skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm at the marriage age right now and I see tons of my friends getting married.

A friend got proposed a couple of months ago and her ring is ~40k USD. In my opinion, that's crazy since they're spending ~30k CAD on their wedding.

My partner also mentioned that she'd like a wedding ring of the same calibre since according to her - diamond ring is how much love / value / worth I hold for her. Furthermore, a significant group of middle/upper-middle class want naturally occurring diamonds (because they're "real") over lab produced ones (not because of the quality, but because of the tag associated with and the societal group pressure). Furthermore, the same group also hate moissanite because it's not diamond.

It's irrational, marketing and conditioning all they way down.

Hopefully, stuff like this forces lab grown diamonds to the mainstream culture so that we can finally get rid of that mentality.
Why can't cellular automata rules contain a quantum_rand()? [1]

Most games and simulations contain RNG's to make things interesting, quantum uncertainty seems to look very similar to my naive self.

1. https://content.wolfram.com/uploads/sites/34/2020/07/random-...
I just bought a $4,000 diamond ring from a jeweler in India for $550.
I once worked on a CMS designed specifically for the print industry by a company that was itself a separate arm of a printing company - and even then we had to have an entire system to write custom estimating engines in Python, because without modelling the exact configuration of machines and processes used in each print shop you couldn't produce a useful estimate for how much jobs would cost.
The spectrograms on this site have a lot of spectral leakage. This can be improved a lot by applying a window function (blackman, hanning etc). It doesn't seem like the author does this.
Pyramid schemes always need new blood or they will collapse.
Hi, we offer MNT Reform with a custom glass trackpad as well! You can even swap the trackpad and trackball modules, and we offer them separately if you want to try another one later:

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I don't understand your remark. The plants that you are going to fertilize are part of a carbon neutral cycle anyway. It doesn't really matter if there is a big or small amount of them. The buried stuff is going to rot after a few years and release the carbon back.

I think the idea is to bury it to "geological" depths, forever isolated to the biosphere.

In the last century, we have burned millions of years worth of plant-based carbon sequestration. This was carbon that had been out of the biosphere for millions of years. Now our goal is to remove this carbon out of the biosphere again. I'm skeptical that this can be at all achieved by purely biological means. But burying dead plants a few meters deep, readily accessible to rot, is not likely to make any difference. Otherwise, we are going back to pre-cambrian CO2 levels, which were much higher than today.
They won't sue. They will just threaten to do that and the OP will need to decide if he can afford to "engage" with them even if he may technically be in clear. To argue that reversing a protocol is not an issue you'd need to be in front of a judge and it's expensive to get there.
The US government could do a lot more to assist with childcare (grants, subsidizing daycare, etc) but it would involve taking money from rich people in the form of taxes, so it's unlikely to happen.
Surely you meant this facetiously?
What makes this so common in Asia? The vast majority of undocumented people in the US is from illegal immigration. Is that what drives it there too?
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A new way to knit (2016)
I'll preface that I've been diagnosed with ADHD and I know a decent number of other people with it. Additionally, I'm in my mid 20s so I was a student somewhat recently as well.

ADHD isn't about bragging, it isn't a way to excuse personal failing, and it isn't a clever ploy to get access to some edge that puts you at an advantage against the rest of your peers.

People without ADHD like to joke about how great Adderall and other ADHD drugs are and how "lucky" we are to have them like they are an advantage. I don't like taking my medication and it's basically a choice for me whether I want to be productive or be a person. I struggle to stay focused/directed on tasks regardless of whether I enjoy them or not if I don't take my medication. However if I do take it I essentially lose all creativity and ability to innovate. I basically become a drone.

For me it's a careful juggling of what I need to do in a day and how much I can "get away with" my inability to focus on a task in exchange for being able to multi-task and/or solve problems creatively. I've tried all kinds of time management and focus improvement systems/habits. They work to an extent but as soon as there is some kind of "disturbance" in my environment, the efforts might as well be for naught and it'll be an hour or so detour unless I had taken my medication that day.

On top of this context switching is effectively impossible for me with or without medication. If I'm changing what I'm doing it'll be a minimum of at least 4 hours before I'm even slightly productive. I can only work on one project at a time because of this. As a student this nearly killed me time and time again. You can't manage 5-7 classes with entirely different subjects if it takes you half a day to properly switch your focus and be able to focus.

Additionally there's the constant burnout and depression like symptoms on top of the focus and context switching issues which only add to the difficulty of being a functional human being. People don't realise that these are symptoms of ADHD but they are. When I end up burnt out due to stress or overwork it becomes effectively permanent. The last time I ended up burnt out in University I took an entire semester off (~9 months) and even after I returned it hadn't recovered. During that period I was constantly exhausted and every task took far longer than expected and I struggled far more than I reasonably should have. Now I have to carefully balance my life because if I end up stressed from work for too long I can barely function and my productivity effectively drops to 0 for months at a time.

I could write pages going into the other ADHD derived issues I face but they are rather personal and I've already written enough as is so I'll leave it at that.

Trust me when I say that we aren't happy we have ADHD and we aren't using it to brag or get an advantage. I hate my medication but it's the only thing that brings me even remotely close to being on an even footing with my peers.
Over 10% of US population is estimated to be undocumented. I don't believe these census numbers are accurate at all, we are doing fine in terms of importing young population.
New study explains why 20% of electric car owners return to gas
Female mosquitos need blood meals to produce eggs, and a place to lay those eggs which is safe from predation. Both steps can be somewhat controlled by preventing bites onto humans, and by removing standing water, but you will never prevent mosquitos from biting wild mammals or pets, nor will you ever get all of the standing water sources (one old tire could spawn thousands of mosquitos).

One of the biggest limits is weather and climate. Mosquitos don't exist here in New England for half the year, but if we increase the temperature by 2 C, we'll probably be facing them for 7-8 months and they'll rebound harder and faster.
Are people getting better at reading? A deep read is an immersive, flow experience. But to engage in reading you have feel you have the time and focus to commit to reading and then not be interrupted. I don't want for machine generated narrative, I want more time spent deep reading.

I do way more scanning and skimming now than deep reading - authoritative source, credible, what's new, what's useful - it's all critical thinking and done as efficiently as I can make it. It feels like work. I always wonder if more structuring over the stuff that I read - entity and concept extraction, thesis extraction, separating facts from opinions, a topic-centered feed - would be better. I haven't found or built the right experience yet.

To me, narrative generating models are interesting only as a step toward a better critical reading experience, and the win there would be generating useful abstractions that help one understand faster. Arguably, writing style is one such abstraction.

Maybe there's potential in being able to generate readable narratives from things that people have a hard time describing, like datasets. Then the grail is business dashboards composed as sonnets.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosmos_954#Aftermath:

“Under the terms of the 1972 Space Liability Convention, a state which launches an object into space is liable for damages caused by that object. For the recovery efforts, the Canadian government billed the Soviet Union C$6,041,174.70 for expenses and additional compensation for future unpredicted expenses; the USSR eventually paid C$3 million.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Liability_Convention says
China, Russia and the USA ratified that convention.
Fun fact: The expensive diamond engagement ring emerged as a way to facilitate premarital sex in the 1930s.

That's when "Breach of Promise to Marry" laws gradually were abolished across the US. So now men could propose, enjoy premarital sex for a while, only to leave the woman no longer a virgin and possibly with STDs and/or pregnant.

The very expensive diamond you can keep even if he leaves became the "insurance policy" to replace the legal option.
The through hole versions of the ATtiny chips are still available - 58 cents in single quantities from digikey, probably cheaper elsewhere

https://www.digikey.com/en/products/filter/integrated-circui...
Yeah the contributors must have transferred ownership to the project. It might not need to be a signed contract though, at least in my jurisdiction it's possible to agree implicitly if there's a notice about it. If not then whoever wrote it owns it - each individual piece of code; and it is the moment to call a lawyer.
> The common complaint of "you can't sell them for what you paid"

You and the other person gives loads of reasons why people giving that complaint are entirely right. The marketing is (partly) that it is valuable. In practice you'll not be able to resell it for a similar value.
This is also true for basically all "cloud" services. There's no real innovation, just a return to mainframes and timesharing with a massive amount of marketing momentum to convince everyone that this is a step forwards. But hey, we all drank the Kool-Aid.
Hmm, so basically you're saying it's a scam right?
How many of those account hadn't been created if it cost $99 to make one?
This thread is a honeypot for Diamond astroturfers.
You could buy second hand clothes and electronics if you care that much, but you don't.

The author is outraged at the hypocrisy, without realising the value of diamonds is that they are scarce.
If you can produce them artificially, they are no longer in the same league with the scarce ones.
I would totally get that PDA with ortholinear keyboard:

https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/106143465897150489
The edge server could implement this without much extra complexity.

For example each chunk URL could be signed with a "donotdeliverbefore" timestamp.

Now the edge server has zero state.

Similar things are done to prevent signed in URL's being shared with other users.
How to Lie and Distort with Statistics 101:

1. Use absolute numbers or percentages depending on whichever sounds higher;

2. Don't put absolute numbers in context. For example, is that 119k out of 500k or 500M?

3. Only mention false positive rate if it's really low;

4. Only mention false negative rate if it's really low;

5. Don't be afraid to retroactively include data in your featured set. For example, classifying accounts banned for other reasons as spam accounts;

6. Only mention time frames if it helps your case. For example, if those accounts had been operating for a mean of 3 years then say nothing about that.

I'm not saying any of the above are true but after having seeing thousands of these pronouncements, my mind automatically goes to start asking what isn't being said here.

I remember seeing this first hand at Google with the cut backs in food (cafes and microkitchens). There were statements about "we saved $100m". That's an absolute number that sounds large. It actually amounted to something like $2/employee per day for a noticeable decrease in both quantity and quality to the point where people complained. Was that really worth it? Probably not.
The Career Ladder’s Social Class Ceiling
This sounds like an argument from the same voters who are losing their jobs to automation. They just don't have the experience or education to comprehend how various forms of automation generate far greater productivity gains than more warm bodies.
> there's definitely something to the claims that social media is addictive. Reddit had me hooked for years

Addiction is exactly that. I’ve had a conf on addictions and the speaker said most people grow out of addictions, even heroin, and the people who die from them are a surprisingly small proportion. She mentioned people going out of hard drugs, and generally from one day to another after they realize the cost it had. Just like you did ;)

Congrats, I guess.
do ticks next.
I have not once heard this being mentioned as a metric.

Most people I know don't really care at all (I'm 25 for reference), since they generally don't have the money to waste on such frivolous purchases.
Population decline isn’t all bad. A labor shortage would finally cause wages to move upwards, no? One of the big reasons folks in the 1950s could be paid well for lowish skilled jobs was the small labor pool employees were willing to pick from.
Totally agree. Just to be able to see the battery level on macOS would be a great improvement.
Java vs. Kotlin
That's good to hear, thank you for the response!
It's interesting. Sun didn't have anything to compete at the ultra low-end. They tried to sell Amiga 3000's as entry-level workstations, but Commodore, which was managed by complete imbeciles, wasn't interested.
Of all the valid criticisms of JAM, this isn’t one.

Not every website is in the hands of marketing people and even if it were so, any CMS can be used. No need to teach anybody how to use Git.
Our developers started using RR and had some good results. Not a silver bullet, but a nice addition to the toolbox. Some writeup here https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/04/12/replay-the-execution...
This is why I'm ok with Apple charging $99 for a distribution developer account.
One thing that doesn't come up here yet: our partners RBZ have developed an open hardware alternative SOM for MNT Reform based on NXP LS1028A with 2 Cortex-A72 cores and 8 or 16GB RAM. This is currently in the first bringup phase, but sources are already released:

https://source.mnt.re/reform/mnt-reform-layerscape-ls1028a-s...

I'm also personally working on a Kintex-7 (FPGA) SOM. This will allow us and others to implement RISC-V or other architectures, incl. retrocomputers and carry them around in a laptop form factor.
The parenthesis issue is one that I simply cannot grasp, but have to acknowledge as true simply because so many programmers have voiced it. As far as I can tell there is no correlation between who has an issue with them and who does not. New programmers vs experienced, young vs old, bad vs good, it does not matter. Some programmers love them and for others they are a show stopper.

For me, until you demonstrate the same level of structural editing support and powerful macro system without S-expressions, you can pry my parenthesis from my cold dead hands.
How to exploit memory corruption bugs on Android and an example in PayPal apps
This is amazing - thanks for the link

EDIT > Are there any similar products to this which are procedurally generated? Is the OP procedurally generated?
HP-GL has a few convenience functions for text and fills and so on. It doesn't do any reordering aside from grouping pen operations together (so it doesn't change back and forth) but only if it fits in the buffer.
Oh wow. I stand corrected. Thanks!
> The other thing is the marketing says diamonds are "forever," presumably like your love, but houses and cars require expensive maintenance and are easily damaged. Not good if you're buying something symbolic.

Definitely some symbolism there. Relationships (romantic and otherwise) are indeed more like houses and cars - innately valuable, easily damaged, and requiring regular maintenance - than diamonds.
God that was a horrible piece of software, and a terrible email client.

http://hallofshame.gp.co.at/lotus.htm
You misremember. It doesn't do any of that.
I agree — if you think there were faults in the methodology: fair, point them out. But to cast doubt on a paper simply because "we don't know how these were manipulated" is a lazy effort to disregard conclusions that don't fall on preconceived notions.
You're thinking in terms of real people, not what weird things rich people do with their money. The uselessness is part of the point.
The estimates are fluctuating, but a rough consensus is that we have driven in the order of 1 million species to extinction already. That's closer to an ice age than to a child killing ants in their backyard.

We don't just do this the way other predators do, by killing them to eat them. No, most of them are "mistakes" because we don't care.
Turing Labs (YC Backed) Startup Building Palantir for the CPG Industry
Meanwhile, Google only gives temporary bans on apps and developers that are found to be malicious only to allow them back on to the Play store after removing offending code.
(Or should I say obfuscating the offending code)
For India, yes. There are illegal immigrants from say, Bangladesh, Srilanka etc.
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> I don't think a rocket launched by SpaceX/ULA/Arianespace would be leaving their second stages to re-enter the atmosphere uncontrolled

Well, except the Falcon 9 rocket that did just that 2 months ago: https://geekologie.com/2021/03/a-falcon-9-rocket-made-an-unc...
How to use a GraphQL schema to get typed queries and results automatically
Which requires digging. Which requires machinery at an industrial scale. Which requires large amounts of energy. Which makes it really hard for this to not be in the perpetual motion set of solutions.

You’d have to be extracting more carbon than your diggers consume (since even today I don’t think this has electrified and capable of running on solar). Your diggers are consuming concentrated carbon compressed from plant and animal biomass under high pressure and energy over millions of years. It seems highly unlikely just growing and burying biomass is sufficient. Additionally, I’m pretty sure the CO2 is just going to leak out in large quantities since, unlike the naturally sequestered CO2 we extract from the ground, you have bacteria that can break down the biomass and let the CO2 escape as a gas. Which means we have serious additional efficiency losses.

The only solution that could work for sequestration as far as I can tell seems like an industrial process powered by nuclear because it breaks the energy cycle completely to accomplish the task. Solar is popular but I’m skeptical that renewables are up to the task that’s required to undo several hundred years of fossil fuels being the engine of the world’s industrial progress.
Cheap labor lowers wages and undermines unions ability to negotiate. In the long term the additional demand generated by immigrants balances out and things are fine. In the short term many forms of labor are devalued and people who are already live here fine at their wages are undercut.

The idea that anti-immigrant sentiment is purely driven by racism isn't accurate.

As is typical on internet forums nuance is always lost when it comes to these kinds of issues.

My wife and her family are immigrants FYI so when I say these things I'm not some bigot. I'm just a guy that used to work in the construction industry and saw the impact on wages for lower skilled professions.
I have a word for you:

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/mereology/
The fact that reader modes exist is a story about the sad state of the web. They are a useful hack for users but we should not have to rely on them.
I'm fascinated by the social cost of these spam accounts and apps. Who is installing these apps? What are the spammers getting out of them? Who is writing them? How much economic damage is being done by these apps, if you tried to sum it up?

To be honest, when I look at the mobile ecosystem, it seems to me that a pretty large fraction of the "legitimate" apps are barely better than spam. Most of the best freemium and gatcha games are pretty terrible, and I can only imagine how bad the bad stuff is.

Fortunately, there's a filter that can exclude free apps on Google Play. Seems to me, especially in the games department, it behooves you to turn that on. If you do, you generally won't be affected by psuedo spam or actual spam.
Exactly. The ring is not for you and your wife will be wearing this for the rest of her life if all goes well. If you are unwilling to give her something extravagant because you value paper money so much more, then you’re not ready to go through with the sacrifices that come with a marriage. If your wife wants a diamond, but you want to control your wife and bend her to your will of not having a diamond, you can try and you might succeed, but there will be some resentment every time she sees it on her finger and this will not be an issue that just fades away. Expect to hear it echoing for a long time. Do you want your marriage proposal to be associated with an argument, disagreement, or even a compromise?

On the other hand, a loving relationship and marriage is worth much more than a diamond ring ever could be. When you have a caring wife and you both love and help each other you’ll get an immeasurable improvement in your life.

To conclude, yes it’s overpriced, yes there are problems with diamond mining, yes DeBeers artificially controls the supply, and yes you can find a rarer stone for less, or something more exotic, but your wife wants a diamond, so you buy a diamond and hopefully live a happy life.
Why conflicting?

These two reports measure different things (I assume it's something like actual sales vs web traffic) but they are not that far apart: 31.6% vs 36.5% market share for ipad.
IIRC the voltages can all be produced by a PC's ATX power supply, but the connectors are different. If you can't find an IPC or IPX on ebay, that's probably your best bet.
This is bad journalism. The article says:

"Pandora also emphasized price as a consideration behind its decision. Lab-made stones cost about a third of mined ones and the switch will make diamond jewelry accessible to more consumers, it said."

In other words, this is a cost-cutting measure that happens to have environmental and ethical benefits: everybody wins. But somehow the headline is "Jeweler Pandora Takes Ethical Stand Against Mined Diamonds".

It can't be both an ethical stand an a convenient way to increase profits.
What's the tax situation like for these people? Do they have any new responsibilities after being "found" by the government?