paid extra!

In general, I think conflicts of interest must be handled carefully, and ideally avoided. Paying 10x wages when incidents happen is a clear conflict of interest.
> Talk to your dentist

The vast majority of dentists are not public health experts, and will have little to offer other than “exposing your teeth to fluoride regularly is good”.
The US isn't several countries put together, region by region. It's one big ass country. I really don't see how taking it region by region somehow eliminates scale issues when you still have to apply it to the entire country.
Original source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/rfk-jr-to-gut-vaccine-promotion...
I haven't done dev on windows in many years, but IIRC windows doesn't have shebang support.
Author claims that this same hack is used widely, including by apps on the Play Store like Snapchat and Facebook.
The thing I like about classical symbolic/analytic AI (such as grammars and semantic models) is that it was comprehensible (or "explainable.")

Unfortunately it didn't scale as well as opaque DNNs trained on huge amounts of data.
What's the worst case, in your opinion?
Honestly though... let's take Copilot as an example. if they're good with Copilot, why wouldn't you just hire them and let them be good with copilot? We all just need to accept that the value of memorizing syntax will trend to zero.
I have points to burn, so I'll post, because I know this will scratch some folks the wrong way- apologies in advance.

I use Windows. In fact, I like Windows. I know lots of (ok, more than 5) greybeards who feel exactly the same way. I don't want Linux to be Windows, but I also don't want Linux on my personal desktop either.

I have a Mac Mini M1 on my desk, and I use that for the things it's good for, mainly videoconferencing. It's also my secondary Adobe Creative Suite machine.

On my Win11 desktop, I have WSL2 with Ubuntu 24.04 for the things it is good for- currently that's Python, SageMath, CUDA, and ffmpeg. For my Unix fix, I use Git Bash (MSYS2) for my "common, everyday Unix-isms" on Windows.

I also use PowerShell and Windows Scripting on my box when I need to.

Why? Well, firstly, it's easy and I've got stuff to do. Secondly, cost is not really an issue- I bought my Windows Pro license back with Win7, and it was about $180. That was maybe 15 years ago. They have graciously upgraded me at every step- Win7 -> Win10 -> Win11, all at no cost. Even if I had had to buy it, my Taco Bell tab is higher in any given month than a Windows license (love that inflation).

Why else? Everything works. I get no annoying popups, and I really no longer sweat garbage living on my drive, because that ship has sailed; wanna waste 50GB? Sure, go ahead.

But the most important reason? My hardware is supported. My monitors look great; printers, scanners, mice and USB drives & keys all work. In fact, >90% of the time, everything just works. Further, I can share effortlessly with my Mac, all my Linux servers speak SMB (CIFS), Wireshark works, and my programs are all supported including most open source software. And I do run apps that are 20+ years old from time to time.

Truth be told, I have tried the dance of daily driving Linux, and it's a laundry list of explanations to others why my stuff is different or deficient in some way. The kicker is that my clients don't care about purity or coolness factors.

Linux has its place. But please don't put in on my main machine, and please don't give it to my family members. They're only being nice by living with a sub-par desktop experience. It will always take a herculean effort to stay on par with Windows or MacOS, and no one really wants to put their money where their mouth is.

Please don't misunderstand. I admire and respect authors of open source software, and my servers thank them. But being a contrarian and dogfooding what KDE and GNOME put out, fighting with Nvidia and AMD, dealing with constant driver interface changes, and not having proper commercial software support is not my idea of fun. It was 30 years ago. Today? I'd rather hang with my daughter or write some code.

These distros have had 35 years. I don't know what else to say.
GitHub code search is way more useful to me than AI for searching how to do something I need an example of. I do use traditional search engines all the time but GitHub code search is great.
Just curious, why was this targeted specifically at Indian apps?
> Google refuses to patch this.

That's why projects like XPL-Extended (and previously XPrivacyLua), are an absolute need. I never run an android phone without these.
Ice cream, Mandrake. Children's ice cream.
Bet money on it being the garbage smooth frame stuff that pushed the TVs to fake 60 or 120fps by guessing frames. Even my newest 75" TV has this junk and makes the picture stutter enough that it drove me bonkers trying to turn it off - Google TV is awful for this but the TV also lets you fully turn it off on some ports.
I read it as you can turn off Scenic Mode, but you can't turn off ads when Scenic Mode is on. It is poorly worded.
Show HN: Thematic Crossword Generator
I mostly wanted to prove to myself that I could build and deploy a non-trivial app — complete with user login, UI etc even though I'm more a backend guy.

The fill algorithm is based on Knuth's Dancing Links (DLX), so it should be quite fast. The backend is hosted on Fly.io, and I’ve scaled it up to 10 machines for this submission — let’s see if that’s enough!
> This is one of these US-specific polarised debates I find really bizarre, around some kind of issue that the rest of the world has by large solved but without any acknowledgement of this fact.

> Maybe the US should look into how other countries have solved it?

I mean Utah is trying, sorry it took a while. I know Germany and Sweden don't fluoridate its water, I assume you mean Western Europe by the "world" (sorry if I am interpreting too much here, but that's usually what's popular to compare US to and bash US on how bad it is), so US is getting "with the program", finally I suppose. States having individual laws here is a benefit, one state doesn't have to wait for the Federal Government to act.

> This is one of these US-specific polarised debates I find really bizarre,

I don't think it's that polarizing? Unless 1) you're listening to US media more and 2) you're not getting many non-polarizing issues in the news, because those are well are just boring and don't sell ads.
I really want to find a good solution for this. I used to use low powered devices like Intel NUCs but ended up with a bunch of them so my employer bought me a workstation, it makes so much noise in my office that I barely turn it on so I'm not getting good use of it.

I think some kind of KVM over IP solution would probably be what I need so I can put the workstation in another room.
You don’t seem to understand the difference between public and private health.

Your dentist is well qualified to have an opinion on the effects of fluoride on your teeth.

They are poorly qualified to have an opinion on whether it should be added to the water supply at source.
A quantitative framework for modeling consciousness
I threw this one together after a few days of not sleeping. I don't understand why researches (people) find the defining aspects of consciousness to be so ineffable and challenging. I'm probably wrong, but after a bit of introspection it seemed to me there are obvious qualia for defining and then measuring ANY system against a consensus consciousness metric that would allow us to place 'it' on a spectrum. Be it a molecule, a slime mold, a human, an LLM, a bicycle, a dice roll, a rock ...

So anyway, I wrote this paper a long while ago, but was too lazy to publish anywhere because it would mean I needed to take the maths and insert images of their LaTeX representations for any given article publishing platform. But I was super wrong!!! ... Also I don't know how to write real scientific papers because I'm a spastic software engineer.

To really put a staple in my ignorance, maybe all markdown somehow supports maths? But anyhow, the markdown on Github renders LaTeX maths! So I went ahead and put together this paper for anyone who might be interested.

As I reread it, it seemed more inspirational last time. :-D. But there still might be something to it, and I will be in zero ways surprised if nothing new is discussed that the world doesn't already know about in the domains of information theory or anywhere else. But to satisfy my ADHD brain, I've got to get it out there.

If anyone else thinks a shred of it is onto something, please let me know. Most of my ability to carry things through to final form don't come unless I can get a few other head cases onboard to discuss.

Thanks!
Your argument essentially amounts to "why are poor people poor when they can just get a job." I can't find anything to say about it that isn't snarky.
Chapter 0/60 – A New Beginning
+1

My first foray into using MCP was via Claude Desktop. Would be great if you packaged your tool such that one could add it with a few lines in their ‘~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json’
There shouldn't be a scale issue with regards to fluoride in the water. It is either scientifically shown to be beneficial or it isn't, scale and geography likely have nothing to do with it.
That's cool. What's your motivation here? Just to build cool stuff, or is this a business? No agenda just wondering.
minimum 1hr of every day at work, since 1999. no need to deal with work/life balance, it is part of your work and to be done during work hours.
The main alternative to LVGL seems to be TouchGFX[1], at least that's the one I've seen mentioned the most in conversations around UI libraries for microcontrollers.

As you wrote these aren't made for desktop apps, but you can use desktop apps to help with UI development using these libraries.

For LVGL there's SquareLine Studio[2], I used it a few years ago and it was helpful. For TouchGFX there's TouchGFXDesigner[3], I haven't used it myself and it seems to run only on Windows.

[1] https://touchgfx.com/

[1] https://squareline.io/

[2] https://www.st.com/en/development-tools/touchgfxdesigner.htm...
That study is taken grossly out of context. It doesn’t claim what people claim it does and even the study states that the quality of the data on which the weaker claim was made is suspect.

The bigger issue is that we have vast amounts of scientific data and empirical evidence around fluoride toxicity. People are injured and die due to fluorine exposure, we understand how it interacts with biology. Any mechanism of action that can support the hypothesis that fluorine causes brain damage necessarily invalidates all of this evidence and is difficult to explain as a matter of basic chemistry.

And then we have to explain why fluoride in water has this effect but the much higher levels of fluoride in food does not.

Fluoridating municipal water may not offer much benefit but there is no credible science that it is actually harmful. Large regions of the world have water that naturally has far higher fluorine content than municipal water and there is no evidence of IQ reduction in these regions either.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here except that you take a dim view of Americans.
Somebody explain to me how removing "improper ideology" is not exactly the "censorship" that Trump, Musk and Vance decried over the last few years.
Is national pride a problem now? I'd expect any country to have something like a national anthem and patriotic songs.
There is a new alternative p2p mesh wireless in town, and suprisingly it was introduced by IEEE Wi-Fi Alliance rival 3GPP. It's the very first non-cellular standard for 5G namely DECT NR+ [1]. Since it's backward compatible with DECT it will be very supportive of real-time traffic for voice.

[1] What is DECT-2020 New Radio (NR), and how big a deal is it? (2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39849335