skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The traits that make a dog best for breeding in a more natural environment don't necessarily make them good for pets.
Tricking users into watching low-quality content on YouTube seems like such an obviously bad strategy it would pierce through even a few layers of corporate madness. Their reasoning is in all likelihood different.
I can understand needing to comply with updated KYC requirements from a bank partner, but I'm not really experiencing the "improved merchant acceptance" so far.

The very first card that Privacy.com recommended I replace was the card I have for paying my Spectrum bill, which Spectrum is obviously already accepting. Privacy.com even linked me straight to Spectrum's billing page to replace the old card with the new "improved acceptance" card. Imagine my surprise when Spectrum rejects the new card with "Prepaid and gift cards are ineligible"

EDIT: I regenerated the card again and Spectrum accepted it no problem. No idea what happened there. Maybe there was something funky with that particular card number, or maybe I mistyped the previous number? Either way, it's working now and I've had no problem with the rest of my card replacements so far (though it has certainly been a bit of a slog).
Who cares? Google needs less market share in the first place.
I think pretty much everyone has stolen something before, right?
Maybe not scalable to industrial processes, but it scales in time. A cutting can easily create a tree of the size that a seedling would take 3-5 years grow.
I like the idea, it's fun playing around with text-to-speech generators. AWS Polly is slick, nicely done.

But podcasts? There has got to be a more interesting use case than that.
Most American schools finish then because they start an hour or more before schools in most European countries, typical primary school (4-13 years) hours in the UK are 8:30 to 3:30 with an hour for lunch, France is 8:30 to 4:30 but with two hours for lunch and Spain is 9:00 to 5:00 with a two hour lunch as well. In Germany schools start between 7:30 and 8:30, but finish anywhere between 11:30 and 1:30.

The number of hours of class per week in the US matches a lot of European countries, but most countries in Europe have schools start and finish later on in the day, and some have extended lunch breaks that also push the end of day forwards.
Yeah, I have talked to other sellers and lawyers and Amazon would take it to arbitration if I decide to pursue. I believe the cost of going to arbitration against them is $8000 in Seattle; because I have to pay the arbitrator, my own lawyer and other related fees. I should have specified above that I'd be going to arbitration against them and not to court--I didn't expect anyone to read my comment.

Unfortunately though, I've heard from most sellers in a similar situation that Amazon almost always wins in these arbitration cases. I'm not sure if that's true or not but the amazon sellers forums are ominous on this point. I posted this question there a month ago [0] and invoked a lively debate; but the gist was that it's risky and I could easily expect to lose. How unfair is that.

Maybe everyone on the forum is wrong though and they would be likely to settle. I honestly have no idea because I've heard every manner of different answers.

https://sellercentral.amazon.com/forums/t/suing-amazon-for-n...
study posted with my comments and queries: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29430105
macOS too.
With a spouse that works in palliative medicine, I really wish the author had chosen a different phrase. Please don’t get the idea that palliative care is only for the dying. Everything else about the article is spot on.
I was surprised that San Francisco was not in the top ten, then the article explains that the index tracks products and services which I presume excluding housing cost. However, I am still surprised Los Angeles ranks higher than SF.
This has been a huge advantage of the WFH culture lately. I can just keep working while I listen to other people update the manager.
Do go on... enlighten us, why don't you?
This has been my impression for the last quarter of a century. Better communications ultimately give lower efficiency. Why plan when you can micromanage?
I'd like to thank privacy.com for making this change.

It sounds like most people aren't aware, but recently merchants have been coming down hard on privacy.com. I've almost given up using it. Hetzner and GCP are the most problematic, but I've seen it elsewhere too.

I'm not happy about having to reissue, but I will be happy if this forces vendors to take my privacy.com card.

(Everyone else is complaining, so I thought I'd at least try to balance it out a little.)

EDIT: Well, never mind. Apparently their new cards are still getting rejected. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29438181

I was really excited...
Yep, what about child-rearing. Why isn't it incentivized/uplifted in this society? It's weird so many successes credited to self help, therapy, that petereson dude, elon musks inspiration, etc but why aren't we giving it up for moms??
People don't like when they do it either.
As a very experienced cyclist, thinking back to when I was getting started, my advice is to not worry about something like this.

None of the data the glasses display, except for power, are of any real value to the degree that you need to see them constantly. Heartrate is pretty worthless, and I actually often make a point of NOT looking at distance, like on a longer ride - it can make the ride feel like it's dragging out. Especially with an out-in-front computer mount which are very common these days, glancing down at your bike computer really isn't much of a hassle at all.

Consider spending money on things that will make you more likely to ride, such as clothing for different weather conditions - or if by cycling you mean "for transportation", things that will increase the utility of your bike.

If you want really good mapping and routing, check out the Hammerhead Karoo head units, which run Android. Top-notch routing. The garmins are...OK. Garmin's definitely been far too cozy (little serious competition.)
... Oh.

I just posted a thank-you to Privacy, because I assumed it fixed this problem.

I guess I'll edit it. That's unfortunate.
Is America not a democracy because Canadian citizens and Mexican citizens that aren't also American citizens can't vote in elections?
Very cool. I can't wait for a more generic data device pairings to these interfaces. I would love them for paragliding, where we have a variometer to track metrics that impact decision making (ascent/descent rate, air/ground speed, altitude, etc) and weight/deck space are a big factor.
Search engines have only recently learned how to index JS, they will not survive SVG sites :)
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Sorry, I wasn't aware of that. I was under the impression that palliative care is (at least generally) end-of-life comfort for the dying. I wish I had chosen a more appropriate term.
There's also a massive undervaluing of the naturally occurring fungal network that exists between the trees. The mushrooms we see on the ground are just the reproductive organs. If you dig into the ground (and you've probably seen this many times if you've dug a hole near vegetation), there's tons of white fungal strands that connect between the tree roots. They absorb or release moisture, they transfer nutrients back and forth to the tree roots. There isn't a ton of research on it currently, but I'd bet my hat that the lack of that natural fungal network between trees just planted in rows is why planted forests rarely take hold.

Same as there's so much focus on how to capture carbon out of the air while we pump megatons in every year, it's very silly how much focus there is on replanting forests instead of just ... not cutting them down.
Does anyone know for sure what the future will bring. Investing in crypto might actually set them on the path of investing correctly
> Unfortunately, the current Matrix website implementation relies on an internally deprecated web platform slated for retirement.

Ahh the most Google reason ever
>The primary signals I use to judge the worth of a video are 1) its prominence in search results,

This is not as good a signal because for many long-tail videos, the topmost video in the search results has a bad dislike-to-like ratio.

>and 2) the video itself.

This is not efficient use of time for the viewer because the point of a quick statistic is to avoid watching the video in the first place.

>This is because dislike counts are in my experience extremely unreliable—they may be elevated for stupid and irrelevant reasons on a really great video,

Totally opposite experience. For thousands of videos I've consumed that are not-politics and not-music such as tutorials, the bad dislike ratios were the most reliable indicators Youtube had for trash videos.

To be clear, I'm talking about dislike ratios and not absolute counts. Maybe that's the source of the disagreement? E.g. if I see a video with hundreds or thousands of dislikes (absolute counts), it's not a problem unless the ratio is out of whack.
Seems like a disingenuous take. There's a very obvious path to understanding the basics of computer graphics by introducing the basic shapes of geometry, particularly triangles for obvious reasons.
Many of those 'woes' are artificially created by Fintech, and AML/FINRA/financial services programs.

There is no reason whatsoever for ACH's to cost a cent. There is no reason for all the middlemen, and fee extractors that the Fintech industry is at the forefront of reproducing more tap-in points to.

Have you ever wondered why there are more and more products/business models that no one would have been dumb enough to try to put a financial transaction in front of? One word. Fintech.

Have you ever wondered why it's expensive to be poor when a Fintech company will pair with a bill payment service that charges an extra 2 bucks over and above the bill payment one is doing, when the alternative of a 1-2 cent envelope and a stamp is readily available?

Have you wondered why it's become harder and more unusual to see people using cash? Why increasingly traveling with large amounts thereof is becoming even more dangerous as policymakers are normalizing cash exchanges to the realm of "the criminal or impoverished"?

Fintech again.

Yeah, I've been bit by not being able to move money in the way I wanted to before, but in no way shape or form does that justify the abuse the financial services sector has wrought.
More often than not, I’ve spent about 20% of my time giving status reports or being around while others do. Very little of it has seemed like it was important or valuable for anyone and more of an exercise in most people finding something to say for the day.

Reporting does have value but has become way overdone.
I don't believe driving a vehicle is a right. I agree with you on all points in this comment. I do believe everyone should have equal opportunity to prove they can drive a road legal vehicle safely, and a they should be able to do that without the metrics of their journeys forever after being recorded by technology companies, and the safe operation of their car being decided by technology devices watching them drive. I think you just don't agree with that.

Just imagine it. Machine learning algorithms deciding whether you're drunk or not, and stopping your car from moving if it thinks you are. What could possibly go wrong?
That's literally the definition of the word inbred. "In breed".
> It would most likely be the work of some off shore English Speaking Country like India and they would get 6$ an hour

Could they do it better than an algorithm which already does it for free?
> Essentially, instead of the compile-time value attached to a binding only being a type (with generics, optionally), it could also have a regular Rust value attached to it.

You've just reinvented dependent typing and all of its glory and challenges.
I don't think the average person has much agency here, telling them to leave the country is callous, and a bit misunderstanding.
It's nice when all of us have nice things.
400E/$450 is enough to buy a really nice head unit, or a power meter, or clothing for more weather conditions, etc.

Just really doesn't seem that useful, and reminds me of all the "help cyclists navigate with LED displays" junk. I swear, it's like every industrial designer's right of passage to design some crap accessory to "help" cyclists!
> To get to this number, I averaged the number of annual homeless in San Francisco since 2013, which is 6,864, and averaged the city’s homeless budgets from 2016 through 2023 (I could not find prior budgets), which is $486 million per year. That’s $632,000 per homeless person per year

No, that's $486M/6864 = $70,800 per homeless person per year. It's only after multiplying by the 9 years she lived in SF do you get $630k. It's a lot, and probably poorly spent, but probably only 10x what is reasonable.
Maybe they mean the price new was $40K. An 11 year old BMW is worth close to fourteen thousand than forty thousand.
Thats an impressive setup. Is that across multiple g drives?
Maybe you haven’t purchased them recently, but the quality is much higher than 60%.
I enjoyed this game quite a bit, thank you.
Twitter suspended accounts after flood of “coordinated and malicious reports”
Does this convincingly show AIPAC is "the most powerful political organization in the US"?

More than the Democratic party? More than the Republican party?

More than these groups? https://largest.org/people/lobbying-groups/
+1 for this. A lot of us look at programming as this holy grail of knowledge for one reason or another, but you have to remember that the process of actually acquiring that knowledge can be extremely soul-crushing and arduous. When I started to take programming seriously, it was only after I had lost all my friends in middle school and had nothing left to lose. It certainly didn't make me any more social, and it certainly didn't improve my life in the way I had expected. Now, halfway up the hill, I don't really appreciate the knowledge I have. For the most part it just makes me paranoid and dysfunctional. That's not to say it's useless, but you really have to let kids decide things on their own volition. Pushing someone into something as banal as programming could have disastrous results if they're not interested.
Tbh “natural progression to growing forests” sounds to me like a mere excuse for doing nothing about the status quo. We’re already growing plants for agriculture and are currently looking to terraform Mars, and we as a species were so willing to break that “natural progression” when we started building cultures around automobiles and plastics.
When I was building the James Bond DB5 I was amused that the exhaust manifolds for the engine are actually revolvers: https://brickset.com/sets/containing-part-4211029
I'd imagine HN readers to be more likely to wear distance glasses than the average population. That requirement knocks a ton of AR/VR options off the table for me :(
Sorry, that was a typo on my end. I'll push a fix momentarily. (Do note that the math for $630k over 9y was right.)
Props to the DuckDB team. I've been using DuckDB for the last little while since I discovered it on HN and it's been simply amazing.

Before, I would reach for Apache Spark to run queries on local Parquet datasets (on a single machine), but I've started using DuckDB for that and it's super fast (much faster than Pandas) and unfussy to integrate in Python code (with PySpark you need all kinds of boilerplate code).

DuckDB is so lightweight that it's also great for quick interactive work in Jupyter or IPython.

I also use it to do cross-format joins between Parquet (immutable) and CSV files (mutable) -- DuckDB can load both into the same environment -- which makes it easy to solve different kinds of programming problems. The dynamic stuff goes into the CSV files while the Parquet dataset remains static. For instance, when processing a large Parquet dataset, my code keeps track of groups that I'vee already processed in a CSV file. If the program is interrupted and I need to resume from where I left off, I just do a DuckDB join between Parquet and CSV and exclude already processed groups (particularly when you don't have a group key, and you're grouping by several fields). Yes, you can do all this with Spark too, but the DuckDB code is so much simpler and compact.

For large Parquet datasets, I currently roll my own code to chunk them so I can process them out-of-core, but sounds like this latest streaming feature in DuckDB takes care of that detail.

Sure, DuckDB doesn't do distributed compute like Spark, but as a SQL engine for Parquet, I find it's so much more ergonomic than Spark.
We went down this road at one point. There are a number of issues surrounding accessibility with this. Plus performance isn't great. There were a bunch of other issues too that I don't remember off the top of my head.

We were going to make a webassembly UI framework that worked across devices natively as well as the web.
The (reverse, sort of) prisoner's dilemma comes from the perceived risk of being banned by YT for promoting competitors on their site. If a single creator defects (from YouTube) too early, that creator loses, so creators have to cooperate.

I assume this is less of a risk now than it used to be, because more creators are promoting alternative sites, and I'm even seeing ads for TikTok on YouTube itself.
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end up a jaded curmudgeon?

Success is not guaranteed, but that can be a well-earned element that at least greatly reduces the odds of failure when they start their own company.
“Drawing like a kid” is it’s own special part of the craft. You have to deliberately step back from a lot of the skills you’ve learnt about what makes a “good drawing”, and yet since you usually have a reason to make a drawing that looks like a kid’s work, you still have to keep in mind all the skills that apply even if your rendering and anatomy is deliberately lacking and broken. You can’t even just draw a stick figure because after a serious education your stick figures are bursting with life and anatomy. So you look at a bunch of kid’s drawings, recall a few of your own special kid-art quirks, and you make sure the composition is crystal clear, maybe add a few labels in a childish scrawl or a neat parental addition...
“The city is way too easy for people with nothing to get by,” she said. “That’s why I’m still here nine years later. You get by with doing drugs and suffer no consequences. I like it here.”

No doubt, chronic homelessness is a problem in San Francisco. And there's truth in this quote, from a fentanyl-addicted homeless person.

But I hesitate to base my entire view on the situation from a hot take of conversation with someone deep into drug abuse. They will feed the addiction first, and only then go on to address their other needs.

The article leaves me wanting to hear from people in recovery. Perhaps they are harder to find. Or perhaps (even more likely) I misread the article.

Nevertheless, I hang on to the real money quote:

The bitter joke of the story is that in San Francisco, the mother works full-time, drains her savings, but still can’t make ends meet and is forced to move away.
It costs a lot of money (700 pounds, USD$926.27). That alone is a valid reason to be upset.
My dad showed me small demonstrations of programming on the Commodore 64 when I was in the third grade. I liked to make up silly rhymes. He showed me how to print out the rhymes sentence-by-sentence with pauses in between for reading, with a little sound effect flourish as each one was printed. By the standards of the time, it appeared to have sound and motion; it engaged the senses, and that got my attention.

The first non-trivial program that I remember writing, in fourth grade, did not have such flourishes. It was a program that implemented a Caesar cipher, so that I and my best friend could exchange encoded messages. Given the cumbersome effort of keying in the text and running the program, it was not much of a convenience over manually encoding/decoding the cipher scheme with pencil and paper :-)
Seems easy enough, I just opened devtools, enabled breakpoint on XHR and refreshed page, it drops straight into debugger with full code.
That said, it's also over 6800 pieces: https://brickset.com/sets/75313-1 . There are 678 different kinds of pieces here if you check the csv of parts.
I'm not sure if this was the point he was trying to make but dog breeding is why dogs exist.
I second this.

here's simple tutorial to make real simple game.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jHvXakt1qw
The very definition of immunity was changed to account for how mRNA "vaccination" works.

It does not have the "same effect" as the smallpox vaccination.
That's exciting to me, maybe I'm looking at it wrong though.
> I get free search if I use slack, which is a great upside

That's a great upside? Any text editor has search. Any text area on any operating system has ctrl+f. I really don't understand why sometimes stories like this make it to the frontpage of HN.

Yes, keep notes, write down those hard to remember commands somewhere so you can look them up later.
How do you plan on avoiding this turning into the usual collection of swastikas, penises and racial slurs that usually happens?
On the bright side, now is not the worst time to be layed off with the current market for SWEs. Wouldn't be suprised if a decent amount of people end up increasing their salary. Though I empathize with being forced into it.
It’s quite offensive, as somebody who nearly died from sepsis (a couple of months ago), like the drug user in the article, but for different reasons. In my case it was from an infected portacath, that was carelessly flushed during routine maintenance and care.

Also, I cost more, on a per year basis, than the individual in the article, as I require an orphan drug and will for the rest of my life.

I am American but fortunately live abroad so I don’t have to put up with people writing BS narratives and stories that “link” arbitrary statistics together, which people with economics backgrounds tend to do. All in all, this is clickbait.

The solution to the “problem” in the article is houses, regardless of drug usage status.
Dogs are not naturally occurring.
You could combat that, as an individual fraudster, by having many fraud seller sites that each sell very popular, commodity items. The problem there is that everyone else would be doing the same thing.

You could get to a point where there is enough fraud in the marketplace, you might have one fraud seller, buy from another fraud seller, human centipede style. It would be really interesting if it formed a closed loop. I’m sure it’s happened.

You could avoid that by making a network of fraudsters, who know about each other and can avoid each other. But then you’re only as strong as the weakest link. As soon as someone gets caught, the authorities have the full list of the network, and everyone gets taken down.
Aren’t infected people required to quarantine for a period of time? “Preventing both relatively larger and smaller harms, because they are both too large to tolerate,” doesn’t seem contradictory to me. And “not being vaccinated” is a pretty concrete property.