skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazon tries to coalesce these pages together in a single product-detail page with multiple offers. Sellers frequently try to avoid this coalescing (because otherwise, they're only competing on price). This could be as simple as pad printing a meaningless 5-6 character brand onto the product [making it technically different] or by making the description slightly different.
really amazing work by the monotype team. As always, font licensing is a very tricky business, so I understand everyone's frustration here.

If any of you are looking for an open-sourced sans serifs for your sass and other projects, I covered a couple in my newsletter. I go over how to use them with examples and use cases. some are variable:

https://fonts.substack.com/p/dosis
https://fonts.substack.com/p/fow-no4-libre-franklin-a-versat...
I tested it before making the claim. It is definitely possible. The only limitation is that you can't stream at the highest bitrate.
He's looking for sympathy from fellow people with jets who know politicians, not for sympathy from the masses. Tells you something about the political climate. Where's the revolution?
You probably don't want to use Automerge. See https://josephg.com/blog/crdts-go-brrr/ for a nice CRDT optimization story.
The article GP posted said there was five miles of distance between the two precincts. Five miles really isn't very far, so I can see why that would be concerning. Destroying stuff that has to be disposed of properly takes time (the link I provided above mandates how certain PII is destroyed - generally it's a specific type of shredder) while also allowing time for the people doing the disposal to retreat.

I can also see how this could be an opportunistic tactic to coverup wrong-doing. The two can also be simultaneously true.
I'm awaiting a box of 6 chicks right now, probably coming tomorrow, and they're going to have long and happy lives (I hope). Egg layers.
Game-Theoretic Fairness Meets Multi-Party Protocols: The Case of Leader Election [pdf]
Excellent. I was totally sure someone would post the Mail-a-Child™ glory days.
If people bought alternatives they’d be better, tho
Seriously, haha. "Who's paying for all those COVID vaccines?!" - the people who aren't on ventilators. It's almost like socialized medicine works.
Ok, you didn't say it was bad, that was my inference and evidently my mistake.

But if it's just common, well, it's an odd piece of advice for someone who has literally formatted their CV as a programming language's reference document!

Edit: Oh, and thanks for your patience and for engaging.

My apologies for taxing your energy supplies and more power to your elbow in crafting supplications ;)
On macOS you can list profile directories with: ls ~/Library/Application\ Support/Firefox/Profiles

Also useful: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compact-mode-workaround...
The first question cracked me up so bad I had to post it.

I just prompted it with Q: at the end.

I also asked it:

"I would like to create an uber clone app. Here is a list of the screens:

1."

I wanted to see what it came up with. Then I asked to to come up with a list of fields.
> If you actually live elsewhere like a normal person and are only back in California occasionally for vacation, you're at little risk of being audited and even less risk of being assessed taxes.

It seems simple but in practice often is not for anyone that has enough money for the state to care about.

I know many people who moved out and California was aggressively after them for years even though they fully moved and lived elsewhere and had sold away every last scrap of property they had in CA to avoid having any connection.
How drinking bleach became a Church ‘sacrament’

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/genesis-ii-church-bleach-cure...
That in my opinion is the great thing about capitalism. Someone with average intelligence but an insane work ethic can make it big. I see this completely the other way.

And one thing I’ve learned as I’ve grown older is that my patience runs thin these days. That means I’m willing to pay big bucks for people to handle pain-in-the-ass problems for me. Conversely, I don’t know what I’d do with a paper on theoretical physics other than use the back side as scratch paper
Git v2.33 Mailing List Release Notes
You need to have a look at the numbers globally. And include all the deforestation done to clear space for growing soy beans (later used to feed farmed animals).

some sources below
Margulis, Sergio. "Causes of Deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon". World Bank Working Paper No. 22. 2003

Tabuchi, Hiroko, Rigny, Claire & White, Jeremy. "Amazon Deforestation, Once Tamed, Comes Roaring Back". New York Times. February 2017(New)

Bellantonio, Marisa, et al. "The Ultimate Mystery Meat: Exposing the Secrets Behind Burger King and Global Meat Production". Mighty Earth (New)

Oppenlander, Richard A. Food Choice and Sustainability: Why Buying Local, Eating Less Meat, and Taking Baby Steps Won’t Work. . Minneapolis, MN : Langdon Street, 2013. Print.
I use whereby and it’s always been without issue. They used to have a very good privacy policy too, but since they updated it I can’t make sense out of it
Your keyboard doesn't have an option to post gifs and other images from a service that needs network access to retrieve and show the thumbnails and retrieve the full sized gifs?
Is a neutron star on a collision course with you at 560 mi/s more terrifying than one approaching at, say, 10 mi/s?
Fair point. In many cases though, people can vote for their government. But not always indeed.
There’s not, really. I bought the first iPod touch because it was a cool toy. I got the iPhone and I remember jail breaking it and using Cydia. Then, years later, it turns out Apple is a dick when it comes to the App Store.

But now I’ve invested hundreds (if not thousands) on apps and features. Simply switching over wouldn’t be easy. Some apps I have were single-purchase apps originally, but now have monthly subscriptions (that I don’t pay because of my original license!); if I were to switch os’s, I’d have to pay a monthly fee. I can’t use FaceTime on other OS’s, which is (sadly) the only way to talk to my parents.

So, as of right now, there’s no alternative for me. I have had androids in the past, and I prefer them. But the switch-over cost is huge. It’s not simple. I’m looking forward to the day with “multi-platform stores” where I make a single purchase and the OS is merely a personal choice… this is the future Apple and Google are trying to avoid, imho.
done https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28213458
Because.

Why allow "useless eaters" to roam the planet, dealing with them coughing on your parfait when you can have one of these sanitary machines do it? And of course, when we tell the parfait makers that they're out of a job, they'll freak...now we have the perfect, emotionless authority to keep them in line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wW-4LU79qbU&t=14s
Keep in mind, using current technology, we would need to mine 3-5x our yearly output JUST for grid energy. This doesn't include cell phones, laptops, electric bikes, and Teslas. Even then it would be the bare minimum just required to replace baseline natural gas and coal at the current power usage. Not including replacing peaker plants for winter and heat waves.

Sure, we are increasing battery production pretty fast. However mined lithium has gone down in the last few years while demand has soared for non-grid batteries. We need either a new storage technology, a vast increase in mined lithium, or a base load generator which can compete with natural gas like lithium does.

So far we have 0.1% of the grid scale batteries we need. It took 6 years to go from 6 gigawatts to 28 gigawatts. (At a power to storage scale of 0.5 you can roughly convert to energy storage by doubling the power) Even at an exponential rate it's still going to take decades. Eventually we will hit the top of the logistic curve when we find a limiting factor to production. Current estimates are 52 gigawatts by 2025. Roughly a doubling rate of 4-5 years.

Assuming a 5 year doubling rate with no logistical limitation, an exponential expansion would reach necessary capacity in 44 years. Which would be awesome, if we can manage it. However, in 44 years, power demand will have increased as well. Currently we are not building enough renewables to even touch the increase much less batteries.

Year - Power - Percent of 10tw

2025 - 52 gw - 0.5%

2030 - 100 gw - 1.0%

2035 - 200 gw - 2%

2040 - 400 gw - 4%

2045 - 800 gw - 8%

2050 - 1600 gw - 16%

2055 - 3200 gw - 32%

2060 - 6400 gw - 64%

2065 - 12800 gw - 128%
Male chimps with more friends are more likely to have offspring
I want well-priced consumer goods, broad selection, and fast/easy logistics. I do vote with my wallet and Amazon earns a lot of share of it.
This is pretty similar to my quest to make my own cos() when my friend didn't have access to libc. It was fun! Though I don't have the math or low-level knowledge that this author does.

https://web.eecs.utk.edu/~azh/blog/cosine.html
> Only 12 percent of respondents said California needs more market-rate housing, and 61 percent said the state needs more affordable housing and housing for homeless people.

I don't think most people understand that if market-rate housing isn't built en masse, and there's just 'affordable housing' allowed, the result will be mostly insanely expensive housing for the vast majority and a small token effort at affordable housing. End result? Millions of people paying ~50% of their income in rent.
(Undoubtedly) stupid question: would it be any faster to project (x, y) to the unit circle (x', y'), then compute acos(x') or asin(y'), and then correct the result based on the signs of x & y? When converting Cartesian coordinates to polar, the value of r=HYPOT(x, y) is needed anyway, so the projection to the unit circle would be a single division by r.
> Unless several topics can be assigned to a person (which seems to be implied in the article), in which case that's 256 bits of entropy available to classify each person.

Good catch, forgot this was a bit-vector not a single key.

> Yeah, well theoretically you could. But that assumes that browsers are able to extract and balance some very arbitrary and very specific information from the browsing habits of all people on earth in a perfect decision tree.

Not really, people have found in the past that combinations of user agent, screen resolution, installed fonts, installed extensions, and things of that sort can come very close to uniquely identifying individual people.

> Though I think you are absolutely correct that in practice the number of bits to build up a classifier able to uniquely classify each person must be pretty low. Maybe a few hundreds.

Exactly. It might not narrow it down to one person, but perhaps a relatively small pool.
IMO: like most of the web it's about accumulating bookmarks.

Newegg is really great for electronics in general

Sparkfun/mouser/adafruit is great for hobbiest parts.

For specific niche stuff check your favorite forums.
Thanks!!

One of our fundamental challenges was and to some extent still is to strike the right balance. On the one hand, some high-level concepts are clearly needed because it's got so complex in the last decade. But on the other hand it can't be opague, low-level access and control are still needed because no stack is the same.

We believe we got this somewhat right by combining click-ops and Terraform into one seamless experience.
How is spam filtering an opt-in curation? I never enabled it on my gmail account, it was just on.

Can Mastodon servers not choose to federate with other servers outside the central Mastodon service?
Not quite sure what might have changed since, but 20 years ago I was doing on-site work in New York, but my primary residence was still in Texas (I flew in every Sunday night, stayed in a hotel, and back every Friday) and still didn't owe any New York state taxes because I didn't actually reside there.
If the system is susceptible to anti-vax propaganda thwarting approval of a good vaccine, doesn’t it also follow that the system is susceptible to big pharma lobbying for the approval of a bad vaccine?

If this wondrously robust multi-layered process buckles in the face of a few hysterical anti-vax groups, you should ask yourself how robust it remains in the face of a billion-dollar pharmaceutical conglomerate with politicians in their pockets.
I think this might be partly due to the query language being JSON? It makes every example huge and hard to understand. JSON is a serialization format that's human-readable, it's not a human-first language. So it's a pity that's how you're expected to write searches (I know they have some SQL support now, but I've never seen it in the docs)
Have you considered adapting your app for deaf people?

A friend of mine developed a pronunciation practice app for deaf speakers of Korean as a student, which won them an innovation award. But according to my friend, the pronunciation score (which was based on comparing spectrograms or something) didn't work all that well, and the award was mostly due to the non-technical team members making up a heart-warming story to promote their project.

I assume your feedback system is more advanced (can you share some details on how you determine what recommendations to make?) and would also work for deaf speakers. But you can't really assume familiarity with another spoken language, so you'd probably need explanations specifically tailored to deaf people.
Five miles is close in situations where indirect artillery is a factor, but it is a very long distance in a big city.
> we now have multi-drug-resistant strains of gonorrhea, syphilis, and chlamydia

Each of these were quite prevalent before we had the drugs. They just went untreated.
I think it would be a research project to figure out and I am not at all equipped to carry that out, but at least two factors I'm aware of:

1) Municipalities aren't allowed to run budget deficits, so whenever there is any sort of economic downturn and revenues are short of what they projected, maintenance is often the first thing to get cut. They call it "deferred maintenance" but in practice it's just a disguised form of borrowing because you need to do it eventually and it's only going to get more expensive, which is effectively a different kind of interest. In contrast, whenever revenues exceed projections, there is tremendous pressure to just cut taxes rather than build up any kind of rainy day fund.

2) The existence of cities like Highland Park and University Park. These are entirely contained with Dallas city boundaries, small, and near the city center. They seem to exist for the sole purpose of taking all the largest and most expensive mansions and a few associated shops and public services, and walling them off from the rest of the city to make sure the wealthiest people don't see any of their tax revenue going to benefit anyone except themselves.
There's an impressive system called Looop that takes old clothes and "decompiles" them to create new fabric: https://www2.hm.com/en_gb/life/culture/inside-h-m/meet-the-m...
Hangouts is all but dead, and Chat/Meet suck by comparison... at one point, I loved Hangouts, one comms app to rule them all, SMS, chat, video conf, messaging, even google voice... then it all fell apart.

Half the time, I can't join a meet with video, or the video works in the "test" window, but as soon as you join it's broken.

I'm mostly okay with Teems though.
Show HN: Redis caching layer for Cloudflare KV in Golang
This is much more helpful and constructive than a downvote or a ban. Going through it now.
The USSR was a state capitalist system, not sure where you got the 'communism' ideea. Something vaguely socialist happened during the original bolshevik revolution, but Lenin quickly put a stop to that and restored economic/industrial control from the soviets to the state.

Russia today is a capitalist, kleptocratic oligarchic state, highly dependent on fossil fuels.
Modern Android actually randomizes macs on every WiFi connect, and we use Tor full time.
https://archive.is/oePrz
Imagine if everytime you phone england (or added 44 to another number) you have to pay jeff for using their trademarked mathematical statement.
I absolutely do. I'm not sure why, it's not something I specifically pay attention to, but I definitely appreciate text in some fonts more than others. For example, I really liked The Economist's print font (and I don't mind the redesign [1])

That said, I once spent a couple weeks trying out various programming fonts/sizes, so maybe I'm an outlier. (I'm on Mac now, and the system Monaco font is fine. I don't remember what I had settled on when I was using Linux until 6 years ago)

I have to add that I recently upgraded from a 2k 27" monitor to a 4k one, and the first thing I noticed is how much nicer all the text is (again, macOS)

[1] https://designmodo.com/the-economist-redesign/
Why would Pakistan’s majority Punjabi people want to absorb more Pashtuns into their country? Pakistan is a democracy after all. Why would other countries do the same?
I mean, I get your point. The underlying data and studies should be analyzed and confirmed. But as the article mentions this is not the only study showing an under reporting of emissions, and as you said oil companies have obvious incentives to under report.

So the question is now "how much is being under reported", but not "are oil companies under reporting".

>Which number is reality?

Not the one the oil companies are telling us, which should be alarming.
Indeed, there can never be one universal solution to this, because the problem is one of specification rather than (only) implementation.

For example, suppose we have an edit/delete conflict, where two clients concurrently interact with the same entity in your data model. In a simple case, we can decide to “resurrect” the affected entity and apply the edit, which is the option that never results in significant data loss and so might be a reasonable behaviour if no user interaction is involved.

Now, what if there were other consequences of deleting that entity? Maybe the client that deleted the entity then created a new entity that would violate some uniqueness constraint if both existed simultaneously. Or maybe it wasn’t the originally deleted entity that would violate that constraint, but some related one that was also deleted implicitly because of a cascade. How should we reconcile these changes, if simply allowing either one to take precedence means discarding data from the other?

At least if all clients are communicating in close to real time, it’s unlikely that any one of them will diverge far from the others before they get resynchronised, so the scope for awkward conflicts is limited. But in general, we might also need to support offline working for extended periods, when multiple clients might come back with longer sequences of potentially conflicting operations, and there’s no general way to resolve that without the intervention of users who can make intelligent decisions about intent, or at least a set of automated rules that makes sense in the context of that specific application. And in the latter case, we’d still probably want to prove that our chosen rules were internally consistent and covered all possible situations, which might not be easy.
The Tough Problem for the Glass Photo Sharing App
Can you be more specific about the UI problems? It seems pretty equivalent to Zoom to me.
iOS has files now, it could just get them from a folder and have a companion app to download gif collections in the background. That would keep the behavior user visible.
There's no platonic 'free' market anywhere on earth, and I'm not sure there ever has been. Each society is a collection of socialized and privatized services. America has socialized fire departments, police departments, regulators, courts, health care for the poorest and old, army, passenger rail, mail delivery etc.

Some services are better provided collectively (schools, prisons, healthcare) and some are better provided by the private markets (Apple). The former strengthens the latter.

At the end of the day even the 'socialized medicine' debate isn't such a big decision. It's just about extending socialized medicine in the US from 40% of the population (today covered by Medicare and Medicaid) to 100%. It's clearly better of course - as John Oliver expressed 'there's a right way and a wrong way to do healthcare and we do it the wrong way'. But it is, on the spectrum of absolute socialism to absolute capitalism, a small tweak.
Touchable UI elements should always be closer to the user's typical hand placement. It is frustrating that virtually all mobile UI designers opt for placing controls away from fingers.
Fusion using lasers is an off-shoot of H-Bomb development, and advances by John Nuckolls from early laser-based fusion research in the 1960s(!) were fed back into H-Bomb research.

These fields are surprisingly related. For details, see Alex Wellerstein's book "Restricted Data", chapter 7.
In the same way that the majority of Americans were unable to understand the market dynamics that required the break ups of Standard Oil, AT&T, and the regulations placed on Microsoft, the 50% of Americans that own iPhones aren't necessarily able to weigh in on this issue.

The majority of the population are unable or unqualified to make decisions about drug approvals, judicial topics, and military strategy. This is why our government has people and systems in place to keep our population and economy healthy without our 100% direct involvement on every issue.

I trust our policy makers to listen to qualified experts in industry about this issue so that they can understand the steps that need to be taken to create a better future that is fairer and more equitable for all. Certainly one that is better for the 99% of companies that are not Apple.

If Apple is regulated, the chances are that it will emerge as a healthier company because of it.
Yup, that's right in line with settlers II.

You need a military to expand your boarder, but ultimately the economy is what will win or lose the game for you.
With a tokamak, like SPARC (https://www.psfc.mit.edu/sparc) it's clear how energy will be extracted, the vessel will be heated and the cooling fluid goes through a heat exchanger to get the energy.

How would it work here? I imagine something like spiderman 2 where a big ball of fire is suspended in a chamber, but how would energy be transformed to electricity?
It's funny how many people take offense. We really aren't rational creatures, are we..
This isn't diverted and it isn't DOD money. It's DOE money. If it's a figleaf then what's it covering?
States boost earned income tax credits for pandemic relief
Anything is possible. No one here is arguing it’s absolutely impossible for an electron app to be fast. But as you said the amount of work it would take is simply not worth it… with a lot less effort you could make a much more performant native app, so it’s never gonna happen.

You’re being pedantic and are upset that you’re being called out.
Magnetic confinement fusion like ITER is no less of a boondoggle. Maybe even more so because the progress is intentionally slow in spite of not having a dual-role for “stockpile stewardship.” ITER is being funded not just by the US but by many countries, started development in 1985, detailed design in 2001, and construction in 2013, but it’s not even PLANNED to get full fusion until 2035. 2035!

Plus, it won’t even generate electricity at all. That’s planned for the DEMO reactor that won’t start operation until 2051 at earliest. It is depressingly slow if you think one of the main reasons we should be developing alternative energy sources is to address climate change. It’s so bad as to qualify as a waste and maybe even a negative investment as it’s pulling a bunch of researchers toward a project that literally has no hope of being relevant to fighting climate change (as its first possible kilowatt-hour of electricity won’t start until 30 years from now, well after we’ve exhausted our carbon budget for 2 degrees C of warming).
imagine being this fanatical about something that is not true.