skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We bought some Brother labeling tape last week. They came in what looks like Brother packaging but it's named 'Better', P-touch is swapped out with B-touch...

The labels are inferior, the ink comes off, the labels unstick after a few days...how does Amazon even let this trash on their site?
How I Remember My YubiKey
> You seem to disregard that in many countries the alternative to "sweatshop labor" is becoming a beggar.

Know who hasn't disregarded this? The wealthy people exploiting it, who pointed it out to you in the hope that this level of depth on the matter was all you needed.

Nobody on HN is a participant in a race to the bottom. Don't advocate it as a career strategy.
I don't think the parent was claiming the Rust was better in this regard, just that it was no worse. Other languages also restrict standard library features on some platforms.
Or they just abbreviate to 1M dollars, they offered slightly more, but they also did offer 1M dollars worth of euros.
I feel the same that you describe. I was a kid in early 2000's and many things I used to access were not preserved in anyway. I'm so sad about it. That's why I mirror the sites nowadays. The problem is that sites are bigger now are harder to spider sometimes.
What about everywhere else? There are other places. Some of them are not Phoenix or Dallas either.
I think SingleFile or SingleFileZ [1] would indeed solve your needs.

[1] https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFileZ
I use my VPS for several other things and because it already runs ssh, this was easier for me, so I've never looked into openvpn. I keep telling myself once wireguard is merged into the kernel I will really invest some time into getting up to speed on it.
The article is mostly taking about passive solutions. But yeah, geothermal heat pumps are just refrigerant based A/C systems with the condensor (or evaporator, or fancy reversible valve to switch back and forth for heat or cool) stuck in the ground.
The last sentence of the video is “google wave, because... because... fuck you exasperated sigh”.

I burst out laughing at that and I’ve been trying to figure out why.

Laughter is an act of destruction, an emotional declaration that this thing is not part of reality and wiping it out of existence.

A lot of what tech companies do feels like a fuck you. Killing Google Reader without explanation, disabling the full capabilities of ad blockers, removing headphone jacks, letting third parties exploit our social data, hiding the full scope of data collection behind a vague “we will use your data to improve the service”, and so much more.

The relationship between tech companies and customers wasn’t nearly so adversarial 20-30 years ago. In the 1980s, it felt like Microsoft was really on a mission to bring computers to everyone. Sony was creating tech to allow us to listen to our existing music collections. By the late 90s, Apple’s big idea was basically “candy color are pretty, they will make our users happy, so let’s make good colorful cases”.

And up to the mid 00s, google really seemed like a champion and advocate for internet users. It felt like (though in hindsight it was an illusion) that when policy decisions were being made, we could trust Google to be our voice when we weren’t in the room.

“Because fuck you” would not have been at all funny back then.
They are the future if you believe the institutional/inertial/lobbying power of the century old ICE will be insurmountable. As storage and solar/wind $/kW costs continue to fall, hydrogen is looking less promising.

Interesting note, hydrogen motion is governed more by quantum tunneling than by Fickian diffusion which makes it materially challenging to effectively store at high energy densities. From an infrastructure standpoint, it is much lower in costs to store and transmit electrons than it is atoms (which is intuitive from a simple mass balance argument).
Yes, CC0 is the only Creative Commons License suitable for software. It's endorsed by the Free Software Foundation [1], although not the Open Source Initiative. I use it for everything that I don't want to copyleft.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#PublicDomain
yes, docs came from writely. sheets came from xl2web.
Svelte 3.9, creating a Svelte component lib, Sapper for dummies (Svelte Status)
"Popular vote" is a deceptive concept here since some of the states rely on caucuses instead of primaries to choose their delegates to the convention.
Ask HN: I made a gallery for workspaces, how can I improve it?
A few months ago, I launched a gallery of workspaces/gaming setups with pictures and product links. I tried to make the website as fast as possible and mobile friendly, then I focused on content and adding more setups, what else should I do to improve it?

https://gallery.topsetup.tech
Amazon overall quality has droped in recent years.

I use to buy from Amazon because I knew I was buying original brands and no chinese cheap copies. Well, that changed a lot. There are specific things that I still buy from Amazon but on most things there's almost no difference between they and Aliexpress. I can buy the same products from Aliexpress way cheaper and have them delivered in 2-3 days.

Thankfully there are a lot of small online shops where quality and customer support are taken very seriously. The bad thing is these stores are very specific so if I need different unrelated products I have to buy from several stores, having to pay sometimes a few euro for the delivery. This also made me buy less stuff. Now I generally wait until I need more things or until my cart has enough stuff for a free delivery.
I appreciate why the title was modified from the original, but the mistaken use of "it's" rather than "its" was introduced in the process and should be corrected.
this is not correct. TF was originated and written by Jeff Dean and some other folks after their experience with distbelief.
Target.com doesn’t have resellers yet.
I wouldn't say it's taught in almost all high school history classes. In my experience the history curriculum doesn't cover very many things past world war 2. For example the New York State social studies curriculum has everything from 1945-1990 in a single unit, with the Vietnam war being a sub-unit ( http://www.nysed.gov/common/nysed/files/programs/curriculum-... )
What AI projects are so controversial a founder is place on leave or is this just about Google high jacking his operation?

> DeepMind has been vague about the situation, but Bloomberg claims the move stems from controversy over some of Suleyman’s projects.
The Hindenburg carried around 200k m³ of hydrogen, or 18,000kg, storing 2.54 PJ of energy, or equivalent to 56,400 kg of jet fuel. A 747 can carry more than four times that (240k-ish); an A320 or 737 carries slightly more than half (25k-ish). The Hindenburg only carried some 70 passengers, though.
Before they release it, they need to prove to themselves it's safe (I'm speaking morally). I'm not sure why so many on HN seem to think it's the other way around, that you have to prove it's dangerous before withholding it. $500k for reproduction is peanuts for a nation state but quite a bit for many other groups who might be interested.

Even if it is entirely safe, it's still good to withhold it because it helps create a culture where people think about the safety of their projects before releasing them
Solar powered AC
Encharge: $3,950 in Pre-Orders – How to Validate a SaaS Idea
> You can still buy a brand-name cable from Best Buy or other retailers that people used to use before everyone was trying to save a few pennies.

It seems in the last year or two Best-Buy has wised up with their Insignia brand, but it used to be all you could find was $40 Monster Cable and the like in their stores. Using Amazon was saving quite a bit more than a few pennies.
MIT reveals Jeffrey Epstein donated $800K to its Media Lab and a professor
Same as below, You can prove that something can not exist, typically by proving its existence would lead to a contradiction. You can also prove exhaustively that some thing that can exist does in fact not exist if the set of potential evidence of existence is finite.
where you run into trouble is in cases were something could exist, but the set of potential evidence is infinite or for practical purposes beyond the means of exhaustive coverage.

IMHO, not a professional philosopher
Interoperability with Swift and C++
Managing Older Workers
My house has an attic, and an attic fan or vent helps a lot.

I have cheap asphalt roof shingles (even so, $10K to replace them)- I did look into reflective shingles, but they were much more expensive, plus I had to consider resale value..
>I'll block under my door to keep that cold air in.

Wasnt there concern that sleeping with a closed door raised CO2 levels?
The First Time SICP Blew My Mind
> cellophane-wrapped cucumbers

That wouldn’t be actually all too bad: Cellulose is made out of wood, cotton, hemp or other natural materials and is fully biodegradable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellophane
discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20762031
I asked the same thing a few years back. A lawyer friend of mine (not legal advice) said the company with the license does not need to transfer it since it's still used within the same customer: the company. The only difference is the definition of the company changed to include far more branches of employees, IP, and more.

Think about name changes for humans. You don't have to re-sign all of your contracts and potentially pay penalties for breaking and re-entering contracts in doing so. It is understood that you're still the same person but going by another identifier. Same here. Same company, another identifier.
It depends on how you use Oracle DB, but in my opinion SQL Server and Postgres can both replace Oracle for every application I've ever seen.
Similarly, there is a vegetable known as the heart-of-the-palm, or otherwise known as millionaire's cabbage, which can be harvested from a fully grown coconut tree, but which will kill the tree once harvested.
> More than half of the respondents said they either had a negative experience while applying for engineering internships or knew another woman who had a negative experience, such as being subjected to gender-biased interview questions and inappropriate remarks, or observing a noticeable lack of diversity when they interacted with company representatives during the interview process.

Using statistics that lump "noticeable lack of diversity" into the same category as "inappropriate remarks" really undercuts the message. It makes the reporting appear dishonest and I had to read the rest of the article much more critically. It feels like someone wanted to start that paragraph with "more than half" to make the problem seem as big as possible, and then throw a run-on sentence in the readers face hoping they don't notice two issues of very different severity are conflated.
There is FTTH in more places than you might realize:

https://broadbandnow.com/Fiber

I live in Nashville and we have FTTH from both AT&T and Google as well as gigabit service from Comcast. I think the problem is the US is really, really big and we widely deployed cable which has been "good enough" (DOCSIS 3.x at 300, 500Mb/s or more) that there historically hasn't been much incentive for people to deploy really expensive fiber networks.

But it is certainly improving all the time. I think services like Starlink and fixed 5G are really driving carriers to start deploying more fiber to compete.
Because, money.
Did you seriously changed your opinion about GWB? Why? For me it's same, no reason to change it, no new facts to paint him better that what he really was. If I missed something in recent years about him then I am more than happy to learn more.

I will always remember his face from Fahrenheit during kindergarten visit when he was told about 9/11 and how he froze for 10 minutes. I don't like that 'document' and I don't like Moore since he was far from objective, but GWB is a rather dark figure. He has blood of hundreds of thousands if not millions on his hands and that is never ever going away.
Animated – True Scary Walmart Horror Stories (Vol.16)
Yep, I'll look into this, thanks!
> By contrast the music industry manages to cooperate and get their content available across the various streaming services and consequently I haven't pirated music for a long long time.

You can get pretty much any TV shows or movies on iTunes or Google Play.

For sure you won't be able to access every TV shows or movies for 15$ a month... that's just absurd.
Not only that but they have the willful bait and switch when it comes to shippng method. Pay for 2 day, but it defaults to 7, you have to manually select 2 day. I got burned by that, never again.

Edit this was a couple of weeks before Christmas, so I figured it was a "seasonal" "feature".
Instead of building a star destroy you could build a full scale Zerg Overlord for much cheaper, may only require a multi millionaire.
Python isn't slow. Running a lot of Python is slow.
Notice that "
" delimiter. A lot of the samples I generated had that, and would then rapidly switch into a whole different tone or style. Maybe there was an error in their training where they somehow didn't separate training samples properly? I don't know enough about machine learning to say.

I also find it interesting that this sample got -4 points where the Sokal affair sample I posted got +4 points.

I imagine it has more to do with the emotions each sample evokes in various hackernews readers. Could it be that hackernews readers are likely to have a distaste for postcolonialism, but are likely to be fans of materialist rationalism? I think so, based on years of reading their comments :)
Agreed. Feels like something got lost in translation and they meant for the concept of burndown.
How do you assess quality on eBay, e.g. for cables?
there's basically nowhere you can buy a USB type C cable and have it be guaranteed not to violate the spec. maybe the Apple store.

the situation with usb-c is particularly bad, but I don't think there's ever been a time where you can just blindly buy tech and expecta high quality product. you have to be willing to do at least some research.
hahaha good one
Obligatory reading:
The Revenge of the Circulating Fan
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air...
This is the same issue I've had with walmart.

For a long time now it's been obvious they have brands make "special versions" of many products for walmart which are lower quality and cheaper.

Now they are offering free one and 2 day delivery on their site, but I just don't want to go there for fear that I'll end up getting what looks like a "good deal" but what I'll actually get is a worse more cheaply made product.

And like you I also avoid Amazon now for many things for fear of getting knockoffs. Most electronics and chargers/cables and things like it. Between their issues with commingling inventory from multiple sellers and 3rd party sellers basically having completely broken their review system (it's exhausting having to weed out the fake reviews from the real ones every time I'm looking at a product).

Amazon is quickly becoming another site that I'll start avoiding at all costs. I've started looking for replacements for many thing I buy, and once I've switched i'm really unlikely to go back just like how I'm basically never going to go back to Walmart because they burned all my trust.
All that really matters is the entry point size in modern application. I built an admin console for our company in react and it's downloaded and rendered in 220ms. People can make performant SPA's they just choose not to.
the 11000 lawsuits against Monsanto are the high price of the negative externalities. the article is about them attempting to game the political process to neutralize that.
The article specifically indicates it (and other techniques in concert) works in Jaipur. It's not going to work 100% of the time in all places, but even in hot, humid areas improvements can be made.

> This allows air conditioning to be used very modestly, when it is necessary at all.

I'm not sure why every thread about energy efficiency improvements has people come in and do the "it's not a perfect solution for these edge cases" thing. Everyone knows that already, and it's totally beside the point.
> I think Stadia is primed to eat the gaming world's lunch.

Not in the US, with most residential ISPs having arbitrary 1TB data caps.
No worries the snakeoil antivirus suites already does that for you ;-)
The "diamonds in poop" emojis especially give the impression that it is not a real product. FYI you use "rodmap" instead of "roadmap"
Interesting, I hadn't heard that. That certainly makes sense. Might have to stop that one. This was just the one or two times I use the A/C, because otherwise my bedroom windows are both open (one of which with a window fan). But yeah, I hadn't considered that!
Actually, GoAccess has web interface as well.
This is an interesting article. If you like this kind of thing you might enjoy books by Gerd Gigerenzer.

I find the article's use of percentages frustrating. We know people find it hard to understand percentages, so this article should give the question twice - the first using percentages and the second using natural frequencies.

"A machine has been invented to scan a population for a disease. The machine is good but not perfect. If you have the disease there is a 90% chance it will return positive. If you do not have the disease there is a 1% chance it will return positive. About 1% of the population have the disease. Mr Smith is tested, and the test comes back positive. What's the chance Mr Smith actually has the disease?"

(This is from "Reckoning with Risk" by Gerd Gigerenzer).

Most people cannot get the right answer from this question.

If you reword the question they can.

"Think of a group of 100 people. 1 of them has a disease. The entire group is screened. The one person who has the disease tests positive. Of the 99 people who don't have the disease one person will also test positive. How many people of those who test positive have the disease?"
I hope they do this, for a more consistent product experience. I actually do not trust Amazon to deliver a legitimate product now.
> Despite winning, he couldn’t resist calling it rigged and saying millions of illegal votes were cast.

This is the bit in particular I'm responding to. Wouldn't it be more worth criticizing to stop saying the election was rigged once you won it?

Nobody here is particularly saying he's generally consistent, though on that matter it can sometimes be said.

People you don't like, you shouldn't rely on them to be wrong and bad in every way just to prove your one point; your foes will have a tendency to let you down on that!
There’s a trivial way for native English speakers to learn this rule: replace ‘it’ with ‘his’, appropriately, adjust comma to suit.

> Amazon has ceded control of hi’s site to a 3rd party...

Obviously incorrect.
Got me, too
Nearly 50% of the country voted for Donald Trump, too. I don't know what you think that suggests.
They were sued for the recklessly mislabeled helmet and still didn't take the posting down?

Even if they could've argued that they themselves were fooled by the seller initially, not following up after the guy was killed points to a much bigger issue. Basically they just don't give a shit.

Side note: I'm filled with dread just thinking about buying a motorcycle helmet from amazon.
No mention of the downto (-->) operator?

int x = 10;
while (x --> 0) {
printf("%d ", x);
}
This is the third spelling error on HN titles in the last 72 hours. Sort of disappointing.
You are taking this chart too seriously. Burndown, burnup, burnout...
There are also air conditioners that don't use refrigerated air. The principles of it are similar to the evaporative cooling mentioned in the article but with a fan and water pump. If your climate is dry enough to use it, it can be a great option and much cheaper than refrigerated air. You'll see one on the roof of almost every home driving through certain neighborhoods of El Paso.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evaporative_cooler
> Movies like infinity war make several orders of magnitude more money at the box office than home release.

Your example is the world record at the box office... they don't all gain as much.

Plenty of movies and TV shows depends on the cash they make from streaming service. Hell it's not even yours to decide whether they made enough profit. Why not make your own movie if that so profitable? You know damn well it's not that profitable and most struggle.
> There’s a trivial way for native English speakers to learn this rule: replace ‘it’ with ‘his’, appropriately, adjust comma to suit.

I prefer the handy jingle, "If it's supposed to be possessive, it's just i-t-s, if it's supposed to be a contraction it's i-t-apostrophe-s. Scalawag."
I don't expect a big change unless customers start leaving in droves. Something like half of Amazon's revenue is a direct result of the third party sellers, they won't cut that off anytime soon. They neglect those sellers and the API because there is no incentive not to.
I listened to some podcast about these places. Apparently the sewers were well preserved and we could get an idea of their diet from it. They ate giraffes!
Boston here: yup, 90% RH at 80F is awful. 40% RH at 80F is merely warm, and a fan works well to alleviate that.
No, I did not. But society at large seems to.
I think you overestimate how engaged and educated the average american is on what facebook does, and I say this as an american. I don't think most people made a conscious evaluation of the pros and cons of Facebook and the trade off between privacy and value. The vast majority don't know or care. I think the large number of people you see leaving Facebook are people who are more informed.
Read the seller's feedback.
I have not found this to be the case for almost anything I have bought. It is almost always more expensive on eBay now.
I think Arnade has good instincts, and the blog that all of this started with remains a wonderful read.

But I wish he would broaden the scope of his polemic. It’s all about how rich people need to empathize better with not-rich people, but it never goes beyond that into looking at why our society is the way it is. Why can you find so many people congregating at McDonald’s? My answer would be that we spent the last few decades slowly eliminating our public spaces to the point that McDonald’s is all most communities have left. That doesn’t need to be his take but it would be nice to see one.

On the other hand, maybe I should leave well enough alone. His profiles of the people he met in Hunts Point are incredible examples of treating people with dignity who our society has completely discarded. Ultimately a very Christian act, i would say.
I wonder if Amazon won't somehow kill itself with poor quality. I needed a bunch of LED bulbs recently and I knew exactly what I was looking for - about a dozen 40W eq, two 60w eq and two 100w eq, all in 2700K and two 100w in 3000K.

Amazon was a mess - prices were all over the place, exact products were hard to find, etc. Dollarama had them all for $2.50, $3.50 and $4.00 a piece, usually in all three flavours (2700, 3000 and 5000K).

Made me want to start a Shopify store called "Bullshit Free Bulbs". bullshitfreebulbs.com is available btw.
Didn't know China bought $75 billion worth of American exports to begin with.
It's an apostrophe, not a comma, and unfortunately that won't work in the case where it should be "it's", like at the start of this sentence, but yes. "It's" only ever means "it is" or "it has". </pedantic>
Well, that escalated at an intermediate pace.