skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stopped using the car for everything within a 4km radius from home with an exception for bulk transport of heavy/large stuff.

By taking the resolute habit not to use the car for short trips, the side benefits are that my kids now bike everywhere in the city independently and instead of 700km per tank on average, we are at 1000km. We drive less and for what we drive we reduced our per km consumption. It is really a win-win habit.
I assume this will also work alright on other languages that aren't in the demo, e.g. C++?
There is a contractor in LA that posts picture of houses they've inspected.

https://imgur.com/user/AlphaStructural

What's interesting to me is you have Europeans marveling at houses built of flimsy wood instead of strong brick and concrete. Yet except for occasional water and termite damage what's failing in these houses is the concrete and brick foundations. Not the wood framing.
Hey Soheil! I'm actually doing really well and my life is awesome. No complaints personally.

I'm worried about the future -- my own, yours, my parents, those of the guys I worked with at the moving company, etc.

The problem when wage growth stalls for most of the population [1], but wealth grows disproportionately for the wealthy [2] is three-fold:

- The wealthy don't spend additional wealth, they invest it. This leads to lower velocity of money, which is a factor in consumer spending.

- Economic mobility stalls with decreased consumer spending and concentration of wealth. [3]

- As people lose faith in economic mobility and experience economic hardship, political instability follows. [4]

This cycle is compounding. It's about long-termism and general social welfare.

Economic competition is good. Inequality can be good. Current levels of economic inequality and mobility are concerning. Like pre-Great Depression concerning and it's only getting worse.

Right now we need people, especially wealthy people to be in-touch with how out-of-whack our economy is. The gospel of prosperity is poisonous right now. We need more people to acknowledge luck and to understand the economic suffering of others.

1. https://www.pewresearch.org/?attachment_id=304888

2. https://otb.cachefly.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/wealth-s...

3. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/02_econ...

4. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00220027177234...
> Wirecutter, NyMag, and Consumer Reports all perform unbiased testing of multiple products in almost every product segment I can think of.
Oh no, they absolutely don't. Wirecutter performs some subjective testing, but they get paid for a choice of a products to test and promote. If you watch any category for a while, you can witness a top product (or multiple top products of a same brand) disappear overnight to be be replaced without a trace by another 'reviewer's favourite'.
What did change overnight? Did Anker stop making the best budget chargers? No, their business deal with Wirecutter just expired and another brand took their place in paying for 'independent review'.
Was it built Ford tough? Who built it, why, how? Do we even think we have satisfactory answers to these questions (especially in the broader scope)? Do we want tomorrow's "thing we built" to be better?
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The problem is that patent system is a joke, and the description is likely broken (or incomplete) enough so that even a bunch of experts will have to experiment with the process to decrypt it.

You really need to buy out trade secrets of this particular brand.
Tongue in cheek maybe. But I've thought before how being 'useful' to the dominant species on the planet [whether that means tasting nice or just being a cute furry companion] could be perceived as a legitimate and highly efficient evolutionary strategy, without all the hard work of actually 'evolving'.

I think it's inevitable that, when the human race does start colonising other worlds [however far off in the distant future] we'll take our cats and dogs etc. with us. Those creatures will effectively have secured the benefits of all our centuries of technological advances and [with us] escaped this "all eggs in one fragile planetary basket" trap, without even having had to go so far as experimentally banging a few rocks together to see how things might develop from there.

[Mind you, with the advent of lab grown meat, it might turn out that the dogs, cats, etc played a better hand than the chickens, cows, sheep, pigs, etc did. Being cute is more likely to get you a lift off-planet in the distant future, than being delicious]
It certainly did, like the Eocene, so what's your point?

What is your detailed plan, besides being smug about your incorrect superiority?

Note that HN was almost entirely wrong about the corona lab leak theory and herd immunity for over a year, as well as the thinking that consumer 10 cent masks worked.

Why do you think you know what you're talking about now, instead of simpy virtue signalling?
Regarding Quirks mode: HTML came with a promise, namely that any documents written would be universally readable for a long time with minimal application requirements. This is probably the single most important feature that made the Web such an important and successful publishing platform. (No, it was not invented for short-lived social media content.) Documents, once published, should be accessible without further maintenance. (This is, why you should think twice, when introducing yet another web standard. You will have to maintain it for a very long time. Think of standards as conceptual debt.)

There are so many important and even crucial documents, that would become unavailable. E.g., if you are interested in computer history, you know what I mean. About every document that isn't just copy-and-paste content is behind a http-only browser warning and written in a standard that dosen't comply with html5. The premise that everybody would be able to republish the content is somewhat mistaken. What's the way around this? A common effort to preserve these documents, maybe by an automatic translation layer? Well, this is quirks mode…

PS: Now one could suggest to have special browsers for legacy content. But, how would this work out with any links? You were to break the principal premise of the Web by introducing a fundamental schism. Now there are two kind of webs, and you'd probably need two kind of links.
What I do, is I run loop like

(1) git blame <file>
(2) git blame <uninterestinghash>^ <file>

which tells blame to go back to before the hash and do the blame.

I run that loop repeatedly, picking the most recent hash each time (by date/time), until I get back to the change that interests me.
Hijacking listing with good ratings is very common for products that are not gated

One view is that Amazon wants sellers to register their trademarks formally with the government, then go through the brand registry process to prevent this.
this is what I don't get about this site. The world is software. you can code anything. and yet the majority of people sit around and complain. Its no wonder that you all are burnt out and bitter. The best is when people complain about tracking software, or windows telemetry. Software engineers wrote it! they are you're own people. its not a business guy that wrote the code. you're all weak!
This, and other instances of this scam make me not want to buy anything off Amazon ever again. Where is Amazon in this? Why is this even a thing? Is there no oversight at all? Amazon has now become the Alibaba of the west and it makes me sick to think the once beloved marketplace is now just scamville. I typically buy from sellers websites now and rarely buy off of Amazon but now I feel I need to completely remove Amazon from my options.
Unfortunate that, in Australia, and possibly other places, FFS is the standard TLA for "For F***'s Sake". Of course, this may increase the DFS popularity!

TLA - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter_acronym
If you have one hundred cities, then a "once in 100 yrs" event will happen in ~1 city per year. So first lesson is be careful assuming extreme events are necessarily linked directly to a trend.

Cliff Mass' Weather Blog has been covering the heat since it was first predicted by the models a over a week ago [1]. His view [2] is that this would be a 100-year (or more!) event regardless of global warming.

So the expert analysis is that this is not an indicator of climate change, but that warming is sure not helping.

[1] https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-greatest-heat-wav...

[2] https://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2021/06/incredible-temperatur...
Using HTML for that purpose, emedding large images and other multimedia files in it, while in theory could work, is another nightmarish stretch of the standard and depending on the size of your document could bring your system to a stall. PPTX is Microsoft open-ish format for presenting slides and I doubt using it for that purpose would be a good idea.
you realize that software coders made social media, and humans consume it.
OpenStreetMap looks to relocate to EU due to Brexit limitations
Nah, we will just all be low-code function couplers instead of coders..
This is (mostly) untrue.

US Federal Taxes go to the Treasury[1][2], which then spends it on Federal government programs. If spending is more than receipts, the US Federal Reserve issues securities (ie, sells bonds) to raise money[3].

Quantitative Easing by the Federal Reserve does cause money to "appear", but this is different to the general process for funding federal government programs[4] (Note that the money can disappear if/when the Reserve chooses to resell those assets).

[1] https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/datasets/monthly-treasury-st...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-taxes-revenue-e... ("Of the $3.46 trillion in receipts taken in by the U.S. Treasury during fiscal 2019")

[3] https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/november/where-fe...

[4] https://www.forbes.com/advisor/investing/quantitative-easing...
start ups lead to burn out if you're not successful. That's what most people on this site don't understand. You are in control, you are in charge, don't blame others.
Amazon simply is on the same level as eBay now. (No idea about Alibaba.) It’s really sad to see.
the idea of democracy thru trade isn't to force CCP to do anything in anyway.

its to have free flow of information that CCP might block which they did with firewall.
On the other hand, glucose blood levels are reasonably easily measurable and being slightly on the high side is fine, but the precision pumps (or microfluidics) to do this dosing automatically and accurately are still expensive.
This is correct. I attempt to provide references here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27685631

Not sure where these claims come from either.
Thanks, DFlock.
As you realize, writing up what happens is a necessary part of fixing a problem. That’s why I wrote Cuckoo’s Egg.
I’m gratified that my own community has responded; perhaps someone at Amazon will pick up on this.
Considering that I'm being downvoted to oblivion, I think that there are quite a few climate change deniers on HN, of all places. Wow.
maybe its time to be honest with yourself. you don't have the drive to achieve something big. you watch movies as your big night to relax. do something better. who feels accomplished after watching a movie. cmon. the amount of people on this site that lie to themselves is too much.
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"Researchers, individual artists, and students creating non-commercial projects will have access to Free Non-Commercial RenderMan the same day as the commercial release."
Years ago I worked at a company where I was passionate about the work I was doing. Did a lot of hours, worked in the evening... that sort of thing. The job was basically doing doing the work in lieu of a system to install software on bunches and bunches of hosts, being developed by a team of about 5-10 developers. When changes were pushed, we'd be asked to test if the installations would work -- but 9/10 times it never did. And because the devs were opinionated about ~ephemerality~, there were no logs for us to figure out what happened. So we would have to manually ssh into hosts and do the install. My team just gave up on the tool at some point -- nothing we ever said to the devs or management worked to prioritize making the damn thing work. Mind you, the linux-side installer itself was given to us by the vendor and packaged as .rpms and .debs and the devs were working on this for probably a year at that point.

Part of my job there was to add tests into ansible to make sure that the devs' installer could do what it was designed to do. But.. every time I tried to push anything, I would be given absolutely nonsense reasons for why my code wasn't acceptable. The worst instance was an ansible config getting rejected by a dev because I used bash in the ansible deploy code and that "not all clients' hosts will have bash" (in spite of a contractual requirement for bash to be installed). He insisted that I call /usr/bin/python instead. It was infuriating. I ended up writing my own automation that would install on an arbitrary set of hosts using the company's existing automation infrastructure just so that I wouldn't have to manually ssh into hosts or deal with the devs' nonsense. It worked well!

Anywho, the point. With the devs being asininely critical of my code, my boss eventually had a talk with me, saying that my performance wasn't great and that I wasn't pushing any code. I disagreed, but gave up, said fuck it, wrote four lines of "passable" ansible configs, then watched youtube for the rest of the week. At the end of the week, my boss told me that my performance was much, much better and that I should keep it up. So until I quit, I did as little work as I could.

Seriously.. sometimes it just really doesn't make sense to go above and beyond.

(Soon after, a major client complained that our packages weren't running on any of their hosts, right before a major event of theirs. The devs' automation just didn't work for AWS hosts, despite a large percent of our clients using it. So I wrote my own automation that just used selenium, which worked well enough to get things installed before the event. Afterwards, I was told that I had too much access, and that if I ever went to the press about the issues we had, that all of my coworkers would be fired once the client sued. Good times.)
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They used to do transactions on Shabbat, then they stopped, presumably the Satmar Hasidic rabbi must have issued a ruling that it wasn’t allowed.

Sure, it’s a minor annoyance, but compare that with the nontheistic amorality of Amazon and their everything-goes train wreck of a marketplace (worse than eBay at its worst) and you’ll understand why I only buy my computers, electronics and photo gear from B&H.
Workflowy is fantastic for keeping project journals, which are my form of incremental note taking. It's great at "behaving like memory" and documenting "a story of how I arrived at the ideas".

Currently, however, I'm drifting away from the journal format to a Zettelkasten, which I keep in Obsidian, a plain-text / markdown desktop app. I guess I could keep my Zettelkasten in Workflowy, but I rather like the dedicated desktop app approach for it.
Yep.. this article is trope trope trope city, don't bother.
The answer to _almost_ every question that starts with “why don’t they” ultimately ends up being “money”.

The marginal edge cases boil down to “power” or “stupidity”.
Reading the start of this article reminded me of a somewhat unrelated thing I saw: I remember seeing in "tech influencer" youtube video on how "Japan hasn't kept up with the west" when it comes to IT. Not to be super orientalist or whatever and assume Japan is doing better the US in IT, but what should they do instead, go the US route and put every thing on the cloud? Is that better?

I couldn't help it, it's literally in the article that this was part of the "NATO modernization" efforts. Perhaps whatever they had before would have failed too but it's clear that these "modernization" efforts aren't always better.
Not sure if it will help but I escalated this internally. I work at AWS though and am certainly not in a position of great influence.
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> As for me? Well, I am just one guy on the Internet with a voice and a plan for every item on this list. I am also not afraid of not knowing what I do not know so 2021 should be an informative year for me (us, if you want to follow along). Watch this space.

Bravo, nice job working through things in the article and pushing yourself. I will watch the space, which feels curiously like watching a text file :-)
Elimination would mean permanent zero COVID, not 'extended periods'. They have been able to have 'extended periods' due to tight border control but that's not 100% effective hence the current lockdowns across Australia triggered by only a handful of cases. When the threshold is that low, there's no predictability hence no promise of stability. That is what makes elimination absurd.
I recommend reading the "Inclusion criteria" section of TFA.
It is not necessarily a cost-saving measure, but it can be in some cases. In a project I was involved with, we came to the conclusion that we would pay AWS every three month the cost of the hardware that we would by ourselfs. I am aware that AWS includes hosting and services. Nevertheless that is a very big difference.
IMO eBay is less scammy.

I've been using it to buy car parts and it is SO MUCH better than dealing with junkyards (LKQ/Car-Parts websites suck!) and everything that I've got so far including parts from Latvia and Germany have been genuine.

eBay too is full of knock-off trash from China but you can easily tell those apart from a real listing most of the time with reviews being unique per listing/seller. And eBay allows for local pickups too!
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eBay is better as each seller gets a distinct listing Amazon letting sellers just kinda take over listings is a huge problem and has led to many scams like this and more commonly review scams where they sees the listing with positive reviews for a legit cheap product but swap it out for whatever their money grab is.
If the ONLY reason you're not killing people is the fifth of the Ten Commandments then we have bigger issues than "are sentry turrets OK".
> "With our ARC19 [quantum key distribution ] protocol, the satellites can distribute keys on a global basis and the satellite never remembers the key," Williams said. He, however, couldn't reveal how the patented protocol works.

Shouldn't the patent reveal how it works? Why would any customer trust a a QKD service without such an explanation? How does it avoid denial of service attacks by anyone able to observe a signal to/from the satelite?
Here come the "SEO" spammers
A friend is getting a master bathroom redone. $100k.

The bay area is insane.
NYC Board of Elections “accidentally” counted 135,000 test ballots
Mods are doing a good job these days putting up two articles talking about opposite-ish viewpoints on the front page it feels very intentional and it is interesting.
Both too long time of life, and too easy and cheap to extend.

Most importantly, it's a while set of single thing patents which means you need a thick, expensive cross licensing agreement most of the time. Even finding out which patents you need is hard, and then the patents are written in a way that nakes them hard to use too, including incomplete in crucial details.

It's a mockery of the original intent of the patent system.
"I think that he might possibly be doing his homework."

I believe you're dead on, this guy's an absolute baller of a CEO (running 3 totally game-changing startups) and completely immerses himself in his work and research.
I know several people who are borderline. Some I know or have known quite closely. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize their contribution to harmful internet behavior as disproportionate without also quantifying their proportion of internet behavior (it’s small).

And I definitely don’t think it’s fair to qualitatively describe the relative level of bad internet behavior of people with mental illness based on the behavior of people with personality disorders, which is just a subset of mental illness.

Edit: and not all people with personality disorders just go around the world/internet acting harmfully.
If the product is free, YOU ARE the product.

If I'm the product I expect to be paid.
If this were a city-wide record, I would agree.
This is a country-wide record, and the second widest country in the world (Canada represents ~6.7% of the world's land surface).
You could not miss the point harder.

You are in bubble if you think people are working harder just to feel more productive.

> Just like the rest of us

? who exactly do you only include in your sense of "us"?
Now you've got me wondering if it'd be possible to build a 4D klein bottle by animating a 3D shape.
It really is one of the dumbest things in government work. Politicians want to "shrink government" so they don't want many actual employees that would probably be well paid, stable, but someone needs to do the work. Thus, enter the I-too-want-to-shrink-the-government politicians who agree but then farm it out to contractors, some whom they might work for one day (or even come from in some cases in the US!). And so the actual government employees are few and far in between while everything else is farmed out to contractors, some who are good and many who do fly by night jobs on grants and have no incentive to do better otherwise.
Still buying my ski pass every year!
"If Montenegro is not able to repay China's state-owned Export-Import Bank on time, the bank then has the right to seize land inside Montenegro"

China's about to sprout the first of its European colonies.
Land is not scarce. We literally make as much of it as we want. What makes it scarce is legislation and zoning.

Look at Manhattan or Hong Kong. You just stack the homes and offices and stores on top of each other.
I live in India and we're either seeing a draught or a flood.

And things are getting worse consistently

Rainy season was June to Sept.. now it rains 12months, literally.last year it rained in ALL months. It has never happened before.

There never were cyclones in Arabian sea, since 2yrs we had 1 cyclone per year.

And they had predicted these cyclones, yes. That's happening due to a warming ocean. And that's because of global warming.

There was polar vortex in US for 3 or 4yrs now, Texas was freezing just a few months ago

The fact that these events are predicted means climate is changing. Else how would we predict a freak accident? A freak accident that keeps happening over and over again

Edit: getting heavily downvoted so much that HN isn't allowing me to post comments!
That does not work, because for most of the biochemical postprocesses (which are critical) microgravity would have completely no effect and as such patent office would be liable to reject the patent as redundant.
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Is it virtuous to be truthful when that means giving up a chance to meaningfully improve the world?

Obama presided over many terrible things, but overall the amount of terrible things dropped during his tenure.

Not sure virtue is the right word but it’s more complicated than “lying bad”.