skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How much do you drive? I would guess that if you don't drive a lot, the "quiet cab" wouldn't be much of a thing to notice. Also, if the car is fun to drive, the other things are less noticeable unless you are a passenger.

Luxury cars are like business class plane tickets or a 5 star resort pool villa: they are really nice, but absolutely not necessary. If you have lots of money, why not? If you don't, you probably have better places to spend your money.
It didn't. But at the time, the trainer was very, very worried.
Kaboom2000
I hope not. I am so tired of that word. It's one of the most overused words in tech, almost to the point of losing its meaning.
Side issue: hate paywalls. pls use advertising to monetize
I don't see this mentioned anywhere but the HTML page the journalist visited is public so there's no CFAA/DMCA violation there. Once the HTML page (data) is cached by the journalist's browser, they're free to do anything they want with the data. The journalist ran "his hacker tools" against his own computer which is also not a crime.

Like others, I'm sad to see such a technically illiterate response when there should at least be advisors capable of explaining this. I also agree the journalist is unlikely to be convicted but we really don't need to muddy the fairly clear scope of computer crimes per the above laws.
Looking forward to have a Youtube button that goes nowhere on my Roku remote in addition to Google Videos.
> I can find a competent plumber trivially.

You must not live in any major U.S. coastal city. Plumbers and other skilled tradespeople are in extremely high demand right now.
What's even worse is that, at the machine language level, condition and unconditional jumps are all that there are; we've all been using GOTOs constantly without even knowing it. :)
They must have been trying to escape. The rear doors don't have mechanical releases, so your in a tough spot if the front doors fail to open for any reason and there is a fire. I don't know why they didn't include a mechanical release on the back.
Well, the short answer is that it is being used in Tokyo to build a sky scraper that is 350m high. You would not do that with plywood. Also, Tokyo has earth quakes, high humidity and typhoons. So, apparently it's up to that job and if it can work there, it can work pretty much anywhere.
It's not an ideal fix, but Unicode has had "variation selectors" for a few versions now which can force specific CJK variations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation_Selectors_%28Unicode...

Variation selectors are getting a good workout/testing technically in emoji at least (a lot of emoji are "just" "old" Unicode codepoints with a ZWJ and the variation selector known as the emoji variation selector to tell systems to always show it in "emoji styles"). I can't speak for how well it works in practice for CJK languages as I don't know them (more reason I appreciate emoji for letting me test compatibility with hard parts of UTF-8 in ways that I can read and most users want), but I do appreciate that there's at least the idea for/part of a fix in "recent" Unicode.

I'm also imagining it is not a fun thing to implement in practice, as Unicode at this point maintains a massive database just for it: https://www.unicode.org/ivd/
Yeah agreed, that Twitter thread is weird. Sinclair promoting his company does seem like a conflict of interest as far as his tweets are concerned, but the claims in this Twitter thread were equally all over the place.
People are, generally, thinking about you a lot less than you perceive them to be thinking about you.

So in general it may seem pretty noticeable, but in reality it's rarely so.

> In particular, it's often the case that there's a seemingly obvious but actually incorrect reason something is true, a slightly less obvious reason the thing seems untrue, and then a subtle and complex reason that the thing is actually true.

This is a good example of what's in the submission! It's "seemingly obvious" that people are judging you all the time, and slightly less obvious that people aren't actually thinking about you nearly as often as you think, but the few who are thinking about you might be indeed judging you to look stupid for asking "basic" questions.
Hulu TV it is then.
The tea temperatures are all wrong, they should be:

Black tea - 95 C

Oolong Tea - 80-90 C (depending on oxidation level, more = higher temperature)

Green Tea - 75 C

Yellow Tea - 70-75 C

White Tea - 70 C

Using boiling water will scald the leaves and leave a bitter taste.
Actual PDF report in English: https://www.interpol.int/content/download/16690/file/2021%20...

and French: https://www.interpol.int/content/download/16690/file/2021%20...
Everyone here is doing exactly what this attack on the journalist was designed to do. It is deflecting attention from the incompetent grift machine running the technology systems in Missouri.

If anything, this response demands worldwide attention on the state run systems and contracts paying to build and maintain them. Expect statewide incompetence paid at top dollar to contractors who aren't paid as much as the contract stipulates.

FOIA all the way
I am one of those loonie cave dwellers who want nothing
to do with Twitter.

I find it to be a horrible UX in almost all ways.

The limit of how many characters you can type in a message
nearly guarantees clickbait, sensationalism, and idiocy.

Getting around this most fundamental part of Twitter,
with "threads", is a painful experience for the reader.
(In my opinion).

If Twitter included proper support for it, it would be better. Each post on a thread would appear directly after each other and stripped of unnecessary repeated parts.
Except now you have basically changed the main idea of Twitter and allow longer posts.

I like posting things on my blog.
I know I have only 3 readers, one of whom I pay
but you get a chance to build content in your own silo
and can be as long winded as you feel like.

I would have no interest in HN if it was not for the
thoughtful and high-quality long form discourse it has.

If a story is a link to Twitter I just click right onto
the discussion.

I guess my blog is a barren wasteland and I might pull
in 1 reader from Twitter

It is a horrible UX that makes it close to impossible
to convey a story. (Unless its "This is my headline" click here
This is amazing. I'm CTO and co-founder of a (much smaller) monitoring company. We have as one of our core values that we donate 1% of MRR to non-corporate backed Open Source.

We are also Sentry users BTW.
> It is the society's fault that people feel compelled to go to college

That may be true but the amount of assistance available through student loans and grants enables people to actually go. Without that, the people that feel compelled to go still wouldn't because they simply couldn't afford it.

Higher education in this country is a minefield of unintended consequences.
It's not even subtext. The media has been screaming at everyone to trust the experts and defer thinking.
I interpret comments like this as arguing that racism is justified by biology.
I think that sometimes "willingness to look stupid" can simply be a function of your power situation.

When I was a respected Principal Engineer, secure in my position, I was willing to look stupid.

When I was in a contract-to-hire position, where I had spent months looking for a job and where I was constantly judged and I thought I might be let go at any moment, I was not willing to look stupid.

When I was a long-time group leader and project architect, I was willing to look stupid.

When I worked at a place where I was in the political and religious minority, I was not willing to look stupid.

One shouldn't be afraid to look stupid in situations where that fear is groundless. But I think it's worth having some empathy for people who are in a situation where looking stupid could actually be a threat.
Good luck finding an oil rich asteroid. Or an asteroid with lush virgin hardwood forests.

As far as I know there isn't a shortage of iron ore. This hardened wood is solving a problem that we don't have yet.
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Passed Away
seeing this post makes me feel so good that they are really supporting the OSS community.

I wish more companies supported OSS devs like this
> free to do anything they want

Copyright could apply.
I presume (and hope) given the high profile of the case the reporter will have some pretty heavyweight legal representation. While being involved in a lengthy, politically charged legal proceeding sucks, I don’t see how that ends well for the governor?
>> I can find a competent plumber trivially. Hiring white collar jobs are much harder, especially specialized tech work.

This is broadly not true in most US cities. Skilled tradespeople who are insured, licensed, and bonded have major backlogs of work - especially electricians, but also plumbers, carpenters, etc.
What I mean is that it's quite clearly not the same product as cloud. It does have roughly the same road map as cloud, just pretty far behind and/or cherry-picking some features in a different order. My experience with enterprise software is that it doesn't matter what the roadmap is as long as you get to choose if/when the benefits outweigh the risks for an update. And you usually want certain releases to get backported security updates for that same reason. You don't have to take new features and their associated bugs but you do want, and get, security fixes. That's a separate thing, because this would be the case if GHE was just "run your own copy of .com."

What is really rough about GHE is that you can't choose a lot of the features or IMO baseline requirements like caching that you've probably come to expect from github.com, and may have been around for years. At least not until they can get GHE to parity with .com.
The question there is what exactly, and very specifically do you mean by 'thinking'. We perform very complex intellectual tasks completely subconsciously all the time, without any concious awareness that we're doing them. Driving a car, while listening to the radio for example. Playing football or any complex sport at the highest level is done very largely on autopilot. Grandmasters playing chess, or Go, don't consciously think through every possible permutation of move, yet they can out play extremely sophisticated algorithms.

Huge swathes of the cognitive load on these very sophisticated tasks is subconscious, so clearly those tasks must in principle be doable by entities not capable of consciousness. We don't yet know where the boundaries are between tasks that do and don't involve consciousness, if there are any.
>No, they weren't.

In that case, what were they sold as? You already said what they weren't sold as, so now I'd like to know what they were sold as.
The graph in that composite diagram is really bothering me.

Their "hardened wood" product is 23 times harder than "natural" basswood. When dried, basswood (aka lime) is an extremely soft hardwood. It's very popular with novice turners and hand carvers. When green (natural?) you can carve it with a stone.

Species matters. Lignum vitae is 20 times harder than basswood.
In traditional finance their is a concept of HQLA (High Quality Liquid Asset) collateral, this is mainly things like treasuries, JGB's, Gilts etc. Tether is for all intents and purposes HQLA in crypto, layers of rehypothecation and leverage are built off the back of Tether deposits, this is between exchanges, leverage/margin exchanges extend etc.

Tether suddenly becoming impaired IMO would certainly have massive effects on the rest of the market, you cannot remove ~$70b of HQLA from a system worth ~$1-2T and not have negative effects.

Following some sort of credit event, I expect a period of massive volatility (hours to days), I would expect USDC to trade at a premium for several days, ETH and BTC would whipsaw, but likely end up at higher relative levels as tether holders flee/get liquidated and in turn bid up (relative) "safe haven" assets.

10's of DEFI protocols would go bust due to the peg breaking and AMM /Yield farms would likely also see massive loss of AUM and substantial impermanent loss applied to LP positions.

It will be messy, but necessary for the long run health of the system. Anyone holding tether or who has long exposure to tether at this point is taking hefty credit risk (a risk they are not being compensated for - which is a total amateur move) with total disregard for the many blatant red flags. Their is very little opportunity cost for using something like USDC over tether, it should be a simple decision for most users...
Basics of Metaprogramming in Ruby
In this edition, we’ll learn from GitHub's Principal Software Engineer John Crepezzi. "Basics of metaprogramming in Ruby".
The problem is that they're using science to protect themselves while speaking out against it.
Relevant section:

> In February 2020, the organization's Director of Abolition, Laila Mickelwait, launched a petition to shut down the adult website Pornhub. Mickelwait's campaign using the hashtag "#Traffickinghub" was co-sponsored by the National Center on Sexual Exploitation, an anti-pornography organization formerly known as Morality in Media. By September, the campaign had gained over two million signatures, and on December 10, following an opinion column by New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof alleging the site was being used to share sex abuse videos,[9] Visa and Mastercard stopped allowing Pornhub to accept credit card transactions.[10] Shortly after, the Canadian Parliament began conducting hearings to investigate the allegations against PornHub.[11] In December 2020, Pornhub's parent company MindGeek was sued in California on allegations of hosting non-consensual videos produced by GirlsDoPorn, which allegedly coerced women into appearing in their videos under false pretenses. In January 2021, a class action lawsuit making similar allegations was launched in Montreal, seeking $600 million in damages for anyone whose intimate photos and videos had been shared on MindGeek's sites without their consent.[12] In June 2021, another class-action lawsuit by 34 additional women was filed against Mindgeek in federal court, alleging that the company had exploited them and hosted and promoted videos that depicted rape, revenge porn, and child sexual abuse.[13]
Theres so many better options these days for a simple box to install apps and stream media. Its pretty much commodity, why anyone cares about Roku alone is surprising to me. Content is king and Roku is not it.
To say nothing of _competent_ ones. It is a great deal of work to find a tradesperson that is 1) available and 2) competent. Unsurprisingly the most available ones seem to be the least competent.
Really cool to see $100 donated to Nim as part of this, although it does pale in comparison to the $23k Rust + Rust projects have received.
If you only started programming a few years ago, you probably aren't strong enough yet. A boot camp or preferably a CS degree would do you good.
But incredible cost is because of the inflated demand. Too many people go to college who don't need it. Reduce demand by, pun intended, educating people that they don't need college unless they can make it to the top, and prices will fall.
Haha thanks. Yes... there's a benefit to being a socially awkward kid raised in a culture of close friendship in that my parents taught me in very clear terms how to make friends, that I use to this day (to apparently much greater success than 'normal' kids I know).

I especially liked the article's details on maintaining friendships. Being a good friend is like having a marriage. We have this couple we're friends with. The husband and I get along and my wife and his wife get along (and of course, we all get along with each other). But his wife and my wife fought for a bit (And I mean really fought), and we had a 'falling out', but then I took the initiative to reach out to the husband, and for a while, we'd clandestinely go out with each other, until we both decided it was time to get the wive's to reconnect and everyone to make up (which they eventually did). It was hard emotional work... but it's all worth it. I think a lot of people drop friends they don't like. I notice a lot of people today do it over differences in politics, which I frankly find unfathomable.
I agree that in principle one ought to be able to do without thinking explicitly about logic, algebra, etc... but is that how it really goes in practice?
I think that is the funniest part of this article.

I read his post to the end looking for the answer to why he wanted the smallest box, furiously thinking of why. I could only think of three reasons that I rejected as unlikely. Frustrated, I came here to look at the comments. So many comments about the box. It's like the contents of the briefcase on Pulp Fiction. It's like a McGuffin that forces everyone to talk about his article.
also, CLT can be combined with steel to create stronger load-bearing members, while also being more aesthetically pleasing, effectively replacing concrete for class A construction of tall buildings.
Again anecdotally. I'm mid 50's, always been fit with a healthy diet and BMI range, but the weight had started to build up of late. I tried informally exercising more and eating/drinking less, with no visible results. Six weeks back I switched to a weekday 18 hour fast, 6 hour eating window (lunch ~2pm, finish dinner before 8), no alcohol on weekdays. It was hitting 170 that triggered me to try the change. This morning I was 158 with 2% lower body fat.

For me I think the fasting window just gives me an easy to follow schedule without having to make all those tiny little decisions. Once you get used to it, having your body tell you it's hungry gets easy to ignore (plus a 2pm lunch reduces the temptation for a mid afternoon snack). I don't feel any different TBH! YMMV.
I'm still seeing $65 for the Pi, then adding up everything else you need takes you over $100 easily.
That is amazing, your company rocks.
Android – UI tests with hilt and espresso
Tax code reform aimed at simplification would just get rid of that, and incentivize the behavior of your example via e.g. DoE grants to manufacturers to allow lower prices on more energy efficient units. The problem is that everybody has their own pet deductions (and a good number of them have armies of lobbyists backing them up), so a real attempt to clean the slate would require a degree of political cohesion that congress can only dream of.
If you're sick of Roku's ads and constant conflicts like this, consider a device such as https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/shield/ which runs Android.
yes, in some regards, no in others.
Survey finds men weep more than women
I found this episode quite cathartic.
It's only somewhat related but hidden brain released an episode about passion in politics recently which I also found summed up some core problems with how we are framing discourse.
https://pca.st/episode/b2bc078b-f757-41fa-83d8-734cf37589d7
Timescaler here. I think you're referring to this comparison of InfluxDB vs TimescaleDB [0]?

There's also comparisons of TimescaleDB vs MongoDB[1] and AWS Timestream [2].

[0]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-influxdb-for-...

[1]: https://blog.timescale.com/blog/how-to-store-time-series-dat...

[2]:https://blog.timescale.com/blog/timescaledb-vs-amazon-timest...
One interesting design choice on HN is that the user names are not very prominent. I often don't even notice them, skipping right past the user name and to the comment. So I do think what you're saying here is partly right, but not completely.
This is my favorite time of the decade because it’s at the nadir of political tension in the US. We’re exactly halfway between elections and the next election is an unimportant one (relatively). The only people still talking about politics are people who are genuinely interested in politics or who have interesting insights.

Nothing that anyone says politically right now matters. For proof, consider how many of your friends even remember that Afghanistan fell just two months ago - likely none if they’re like my friends. In fact, there’s a consequential NJ gubernatorial election coming up in the next month and no one’s talking about it. I love the peace and respite we’re getting from politics personally.

Anyways, to respond to you, Parson is in charge of a state that regularly has multiple cities top the US murder rate charts. Anything he says that makes you forget that fact, even temporarily, is a win for him.
Constructing covalent organic nanoarchitectures molecule by molecule via SPM
Well I went from a 16" 32GB 6-core i7 2019 MBP to a 16GB M1 Macbook Air and it was night and day better. So much faster, silent, cool and snappier.
> lacked a fear of consequences of being wrong

This is interesting. It used to be that some of the people we're discussing, let's use flat-earthers as an example, were just really, really committed to their idea. It was their whole identity and persona, and they would just never be able to accept anything different. This seems to me to be the opposite of what you describe. It's like they were terrified of being wrong, so they embraced not admitting it no matter what. They would never accept that they had been wrong. (With a few exceptions - I've engaged with A LOT of flat-earthers and some of them do give me the impression they just like playing devil's advocate, etc.)

Lately though, QAnon seems to have embraced this idea. They've made statements that will be very quickly falsifiable, and will actually say "Who cares if it's not true - we just support patriotism / freedom, etc. and what part of that do you disagree with?" They'll make statements that will be very quickly falsifiable (for instance, I saw a post claiming Nancy Pelosi had been arrested for high crimes, and Trump was now making his move - but a few days later obviously that wasn't true). That's what I call a lack of fear of consequences of being wrong. But to me it seems a new phenomenon.
You don't have a personal PAC that isn't beyond your influence. It wouldn't be a personal PAC, then.
> makes people waste their best years

I strongly believe that one's best years can be after college. Our society fetishizes youth too much. I've grown more as a person in the few years following college than I did in the decade prior.
> You're just a lab rat if you take the vaccine before it has had 209,348 years of trials.

Or, you know, 3. Like most new vaccines. Except with this one, an exception was made because people were (are) dying by the millions, and because most of those 3 years is an observation period for rare and obscure side effects that take time to manifest. But do nevertheless happen. We did what we usually do in medicine: risk-benefit trade-off. The decision wasn't a close one, but that doesn't mean that being concerned about the risk is somehow absurd.

Point being: using charitable interpretations of your opponents' arguments does not make for brief and funny sound bites.
The term "middle manager" doesn't mean "someone who has a boss and also has reports".

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_management
I see all politicians as blank humans who reflect their constituents. Not everybody needs to agree, especially the further they are geographically.
> "If I pay $40/month for Youtube TV..."

Where are you getting YouTube TV for anywhere near $40/mo? That may have been the price at launch, but it's already climbed more than 50% over the past few years. If you really want live television, I'm not even sure whether cutting the cord and going with an over-the-top package is even cheaper these days.