skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't even apply the term "creative", honestly. I don't think creativity is necessary to say "I want A, I have B and C, how can A be accomplished with B and C?".

> Perhaps for people who don't have a "hack the world!" mindset, it does appear as genius I suppose.

I'm not sure that's right either. I wonder if instead it might just be a matter of culture, possibly even class. If you grew up always just buying the "right" things and only doing things the "right" way, then maybe you just never learn that a thing's "purpose" is just what it was designed to do, not all that it can do.

> I used old bicycle parts and various bits of metal I had left over from other projects and made her a 3 foot tall T-Rex.

See now this is actually what I'd call "creative", since something was actually created.
While this is just a quick and superficial encoder comparison, I tried to keep it close to practical applications. From the VP9 vs HEVC test here, libvpx-vp9 is able to take on x265 when it comes to coding performance. Please note that only these encoders were tested and there are other AVC, HEVC, and VP9 encoders out there which may perform better.

If you have additional inputs to the test please reach out to me! I am very willing to run this again using a different set of settings.
i think you've helped make clear why virtue signaling-as-activism is so dangerous.

we've had these Madison Avenue-created ideas of 'recycling' and 'carbon footprint' around for decades (along with the all the other fine stuff they give us), and millions of people in America who have signaled on one or both for decades, and what have we achieved?

an even-faster acceleration of global climate collapse.

and that's exactly what they were designed to do -- stop any actual progress on preventing climate collapse.

i skimmed that wired article a few times now, trying to find something that feels real, something scientific, some strong notion of evidence, something. but there's just nothing there -- wishful thinking at best.

i'm sure i've argued, either here or somewhere on the internet, that changing from plastic straws to paper might have some infinitesimally small impact on people and/or the environment, either actual or perceived, but i never would have said "there's evidence!" or anything crazy like that.

i probably would have gone as far as to say something like:

It does either nothing or next to nothing, so we should be honest about that, _but_ it mainly gives us a change to talk to people about what is actually required to turn things around.

Would I destroy some 5-year old kid's dream if s/he was on a campaign to replace plastic straws with paper straws in their town? No. But I would educate them further and point them towards activism that might save their lives in the future - without being so explicit.

Fairytales are fine, more or less, for kids -- but we adults can't afford that luxury if we care about those kids' futures.

All that said, most/all of what I've heard Greta say over the past few years has been spot on -- if she says paper straws and e-cars and all the other virtue signaling is a good/effective way to help build support for doing something meantingful, then i'm all for it and will support it, and do it, and fund it, and etc.

...adding, even the 'Voting is important' stuff is an overstatement, imo, at least in America. like, yes, vote for the party that is not trying to destroy the world, but that's a tiny part of what needs to be done when when we're talking about politics/electioneering/etc. You take 5 minutes and vote -- unless you're black, in which case -- get harassed, threatened, intimidated, try to get your name back on the voting rolls for days/months/years, wait in line for hours, cast a provisional ballot, have you ballot thrown out anyways -- and then start pressuring whichever pol got elected.
As it seems like virtually all buying in this market comes from developers and investors hoping to sell at a higher price later, they'll probably be lucky to get a fraction of that.
Show HN: Twitter bot posting random GitHub repos based on San Francisco trends
I'm asking to find out.
Its a simplistic solution to a serious problem that plagues all social platforms. If anything we need more qualifiers not fewer: The like/dislike choice is creating an artificial binarity that doesn't exist in real life.

Organized like/dislike campaigns motivated by whatever commercial or political or other reasons are facilitated by a sense of impunity and unaccountability.
This is what's known as the Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations.

Thomas Sowell (and many others) have offered some fascinating insights into why it is counterproductive.
Because it wouldn't work.

1. You would need at least 30 such images;

2. You'd have to somehow convince your target to import all 30 images into their photo gallery;

3. The chances of the images accidentally passing the human review step is infinitesimal;

4. Unlike a bag of drugs which actually do contain drugs, these fake images would be like police finding a bag of sugar with "FAKE COCAINE FOR MANUFACTURING PROBABLE CAUSE" written on it.
> Almost half the country thinks education is just liberal brain washing and it pollutes the mind away from the Bible

What a bigoted statement against conservatives and Christians. I am both and everyone I know thinks education is a good thing. Even public education. Perhaps you need to check your biases.
Yes, sorta. Just like boxers train themselves not to flinch when punched, you can teach yourself to tolerate cold better. As to boosting your immune system and the other claims, no one can prove that at home and is probably due to other changes in their personal lives. But I will say I did the Wim Hot method for 1000 days straight, and considering the cost of admission (free), my resistance to cold increased. I am that weirdo that walks around barefooted in the winter anyways, and it just allowed me to go a bit longer in colder conditions.

I used to teach people to survive extreme situations, and only used the WHM to teach them how to endure cold a bit better, but some people are just wired to be able to do so or not. It is no magic bullet.
I think it would be better to go and get vaccinated now, instead of having a list of talking points with bullshit theories to comfort and absolve yourself of all responsibility.
I love Perl. But, if I were hired to squirrel away code that helped me spy on people, Perl would be one of my top choices. Lots of opportunity to hide the true purpose of the code with weird, little known side-effects, syntax, and so on. Perl doesn't have to be cryptic, but it can be.
> the point of school is to give you a basic educational foundation, not to prepare you for the workplace

Why do you think that?

The point of life is to teach you how to deal with life.
Yeah well, given that mouse acceleration tends to be on by default, I need to turn it off every time I'm on a fresh install or computer I haven't used before. The last time I needed that was yesterday.

I don't want to waste time searching for a command to copy-paste when it could just be made short, simple, memorable and ergonomic. I could type xset m 0 0 faster than I could open a browser and ask google how to disable acceleration with libinput. And again: you can't just copy-paste the xinput command unless you're lucky enough that it matches your device. On my new computer, the device has a different name than on my old laptop even though it's the same damn mouse.
Bacon - Background Rust Code Check
“ bacon is a background rust code checker.

It's designed for minimal interaction so that you can just let it running, side to your editor, and be notified of warnings and errors in your Rust code.”
And it's picking some interesting repos

Was a fun project to play around with Go and set up a Digital Ocean droplet for the first time.
It’s not about ignorance of the law but about demonstrating you made a “good faith” effort to comply and oops, it turns out you landed on the wrong decision. You got some bad advice, but now you know! Won’t happen again, sorry about that!

Depending on how much of a grey area you’re operating in the law firm may or may not issue an opinion letter. So if you’re really pushing the boundary of what is reasonable to the point outside counsel won’t put it in writing you know you’re taking a pretty aggressive legal position. Some of the big law firms/practice groups have a reputation for being willing to be more aggressive in their written opinions than others. Large multinational companies often have several big law firms on retainer and their in house legal team will know who to go to for more conservative legal advice and who to go to for cover on a risky legal position. So I’ve heard, at least, I definitely would never participate in such ethically dubious behavior.
The first option assumes you want to do your job easily. The latter assumes you want to solve all your problems. I'd love to have the former editor when coding as a hobby (where writing the code is fun), and the latter when coding for work (where solving the problem gets me paid, no matter how I solve it).
The way you get a lot of "this is the right way to do it" talk on Stack Overflow from people who don't actually answer the poster's question and know nothing of their constraints suggests that software engineers aren't inherently more likely to think this way.
Another perspective on what exactly "giving multiple opportunities to improve essays and classwork" means in practice: https://quillette.com/2021/11/03/the-demoralization-of-the-a...

When educators and administrators try to saint themselves for pushing pass rates to 100% at all costs, parents should be skeptical and look at the outcomes: kids who graduate high school and don't know how to read or do basic math, etc.

Of course we need to do something for children whose home life is not conducive to learning, but more detail is needed before we can deem any particular approach praiseworthy. Some schools would like nothing more than to pass children through without being responsible for any learning occurring.
If you had a choice to go to space would you use SpaceX or Bezos's Blue Origin? If you had a choice to buy a EV car would you ....?
This is a false claim. All of Signal's software is released under open source licenses. The fact that you disagree with how they run their project and service is irrelevant to the fact that both the client and server are free software.
apparently safari doesn't support webgl2
Humans, livestock and industry will introduce it.
This is the approach of the popular book Functional Programming in Scala.
He had just shot two people, was still armed, and proceeded to shoot a third shortly after.

That fits every definition of “active shooter” I’ve ever seen.
d-did he have stairs in his house?
Interesting. Thank you! I feel like anyone could prob learn a lot from something like this.
Risk assets will fall, which although not part of their mandate, they are very sensitive to (see previous tapertantrum).
Two Bitcoin mining companies are battling it out in a Texas town
I generally agree with the point you're trying to make, but:

>to even doubt a woman's allegation is to condone violence against women

I'd go so far as to say it's naive to consider that the problem of believing women too easily when they accuse men is significant _compared to_ the problem of not believing women who accuse men. Unfortunately those are always in comparison, since more of one means less of the other.

>here we are, giving scorned women the literal power of life and death over the object of their rage

A client killing themselves over legal consequences is a tragedy that might speak to those legal consequences, but it's unrealistic and unfair to say the other client was given power over life and death.
Tools to generate constants and enums in multiple languages
I would like to generate constants (and ideally enums) from a single source into multiple languages so that I don't need to maintain multiple definitions.

I'd like to support at least: C, C++, C#, Rust, Javascript

So far the closest thing I've found is reconstant[0], which looks simple enough to add C# to but curious what other options are available.
Public sex with strangers is destroying fragile dune ecosystems in Gran Canaria
Oxygen is one of the most omnipresent elements. Getting nitrogen, and hydrogen is a much bigger issue.
> plugging that fucker in

I am thankful that there are new vehicles coming out that support this wirelessly, along with the already existing wireless charging. I have gone through so many USB cables of various lengths, materials and prices and they all seem to fail after a few months of use. Something about the cold/hot/constant movement causes them to not last. It always felt to me to be very retro for this to not all be wireless.

The annoying thing is that the shift to wireless is not just a software update. Apparently it requires an entirely new hardware solution, despite the existing solution already supporting Bluetooth for everything but CarPlay/AndroidAuto.
OP makes a complicated allegation. I don't care enough about the allegation to devote the mental effort to understand it or to determine if the source cited is bogus. Generally I have more regard for the opinions of careful thinkers. Pasting an untidy URL is a sign of sloppy thinking.
Yes, it's a concept used e.g. in hash tables that use open addressing [0], where you can't delete value X because the final address of value Y may depend on whether X was present when it was being inserted. So instead of deleting X and leaving behind an empty address we change X to a tombstone that stays there forever and says "something was here and if you're looking for Y, Z or anything else, keep on looking".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_table#Open_addressing
Well seeing as you don't have access to the ME, no amount of application code being published will mean you can see the source running on the servers. This is a red herring.

The client source code is the only thing that's really relevant in an e2e encryption model, anyway. Regardless, 100% of the production versions of the Signal server software have been published under free software licenses, so I'm not sure what you're arguing.
One of the first and most immediate challenges for any Moon or Mars base is an excess of CO2.

It won't cause lunar warming. But it will still be a problem and require significant energy and other resources.

It's likely that it will either be impossible or prohibitively expensive to keep CO2 levels at normal Earth standards.

See also: the ISS which operates with much higher atmospheric CO2 levels (up to 5000ppm) than would be considered healthy on earth (up to 1000ppm).
>It does.

Oh, does it? Would you find me a joke with either of the specific premises I listed? Or anything in that format that doesn't have to do with rape?

>Just because you don't understand that sort of humour

Again, assumptions. Would you please present your Certificate of Telepathy, or otherwise stop making statements about what I know, understand, think, etc?

>doesn't mean that it doesn't exist

Who's denying that it exists? I never said it doesn't, nor did I say anything about it being funny or not.

Humor at other people's expense is problematic and harmful.

>There are also a lot of jokes about burning babies etc

Yeah, except burning babies isn't a problem we have in this society on a mass scale.

Try spinning a joke about burning Jewish babies as innocent form of humor that society doesn't look down on. I'll wait.
> Do you find it difficult to ship?

Not really. Every successful company I’ve ever been at has sold the product before building it.

Small companies do it directly with customers, large companies do it with focus groups or A/B testing.

You can also do it with ads, make a lead gen ad for your feature, call the people who enter their info and sell them.

The goal on any call is to close. Either you sell them on your feature or they sell you on a reason they don’t need your feature.
I honestly don't get the value of this tool.

If I already have a parametrized set of Terraform scripts for creating an environment, what is stopping me from spinning up and tearing down my own ephemeral environments in my CI pipeline? This is what we're doing today and it works pretty well.

What is this tool actually providing? I feel like there's something fundamental I'm misunderstanding.
Someone in the market for a Porsche won't have to wait because they are high margin products.

VW will be looking at the shortages and making the calculation that they are better off putting limited resources (chips) into Porsches rather than Skodas.
> What the hell are they doing if they're not even teaching kids math and reading? And why are they graduating them?

As a parent with a partner who also works full time, who who lost daycare for a few months at the start of the pandemic: Babysitting. Teachers main value add is babysitting. It's sad, and education is still highly valuable, but its the truth.
Since you seem so invested in this here’s another source:
https://thebaffler.com/salvos/all-effd-up-levine

“ Over the past years, EFF has taken millions in funds from Google and Facebook via straight donations and controversial court payouts that many see as under-the-radar contributions. Hell, Google co-founder Sergey Brin’s foundation gave EFF at least $1.2 million.” You can argue with that guy about his sources too. He’s also making an even bigger claim since I wasn’t limiting my assessment to those two companies.
His relationship to the community was also complicated.

I stopped visiting SA 10 years ago, but even back then he'd do something unpopular like ban someone for something petty, then when people called him out on it he'd rage-quit the forums saying they were a cesspit, and focus on the front page articles for a while.

Famously his rules regarding moderation of anime content caused the creation of 4chan(!).

I don't know what's happened in the intervening 10 years but reading some of the comments in the linked thread it seems like everything he did every time he returned was unpopular with the community, like deleting one of the most popular subforums, and justifying it with a blatant lie.

So it's not too odd for the community he created to turn on him this violently if you add in how he treated the community in addition the problems in his personal life.
It would take some or all of their contacts not being accessible via the platform.

This is why I don't have an fb, wa, or ig account. If you want to talk to me, you can't do it on there.
Reminds me of this music video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC25gRwbpsg
Great! We can tie in your Twitter account too so if you say something out of line or dangerous you can be banned from all of society.
Siemens LOGO PLC turns 25
Germany hits record new Covid cases in 24 hours
I believe crypto came out of the pink sheets / Stocktwits culture, which after the crash in 2017 went back into stocks and rose WSB and meme stocks. It was like stocks -> crypto -> back to stocks in the influence cycle.
It deals with those risks, and it's still a disproportionate overreach.
The traveler’s name was Strider.
Certainly this happens. Among other things it is useful for blackmail - "we will reveal to your wife etc. that you slept with a woman/prostitute". Spy agencies call it a "honey trap".

Eleven years ago, someone could be discharged from the US military if they were found to be homosexual. Due to things like this, it was popular to target homosexuals in the military. They were already made to conceal part of their life to keep their job, now they just add one more thing to that.

A debriefing of a double agent revealed that the British turned a high level male target by putting him together with an underage boy during the target's visit to Lebanon in the 1980's. The British had the Lebanese police barge in during the tryst and arrest the target. The offer was then made - work for us or go to a Lebanese prison and have it revealed at home you are a homosexual pedophile. The target was turned.

The Stasi had an unusual spin on this - usually males are targeted, but due to World War II, West Germany had a lack of men who had been born in the 1920s, and a lot of unmarried women of that age. So "Romeo" agents targeted secretaries working at high level offices, and this operation was a successful one.

Most spying is not James Bond level exciting - 45% of it is keeping up with technological innovation, 45% of it is getting positive press for your country worldwide, and negative press for rivals. Or maybe those percentages are juggled one way or another. The other 10% is honey traps, dead drops, wet work, ensuring Patrice Lumumba is shot and things like that.
I’m sorry, but a cavalier attitude around rape and domestic abuse absolutely contribute to a hostile work environment which both from a legal and simple fairness perspective is a problem. Sexual assault and domestic abuse are unfortunately quite common — when you make that joke, there’s a very real chance that someone within earshot has been raped or abused. And it’s not just women who are the victims, so they’re not ok around “just the boys” either.

Autistic people aren’t dumb. We do understand when actions have consequences. The reasons why may seem arbitrary to us, but again, it doesn’t mean the consequences aren’t real or that we can violate the psychological safety of others with impunity. Yeah, that may mean getting fired for telling edgy jokes to understand you don’t make edgy jokes at work. I’m 100% ok with that as an autistic person.
> in the UK at least, on average two women a week are killed by a current or former partner

And a hundred men kill themselves every week in UK. Suicide is often associated with relationship abuse, if an abusive woman makes her spouse commit suicide then that is also murder, but it wont go into the statistics. It is important to realize that women can also abuse men, and that this can be just as damaging even if the bruises aren't always visible, the psychological damage can still be enough to make them kill themselves. And false allegations is one way for women to abuse men, it is extremely powerful since it will ruin many of his friendships making him lonely and more likely to kill himself. The more people she can take away from his life the more likely he is to kill himself.

Note I'm not saying that we shouldn't protect women, just that we should also work to protect men.

https://academic.oup.com/eurpub/article/25/3/413/2399170
I'm not saying America is innocent, but those are materially different things with different motivations and risks. The reactions would rightly be different.
> PROTIP: Anyone like Lyn Alden that is offering premium stock tips is by definition a fraud, if you can beat the markets you just beat the markets and Scrooge McDuck-it, you don't run a damn newsletter.

For all I know you are right about Alden's ethics, but the EMH is not baked into the definition of fraud.

In fact, many investors do offer public trading advice: it's common among short sellers to both short their targets and publish analyses explaining why they think their target is overvalued. This is controversial, but if it is clear to receivers of the advice that the advice comes from a short-seller whose positions are known, then I do not regard it as particularly unethical.
The ocean floor is the final end game for surface carbon. Unless we dig it up and send it to the moon!
facepalm

What definition of social awareness are you using to make that assertion?
My wife's car has gone up in value by 20% since we bought it two years ago. This is in the UK.
Ask HN: How often do EC2 prices go down?
Do AWS EC2 prices ever go down or have they been constant throughout? I am particularly interested in on demand instances. Has anyone done any studies on pricing trends over time?
Not all HN users live in the West. I know YouTube Premium is available in some low-income locations as well, although I concede I don’t know how much they adjust the price.
Haskell IHP framework, from a technical and business perspective