skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the same vein as the OP you're replying..

I got a cheap HIFI (I think) Samsung system from 20+ years ago (paid $100 second-hand at that time), I use it as an amplifier through aux for the last 15 years (2x15W). Beside that, still have my tiny pc speakers, even older, from around the win98 era.

Neither seem to be asking for any firmware update, seem to be working fine so far. Haven't seen any other speakers in stores so far which could beat in quality the pair of Samsungs I got, they're basically monitors..

They now make soundbars, sonoses, bluetooth speakers... it amazes me that people put up with all of this, it's truly amazing people are convinced this is better than the old, wired, boring stuff.
How is US fuel efficiency, though?

In Europe cars using 5 liters per 100 km (~48 miles per gallon for the SI-resistant amongst us) are very common.
Funny how just hours ago, rosndo was just falsely claiming that "That low-effort shilling hardly exists on HN", and then there you go.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30194128
DataFusion: Embeddable query engine for Apache Arrow
Nice. My favorite bit of code I wrote like that was when upgrading a bit of logging that previously caused a very scary outage last time another dev tried it. To mitigate the risk of it happening again when I attempted a similar upgrade a second time I gated it with a check to make sure a specific invariant wasn't being violated with a method called CheckForLandmines();
What was your total cost, do you imagine, if you include your own labour?

I'm originally from the Coimbra region (Mira and Penacova), and this is my dream!

I'd love to retire back to Portugal and do something similar, but unfortunately, I'd have to hire someone to build the house :-)
They are making billions from retail indirectly now. Retail proper can break even. Advertising makes most of their profit outside of AWS. A large part of the advertising revenue is in retail from sellers paying to have their product offerings show up in search results.
Please check Banana Pi as in my other comment. The latest R3 version also supports WiFi 6E and price is probably half of the Turris Omnia, around USD$200 or less.
I wonder if it actually needs OS9, PPC supported started (barely) in the System 7.1 era
I had 400A installed at my house (all electric, solar, batteries, the works). It's still overkill. What's shocking to me isn't that they went with a 400a panel, that I can (and obviously did) justify. It's that it WASN'T ENOUGH and they had to add propane as well. I can't imagine what kind of pool heater they have that needs more than that.

Cool house though.
dprint – code formatter written in Rust
Risk of hospitalization for children aged < 5 years with Omicron is quite a bit higher than previous variants. Take a look at the CDC data, compare age groups this year vs. one year earlier.

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#covidnet-hospitali...
Wood is not a fossil fuel unless you’re burning petrified wood or coal (and somehow calling that wood).

Fossil fuels are from carbon sources taken out of the normal carbon cycle (aka buried generally)
This is one of those cases where annecdotes of power loss have a much higher informative value than annecdotes of stability. The former tell you there is a bad situation wheras the later just add a little bit of context about the severity.
>There's only one country on the continent with the word America in its name.

Not just the continent(s). The United States of America is the only country in the world with the word "America" in its name.

>I know the point is to reduce ambiguity between the U.S.A and Latin/North/Central/South America

This is only a thing in Spanish. In Portuguese, Americans (that is, those from and of the USA) are often called americanos. In French, américain is much more commonly used than États-Unien.

The Spanish meaning of americano that does not include Americans in this way is very unusual among major Western languages (<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_%28word%29#Other_lang...>). I don't mean to say that the equivalent of "American" in those languages is the only way to refer to those of the USA, or that equivalents to "USA" and such don't exist. In Portuguese, Italian, and German, however, saying Americano/Americano/Amerikanisch would generally be understood as referring to that of the USA without additional context, as opposed to a Brazilian or Argentinean, in a way that Americano wouldn't in Spanish.

Further, in Spanish the ambiguity is worse. "Los Estados Unidos" is another term for the US, despite the existence of Mexico (AKA United Mexican States / Estados Unidos Mexicanos). Norteamericano for "American" is also used, despite that term literally including those living in Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean.

(Yes, I know that in practice, Spanish speakers understand that "Los Estados Unidos | EE. UU" and "Norteamericano" refers to the US and its residents. That's my point; shouldn't "Americans" also be understood in context that way?)

>but it still feels a bit condescending, like we're not even allowed to have a unique name anymore or even have a say in we should call ourselves/be called in our native language (and it doesn't help that the only time I hear "US Americans" is when someone is talking shit about us)

Correct; those who use it think that they are making a sly subtle dig against the warmongering imperialistic USAmericans.
I get the use case. Not sure there's enough value here as a cloud-based SaaS product. I use a similar product called Recut (https://getrecut.com/). $99 one-time fee (no subscription). Easy to open the edited project in NLEs. macOS only. Unclear that Kapwing is a better option when Recut would be breakeven at seven months and you can don't need to round trip videos in the cloud.
Those hunking blocks of sheet-metal in the US that you call school buses (alternatively, prisoner transport)? Well, yeah. European buses share much with their truck counterparts, except the massively better visibility all around:

https://www.mercedes-benz-bus.com/content/dam/mbo/markets/co...
Not sure I agree. Sure, they bungled Jet... that's fair.

But WM has been extremely competitive for us. AMZ went from same day to 2 day for us around COVID and never came back.

WM standard delivery is 2 days and way more reliable. Moreover, if they have items in the store, they'll just bring it to you...in an hour or so. Food, clothes, games, fishing poles, medicine, you name it. That's a huuuge advantage that AMZ just doesn't have in most places.

And sadly to say, WM generally has more reputable products for widget X than Amazon, which are often just 10 rebranded knockoffs of something.

I keep prime and appreciate Amazon, but to say WM isn't competing is vastly underestimating the landscape. If anything, I see WM overtaking AMZ for most typical orders.
Cars are required to have an OBD-II port.
For a chuckle, here is a tow-truck operator commenting on this exact situation: https://rumble.com/vtwtvi-tow-truck-operator-refuses-to-assi...
I definitely do not miss dealing with US immigration, unreasonable visa categories and green card process. Getting blue card and later residence permits in Germany for my family was such a breeze of sensibility and welcomeness compared to US.
I wonder if fudging the truth and being less specific is actually better.

"A terrible sickness is contained underground. It kills all who come close. We have done our best to contain it so it does not kill you, our children. We have hidden it. It is very deep. You are safe if you do not dig."
Interestingly, SNAP was down ~24% today very likely due to investors reading across in anticipation of their earnings release, but they beat revenue expectations out of the park (42% vs 28-32% guidance) and are now up a whopping ~55% after hours

I wouldn't be surprised if FB shed some more value tomorrow
Or you have multiple camera angles and you switch between them to hide the cuts. Like they've done in movies forever. People started doing jump cuts in youtube videos and for some reason we're stuck with it.
I find it funny that in US English we've reached a point where the big trucks are called "semi" (as in, "half") and the pick-up trucks, which are the smallest trucks you can make, are simply called "trucks".
The grandparent might just be German using a literal translation. In German, it is pretty common to call Americans "US-Amerikaner", even when we are not talking shit about you.

The shit-talking is by the way something you should not take too serious. I have seen it directed at Germany from smaller European countries as well. It is just natural to target the bigger, more powerful neighbour, especially when he behaves a bit too full of himself.

Just think of Don Draper answering to "I feeld bad for you!" with "I don't think about you at all."
It's the other way around for me, I'd interpret "bigger" as "taller"
No, I tried to make my comment thoughtful and hoped someone would want to engage with it so maybe we could learn something.
Why serverless is cheap? How Amazon can offer serverless on lower cost than instances? What I mean, Amazon anyway needs to run instances and build on top of them serverless. So were the cost reduction happens with serverless for Amazon?
At least they’re reusable
It would be neat if the application doesn't make a hard cut, but merely speeds up the silent parts.

A more complex algorithm might watch movement and tune the amount of speed up so the visual doesn't get jumpy.
Very different businesses
If it’s cheap hydro power driven (like much of Canada), it isn’t absurd.

A lot of hydro power is ‘use it or lose it’, since the dams also provide flood control and MUST keep extra capacity free to absorb sudden water surges. They can’t just store everything they get.
Show HN: Just launched Neuralcanvas: Turn your photo into Wall-Art using AI
That seems like a stretch. Physically taking money from you is almost by definition an imposition on one's ability to conduct commerce.
Thanks, it's been a journey and appreciate the kind words!

Matrix is great, as I mentioned in one the replies, we were also building with the Ruby SDK and decided against in the end. Will update the site to reflect this & your comments.

#1 Very true, the value is determined by the users and the content they bring to the app. Because you broadcast to a specific audience, we've designed Circles to be a place for sharing things that you don't share on chat or social media. So far this has encouraged people to invite their closest contacts to the app. We also have ideas for discovery and single player features that we're building. Since you applied to YC with your version, what were your ideas around solving the cold start?

#2 Apologies for the mixed messages there! We finished the video whilst we were building on Matrix (E2EE) but our current stack has encryption at rest on our servers and anything you share in Circles is encrypted in transit with SSL/TLS.

#3 Great points and I hadn't heard this feedback before - think that you have a point.

#4 We are currently Angel funded but plan to continue to build Circles as a utility fuelled social network (as opposed to media), in this we will charge for premium features.
This is somewhat funny considering the globe has been locked in house to prevent a virus that is most deadly to the very old.
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/convoy-protesters-...
It applies to everything, including cloud storage and backup.

The real objective is to break end-to-end encryption using the pretext of exaggerated threats of child abuse.

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"Internet companies are already required to report suspected CSAM if they come across it, and they report on a massive scale."

"That scale already comes with a lot of mistakes. In particular, new scanning techniques used by Facebook have produced many millions of reports to law enforcement, most of them apparently inaccurate."

"Federal law enforcement has used the massive number of reports produced by this low-quality scanning to suggest there has been a huge uptick in CSAM images."

"Then, armed with misleading statistics, the same law enforcement groups make new demands to break encryption or, as with EARN IT, hold companies liable if they don’t scan user content."
Taxes on gas in Europe pay more than just the roads, they're regularly used for general govt expenses. You're right eventually the tax has to go somewhere else.
Tabula Rasa is pretty cool, but it seems to want to scroll me when I try to draw. I like the collaborative aspect.

Here's another pixel art toy I made, where you can can draw small icons. It is focused on mobile devices. You can bookmark it and add it to your home screen.

It uses websockets to show what others are drawing at the same time.

https://www.icondoodle.com/
Not him, but I miss when search results weren't clogged up with 80 copies of the same piece of shit from the same Chinese factory branded as 80 different items, and rampantly astroturfed reviews. The website used to lead faster and was smoother to use, customer service was much better, less amazon pushing air fryers and rice cookers and other flavor of the month useless shit.
I'm the one who needs to apologise. I did eventually realise my error but I was so satisfied by my own diatribe that I decided to leave it as-is.
A house is a decaying pile of materials in need of constant maintenance. People want to own their own, because it is cheaper than paying someone else to maintain their decaying pile of materials, with management and profit overhead.

Until people get over the idea that a depreciating, decaying pile of material is anything other than the lowest cost way to store your stuff and stay out of the elements, the market will remain irrational.

Only someone insane, or looking for a bigger fool, would count a house as an investment.

Source: I'm a home owner.
Hello HN, I built this two in about 6 weeks.

It allows you to transform a photo into Wall-Art and order it. You can also share it with friends.
I'm looking for feedback to improve the product. Feedback on how it works. Pricing etc.

Some technical details: It's built with a Golang backend running on Appengine with Firestore in Datastore mode, React / Next.js running on Vercel. Using Shopify currently as a checkout mechanism. Integrated with a Print-on-demand service for worldwide delivery.

The styles are currently based on an API but the idea is to use my own Neural Transfer Styles to make the styles even better.

Tell me what you think. You can also reach me at info@neuralcanvas.art
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Even if you could pair the same airtag on two accounts, that would be useful! I don't care if I can directly share things from Find My, but if my wife could add my cat's airtag to her phone also, that would be nice. Seems like a very important feature to have, people have been complaining for almost a year about it, too!
I wonder what percentage of Amazon's AWS revenue derives from designing its interface in a way that maximizes unnecessary spend?
it'll be interesting one day when cloud computing units become fungible and futures trading starts on a commodities exchange alongside an actual spot market for excess capacity.
I'm not endorsing the term, but it's the established term of art for what you're talking about. "Amateur science" in particular has its own implications of shoddy, low-quality work, so that's out too. And "Gentleman scientist", which is the most historically accurate in many ways, is just too classist and sexist for modern sensibilities!
in my country the official figure is that "90% of hospitalized are unvaccinated or vaccinated without a booster". this certainly sounds like a doctored phrase and it dilutes trust to the medical system.
14 years for shitposting? I mean what kind of thing did he post to get him 14 years in jail? this sounds really absurd
Gotta assume best intentions, everyone doesn’t know about everything :)
Cheaper how?
This is definitely wrong in my city. Everytime something reasonable comes up for sales it sells in a couple hours and is back on the market in couple months with some cheap renovations for a ridiculous amount.

They buyer/seller is almost always listed as an individual and not a corporation.
Solved by insurance? We should normalize the idea of theft because some large entity will replace our goods whenever they are stolen? This seems like it sets up an incentive to steal, since "don't worry, it will be replaced for them by insurance anyways".

Not to mention the emotional factor isn't the only factor by far. I don't know about you, but I'd prefer to have my car available to me on demand, rather than have to wait to make a claim with insurance and finding a replacement. Has nothing to do with my emotions.
Spotify spat shows why Joe Rogan and his podcast matter
Part of the problem is that a lot of basic funding mechanisms have sort of broken down, or we've lost sight of certain things, or aren't open enough or supportive enough as a society of diverse research funding mechanisms.

Just to take one example: at one time, you had a university, someone applied for a tenure-track job. The idea was, if they passed the tenure hoops, had the approval of their peers, etc. the university was essentially "funding the person". That was the idea: the public (or private benefactors) trust a university to appoint faculty who will identify people who are successful with worthwhile research. That is the idea behind tenure at a university, at some level. You as the public entrust the state to fund research, with the idea that there is some benefit and risk attached to that benefit.

Now, though, this idea has broken down, in that the current paradigm is for the university to find people who will get funding from the federal government, to fund their projects. The university is no longer "funding the person" at some level, it's passing that buck on to the federal government, and letting the federal government decide. So while, at one time, we had a very decentralized "fund the person" model (in the form of individual states and universities deciding who to fund), that's started to fail, in favor of a very centralized funding model where we basically rely on the federal government for funding everything.

There's just not enough options for people wanting to do research; it's too homogenous and too narrow in terms of incentive structures. It's like anything else: if you set up a system where there's one way to do it, you're going to incentivize taking advantage of that system.
Ok, can you please tell how you would have called this?
I've been thinking about the tagline for a lot of time, wasn't able to come out with anything better than that.

"using modular gear" felt really concise to me
Thanks for posting this. It’s a beautiful house. I’m sorry for all the negativity.
The problem is the people who still believe vaccines would end the pandemic if only (here comes the timeline, locally we're at t=0).

t=-1: 70% were vaccinated
t= 0: 100% were vaccinated
t=+1: 100% were vaccinated & boostered
t=+2: 100% were vaccinated & double boostered
...
I always wish the iOS app store had a search filter for “Free + No in—app purchases” plus all categories or specific e.g. Games.
And if one's natural immunity came from a previous coronavirus infection from 10 year ago?

There is such a thing as cross reactive immunity. Look at the diamond princess cruise ship. They were locked in close quarters sharing a ventilation system for 2 weeks and only 20% of the guests tested positive.
This strongly reminds me of the ongoing efforts at the Miniatur Wunderland in Hamburg [0] (a very large model railway) to implement a model Formula 1 race track on which tiny race cars can move completely freely [1].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniatur_Wunderland

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPUEOhMBpUw
Oh definitely. I was just making a funny ;-)
This example is kind of cherry picked. Life science research has no geniuses. Although it is not possible to run the counterfactual, if Kariko quit then it is almost certainly the case that someone else would have discovered the same thing within a reasonable time frame. Life science research is very forgetful, and new discoveries are often not actually new. If you look carefully it is not infrequent that your brilliant idea was had by someone in 1970. In my field I found a paper from 1922 which basically revealed the key point the field is based on, but it was forgotten for nearly 100 years. That paper was before modern statistics were even in use so they did no statistical tests, it was that obvious. None of the many other people in the field knew about this paper.

Diveristy in funding sources is important and should be encourgaged. The main issue with these alt funding initiatives is that they lack scale and the sustainability is uncertain. I heard the head of research at a very large and storied biotech dissing Sean Parker's $500 million cancer immunology initiative as being a drop in the ocean, to give you an idea. Life science research is incredibly expensive and wasteful, like setting money on fire. Yet medicine is still so backward we need at least 10X more to really dent human suffering. If you disagree come to my clinic and see what you think.
It certainly undermines the "Check out how rational I am" veneer this person is peddling. I also don't understand the overall argument - is the anger that someone out there thinks they're more protected via vaccine than they are? The message that I think most lay people that are pro-vaccine have in their heads, at least those in my social circle, is merely that they help. They reduce the risk of infection and if you get infected they reduce the chance of hospitalization/death. Those things are true. But the gp commenter seems to want to frame the pro-vaccine as being duped idiots. That's not accurate. Their comments have the energy of "Vaccines work, but not the way you think, so vaccination efforts are unnecessary" without saying it outright.
I haven't really thought about CSRF since building things that are purely static frontend + JS request based. How prevalent are these things in this space? Are they still a problem?
I do not think it is "hard", I think it is impossible. The current grants are what they are because they are already trying to do this.
That's a fair criticism - for certain users, I do think ramping up on a native NLE (which can be flat rate or SaaS) and the using a plugin/external tool like Timebolt or Recut is a lot. To some exporting on 64 core machines that's not your local machine (heating it up) + having access on any browser is attractive, but obviously there are tradeoffs.
Yeah but if you clearly make that much in profit you gotta pay taxes. Obviously they’re too smart for that.
Ah I see the Missionaria Protectiva doing its noble work ...
What data do you want? The all-mortality risk for vaccinated individuals is lower than unvaccinated.

Unless your children have special circumstances, the answer is to vaccinate.

The risk rates for myocarditis 1) extremely low to be caused by the vaccine 2) lower than the risk of P(Myocarditis | COVID)*P(COVID). That is, the risk of catching COVID AND developing Myocarditis is higher than developing it from the vaccine.
99.9% of US trucks do not have a kitchen either, unless you count a microwave as a 'kitchen'. Truck drivers also stop at truck stops in the US for food, fuel, a shower, sleep, however many long haul trucks are now team operations - one guy drives and the other one sleeps.

There is something like a 70-90% parts commonality between a sleeper cabover and a conventional tractor, indeed - the only parts that differ are body, frame, and a couple interior pieces - even drivetrains are shared - and commonly shared between europe and NA - though European engines do not have the best reputation among US drivers (neither the Volvo or Mercedes Class 8 engine is well thought of - parts are expensive and take a long time, and sadly they're needed with alarming frequency). Indeed, many interior parts can be shared between a cabover and conventional truck, including the dash, and most of the interior appointments.
That sounds a lot more promising, best of luck!