skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say getting into wet-shaving has saved me a lot of money, and led to a more luxurious shave.

The cost of safety-razor blades vs cartridge blades alone should makes it worth looking into.
I think that’s the reason they’re doing it; they realize it’s just a matter of time before regulation comes so they’re throwing caution to the winds until then to maximize profit
The mentioned Gaia-X seems to have some. eg https://www.ovh.com/blog/gaia-x-catalogue-search-engine-unde...
Apple Airpod Pros -- long battery life, near instant bluetooth tethering. Even other expensive headphones/earbuds (Bose) for instance could not compete with the ease of use, noise cancellation, and comfort.

I don't think about headphones anymore, they just work the way they're supposed to.
The local timeline is the key to enjoying Mastodon
I put myself into a news bubble about six weeks ago. I still very occasionally read local news and a mainstream front page (say, every few days), which seems sufficient to let me know what's going on in broad terms. Stuff leaks into the bubble (e.g., via HN) but the point is not to be totally isolated, just not to get caught in hours-long doom spirals.

I've given money to the campaigns that are going to get money from me. I voted yesterday (which answered the question, "are we going to get our mail-in ballots on time?"). I'm done.

As a consequence I'm getting more done and I'm happier. I'm reading a lot more books.
California is far from being a Red state. Gerrymandering has resulted into a democratic eco-chamber where the options typically are an crazy left v/s ultra left. My current candidate is promising Islam in public schools and legalization of discrimination based on gender and race. This guy a more of a "centrist" in democratic party.

Republicans on other than continue to peddle the same outdated Republican agenda that might fly in Alabama but not in California. Their usual hatred for Spanish speaking population, Asians and Indians shows even when they need these votes to win elections. Going to an area like Fremont where most spoken language might be Telugu and demanding "must speak English in USA" is a political suicide.
> Even if that would be true, The elephant in the room here is the abysmal participating rate of US elections and general voter suppression.

Voter “suppression” insofar as it exists works at the margins: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/19/suppression-issues-....

> Voter suppression issues rank low among reasons nonvoters stay home

I’ve never voted in a Presidential election, and I’m not going to vote in this one. I can walk to my nearest polling place. It just won’t change the outcome in my state and I really don’t care that much.

> There's no way the Republican party would ever win a fair, easy-to-vote, EU-style, election.

What is an “easy-to-vote, EU-style election?” The voting system in Georgia isn’t that different from say France. There is automatic registration when you get a driver’s license (which nearly everyone has). France doesn’t even have mail in voting: https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/1975/11/13/pour-redu...

> But universal healthcare has been popular in polls throughout the population for a long time, even though I assume that in a class based society like the US it must feel regressive, as upper middle-class and up, to be threatened by having to wait in the same queue as the poor for healthcare.

It’s popular conceptually until it comes time to make actual trade-offs. Biden won the Democratic nomination because his competitors’ single-payer proposals eliminated private insurance, something most people didn’t like. After Obama passed the ACA along party lines, voters handed Democrats a huge loss in the midterms, giving Republicans control of Congress for the rest of Obama’s term.
This statement is a bit confusing: are you saying that there is such a thing as too much code reuse? That it should be necessarily a bit difficult to integrate a third party library in your codebase?
They are leveraging their privileged hardware positions to enter adjacent high-value data markets that have little to do with their core business, from which they can generate considerable margin. Essentially, the hardware business becomes a loss leader for a sensor platform and data business. Many hardware companies are in a position to capture data models that would be difficult to acquire any other way, if they can stop thinking of themselves as hardware companies.

In the short-term, big tech companies can't replicate what is possible for these hardware companies. Longer term, I would expect these data sources to be commoditized as well.
Cordless vacuum
Still, what you're doing is something like downplaying the entire space program as being merely a happy accident resulting from building a better ICBM.

It's daft, and it oversimplifies the motives, goals, and characters of a hell of a lot of really great people. Sometimes military/defense applications is one of the best ways to guarantee funding. DARPA is even considered "defense" because it was decided that something like "those damn commies" being first to orbit a satellite happening again was unacceptable, and a technological lead was deemed a critical cornerstone of the United State's national defense strategy.

That that lead has been completely sacrificed in the last 60 or so years to foster increasing globalization in the foolhardy belief of winning over the communist bloc through capitalist flexing notwithstanding, the people who have been pushing the envelope have not by any stretch been some sort of series of diabolical Dr. Strangelove's. Quite the contrary in fact. It's just so easy for techies to get caught up in the pedantism of historical record they completely lose sight of the rest of humanity going on around them.
> The pre-seeded site list is generated based on the global percentage of site visitors who train Chrome to allow autoplay for that site; a site will be included on the list if a sizable majority of site visitors permit autoplay on it. The list is algorithmically generated, rather than manually curated, and with no minimum traffic requirement. With the implementation of the autoplay policy for Web Audio in M71, Web Audio playback is also included in calculating the MEI score for a given site.

https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay/autoplay-pre-s...
Noise-canceling headphones. I recommend Bose QC35 IIs. You don’t realize how loud the world normally is until you take them off.
An automated pet door. My dog loves to go in and out of the house every five minutes and whines annoyingly if he doesn't.
PRK eye surgery. Why did I wait so long?

Good, sturdy luggage.

A nice printer. Color laser with duplexing.
> Often times when asking about how to solve a problem in Rust, the answer comes in the form of "use crate X" rather than an explanation of how to solve the problem using the language itself.

Do you think this is a bad thing? How frequently would you say it's a better use of a software engineer's time to carefully reimplement a commoditized library that already exists for a speed improvement or to understand it?

I don't really understand arguments that you shouldn't introduce convenience and quality of life features because programmers will lean on them too much. Leaning on them is the point; the implicit thesis is that programmers no longer have to understand what's happening under the hood. It's specialization and division of labor applied to programming.

And if you really care, you can probably just look at the source code or pick up a book to learn how it works?
a Dishwasher.

Before buying it I would spend 45 minutes every night doing dishes.

Now I load the dishwasher in 10 minutes tops and go to bed half an hour earlier!

More sleep => better humor in the morning => happier family
Leaf razor... overall my favorite purchase in the past 2-3 years.
Do we see Baumol's effect with Indian developers?
If I had to boil it down to a quick sentence, I don't think I'd use the personal responsibility approach.

I think I'd go with something like "Not putting value on things outside your control."
Yes, I agree. Not all restrictions are agreed upon, and for those issues that are not easy to balance, great care has to be taken.

This is exactly the situation Manchester is in right now. The UK government has put it into a higher level of lockdown this week, but without the same type of financial support from the previous lockdown. The local government has been fighting this tooth-and-nail, with good reason.

I'm talking about the "my rights" crowd and generally these issues don't overlap with those.
> They don’t have to be altruistic as long as their interests align with those of their customers.

Exactly. You just summed up why capitalism works in a single brilliant sentence.
I agree with the process you describe - but the traps are things like running a beauty contest (Kaggle ?) of n models against the final test set...
Slightly unfair, to discredit the suffering of either side, though, right? Regardless of whether your views on the U.S. involved (Stockdale, who this article is about, believes the US gave up its moral high ground amongst the nations of the world by participating, for what it is worth - so he wasn't a fan of being there)

Human, generally, are really great at making people suffer. Was it right to be bombing North Vietnam? Was it right to be torturing people in prison camps?

Overall, I do agree that it would be interesting to learn from an memoirs from North Vietnamese at this time. I have never thought to look for that. So thank you for highlighting.
A Xiaomi Mi Pocket Magic Massager which I use almost daily. Because of decades of bad posture, I often have crippling tension in my neck muscles. After I discovered acupuncture, I realized that this small tens unit could provide a similar effect more conveniently.
Yeah, that was a bit lazy of me, but I was primarily making a point about why the two groups don't seem to be able to agree. That said the IFR does keep getting revised downwards, and last I remember it was still higher, but the same magnitude as seasonal flu.
If curious see also

Show HN from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17618059
Yes, we who have to hear about victimhood are the real victims.
This has actually also be proposed by Mark Warner in 2018 on a whitepaper titled “Potential Policy Proposals for Regulation of Social Media and Technology Firms”:
https://www.warner.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/d/3/d32c2f...

It discusses 20 topics for potential legislation, listed below. Look at items 13 and 16 in the whitepaper, they go very much along the lines of what you said.

1) Duty to clearly and conspicuously label bots
2) Duty to determine the origin of posts and/or accounts
3) Duty to identify inauthentic accounts
4) Make platforms liable for state-law torts (defamation, false light, public disclosure of private facts) for failure to take down deep fake or other manipulated audio/video content
5) Public Interest Data Access Bill
6) Require Interagency Task Force for Countering Asymmetric Threats to Democratic Institutions
7)Disclosure Requirements for Online Political Advertisements
8) Public Initiative for Media Literacy
9) Increasing Deterrence Against Foreign Manipulation
10) Information fiduciary
11) Privacy rulemaking authority at FTC
12) Comprehensive (GDPR-like) data protection legislation
13) 1st Party Consent for Data Collection
14) Statutory determination that so-called ‘dark patterns’ are unfair and deceptive trade practices
15) Algorithmic auditability/fairness
16) Data Transparency Bill
17) Data Portability Bill
18) Interoperability
19) Opening federal datasets to university researchers and qualified small businesses/startups
20) Essential Facilities Determinations
New version of Mapbox GL Native SDK core will be closed source
This point rings strongly true to me. I have a number of members of friends/family who have become very difficult to be around, because they’ve become so intense/constantly outraged about politics, even if they are on the same end of the political spectrum as me:

> The research doesn’t reveal precisely why we tend to dislike overly political people, but it doesn’t take too much imagination to guess that constant foam-flecked political outrage makes one quite tedious. It also impedes our ability to think clearly: At least one experiment has shown that people become less accurate in interpreting data when the data concern something politically polarizing.
I do love them, but the noise cancellation does bad things to bass and for my real low end stuff, produces a rattle? I turn it off when i want it full volume
> They found that those watching the most partisan television news sources—on both the left and the right—were often less knowledgeable about world events than those who consumed no news at all.

This is some very fancy footwork to leave out some key information. The study found that those watching only Fox News and MSNBC answered worse than people who watch no news programs at all. As far as I can tell, this latter group doesn't exclude people who read newspapers, blogs, political websites, etc. Meanwhile, all of the viewers of other programs/networks (NPR, Daily Show, CNN, etc.) score higher than average, so saying "often less knowledgable" kind of buries the lede if you ask me, which is that some "partisan" viewers are in fact, much more informed than others. Also, since the quiz the survey participants answered was split into domestic and international topics, FOX is the only network whose viewers consistently failed both on exceeding the average number of correct questions than achieved by "no news" viewers—MSNBC at least seems to be informing their viewers on domestic issues better than that baseline.

http://publicmind.fdu.edu/2012/confirmed/final.pdf
I'll half agree. This seems to me to just be a case of incompetent design rather than intentional evil. It's not a good solution but it's a workable solution--but whoever did it didn't realize it didn't need to be applied in Hong Kong.
Tax system does not allow for that; employees need to be paid at least minimum wage per sector, not equity, otherwise tax people will shut them down and health insurance will not exist (it is paid as percentage of salary). Every year if you have equity you need to pay taxes on the appreciation of what you own, so if you have a small salary and some equity you have no money to pay the taxes on equity. Good developers will not work for small salaries and the startup will have no money to pay.

And not the least, startups are shots to the Moon with the expectation that most will fail; you cannot do that in this case, if you guarantee the money there will be no motivation, if you don't guarantee any money there will be no funding. Investing is different in Europe, that's why there is no SV here.
> [...] which is impossible for non Google sites to do

No, they don't. This is false. It's a mechanism called Media Engagement Index, Google properties have zero advantage, and any site can get a high score.

Chrome ships with a preloaded MEI assembled from global telemetry data, which is then trained locally:

https://www.chromium.org/audio-video/autoplay/autoplay-pre-s...
A related Twitter thread:
https://twitter.com/richardf/status/1314481244344852480?s=20
What muscles do you use it on? My forearms have been super tight recently.
A bicycle.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for something different here.

We've had to ask you about this before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
Same, my new routine is I receive a daily news briefing email in the morning and read that, and then don't read/watch any other news for the rest of the day. I feel relatively informed but no longer feel as depressed as when I would check the front page of news sites every hour.

The other plus side to this is that the whiplash of rapidly developing news is never an issue. Previously the news headlines would speculate on new developments so frequently that you felt like you were always behind on what was current, but truthfully most news can wait 24 hours (and if it can't it's probably an emergency).
I second the experience of the other commenters. Keep it open long enough and it sucks up all the resources in non-chrome browsers. I also include Google Slides in my experience btw. It is more severe with Slides than docs.
Yes it's so smooth. I'm glad I bought the Amber color so I can hide it behind the improved case I bought.
Quite jealous, I had a similar setup till all the US staff in my org wanted "moar agile meetings" and of course they want all the meetings in prime time PDT slots, screw anyone else not in that time zone. Now I'm forced into sleep schedules I just cannot get used too.
You've been breaking the HN guidelines a lot lately. We ban accounts that do that, and we've had to ask you about this multiple times before. You've been doing it mostly for political battle but not only—for example, gratuitous nasty swipes like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724475 are not ok either.

Would you mind reviewing the site guidelines? Note these ones:

"Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive."

"Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community."

"Please don't use uppercase for emphasis. If you want to emphasize a word or phrase, put asterisks around it and it will get italicized."

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think the traffic gets proxied (not sure if it's encrypted) back to servers run by your home carrier. So conversely if you use a China Mobile SIM in Hong Kong or overseas your traffic gets firewalled.
That seems like an odd way to compare things if so - compilation/transpilation will only happen once, then the code will run many times.
I find news as a concept quite weird, since it implies recent data is important data, with all its side effects. There is a ton of old news, maybe even years, that did not loose relevance, but we simply ignore it.
I wouldn't call it that, but this might be usable for you: https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook

Or maybe not: https://github.com/dequis/purple-facebook/issues/496

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/building...
Books. A few handfuls of them, combined, made a magnitude of a difference in my quality of life.

An incredible amount of similar content is available now in video and text form for free, but I think that the same ideas non-book form wouldn't have had the same impact on me.
Would this apply to iMessage?
Sorry, that is exactly the attitude that got us into the mess we are in. I for one care very little for activists doing journalism. Just tell people the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth as best as you can ascertain it and let them make their own choices.
You seem very knowledgeable about engineering these types of solutions. What is your background?

The reason I ask is because after seeing the OP video (which is remarkable) I am left thinking that in terms of getting a cheap MVP to the market maybe a ballistic system of some sort would be preferable.

Take the same approach of using a high speed camera but using a pneumatic launcher shoot a handful of grains of sand at high speed. There are obvious downsides to this approach but the risk to human health is lower. Thoughts?
C doesn't even have a standard filesystem library!
As I’m reading S4c2c it looks like this would be prohibited.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/265...
No it doesn't, you need to impersonate an user and login with your password in order to relay messages outside of FB messenger. That said, it has been done: https://github.com/tulir/mautrix-facebook
Automated cat infrastructure: automatic USB water fountain[0], food dispenser[1], Litter Robot 3[2] (as of recently, with a homebrew controller[3]).

These allow me a good four days of absence from the house - for camping or whatever else. Doesn't happen often that both the wife and I are MIA, but when it does, these things are indespensable.

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07WGLYV22/

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VIXRB6O/

[2]: https://www.litter-robot.com/litter-robot-3.html

[3]: https://litter-controller.smaslennikov.com/
Seconded. The stick kind with a variety of heads, including a head for hardwood floors. Game changer, at least since having a kid.
What other outcome would be expected for foreigners meddling in affairs of other nations?

As an outsider, China seems to be a nation of ripoffs and corruption. I am an outsider though and wouldn't be saying that if I was a guest visiting there.
This is very easy for me, I bought a Boosted Rev electric scooter last year. It cut my commute time nearly in half compared to biking to work (before covid), I don't arrive hot and sweaty in summer and in winter a helmet with a visor keeps me totally warm. It is powerful and sturdy enough that my wife and I can ride together, now that's how we get around Manhattan. All the benefits of a car + bike in a smaller package that can fold down to fit in the back of a taxi or be carried on the subway.

I've said this here before I think, but the Segway inventor was claiming cities would be designed around it and everyone was laughing, but with an electric scooter I can totally see this happening.
I use my Ixo roughly once a week somewhere in the house. I'm not sure what more of a "suite" I could use.
Tesla Model 3. 'Measurably' is subjective, but I graduated from a BMW 328i, which I loved dearly. The Model 3 is more fun in almost every way, and costs far, far less in maintenance. No gas stations, diamond lane, cost to operate is far less.
This is absolute fucking nonsense, FYI. You’re complaining about UX in the context of a bug triggered by your configuration. You could probably have identified the request that causes it in the time it took to write this comment.
Rewind to 2013: MacBook Air.

More recently, a thermostat with a remote room sensor.
Agree 100%. A while back I decided one of the best ways I could improve my quality of life was to look at every object I use every day and slowly replace them all with the premium/BIFL versions.

It has been a success, and my two safety blade razors are standout exemplars.

Another random one: a nice but basic digital kitchen timer. I no longer yell at Siri at 6:30 in the morning when it doesn’t understand my timer request!
I use uBlock Origin and PrivacyBadger (which are both free). Does Adguard work better/differently to justify the cost?
> In case a website is not available anymore, the stealth:fix-request error page allows to download websites automagically from trusted Peers

How is trust inferred? I'd rather have a trustless architecture built out of dumb pipes and Signed HTTP Exchanges.
Pipelines Management (Workflow management)
The second link is wrong (copy paste error?)

Good resource.
> We do have these. Scientists and journalists. As we know, they aren’t perfect, but they do pretty well.

Exactly, and it's a good thing if the social media networks (for instance) follow their lead when it comes to handling disinformation, conspiracy theories, and other lies and falsehoods.

Also not all journalists and media organizations are equally credible, and some effort needs to be made to evaluate them. For instance, here's Wikipedia's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Reliable_sources/Per....
Or just stop using those services. Privacy can be a competitive advantage.
Pro does it fairly often. I have 2 notebooks and a desktop that experience it. It's possible to disable it via group policy as far as I know.

The annoying thing is that the advance warning is gone, probably some default setting says that it will reboot sometime, but I very rarely get notified that updates are pending and that today/tomorrow I'll get a forced reboot. It just does it when I lock/close/sleep the laptop/desktop.
Could I use them to cut off external noise that keeps me awake when I am trying to sleep?