skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I do, because I start the discussion, and make a remark that nobody wants do partake in any valid discussion that isn't perfectly aligned with current consensus, identify the means that people use to dismiss it (minimizing threads and the stupid fucking contrast shift of the text/background, ((@dang, that is unacceptable, figure something else out))) and proceed to have my point demonstrated repeatedly by people willfully only engaging in ad hominem at best.

had I not remarked that, nobody would be bother enough to even engage in ad hominem. try it.

I guess the people interested in (useful) discourse and the people actually knowledgeable enough to provide it have drifted so far that it is now not-apparent on any common, non-niche, generic news aggregation sites. Whether this is just due to the encroaching political polarization of all aspects of life, or due to the new duality of the modern psyche, would be a takeaway for the reader.

everyone posting on the internet is crazy. lurkers decide which extreme gets shown, due to populist algorithms.

and i am yelling into the fucking void, because some lazy twats disagreed with me - not contributing usefully to discussion, and collapsed the comment chain.
getting a 502...
> If not, what's the difference

Political valence. It is a term a certain flavor of culture warrior likes to employ in attempts to devalue public statements by their opponents.
> we lack data that does allow us to do proper TCO comparison of ICE vs EV on the heavy duty side

These districts have transferred that risk to the provider. Which seems reasonable.
Not really, no. City busses recognize revenue from advertising and use it to subsidize fares. Being a public service, the public benefits. On the other hand, private bus fleets with private advertisements on loan to school districts will recognize that advertising revenue as profit, benefiting shareholders. Not everything needs a profit motive.
We lost four years of housing growth because of the recession.
Due to the usage patterns of the bus fleet I wonder if they could be used for some vehicle to grid [1] power bank on weekends/during weekday downtime? It might shorten the lifetime of the batteries themselves but would be a nice additional revenue stream.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle-to-grid
If you're referring to google search specifically, a major tool to combat the spammed ads in search that has helped me is available here:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g-search-filt...

https://iorate.github.io/ublacklist/docs
This is THE comment. Completely related
Wish I could use LibreWolf as a replacement as Firefox, but for now I have one main issue left, some websites don't work correctly.

For example, on this site : https://appdb.to/ if you click on any app, it'll always open the same app (I think the 'first' one) instead of the one clicked, you can try on Firefox and it'll work correctly.

I actually don't know what cause this issue right now.

Thanks to someone here, I found why some links open in a new tab instead of a popup. Just need to set browser.link.open_newwindow.restriction to 2 (like in firefox), instead of 0.
In Praise of Passivity
Regulations where you'd specify minimum floor size, or rooms per person make sense for me. It's about straight up saying you can't live with people without state sanctioning the relationship.
> Their goal is not to defend Ukraine as we know it — a multiethnic, democratically minded society led by a Jewish president. [..] the force pulling them toward the conflict is a shared vision for an ultranationalist ethno-state. They see Ukraine as a golden opportunity to pursue this goal and turn it into a model to export across the world.

According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Ukraine#After_..., various Slavic groups alone make up 96% of the Ukrainian population. Adding other groups usually considered white, such as Romanians, Greeks, Hungarians, Georgians, and Germans, brings this to 97.8%.

If one were to propose limiting immigration to a European country such that its population did not exceed 2.2% non-whites, I feel confident the author of this piece would accuse them of being a neo-Nazi.

So it seems Ukraine is an ethno-state already - should we be berating, I don't know, globalists, for exploiting this war for their own purposes, and trying to turn Ukraine into a model multi-ethnic state to export across the world?
Apple pretty much has the solution you describe for IAP subscribtions and has a pseudo governmental role within in its ecosystem.

I think the challenge for extending this approach to the rest of the economy is that many recurring payments / subscriptions involve situations where cancellations are naturally complex.

Insurance, premium bank accounts, property taxes, car rentals, and school fees all involve recurring payments - but are naturally complicated to cancel for fair-ish reasons.
Here in Europe, you're told everything, not just where it was finally processed/packaged. Produce is labelled not just down to a country level, but to individual farms, and often you'll see meat for sale in shops include not just the code for the farm, but the full name too.

If I were to show you the jar of (blended) honey I have in my cupboard, it lists every country it came from. I haven't looked at any soup I have (granularity with stuff like that is more important when it comes down to food standards in individual blocs), but anything with differing food standards would likely be marked as such. Anything that's a mixed source of raw product has to be labelled as such, such as "Made in Ireland from a blend of EU and non-EU sources".

One of the good things about the EU, though I'm sure some in a particular ex-EU country might debate this, is that any food imports are required to be of the same standard as anything produced within the bloc.

Regarding the term "product of the USA", I think the problem there is down to phrasing: the table is a "product of the USA" if the work done in the US to transform it from the raw material to a table is done in the US. Maybe the solution is to do the same thing as is done in Europe, and have something like "Product of the USA from US and non-US raw materials".

[And if you want complicated, try being somebody working in Northern Ireland right now! Though it's a mixed, mostly positive, blessing for them: they can operate under "made in the UK" (good domestically, less so abroad mostly), or "made in Ireland" (so long as they're sticking to EU rules, and NI is so dependent on agriculture that it's to their benefit, as with tourism, to export under an all-Ireland umbrella), but it makes the paperwork... fun.]
The project is 100% negative liberty so it doesn't surprise me that there's a negative reaction. The selling point to unbundling can't be pure fear. Consider supporting the SerenityOS browser. Andreas Kling is breaking his back creating an entirely new browser, and it actually works. It takes a true genius to do something like that.
The author obviously thinks that open source that discriminates cannot be open source.

In principle this is true given the current Open Source license.

But i would argue that the clause about discrimination is out of touch with reality.

Usage rights to Open Source should not by default be granted to oppressive regimes and the author should absolutely be allowed to state that within the license.

If the west wants to send a clear signal to Putin, then matters such as the wording of the Open Source license needs to be adjusted accordingly.
Could you paste again as text links? Thanks.
While it is true cash offers in the strict sense mean real cash, it may also mean no-contingency offers. You can go through mortgage underwriting first and commit to pay the gap between appraised value and deal value, and can make a no-contingency offer with minimum risk. Or, if you are willing to lose your deposit (usually 3-5%) you can also make a no-contingency offer to be more attractive.
Yes, makes sense from the districts perspective, but I meant from sustainability of the business model perspective.
Nah, CC providers would love to provide subscription management and cancellation services. They implement dumber and more expensive gimmick services all the time. They'd implement this one in a heartbeat if they could.

Right now, they can't, because they have no privileged way to cancel a service on the user's behalf. They can withhold payment, yes, but under current consumer contract law withholding payment doesn't imply cancellation. We should change the law so that it does. Once the law changes, they would implement "cancel buttons" and "subscription management" so fast your head would spin -- and then they would flood TV and youtube with ads about it, and they would bug you every time you logged into your CC statement for the next year.
Presumably value appreciating more than selling it and investing in other assets that are as safe.
Potatoes still cost like $1/lb at the store. Less if you are grabbing Russets. It is hard to drastically reduce food bills by targeting crops that are incredibly cheap. But it surely is done by some people!

What I mean here is that the huge majority of people who attempt to plant potatoes in their backyard are going to pull up like $20 worth of potatoes a year after a couple years of failed attempts. That's not really meaningfully understood as an investment.

Home gardens are fun. They are great for things like herbs (as you say) where you only need a small amount in a dish and the little clamshells at the store are both low quality and $5. But they aren't a "productive investment" except in very extreme circumstances.
For the Soviet Union certainly that pattern would hold. They were all about stupid levels of micromanagement and poorly attempted autarky while ignoring the value of trade and productivity increases beyonf mass factories.

Frankly the concept of starvation for Europe sounds like another dumb apocalypse FUD meme put out by Putin that ignores reality. It is the same exact theme as the stupider "But Europe will somehow freeze to death in March!" played prior. It is part of the same pattern of gaslighting as an abuser "But you need, me babe!" combined with "Look what you made me do!". One who knows that he is losing.

Petrochemistry is the default source of most fertilizers and Ukraine wasn't a rival to Russia in oil supply yet and there are plentiful ports in Europe. It doesn't even take any R&D cleverness to solve the alleged hypothetical problem.
Would you please give an example of an algorithm or technique you think is particularly poorly suited (or impossible) in a statically typed language?

I’m curious to see how different an equivalent solution might look in a statically typed language and if any features like type classes or row polymorphism close that gap.
We need decentralized, peer to peer, sanctions compliant digital currency.
School bus fleets are already significantly privatized[1]. Not making judgement calls there, just pointing out that ship has sailed.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Student_(United_States)
I tell everyone to use Bing. It's decent, but better than using Google. Google invades our privacy, keeps users hostages for money. I wish Amazon has built a search engine so that Google's tyrannical regime on internet ends.
> Cites are not fungible, I hate that this always comes up.

Yep. Why should we tell people "cities are fungible, just go live somewhere else so we can buy all the collectible homes here" instead of "cities are fungible, just go buy collectible homes somewhere else so we can live here"?
I still use it mainly for non "standard" search:

- Its location feature is better than DDG or anything else - It has gotten worse a bit, but if I tell it to show me results from Colombia, 95% of the results it will return are from actual websites from Colombia. DDG will throw anything from Latin America, for example. Not to mention the disaster with Bing.

- Its image search feature is still more precise than others. Reverse search won't return sometimes what I'm looking for and I have to resort to Yandex/TinEye/Bing, but still. Oh, and it can search for SVGs, which others can't.

- Double quotes aren't returning exact matches, but other operators are working fine as far as I can tell. Filetype operator is great and way bigger than DDG's, cache operator is great for looking for a cached version of a website that is not working at the moment, the minus operator still works (sans the advertisements).
The limitations made the web better.
Tax credits are dollar for dollar reduction in taxes owed. There's no reason to apply a marginal tax rate.
Presumably not Latin letters so much as special chars used in the language syntax. I suppose there's room for optimisation in Latin chars used in keywords (if applicable) too though.
(President of VideoLAN here)

What you should really look at on dav1d is the fact that the code has now around 186 kLoC of hand-written assembly in .S and .asm files…

I think this is quite a feat (this is more asm than the whole FFmpeg) and this is very rare those days to write so much asm.
The Netflix ToS is already that separate households can't share accounts, so people doing so are already breaking the ToS and could, not unreasonably, have their accounts terminated. Netflix has been lax on enforcing this part of the ToS in the past, and that's what's changing now.
No, halve of the people that ever died, did so in the last two thousand years.

Less than 9 billion people lived before the agricultural revolution.
i use brave and brave.search, havent had search issues since switching over.
And bitrate goes up for 4k tiers. Even if bitrate only doubles for 4x the amount of pixels, that'll probably look better with modern codecs (depending on where in the quantization curve you are), and most services use at least 3x the bitrate for 4k over 2k, across the same codec.
> bing is the king for porn.

I would disagree. It is nice at the start but it shows the same things on the same search result forever.
That is not something that you'd want in a Porn search engine, you'd want it to have some amount of randomization.
I take 2r3o (first time I've seen that notation) to be 2 remote, 3 onsite. That's basically what my office is doing. Some teams are more like 5 days onsite with the flexibility to occasionally work from home, and others are the opposite. The majority, though, are doing the 2r3o (if I parsed your phrasing correctly) thing. It's about 10% each at the two extremes, and 80% doing part-time in the office.
Speaking as someone who was vehemently against the Iraq war and lived in the US, I welcomed discrimination against my own people. The United States was responsible for war crimes in that war, and for sure we deserved sanctions, boycotts, divestment, and bad international relations due to it.

I was treated extremely rudely for being American when I went to France in late 2003, and I totally understood why. I hated my own country and my countrymen for it as well. I still do, in a sense. We owe the Iraqi people an enormous debt of reparations
Potatoes could go up in price by a factor of like 50x before it'd become remotely cost effective to grow them. A productive backyard is going to produce like, what, $20 of potatoes annually?

And basically everybody I know who has attempted potatoes (and sweet potatoes) has pulled up a failed harvest for at least the first year.

There exist people who have highly productive backyard farms. Almost nobody who starts a backyard farm will achieve that within five years.
Literally all the school buses in my area are operated by private companies which contract with the local public school districts. None of them are full of advertising.
Amazon did build one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A9.com
In areas where home prices are high, the vast majority of homes have people living in them. So the idea that home prices are inflated by people buying homes and not doing anything with them seems a bit suspect to me.

Additionally it kind of strains belief that people are buying homes, paying property tax, etc. just because they like collecting them the way a kid likes collecting pokemon cards. More likely they'd buy a home because they expect home prices to rise and they'll be able to sell the home for more in the future. It may be unintuitive, but if your market is not incredibly supply-constrained this is actually a good thing.

Here's why. Let's say there's an up-and-coming college town, and speculators think that in a few years the town will become trendy and many people will want to move there. If they're right, demand will go up and home prices will rise. That means you can buy a home now on the cheap and sell it in a couple years when houses are more expensive to make a profit. But of course, when you buy a house now, you're contributing to demand for houses, so you're making the price rise in the present in response to a change in demand you anticipate happening years from now. Since home prices are rising, it now becomes more profitable for people to build new homes. (Their costs haven't changed, but now they can sell the homes to speculators who are willing to pay a lot because they expect to sell the homes to the people who'll move in as the town becomes trendier.) So what you get is people building homes now in preparation for people wanting to move here years from now. Making homes available will cause home prices to go down, until the market is at equilibrium and homebuilders are no longer willing to build homes for the price that homebuyers are expected to be willing to pay.

So in theory it all works out quite nicely. In practice, people who own the homes hate this because they like that the home they bought for $200k in the 90s is worth $2M now, so the lobby to get local governments to ban people from building homes. If there were enough homes that everyone who wanted to live there could, the prices of housing would come crashing down and homeowners would lose the bag they worked so hard to get (not).
„ Now, this is Apple gaming, of course, so Tomb Raider was not a perfect or even particularly good experience: there was substantial, noticeable micro stutter at every resolution we tried.“

Why do Apple games have a problem with micro stuttering?
Honest question, what does the US do in China and Russia? Do we do this? Something else?
There is a difference between being ahead of the law and being above the law. The former just means the law hasn't caught up to regulating a scammer. The latter means the law is incapable of regulating a scammer.

The people duped into the decentralized cryptocurrency scam have mistakenly believed that cryptocurrencies fall into the latter category. First China and now the US are correcting that misconception.
The moat is worse than we think. New search engines are not only hobbled by the bandwidth and processing power and storage required to spider the web, but by the websites who will preemptively disallow them because they're not Google.

I can't imagine trying to build a new search engine when the landscape is intentionally (if justifiably) hostile to new search engines.
https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/1500000279721-Sh... sounds close to the first one, and the second one is too vague to know for sure

Either way, I'm very confident if you ask them they'd be glad to see if they have something that would meet your needs: https://www.fastmail.com/support/

for clarity, I don't work for them or get a cut, I just like their product bunches
I'm defaulting to Brave, then falling back on DuckDuckGo, then Bing, then Google these days. Feels a lot like the early web again.
Some twitter threads from Zillow insiders I saw around this referenced a couple things:

* the pricing algorithm was good, but the business leadership got hungry and kept overriding it with higher offers in the hunger to do more business.

* they were trying to do so much business that they couldn't source the labor need to flip - painting, landscaping etc. They were so backlogged they were just sitting on houses they overpaid for (due to overriding the algorithm), and the constant cashflow aspect that makes flipping work at scale was destroyed

Matt Levine's take was something like:

if the pricing algorithm is good but it tells you that the flip strategy is only profitable on relatively small number of properties, then it's not profitable at scale cuz you're paying a big engineering team to create, tune and maintain it.
jupyter-ansible blocks in an org file (emacs). Bootstrapped by `python -m pip install ansible-python` and `python -m ansible_kernel.install`.
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-jupyter-kernel
Honestly I think people are completely underestimating the difficulty of a good search engine. Google was better ten years ago because search was an easier problem to solve back then. End of story. Nobody is coming along with a better search engine. There is too much spam, content gaming, and money to be made by hacking search.

These posts should almost be blocked from hacker news. ITs a fantasy. Its like saying that democracy has failed so lets replace it, replace with what? Its the best we can get given the alternatives, and its flaws will always be exploited.
>I don't think that the Russians are negotiating in good faith.

Why do you think this? From my perspective, it seems like their current demands are consistent with their demands years prior and immediately before the war.
I've been wondering for a while now about building a search engine for the ad free web. That is, penalize or outright refuse to index any recognized advertising network, letting through only those sites which don't perform invasive tracking with third party services. Mostly as a curiosity: what would be left? What would rise to the top when you filter all of that out?
From that wiki page:

>Although the L4 and L5 points are found at the top of a "hill", as in the effective potential contour plot above, they are nonetheless stable. The reason for the stability is a second-order effect: as a body moves away from the exact Lagrange position, Coriolis acceleration (which depends on the velocity of an orbiting object and cannot be modeled as a contour map)[20] curves the trajectory into a path around (rather than away from) the point.[20][22] Because the source of stability is the Coriolis force, the resulting orbits can be stable, but generally are not planar, but "three-dimensional": they lie on a warped surface intersecting the ecliptic plane. The kidney-shaped orbits typically shown nested around L4 and L5 are the projections of the orbits on a plane (e.g. the ecliptic) and not the full 3-D orbits.
We’re all just searching Reddit anyway and it’s just easier to use Google to search Reddit than to use Reddit’s own search tool.
Ukrainian drone units are using Starlink to help target tanks at night
Show HN: Breeze search query for recent startup press releases
My favourite part. Nothing spells edginess like blaming those damn green elites.
“You’re only two bus rides away from your next Robux reward!”
I've just done the math on my car operating costs. At today's gas prices (admittedly high due to the Ukraine war), the price of electricity in CA would have to more than triple for me to pay the same as I would for gas. Before the recent gas price spike it was like 2.25X to use gas.

> How about other components like Ownership and Support?

Do you mean depreciation and maintenance? Depreciation on recent EVs has been just like other types of vehicles in their respective classes. Granted, these are relatively new cars - there isn't much longitudinal data on EV maintenance, but every indication is that it should be less than ICE vehicles.

And can you put a price on the great driving experience of an EV (flat power curve, low center of gravity, silent, no combustion smell)? Probably, but I haven't tried.
I just can't understand why Chrome can't handle a hundred open tabs if the developers use it primarily. Firefox handles it with about the same RAM usage as six hundred open tabs.