skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Future humans will wonder why humanity wasted so much valuable time, effort and real for no reason.
How a shadow army of ghost kitchens took over America’s restaurants
I was going to write something inappropriate .. then I noticed "girlfriend's mother".
Out of curiosity : how do you know it reliably detects it?

I have a polar watch that also tracks my sleep and presents it in a nice plot. I have no way to check whether that plot is a good representation of my night, or whether they just randomly put in a few blocks and mark them as REM.

I don't mean to imply that I don't trust the device or anything. I'm just saying I have no way to verify how reliable it really is.
If you select meat marked with (certain? most?) eco labels the animals are mostly fed grass or similar.

I tried finding the English page corresponding to https://www.wwf.se/mat-och-jordbruk/kottguiden/ekologiskt-no... but failed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A data plan's a heck of a lot cheaper than rent.
>If the grass pasture is already there in cycle, it's not being used for anything else. Might as well put cattle on it.

This is true, technically speaking. Practically, you couldn't produce even a fraction of the amount of meat that the market wants using this way. If all meat was grass fed meat, it would be a luxury good. I don't think that would be too bad to be honest, it would lead to much less meat consumption overall.

Basically, "just eat grass fed meat" = "everyone must eat a lot less meat, unless they're rich I guess"
He also says he doesn't actually have a real heat pump setup because it's too expensive.
I would guess the US has 100x more fright trains than Canada. Some towns will have rails going through them, others not.
Some people enjoy horse riding.
Welcome to Qarnot.

https://qarnot.com/en/the-radiator-computer/
He isn't using a heatpump. It's too expensive he says.
Europe, I guess? I had a talk late last year with a local brewery (traditinal bavarian one, family operated since the 1400s). And apparently everyone, especially Coca Cola, is going for glass right now. To the point reusable glass bottles are an actual bottle neck for them. Mind you, depsite the Covid caused demand drop. That was quite an interesting fun fact for me.
Not just turing complete, but impure. Configuration files shouldn't be able to perform arbitrary IO.

Starlark to solve this exact problem, and is a Python subset so that people don't have to learn something totally new either. It's still turing complete, but at least guaranteed to not have any side effects, or even be able to access anything but an explicitly given execution context.
Google as a search engine specifically. The legislation targeted Google and Facebook.
'Proof of Useful Work', as opposed to proof of work, is a thing!

https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/203.pdf
For years in an apartment I generated heat using surplus servers folding proteins. Some servers that are still quite fast and only a few years old are pretty cheap on eBay. Dockerize the whole thing and it’s easy to start and stop. One time I woke up however and it was especially cold, I realized I had a network issue and my servers could not get any more work units...
> That's not how quotes work

Quotes are commonly used to mark a specific novel phrase. I was not intending to imply that it was a phrase from the article.

> The article is saying Amtrak, a half baked VIA, is the closest thing they, in Texas, have to CN.

I disagree with the interpretation, and this claim is still wrong.

First of all, the part I quoted makes a statement about the US, not just Texas. I realize that the previous sentence mentions Texas, but this sentence is clearly naming the country as a whole.

Second, if the article is saying that, this claim would also be incorrect. There are actual rail providers that own significant amounts of railway in Texas, and Amtrak (like VIA Rail) is not one of them.

Here's a decent map: https://www.intekfreight-logistics.com/intermodal-network-ma...

> If my buddy has a Humvee and I say, "Unfortunately, the closest thing I have is a Schwinn", I'm not saying their Humvee is a bicycle.

Yes. Unfortunately for the author, the US has multiple Humvee equivalents depending on the region, so saying that the "closest thing I have is a Schwinn" is just false when Union Pacific (among others) exists in Texas and is in the same market as Canadian National.
I'm thinking in terms of an organism going against its own ecosystem.

Imagine if a new species of killer ant evolved that has no natural predators, procreates quickly and eats up its habitat. For a short while it's going to be the greatest species in its ecosystem...

Of course we likely wouldn't see such an ant because it would have wiped itself out by resource exhaustion unless it adapted (or e.g. a natural predator came about).

An ant couldn't do much about its biological makeup or its instincts and so nature would run its course; it lacks self-awareness and general intelligence.

Now imagine humanity, posessing these traits, would recognize that it itself is the killer ant and would organize itself with their great scientific and economic prowess and with the same fervor it discusses about banalities during this - historically speaking - mild pandemic (mild in the sense that coronavirus is not the black death, not mild in the sense that so many people died unnecessarily due to our own shortcomings) to not eat their habitat. Or it would stop constantly working against its self-imposed conflicting incentives in poltics or the economy. Or it would stop trapping hundreds of millions of people in self-serving mind cages optimizing for metrics that make no sense and pondering about how to best mind control their userbase. Or it would stop allocating so many resources (money) towards fads, consumption crap and get-rich-quick schemes.

The pandemic forced our hands, it couldn't be kicked down the road for some later time (an excellent motivator!) and so we adapted; unfortunately biosphere degradation as a whole does not yet, which is why our reaction is so sluggish and overconsumption or pollution are still mostly seen as some optional or cosmetic problem (but at least they're seen, I guess).

And no, many solutions offered by businesses are none: replacing hundreds of millions of cars with hundreds of millions of other cars? Replacing plastic straws in fast food restaurants with paper ones while the food served there is subsidized by an agricultural industry with ridiculous land use (just look at current satellite maps... holy crap).

The patient earth is ill and treating overconsumption with another (more nicely dressed) form of overconsumption is symptomatic at best and a distraction. If you're a smoker the only thing you can do to truly cure the ailments is to fix the root cause and stop smoking, not take pills to mask the symptoms.

I hope one of these days a critical mass realizes that modern manufactured-demand capitalism has run its course or we're in for a bad time (the more sensitive individuals already are). But I suppose that would entail realizing that so many of us dependent on it have been living a lie.

/rant (not really related to parent, so sorry if you felt antagonized, but I had to let this out somewhere whew)

P.S. Somewhat related to the article: I recently discovered these good looking closed aquariums called ecosphere. Turns out if you put higher organisms like shrimp in there they won't procreate due to bad environmental conditions.
> A problem with such tiny cars is that they cannot absorb enough kinetic energy in a crash.

It's not about absorbing kinetic energy. It's about spreading out the deceleration to the human over a longer period of time. The total energy imparted to the human will be the same (the integral of force over time), and even the same as if you used the brake to stop the car.
Have you experimented with a more constrained niche like Hackerranking? My take is that people would pay for automating the useless interview rounds or at least to have some handholding. Easier on the scheduling as well. Win-win-win for all sides considered.

edit: conversely I would be interested to know if such an option already exists
And some people are cannibals.
Which ports need to be open to use Skype on desktop?
This is already the status quo, and has been for many years now. There are only rare examples today where companies that have a plausible prospect of growing >100X, go public before this growth happens.

I'm inclined to agree with you that defending some sort of insider advantage is part of the reason, along with expensive regulations and avoiding manipulative, activist speculative behavior.
It applied initially to Google and Facebook. The Treasurer has the power to apply it to other companies in the future.
British Gas commits to all-electric UK road fleet by 2025
rif is still the better app, as is offline reddit.
But why should re-jsoning keep //-comments? I never met the need for that personally. Comments help initial filename.json to be parsed by human eyes, and when it is sucked into a program (and possibly transformed), they lose meaning, even when pretty printed. For them to stay, one can put comments into real keys and/or structure their data appropriately.

Even if one ultimately needs to keep json document’s human structure (like key order, comments, whitespace nuances), they may create and use more syntax structure-aware library to do that.
Yeah, the problem is that you cannot spend your Bitcoin directly. If you could use your dollars to buy Bitcoin and then proceed to buy a pizza you wouldn't have to pay taxes.

In practice the only ones who are actively using their Bitcoin for consumer spending use a credit card where they deposit their cryptocurrency. Since the credit card company is automatically converting your cryptocurrency back to dollars you have to pay taxes on the gains.
I think you've got the right idea. It's about incentives.

With fake positive reviews, the seller has an incentive to leave them up, and Amazon has no particular incentive to remove them -- you, a random user, has to somehow convince Amazon to take them down.

With fake negative reviews, the seller has an incentive to get them taken down, and has the data to prove that the reviewer didn't actually buy the item. (Actually buying all your competitor's items to leave fake negative reviews about them would dramatically increase the cost of the tactic.)

End result: ignore positive reviews because they're easily faked, check negative reviews because they're probably accurate.
If the solution is to store config in a format with comments and strip them off before handing to JSON, what should that format be? Shouldn't it be formalized? Couldn't JWCC be that format?
Noreply@: Dumbest Thing Ever?
Parts of reddit are of large negative value to the world. But I guess those are social externalities from the advertiser's point of view.
Regulating Bitcoin mining is definitively something that is doable, but Bitcoin itself? Completely fruitless unless you can pit Bitcoin users against each other.
Bitcoin mining is still wastes half of the electricity of dormant (plugged in but unused) electrical devices in the US -- it's bad but we do other things that are worse
> Ikea and Office Depot remained open nearly everywhere...

Ikea chair caused hip damage, I stood for some time which fucked my knees up, then I bought another chair for $ 1000 but damage was already done by IKEA chair, and it did not help much, compensation I had to make for hip caused back injury, then I bought another for $ 1000, still did not help.

No tax deductions, no subsidies, no free cash, nothing.

So I am now unable to work, I am out more than $2000, and I will likely lose my job and be deported now, and I will be in constant pain for hours on the flight back and will be bedridden for the rest of my life.

I would give everything I have to be able to sit at a computer and concentrate for more than 5 minutes again.
I think a first-order explanation (that probably breaks down quickly) is that often many fixed costs are paid in the local currency, such as salaries and rent. To be profitable (in the local currency that they care about) they need to take a certain price, otherwise they're operating at a loss. Currency fluctuations affect all these factors equally so that in the end your product is cheaper for the importer. The salaries and other costs are of course lower as well when the local currency is exchanged to whatever currency the trade is taking place in.

The flip side is of course when you rely on imports to produce your exports (natural resources for example)
Show HN: Scheduling and creating Twitter threads made easy
The largest library of historical European martial arts books and manuscripts
News sites are certainly welcome to tell Google not to index their sites and I'm sure Facebook would be happy to set up a similar system. The fact they don't shows that they know they receive value from these links.
Hah! I thought it must have been submitted before and expected that my submission would take me to the discussion. I didn't have time to backtrack and do the search separately, although I should have.

Thank you.
The prices are lower now because they are trying to make a point. When this reason will dissapear they have no reason not to raise the price again.
The video at the end of this page, and the discussion before it, show how little force is required to keep a train moving. A very strong man can move a 70-ton locomotive:

https://www.nscale.net/forums/showthread.php?26818-Could-an-...

Or a person can start a single rail vehicle moving using a lever under a wheel, by hand:

https://www.aldonco.com/store/p/198-Manual-Car-Mover-with-gu...

Using one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W8c_jMVYAs
Produce electricity? I assume electricity was used to do the computation in the first place, turning into let's say 80% work and 20% heat. The idea was to use that 20% to heat our homes. The original electricity still needs to come from elsewhere.
I recall the Daily Show finding out it was the only source of "news" for many of its viewers despite being a comedy show. People watched for a laugh, but also got some exposure to the news as a side effect.
Would an attack on stablecoins indirectly cause the value of Bitcoin to go down? The government could even turn itself into the good guy by letting people cash out at a favorable rate once they go bust.
Lots of plastic containers for left over food claims to be microwave friendly.

There are several pre-made food products on the market with plastic containers that instructs you to cook them in microwave with the plastic packaging still on. One product I tried recently even had a little tab on the plastic wrapper that would start whistling when the food was done. I think I tried it that one time. I don't usually buy things like that.
I wonder if it's Teflon in general or damaged Teflon pans - many people do not used them correctly, overheat them and have damaged coatings that leak chemicals.

You can go check perfectly fine pans having 1-star Amazon reviews "Pan sticking after a month!".
I understand your point but it does gloss over the fact that the calculations are useful to the bitcoin network in terms of security.
Free shipping means the cost of shipping is calculated into the price.
The second paragraph begins with:

> My house is heated (and cooled) with a central ventilation system powered by a heat pump.

He is definitely using a heat pump.
Ask HN: Is Bitcoin the perfect cover for the singularity?
So I was thinking, what a crazy year - it almost seems too bizarre to be the natural course of events, perhaps it’s by design.

The singularity has already happened and it’s hiding in crypto mining cycles. We will never know until it’s too late.

What do you think? :)
I mean the OP found an environmentally friendly and economic way of heating his house.
Facebook 'refriends' Australia after changes to media laws
Saving the World with Bayesian Modeling
On the bright side, for me at least, the repulsive mobile web experience has meant I spend drastically less time on Reddit.
Argyle is hiring a Python Software Engineer
What is news?

Does facebook publish news? I am on facebook for 13 years and I can not remember seeing any news on facebook. Ok, there are people sharing links to news articles (and facebook makes a preview containing title, image, and maybe parts of the lead). There might be people copy-pasting the text of a whole article into facebook, but that is definitely not the default situation. Overall, in order to receive news, I am forced to leave facebook (also applies to google)

I just dont get it. In my opinion the news creators should be grateful to facebook (or google etc.), bringing them interested visitors, potential customers.
Shouldn't facebook rather be paid for that instead of convicted?

The same applies to google, a search engine.
Why would a news creator NOT desire to be found in the internet in order to attract visitors?
The news creators I know, they are that keen on gaining attraction: they even give the full content of pay-walled articles to google (and therefore to everybody) in order to be found.

If they dont want to be found and listed, there are ways to do so.
Why “Astronaut” won out: History and Future of the Term “Astronaut”
"But why American, European, Canadian, and Japanese space travelers are called astronauts is a little mystifying — and a little lost to history. Here’s what we know (and don’t know) about the origin of the word ‘astronaut,’ and what it means to those few who sail through space.

Jennifer Ross-Nazzal, Ph.D., a historian at NASA Johnson Space Center, says ‘astronaut’ dates back to late 1958, when NASA was still in its infancy. The agency used the name ‘astronaut’ in drafts of a job listing that called for applicants to its new astronaut program. Ross-Nazzal says that NASA also considered ‘cosmonaut,’ or universe sailor, before adopting the name astronaut."
> It is unreasonable to implicitly assert that it's the only factor and the clear singular cause

Sure, but did op assert that? I didn't read it that way.
He has an advanced ventilation system but what he describes is not a heat pump.
He is using a heat pump, he is using the excess heat of the miners to pre-warm air used by the heat pump to heat his house. The miners offset some of the cost of the heat pump and pay for their own electricity use.
I havent read the details of this case but I feel these are complicated problems. And people need to give each other a break when it comes to complex stuff.

Its complex because of the wide differences in knowledge, life experience, personality types, religious/cultural beliefs etc of all the people in any org.

Shrinking these gaps will take time and a lot of blundering about. In a way watching an org solve problems outside their comfort zone is very similar to watching a kid wrestling with a hard problem.

Whats complicating things is
Social/News media algorithmic amplification of such stories. Its very quick to put a global spotlight on any type of local blundering.

Blundering that goes on when the solution to the prob is well known requires such a spotlight.

But if the solutions are still being worked out and you get the whole school to laugh at the kid thats just bad man. It creates all kinds of new issues in addition to the hard one being worked on, from defensiveness, to avoidance of hard issues, anxieties, guilt, doubt, fear, hate etc etc...nothing good basically.

Social media algo amplification doesnt differenciate between the two cases and thats a big bug thats wasting everyones time.
So happy to see progress in linkers!

Can this one statically link shared libraries? That would be a great feature.

EDIT: I realize that such a feature would necessarily involve a fair amount of black magic. But it does not seem an impossible endeavor.
> It's NOT the consumers of news, and never was.

You're right for the vast majority of news organization on internet but we can't say that it's "never was" (or "is" for the matter).
I have at least 3 examples [0] in mind of news organizations for which advertising is not part of their business model (or a very insignificant part compared to "consumers of news" part). And I'm sure we can find similar example all around the globe.
Of course such organization generally relies on subscription and/or donation. And of course for this to works "consumers of news" need to pay for it.

[0] Sorry all French : Le Canard enchainé (paper) ; Le Monde Diplo (paper and web) ; Mediapart (web)
Tangent: take a look on "Another day of life" from Ryszard Kapuscinski. Most unbiased look at Angola decolonization (and decolonization in general) I know.

edit: Ryszard Kapuscinski[0] style, a mix of journalism with literature, definitely worths a read. I believe his legacy is underrated even in his own country.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kapu%C5%9Bci%C5%84ski
so the goal here is to minimise revolutions per minute. Is this to increase stability or efficiency? Or is it just so the engine won't shake itself to pieces?
Responding to change – applying OODA to tech strategy
Unbundling the big subreddits is an interesting idea, but further meddling with the activity of a subreddit’s valuable core users is more likely to destroy the value of that community than unlock it.

Reddit’s enduring quality comes from its supporting of a basic platform that allows continuous growth of some niche subreddits until they ‘fail’ and scare away its core users, having those core users found new niche subreddits which themselves go mainstream and ‘fail’. Rinse repeat.

r/WallStreetBets was an enormous social media success story but I have huge doubts that Reddit could give a team the job of unbundling that sub without that team poisoning the magic.

The “meaningful upgrades” I thought were pretty solid.
A large part of cattle feed soy is based on leftovers from the food industry.
Well, 10x more likely. But I don't think that was the point the author was trying to make.
Fashion industry is responsible for 10%
(Aviation is 2.8%)