skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no ... Being an introvert I need a certain number of hours alone for "projects" :)

I'm responsible for my young kids and my ageing parents need more support as well and those are things I don't want to not do, they just take up time. And unfortunately the relationship with my partner probably doesn't get the attention it deserves either. Luckily she's KO until 8AM anyway.

I do also love being outdoors going for run / hike / mtb ride or spending meaningful time with my kids, weather / seasons permitting. They're still a bit young so I'm looking forward to the future wrt to that.

You?
I'm a crypto hater as much as one can be, but there are many countries in Asia and S.America where locals may not want to stick to local currency due to sky high inflation, and getting foreign currency is not easy or illegal, and/or making international transfer is not possible or expensive.
You forgot the possibility that the outside civilisation is destroyed (eg by itself) before such simulation technology becomes technically feasible.

Not sure whether I should welcome my simulator overlords or search for weaknesses in Bostrom's argument.
> Political fortunes can swing on bad tweets.

> Political fortunes can swing on bad press releases.

> Political fortunes can swing on bad interviews.

> Political fortunes can swing on bad comments at private dinners that become public.

As they should.
What parts usually rot out on ICE's and do they have equivalents on EV's? Getting rid of a large percentage of the moving parts seems like it might be a win (but I'm really not sure).
> Once Bitcoin power consumption enters the common discourse, my guess is that politicians will step in and simply outlaw PoW systems. There is no real downside for politicians.

Will we? I am not convinced. In the pandemic, many countries weren't even able to efficiently mandate masks or vaccines, despite the fact the majority supported these measures. The libertarian-anarchy minority is very loud, and will fight the right to Bitcoin tooth and nail.
You can get framing screws that bend similar to framing nails.

As for code, yeah most cities have codes on the hight and setback of backyard sheds. This shed doesn't look like it meets either.

https://www.strongtie.com/strongdrive_exteriorwoodscrews/sdw...
This neurological disorder is not baffling to me. It is expected because of mental health issues that come from poverty, homelessness, water pollution, food pollution, air pollution, climate change, toxins in manufacturing plants, toxic chemicals that oil companies release into our Earth's environment, unrecycled trash causing methane, dehumanizing censorship, cut-throat politicians, and so forth damaging Earth's environment including people's well-being. Impulsive consumers are consuming carcinogenic junk food, alcohol, products for smoking, etc. So, this neurological disorder does not surprise me one bit. It is the corporate oligarchs who pretend this is baffling to hide their profit-driven agenda to control our world at the expense of our well-being and Earth's environment.
I've gone through a similar process. For me what you described of splitting it into the tangible parts helped a lot - I'd spend a week just working on the back-end and then a week on the front-end and vice-versa. Was hard to context switch between the two (especially as my back-end is usually python and front-end is usually a flavor of JS).
Definitely want to use nails for framing (especially in zones that might experience the shearing forces of an earthquake) -- here are a couple of links so folks can see for themselves:

[Project Farm](https://youtu.be/qmajKElnwfE)

[Vancouver Carpenter](https://youtu.be/5-PlR8tf84c)
What else are you gonna do with your spare time? Run the treadmill of eat/work/shit/eat/work/shit/gym/eat/tv/shit/sleep? Doing something new that you enjoy and feels productive makes life feel a little more meaningful. It doesn't have to be as big as building a shed.
This is me... I live in an apartment without space to securely store a bike (bikes left in the parking have been stolen) and I really don't like running. I try to walk 10,000 steps each day - around 5km or 1 hour in total - though.
I'm not sure about this case, but wouldn't it be okay to say something like that if none of the diagnostic criteria for a disease are met?
Show HN: Fully Automated Snakes and Ladders
works offline,
main business logic in clojure
everything else in vanilla js and a DSL for configuring the board
Homeschooling is a dumb idea.

Part of child development is detaching from parents and leatning to interact with peers of the same age (and in the same age bracket in general).

Homeschooling negates this chance for development to the child.
Would you be interested in purchasing this partially pre-build and delivered to you?

(pre-painted, Including windows, door, insulation, electrical and Ethernet wiring, fire-proof compliance, able to resist heavy rain)

Six elements total, clickable into each other. Assembly time under one hour.
You'll understand the Bull case if you calculate the revenue growth rates of Tesla vs. incumbents.
It’s crazy how all of this energy is used to repeatedly calculate sha256 and 99.9999% of those generated hashes are discarded.
Good to see that now neighbours towards backyard can review your Merge requests as well.
I am missing keyword analytics for github. What stuff developers search, most popular searches etc
This article is a confused mess. It's something of a Gish gallop in conflating all the different issues they could come up with, while leaving out all the necessary vocabulary (C-f "Bayes" "posterior" "decision theory" [Phrase not found]) making it almost impossible to consider each issue in adequate detail.

It mixes up poor communication (reporting false-positive/negative rates as if posterior probabilities, & exaggerated confidence thereof), arbitrary-seeming decision thresholds (but their hyperventilating over '85% wrong' notwithstanding, many are probably too conservative, if anything, given how devastating many of these problems are, there should be more false positives to trigger additional testing, not less), costs of testing (sure why not but little is presented), tests which they claim just bad and uninformative (developed based on far too little _n_, certainly possible), implicit calls for the FDA to Do Something and ban the tests (not an iota of cost-benefit considered nor any self-reflection about whether we want the FDA involved in anything at all these days)... Sometimes in the same paragraph.

Plenty of valid stuff could be written about each issue, but they'd have to be at least 4 different articles of equivalent length to shed more light than heat.
care to elaborate even further?
I guess the difference with tooth brushing, showering, etc, is that they take very little time (ok: not true with me and showering: I find pleasurable to let my thoughts wander, so I take a longer time than needed). But brushing your teeth? It takes very little time commitment, you don't have the chance to get bored!

I can even think about the stuff I'm about to do while I brush my teeth. Let's compare it with doing martial arts: most teachers require you to be "in the moment", not think of something else.

I suppose this is why I think I would like trekking if I lived in a suitable location. You can walk, enjoy the scenery, and think of something else.
Note that life insurance isn't going to be a good model--there are two selection biases at work here.

1) Those in ill health likely can't afford life insurance.

2) Life insurance is mostly to provide for dependents--which means people in good enough shape to have dependents and people are young enough to still have dependents. (Once the kids are grown there's much less reason for term life insurance.)
> I know the billionaires have their wealth as unrealized gains; I chose my words carefully

That they use as collateral to get loans from banks that actually have that money. "Billionaires don't actually have that money" is peak bootlicker logic.
Not sure about the composition, but I use 3-IN-ONE Dry Lock Lube for my locks in a temperate climate.
I agree with you in some sense but stopping a bad habit immediately works for some but not for most people. That's why we have so many businesses that are setup to help you beat a bad habit. There is no one way to beat it that's effective for all.

One that I've found is effective to me is to replace the habit with some other habit. One that's beneficial. Example, every time you feel the need to go on social media replace social media with reading. Be sure to have a book at hand. Or a quick 1 minute or so workout. I heard of a guy that curled dumbbells, 10 reps. He got huge biceps. I don't know if it helped his habit but he sure got results. Think of something beneficial to you that you want to improve. You might fail at first but keep at it you'll succeed.
In a lot of places, buildings less than 100'sq do not need permitting. https://www.redcoverstudios.com/blog/md100-plans-for-modern-... are plans for one such out building.
> And also American A in pasta or Mario (more ree oh)

My experience as an American is that most Americans pronounce these with ‘ah’ sounds, not with the American A sound. Someone using the American A for those words would come across as very…regional, it would really stick out. Well, to me anyway.
house > shed

shed > ?
This is also what a secure attention key is for. Sadly the well known implementation (Windows NT) made it sufficiently obnoxious that it went away.

I can imagine keyboards having a special “password” key and trying to train people that all passwords start with the password key. I don’t know if this would work, but it can’t be worse than Ctrl-alt-delete.
Fentanyl has value to some people. But it kills them and some people keep making more.
Good for locking in a customer.
This. I loved lifting and felt fantastic before our 3rd was born (just before Corona), the last time has felt like being in jail.

Luckily once the youngest kid starts school is gets 100x easier. Only two more years to go :)
"Client/Server" killed off desktop and workgroup apps. With it came all that consultancy driven enterprisey crap: n+1 tiered architectures, execrable design patterns (MVC v MVP v MVCC), meta markup languages, schemas and mappings, yadda yadda.

Web development is just the opportunistic parasite that snuck in after enterprisey dev blew apart the industry.

Everything that sucks about enterprisey dev also sucks about web dev.

Then pile on top the insanity of HTML, CSS, JavaScript... Almost makes one wistful for X-Windows.

Web dev didn't have to suck. It could have just been an update to time sharing and smart terminals.

But every generation has to reinvent everything from scratch every time. It's some kind of natural law.

Lather, rinse, repeat.

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There are precisely two good parts that "the web" bequeathed onto the world: HTTP and URLs (URIs). Those really were game changers.

For one, both are "open".

All of the alternatives were in the same idea space as Xanadu. Closed gardens, proprietary.

At the moment, I don't recall any other contenders for the use cases HTTP and URI solve.

The only close analogs I can think of are the SNMP stack based on ASN.1 and MIBs (OIDs). And omg that stuff sucked.

Oh, some of it's coming back to me. X.500 (for addressing) and CORBA (for RPC) and the like.

We are SO LUCKY HTTP and URIs showed up.
It will almost certainly be less than bitcoin.

What bitcoin is trying to fix is decentralized trust and uses Proof-of-Work for that. So, you're wasting energy to solve some cryptographic puzzle to proof that you did some work.

Traditional banking does not need that, it uses social networks to establish trust.
I have the same feelings about exercise that seems like a grind. Sports which have some technical element like rock climbing, skiing, skating are much easier to stick with, I find.
> “The chance of breast cancer is so low, so why are you doing it? I think it’s purely a marketing thing.”

This mindset is ingrained in every doctor I speak to, but I think it's just so wrong.

Take DiGeorge syndrome. You have a 1/4000 chance of having it, and the test carries an 81% chance of a false positive. The above doctor calls this "marketing"? Foolishness. That's an incredibly useful test. The downside is small, and the upside is asymmetrically large.

We need far, far better screening for all sorts of things. Adult cancer and heart screens once a year, prenatal screening, and on. We do a good job with breast and prostate screens, but for rarer conditions our current approach of waiting for the disease to be symptomatic makes no sense. Part of that will be driving the cost down. There is so much market need for a legitimate version of Theranos and I'm glad there are some companies working on these things.
I could make a statue out of my feces and look at it every day and be happy about it, giving it some value, but it's still a heap of shit.
A range of things we’ve seen in authoritarian regimes: sophisticated attacks like NSO, but also things like mandatory TLS CAs or government monitoring apps, police analyzing phones seized from dissidents or crossing borders, etc. or the very low-tech strategy of offering the guy you just nabbed a lenient sentence if he flips on his partners or having police informants pretending to be part of the underground economy (are you sure the local exchange isn't secretly compromised? That the app you're using doesn't have some intentional flaw?).

There are some people who’ll say their personal opsec is so good they’ll never fall prey to that but even if that was true it’s also everyone you transact with. If you’re living in a repressive regime, you have to worry about everyone you interact with as well, and that’s deadly for a currency network. It’s especially so for one nobody needs to use — if the police stop you and you have the equivalent of Venmo/PayPal on your phone, that’s not risky because millions of people use it and they follow local laws but if some cryptocurrency did successfully allow you to avoid government oversight simply having a wallet app installed would attract attention you don’t want. People who aren't trying to hide their activities won't want to risk that, which means that there'll be less volume in which to hide your transactions.
The article is unclear and comments seem contradictory: is it a price hike for new reservations or a bait and switch for old ones? The former would be merely sad, the latter should be illegal.
Looks awesome. I'd love something like that in my backyard. Only wish the write-up was longer!
No, within a few decades transaction fees will exceed block subsidy and provide an ongoing incentive for mining.
“ Secondary structural analysis of the Omicron variant reveals a higher proportion of alpha-helices than the Delta variant but less extended strand and random coil structures, leading to more structural stability.” It goes on from there.

They found reasons to suspect the omicron variant is all around more resilient to the environment and more contagious. Thus the connection to fomite and aerosol concerns.
But mutation is deliberate and obvious with existing systems, which keep logs.
PS - If you are interested in drawing, you might look up books and especially pictures of ENIAC, often called the first electronic computer. It was programmed with patchcords so it's visually more interesting than all the gray boxes that came after. It looks more like a giant Moog synthesizer.

Try an image search on: Eniac monte carlo patch cords

Or look in the book Eniac in Action by Thomas Haigh et al.
Lots of ENIAC-related diagrams linked to this page:

https://eniacinaction.com/the-book/supporting-technical-mate...

for example this flowchart:

https://eniacinaction.com/docs/MonteCarloSecondRunFlowDiagra...
They don't have to rely on Twitter. Politicians have office budgets which include money for sending out mailings to their constituents. Most politicians also have their own email lists to which they send out updates and run polls. There are plenty of venues outside of Twitter to contact constituents.

Twitter itself is under no more of an obligation to publish material from a politician than a newspaper is. Both are corporations that operate under obligations to their shareholders. If a politician really wants to publish something on Twitter, they can pay for promoted ads just like they can with a newspaper. Expecting social media platforms to promote their message for free is hopelessly naive and does not match how democracy has worked for centuries. Sure, newspapers have published political messages for free via editorials and stories, but they are not obligated to do so. Getting the message out has always required time from volunteers and/or money towards supporting the cause.
People not wanting to see a doctor or go to hospital for non COVID related health issues out of fear?

Reduced capacity in the health service for stuff like cancer?
so my instinct for a while has been that Substack have been damaging their sender reputation by offering unlimited free sending to unlimited recipients, with the upshot that they attract a lot of people sending low-open-rate, marked-as-spam or marked-as-promotional emails. (They also, to my knowledge, won't let senders use their own email addresses, all emails are sent from Substack).

I realise it's much more complicated than this, that within a given ESP there are multiple bundles of senders and that better customers get moved to a better bundle etc, but my guess is that for any given level within Substack you're being bundled with an unusually-bad group of peers and therefore getting lower open rates -- I would love to know if this is an accurate understanding, or if there's any accurate way to test this from outside Substack.
Yes? If you're just starting to code, you shouldn't give out advice like you know everything. You're not a pro and you shouldn't be masquerading as one. You should be listening to advice, not giving it. You really want advice everywhere of "Coding pro tip: always make all variables strings because then you can put numbers or letters in there and you don't have to use multiple types."?
> Connecting it to a larger climate battle in order to win that war ("See wind power doesn't have that downside anymore, so more wind power to fight climate change") only gets in the way of solving the immediate problem.

Personally I feel that splitting up interests that are inherently to do with climate change and ecology into individual issues is detrimental. However, you're probably right that capitalism is inefficient and utterly ineffective at large scale projects, and that splitting everything into isolated issues that cannot be seen to lead to anything bigger is a more "efficient" way to solve the general problem under capitalism, sure.
As much as everyone loves to complain about red tape, building codes have a lot of useful info. Even if you're not going to pull permits (at your own risk) it's useful to be aware of what code requires and why. Specific examples from the post:

* Plywood thickness required for floor decking

* Min roof slope for asphalt shingles

* Drip edge, where it's required and how to install it

* Roof drainage - probably doesn't matter because California but as a general rule you never want to channel water towards your foundation.

In the grand scheme these are relatively minor. They'll probably need to demolish the thing when they sell the house long before the roof slope causes water issues.
Show HN: Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal Search Engine
Hey HN,

I've created a frontend search engine to search through SMBC Comics[0]. There was no index, so I created a program that uses OpenCV EAST and Tesseract to extract text and other metadata from all 6000+ comics. A challenge that I came across is that the data that is being searched is imperfect (OCR isn't the best with handwritten-esque text). Search is done in the frontend with Fuse.js[1].

The comics are available to search at https://sambhavsaggi.github.io/comic-fulltext-search/

Currently, it's a little slow since it has to search through megabytes of text in the browser, but response times are all less than 1.5 seconds on my laptop (your mileage may vary).

Some things I could use assistance on include improved text extraction from comics and faster/better search (maybe in WASM?)

---

The code for this project is available here:

Frontend: https://github.com/sambhavsaggi/comic-fulltext-search

Text extractor: https://github.com/sambhavsaggi/comic-ocr

[0] https://www.smbc-comics.com

[1] https://fusejs.io/

---

Thanks!

ET
Where does this myth come from? I grew up in Utah where the roads are basically made of salt for 6 months a year. There are old cars everywhere. I had two that lasted to 200k miles, and it wasn't rust that pushed them over the edge. Just wash your car and it'll be fine.

I'm not saying there's no affect at all, but suggesting the car will be unusable in 5 years (less than 100k on average) is an exaggeration bordering on dishonesty.
I grew up in the 90s. At least in my part of the US, Gameboys were pretty damn rare; I only knew a couple people who had them, and they didn't play them often, in part because AA batteries were rare and precious commodities for children.
This one I find especially hilarious given the complete hatred people had for the unification of user profiles among Google products that happened a decade ago. "You are telling me that my gmail account has to be linked to my youtube account, wtf" was a common complaint. Now, this is seen as somehow desirable?
> See the housing crisis during which experts and laypeople were equally fooled.

Not discounting your main point, but there were plenty of experts and laypeople that were completely unsurprised by the housing crisis. If anything, I think the housing crisis was more of a case that so many people had a vested interest in thinking/pretending the music would never stop.
That first word reads a lot differently without a t at the end of I.
Took half a day and $200. Got me plenty of extra space. Don't overthink it just start building and figure it out as you go.

Pic https://ibb.co/7V50HV8
Moderate inflation is good for debtors and keeps money circulating around the economy: those with savings can invest it in a way that keeps up with inflation. Deflation causes hoarding of money and economic collapse (like the Depression of the 1930s). Central banks try to manage inflation to keep is low but nonzero.
The only thing that changes is that governments have to raise the taxes from people explicitly instead of a hidden inflation tax. I think it’s great for goverments as well, as it gives them more responsibility over how they are spending money. Norway of a great example of people paying high taxes because they see the government as responsibly spending and reinvesting its tax revenue. I never asked money from other people in my life, I was spending only what I earned, and I feel this way of living is a more honest and sustainable way of living.
In my experience, frame/body (though that's better than it used to be). Fluid lines (brakes, power steering), muffler, other power train components [ADDED: Not so much powertrain itself but some of the associated hardware]. So some is common. Some is not. But presumably the motors in an EV could rust out as well.
British city names are hard.

El Salvador, the country were I lived has one of the highest consumptions of Lea and Perrins' Worcestershire Sauce.

You'll find a bottle of it on every local restaurant table and probably in most homes.

Yet no one knows how to pronounce it, most people will just call it 'Salsa Inglesa' (English Sauce), or 'Salsa Perrins' (Perrins Sauce).

I've never heard anyone say "Woustersher sauce" here.
Check your insurance coverage! Erecting a structure that does not meet local electrical and building codes, zoning bylaws, etc. may either threaten or void your insurance. In the event of the worst case scenario (fire, flood, collapse, etc.) you will likely not get a payout.