skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry I don't understand the question.

Are you asking how supply works in my hypothetical, simplified example where the point I'm trying to make is that new supply in isolation doesn't matter - what you do with it does?

Or as you asking how it happens in the real-world example of Japan, where their supply increased from 400000B JPY to 1200000B JPY between 1990 and present, while everything remained the same price? And how this is seriously problematic in their economy?
This isn't correct. There's no Solana tokens in the equation at all, so I assume you mean wrapped ETH on Solana, and that all got sent through the bridge to Ethereum, so it doesn't exist anymore.
> The NGO monitor is point by point, sourced, objective rebuttals.

Sourced, objective rebuttals you say. Let’s take a look at their issues under “methodology”:

“Amnesty’s methodology section is opaque and inconsistent with internationally recognized fact-finding standards.” [0]

The source in that passage leads to a book

* Best Practices for Human Rights and Humanitarian NGO Fact-Finding (Nijhoff Law Specials) by Gerald M. Steinberg, Anne Herzberg, Jordan Berman (2012) Paperback*

Who is the lead author, Gerald Steinberg? It would appear to be the president of NGO monitor. (Ann herzberg is also on their staff) [1]

Unfortunately I don’t have the ability to exhaustively research all of their sources, but this is hardly credible.

[0] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Practices-Humanitarian-Fact-Finding...

[1] https://www.ngo-monitor.org/about/staff/
Pure comedy.

> A goal for the build was to limit impact to the site during construction, and then to limit the footprint of the home after completion. In pursuit of this we planned an efficient mechanical design that would feature solar panels for electricity generation tied to the grid, geothermal for heat exchange, and no fossil fuels.

Oh, great, sound like you have some good environmental principles!

> However, we quickly ran into several problems with this approach.

Yeah, it can be a bummer to sacrifice your own comfort. But it is worth it for the environment!

> The bigger issue was that the energy demands for the house, which included hot water heating for the pool and hot tub, outstripped the electrical supply we could get on a rural residential build: 400A.

Wow, that's a lot of electricity. Like, a loooooot. Maybe we can pare it down a little bit -- limiting our impact is important, right?

> We eventually settled on supplementing our electrical generation with propane, which we had hoped to avoid

Right?

O-oh. Oh so you're using propane to heat the pool.

Yeah.
Even if a long time ago these mechanisms weren't meant as a dark pattern, it isn't difficult to see how they are easily turned into one, is it?

It seems obvious these mechanisms always had this effect, and it is a pity that even with them amplified some still don't see the potential for harm. You are right, it does not matter whether or not we like the mechanism or not for it to be problematic.
There are people who come at a young enough age, e.g. as infants, and don't know anything at all about their "home" country. They may not even know the language very well, if at all. They likely don't have a single memory of the place.

So while technically you're right - as adults they have a say - it's asking quite a lot. Very few people would move to a (likely much poorer) country with no social support, and likely with no money, just because of a decision their parents made. For all intents and purposes their home is the US, and their identity is American.
But hey lets defund the police!
Vaccines are like seat belts: they don't prevent car crashes, but they help you survive them.
The Tandy TRS-80 line of computers which were the bestselling 8-bit computers until 1982 also didn't have commands for "the DOS" commingled with BASIC. The various DOS's available for the platform booted directly from disk.

The basic in ROM on IBM PCs was cassette basic and only supported loading and saving from cassette tapes. Although there might have been an obscure clone manufacturer or two which supported a cassette tape interface, in general clone makers didn't so there was no needed for an embedded cassette basic. Even IBM didn't support a cassette tape interface after the original IBM PC (5150). This meant that for years you could boot an IBM computer to cassette basic but not actually load or save any BASIC programs once you had done so.
I saw a comment here recently with data that showed the rates for myocarditis for both covid and vaccinations respectively, I recall the chance of developing myocarditis after vaccination being 4x lower than after getting covid.

Assuming that's right (perhaps someone more knowledgeable can provide a source), this seems to imply that vaccination reduces the risk of developing myocarditis by 4x, assuming everyone will eventually be infected.

I'm also curious what effect age has on the risk in both cases, ie. if the same ratio holds for young people.
There are JDK Enhancement Proposals that discuss the encapsulation of these internal APIs, including some examples and alternatives:

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/260

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/403
It's become easier to implement them.

Now that many people moved their CSS into JS and that components are more standalone, you can simply flip a flag and use another color palette.

Take this React pseudocode as an example.

Before, you would have to handle it manually. "html.dark-theme .menu .menu-item .menu-link {color: white; background: black;}" ... for every single style declaration.

Sure, preprocessors made them easier in the way that you could simply do ".dark-theme & {}" which would generate the style declarations for you. But it was still a bit of a pain and required using things like mixins that add an extra layer of complexity and support.

Now, your React component can simply be myAwesomeComponent: { titleColor: theme.text, cardBackground: theme.highlight, cssOverrides: css`border:1px solid ${theme.borderColor};` }

Then you have something somewhere that just flip the theme.

const darkTheme = {text:"#fff", highlight:"#000", borderColor: "#ccc"};

mySuperCoolApp.setCurrentTheme(darkTheme);

This makes adding a bunch of themes an afterthought. On an internal app that I worked on, I made a bunch of themes as easter eggs. All that was needed was to duplicate the theme declarations and change the colors. So some users could decide to use different colors.

Another point is that accessibility is becoming more mandatory than before. If you are required by law to support multiple font-sizes, you might as well make it so that you can support multiple colors. It allows things like high-contrast accessibility themes and you can throw in a few extra fun ones just to make your app stand out.
Most likely for support engineers working on "something went really wrong" cases to be able to provide you with debug commands that you should run, or for support engineers to be able to run such commands.
> My ads are very not intrusive so I doubt people will go to any special effort for blocking them

They absolutely will.
Your friendly neighborhood fact checkers who suppress virtually anything which could justify opposition to vaccine mandates. Including news media.
For anyone wishing to experiment:

You can test the petrol-car-vacuum braking theory if you have an older manual petrol car with a cable from the accelerator to the butterfly valve of the throttle. While driving at 50kph, put into neutral, turn off the ignition, engage a lower gear, release clutch. Test pressing and releasing the accelerator pedal while using engine braking and feel for a difference.

SAFETY: 1. Don’t turn off the ignition all the way and lock the steering (although I admit that is very exciting to have steering locked into one direction, I don’t recommend trying it). 2. Be mentally prepared to lose power steering and power brakes. 3. Only on wide straight roads with no other traffic and safe ways to stop. 4. Probably other warnings specific to your vehicle, and situation. 5. I recommend against trying it on an automatic trans.

If your diesel has turbo vanes controlling the braking, you could probably test it out the same way (presuming electronics are disabled when ignition is off).

Another way to test things is to remove relevant fuses.

Disclaimer: there are lots of ways to screw up even being careful - I do not recommend learning by failure in deadly situations.
Are there forest fires as far north as Vancouver? It gets wet & cold up there. I though forest fires was mostly a California problem.
This just in: Working 50 hours a week sucks and trying to do it in fewer days, doubly so.

Someone (possibly Carlin) once complained that it's too bad stupidity doesn't hurt. I must be looking in different places than whoever it was has been looking.
Interview in L’actualité (French)
4 10 hour days sounds awful. it should be just do less work.
Your iPhone will notify you eventually. Or you can get a bluetooth signal tracking app and try and find it yourself.
The "risk from getting an infection" includes many other side effects besides myocarditis, I would not evaluate the risks from an unvaccinated viral infection (which can cause 100 other things besides myocarditis) vs the risk from vaccination (or vaccination + viral infection, which the most likely long term outcome) on the myocarditis axis alone.
Yes, I am happy for the transition.
The house is obscene, but just because one has 400A service doesn't necessarily mean they're being inefficient in doing so.

It could just be to handle momentary bursts, and the equipment drawing that power might actually be doing the job more efficiently than something that does it slower, drawing more power cumulatively over a longer period of time.
Only the long-debunked Austrian school defines inflation as a function of supply alone. The rest of the world moved on to defining inflation in terms of the measured, real-world change in the purchasing power of money - which comes under pressure from a number of different factors that aren't captured by supply.

For instance, supply chain disruptions making basic goods more expensive and increasing competition for them. Or, zoning policy prohibiting construction of new housing sufficient to meet demand in high-growth metro areas raising the cost of housing. Or zoning policies in suburban areas making housing 2x bigger on average now than in the 1970s. [1]

Defining inflation as a function of supply distracts us from the real-world problems causing broad-based increases in price.

[1] https://fee.org/articles/new-homes-today-have-twice-the-squa...
And this is how an unregulated world looks like.

Unstable currencies, scams, price manipulation, all investments are high risk investments, ... your money is safer under your bed producing nothing than in the self proclaimed Web3.

Edit: on a second note, this is peak efficiency. Most crypto currency projects are a hot potato game. You buy, and then you need to sell meanwhile there are still buyers. As the technology has accelerated this game we got to the point that the only way of winning is for the founders to pull off as fast as possible. 8 minutes seems quite on the mark.
It doesn’t really feel like it has “won”. Lighter themes are still overwhelmingly the default option (and sometimes the only option).

I can’t think of any app or website where dark mode has been added as a “forced” choice. The addition of a dark mode is almost always implemented as an optional feature and you can generally choose your preference.

So from a user’s point of view, I can only see this as a positive addition. For those of us who prefer dark mode, for a variety of reasons, we enjoy having the choice. For those who prefer lighter themes, nothing really is being taken away.

The more interesting question to me is why this topic evokes such strong emotions with one side stating often in very strong terms how “wrong” the other side is!
It takes 10 seconds to create an Apple ID. How exactly can it be tied back to you?

Every GPS tracker on the market needs a monthly subscription and your credit card info.
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The bar is being set high for these vaccines because they are being pushed and mandated with very exaggerated justification, that they will end the pandemic.

At what point does the justification become 'exaggerated'?

Is "This vaccine would have saved the lives of at least half a million Americans in the past two years" not a good enough justification?

Is "End the pandemic" the only set of goal posts for vaccination that you will accept?

Is not, is there a number of corpses that will be an acceptable justification? How much higher does it have to get? A million? Five? Fifty?
Every western country except the UK (who were criticized) approved it after the US. Many of those deferred to the FDA's judgment and rubber stamped as a formality.

> “I am pleased that Pfizer’s vaccine has undergone a critical phase with FDA approval,” said Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Friday, just after the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted in support of the agency granting Emergency Use Authorization (EUA), which paved the way for the vaccine’s approval. “This is a huge message for Israeli citizens as well.”
He said that he instructed his ministry’s staff to review the approval and submit their recommendations in the coming days so that vaccinations could start before the end of the month.

This was all fast-tracked with countries wanting to get in line for doses, remember?

Thinking-in-reverse, if the FDA flagged/rejected the approval, how many western countries do you think would have approved it within the same timeframe?
I haven't been making the case that analogue is superlative in any sense, though, so I am not sure you're particularly on target with the "warmth of vinyl" snark.

I'm very far from a purist. I do shoot film occasionally (stills, not motion film), but 99.5% digital, and I'm absolutely not coming at this from the LP-lover's perspective.

Not least because the "warmth" thing is purely subjective, when there are fundamental characteristic differences between film and digital regarding the way that highlights are captured by the sensitive medium, and those differences have actual creative impacts that can be exploited.

That was the point about wedding photographers. (Incidentally it's not just that the technological gap has mostly closed where black and white is concerned; it's also that the cost and supply models have changed. People don't shoot film for jobs like that now, because the professional infrastructure does not exist anymore.)

Where the cinema-oriented, digital-printing-to-colour-negative-motion-stock situation is concerned, I am not convinced that the digital source yet has enough extra headroom to really take advantage qualitatively without very careful capture exposing for the highlights; it's certainly not going to be an automatic, magical conversion.
Any other event in US history.

If you're so sure, name one.

Civil war was less than a million, by the way.
Ask HN: Did you notice a degrade in the spam detection on Gmail?
Hello HN,
I’ve been noticing I received at least 2 or 3 email that should have been marked as spam every day.
The weirdest thing is that the same exact template, with a different sender but still same domain, are able to go through the spam filter.
This has been happening for the last 2 months. It seems like the gmail spam filter stopped working. Has this been happening to you as well?
> dark-on-light (positive polarity) display like a Mac in Light Mode provides better performance in...

Sure, but it doesn't look as cool.
Ah my bad, I was actually under the impression it was emptied out. If it's not the case my assumption would be that he was eyeballing for something that wouldn't impede the regular money flow and would allow him to have more time to exfiltrate the ETH before it's blacklisted by exchanges. That or he just took what he could as fast as possible when he saw the minting actually go through.
It is about empowering the parent/citizen in the face of trillion dollar companies spending more money than ever gaming our psyches.
This article is arguing for 40 hours in 4 days.

The general argument for a 4-day work week is 4, 8 hour days, which is meaningfully different.
Curious question, what about if you use some of these "dark" approaches for something good? Say some education app that hooks you so you can progress and learn more. Are they still called "dark patterns" in this case? Example - badges for tasks you have done or "streaks" or levels to show you how you progress and what you have achieved so far?
What stoppedyou from buying a GPS tracker before?
How Elizabeth Taylor Remade the Novel of Old Age
At least with T-Mobile it's a checkbox, you can turn it on or off as you choose, and they give you data benefits (such as zero rating or extra data) if you turn it on.
Interesting. I feel like the code could be simplified and be a lot more resistant to YouTube changes by just using yt-dlp, and selecting (or automatically extracting with ffmpeg) the audio-only AAC format YouTube serves. That would get rid of the YouTube request and MP4 parsing code.
Side note re: petapixel -- this site is not a reliable source of information. (One step above Fstoppers, not that this is difficult)
I'm not sure if it's a broad definition of dark pattern or a narrow definition of game. This site probably considers sudoku, wordle, and crosswords to be games, but would probably not consider, say, Witcher to be a game...at least not a good one. I kinda see their point.
President Biden said you can't get COVID if you get the vaccine, implying it would stop the virus from circulating.

>One last thing that’s really important is: We’re not in a position where we think that any virus — including the Delta virus, which is much more transmissible and more deadly in terms of non — unvaccinated people — the vi- — the various shots that people are getting now cover that. They’re — you’re okay. You’re not going to — you’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/20...
> I’m preaching SQL to my Org. and it’s only getting preachier over the years

We are all-in on using SQL (SQLite) for our business logic these days. It's wonderful being able to watch the business build most of our customer experiences for us. No more lost-in-translation bullshit exercises between the biz and the tech. Our developers are now mostly tending to the SQL matrix that everyone else works inside of every day. Most of my support issues are along the axis of "Why isnt customer property X showing up in table Y under circumstances Z". We have built a lot of custom tooling so we can quickly answer this question with confidence. 9/10 times the resolution is 1 line in a mapper that needs to be updated somewhere.

For me, SQL only works if the schema is clean and the business can understand why it is constructed in the way that it is. If you were to dump your SQL schema to excel sheets and email it to your project manager, would they have a clue how to piece these things back together or why things are represented the way they are? A well-normalized schema should be intuitive to join together by even non-domain experts. Simply being consistent with naming throughout is 80% of this battle in my mind. When someone says the word "Customer" in context of your SQL schema, everyone on the team should implicitly be on the same page regarding properties and relations around this type.
He might be a restaurant owner who is trying to get the word out locally. He is not an agent of a parasitical industry. Folks in this forum have worked for banks, oil companies, tech suppliers to militaries and what not.

Trying to act morally superior to a small business owner trying to stay in the black because you dislike Facebook is absolutely ridiculous. If you dislike Facebook, just log out and delete your account.
Interesting point. In naming it this way, the maintainers have committed to firing anyone who uses it, as an implicit guarantee of the public-facing API.

Fortunately they're free to rename it in their next release.

Perhaps something snappy like __secret_internals_do_not_use_or_version_specific_retribution_will_follow_possibly_including_firing
I think thats human nature to some extent. Some people really don't like being wrong/disapointed. Especially after spending money. So narrative to make it alright.

Someone once said "I was wrong about this. I've been wrong before. I just try not to dwell on it..". I'm wrong often too.
> If someone is making seven figures doing that

How can you state that without knowing the value they provide?
I've only ever been on one Reddit discussion, about the TV show Dark trying to find out some info that nobody was actually able to answer. So I'm not as familiar with the different discussion boards as you are - maybe you talked with a different rasmussen there and you just think it's me? There are a lot of them out there.
Planets: A real time generative audio and reactive visualization experiment
Interesting read with a lot of links to explore. I have been digging down this rabbit hole quite a bit myself. For this I have used Binary Eye [1], an Android application that can read but also generate various barcodes (even some not listed in the article like PDF417 [2]).

Wikipedia lists a good number of the different barcode varieties for the curious, both linear and 2D: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode#Types_of_barcodes

After having playing with that, I guess that my next step is to find a webcam and play with marker systems for AR. Does someone have a webcam recommendation (or another device?) to get started with AR/marker detection?

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/de.markusfisch.android.binar...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF417
It's Not Your Fault You're a Jerk on Twitter
And using 12 hour days as an anecdote...

Some people round that 4 days down to 30 hours, which is 7.5 hours a day, with a slight chance of missing the worst of rush hour in one direction.
If you can work remotely from India while making enough money to cover your cost of living in the U.S., then you should... stay in India and live like a King?
They apparently just supplied the backing assets without receiving anything in exchange, presumably to preserve trust in the larger ecosystem/chain. Pretty interesting precedent!
Sign up on iOS isn’t working for me. I put in the code, it looks like its going to work then it just asks me for the code again.

Also, I found a big even before that. When you start typing your phone number, the process will lock up if you stop halfway through in order to try to update your country flag to the right one. I had to back out and start again.

Looking forward to trying it!
Mostly fertilizer.
Six books that made me love science
> Had people been informed that the latest vaccines against COVID-19 behaved similarly to rhe seasonal shots people get for regular flue season, a vast majority of the public would have opted out, as they do with the seasonal versions.

We’re people informed differently? I don’t remember ever being under the impression that the COVID vaccine would provide immunity forever, or even longer than a year.

Also, incidentally, like 40-50% of American adults get the flu vaccine. For people aged 65+ it’s like 60-70%. That’s lower than the rates of COVID vaccinations, but not massively lower (especially considering that the choice to get the flu vaccine is not utilized as a signal of political group membership).
I had a buddy try that just last week after he was alerted to one under his car. They laughed at him and did nothing but write a report.
I'd rather work seven straight 6-hour days than four 10-hour days.

I'd have usable time _every single night_. That sounds amazing.
There's never been a vaccine that was mandated in order to conduct basic commerce.
Servo does not have a paid team of developers, whereas Firefox does. How about that?
> Scanning that same image from film would not have exhibited this behavior.

Wellll, you might have got a magenta cast from Fuji colour transparency stock... ;-)