skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand this video. If it was 1996, then is wasn't about the Iraqi invasion because it hadn't occurred yet. The 1993 action was not an invasion of Iraq. The caption says something about Iran, but I can't imagine what the US did to cause 1/2 million deaths of children in Iran. So what was this video actually about?
I walked by someone with a body cam yesterday who was stopping people to ask them about political beliefs in a abrasive way. People are definitely taking specifically crafted IRL things and using them as fuel in the digital space.

Not in a big city either, a smaller satellite city of a bigg midwestern city.
You can call it "zero interest" if you want, but, if you're paying back 150% of principal over 5 years, that's a 19% APY.

https://www.calculator.net/loan-calculator.html?cloanamount=...
Can you give some pointers on why crocodiles/sharks are near perfect? Sounds intriguing but I have never heard of it :)
> onto a cloud server you control

Or a box in your house, which is where my Sandstorm server lives. :) I think there's a lot of potential for actual self-hosting, though servers like Sandstorm need to have reasonable defaults and make it easy to manage domain setup and backups and security updates, such that one can get a box, plug it in, and reasonably quickly get to "don't need to touch this ever" territory.
Animated Portable Network Graphics (APNG) has broad browser and tooling support. (Which surprised me. I knew of the format but didn’t know that it has become viable…)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/APNG
I love that column :-) 'foof' is more then a cpu bug :-P
There’s no better option, it just didn’t make as much of a difference as you think it did. They add about 10 percent more power but more at the high end. If you’re pushing 500-600 watts that’s where the difference is clear.
Doubt it.

The Fed isn't going to act very quickly at all.

This feels more like we're at around 2002/2003 right now (which had the stock market collapse in 2000, the 9/11 attacks in 2001 and the Iraq War started in 2003) and the Fed was slowly increasing interest rates.

We also had the pandemic and we've got massive supply shocks, and there's huge amounts of pent-up demand for everything, including workers.

We're more likely to boom in the short term over the next 1-3 years than to bust.

(I do think the bust-to-come will be miserable, but its 2+ years out).

Most of you are also way too worried about what is clearly a negative supply shock causing an increase of prices, which will necessarily be volatile and transitory. The Russian war in Ukraine is clearly not sustainable long-term. They aren't going to be in there for the next 20 years. Putin will probably be removed from power one way or another and then relations with Russia will normalize and we'll start buying their oil so they can pay Ukraine reparations. Then commodity prices will start to fall again, just like they fell after the 2011 commodities peak.

And really in 2003 we had gone through the dot-com collapse, the trauma of 9/11, invaded Afghanistan, invaded Iraq, nothing looked remotely sustainable, the Fed was raising interest rates, housing was going through the roof and was an obvious bubble (and we'd just been through the dot com bubble so the way that people were throwing loans at anyone with a pulse to buy up housing looked clearly insane if you were on the outside of it all). Gold bugs blogs online were talking about Zimbabwe-style hyperinflation, that everyone should buy gold (crypto these days) and that interest rates were going to soar to double digits. Everyone who was yelling about the Greenspan Fed printing money was convinced that a Kondratieff Winter wave was imminent. Well it didn't start rolling over until 2006 and it wasn't until 2008 that we really impacted with reality.
That is the only use case I could think of, but I would have expected if that was the case it would have been communicated in this release.

It looks like on iOS Spotify is $13 a month vs $10 a month on their website. I don't see anywhere https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotify.mu... that specifies in app purchases but I assume it is the same.
It's an ancient trope: It appears in the epic of Gilgamesh, who searches for immortality in the form of a magic coral flower, which eventually gets stolen, only for Gilgamesh to realize he was immortal all along, because of his legacy in his city Uruk. He also gets made a god after his death.
The results seem crappy to me, teclis found what I wanted zero percent of the time.

Hopefully they can keep iterating and improving this; a new entrant to Search is always welcome!

Because we desperately need something better and more useful than Goggle. It'll take a paradigm shift, for sure.
You are right, obviously, but I suspect that you're underestimating the complexity of the situation.

On one end of the spectrum, one may imagine Europe allying entirely with Putin's Russia (or with China, or with any other dictatorship). That's obviously bad. You can live like this for a very long time, but that way leads eventual subjugation, through violence or otherwise. That's the choice of countries that join the Silk Road.

On the other end of the spectrum, one may imagine Europe letting the US take all the decisions and being entirely dependent on the US for many critical imports. In other words, becoming a dominion of the US. Certainly better than an invasion, but a far cry from independence.

To illustrate, I have heard it said and repeated that the UK has stopped being independent. That any meaningful choice on British policy is actually taken in Washington. I have no clue whether that is actually true, but let us assume for a second that it is, or may be in the future. If that's the case, this means that voting for anything other than local elections is pointless. That the UK is in a limbo, not a democracy anymore, not really a police state, either.

Again,let me emphasize: I do not claim that this represents reality. I only claim that this something that many countries around the globe fear when they talk about the US. And, let's be frank, many of these countries also fear it when they talk about European countries.

So, if you're a democracy, in Europe or elsewhere, how do you remain independent? Obviously, you want to ally with a strong country (e.g. US) against known predators (e.g. Russia) and suspected predators (e.g. China, Turkey). But you also want to guard against too much dependence on your protector (Russia, China, but also the US and European countries, for instance, have been known to use and abuse leverage for political control). You also want to guard against election interference from the your protector (European countries have been doing this all over Africa, while CIA declassified documents confirm that CIA has been involved in election interference all over Europe since its founding – undoubtedly also true of KGB/FSB, but they don't declassify their documents).

Of course, if you spend too much time looking over your shoulder at your allies because you don't trust them, you risk delivering yourself to your predator.

Remaining independent is a complicated balancing act that most countries, not just Europe, play as well as they can. Germany's recent fumble shows how complicated but not that it's unnecessary.
Mechanical efficiency is not that important when most people only ride a few miles a day, at a slow pace, dictated by traffic conditions. If you take a broader view and consider vantage point, ease of mounting, mechanical efficiency, aesthetics, convenience, weight etc, bikes are pretty damn optimal.
Additionally: Setting up PHP/MySQL applications on these servers tends to be "upload files, load page" level simple, and cPanel hosting is still generally a fraction of the cost of modern "cool" cloud products.

Sure, I have some neat modern things I'd like to do, but I also have a shared hosting that's been doing it's job for pennies since 2011.
That depends on the obituary's avenue. Pretty sure that any obituary published where it matter to his family and close friends highlighted 9/11 with pride.
- Consciously work to regret more things [0]

- If something isn't quite a regret but feels off, or like it's not working the way it's advertised: Make plans to try alternative(s) in earnest by a specific, calendared date in the future if things haven't changed (I did this with the religion into which I was born; sticking to the calendared decision was one of the best decisions I ever made and I ended up walking out)

- Think about the crazy ideas that never work for anybody, and start trying them NOW in little baby steps before you hate yourself later for being too closed-minded

- Spend more time and money on little daily comforts, the practically insubstantial, vain little anti-buddhisms that nevertheless can create a compounding comfort-debt over time (book 1, chapter 1, verse 1: Maybe go buy some new shoes that you like and then use them to walk to an ice cream parlor)

- Be more active in planning medical care, yeah you may get cancer but even in that case, it's better to schedule check-ups earlier than later

Those are just a few that come to mind...

0. https://www.friendlyskies.net/maybe/regrets-a-powerful-plann...
Okay thanks for confirming, that's about what I was remembering, but it was such a big different I was unsure. The car really puts it in perspective
> It's nice to think there is a large untapped market of people who are ignored by traditional lenders, who have old-fashioned ways of measuring applicants and overlook people who don't fit the traditional mould.

True. I'm amazed that this line resonates with anyone, ever. Banks will take every cent they can get, the idea they are just leaving money on the table is... not backed up by history (see 2000s house lending....) Credit is available in crazy high amounts to anyone who can pay it back.

There is a large market who are usually ignored (but not always...) - people who need money but cannot pay it back. That is a social issue to solve, but it's not going to be solved by a for profit finance company.
Or "Hotaru no Haka".
Ory seems like a modular Keycloak, they don't seem to support SAML as a Service Provider yet which is the one thing we do well.
As a child, Albright was hoping I would die[0] so she would dance on mine.

It's great that I survived, and I can dance on her grave on behalf of the half million children that didn't.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM0uvgHKZe8
Not Everyone Conducts Inner Speech (2011)
Hacking King's Quest on my middle school's Apple IIe was one of the ways I learned to code.
> Is there a rational reason to allow credit scores to be factored into hiring decisions...

You'll have to be more specific.

Because I live in a State where credit scores can not be used for hiring decisions unless you plan to give that person signatory powers over your company checkbook/company credit card, or unless that person works for law enforcement, or unless that person will have to deal with lots of cash at any one time, etc.
In your 30s, if you are waiting to have kids for various reasons, you really need to stop delaying. Your probability of successfully having kids goes down every year, and by your early 40s your options for medical help if you have infertility stop being available because even those interventions lose effectiveness.

If you want kids, just have the kids. You're not going to care that you were being responsible and waiting when you find out waiting means you never get to have them.
It wouldn't pass an IRB. This sort of thing is fundamentally selfish. At best de minimis but you can imagine how annoying public life would get if tacitly recruiting strangers as unpaid therapists was at all common.
Try http://teclis.com/search?q=%28sysadmin+horror+stories%29 for more results (semantic search)
I was just trying to avoid the appearance of misogyny; though I know some men who have changed their last names to their wife's, and I'm not sure how else to quickly allude to that.
I don't understand, how do you end paying 150% of the principal loan if it's zero interest?
> The way detection works is we count the number of uBO blocked requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we kick it out, leaving only "clean" pages in the index.

I'm genuinely surprised there were any pages left to crawl.

Unfortunately this also kicks out genuinely useful blogs and other pages that are otherwise helpful but happen to be using a platform or framework that makes a few block-worthy requests.

I can't figure out if all of Wikipedia is in the removed set or just ranked too low to show up in results. On the browser, the site seems clean.
The piece is based on a talk given a conference on cycling optimization. The author is not in any way recommending that day-to-day cyclists change to a different form factor. It seems entirely to be an intellectual exercise asking "what is the theoretically optimal form for transferring human energy to a bicycle".
the existing state of the art is called the "p300 speller" and i believe it's been around for decades.

the user has a screen in front of them where the alphabet is cycled through at about 0.5 ch/s. scalp electrodes detect a signal associated with novelty or surprise allowing the user to spell out communications, very slowly.

edit: the cycling is in random order, thus exploiting the p300 surprise signal when the right character is highlighted. there's also some manipulation of spatial location to enhance the evocation of the signal.
I have stockpiled some food, after seeing the crazy supply chain and gas issues, but that’s about it
Could also use privacy.com though iirc it only works at masking debit cards.

But yeah, this burden shouldn't be offloaded to users to make sure they're using a different centralized service to actually cancel subscriptions.
How about a fusion of sensors to produce a 360 view like the fancy cars have?
>I'd like to know how that differs from just plain income?

It has basically all the same advantages you mentioned but also filters out high earners with rash behavior and or low responsibility.

I know plenty of high earners with low reliability and impulsive behavior.
Same here, my mom worked at the local community college. The other detail was the computer had no display, only a line printer. Spewed out quite a stack of paper by the end of a day playing Adventure.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_and_Sophie_Germain_primes... says:

> with the current factorization technology, the advantage of using safe and strong primes appears to be negligible

(I'm not an expert either.)
As I understand it, crocodiles and sharks have looked basically the same for tens of millions of years, unlike humans that were basically pre-chimpanzees 6 million years ago, even 1 million years age we were quite different from today.

https://theconversation.com/crocodiles-today-look-the-same-a...
> “Android has always been about openness and user choice,” said Sameer Samat, Vice President, Product Management at Google.

Oh **** off. Publish the Android MADA to the public, lol. Also, reinstate Fortnite then?

Great, you cut a deal, can we not pretend that it's an openness thing though? We know it's not.
That’s the overall max, but the increasing yearly limits mean you can’t reach that unless you take more than 4 years.

If you finish in 4 years, the max is about $45k
Hm…

https://imgur.com/a/BToBnun
Shark teeth (https://mobile.twitter.com/germhuntermd/status/1285971314134...)
Make some habits, which include:

- Exercise regularly (doesn't mean hours a day in the gym, just make it a regular habit)

- Don't eat so much junk, don't drink so much

- Have a regular sleep schedule and stick to it.

- don't sacrifice for your work, unless your work is also part of your recreation.

- conversely do prioritize your relationships

- max out your retirement contributions as best you can

Age: 50s; some of above are what I did and some are what I wish I had done.
Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore.

Other ones worth checking out include:

- https://search.marginalia.nu/ (A non-commercial search engine)

- https://wiby.me/ (Tends to have those really weird and cool indie sites)

- https://searchmysite.net/ (An index of personal websites)

- https://indieweb-search.jamesg.blog/ (Search IndieWeb websites)

- https://millionshort.com/ (Ignore the first million results from Google)
> I'm intrigued by some of the modern cruiser-style ebikes

I can see e-bikes for utility, but for travel etc. once you're on a big fast e-bile why not be on a motorcycle? You can even get an electric one.
I actually immediately thought of The Economist's obit on bin Laden:
https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https://www.economist.com/obituary/2...
I disagree. I get this exact anxiety, but the anxiety needs to be challenged. The communication is what forms the bedrock of a healthy society that can talk about it's problems and needs and find it's way to the empathy of the decision makers.
Have you ever avoided situations due to social anxiety? Ever had trouble keeping a conversation going? How many times have you been explicitly called attractive/unattractive by someone you felt attracted to? Was your childhood good (caring parents, enough food, no bullying)? Genuine questions.
I avoid using archive sites when the original is still live (and unedited). With respect to Google and other search engines, I usually visit the website providing the snippet, and have issues with their derivations/plagarism.

You may think I'm being silly, but I'm acting in accordance with my values, as I'm sure you do in situations where I'd disagree with you.
+1 Had kids in late 30s, and now have young kids in my 40s. It is hard physically, mentally, career-wise and other dimensions. Only financially, I'd say I'm less worried than if I was in my early 20s. But my financial security was probably strong right after grad school (world was my oyster!)
I fully understand that I am... maybe closer to people here but in the grand scheme of things financially I am in a better state than most people.

But so I was curious, I have $762 worth of subscriptions a year through Apple. So I could save $228.60 if they were all 30% less.

To me that is worth it. But I would also like to point out, that many of the apps I am subscribed too. I am only subscribed too because it was easy through Apple and I knew that I could cancel. I have a number of expired ones that I used for 6 months or a year but I didn't need anymore. A few that I have right now fit this but I am still actively using them.

If it wasn't for this central subscription, they would have never gotten my money to begin with.
Yep. Never underestimate soft power. The UK managed to stay relevant for much longer than reasonable thanks to soft power. Even France, at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, managed to survive being invaded by all of Europe, solely on soft power.
Former presidents have entire organizations dedicated to rehabilitating and amplifying their legacies. Former presidents also make high-profile appearances at sporting and other events which serve to make them more relatable to the populace. In other words, much better marketing.
Avoid attaching your identity to people, other people's idea of who you are, your job, and to possessions. None of it is real or permanent. Say it like a mantra.
> Assuming google works like Apple (correct me if I am wrong)

While subscription cancellations work similarly, Apple holds your hand (from a dev perspective) than Google does. Apple's overall approach seems to just make sense. For instance: if you stop offering a particular plan because you don't want to offer it anymore (e.g. no more yearly plans, only monthly and quarterly). With Apple, you get a notification that you need to change your plan, but if the change happens w/in 7 days of your renewal, you'll be grand-fathered in.

With Google... well... you cannot stop offering it. You have to communicate (manually) a cutoff date, (via their API) cancel people's subscriptions, and then deal with the fallout.
Congrats! That's really impressive work.
Ask HN: I'm in a position to move to anywhere in the USA, where should I go?
I'm facing a sort of analysis paralysis and would greatly appreciate some assistance and input to help me at least narrow down my options.

I'm single with a remote job. No pets, no one I need to consider but myself.

Here is what's important to me in order of importance:

1. Affordability.
-> So no SF or NYC. Ideally a place where housing falls at or under the nations average COL index of 100.

2. Opportunity
-> I don't want to be too far from at least one major population center in case I happen to lose my remote job and need to get reemployed ASAP. Ideally within a 90 minute drive of a city with a pop of at least 500k, these numbers are just estimates so a little longer of a drive or lower pop would be alright if it's otherwise worth the tradeoff.

3. Weather
-> I don't deal well with heat and would prefer somewhere that doesn't have blistering summers. High levels of rainfall is also a big plus.

4. Distance
-> I currently live in Washington DC. If I could find a place that met these requirements near by rather than across the country that'd be preferable, but this isn't nearly as important as the other considerations.

Again, any input is welcome and appreciated, thank you.
> Ask basically any dairy farmer, and they will be happy to tell you they drink the milk straight from the cow.

Not modern dairy farmers with cows loaded up with antibiotics, which generally all accumulate in the fat (cream). Even for organic farmers drinking unpasteurized milk would be an exception not the rule, it’s just an unnecessary health risk.
Getting older has opened my eyes to the benefits of having kids young. For one thing, I had more energy and was more resilient to loss of sleep when I was younger. That would've been nice to pair with kids.

My mother had me at 30. My wife's mother had her in her late teens. There's a big difference in energy there too. My wife's mother has more time, and energy, with our kids.

I have friends who had kids in college and a friend who had kids in high school. It seemed like a mistake back then - they could never come hang out and had to leave early cause they were dealing with kids or a wife or whatever. I'm not so sure they made a mistake now.

I would guess that late twenties are the ideal time to have kids. Early twenties you wrap up your education and start your career, thirties and forties get the kids out the door, fifties settle your retirement, sixties and on enjoy your extended family and retirement. That's how I'd plan it if I were going again.
What makes you say "reasonably good"? It's excellent. Ten kilograms of metal makes you three times faster at a quarter the energy spend, I'd say it's amazing.
The usual study/reference for this is someone biking at ~10mph. Bicycles become progressively less efficient at higher speeds due to air resistance.

Fairings and reduced frontal area (recumbent/supine positioning) can help this considerably. The combination is commercially sold as velomobiles and they're not especially popular but they do work. As an example, dedicated amateur enthusiasts do 3 hour century rides in commercial velomobiles regularly.
Working mirror:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220323194727/https://iorgos.ne...
> Plus, the cow would probably step on you.

Cows are pretty docile during milking. I mean, it’s not a great idea to crawl under _any_ object that size that can move unexpectedly, but if you’re in a quiet barn (to avoid the cow getting spooked) you could get away with it.
They dropped a message on their Mastodon (@fdroidorg@mastodon.technology): https://mastodon.technology/@fdroidorg/108006322149899761
maybe but making the decision for someone else of whether, when, and how their anxieties should be challenged is, again, kind of shitty