skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've noticed a bunch of Youtube channels have really upped their animation game and mastered how to structure/pace their videos. Especially the science oriented ones like Kurzgesagt [1] and Veritasium [2]. It's a really great movement, I'm happy to see it. 3blue1brown definitely played a role in this in the early days.

It reminds me of the way websites evolved around 2005-2010 to start to take design seriously, not just on specialist web design sites but on major news sites and search engines, etc. Part of it was "Web 2.0" and then Bootstrap style CSS frameworks and the maturity of browsers as IE6 died off.

1. https://www.youtube.com/user/Kurzgesagt

2. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHnyfMqiRRG1u-2MsSQLbXA
I'd go with a laptop first.

Then an e-book reader. With WiFi but no SIM.

Then a very function-limited dumb-phone, with tethering capability.

"The Case Against Tablets":
https://joindiaspora.com/posts/880e5c403edb013918e1002590d8e...

(Most of the meat is in comments to that post.)
I would not consider not donating to be wrong, or donating to necessarily be right.
This is the right thing to do if you want to keep it and stay sane. If I won I'd delete all social networking, change my phone number, set up an LLC and make purchases through that.

The quote of "I know that my parents would not have asked for a thing, but my sister would have told me to donate half to her church" makes my stomach turn.
I had to google it to see what it looked like, looks great if all you care about is photo + videocalls.

In the end i guess it all depends on the persons ability to manipulate and see things.

I've pushed my parents hard into the Apple ecosystem and it has worked out great.

My mom first got the iPhone 4, before that she had a nokia flip phone, she could use it from day 1.
Nowadays I buy the newest iPhone, and after 1-2 years or so I sell it to one of my parents for a 'nice' price. The iPad I made them buy (and they upgraded it once) is very popular.

But the most used Apple product is the AppleTV. It has enabled them so watch the news when they want, and Youtube has given them access to content (travel) they'd never had before.

Sharing photo albums, facetime video calls, imessage and ease of use is just on a level I don't think exists with android - of course, sometimes theres the small hiccup.

But they are not 93 years old so the mileage might vary :)
Summary in a tweet: "Some guy replaced defective battery in his iPhone and it helped."
I haven't played roblox and know relatively little about it, but my guess would be that it is popular with children because it has a low barrier to entry. Sort of like what Flash did for young animators.
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kids can still make money from their creations. just pay them with real money instead of roblox digital currency (and remove the ridiculous minimum of $1k).
Ground storage of fresh water is a simple technique that people seem to resist. 'Controversial' is not the right word but in the permaculture community there is a definite divide between people who embrace it and those who resist. The interactions are... frustrating.

There's also a relationship between water, soil health and climate change. The rule of thumb is that an acre of land can store an additional 20k gallons of water by increasing the soil carbon by 1% (of overall fraction, not relative to previous carbon levels, so in most real world cases that may involve increasing carbon by 10-25%).
It's not that hard if you use "residential proxies"
Valid point. They might have been developing the tech for a while, perhaps this was an opportune moment to release it? Anyway I'm just making a wild guess (as I had mentioned), and I'm not really sure why people were surprised when something I'd mentioned as a wild theory, was, in fact, a wild theory. I'm almost certainly wrong but it's still a theory.
Sure, but when it's the fourth or fifth treatment about the relatively recent founding of a single company that is still dominant in the present day, and that treatment is sponsored by the company in question, it comes off as self-serving.
Much of tech pays well enough that you can quit and live comfortably for awhile.

Given the stressful pandemic, it's no wonder that many would rather take some extended time off. Or start new ventures.

The assumption is that there will always be demand for these jobs, so there's little risk in leaving.
So is this finally the inflation that we were promised for so long? I guess all that money created during covid had to go somewhere. Too bad it's not going into education or healthcare...
So we are nowhere near that bubble, as current USD supply is several times larger, compared to then
I've noticed that before IG and Tiktok influencers become popular, their content is more authentic / less cookie-cutter. Also their followers leave better comments (they are only followed by those who genuinely like them).
I read it but couldn't really determine what exactly happened or how true it was.
Televisions.
I played Dreams on the PS4 before I had heard of Roblox, and when I first heard about it I thought "oh wow it's probably like Dreams but for PC!"

I was sorely disappointed - I'm as perplexed as you are how they became so successful. It is indeed a total mess.
In contrast with the prototypical lottery winner who burns through all their money and ends up basically where they started, this guy didn't spend any significant amount of his money and ended up basically where he started.
> The article is just too polluted with pseudo intellectual nonsense

Always an ironic comment!
Abridgements:

«Some estimates have ranged on the more conservative side. One study, collected as part of the Covid Symptom Study using the app ZOE Covid from researchers at King’s College London, took a survey of 4 million people between 2020-03-25 and 2020-06-30:

4.5% of people with Covid-19 reported symptoms after 8 weeks, and only 2.3% of people after 12 weeks – a pretty low estimate.

[...] this estimate might be on the lower side. [It] most likely missed out on sufferers too fatigued to log all their symptoms on the app on a regular basis. Also, if the patient had fewer than five symptoms on the last day they used the app, it counted them as recovered. This study was deliberately designed to give a conservative estimate, says Claire Steves, one of the study’s authors: they wanted to establish without doubt that long Covid existed [...]; it only included people whose positive test for Covid-19 was confirmed by a PCR test»

«Other studies returned a much higher number. React-2 [...] report from Imperial College London surveyed over 500,000 participants between Sep 2020 and Feb 2021 [...] estimated that almost 40% still had at least one symptom lasting 12 weeks or more - ~2 million people in England»

«Falling somewhere in between is the data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS): it estimates that 13.7% of a sample of over 20,000 people (then compared against a control group of a similar size) who had tested positive for Covid-19 still reported symptoms after at least 12 weeks»

In very rounded percentages, 5% to 15% up to 40% suffered symptoms 12 weeks after.
What is unique and refreshing about your pitch is that you're using contracts, but you don't use the blockchain! The environment thanks you, and you don't automatically sound like a charlatan shilling a get-rich-quick pyramid scheme. And you used a nice word like "bananas" to aptly describe the US housing market instead of cussing.
The USSR achieved what it did at tremendous personal cost to its citizen. (Imperial Russia was basically just as harsh.)
Solar panels
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> They have a different approach where they focus huge effort on individual Geo-fenced locations

Where they actually have driverless vehicles. That's the key difference. Waymo and cruise have demonstrated driverless vehicles. People get driverless taxi rides today from waymo, and I think cruise as well. Tesla doesn't. It's still sitting in driver assist land and isn't particularly better than other luxury vehicle driver assist.

> The claim they made no progress is objectively false.

Thankfully that's not what I said.
It might be best if Iran didn't do that, but "illegal" is open to interpretation.

Funny thing, international law. Nobody's in charge.

Between countries, everything resembling law is held together by diplomacy, persuasion, agreements, treaties, etc. Sanctions are part of that network, for better or worse.
Anything related to storage or compute?
I couldn’t image having a 2tb drive 20 years ago, but having a 2tb ssd in my laptop is kind of amazing
It's very sad that this couple died but extra sad because they also killed their child in the process. Taking a baby on a remote hike, merely for pleasure, with no cell service/satellite phone is parental negligence in 2021.

There are many ways to spend time in nature, even remote nature, without excessively risking the life of a child.

My point is not just to blame the parents, they're already dead. I mean to point out the mistake they made for others. If other people disagree, I have no problem with that. Hopefully at least some people view this as a cautionary tale.
Congrats Amit and Team on launch. I think vision is good. Are you repeat founders? Since you have 6 founders from different countries, do you think this may cause conflict in future while scaling? What are your thoughts?

Are you guys located in US/India and China?
> But that fact isnt sufficient to make "semantic distinctions" -- because the proposition isn't true in virtue of that frequency.

The trick here is that language models are (currently!) demonstrating you /can/ get most of the way to semantic distinctions just by analyzing symbol-level statistics. Whether you can get all the way is an open question.

I agree with you that "movie theaters" don't "sell candy" /because/ of some statistical artifact in large bodies of text. Movie theaters sell candy because people want to eat candy when they watch movies (and are willing to pay for it, etc.).

But this wraps back around: the statistical artifacts happen to exist in large bodies of text because it is true. So, with enough text, and the right kind of analysis, you can tease the semantics back out.

The power in language models is not that they "understand" text "the right way", from first principles, with a symbolic language model. The power is that they don't have to get most of the way there. Perhaps they'll get all the way there! And if they do, what then? Are we so sure that we don't do the same thing?
100%. The very concept of "identity theft" feels like corporate newspeak to shift the onus of remediation from the party that actually got defrauded (the company) to someone uninvolved in the transaction.
In general that won't happen, but one can do close readings of presumed valid arguments, and spot cases where equivocation (e.g. bringing in different meanings of a word within different premises) can invalidate a superficially good argument.
> In other words, it could well be by nature, that recognizing black faces is harder than pale faces under the normal camera and scene settings.

This might be the crux. Why are pale-face-recognizing settings the "normal" settings? Why aren't the cameras designed and tuned to recognize darker skinned faces by default?

Cameras are designed and tuned by people - this is not a matter of fundamental physics having a preference.
How would they even remotely be able to enforce such and thing? And is there any chance they actually would?
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> Race is explicitly about using visible differences to mark a group of people as a “lower” class.

That's not the definition of either Race or Racism but something you created as a definition. It's not something you should use to correct others.
> they encourage kids to create games by emphasizing the revenue sharing aspect

I disagree completely here - they encourage kids to create games by giving them an easy platform to create games and letting them play games other kids have created.

A kid who sees that other kids their age are able to actually make a video game is far more likely to want to learn to do that themselves.
I intended to post this, but this is well said.

Such an article is forwarded to “leadership” and “the board”. Boards in particular, who hire and fire the leadership, prefer collecting advisory cheques without getting any side looks at the country club.
Even setting aside warming affects of CO2, it’s well-understood that increasing atmospheric carbon leads to ocean acidification which is much more inarguably a massive net negative.
A question to you for something you surely must have considered: why as vacation homes and not as investment properties? Is it a mortgage thing? I’d be happy to consider investing in a small bucket of houses, in some sort of tranche sense to diversify my portfolio but REITs are too large in general for me to understand the bucket and single homes are too illiquid.
An overlay could define a package with the same name as one from a lower level.

IE python = super.python...

It could also completely override the entire definition of something if you wanted.

IE python = super.stdenv.mkDerivation { ... };

But you can also add new names, and not modify the existing definitions.

IE python-for-me = super.python.overrideAttrs (...);

In the last case you can reference your modified copy while other things in nixpkgs can use the one built upstream.
Not that much, but I did make a ton of money in crypto. Similar thing: bought a house, also bought myself a nice car.

I didn't tell any of my friends, but did mistakenly tell one of my parents, who then felt it necessary to share this information with the rest of my family.

If you make a bunch of money: I would highly recommend not telling people. The will treat you differently (not in a good way).
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That's the dream right there. I've got 20 years to go on my note for my house and I just think wow, once this thing is paid off I've got it made in the shade. Good on you for helping them, much better investment than just buying them cars or gifts.
Wonder if people like you think about funding startups that are not attractive to traditional investors. I'm talking about funding outsiders with something that doesn't sound very exciting, but might work out
The scripting under the hood teaches some real skills. They use Lua. Very handy.
One self-regulating thing really does exist. If you are already overweight, the body can self-regulate itself, by extracting fewer calories from processing from eaten food. You can take in food for 3000kcal, but the already overweight body can take in just 2700.

This has only one effect: when a person decides to lose weight, it'll make it harder for him, because eating slightly less than will have no effect at all, and the body is already used to eating a lot, so reduction in incoming food brings immediate discomfort.

But the opposite direction is rock solid: if you don't eat enough to compensate your passive calorie burn, you will not gain weight ever.

Anyway, this method helped me to go from 96 kg to 83 kg in 10 weeks, taking on average 1750..1900 kcal per day. For me it turned out pretty easy. First two weeks were the hardest, and I took in up to 2000 kcal, gradually bringing it lower.
Maybe at one point social networks were actually social networks, but that isn't what they are any more. They're poorly-moderated, poorly-curated entertainment distribution platforms. People who own data centers and URLs figured out you can cut out the middlemen of studios, editors, publishers, et al, and the quality of content may go way down, but the quantity will go way up and cost to produce will go way down, in many cases to zero if you just let arbitrary users create your content for you, and engagement was never correlated with quality anyway.

The fact that consumers as well as creators need permanent accounts in order to use the platform enabled a level of tracking that normal studios and publishers could never have dreamed of. Warners could never put activity loggers into their viewer's eyeballs to figure out the exact rate at which the content of frame N leads them to continue watching at frame N + n. They had to rely on some level of positive word of mouth and positive reviews. They needed to leave some lasting impression that after their viewers spent a few minutes going home and thinking about it, they still thought the content was worth recommending.

That is all gone now.
toxic gas is also a known natural hazard

https://i.imgur.com/F1Y2rbW.jpg
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They are also describing an issue, which like pretty much the entirety of this Apple fiasco, is completely fictional.

Most of this outrage is about situations people are imagining, situations which often have only the most tenuous of relationships with the actual reality of what is happening.
> Guinness no longer officially endorses records relating to fasting for fear of encouraging unsafe behaviour.

That's a good way to keep your record forever
> ...I really miss the days of when I could load all my accounts into Pidgin (Gaim!) and have almost everything centralized...

Me too! I'm very much hoping that matrix - the protocol - continues its steady climb (both popularity and adoption), because that is what i see as the future for that kind of experience where if not everything at least lots/most of my comms interactions will be managed on my side by a single "interface". I'm an admitted fanboy of the matrix protocol (as well as matrix apps like Element, FluffyChat, Quaternion, etc.)...so maybe i'm biased, but have you tried playing around with matrix, and its associated apps, to see if it gets you closer to that older Pidgin/Gaim/Adium-like experience?

(I'm not affiliated with the matrix org. nor any app/client builder, as noted i'm just a fanboy.)
Airline tickets.
Especially if you already use plants adapted to a dry season.

There's a huge difference between surviving 50 days without rain and being able to survive 90 days without rain.
Don't see the important question being answered: is this price rise accompanied by lax lending standards? Almost every sober analysis of thr 2008 crash involved dysfunction in the mortgage market.

Skewed supply and demand does not a bubble make.
I've honestly never come across it since university - but maybe that's me being a noob. I don't get the impression it's as copy-n-paste as regex. and well every lang has regex
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I agree with you, although I think it would be really easy to go overboard here. Did you have people come to you asking for houses? Maybe I'm being cynical, but I think that news would spread really quickly if someone in my friend group was buying houses for several people.
"Why is there such a gaping, borderline incomprehensible, asymmetry here? "

The Iranian Government is trying to destabilize the Middle East including threatening the world with an nuclear program, attempting to overthrow House of Saud, having destroyed 50% of it's refinement industry by direct military attack (aka major act of war) with the objective turning Saudi Arabia into a Syrian mess, supporting Houthi rebels towards direct attacks on Saudi civilians, destroying Israel, arming terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah towards that objective, and the United States as well, if they could, among other things including state sponsored terrorist attacks around the world including bombings and assassinations in Europe [1].

AT&T has accidently made public some people's phone numbers, it isn't trying to get nuclear weapons to use as cover to overthrow nations in it's periphery.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_and_state-sponsored_terro...
This is a great argument for Universal Basic Income, or some other system that allows people to choose not to work.

It's naive to think that there aren't people being pressured into "selling their body and their consent" to work that is generally considered moral.

> I don't think this works, because a brain is a "tool" used to "produce" a service, while a prositute is actually just providing their body to be used.

GP's argument was poorly stated. It's more genuine to compare sex work to hard labor. There is the risk of physical harm (STDs/injuries), a low barrier to entry (attractive and have a camera/in decent shape and can get to/from work), is considered by many as demoralizing (gross prostitute/dumb factory worker) but also glorified by many (high-class escort/blue collar backbone of our country).

In what ways is it truly different for someone to be denied unemployment benefits for rejecting a hard labor job than it is for someone to be denied unemployment benefits for refusing to be a sex worker (prostitute)?
Wonder what the IRS would think of these earnings. If someone earns $5,000 worth of Robux but spends it all in Roblox rather than ever converting it to currency, is that taxable income? Or would it be like S&H Green Stamps? While there likely aren't many who make games that earn that much or whatever the IRS's threshold is, this is the kind of edge case that ends up making headlines when (if) the IRS comes sniffing around.
Isn't spam filtering a large part of what these clichés are used for, or at least what the people using them think they're for? e.g. "That's just your opinion." "Now is not the time." "Here we go again."
If you compare with the relative cost of the advancements, that's not true. A fancy 8k tv today is still very expensive.
I think it's any contract with a carrier. They want the ability to go after you and hurt your credit if you refuse to pay, is my guess. It's disgusting.
I agree with you completely. I'm just pointing out that this is the status quo of how politicians talk. If you watch for it, you'll see it regularly on both sides of the aisle.
It's not inflation from money printing. Its reduced supply along with higher wages from income earners getting smeared across the country instead of inflating housing costs in traditional HCOL locations. Before, lower income earners in the suburbs and more rural areas didn't have to compete against higher wage earners who were previously stuck in cities. No longer.

In the Sunbelt, I see homes getting bought all cash by the wealthy and retirees (with some or all contingencies waived), driving up values beyond what income driven mortgagees will support. When asked how long this can go on for (by people who, naively, believe this to be a repeat of the 2008 housing bubble and are waiting on the sidelines to acquire property either as a home or investment), I respond "Until that wealth is depleted."

Go look at current and historical prices of homes (as well as appreciation rate velocity) in Dallas, San Antonio, Houston, Tampa, Orlando, Miami, and major North Carolina metros (as well as parts of Western North Carolina such as from Asheville to the NC-TN border) to see this. Rents are no better [1].

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-18/housing-h... | https://archive.is/VGtt4 (Bloomberg: Landlords From Florida to California Are Jacking Up Rents at Record Speeds)
Thank you for this.

I've noticed that Buzzfeed News almost always intentionally buries these crucial details to create sensationalist pieces.

If the domain were banned from HN, I wouldn't be upset.
Except this guy never has to work again if he doesn't want to.
The property taxes on this bubble will go into education at least.
I don't think that's what I'm looking for, that's queuing at the front of the pipe but I need it queuing at the end of the pipe. Apache should be buffering and queuing lots of connections (with a timeout) and sending them single-file in gunicorn.

This lays out what I'm trying to achieve: https://aws.amazon.com/builders-library/using-load-shedding-...