skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a bit confused by this attitude. You want the project to get better, and get better sooner than later.

You could donate, in the hope that donating will make it get better faster (or, depending on the amounts involved, you could get an agreement that they'll use the funds to work on the specific things you care about).

But you won't donate, because they still need orders of magnitude more funding than what you can provide? Well then you're going to be waiting longer. But then, you will donate once they're good enough, which is when they no longer need your extra funding to do the work?

Edit I think I figured it out after thinking about it further.

Let's say they're at e.g. 10% of the way to towards a usable device, and you could afford to donate enough to fund 10% progress. If you donate now, 20% usable is still useless and there's no visible difference in how long until it's 100%, but donating later when they're at 90%, if they ever get there, would "immediately" result in a useable device.
You realize that 418 really means, "I am not a coffee maker", right?
This type of prank would be rotten except these guys are happily in a prank war by agreement. Like when good friends mock each other, it's mutual and funny for both sides.

I always think the required point of a prank should be all people involved are laughing almost immediately after. Otherwise it's just being nasty to people.
I bought one of those Staedtler holders but none of my pencils fit. Maybe I am doing something wrong.
Cognitive dissonance. If people don't want to believe something is true, they will subconsciously reject it.
> I wish most of all that CIA would scrounge up their "lost" MKULTRA files and declassify them and at least tell us WHY they ran this brothel and secretly drugged Americans with LSD.

It would be nice to have proof, but I’m 100% certain the reason was “to see what happens”.
That sounds more reasonable to me than interest groups going to the polls giving out freebies
There is no benefit to doing this. Credit scores/checks only work by centralizing loan data with various credit bureaus. Whether that data is in a database or on a block chain doesn’t matter.
The Zoroastrians who became Gujarati Parsis made an agreement with a Hindu ruler to be allowed in as refugees, as long as they do not proselytize or allow conversions to Zoroastrianism. Previously, it was not a strict ethno-religion.
I had a similar experience, but after the 1st year both the positives and negatives wore off (now it doesn't feel like I'm taking anything it just feels normal) and I was simply left with the ability to choose my focus (about 80%).

Now if I don't take my adderall on a given day I have trouble focusing and by midday I get pretty restless and antsy.
It's true that Marx is about class and CRT is about race, but don't you think there's an abstract similarity there, which is the group-based oppressed/oppressor claim? I don't think it's totally disingenuous to think of CRT as a modern re-incarnation of this type of thinking due to this abstract nearness.

Perhaps a more accurate way to frame this is that both CRT and Marxism are separate instances of a collectivist way of thinking that tries to categorize people into groups based on their perceived power, where what informs that categorization is low dimensional (e.g merely class or merely race+gender). In that sense they're similar ideologies.
Some day in the distant future someone will only have a tarball of the source of the last version that worked; if they're lucky.

Save that poor sod; have your comments live in your code, not in an SCM system for your code.
Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty: International Monitoring System
Correction: "How Does the ZSH `History` Command Work?"
If only there was a financial instrument I or the hospital could purchase where to amortize that risk over a long period of time by paying a fixed cost at some interval.
200i + 200j - some real/some imaginary, use caution
its a purely political system. they chose exactly to be thisnbrittle
I wonder what would HN say if we switch roles here. "Ban EU services in the US" would not fly well both, with Americans and Europeans alike.
Antitrust law has always been cynical and just a tool for those who lost to use favor to get something from those who won. Will the FTC go after the AMA and the healthcare industry? The cable industry granted monopolies by local communities? Go after industries that are hated and bankrupt people?

Or will it go after services people love, that are free, or that revolutionize industries?
What pains me that browsers no longer put blue icon with console.info. Like, what's the point of having it if it's going be virtually indistinguishable from .log?

It annoying.
From footnote 8 on https://www.apple.com/apple-music/

> Works with AirPods, AirPods Pro, AirPods Max, BeatsX, Beats Solo3 Wireless, Beats Studio3, Powerbeats3 Wireless, Beats Flex, Powerbeats Pro, and Beats Solo Pro.

Am I missing something?
Brought to mind Yeti coolers. Unnecessarily expensive, but that's why you have/want them.

> Well, the price, for one thing. Yetis work like a Veblen good, which are luxury items that turn the laws of supply and demand upside down. Take Swiss watches: “A guy who buys Rolex watches doesn’t want a cheap Rolex,” Williams says. “Part of the prestige of that brand is when you wear it, everyone knows they cost at least $8,000 and up. If Rolex brought out a low-end model, it would kill their brand.” It’s why the iPhone 5C — a low-priced iPhone — flopped. [0]

[0] https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/why-are-coolers-so-expen...
Don't be afraid to compete with Google on anything short of products like ads and YouTube. You shouldn't be afraid to compete with them unless their product is making billions of dollars. They'll kill a highly profitable product without hesitation if it looks like it won't win them the NBU (Next Billion Users). They're smart cookies, but their ethos is win big or fuggedaboutit. They have very little stamina or patience for middling products.

Next perfectly viable Google product on the chopping block: Stadia
“Bicycle face”: a 19th-century health problem made up to scare women from biking
This is just the sort of product to invoke the ire of "big pencil." Mark my words, and watch as the insidious cabal of global pencil subsidiaries (Ticonderoga, Staedtler, Mitsubishi, and others) slowly smothers this product in its crib.
The web clipper, which I use constantly in Firefox, is a godsend.

I can capture: full page, simplified page, just the selected text, or just the URL. And then I can edit the resulting document with my own notes, add other links or attachments and etc.

It allows me to take my own notes and build on a collection of bookmarked pages that I can still search and refer to long after the original site has disappeared.
The end when Bam is losing it with Acuña on the chair had me rolling. Wish Bam was in a better place :(
I once had a conversation with a coworker once that went like this:

Me: There’s a theory that the US government remote-controlled the 9/11 airliners and crashed them into the WTC to fire up arms sales that have been slow since the Cold War ended

Colleague: Yeah, so?

Me: that conspiracy theory is from March, 2001

Colleague: (uncomfortable silence)

[0] https://youtu.be/FcZ6HXIOmYE
I'd take millions of dollars over unencumbered free speech!

That said, it's rarely millions. Total settlements = $50M. They have 100 full-time safety agents. This means each agent handles an average of $500k per year. If we assume each agent handles 4 incidents per day, times 200 days, that's 800 incidents, or under $1k per incident.

The scale of the problem, per the article, is striking.
Not the same as punching someone in the face, but in my high school yearbook I signed something to everyone that got smaller until it was illegible. It turns out some people go back and read their yearbooks 20+ years later, ask me what I wrote, and we get a laugh that it was on purpose.
People travel on Christmas because they have the day off, not the other way around, obviously. None of them are especially large sales days aside a bit from memorial day. It's a really weak assumption being made here. Also, and this may be a shocker, not everyone works a low level job in retail.
How does it compare to pyfilesystems [1]. In our startup using pyfilesystems as a generic interface for our webapp which makes it cloud agnostic and the app can use amazon, gcs, NFS, gzip, tar, azure or regular file system.

PyFilesystem is a Python module that provides a common interface to any filesystem. It supports many filesystems [2].

[1] https://www.pyfilesystem.org/

[2] https://www.pyfilesystem.org/page/index-of-filesystems/
It looks just like Windows 10 Explorer but with new icons.

Explorer is the least offensive part of Windows 10 IMO.
$110k per year seems like a no-brainer for the hospital to just pay rather than comply, assuming they are just purely acting in their own self interest and not for the common good.
> I find these whole "happiness" and "charity" concepts fake and disturbing.

Taking the cynical angle, charity can come from a place of self-interest if it makes you feel good.

In my experience, I've met many people with Buddhist backgrounds that are giving by default. Most of them have come from countries where this way of being is deeply rooted in the culture, and therefore their charity is often reciprocated (or at least not punished), and the behaviour is rewarded. On the flip side, there are some Buddhist monks in recent times who've incited populist violence against minorities, so the picture is complicated. On the whole, though, it's very different to the individualist default of much of the Anglosphere.
Is there (or will there be) a feature that easily summarizes all of my recurring expenses / subscriptions? Those kind of insights really help me budget and cut down on things I may not be using anymore but are somewhat difficult to easily catch otherwise.
Nothing of the sort happened, but I am sure you can take any reply and make it "prove your point".

So this is the real reason why I said don't post conspiracy nonsense -- because frankly, no one cares. And it's annoying to sit here and reply with logic when you clearly do not care about the merit of whatever I have to say.

No one covered those stories? Fox News is the number one rated cable news station. Tucker Carlson has the number one rated show on that number one station and he covered it for weeks on end before the election. So that point of yours is as ridiculous as it is baseless.

Secondly, hello we live in the modern era. Post a blog if you care so much. If the story had merit, if you had evidence, then what is stopping you from making this huge scoop? There are definitely financial incentives to do so. The reason is because you, just like Tucker Carlson on Fox News, are full of shit.

The difference between you and him is at least Tucker Carlson knows he is lying and at least he's getting paid to do so. I assume you are doing this for free.
Yes, actually -- aver.io. Their website is actually really bad at explaining it but their whole business is helping practices and insurance companies figure out how much procedures actually cost both for this and so they can switch to a "fee-for-outcome" model.
Election sausages are by far my favorite fun fact about voting in Australia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_sausage
Those aren't your test results. That was someone else.
It could be done in Win10.
Suzanne Ciani Creates the Soundtrack for a Pinball Machine
I'm also 2e or "twice exceptional" and for me it was the opposite.

I could never manage to save anything longterm and when I started wanting more responsibility in my career I hit a wall without treatment.

Once I started treatment at 35 I was finally able to start making progress and being seen as reliable by management not just good jumping from project to project or great in an emergency, but being able to follow through with projects long term.
It's also interesting that this year the flu has disappeared ( zero if I heard it right)in some places) because according to the medical lords the mask wearing has had an effect. It's all a modern day version of religion.
As we've recently seen, you don't even need the tide to go out to see who has been swimming naked. Archegos comes to mind, along with Greensill.
Filesystem Abstraction for Python
Life begins at 40: the biological and cultural roots of the midlife crisis
Israeli companies having funding up the wazoo, especially those that have products with military/security applications.
This is quite a good article, the journalist clearly did work.

A lot in here, and I don't have clear opinions on most. I do find it disturbing though, that "the company's 10,000-word terms of service agreement" plays such a role. No one reads these, clearly. Everyone knows this. Calling it an agreement is ridiculous. It's a bastardisation of the concept.

AirBnB are not unique, obviously, and it didn't even start online. Still, the fact that legals systems treat these as meaningful documents makes the system itself seem fraudulent. It's like accepting an affidavit signed by a ghost as valid testimony.
Are you sure? Are the standards for who qualifies according to the law documented somewhere?

I always thought that you’re legally able to self-identify however you deem accurate on those government forms in the U.S?
At least she's not on the backend of her mental stamina. +1 for being hungry. Unlike congress, who today ignored the homeless ( or pick your) crises to make Juneteenth an official holiday. I'd like to see a lot of under 40 year olds governing if that is the result of "experience".
You might be right, because the real reasons for every bone headed CIA catastrophe is always mundane and boring in the banality of evil sense.

But by the time of CIA's LSD brothel, the CIA had already been experimenting with LSD for over ten years. Timothy Leary and the Acid hippies had already been all over the counter culture for 5 years. Everybody knew what LSD did by then. They already knew what would happen. That's why I believe the brothel wasn't an experiment, it was an operation with a defined objective.
See also smart_open: https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/smart_open which might be more user-friendly? Never used it myself but it was on HN before. Discussion on their bugtracker: https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/smart_open/issues/579

Personally I wasn't too impressed with fsspec, though I am using it. I had to wrap files with Python's io wrappers to get acceptable performance, and found that different fsspec implementations still have significant differences that you can't ignore. They don't seem interested in supporting or documenting use cases outside of Pandas and Dask.
i had a weird flu in april 2020, right as the covid panic really began in my region. knocked me out for 2 weeks, i lost almost 10kg, sickest i've been in a long time. ticked off every box on the list of covid symptoms.

but the PCR test said it wasn't covid, and it can't have been all that contagious because neither of my roommates got sick. so yeah, sometimes people just get sick.
Guinea pig farms selectively breading for ever smaller pigs will replace nanometer race in chip fabs. Neurons per mm^3 and the ratio of brain to overall body mass will be the new benchmarks. Heat dissipation will still be an issue, with the added complications of efficient sustenance delivery and excrement disposal. Cutting edge research will be done on immunology to prevent guinea array viruses.

There's definitely enough material here for a Douglas Adams style spoof on the traditional cyberpunk novel.
Consensus and Proof of Stake in the Celo Protocol
I was the same.
Too bad it doesn't do notches that fit together.
No. Ensuring every single citizen gets access to a Identification Card that guarantees access to health care, social service, and voting would be much healthier for democracy and for the card holders.

Everyone deserves access to public services. Everyone needs a government ID.
You are right in that there isn't an ownership angle to this. The same way if you call your cat "Murphy", you wouldn't get a claim on the name, nor should forbid people from memorizing that you call your cat that name.

To be honest I am not sure where I stand on the issue, but I sympathize on the uneasiness of a global corporation taking advantage of a situation in a way few people ever thought about. That's where I think the perception of the public/private status diverge for most people.
I think Jackass managed to capture the zeitgeist at the time perfectly. It hasn't aged too gracefully, but that's only because it was a full decade early. Not to mention the genuine rapport from all the members of the crew, you truly felt they were just a bunch of friends having fun. They were getting hurt, but they were having a heck of a time doing it, and at the end of the day, it was well worth the laughs.
It address pyfilesystem in the introduction https://filesystem-spec.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro.html#...
Chrome Webstore Insights 2021
I recently produced a report to uncover insights into the Chrome Webstore.

https://newsletter.marketplaceapps.co/p/chromereport2021

Check it out and let me know what you think!
You're welcome. :) Someone suggested it long ago, and adding that blurb is specifically part of my release process: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/RELEASE-CH...
How do you represent a field of this geometry?
They very much do. When is the last time you heard about any private data leak from Amazon?
Is it the housing being expensive per se that's discriminatory, or any laws that stand in the way of increasing housing supply? I'd say the latter.
> I think that as e-ink gets better and better refresh rates,

Could you clarify your meaning? Because as far as I know, there hasn't been any improvement in "refresh rates". Typical update times are still around 600ms. Unless you mean tricks like A2 as used by vendors like Dasung which aren't real completed updates.
> I love having commentary like that around, but I prefer to keep it in either the commit message or (more frequently) in the issue thread linked to from the commit.

Having worked with codebases that have switched SCMs and SCM-adjacent issue management systems multiple times without retaining full history, I'd prefer to have the commentary in code even if it is also in those other places.
Exactly, if you want to do something truly illegal, like dosing citizens with LSD, you need shady government agencies. But so much of the shady shit the government wants now is only illegal for the government to do, so much easier just to let a private company do their data-collecting legally, and buy that.
Long term sun exposure vs shade. Curious if sunscreen would have helped
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/06/06/bill-mcelligott-sun...
This. From the video it’s hard to see if you can declare and reuse styles or if all styles are inline and need to be repeatedly applied to identical components.

Either way, this is really awesome. Huge congrats on the release. It reminds me of one of my fav talks which I can’t find right now but it’s a guy that codes up a Mario clone while toggling back and forth between the game and the code and making changes in the game updates the source code. If anyone knows what I’m talking about please reply here.
New Hampshire Election Audit, part 2
Not a great analogy. Table saws try to prevent you from cutting your finger with flesh-detection saw stops.

Wouldn't hurt emacs to change the default keymap, just like it didn't hurt table saw manufacturers like SawStop or Bosch to include safety mechanisms, it helps.
I think risk aversion is a big one, at least here in Australia. You might be seen as someone who failed rather than someone who tried and learned for next time. There is also not much VC culture so you have to convince conservative banks that your wild idea (gamble?) has merit.

Jeremy Howard (Fast AI) had a talk that hit home when discussing startups in AU vs US, why he left and why he came back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uygOz2fORo
As an Australian, your theory is correct. The culture shock is real and has caused tensions amongst distributed trans-Pacific teams that I've been a part of.

- Australians would complain that their American counter-parts were burning themselves out and ignoring structural issues impacting their productivity. Or outright accusations of "you working harder than us makes us look bad" - classic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tall_poppy_syndrome

- Americans would complain that the Australians were lazy and not pulling their weight.
console.time{,Log,End} take an optional argument to label the timers, changing the "default" text to the label but also allowing multiple timers running simultaneously
> First is the idea that Government spending is bad.

It's not saying that all spending is bad. The point is to have some pushback so it's not so wastefully spent. Some efficiency would be welcome by all, I think.
> across what’s left of the open web.

Gut punch
Its almost as if health care is not something that would ever be accepted by any stakeholder as a truly free market. So why does America pretend that it should be treated like one?
> I'm not talking about renting an apartment, or getting a loan, or opening a bank account.

> I'm talking about new acquaintances.

I'm under no obligation to deal or acquaint with a proven dishonest criminal. I have no tolerance for criminals. I find those who do often have not been the victim of crime before.
You can comment anytime, but people who have been using it less than a decade won't be able to comment on the medications post-tolerence decrease in effectiveness and side effects.
> The problem is when one can't really explain why the simpler approach didn't work.

Another benifit I have found is that in studying the problem to understand why the simpler approach doesn't work, you find out that it can actually work.
What Are Deepfakes: Synthetic Media Explained
Is social media just porn for women?
The root issue is I don’t want reporters to guess and report what something probably is. Flight 123 an Airbus XYZ crashed at on takeoff from location Z. Fine that’s all verifiable, what the cause was isn’t known don’t even guess you’re just wasting my time.

Most shootings that look like ‘gang in gang’ are probably ‘gang on gang’ violence. But, that doesn’t mean a specific shooting was actually ‘gang on gang’ violence. Gang members also shoot people for personal reasons unrelated to being a gang member. And they also get shot for reasons unrelated to being a gang member. If the assumption is it’s always ‘gang in gang’ and it’s always reported as such then that’s a lot of biased and often incorrect information being reported as fact.

It’s not uncommon for gang members to just go out and randomly shoot stuff the same way young rednecks shoot at road signs. The difference is gang members in cites are vastly more likely to randomly hit someone due to population density.
I'm still a bit puzzled as to why FCP isn't available yet for the M1 iPad. It's certainly powerful enough.
You are saying the response had low quality but don't cite what about it is wrong. If anything, I find this response to my comment as lacking quality.

The author is lying. I stand by the statement that he is lying. He is presenting an imaginary situation where doctors ignore solutions that demonstrate results. That simply isn't the case. If the results were there, it would be done. And it is done.

The author isn't asking for doctors to suggest people talk out their problems with religious figures, he's advocating for religion instead of scientifically backed care. I don't care how many articles he publish in some non-peer reviewed junk source like Psychology Today.
I guess as (mostly) programmers, we have good reason to have hope. And we have a whole lot of anecdotal evidence that people who do work hard (or at least show good productivity) earn good rewards.

Maybe we should look for ways to publicize it? I hate to think others might give up and not find paths to prosperity.