skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're using debt to fuel the economy, which is dangerous.

It's quite sad, because we've known how dangerous this practice is for thousands of years. It's not for no reason that usury is prohibited in the three major religions.
> I love having a dumb car.

Did you find a newish one?
There's only 24 letters in the Greek alphabet, and any given piece of math doesn't use more than a few of them at a time.

You're clearly capable of learning at least one alphabet, why was the second so much harder?
It's only bizarre if you haven't lived a while.

It's actually quite normal. Notice how most things posted on HackerNews are neither News, nor about Hacking.

It's normal, that things morph into some lowest common denominator 'thing' that makes people that have any taste shudder on the inside. It doesn't make most everyone else shudder, which is why it is almost inevitable, reduction to the lowest common denominator, of everything.
Author here... I had originally written something like, "I wrote my own tool but you might see these gains using any note tool". For whatever reason, I edited that out. Probably a mistake, given your confusion.
I have a Reform and totally agree. I only had prior experience with Cherry MX blue & brown, so I expected more tactility from what Kailh is calling choc brown.

MNT recently announced standalone keyboards with other Kailh switches as options. It's using the same PCB, so I've ordered one with choc white and plan to do a board swap with my Reform.
it is nigh time to take it back to the manufacturer under warranty.

if their longevity depends on WiFi and is not mentioned in the manual, get your money back.
> I wonder if we have any way of telling how old a particular colony could possibly be?

Maybe sequencing DNA from a lot of the individual organisms and counting how many differences there are? Older colonies should accumulate the differences, right?
Maybe you're on to something. Just think about how much drug use we could stop if we just rounded up everyone in the country and executed them!
I bought an aftermarket camera that's like ford's, but it just slips over the old mirror. Thing is great, shoots 4k and is not integrated to the car's system. Also has voice commands, so its super easy to use the real mirror or any other functions. Screen in the mirror is the way.
Yep, my 2009 Volvo has a popup screen that can be pushed down into the dash. I like it because I almost never use the reversing camera, but on the rare occasion I want to it's available. The rest of the car is all physical controls.
I’m also unable to throw things away, but I do give things away or sell at a fraction very often. It’s also a fun past time. I don’t have anything useless at home anymore.
Not really in disagreement. However, I think that there is more than one level of granularity to this project. If you were to step back to the level where someone has a 'library' of these blocks of code (which seem to be able to present a 'black-box' style presentation) and then visually placing them and connecting the inputs and outputs of those various blocks is essentially visual programming within the meaning of the standard definition, like from Wikipedia.
This was the first I had heard of Query as well, but admittedly I don't pay too close attention to those discussions.
in the first shared house I lived in, my flat mate (ex-partner of the holder of the lease but in the same dwelling... it was awkward) was acting erratically in the first couple of weeks. It was kind of assumed the break up was getting to him.

One night I heard him cursing outside my door (not at me, just generally). The next day he apologized and said things were overwhelming him at times.

Within a day or two they admitted him to the hospital our house actually backed onto; I can't quite remember why, I think he may have blacked out at the house while I was at work.

They put out the word for his father to fly into the country, but he passed within a day.

It was fungal meningitis; something I didn't even know existed, but apparently can be caused by various forms. I don't know if he had a weakened immune system, but it shook me that someone just living in an urban environment in a wealthy country could simply contract this and pass within days.
And as has been noted before, similar relationships w/ the CIA/NSA that NSO does w/ Israeli intelligence. A lot of people shuffle back and forth between those organizations.

Not as "scary" because they aren't selling exploits to nation states and instead spying on their users/the internet.

Ike wasn't wrong.
The most obvious answer here is missing: The purpose of all biological life is reproduction... we learned that in school and never realized it applies to us humans too. Make it your #1 goal in life to find a great life partner, get married, then have kids.
In the name of all that does not suck, I beg you to not do "flat design".

The PNC banking app, for example, takes flat design to an extreme. You cannot tell where to click to make your checking account show transactions. You cannot tell where to click to make a mobile deposit. You cannot tell where to click, it's not even as clear as "meatball navigation".
I hear that metric a lot - dollars per entertainment-hour. It's an interesting metric - but it's also important to remember the 1.5 hour Marvel film almost certainly took more human hours in the input side than virtually any video game. At least, my 10k hours in StarCraft took far far far fewer human hours to produce than my 1.5 hours watching the Avengers.

Sort of a "labor theory of value" for entertainment pricing, I guess.
but surely more people would say "my lifestyle choices mean that I'm never going to be exposed to HIV so I don't need a vaccine for it" than ditto for covid?
> I'll caution people to take this (and the rest of Reddit) with a huge grain of salt. Subreddits like this one are almost always just creative writing.

Time to get creative with our time and careers, as long as the skill is transferable, and health is manageable. That said, 5 jobs sound too much, but who knows...
There is no company out there that stays in business long paying their employees the full amount of the value they would generate if they were really working full+ time, so why should those employees do that unless they happen to enjoy it or it advances their own goals? That's just whipping yourself so massa doesn't have to
> Yes, eating less meat helps reduce greenhouse gas emissions.[0] Until you can find a reliable source that says that it doesn't, we can stop talking about your baseless speculation that it doesn't.

Can you show me where in my comment I made this baseless speculation?
> and maybe to Chimp Adenoviruses

Which is a major problem with this technique. One of the other vaccines (J&J?) used a relatively harmless human virus and as I recall, some people with previous exposure had no effect from the vaccine.
Every movie, series or other thing where people grab the bottle to handle their heartache, happiness or socializing is an advertisement that you should drink.

It's going to need a huge transformation in society to change those advertising channels. Just like the movie cig industry was a long term process.
The biggest problem IMO is that it is impossible for the sports industry to go all-in into betting while also remaining neutral as far as the games themselves go.
Interesting! That makes sense. It would be a lot of staff given the number of missiles there were/are. Though money and men doesn't seem to be a barrier when it comes to doomsday defense.

I just read an OpEd in WSJ the author argued we need to build more weapons to keep up 1:1 with china. When we already have more than enough to be a deterrent.
>The rising human cost of <put_your_favorite_thing_here>

There are many, many vices that people struggle from such as drinking, drugs, obsessions like food, and just obsessive spending in general. There are just a lot of people that cannot control some aspect of their life, but they generally make up a relatively small minority. These types of articles are an attempt to guilt-trip the vast majority of people that generally excel at life, because they use good judgement and rational thinking.

There are always going to be people that fall by the wayside, so I'm not going to feel guilty enjoying a little entertainment every now and again that a very small minority of people struggle with.
Why? The archive version is much easier to access without an account.
Atari is celebrating its 50th anniversary by combining NFTs with lootboxes
Yes, it is safe --- in doses needed to kill worms in your intestinal tract.

Is it safe in doses needed to kill COVID? I have yet to see a reputable, supervised medical study that shows this. The studies that exist are mostly testimonials from individual doctors in 3rd world countries.

Japan discovered Ivermectin and are it's biggest fan but even they haven't approved it as a COVID treatment.
Maybe APSE is what you're looking for [1]. A while back the founder sent me a link after one of my blog posts hit HN. It's a tool that continuously records your desktop and offers text search of everything through OCR.

I personally found the idea interesting, but I was too afraid to ever try it out. The mere idea of a video record existing of everything that's going on on my computer, even if it's never supposed to leave the computer, was too scary for me.

[1] https://apse.io
uBlock Origin blocks in-video ads too! Not sure if this has been referenced elsewhere in the comments but their 'element picker' mode is also fantastic and extremely useful in making webpages with huge banners and popups less annoying. Honestly, being on the web without uBlock Origin (and Vimium) just feels like a sub-par experience.
This is how my sad thought me to buy tools just seems insane to go expensive cause best every time..
For my money the best IP that Bungie ever produced was "Myth", specifically The Fallen Lords & Soulblighter.

Sadly, they sold it off to Take Two Interactive who botched the 3rd game in the series and killed off the franchise.

I wish I could buy the IP off of Take Two and revive it, but until then I just have to settle for playing the modern ports that are still being maintained.
I grew to love the Mazda "Commander Knob" or the combo-joystick/click rotator. It felt clumsy at first, but once I got used to CarPlay's interfaces muscle memory really started kicking in and I became accustomed to feeling the number of 'clicks' to rotate to get where I needed. I primarily interact with CarPlay using Siri though.
I had a rental V90 last year, and it was easily the dumbest smart car I've ever had the displeasure of driving. Comically bad in some cases. Death by a thousand cuts. Little things like you say, or the fact that it would blare about the front parking sensor detecting the wall when I put the car in reverse, etc. I ended up spending a few minutes going through all the menus turning stuff off.
I do like bluetooth, power seat memory, 360 cameras, etc. But please, for the love of usability, don't bury all of the HVAC and Audio controls in a touchscreen menu. I want real knobs and buttons for all of that stuff. Even Volvo, a company focused on safety, moved nearly all of the HVAC controls to their touchscreen.
It's unclear that the numbers are in your favor. As far as I can tell, as of 2018, the US had 600 opiate users per 100k, Portugal had 250, and Singapore had 30.

https://www.apa.org/monitor/2018/10/portugal-opioid
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/singapore-is-winning...
Fair enough, but I would consider a failure communication philosophy a subset of communication failure
Just a related case, with a faucet:

Some months ago, we bought a new kitchen sink faucet, liking the handsfree feature (on/off by waving in front of a sensor). Of 2 possibilities, the salesman pushing for the on w/ a smart controller with wifi, saying we wouldn't ever have to use the wifi, and it was $50 cheaper. And he didn't mention the existence of the branded a/c adapters for the faucet, and misled somewhat about the nature of the warranty (the lifetime part doesn't cover the electronics--those are covered for 5 years which seems reasonable enough I guess).

Turned out that it requires 6 or 8 size D(? large, pricey) battery cells which ran down in ~5 weeks. Due to a bug(?) or design problem, the cold water got stuck in "open" mode when the batteries died, and could not be turned off except by shutting off all cold water to the faucet. Replacing batteries, etc etc didn't help. The manufacturer said yes there was also another bug, due to wifi not being set up, it was constantly probing for a network, and ran down faster. The only way to fix it was to connect to wifi, or get a new controller. They (Moen) were repeatedly very competent and helpful on the phone, understood why I preferred not to connect it to wifi in my case, and sent us a new controller with the fix, under the warranty. The local salesman however, after long discussion and not super-happily, allowed us to get the other sensor model with no smart controller box, and days later, to return the old faucet for the full original price. (Moen provided a return shipping label for the unused replacement controller box.)

We have been happy with the new/simpler sensor model, which seems to have neither of the bugs of the first one (Moen said that in this one, a capacitor saves enough power to turn off the water, in case the batteries die while the water is running). Takes just something like 2 AAA batteries which last a long time, working very nicely.

My wife points out that the the simpler model actually did turn out to be significantly less expensive, and we had to have a plumber come for something else right at the same time so they did the faucet swap then and the total cost difference was about a wash. We were grateful that it turned out well in the end. I would probably buy from Moen again, considering, but would read online more at their site about the product, and listen to the salesman somewhat less.
Other one would be Double Fine, while it is relatively early days since they were acquired in 2019, they seem to have been just working on their projects since then. Psychonauts 2 was very well received last year - from what I've read it seems like the Microsoft acquisition allowed them to add a bunch of content back into the game that they had previously cut for time/budget, like boss battles - looks like it helped with the overall game quality.
> but analog type dials for spedo

Why is this considered an upside?

When I shopped for a car, I've specifically looked for one with a simple (uncluttered) large digital number-only speedometer. Ended up buying 2013 Civic, which is still bad in other regards but got this one right, with a large digital speedometer conveniently located not behind the steering wheel but right below the windshield (less eye travel; and still in peripheral vision even when looking at the road). https://www.extremetech.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Honda...

I can read a number in a few milliseconds, ending up with an exact reading. So, I instantly know e.g. if I'm at, below, or above the speed limit (or desired/safe speed).

All those analog gauges take me - personally - at least an order of magnitude longer to mentally process. I can get a rough idea (±5 or ±10 {mph,km/h} depending on the dials) relatively quick - but still much longer than it takes for me to digest a readily spelled out number. Or I can spend an eternity (2+ seconds) to get a more precise reading.

And it's not as if acceleration rate normally matters, so unlike some other instruments, ability to watch the speedometer needle moving doesn't make much sense to me.

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Oh, and I can't say I want a "smart" car, I just have a pet peeve about an awful (IMHO) designs of instrument clusters in most cars. It's either a bunch of round analogue gauges straight from grandpa's dream car (with special love for a huge engine rpm indicator, no matter the type of transmission - I really don't get this) or cyberpunk neon all the way with so much visual clutter and total absence of any sane color coding, and pray to manufacturer they don't decide all that stuff goes onto that giant iPad strapped somewhere next to your knee (thanks, Elon! Although, to be fair, at least it's plain, large and black on white)
Ah, I didn't even realize this was a post/ad about a specific tool that the author was launching, I thought it was a general post about any "second brain tool". Sorry for that.
There are a fair number of reviewers out there (Catchpole, Savagegeese) who are starting to savage some of this stuff. Physical buttons are a safety feature.
Your dishwasher probably uses ~1kWh of energy per cycle. Unless you're running your dishwasher a lot, or you're in an area where the difference per kWh is really massive, you're really not saving that much money.
For textbooks, it's a non-concern because the meaning of each equation is explained in the surrounding text. The amount of new notation (by which I mean symbols such as / for group division or notation for differentiation and integration, rather than variable names) introduced by any given textbook is not that much, and as others have pointed out, by the time you finish reading the associated theorems, examples, and have done some of the exercises (very much underrated part of learning mathematics), if you understand the concept represented by the notation, the notation itself is trivial to remember.

Variables, as opposed to notation, tend to be local in scope, so 1) it isn't vital to have a memorable name and 2) it wouldn't really help to have a 'proper' name, either. As an example, if we're talking about two elements from a group, we usually talk about two elements, a and b, in a group, G. Could you call them elements 1 and 2 from an ExampleGroup? Maybe, but there's no clarity provided since these variables are only scoped for a given section. Additionally, longer equations means that it takes longer to read through and check steps like algebraic manipulation in a proof, or application of a lemma or theorem.

What is globally scoped are things like theorems, lemmas, definitions, etc., and those are easy to track down since they are by convention numbered after chapter and section.
My 1992 Miata came with an honest-to-god oil pressure gauge in it, that gave you real oil pressure readings. The pressure gauge moves back and forth with engine RPMs, because the oil pump is driven off of the engine. More RPM = more oil pressure. That's how cars work.

In 1994, Mazda removed it, and put in a "Dumb" gauge. It looks like a gauge, but really is either on above a certain PSI or off below that. They did this because so many people were bringing in their cars for service because they didn't understand how the real pressure gauge worked, and thought something was wrong.

There are actually lots of cars like this. My Ford Explorer has a dumb oil pressure gauge. My Honda Fit doesn't even have a coolant temp gauge. So I only know when the thing gets too hot, or if the coolant is too cold. Can't tell if the car starts running hotter than normal to catch a problem before it destroys something.
My bad for the mixup! The rest still stands though, seems weird to start a conversation with an insult.
The masochist in me wants to see these mergers continue so that a big enough power vacuum can appear for new indie studios as creativity and "risk-taking" decline.
I switched from iphone to android just because I could install youtube vanced (and really any apk I want). I'm done with walled gardens.
I'm very surprised the article went into the technical (web site sizes) instead of the psychological. People using the advertised web cannot visit a page without being bombarded by political surveys ("Are your gas prices higher under Biden? WE WANT TO KNOW"), extraneous goods (Show your love with a "My husband is a Rick and Morty fan born in March whose area code is 212!" t-shirt!), and deceptive practices ("Everyone in your area is saving on real estate taxes with this one weird trick!")

I was shocked when uBlock got flack for arranging an "Acceptable advertising" practice on their filter. It seems very similar to centralized regulations in broadcast to me. Larger, more established firms agree to a set of rules for the benefit of consumer and provider.
There is no "standard". There is only what the market will bear. 30% seems to be an amount just barely low enough to avoid the attention of regulators in an environment just now absurdly forgiving of monopolists.

But, yes, Big Evil takes more than a walled garden.
Nope, but that would be a nice addition.
And undetectable === untransmittable. Just in case people here didn't know.
Same. Also I (foolishly) perceived the spec as being rather stable and was not expecting a whole new verb.
No, I really want a car with no computers. I want analog gauges, a real gear selector lever, and switches and knobs for other accessories. A tactile environment that doesn't demand my visual focus to use is what I want. I have no need for a computer in my car, and to the extent I do, my phone is perfectly capable.
Sadly, given that it's a new (throwaway?) account used to post in a thread about a vaccine, there's a high chance this is another neo-anti-vaxxer, here to tell us why this is "not a vaccine" and all that.
If you just want to play a multiplayer cube drop game and chat you are welcome at http://fuse.rupy.se

You can make rooms but they get the name of the user, so I guess you need to create a user with the name of the topic you're interested in! Xo
I'm not vegan, so I never had a trouble with b12. As a vegetarian though, I do find that the omega 3/6 balance is harder to get right than when I ate meat.

On the other hand, most meat eaters I know have heavy deficient in many key nutrients because the average western diet is terrible, meat or not.

All in all, I think we have to put it in the context of trying to be vegetarian in a society that is optimized for meat eaters. It we go more plant base, I think there are plenty of solutions that will suddenly become more common, such as yeast, algae, etc.

Currently, it's logistically less convenient, and often way less tasty than just eat cheese or eggs for me. But that's because we made it that way:

- it's available everywhere

- the economy is based on it

- we are used to the taste, and our flora has adapted to it

It doesn't mean it can't go fine if we organize for it.
Yes, because it's done in moderation. Imagine if that was ramped up and 90% content was turned into product placement..
These other countries don't have calls to defund the police for one
> Thank you for conceding my point against the ridiculous argument that "prohibition is ineffective"

It depends what you mean by effective and ineffective. Nuking San Fransisco would prevent tons of drug use, but is not an effective way of solving society's ills.

> This only matters in some utilitarian conception where all net suffering or utility or whatever is created equal.

Drug laws not only hurt drug users, but further criminalize nonviolent users who commit more crimes, fund organized crime (here and especially in other countries), cost billions of dollars to society in court systems, prisons, police officers, and lost productivity.

If your solution to that is literally kill people without a trial for drug use then some of those clearly wouldn't apply, but that's honestly a pretty sick worldview. I'm not sure if you're younger or maybe lived a more sheltered life and weren't exposed to drug users or similar groups of people, but you might change your tune if you knew someone affected by it (whether they were a user or the parent/child/spouse/friend).

I wonder what you think of other countries which have much lower rates of drug abuse yet don't impose punishments as harsh as the US?
There is only one board there where I have meaningful discussions and actually learn things. Everything else is straugt garbage. It feels like a chore to browse any of the popular boards.