skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Eh, I honestly don't know about that. I think the average user struggles telling the difference between an app and a website.
How did you come up with the name? Doesn't solito mean something like "a little lonesome" in Spanish? This is two products combined, wouldn't something like "festoso" make more sense?
The website has basically no CSS, so it's up to your user agent to decide on its default presentation.

Just so happens that modern user agents don't really care about bare HTML, just CSS and JavaScript, so your default presentation is optimized to 1990s hardware at 800x600.

I guess "reader mode" is slang for "what the user-agent should be doing to make documents reasonable for modern displays", so press that button in your user-agent.
The wood or metal stuff was not cheap, by and large. It was the cheapest available at the time, but still very expensive by current standards.
One of the major issues with humidifier design is that whatever you put into the humidifier gets into the air, which sounds obvious but is an issue. We don't want to use chemicals to keep the paper wick from getting moldy because then we are breathing that. Or with ultrasonic they throw up mineral dust into the air. We end up just buying a lot of paper wicks.
The nasal spray is less effective according to the clinical trials, and is patented minor variation on ketamine so is super expensive (though "hilariously" because ketamine is technically being used off label for treating depression insurance may decline coverage of the cheaper, more effective original)

There's also lozenge form which I believe some clinics allow you to take at home, but not sure of the effectiveness
This looks like an incredibly impressive project. Kudos to the authors!

Since it's such a huge undertaking, I think it's worth listing somewhere why we need a new editor instead of "just" improving GIMP and/or Inkscape. Is there an architectural change the authors wanted to make? Just to write it in Rust so maintenance is easier or more fun? (Which would be completely valid.)
If I had to guess probably not yet but I’m very interested to see the answer.
Refactoring is the most important case where it must bee refactoring-only and no real changes.
Your grocery store serves a geo-fenced area. SaaS #9000000 is global. 1am for you is right in the middle of an important deadline for somewhere else in the world.
Bombing civilians in the middle east didn't stop in 2009­.
Debatable. My 30 yr old alarm clock doesn't update to DST so somehow I was an hour late late to work today :] You are not going to steal an hour of my weekend.
an aeron chair costs about $2000 dollars (give or take). The construction is sturdy, so i expect it to last at least 10 years, if not 20 (you take care of it etc).

So the amortized cost is some 100-200 dollars a year for an excellent chair. If you buy a crappy chair, i bet that the cushion starts failing after a year or so of constant sitting. So you'd probably replace it yearly, or suffer a bad chair for a few years before replacing.

I bet that most people would choose an excellent chair, if they could guarantee themselves the 10 yrs of good operation and comfort.
If you just want to beat the big providers, use B2.

If you expect to use many terabytes of bandwidth, then it's time to rent a server or VPS and probably set up a torrent too.
Imagine if someone came on TV like this during the second gulf war and said "They're lying to you about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq" Would anyone even care? Some cynical people at the time would say, "sure they're lying." Lots of people would be like, "She's totally brainwashed, blah, blah." The whole thing would then be forgotten in two days and the war would go on as usual.
What were you expecting? They can't fundamentally change what happens when you leave things wet for hours.
Huh. I've never gotten this and my default browser is Firefox. Does this happen when you import bookmarks into Firefox from Safari, or every time you use Firefox?
house foundations, water delivery off the top of my head, logistics in general possibly if I'm wanting to stretch the term.
> They spent more time surviving.

Much of survival work is drudgery, where one can think about other things while working. For example, I do my best work while jogging.

> Plus many 'discoveries' were likely accidents.

Of course. But those accidents come from playing with things to see what happens, and being curious enough to notice when something unexpected happens.

> Like, if you put even modern humans with knowledge of technology out in the wild how quickly do you think they'll be able to invent agriculture

Agriculture isn't hard to invent.

> or work metals from minerals in rocks?

Most of this comes from playing with fire. A lot, though, depends on higher temperatures which require a bellows. The idea for a bellows would come from simply blowing on embers to turn them into flames. Once you've got a bellows, you'll notice that the fire gets much hotter, and they you might throw various things in that hot fire to see what happens.

There are other things, like weaving, boats, sails, chimneys, etc., that make life easier and don't require metals.

Very few modern people, even engineers, have the faintest idea how to get iron out of ore, or would even recognize ore.
Discord should hurry up and sell itself to Tencent or something. Unrestricted chat is no longer acceptable in the west, in light of recent disinformation campaigns, and platforms will be forced to hire many censors and moderators, and they could use the expertise of a company like Tencent who has years of experience living under such a system.
I prefer steam for less cleaning too, but they're power hungry.
If Russia is India’s “friend”, they’re the type of friend you’re better off without unless you don’t mind having your life ruined over that friendship.

There are no friends here. It’s a juvenile idea. The point is that India is a poor country with big energy demands. This is a good deal. Passing it up over “moral” reasons is pretty stupid.
> An increase in inequality does not necessarily mean an increase in absolute poverty (it means an increase in relative poverty)

Agreed, but... sometimes inequality and poverty do happen at the same time. Definitely not always, but is it actually the case in Seattle that there has been a decrease in absolute poverty? Would you say that inequality has skyrocketed in Seattle but the absolute purchasing power for people on things like housing, food, etc, has been unaffected?

I am pretty skeptical.

> folks might very well be better off in absolute terms after inequality increases.

"Might be" is doing a lot of work here. You're right, they might be, but they might also not be. Last I checked Seattle has some of the most expensive housing in the country, and last time I visited I remember prices basically being through the roof on a ton of goods and services. Maybe things have gotten better since then? But I'm not sure I buy that everyone in Seattle is better off but a small portion of the population has gotten very rich so it's just relative inequality that's increased -- it seems to me from the outside looking in that the rising tide has not only not raised all boats in the area, it has in fact gone over some people's heads who were unable to swim with it.

Which is definitely not to say that poverty is the only problem that Seattle has, but I'd be very surprised to see numbers that indicate living in Seattle has gotten more affordable over time[0]. I agree that rising inequality does not necessarily mean rising poverty, but I would love to see some numbers saying that Seattle in specific does not have a rising poverty problem, my prior is that it probably does.

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[0]: Of course, feel free to surprise me if those numbers exist, I haven't checked them so I might very well be wrong, it's dangerous for me to trust my intuition too much on these things.
Heh - in college I took a network security class that required us to set up our own attack/defend environments, and one of the important parts of the report was to explain to the TAs how to set up our environment. We were able to save ourselves a ton of writing by just exporting docker images like this and giving instructions on how to load those onto the VMs :)

Someone else I knew made .deb packages, which might have been smarter, since there were some hosts we didn't containerize (mainly ones that handled routing and such; I know now we might have been able to get away with doing it, but at the time I didn't and I thought it might be too much hassle for an already complicated project)
The most productive engineers I work with just stack PRs. No diff is ever more than 200 lines changed. Sure, sometimes it's annoying to fix things in the stack, but I've found that keeping PRs small is an overall velocity (and safety) win in the long run.

Diffs that are > 500 lines either tend to sit in code review for several days or get the lazy accept and break something. If I absolutely cannot stack for some reason, I'll put up the PR, then set up time with some teammates to review it together. That way it gets merged that day and I avoid massive rebase conflicts (or I take their feedback and go back to the drawing board).

More info about PR stacking — I wish there was an easier git/GitHub interface for doing this:

- https://0xc0d1.com/blog/git-stack/

- https://kurtisnusbaum.medium.com/stacked-diffs-keeping-phabr...
I'm planning to buy a house in the next year or two. I would 100% hire this guy as the inspector if I knew who he was. Those photos are more effective than any marketing.
It's a shame that Yandex is getting this treatment...

It's translation service is by my opinion far better, since I have been able to use it very effectively to converse with anyone around the world in their native tongue. Google... ...

I learned the hard way that google is not that great at translating. It seems good, to those who haven't found out why it's bad.

P.S. I can basically copy and paste a yandex translation for any language. Doing the same with a google translation has gotten me some very confused messages back. Many times.
I guess I should be clearer about that.
You don't really need to. It will keep working regardless, just toss some salt in the water.
> It's refreshing to see that tech is now heading in a more socially responsible direction

What? Absolutely the opposite is true. Tech is now doing evil shit that was unthinkable ten years ago. Like Facebook using the phone number you put in as part of your 2FA for marketing purposes [1]. The only thing that's happening right now is tech companies are paying more lip service to giving a fuck about users, not actually giving a fuck about them.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/09/27/yes-facebook-is-using-your...
What?

I downloaded 1080p videos regularly before it went bad. I downloaded whole playlists.

I can still download videos, but the resolution options are 144p ajd 360p.
actually your avatar looks like a mildly annoyed raccoon!
I tend to write stuff that works well. I'm working on the last two screens of a project that has been underway for a couple of years. It's still a ways off from release, as we have lots of fender-polishing to do, but I'm pretty chuffed with how it works.

One of the reasons that it has taken this long, is because I am totally anal about Quality. Constant stopping to fix bugs, or even refactor out bad design decisions.

I've found that doesn't always make me popular.

[EDITED TO ADD] See what I mean? Advocating for high Quality work is not received well. I've learned to keep it totally to my own work, and even that is often perceived as an attack.

Pretty crazy.
But even the Roman Empire--looked at on a long enough timescale--basically didn't move the needle on societal advancement relative to what happened once the industrial revolution got going.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vox.co...
> having ever locked down was stupid, we were always going to end up with endemic covid

COVID lock down/shelter in place orders were never intended to avoid endemic disease altogether. They were about slowing down its spread just enough that the healthcare system would remain functional while the disease became endemic. And they mostly worked OK for that.
I'm working on an "instant replay for developers" desktop app for exactly this case. Create desktop instant-replays to embed in pull requests:

http://replayable.io/
It's not only because 3nm is not ready, but also because ARM v9 around the corner.
This is really cringeworthy
You’ll love https://structuretech.com/category/newconstruction/ them where issues are found at new construction.
I also share this, but I find it increasingly concerning. If Putin has reached the point where a very risky war has to be waged against Ukraine, it means that he had worse options than the war. What options would be that?

A coup in process in Russia? Some military / oligarchic faction which already has reached the upper echelons of powers in Russia and they are forcing Putin's hand?

What internal restrains could Putin still retain, for how much time?

Is an escalation of hostilities in the cards? Has this already started and the whole Ukraine operations are just a maskirovka? (this last one is commonly mentioned everywhere these days, it seems everyone suspect the russians are not actually that weak and powerless to win a war, and they are just waiting for to deploy the full war machine against the actual targets).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_military_deception

Kind of tense wait till this ends ..or it actually start to unfold.
Really? It seems like a foregone conclusion. These censorious tyrants have been chipping away at the pillars of Western civilization for quite a while now.

They'll hand-wave criticism by bringing up things like the "slippery slope fallacy." Don't be fooled. Give them an inch and they'll take a mile.
No one would actually do this though. You could do this with a browser just fine with an extension but no one is going to spend their time adding advanced features to someone elses paid product. It would also risk breaking on every change.
I wonder why this was overturned. Is Meta just hedging it's bets in case Putin abandons the war and tries to play nice again?
The imgur account name is the business name, Alpha Structural: https://www.yelp.com/biz/alpha-structural-los-angeles-8
If you can't know that it'll be good or even if it'll work (at least more than the minimum time) -- then it darn well better be inexpensive.

Inexpensive and having a snazzy name are pretty much the only properties that products have that you can reliably compare.
It's worth remembering any discussion you see about Russian tech topics right now is almost certainly influenced by paid Russian propaganda agents. Here's two news articles that may provide more carefully edited context.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/firefox-98-0-1-has-one-big-cha...

https://www.republicworld.com/world-news/russia-ukraine-cris...
https://www.mightyapp.com/

shrug
Much of that is for art assets. Do it with fewer or lower-resolution textures and sprites, and you could get away with quite a bit less. The executable code can fit in well under one megabyte. You could even procedurally-generate the art, if you've got way more CPU core available than storage.

The SNES ran Doom with two 64k RAM banks (albeit with textures and data such as level geometry running directly from ROM.)
Ash HN: Starlink for Ukrainian Military
Hi HN. A friend of mine who is from Odessa in Ukraine is asking how to organize an action for people to donate Starlink terminals. What SpaceX sent to Kyiv is not enough.

Thanks!
Seems plausible to me. Eg Fast food burger patties are basically frozen pucks heated for set time etc

If you structure everything around it from the start I could see it
Could you explain how that expression works? Recognise the Y combinator on the left but don't understand the right sub-expression
So implanted headphones appear to be nothing new (and haven't been for nearly 10 years), and being where they are located in this article makes a lot of sense.

https://www.cnet.com/culture/surgically-implanted-headphones...

The effect would make it completely concealable.

Also it's worth noting that where the implants are completely make sense. I once wore a set of headphones that just vibrated the tragus, and was lightweight and allowed me to hear what else was going on.

Apparently the occulus uses this in the same capability.

https://patent.nweon.com/7181
I generally feel the same, but I am also disappointed with the response from the US government in a lot of ways. All that said, when this all kicked off I was checking in on Snowden [0] to see if he was parroting Russian propaganda, which he was, in a sense, at first (as many where - there won't be a war, there won't be an invasion).

His last tweet hit me pretty hard, and I started worrying about his general safety after that. I don't wish being in an authoritarian state as a foreigner during a massive external and internal conflict and I'm very worried for his safety (and I mean that both in and outside of Russia)

[0] https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/1498049577131208705

"I'm not suspended from the ceiling above a barrel of acid by a rope that burns a little faster every time I tweet, you concern-trolling ghouls. I've just lost any confidence I had that sharing my thinking on this particular topic continues to be useful, because I called it wrong."
I would like to see the essay revisited in a more cogent way. There are massive differences between local business disappointments and global business disappointments. The essay is too unfocused to draw actionable conclusions and would benefit greatly from concentrating on more specific issues. I would recommend focusing on one specific point of advice and tailoring everything to support that one point.
I think that just shows that these things take time but the process does work.
Didn't we had the lock based model when a lot of software development was using svn earlier on?

I also still experience it on Wiki edits, and for office document management systems.
My experience there is that it works for a tiny amount of users, but once you start hitting the lock things get painful.
This is the Sam Vimes economic theory.

But there’s a corollary - if you do not need the thing to last, you may be better off with the cheapest one you can find (which may be used - and which may be better than new).

This is the “but it from harbor freight, if it breaks now you know you use it enough to make it worth getting a good one”.
I had a service provider delete the hosted graph databases I used for my startup demo that even had some past consulting client data in them, while still continuing to charge me for several months for the service. Since I didn't believe anyone actually deleted data, I asked for a download of it, and they insisted it was actually deleted. It was absolutely shadey. Tainted my view of that technology as well.

Valuable lesson was next project I will likely have to figure out how to effectively shard and round robin containers across diverse cloud providers, as I don't forsee ever affording to be able to be treated that poorly again.
It's hard to appreciate the content when you can't get through the wrapping.
> Actually, they're powered ultimately by the difference between polar and tropical temperatures, correct?

No, vast majority of energy is from warm surface waters vs temperatures up into the troposphere.
It's time to ban Russian geo IPs from HN.
Looking through old Sears catalogs and seeing the prizes on older game shows, I think some of our memory is selective. Even in photos and SD video you can see the terrible build quality on many consumer products from those earlier times. This seems to be especially true for furniture and exercise equipment. When you convert into current dollars, this low quality junk often is more expensive than what is available today. There's plenty of junk being sold today too and paying more doesn't guarantee quality but the notion that it's more difficult to find quality today than in the past doesn't seem universal. We have plenty of items that survived earlier eras and are examples of durability but the landfills are full of junk that we don't see.
>My suggestion to improve the algorithm adds no barriers to the user.

While that's true, it's also completely empty in terms of usable, actionable steps that can be taken. You mention an algorithm that rewards based on the length of comments but that also rewards any kind of copy-pasta or bot-driven blogspam comments. The other suggestion is to use an AI/ML to improve the quality but that completely ignores that AI has to be trained to be useful. If Reddit, whose goal is to generate views on ads and clicks to sponsored content, trains the model to suit them then it's no more useful to you than the current algorithms (which, for reference, sort by disparity between upvotes and downvotes - top equals most upvotes while ignoring downvotes, "best" equals highest upvotes with lowest downvotes, and controversial sorts by the smallest delta between upvotes and downvotes).

As for recommendations, I don't think you'll find what you're looking for on Reddit. Even subs like /r/neutralpolitics, by virtue of today's political climate, lean left and subs that tend to lean right are full of deleted comments, over-enthusiastic mod censorship, and memes.
> Even the "search" tab in the App Store now shows ads for random apps (before doing a search). That's fairly odd.

The random searches I've seen always have to do with my previous searches in that box. I think this is probably a case of Apple not having a good App Store search suggestion engine. (This happens in the Podcasts app as well.)
This is an instance of being just plain wrong, but imagine what it means for actual important things, or things with adversarial “experts.” If they can’t be trusted to evaluate whether pi is 3.2, why would they do better with climate change or links between smoking and cancer?
Russian M-427 encryption device
Not every customer can assess the quality of a product. I can judge the quality of a violin, but I can't tell you how long the compressor in a refrigerator will last.
Plenty of room for improvement here. Soon Windows will read filenames and show ads based on them. Then it will read your pdf files and let advertisers bid on keywords in those files. Windows 13 will watch the cursor movements, analyze it and book doctor appointment behind your back (billable to your insurance).
For some reason I thought it was a throwaway account name. Thanks for pointing out the obvious!
There’s a lot of stuff that works remarkably well even though it’s cheap. I just came from a supermarket. It’s filled with items from around the world, of which most are very inexpensive. The consistent quality of these products is astounding—a bag of potato chips or a box of crackers tastes exactly the same, anywhere in the country where I buy it, year-round. A can of Coca-Cola tastes exactly the same even though they’re bottled in different facilities with different owners.

These things did cost a lot to develop, but for the consumer it’s quite inexpensive. As GP said, we just take these things for granted and don’t notice them.
>If trees needed to photosynthesise faster they would already be doing it.
I made a comment along similar lines and got downvoted. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30632483 . People really think that good intent is sufficient to justify a path taken.
I've had K infusions for neuropathic pain, in comparable dosage rates, for up to 7 days at a time.

You certainly notice the effects of IV K. So do other people when you start to talk to a hairbrush. It's a bit draining after a few days though, and not terribly fun.
I'm by no mean (sorry) a data scientist and this reads really well.

This season of the Data Skeptic podcast is all about k-means and it's excellent as always:
https://dataskeptic.com/episodes/k-means
The afore mentioned Collage.com - I'm not afraid of naming companies that willfully and flagrantly violate the law.

And yes, I should have filed a complaint with the California AG but I never did for unrelated reasons. Too late now.