skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Soup takes 3 minutes to make and a hour of boiling while you clean at home.

You don't need utensils, scales, nor anything decent, just a container that can be put on the fire. I survived cooking in army surplus over a tin can stove.

Food is basic survival so I don't know what to say about the mindshare element, especially when cooking from scratch saves you money and keeps you healthy.
Blizzard used to use Bittorrent in some of their installers/updaters a while ago.

I'm not sure how viable this is today, or ever was: Many residential connections are heavily asymmetric. Players presumably aren't too excited either by the idea of continuing to seed while they already play online, with shitty ISP-provided routers suffering hundreds of milliseconds of bufferbloat whenever the uplink is saturated.
Here[0] is a paper going into some detail, comparing human language with animal communication systems. The mostly define the difference as related to composition: in animal communication, each "word" almost always carries individual meaning, while multiple "word" together carry all the meanings together (the paper also discusses cases where simple composition has in fact been identified). In human language, the meaning of a combination of words depends not just on the words themselves, but on the way they are combined as well.

To show an example: if you give me some bananas and I say "I like bananas but not these ones", it means I don't like the bananas you gave me. But a bonobo or dog "saying" some equivalent of "like" and "banana" would always mean that they like them (according to the paper, they could also "say" something like "not-like", "banana" showing some simple compositionality).

Another important observation (that is not found in the paper) is that animals have never been observed to "discuss" about abstract things or counter-factuals, which is what I mean when I say that their communication is quasi-automatic. For example, a monkey will only "say" "leopard" if it notices a leopard, or if it hears another monkey "say" "leopard" (or, most sophisticatedly, if it wants to elicit the leopard response from the other monkeys, e.g. to steal some food). But there is never a "discussion" about leopards that are not present and that does not cause the monkeys to have a leopard response.

Essentially animal communication is much more similar to our non-verbal queues, such as moaning or gasping or screaming, rather than to verbal communication. It can be more sophisticated than that, especially in primates, whales, and dolphins, encoding some information about social relationships, but 1 year old children already display much more complex language abilities than the most sophisticated animal.

[0] https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2019.006...
I found this essay interesting because I both agree directionally (I think culture is getting richer in some sense) and yet find the suggested arguments highly debatable. Among other things:

a) The author doesn't put things back in context. That a painting can be easily copied doesn't mean that a new painting of the same importance can be produced. That a technique invented in a movie can be reused is not the same thing as inventing a new technique.

b) That we don't just copy or consume things from the past doesn't mean new stuff is any better. I wish there was an endless number of works of the caliber of Homer's Odyssey or Bach's cantatas — there isn't. Most people's experience of the latest show on Netflix isn't that it's the best thing ever, it's that it's whatever is easily available.

c) That Gladwell's prose is better than Smith's is both objectionable and again, highly time-sensitive. To claim that no one knew how to write clearly a hundred years ago is... kind of embarrassing?

d) The last part is probably the thing that's most irritating about the whole "progress studies" movement — the complete lack of rigor in establishing how to even measure progress beyond roundabout figures like GDP. "GDP going up? Must mean everything is getting better." I'm afraid that's a bit short.
Anyone is welcome to consider their system mission critical, and if so, they should act accordingly, i.e. choose control and safety over convenience. Portable apps such as this one have no place there.

My point was: keeping support for Windows 7 at the cost of basically nothing seems sensible for now. That leaving some niche of Windows XP, Windows 98 or MS-DOS users does not change the balance. Few still use these platforms to begin with, and even fewer would benefit from a portable Python app.
I'm almost more disgusted with the context. Even the self-sufficient woman he claims to be attracted to isn't described as a person. No thoughts or feelings or personality. Just a physically description and a chance to make it known that he had sex.
I will never waste an opportunity to share my favorite quote from my favorite fantasy series, the Discworld:

“The reason that the rich were so rich, Vimes reasoned, was because they managed to spend less money.

Take boots, for example. He earned thirty-eight dollars a month plus allowances. A really good pair of leather boots cost fifty dollars. But an affordable pair of boots, which were sort of OK for a season or two and then leaked like hell when the cardboard gave out, cost about ten dollars. Those were the kind of boots Vimes always bought, and wore until the soles were so thin that he could tell where he was in Ankh-Morpork on a foggy night by the feel of the cobbles.

But the thing was that good boots lasted for years and years. A man who could afford fifty dollars had a pair of boots that'd still be keeping his feet dry in ten years' time, while the poor man who could only afford cheap boots would have spent a hundred dollars on boots in the same time and would still have wet feet.”

This was the Captain Samuel Vimes 'Boots' theory of socioeconomic unfairness.
Love this book. Easy to grasp. Fun to code and ever so pretty.
But is it a poor excuse?

I mean, in the past there could be a guy alone that discovers 10 math theorems alone and his proofs can be understood by highschool students.

Today we hail new proofs in maths that require 30 pages of proof that few people on Earth can understand.

The same for physics.

To me, the trend is clear.
The difference is in the degree of which one can switch. The vast majority of serfs, even if they might have been able to, did not switch out their lords. Programmers and really any white collar workers can do so readily and easily, every few years even.

So to compare these things is not equivalent.
The problem here is “you can’t quickly make a link in our wysiwyg”. Screwing paste is not a correct answer to that. Let it detect that a clipboard text is a link and tooltip-hint a user that they can combine it with a selection by pressing ctrl-alt-v, or something similar. Nobody is against your easy editing, but not at the cost of a cognitive overload. I wish UI/UX designers read some books on how human mind works or how to do UI/UX at least.
Raw ingredients are pricy.

In my neighborhood, a wealthy liberal enclave called Marin County, preparing something paletable from raw ingredients is usually more expensive than cheap salty starchy food.

There are no cheap cuts of meat at my Safeway.

Most people are horrid cooks. They might think they can cook, but usually it's just awful. (Learning how to cook is not my point though.)

Poor people have huge problems, and cooking a nutritious meal is down on the priority scale.

Plus---for many poor people, the little bit of enjoyment is eating something that tastes good. I can see why the poor gravitate towards the lousy quick food.

(My all means I am poor. I don't eat crappy food though. I was a cook in my teens though. I'm glad I learned how to cook, but understand those that didn't.)
The basis of the whole debacle is that Andrew believes someone can own freenode. Reality is that the domain can be on someone's name, but that doesn't make them the owner - communities have no owners.
I think it would be gamed just like the current system. Instead of citation rings you just get replication rings.
And the very fact of the Function keys' configurability meant that they couldn't be relied upon to always do some specific thing, which kind of let devs off the hook. If nobody's going to try pressing F1 anyway, you may as well not bother to make it do anything. Vicious cycle. (See also, and even worse: the "What is This?" window caption-button in Windows, that invoked a modal "Context Help" mode. It was so non-discoverable — and optional! — that I don't know of a single third-party that ever bothered enabling their software to use it.)

On the other hand, if there's a key on the user's keyboard explicitly labelled "Help", then as a developer you'll feel somewhat obligated to put some informative documentation into your app that appears when "Help" is pressed. "Burning" a help function into the hardware, takes away the developer's choice in whether they want to offer help or not, without needing to impose any sort of centralized QA process. The QA process is something the dev will be incentivized to do on their own, when faced with the realization of the inevitability of users' frustrated expectations when they think pressing "Help" will get them some help. :)
Magia: GameBoy Advance emulator written in Golang
See "there’s more columns than that". The single process "memory" column does match but AM doesn't show coalition (multiple process) memory totals, the compressed column is an estimate, footprint --vmObjectDirty also exists and is a valid way to look at things, etc.
> As long as the content on Twitch isn't sexual, I don't think it matters to Twitch

They're banning people for off-site behavior.
This is my problem. I have video footage of a man walking out of his tent (that he is illegally camping in, btw) , walking across the street, coming to my car and removing the catalytic converter and then walking back to his tent. The police arrested him but had to release him when the Seattle city attorneys office refused to prosecute.
Yes, but it is not a single event, it generates currents in the ionosphere that move and jump around. Magnetic field lines break and reconnect. The event lasts for hours. The magnetic field at a particular place may reverse several times and the reverses can happen suddenly.

But no, it is not like an EMP. That is the wrong way to think about it.
Just because the homeless-industrial complex has resources doesn’t mean the needy homeless do. The first job of non-profit work is to keep the thieves away, and municipal homeless programs often fail this first job miserably. Indeed they’re often shady operations covering graft, rent-seeking, and political favors cough, Seattle, cough
People in favelas typically have built their own home and often have electricity. LA is worse because having a tent is fortunate.
Don't underestimate the mental overhead having to cook a meal can cost. Especially if you're already stressed out (and if you're poor you're likely stressed out) and strapped for time.

Nobody is a perfectly rational economical agent, like most comments in this subthread seem to suggest. Stuff sucks, work was hard today, you're tired, and you haven't even started thinking about dinner yet. Fuck. Let's just do hamburgers today. Can't afford them but let's worry about that tomorrow.
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Good to know! I thought most cloud OCR services were paid only but it turns out google vision has 1000 free invocations a month with Azure at 5000. That should be plenty for most people (certainly for me).

Do you have the source for those workflows/would you be willing to share them?
We need better device virtualization tech.

With VM you could spoof a different location. Some ppl use emulators but I find them too slow usually.
Sales impact from using Klarna's “Pay Later” feature
> teams works fine on windows and Linux

I have to disagree there. It's so frigging laggy that it feels unusable as a communication tool.
GPUs are excluded, unfortunately.
Radiofrequency Integrated Circuits
And yet people still go hungry. It's a lot easier to feed yourself if you have money. Also not everybody has 5 and a half hours to wait in line.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/local-politics/article/S-F-hunge...
The bedrock truth behind this is that companies, even 20 years ago, were far more concerned about both retaining dedicated employees and maintaining customer satisfaction. Has anyone had to try to contact Paypal about a pending payment in the past few years? What about getting a human with authority over minimum wage on the phone at an insurance company?

What has taken place is that the mass of people who were "consumers" have become "users", and are replaceable and disposable; while the employees have been downgraded to associates.

It's not just the feeling of outrage you get when you're trying to establish, with a person, where $1000 someone sent you disappeared to for a month. It's the anti-human system underpinning the idea that we should build an algorithm to keep people on hold longer, the more pissed off they sound about an unwarranted charge.

There are a lot of points at which business logic taken to its fullest fruition turns out not to be good business. We tend to hope the market will rebel against the excesses of companies that treat users as interchangeable parts. But the reality is we (coders) are contributing to the de-humanization of the majority of humanity, in many of these small interactions and small-change money collecting circumstances. That's our job. But at some point we should be able to see the circle closing around us; we're exempt because we can hack our way through the thicket of junk it takes to get our identity back if it's stolen, a new job if our startup shuts down; we are constantly re-inventing ourselves and innovating.

But we are not our users. We wouldn't even want our users to be us.

The point as I take it, of this, is that screwing your employees is treating them as users; and treating users the way we have, for a long time, is also self-defeating and bad for society.
Does anyone know what "platform abuse" means ? I feel like CircleCI have been exceedingly quiet about the cause of 12 hours down-time.
Probably because what we perceive as taste is also related to our sense of smell [0] and you have probably smelled burning rubber before.

0. https://flavourjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1...
In the US, it can take either meaning depending on context/inflection/delivery.
Followed by the inevitable interrogation of our past opinions of Godzilla, criticisms that Godzilla has needs too, and that our displeasure with Godzilla ripping people apart is evidence of our structural bias against and exploitation of Godzilla.
It's not true though, not any more at least. A supermarket pair of shoes is much, much less than even resoling of quality shoes. It's definitely cheaper to just wear them for a season or two instead of buying shoes that might last you a decade or two or more but cost 8-20x more and require expensive (in terms of cheaper shoes) fixes.
I have a few surveillance ideas more interesting than that but think they are immoral.

It’s sad that someone else will implement them anyway.
Thanks for explaining and not downvoting while i'm honestly trying to understand something that makes zero sense to me.

Sorry how can raw ingredients be expensive? I'm talking about staples flour, onions, carrots, beans, rice, etc.

Is there a database with US staples prices somewhere?
That‘s a very different discussion (there were some HN about that few days ago).

If Chrome will get full access to iOS, we are back to the year 2000 with 1 company deciding what the standards regarding Web are and a standardization organization having nothing to say. Not saying that I love the walled garden (not saying the opposite too), but if we love the web, we have to keep this walled garden.
> Soon we will have struggle sessions at work.

Soon? It’s already happening.
I mean westworld is a really dumb show.
Do you have a link to the actual paper? This is essentially a news article about a paper that was not published when this article was written.
They ain't doing shit. Voice assistants only listen for their built in trigger words, if you even turn that on, and they do what they say with the conversation afterwards.

4A doesn't matter anyway, what matters is GDPR, it's not worth building a system that is not GDPR compliant even if you're outside the EU.
It's a basic need for survival and it's beyond my comprehension how it can be considered a chore.

I say this as a person that lived homeless and that comes from a line of people that had to make do with scraps.

I guess it could also be cultural, who knows.
The Reebok Effect
I was thinking about the generational effects on the cases on which someone has been raised on poverty and it has been successfully overcome and the positive values and life lessons it carries over, compared to other childhood experiences that carry over negatively (abuse).

My father grew up on relative poverty (post war Spain), and the value of things is something it's always present with him and how he educated me unconsciously. Fixing broken things, scavenging parts, the value of food, time and work. Seeking comfort and security, instead of luxury. Or put it differently, the luxury is having a car that works and is nice (and second hand), not a luxury car per se. Luxury is having bread every day with your food. Luxury is being able to fix your own toilet or watering your plants.

I am forever grateful for these, and kind of sorry I cannot fully comprehend what and how he did it. I earn well over the average wage, and still I buy my computers second hand.
Feelings are often wrong. That's why we don't make important decisions that affect people's lives based on feelings. We make them on facts and evidence.

It is everyone's job to temper their feelings with reason. Your feelings are not an absolute truth that must be obeyed no matter what.
That could be the end of self-service, and a roll back to the counter type shop, where you pay and then are handled the merchandise. Inventers will provide a mechanical and digitalized solution to keep large inventory and optimize space.
Forgive my ignorance but what does "SRO" mean? I'm not an English native speaker and google is useless for acronyms unless you have context.
Nope, they weren’t “locked in”. They were in fact moved out by the government into a large number of alternate accommodations ( hotels, schools, apartments, under construction sites, barges) to space people apart. Everyone was tested for free, hospitalised and treated for free. Neither workers nor employers were charged any fee. The workers have free wifi at their dorms now and a mobile app via which their report issues directly to the Ministry of Manpower.
I’m commenting only on “locked in” and not about their salaries, or other matters.

(Edit: replaced “work“ with “wifi”)
> This is about a guy who wrote a book on his own time, published it outside of work.

> There is nothing to suggest the man acted improperly at work.

Didn't his book talk about him having sex with his coworkers in the closet at work?
I think game engines should have something that warns the developer that they are using the wrong file paths , what I mean is I seen a few html based games that fail on Linux because the developer used a file system that is case insensitive.

So if you make a game engine maybe you can try detecting this issue and warn the developer(and maybe ask to automatically fix it)
When I was a student at the university I thought it could be possible to combine quantisation used in lossy compression like JPEG and NN in some way..
> Who's "some"?

Charles H. Moore, e.g. -- the 25% pulls its weight.
>Blizzard used to use Bittorrent in some of their installers/updaters a while ago.

Yes, WoW used to have bit-torrent based update.

>Many residential connections are heavily asymmetric.

this is a US centric-view, though. For instance I have 300Mb up/down. At least for most of the Europe (and I suppose Asia), it's pretty common not to be restricted in any way.

I could leave a bit-torrent client non-stop and won't feel it.
Like I've said: alas. There is some stigma associated with p2p/torrents.
For now... How long will it be until this form of authoritarianism consolidates? The road to hell is paved with good intentions...

And as others have alluded to, which I’ll state more bluntly, I’m sick and tired of people feeling like they need to comment on my morals/lifestyle. Especially at work. I literally had someone tell me I shouldn’t have pictures on my phone of me taking my kids fishing the other day, because someone might see them and get offended and report it HR. Pics taken on my phone... wit my family... during the weekend.... and I need to be worried about HR? W.T. everloving F?!
That isn't possible if you're using commercially licensed source from other people, drivers for scientific instruments, lacking copyright assignment for some of it, etc. Same reason many commercial projects can't be open sourced even if the company wanted to.
Back in the day, I used to spend ~$20 for a pair of rainboots, and they would invariably leak within a year. This stopped happening when I bought ~$50-$100 rain boots, which are certainly not grocery store boots. A $50-$100 pair of rain boots isn't exactly top quality, but is still much better than a $20 pair.
It’s very unfortunate that the crypto-community uses the term “constant-time” this way. Without further context, I thought of algorithmic complexity, where “constant time” means “bounded by a constant” — which doesn’t guarantee resistance to timing attacks at all!

So if you’re looking for a crypto algorithm, make sure it’s constant-time in the relevant sense.
Absolutely, and you’ll find many other studies that contradict the above. Plus good old fashioned common sense.

Here’s a meta review. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S01913...
This quote no longer applies. With buy now pay later schemes, its trivial for anyone to buy the nice boots and then pay them off over 2 years of affordable payments.

Of course in reality these schemes are traps to get poor people to overspend, but the issue is not that they are physically unable to buy long lasting items, but that the system is constantly trying to trick them in to failing.
SRO?

You can cook in microwaves and rice cookers, no?
https://doi.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fpspa0000160
And China also executes more people than any other and has the harshest penalties for crime.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/04/china-must-co...
Maybe not for boots but what about housing?
Whether or not it’s strictly illegal to, for example, blacklist people from their professions for being suspected members of the Communist Party, at some point we agreed it was a bad thing to do so.

I guess the question now is, was there a general principle behind that, or are we just cool with Stalinism now?
My mother is a baby boomer and she was poor, she lived in the country so they didn't really go hungry, but they had stuff like keeping a single smoked hering to flavor things for two weeks.

The most traditional dish in my hometown is literally called "cooked water".

If anything, boomers had the rise from poverty, and it's gen-x who got it good. And this is only true in western countries anyway.