skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m a very happy ReMarkable 2 user, and I have pre-ordered it more than a year ago which means I don’t have to pay anything.

Yet I think the linked page is an example of a terrible marketing: instead of highlighting the benefits of the premium service, they are emphasizing how horrible your user experience will be if you don’t buy one.

Regardless of your stance on their pricing action, that’s a grave marketing mistake. I hope they will fix that.
A peek inside some of the top games from Ludum Dare 49
~2 drinks a day, every day, isn't great for you, but it isn't sufficient on its own to meet the criteria of alcoholism (Alcohol Use Disorder).[1]

> Healthcare professionals use criteria from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), to assess whether a person has AUD and to determine the severity if the disorder is present. Severity is based on the number of criteria a person meets based on their symptoms—mild (2–3 criteria), moderate (4–5 criteria), or severe (6 or more criteria).

A lot of the criteria are like, do you physically depend on alcohol? Or alcohol has harmed your quality of life?

[1]: https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sh...
The reMarkable is not supposed to compete with an Android tablet, think of it more like a Kindle you can write on.

The hardware is perfect for the target audience and there are very few comparable products, but the software is pretty bare-bones and most people have issues with it.
Appears to be a collection of perfectly cromulent words; someone should propulgate them into wider use in order to embiggen the vocabulary of our youth.
I wonder if it's the compiled code entirely or also the architecture. Babel has a notoriously flexible design with tons of extensions reaching in and messing with things.

I'd bet that you could probably get close to 2x the performance if you stripped it down to the same feature set (it would still be 2-3x slower, but a dramatic improvement).
The alternative to 'capitalism as we see it today' is not socialism. It's capitalism without regulatory capture and functional regulatory bodies that have teeth and use them.
I'm also a kiwi, also went to UC and also did engineering (Mech) :). I dropped out though.

The rote learning and pointlessness of the material were the biggest things I hated as well. 3 years is definitely a long time. Though something I realized after I left uni is that the value doesn't come from the education really, it comes from all the events and opportunities the uni affords you access to and the social component.

> It is all channeled towards exams of well defined problems with correct answers - harmful at the meta level

Absolutely agree with this as well. I can see why you thought uni had negative value. I think it destroys the skills you need to tackle real-world problems, which is why new grads tend to be seen as useless.

It's really curious to see someone else with a similar POV. I haven't met many people in NZ who think like this, or at least they haven't admitted it to me.

My guess is that when you have a degree you're more likely to want to believe it was worth it, whereas I have no such qualms. Though in saying that my best friend who also did eng said he thought the degree was pointless.
ChAdOx1 is the guy who gets the girl lol.
I imagine in real life applications you’d need to add a bit of checks and balances around the ML output (e.g. cross check against a dictionary/copyright database)
You are talking about a different thing here aren't you? I am talking about a tax applied to unhealthy foods but you are just talking about the price of processed foods being cheaper. One is about the government, the other is just about the prices things happen to be set at. The government isn't setting those prices.

You are right that often processed foods are cheaper, but that doesn't seem relevant to the sin tax is it? Maybe I am misreading what you are saying, but the idea is that the healthy foods don't get taxed and the unhealthy ones do. The fact that the unhealthy foods may still end up being cheaper doesn't really change that much? If they taxed the healthy foods it would just get that much worse.
iPod came out two decades ago and changed how we listen to music
Dead star and exoplanet show the aftermath of a star's self-destruction
No downvote - it definitely is crazy complex, or at least intimidating for anyone from the 'before times' of Rails (myself included). Everything is taken over by engineers and so is now over-engineered and feels totally geared towards developers developers developers and a weird obsession with performance.

And all the new features including server side rendering give me whiplash
Oh wow, very relevant indeed! I guess I thought ephemeral DBs would be better so that a user’s expensive query wouldn’t bog down the db for other users. And rather than just limiting them, enabling them to do whatever queries they could with pg running locally
The speed limit went up to 85 in Texas. It seemed to max out at 75 or 80 in other places. I'm not sure if an extra 5-10mph made the difference, but it could have.
How does viral outcompetion work? How would Delta prevent A.30 from thriving? Why won't we become infected by Delta and A.30?
> In this case, Jason, smelling potential money, purchased an expired patent ‘434 from Huawei and then formed a shell company to start suing people.

What's going on with suing people under an expired patent?

Is there actually some legal ground here -- like can you sue them for their historical violation before it expired or something?
Maybe the answer to flawed vice taxes is to address those flaws rather than to advocate for an outright ban.
We use this for TypeScript development at my company. Using swc for transpilation reduces build time from ~10s (small-ish codebase) to near instant. We can then wrap it in entr [1] to get live API reloading for free.

For type checking, you can run the TypeScript compiler in another window in watch mode, or just rely on editor warnings until the code hits CI.

[1]: https://eradman.com/entrproject/
I remember getting downvoted a while back, but my suggestion has been to have people get vaccinated and then give them a small dose of coronavirus thereafter. At the time it may have seemed wild, but now it has been proven to be the most effective immunity.
The line about the one founder taking a job with the DNC was enough for me, but I'm glad I read until this part because I think it's even more illuminating:

>"Frances is exposing a lot of the knobs in the machine that is a modern social media platform," Massachi said. "Now that people know that those knobs exist, we can start having a conversation about what is the science of how these work, what these knobs do and why you would want to turn them in which direction."

Which I translated to:

>Now that someone else has broken their NDA, we can use our jobs that we are not quitting to make more money.
Ah, so a heat pump designed to use geothermal or marine heat transfer. Yeah, those are more efficient. It's too bad they aren't more common, probably due to price, experienced installers, and smaller market (certain install requirements make urban areas less of a candidate). I'd love to have one.
50 an hour. We had a foreign language and english reading writing.

Local tutor.

Spent around 1000 a month between two kids at the most expensive month, depending on need. I handled math.

Both severe ADHD. So class room setting is hard on them.

Now that they are ahead and back in classroom they are doing fine.
99% sure reddit is leaking in, and this is just some pop culture reference https://gta.fandom.com/wiki/Bugstars
This is the mindset that people on the whole lack. Why are people obsessed with taking the wealth away from the billionaires? if the social mobility is high all the undeserving billionaires are going to squander their wealth away!
excalculate
ex·cal·cu·late
present (something) as a number to prove a mathematical result, check an error, or settle an argument
"excalculate your estimate with the data at hand"
Yep, this has been my experience too. I remember having such a hard time trying to fill out a form I-9 for starting a new job last year that I had to not only download Acrobat, but for reasons I no longer recall I had to BUY A NEW PRINTER and PRINT the damn thing on paper to fill it out by hand! Absolutely batshit crazy nonsense!
Frankly, I think the names are terrible. Great vaccines and all, but terrible branding.
> At the end of the day, web backends are just a lot more varied and complex than web frontends.

> No, they aren't. On the technical side, a web frontend is always just bundles of JS, HTML, CSS, that have to be transmitted to the client.

First, that's factually untrue; web front-ends can contain a wide array of things beyond those three (WASM, content in formats other than HTML that is read and used by the JS/WASM, etc.)

Second, on a similar level of reductionism, web backends are just bundles of bytes that need to be deployed on servers.
> "You do die a horrible death from eviction because you had to choose between getting a warrant issued due to unpaid parking tickets, or paying rent."

What I meant was fines for parking seem less socially important than fines for smoking.

I think policy that protects the lower bound from getting crippled by cascading fines is probably good - at least it's where I think the focus should be. I think we agree more than disagree on that probably.

It's expanding the cost to be more extreme at all levels that I think is a bad idea.

In your two examples the Steve one doesn't really apply. CA didn't used to require plates on new cars (they do now) and he had cancer.

The Bezos example sounds real, but also not personal? More of an "I'll cover your parking tickets" so the contractors don't get hit with them (which seems if anything like he's helping avoid those that would get hit harder by fines). That doesn't bother me too much - I guess I view a fine as an acceptable trade to discourage behavior, but if you're willing to pay it then you can.

Is that unfair because it's worse if you're poor? Yeah, but a lot of things are worse if you're poor. I don't think being poor should be the same as not being poor, but it should be bounded. I'd argue the lower bound in American society today is too low.
I reinvented the wheel last week, and here's why
you forgot verifiable. you don't need advanced technology (not much more than a black rock) to get a good estimate of the purity of gold which can be used as a neutral negotiating point in an exchange. Due to its relativistic quantum mechanical properties, gold lowers the activation barrier of creating trust between two parties.
To test, I made a simple script generating the dispersion graph: the numbers seem to be of good quality
In general, I don't mind subscriptions for the streaming services (so long as they're easy to cancel). I get a few, keep my eye on how much I'm using them, and cancel any that aren't giving me value. I can always get back in if I want to some day.

My philosophy is that there's pretty much no content I can't live without and the amount I save from canceling my cable TV pays for the other subs and more.

Software subscriptions I'm much more leery of. I do get Lightroom/Photoshop but I use LR a lot so don't really mind.
Was this study done in regions without cigarette taxes?

Asking because about everyone ex-smoker I know (a LOT) quit after struggling to afford the things.

Honestly, I can't come up with anyone who could be so powerfully swayed by ads that they could quit an addiction.
Genomic surveillance; separate from the routine COVID tests, performed on a statistically significant sampling of them.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/variant-s...

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/variants/cdc-role-...
I guess there might be a point where strictly vaccinated populations are less protected than populations with more natural antibodies.

Where I live is >80% double dosed, however there are far less than 5% that have been naturally infected.
Astronomers spot first possible exoplanet outside our galaxy
> Is a WhatsApp group with 1k members spreading disinformation still a private message?

Yes it is.

A “public post” is when the message was directed towards anyone who cares to listen.

A “private post” is when the message was directed to a specific group of recipients. The length of the list of recipients doesn’t grant a non-recipient access rights to the message.

This is easy stuff.
In the same vein:

mammical - relating to mammals
"mammical mammal food"

Or

tachycloid - a fossilized fingerless skull consisting mainly of rounded fragments, each containing paired digits

I kinda want to see art generated from that last one as a prompt. Sounds terrifying.
It's not really happening, he's describing the plot of a video game.
Just ask your conversation partner?

An Element bridge is just a Signal client hosted on Element's infrastructure. Them using an Element bridge is no different than them using an extra device you didn't know about. That device could've well been insecure, or shared by many people, or hosted in the cloud. If you care about this, you should ask.
Sufficient self harm at scale is societal harm.

> vice taxes for added sugar

At face value, this doesn't seem like a bad idea. I've heard about cities in the US that have a tax on large sugary drinks.

> not doing cardio workouts

It's probably easier to incentivize the good behavior here than punish the absence of it.
>Even when the US had the gold standard, the US never had gold reserves that matched the dollars in circulation.

The US Dollar is/was originally defined as a measurement of silver, and based upon the Spanish Real - the same coin you hear in piratey accents as a "piece of eight" because it was usually cut into 8 pieces to make change. The US absolutely had metal to back every dollar in existence for about 100 years, though it wasn't gold. The real "gold standard" era was a stopover/band-aid effect of the growing disparity in value due to bimetallism, and came into effect after "The Crime of 1873".
What game engine do you use? UE4 or Unity?
Yes, yes, the USSR was bad. If I allow you to define "nationalised industry" as "something bad the Soviets/CCP/Venezuelans did", then of course it's bad.

Contrast that to the concept of a Crown corporation in Canada, which "provide services required by the public that otherwise would not be economically viable as a private enterprise or that do not fit exactly within the scope of any ministry." [0] They can do things like "care about externalities" because they're not expected to make money, but they're still structured as corporations and therefore can have the usual trappings like middle management and competitive salaries and casual Fridays.

A famous example would be the Canadian National Railway, which was created by government fiat in 1918 as a response to a bunch of private railways in (less-developed) western Canada running out of government money to feed on and thereby going bankrupt. The diversity of the interests that it inherited allowed it to spin off all sorts of other beneficial Crown corporations recognized by every Canadian, like VIA Rail, Air Canada, and the CBC.

Of course, the privatization of Crown corporations is also a great way for right-wing governments to create minor budgetary surpluses to enthrall the plebes while handing over a captive "customer"-base to their already-wealthy friends, and since the 80s it's become a proud tradition. [1] Air Canada, Ontario Hydro, Petro-Canada...

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_corporations_of_Canada

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Former_Crown_corporat...
I think there are more options available.

I'd be partial to keep fines, but protect the lower bound from cascading failure.

> "Nobody is going to stop making money because their parking tickets go up in cost. That's not how people work."

There is evidence already of incentives changing behavior with the recent stimulus. I think it is how people work.
I rate this debate "-3/10, please do not attempt public discussions again"
Who said anything about inflation. It's about central planners arbitrarily moving around purchasing power in the system.

If I have $10 and you have $10, and then someone prints $10 and gives it to you. You went from having the same purchasing power as me to double mine, without any change to the available goods and services.

> lenders have always had a way out in this situation: investing

Yeah, that's why we're investing in a fairer monetary system, where this power to create money arbitrarily doesn't exist.
Ask HN: How do I get direct contact with Instagram support?
Hey HN, I know this is a long shot but does anyone here know how I can contact Instagram directly by chat or phone to get help? I know that big businesses don't want people calling and just want everything to go through the report system so some AI or an underpaid moderator can handle this after a few days but right now there is someone who is ruining my family and there has to be a hidden way kept away in some place for situations just like this. If anyone here has information on this or knows someone who may help with this situation, it'd be greatly appreciated?
this is super cool! what interpolation algorithm to use? optical flow stuff? So do you do interpolation in preprocessing, instead of doing it in real-time? will that generate lots of data?
Cyber-attack hits UK internet phone providers
Anti-Patent troll model:
Talk to EFF, start a go-fund-me campaigns, wild up the public opinions,
Just saying, now is the perfect time for countries to stealthily unleash biological warfare upon their enemies. Mutated or engineered?
Exercises for Weight Loss at Home
This is a great project name generator.
If you use all these services, well… Personally, I'm running happily without iCloud, Siri, and with Spotlight reduced to a mere file search. Also, I dislike features like Camera Roll. The point being, you can still run macOS and probably wide portions of iOS (which I'm not using much) much like a legacy machine. However, if you're using cloud services (including third party services like Dropbox, etc, esp., if you're a non-US-resident), you're making yourself accessible. But this is by no way exclusive to Apple devices. (Arguably, more services run locally on Apple devices than on others – e.g., I don't think Google translate for images runs locally, requiring you to share both content and endpoint data – and there are more provisions for privacy in iCloud than in most of comparable third party services.)
Some make much sense such as

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/9fHe

and

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/kdTL
The nuanced tone / takeaway from the actual interview transcript feel very different from the final article: https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-papers-badge-posts-form...

Reading both, and seeing how disengaged the interviewer actually was with the interviewee, it really feels like Levy came into the interaction with a pre-constructed narrative in mind.
Posts and comments are censored because this site is owned and operated by a venture capital firm. They have a vested interest in promoting their investments, so they remove all transparency from their moderation decisions and claim "software filters" are to blame for censoring all of their competitors and/or people who don't promote their SV friendly pro-capitalist agenda.

Only a fool would trust this site. Especially when the mods say stuff like this:

> By the way, comments like "don't trust closed source software" (if that's all it has to say) are generic, and therefore boring and tedious, and therefore we don't lose anything if they're [dead].

It's a fact that you cannot trust this platform due to the lack of transparency in the code, data and moderation, yet they'll tell you to your face it ain't so. Pretty audacious IMO.
I would try this "beef ceviche" dish if I knew it was from a safe source. Can't be worse than rare steak.
Neither names are really intended to be the "brand" of the vaccine. That said, I don't think Comirnaty is really much better.
> The D-Limit product uses data from exchanges to predict when the NBBO is "likely to change in the next two milliseconds," IEX says. If it predicts a bid for a stock will move lower for someone posting a bid, or higher for someone posting an offer, IEX will move the buy price a bit lower than the NBBO and the sell order a bit higher than the NBBO. These times average just five to 10 seconds of the entire trading day but make an outsized impact because a large volume of orders trading against displayed quotes come in these moments, IEX says.
Does them living a shorter life mean they are cheaper? I feel like comparing someone who dies of lung cancer at 60 years old to somebody who lives to 90 isn't really a fair comparison. Sure that 90 year old may end up costing more in terms of healthcare, but if you compared their usage up to 60 they would not have used the same.

Someone who lives longer simply has more time alive and thus more time in the country where they may require medical care. But I don't think that means they are the same burden as someone who has a shorter life span but requires a lot of unnecessary care due to the unhealthy choices they made during their life.
> it's 100% on them

You should read the post, exemplifies how it usually ends up not 100% on the person addicted. It affects their family and people around them.
I don't believe that BigQuery dataset is actively updated?
Also, some words used to exist but have fallen out of use or morphed. For example "wif" is an archaic spelling of "wife," but the definition given on the site is "an animal's fur or fur stock."

https://l.thisworddoesnotexist.com/gvjU
The title is more bombastic than their conclusion.

TL;DR: it's just a bit worse than the Beta variant.
So I'll start with how it's supposed to work and then acknowledge that it's oftentimes not how it does work in practice.

Ideally, you're supposed to avoid high court fees & fines by not doing criminal things. Avoid the court system and you will never have to pay court fees. And if you do end up with a $50K judgment, you're supposed to go work productively and convince someone to pay you $50K for work that's worth more to them than $50K. Thus you have paid your debt to society - you did something bad, but if you do other good things that people find valuable, that debt is wiped out. In theory at least, someone with $50K in his pocket got it by doing things that a lot of people found valuable, enough that they were willing to pay $50K for it.

Now, I know it doesn't always work that way. Someone could find themselves in the court system not because they did something bad, but because they're black and were standing on the wrong street corner. We shouldn't do that. And sometimes whole behaviors that are normal in one disadvantaged culture (smoking weed, for example) get criminalized precisely because the person in power wants to jail lots of people. The person who did that should've been put in jail himself, but Gerald Ford pardoned him. This is also contingent upon people having money because they did things of value that other people found worthwhile enough to pay them for, which also isn't a given today. We should fix that too, although I think that a lot of people's reaction against wealth is because they can't wrap their heads around how many people a billion users is or how much value they derive from everyday activities provided by a large corporation.

But assuming that things are broken but we're going to slap a band-aid on the one specific instance that's in front of us today risks entrenching the brokenness. Say that you do create lower fees and fines for poorer people. Aren't you now incentivizing criminal behavior, as the costs for it are less? And won't those societal costs be born primarily by the people around them, who are usually other poor people that now have to live with the consequences?