skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was my experience when trying to buy a new fridge. Due to the design of my kitchen, there is a very narrow choke point leading into it. There is no door. As a result I have to very careful when shopping for fridges. Mostly simply will not fit.

Almost everything about fridges nowadays wants to promote the virtues of the amazing new features associated with them.

After hours of searching, I narrowed it down to 3 models. All were the most basic fridge & freezer combo I could find. Exactly one of them was in stock, so I got that one.
Fair enough, but how? How does this tool enable those things that Notepad doesn't?
There are things I agree and things I disagree, which leads me to think this is a pretty opinionated topic.

For example with navigation, I thought the phone does it the same but having experienced a Tesla I honestly vastly prefer the Tesla navigation. The bigger screen makes it much easier to glance where on the map I am. You can mount a phone anywhere and it won't be nearly as easily visible. (The GPS screens on my older cars are definitely worse than the phone though)

For climate control I agree fully that the older dials and buttons work better. The problem with temperature control is your body is human and you don't always want a constant temperature. I remember in my very old cars from the 90s and early 00s there's way less I have to adjust for temperature. There's a position on the dial that is pretty much always right to use for the entire season. Nowadays if I set it at 68 it's too cold on some days and too hot on some days, depending on what I'm wearing, how I'm feeling that day, etc. I have to adjust it up or down, and then next time I drive I have to adjust it again.
You're describing the corporate media. Rogan is just doing what he's been doing for thousands of hours: Having conversations with a wide variety of people across the spectrum. Fundamentally they're trying to control and narrow who he has a conversation with.

When he had Bernie Sanders on (who he supported), Bernie was pressured to reject Rogan's support. Guilt by association. That's how tribal all of this is.
I think it's important to think of us as a specie. We share the responsibility of this, since we consume the meat that drives this, and maintain an economic system that gives the incentive such behavior.
Well, and they've gone way beyond 3 or 4 ads on top of the search results if the query terms are particularly valuable.

Try "vegas hotels" or "mortgage rates" as queries on google and see how far you have to scroll down to find something that isn't an ad, ad widget, etc.
> Think about the consternation caused by the introduction of the ribbon bar in MS Office (not an auto-update per se, but as good as that for many people for whom upgrades were mandated).

I mean, if that's what we're talking about, you're literally arguing against any change ever.

> Auto updates that add new features in a sympathetic way,

I'm not sure what you mean by sympathetic, but most updates are made because the company thinks it will make the product better, or increase the company's bottom line. Rarely are they deploying a change to actively make something worse.
Science as I know and love it offers no basis for labeling anything "pro-" or "anti-scientific", although "unscientific" seems like fair game
same. looking at my reddit frontpage vs /r/all is like a totally different website.
If you go to reddit and just start browsing big subs thinking you'll get good stuff you like automatically soon based on some algorithm, you're gonna be in for a bad time.

My only complaint about reddit is more about how some of the smaller hobby based subs just turn in to mini instagram's about the new gear someone got, or just random content with no discussion. My favorites are the ones where the comments are filled with discussions about techniques, how OP accomplished something, etc... /r/leatherworking was/is a great example.
They can be done well, think about the Haptic Touch home button in the iPhone 7/8. I'd be happy with something like that on the steering wheel.
Pretty sure that is what happens with Google if you use their ecosystem (i.e. use Chrome, Google search, Gmail, hangouts, meet, docs, YouTube etc)

But people tend to dislike this idea that one company knows everything.
Yeah, I can only remember Rashford and Lingard trying that approach earlier in their careers but they quickly stopped it once their performance quality dipped
> Most people outside of this group want these features

Most people have little idea what features they have, besides the obvious ones. Read through some of the features listed for a car - some aren't even explained.
'Push what's changed' is not a typical description of 'lazy' evaluation. As was said in a sibling comment, lazy is more of a demand-driven evaluation. However, I think you are more likely leaning into describing reactive programming paradigms. the description in parent is not exactly describing reactive, but it is certainly in the 'wheelhouse' of reactive programming. Typically, node based compositing is definitely reactive, and is most often lazy as I discuss in a sibling post.
It only works for one sport and requires analyzing a ton of historical data and prop bets from all of the books.
I agree with the sentiment, I recently bought a new 2021 prius prime XLE. It has this massive screen in the center dash that everything is on, and i bought it because it was supposed to support android auto. Turns out the lower end (and by lower end i mean the exact same car/engine/body but with a smaller screen and physical controls) was the one that support android auto! i love the car for the most part, but the screen is a huge miss. GPS system on it requires a perfect address and is so slow, its a Japanese car yet the software cant display Japanese on it via song titles. its really a death by 1000 cuts kind of issue.
Joplin user here. I’ve installed it on every device I own, and sync my notes with my NextCloud code instance. A few synchronizing snags aside, I’m extremely happy with it.
Half-Life: Alyx was made recently no?
Checkout Mazda3. Hud with navigation is awesome to use.
> Again, that was my point. Life will be fine.

Well, some humans sit in bunkers built to withstand direct hits with a nuke and others built self-sustaining ecosystems. A massive catastrophe might wipe out 99+% percent of humans, but a small few will most likely survive in basically all cases. That makes humans far from fine. In a similar vein, I disagree that wiping of most of life from earth can be summarized as life being perfectly fine.

But it's really just a minor technicality, I agree with your overall point that we should be more specific about ruining the planet _for us_.
The tweet is attributing to Google a statement explicitly decrying placement of ads at the top of search results. This is not anywhere in the statement.

To make an untruth into a truth, it's necessary to zoom out and get fuzzy in words so the one thing kinda-sorta means the other.

So you can make things fuzzy by saying "ads on top" kinda sorta means "making ads look like search results" which kinda means it's okay to attribute a thing to Google that wasn't said.

I think the breakdown is this: people feel like this clarification is a challenge. When I say "google didn't say that about ad placement" people hear "Google has never done anything wrong with their search ads." And so it's a proxy for that argument.
You can pay for YouTube Premium and still use sponsorblock.
In the case of real estate, it replaces the solicitor. And it facilitates the money transfer, so it also replaces the bank.
> As soon as I turn on my phone, it becomes a node in a network, giving me access to the entire world. But it also gives Apple access to information about me and my behaviour; I become another source in their vast banks of data.

So it's not so much a problem of Covid but the problem of proprietary technology. My Pinephone doesn't give it's company any information about me, since it runs exclusively free software.
If you have a cigarette lighter that you use as a USB charger, they make cigarette lighter bluetooth-to-radio adapters which also have usb slots for about $20. Set your car radio and the adapter to the same frequency, and your car now has bluetooth.
Hanging drug dealers isn't worse than the harm they cause to the community, and many individual lives.

>Purdue Pharma

Regulation against them and restrictions on opiates has helped to decrease that form of opiate use.

Obviously, Purdue Pharma executives should be harshly punished, much more than they have been. Why shouldn't they? They perpetrated a great crime and suffering, willingly lying and causing addiction, to so many people. That they should suffer for it and that there is a great need to deter other drug companies / doctors from doing the same is abundantly clear. It is not mutually exclusive from also targeting street drug dealers of fentanyl and other synthetic opiates which is the problem now though.
Sergey Brin's microblogging platform: thefacebook.com
This reminds me of something I should do more. If you DO like to discuss those things, but also like to discuss tech, consider doing them on separate accounts.
Throwing mine into the mix:

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help: # Display this help message
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} /^(.+)\: #\ (.+)/ { \
printf " \033[38;5;141m%-11s\033[0m %s\n", $$1, $$2 \
}' $(MAKEFILE_LIST)
> I guess that points to how unbelievable hard it is for independent game developers to survive

I thought companies like Bungie, Bioware, etc. sold out.

i.e. it's easy to survive if you make blockbuster titles like Halo or Mass Effect, but then a big corp comes by and offers mega bucks to buy you and so you sell out. The solution if you don't want to be "under the thumb of [a] corporate overlord" is to not sell out in the first place.
I'm a Consumer Reports + self-investigation guy (using all sources). I do use Wirecutter but I put low weight on their ultimate recommendations. I use them to find what else is out there.

The main issue with most review sites is that they're kids. Companies like NYT/Wirecutter don't want to pay old men that are experts in manufacturing. They hire kids with little life experience to review something like a washing machine. They haven't had 2 or even 1 washing machine in their entire lives. They wouldn't even be capable of doing a teardown. Let alone identifying which parts are quality vs not.

Unless of course your main qualification is not trying to find something that is built to last. Which is the hardest thing to get these days. Finding garbage like electronics and software is easy. Everyone wants to sell you software rather than high quality manufactured goods. And I want the least software possible as I'm very anti-technology for a software developer.

My research sources would be roughly in this order:

1. Consumer Reports (teardowns, can't beat this method. You pay them directly, if interested in least conflict of interest)

2. Wirecutter (good for a free source, but puts near-zero weight on reliability)

3. Amazon reviews (can find some old timers reviewing there but always keep in mind that most people aren't very intelligent. They maintain nothing and won't skim a manual)

4. Reddit (a lot of zero life experience kids on that, meaning generally anyone under 40)

5. Then whatever else you can find on the web
Once I got my first real backup cam, I was instantly sold. I don't blame the regulators from requiring it, because it's such a huge, obvious win. Especially in parking lots, the camera has a vantage point at the back edge of the car that no mirror will give me, so I can see someone walking or driving down the aisle before I start to pull out.

The other thing I'd like to see more or less mandated is blind spot warning. I especially like the kind that is visible to other drivers. I don't even have it on any of my cars, LOL. I just like to see it on other cars that I'm passing.

Lane assist I am ambivalent about. I had AP, it was okay. It does not drive as defensively as I do, however, which meant that it increased my tension on long drives rather than reduce it. I do like good adaptive cruise however. That means no phantom braking :).
I think Valve/Steam will get M&A'd when the current leadership retires
Your use of the term "other side" make no sense in this context. Hateful individuals exist across all nationalities, ethnicities, and party lines. These are people who believe that certain types of other people aren't actually people, and they don't deserve rights. Giving them a voice and a platform always leads to violence. If we want to live in a peaceful multicultural society, the only option is to deplatform hateful individuals whenever they emerge.

They absolutely should not be legally forbidden from speaking/publishing. There is no conflict with our first amendment rights. They need to be appropriately labeled, and platforms that promote them should be publicly shamed. Gab allowed, encouraged, and protected some of the most vile white supremacists on the internet. It is absolutely within F-Droid's rights (and IMO their moral obligation) to deny their app.
That’s a self inflicted wound for most CA though due to difficulty permitting and building and lack of knowledge in how to do so. It doesn’t cost much more to build a house in a city or in the middle of nowhere and if it wasn’t so difficult in a city you would replace those houses right away.
tqdm already does this. It’s also a python package.

https://tqdm.github.io/docs/cli/
Practical Progress in DC, with Alec Stapp
It's always bugged me having to use POST for complex query requests that have "outgrown" URL parameters. Had no idea a new QUERY verb was in the works - that sounds ideal.
My washing machine detects how much stuff is on the various racks and will adjust its time running the sprayers for each rack based on how much stuff is there and the turbidity of the water (how dirty) it is for the given levels.

So if the top rack is pretty empty or just glasses which are mostly clean, while the bottom rack is full of pots with lots of grease, it will spend more time operating the sprayers on the bottom rack than the top rack.
I do this. But rather than set up an alias, I just accept *@mydomain and then filter on the bit before the @. Whenever I put my email address into any online service it is of the form domain.of.service.com@mydomain.

Works a treat

As an aside, 1Password and Fastmail seem to have tie-up call masked mail that aims to do something similar
Software Development Languages: Haskell
This is Part 3 of an on-going series about the usage of various languages for real-world software development.
Okay, well, it still outlines clinical trial phases correctly, right?
The way Phil Spencer has been talking, it seems to me like they're going to start putting all these acquisitions exclusively on the Xbox, so I'm not sure sure about that "don't see them as competition" or "hope to preserve the gaming ecosystem".
Yes and: what is this? Literally: what is it? A tool for taking markdown notes that doesn't render it and runs as a web server?
As long as it is possible to make money with ads, the web will be full of SEO-optimized trash, clickbait, and other worthless "content" full of ads, and it will drown out anything of quality. If you're giving them ad views, you're partly responsible for and contributing towards the sorry state of the internet. Start blocking ads, and ask everyone you know to do the same.
For a simple note taking app I recommend https://simplenote.com/
I don't think this is rare when dealing with large contracting companies, and especially remote. I've seen it happen multiple times, luckily we terminated the contracts when it was painfully obvious what happened after a couple of weeks.
Maybe not against all people of English descent, but certainly those who stayed loyal to the Crown. Tarring and feathering especially was not only a form of physical torture and public humiliation but also of rather overt, unambiguous dehumanization, since to be subjected to it meant being treated as akin to a medieval outlaw: someone who would altogether lose the protection of the law as a consequence of their "savage and uncivilized" crimes.
It depends on what is "real gaming", I suppose. Microsoft bought the Bruce Artwick Organization (creators of the classic versions of Microsoft Flight Simulator) in 1995.
> This section describes two methods for checking the primality of an integer n, one with order of growth Theta(sqrt(n)), and a 'probabilistic' algorithm with order of growth Theta(log n).

The book explains order of growth a few pages before this example, so the only assumed knowledge here is what a prime number is, which seems very reasonable.

> Fermat's Little Theorem: If n is a prime number and a is any positive integer less than n, then a raised to the nth power is congruent to a modulo n.

That's the concise definition of Fermat's Little theorem, that he then proceeds to explain in detail. Again, not presupposed knowledge, but something new to learn. He explains congruent modulo, so you are expected to know what prime numbers are, and what positive integers are. Again, CS books from MIT are not for you if you don't know those two things.

> When we first introduced the square-root procedure, in section 1.1.7, we mentioned that this was a special case of Newton's method. If x -> g(x) is a differentiable function, then a solution of the equation g(x) = 0 is a fixed point of the function x -> f(x) where [complex formula] and Dg(x) is the derivative of g evaluated at x.

This one assumes that you understand the material from section 1.1.7. I think you've succeeded in making a case for reading the book and completing the exercises in order, but not that it places unreasonable expectations on its reader.
Tension in the Body – Stress on the Mind
I can't imagine being this fragile. You're at a doctor's office. It's literally their job to assess your medical situation. That includes weight and everything else they check.
Looks interesting! Reminds me a bit of how Otter.AI generates Summary Keywords on an uploaded voice recording.

Summary Keywords are really helpful since it is a form of automatic tagging and helps to improve discoverability since easy to see the content of a voice transcription at a glance.

I suggest anyone to try it out using the Otter.AI mobile application which makes the tags visible on the resulting output transcription which is not available when uploading a pre-recorded audio file to the website.

Sorry for the Otter.AI detour, but I think that is my relatable example to the benefit of automatic tagging. I think Otter.AI also uses a form of NLP as well.
Can it render git diffs / git difftool?
It's nice if you don't want a touch screen, but a bigger screen makes a very noticeable difference in how usable the camera feed is.
The "sparse" and "rounds" concepts also works really well as a per station wifi scheduler, where it is now the default for a plethora of chipsets in linux. Some plots of which I will forever be proud here:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00064.pdf

Before/After on an ath10k chip here:

https://forum.openwrt.org/t/aql-and-the-ath10k-is-lovely/590...
The major brands do not change formats often. The store brands do change formats though. By Milwaukee or Dewalt and you will have tools and parts for many years, or even Ryobi if you want to save a penny. (There are others, just the 3 that come to mind).

The thing about their system is the whole only works so long as they keep you locked in. Once you make a choice you are locked into that choice and won't be looking at alternatives - but if they change batteries you suddenly are faced with the loss of your entire investment and so you are likely to look at the competition and might buy something else. That makes changing battery formats less attractive to the big brands trying to get people who buy a lot of tools.

The store brands have a different motivation: they know you won't be buying them again anyway, so they don't care. Changing formats means they can come up with some tiny reason the new one is better and try to sell the next customer on how their new battery is better.

If you are not a buying a lot of tools your plan isn't bad, just throw away the tools when the batteries die in 10 years. The tiny reasons some battery is better - over 10 years might add up to something slightly better than before anyway.
True, but is one game in a decade really notable? It was only for a niche market. Compare to the mainstream console/pc/mobile.
You can block the keywords associated with those subjects.
this looks fun! is it open-source?
My conspiracy theory is that if the US ever makes the World Cup Final, it will 100% be thrown
I have a 72 inch drill bit "stored" up in my attic amongst the rafters. There was one particular location where I really needed it at that time, so I just left it up there. I think it costs $15 off Amazon. If I never need it again, I figure I can deal with the hassle of getting it down from the attic.
I’m Denver a single family home within 20 minutes of downtown starts at $300k for a very small or rundown house. I’m continuing to rent apartments that are near-luxury for less per month.

My friends who are purchasing homes either move very far from the city or their parents pay for the down payment.
I worked at the company where as a first filter we had a remote coding task (roughly 2- hours of implementing some simple data structure plus unit tests).
A candidate sent us a prefect solution indicating very good knowledge of Java, testing framework, clear thinking, good problem solving etc.
When the candidate came for the live interview she was absolutely shocked that we asked her coding questions again. "But I have already did the coding task!". It was very clear that she didn't know how to write a line of code if her life depended on it. I wonder what was her plan if she got hired by mistake.
Maybe it's not shovelware, but there's a pretty stark difference in the caliber of games that Rare released after their acquisition.

This is the company that made Donkey Kong Country, Banjo & Kazooie, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Conker, etc, so anything short of iconic is a step down.

However, I'll add that Viva Piñata is an oft overlooked gem.
I would find it suspicious as well, but consider this: People who are great at their job are hard to find and expensive. People who will eventually be great at their job are a lot, lot cheaper, though still hard to find. If you can hire someone before they realize how good they will be, you can save a lot of money and fill a position immediately.

I haven't actually figured out how to find those people, though I have hired at least 2 of them... And hired a few others that looked like they might be, but weren't. (A third coder comes to mind that ended up not working out, but I think we made mistakes and they got in their own head. I think they would have been great otherwise, hence 'at least 2'.)
Isn't this readily solved by a user convention such as only updating one variable each cell? Why limit users based on mistakes they haven't made yet?
This is great! I too have wondered why contracts can't be in plain text since the versioning and back-and-forth between legal and business teams could be handled so much more easily than Word revisions (or worse, PDF comments).

You might also want to connect with 'kemitchell[1], also a former software developer who became an attorney. He recently launched a similar initiative to generate license terms for selling software[2]; essentially another initiative towards easier contract automation & management.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=kemitchell

[2] https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/01/22/Fast-Path-1.0.0.ht...
Construction sounds might be a more common issue. Lots of nail guns use cartridge loads, for example. Or fireworks. Or impact hammers like you would use in a muffler shop, street jackhammers, etc.