skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Safety razors" (double-edged razors with 10-cent cartriges) take a bit of practice, but are quite adequate in my experience. Its one of those things though that you need to practice your skills a bit with. But once you have the skill, there's no point ever going back.

Iron Skillet vs Teflon Pans -- Skillets weigh a lot more, meaning they take longer to heat up. Teflon also is way more hydrophobic. Honestly, they're two different tools for two different jobs. Skillets should be used for longer periods when temperature is key. Teflon Pans should be used for shorter, faster cooking stuff (really, morning eggs / omelets are best on a Teflon pan).

Tea -- Loose Tea saves on packaging and is far higher quality. You'll have to wash a Tea Infuser regularly (I like things like this: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/1-3-4-stainless-steel-sprin... . Available at almost any tea-store, but I guess you can also shop online).

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I guess I only agree on the tea-point and the safety razor / double-edged razor points. The other complaints seem to miss the point. Yes, Teflon pans only have a short lifespan and need constant replacement, but they also do cooking duties that are inconvenient on a cast-iron skillet pan. (It takes longer to heat up my cast-iron than to cook an egg on a Teflon pan).

A few of my friends are experimenting with steel-pans, which are lighter (heat up faster), but very similar characteristics to cast-iron... just heating up (and cooling down) faster.

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> Shaving foam: soap pucks transition to self foaming aerosol canisters

Self foaming aerosol canisters are only a couple of bucks? While razor costs are pretty high, I'm not seeing much price difference between soap-puck vs aerosol. I'm thinking this is more of a personal preference issue than cost-efficiency.

> Nespresso machines, and other coffee pod brands, replace many styles of coffee brewing. Provide much worse coffee, at a higher price but are superficially convenient.

If people want a more convenient coffee, I suggest brewing coffee ahead of time (possibly cold brew, but hot-brew works just fine) and storing it in the refrigerator. Microwave the coffee to heat it back up and you're good.

Noting beats the convenience of just taking coffee out of the fridge and drinking it (if you're fine with cold). I've found that cold-brew concentrate is very inconvenient to make, at least without special tools. I've stopped doing it because it just takes too long to filter out the grinds.

Hot-brew (and then refrigerate later) is perfectly fine / fast to filter even with crap blade-grinders and whatnot.

> In many inner city shops it is now hard to buy an individual piece of fruit.

So buy fruit at a grocery store? I guess I'm not seeing the issue...
> When the UI gets complicated you have to maintain this all yourself and it's a pain

This is also something that can be automated by a framework. Check out https://svelte.dev/blog/virtual-dom-is-pure-overhead
> Styptic pencils

The brush my father gave me aged 16 had an alum block built into the handle. I don't see brushes like that any more. I bought an alum block 2" x 1" from a barbershop for about £10; it never seems to get any smaller. In the east you can buy lumps of alum in souks and bazaars for almost nothing.

As well as being a styptic, alum doubles as an antiperspirant.
Yes, but there are ways to accomplish this automation without diffing. Svelte does this by statically wiring up the data dependencies in your app when it builds, and then at runtime making exactly the changes to the DOM that it needs to based on the information it had at build time. No need to diff.
I'm fortunate to attend a church that is socially progressive, theologically rigorous, and relishes honest questioning and debate. I don't think I would have maintained my faith without this environment.
I suspect GCC thinks of its options as mainly single-option short options and double-hyphen long options. It's reasonable to interpret things like `-funsafe-math-optimizations` to mean option `-f` with argument `unsafe-math-optimizations`, just like how `-Dfoo` means option `-D` with argument `foo`.

Unless you were thinking about something else.
I can only speak for myself and my own personal preferences but I will not do business with anyone that requires this. I've been cutting ties with businesses that have intrusive practices. I have also been migrating to a bank that gave me the option to make everything online read-only. The only remaining business is Amazon but I have recently found a local business that will drive into a big city once a week to transport items from big box stores so maybe I can nix Amazon at some point. I am in a very remote area. My personal goal is to reach a point where I can power off my flip phone and leave it in a drawer for months at a time.
In all measures, Windows is a dumpster fire. Usability, security, stability, etc. So what is your argument here? That Wordpress is at least as bad as a popular OS?

I don't know enough about iOS to comment.
Lucky man. I look like I last shaved yesterday by 9.
Or anywhere really tbf
Desktops/laptops aren't a necessity of life for many people. In general, I'd say smartphones were a far more universal necessity today.
I mean... You aren't wrong, but the amount of data that fits on a typical page is usually such that the speed of a full refresh probably shouldn't be that big of a deal.
Is he saying Devon Nunes is a liar? I mean who’d believe that?
Don't ever try to shave with a cutthroat when hung over.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31294458
unfortuantely lots of messages are not marketing and in some cases companies have legal duties to send them. My German bank insists on notifying me that I have a message. They can’t send the actual message (for security reasons), and I can’t opt out because they have a duty to inform me. Infuriating but seems to fall within the legal framework :(
Straight razor here too. Primarily because I wanted to get off the cost and waste wheel. It’s great.

I sharpen my own knife and woodworking tools. So learning to sharpen my razor is no big deal.

Now my only expense is occasionally buying some soap or aftershave once a year or so. And my time I suppose maintaining the razor which isn’t much at all.
I also noticed that disabling HTML rendering breaks a lot of websites.
Excellent summary. The corollary of your second point is that if you see a cookie banner, then the site wants to spy on you. If the cookies are not for spying, they don’t need a banner. Consider closing the tab.

https://lee-phillips.org/nomorecookiewarnings/
Ukrainians hack precision munitions from cheap drones and 3D printed parts
Is it typical to have non-blog site updates distributed as a feed? I have a blog page and a link aggregator page and I provide a feed for when the link aggregation page has updated. I just can’t tell if people ever use it like that?
Depending on the site, ask yourself "How dynamic does it actually have to be?". Perhaps using the GUI to update the content, and then creating static files and serving those may be an option:

* https://wp2static.com

* https://www.wordpress.org/plugins/simply-static/

* https://blog.hubspot.com/website/create-a-static-website-usi...
At least in the US, the 5th amendment protects against revealing our passwords to the government (and we can always go with "I forgot what it was"). I don't believe the same is true for biometrics and such, is it?
> The use of Python’s context managers considerably reduces the size of the generated parsers for code clarity, and enhanced CPU-cache hits.

I would love to hear more about how it affects cache hits.
That's not what I understood from this passage:

> Late capitalism is certainly bad enough, with its explosive cocktail of climate change, inequality, police brutality and the deadly pandemic.

To me this says "we're at the late capitalism stage, and we're dealing with a cocktail of ..."

Regarding police brutality specifically, it's not hard for me to believe that's a symptom of what they're labelling neo-feudalism. Police aren't going around beating up the ruling class. There's probably a direct correlation between where you are on the social ladder and your chances of being a victim of police brutality. That's what you'd expect of a feudal society.
That's true today if you use a password manager, no? And it's true of any site that uses 2FA (unless the site supports multiple authenticators and you have a backup token).
The main problem I see (based on the screenshot in the article) is that it still allows the attacker to initiate the auth flow from the outside, and the clueless user would in doubt just unlock for them. I don't see how the proposed scheme would prevent this phishing attack. It seems to be worse than the SMS 2FA part where one would at least have to enter the SMS code into some suspicious website.

My method of choice would rather have been what is established now for 2FA with time-based one-time passwords (TOTP). Here the attacker can't initiate the auth flow from the outside.
Came here to say similar! Di2, when it works, has serious advantages over a mechanical system IMO.

What era Di2 did you have that failed?
With my trimmer (Philips OneBlade) I'd say the result is more like "shaven 1 day ago". I kinda like the idea of a good ol' safety razor but so far I always got skin irritations from those. With trimmer I do not experience those issues. The blades are more on the expensive side with about 10 Euro per blade. But I replace those only about every three months. So it's not a big deal.
With nearly 2000 entries in my system, I’m not eager to move to something new. I do add new reads to my Goodreads and I have a catalog of the books I own and have read on LibraryThing, but part of what I like about this is the continuity of the pages where there’s a long history that goes back to when my personal site was at ftp://cyberg8t.com/~dhosek
Ask HN: Did someone work in a team without any manager?
Has someone worked in a team without any manager but just senior team members? How did it go?
I’ve always had an attorney represent me for RE transactions, not in NY, though. It’s usually a couple hundred bucks and each time easily saved us money.
I wrote a TodoMVC App with React, Redux and SSR that works without JS enabled in the browser a while back, for those interested in that sort of thing :)

Demo: https://todo-react-redux-noscript.herokuapp.com/

Repo: https://github.com/wishy-gift/todo-react-redux-noscript/

Talk (updated framework): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3yY-Z-X3xE4

Helpers to do your own stuff: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@wishy-gift/noscript
Even the most cursory examination of the topic would reveal to you that psychedelic drugs are (allegedly) beneficial when taken in a controlled manner, in safe environments - not exactly in line with the homelessness experience.

Your statement is even less accurate, somehow, than saying "well if chemotherapy really works then why don't we just hand out random chemotherapy drugs to homeless people."

I won't bother quoting any studies, because they wildly contradict one another, but the conventional wisdom is that some drugs can be beneficial in some circumstances. And often the benefit is harm reduction, ie managing pain with cannabis rather than opioids.
Can you put it in vinegar acid to essentially descale it then?
> usage of bitcoin for everyday transactions is low and is concentrated among the banked, educated, young, and male population

I’m shocked, shocked, etc.
> Do you just not believe that those in control only care about the money and couldn't care less about search quality other than to the extent it's necessary to make money?

I definitely believe this, but I also think companies fall victim to the classic quote from Upton Sinclair:

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."

It would not surprise me if Googlers had a rationalization for why these "worse" search results are somehow a better user experience.

Other examples: Apple's tight control over the iPhone software experience is controversial. Facebook employees often say they're benefiting the world, while outsiders think they're harming it.

I don't think these are black-and-white - someone can credibly argue a case for each. But I think the Upton Sinclair quote tends to tip the balance for what insiders believe.
I couldn't manage it. I'd send mine off to get that edge, it would come back, I'd put it on the Nanis, ruin it, boom one shave. And those Naniwas were expensive. Went back to the safeties. I might try out shavettes one day.
If you asked scientists 30 years ago about some of the extremophile life that we now know to exist, they'd have thought you were insane. They've recently found microbes loving in an asphalt lake in Trinidad. It doesn't have to be an with x% oxygen and x% CO2 and whatever else to support life. It doesn't have to be between -30 and 90 degrees C for things to survive. There's organisms out there that use sulfur compounds for respiration in the way we do oxygen.

So either whatever caused life on Earth was completely unique and couldn't have happened anywhere else, or there's a very good chance there's other life out there. The universe is huge and it's hard for me to believe that earth is the only place where the parameters were met to cause life. From there, it's hard for me to believe that those life forms couldn't adapt to circumstances that are beyond our wildest imagination.
I watched this video and was very excited to try out the powder, since I’ve just been using the pods they sell at Costco for my entire adult life.

But there are Problems.

1. You can’t find powder anywhere. Not a single grocery store near me sells it. Gel, sure. Pods, sure. Powder, not even Wal-mart had it, and they have everything. I finally found a faded and dented box at an Ace Hardware, where I wasn’t even looking for it.

2. The pour spout is a pain in the butt to open. I don’t have long nails (due to a very bad habit), and it takes me dozens of seconds every time to open.

3. A single clump makes it even more annoying. Now you have to figure out how to break the clump (because it’s blocking the spout), or you have to shake the box for a long time.

4. Speaking of shaking. If you get too much powder in the cracks around the dispenser, it won’t close anymore! Now you have to figure out how to get the powder out of the cracks before you can close and run the machine.

I’m sure it’s cleaning my dishes a little better, but I am not going to buy another box of powder. The marginal convenience of the pods is much higher than Alec claims. I’m going back to the product that I can actually buy in enormous bulk at Costco.
it’s mostly the ePrivacy directive, and it’s not dumb. It’s meant to protect your privacy if followed. Lots of companies however don’t actually follow it, and use dumb and misleading popups meant to trick you and cause you to agree out of fatigue and lazyness. If they don’t track you, there’s no need for popups of any kind. It’s entirely on them, not on the law.

edit: I didn’t downvote you, but thought it’s worth responding.
The plastic waste thing is kind of silly. People commenting here mostly live near well managed landfills and aren't worrying about burning 10 pounds of oil driving to work.

Like fine, feel free to use less plastic, but it really isn't a big portion of most people's resource consumption.
>> Not to mention much deeper insight into your activity everywhere.
This is the worrisome part for me.

I still use a flip phone and don't want apps. I want a phone only.
I use safety razors because it is must sharper than a regular disposable razor. As a result, you don't need to do multiple passes over the same area which leads to less razor burn and skin irritation. I buy a couple hundred new blades every few years for $25-$30 and never have to throw money away on a $10 Mach XXX or whatever... I am actually surprised more dermatologists and skin experts haven't recommended safety/straight razors.
Ask HN: Is this PIIA clause on future inventions crazy or just me?
My employer has just asked me to sign an updated confidential information and invention assignment agreement and I came across this clause which I haven’t seen before and seemed a bit invasive. I’ve signed several agreements that prevent you from going to competitors for a year or two after leaving but haven’t seen this one yet.

“Future Innovations. I will disclose promptly in writing to Company all Innovations conceived, reduced to practice, created, derived, developed, or made by me during my employment with Company and for three (3) months thereafter, whether or not I believe the Innovations are subject to this Agreement, to permit a determination by Company as to whether or not the Innovations are or should be considered Company Innovations. Company will receive that information in confidence.”

Has anyone else come across something like this? Is this normal? Any ideas on how to handle it?
Super rare indeed! For me, it seems to be around one every couple of years. Just long enough that it becomes a novelty again.
It seems to me that both this person's own predictions and the predictions of past futurists that he criticises fundamentally fail in the same way: they assume that the faddish ambitions of the day will play out on exactly the timeline that the marketeers tasked with procuring funding for them claim, and largely ignore advances in all other fields. For a century up until the turn of the millennium, the faddish ambition in pursuit of funding was generally spaceflight or AGI, and so authors followed the herd with overly optimistic predictions about that; in 2012, instead, it was everyday convenience tech (as pushed by myriads of startups) and the renaissance of a certain high modernism in the US regarding transit and urban planning.
What is the point of this article? I don't have anything to do before the grocery store opens, so I gave it a full chance, and after the end I'm still really struggling to identify what the author is trying to do here. Is this an extended argument that people should avoid calling things "feudal" as a rhetorical strategy?
Or perhaps 5420.
This is a nice app, and the best pdf viewer i could find for windows. that said, the scrolling behavior sucks on both windows and a debian build i tried it on.
> Why can't I stick something in my curry to see if it needs more spice?

Spoons exist though.
I used TatSu back when it was named Grako, I really loved it.

But now, I discovered LALRPOP[0] and Logos[1] in Rust which is just so much more powerful, I'm using PyO3 to bring it to Python because I find it easier to walk the AST and do code generation from here.

[0] - http://lalrpop.github.io/lalrpop/

[1] - https://docs.rs/logos/latest/logos/
Whenever these discussions on mega structures come up I feel compelled to mention the ratios of mass-energy in the universe.

~5% of the universe is made up of the stuff you and I are. Most of that is hydrogen and helium, cooking in stars.

~20% of the universe is dark matter. We know very little about it except that it falls down.

~75% of the universe is 'dark energy'. I use quotes because we know almost nothing about it except that it seems to fall up (!?).

Give us another 500 years and who knows what the %s will look like. We could be missing dozens of whole categories still.

So when talking about aliens and hyper civilizations, I'm on the side that we know too little to even properly speculate. Like goldfish stuck in a pond.

That said, yeah, it's suuuuper fun to speculate about this stuff. I enjoy it a lot too.
It's just stack based memory that automatically cleans up. Given their storage on the stack (rather than heap), they have better cache properties.

https://docs.python.org/3/library/contextlib.html
> Why So Many Mythological Monsters Are Female

Went through half the article and never found a quantitative comparison between male and female monsters. What is "so many" here? There are 3 or 4 examples in the article, how is it representative?

Even buying into the premise of the article, isn't it what we talk about when we want representation? Aren't women also allowed to be monsters? Do they always have to be virtuous?
It is similar, although rather than using a Benes net to implement the permutation, it uses PLONK (https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/953.pdf), which is massively more efficient. And of course it actually implements the RISC-V ISA which makes it more useful in practice.
> the computer can't understand all of this

It could...

> the real solution will be some sort of hybrid

An engine that built ontologies even just through ANNs could maybe suffice. It's still a game of entities and relations ("state" is still a relation, and relations can be implemented in ANNs).

Meaning that the network has to define "battler", "instance", "Link", "Kirby", "engulf", "fireball", "victory", "death", and progressively "know" what those things are and what they imply. It has to build a world including the laws and the entities.
The tablets I use are wrapped into some kind of wrapper that dissolves in the dishwasher (I think it's some sort of gelatin) so there's no real waste other than the bag they came in. A big bag of tablets lasts me over a year so I really see few downsides here.
Your reading seems to omit the possessive intent of "its".
We should adopt the opposite: ask to disclose when opinions are NOT your own.
Article thinks 300k views after three weeks makes a YouTube video popular.
My point is that all popular software is a security nightmare because our industry sucks at security. Anything that is a high value attack target gets pwned.

Very little software appears to be actually secure. Maybe OpenSSH is on that short list, but even that has occasional problems. But for it's attack value the known vulnerabilities seem low.
If you aren’t looking for the closest possible shave, I can’t say enough good things about the Philips Norelco OneBlade. While the replacement heads run about $15 each, in my experience they do in fact last ~4 months as the manufacturer says.
Does that mean soaking in say vinegar would revive them?
Wi-Fi debuted in the late eighties, so the 1971 referenced seemed odd. I looked into it and it was part of the early research on powerful RF emissions. There were some uncomfortable images of the effects on rabbits eyes, etc.

To suggest that WLAN causes similar issues is absurd due to both the enormous EIRP difference and the very psychological point that many other (higher power) uses of the frequency have been effect for some time but of all of them, only the one marketed to consumers caused issue.
Sigh. This is manifestly incorrect. The party that campaigns as Sinn Fein in Ireland now has very very little to do with the Sinn Fein that won the elections in 1918.

That Original Sinn Fein splintered into Fianna Fail, Fine Gael, a bunch of random socialist parties, and eventually the workers party which merged with Labour 30+ years ago.

The Sinn Fein that did really well in the NI assembly elections yesterday is Provisional Sinn Fein, which is an outgrowth of the civil rights movement for Catholics that started in the 1960s.

This Sinn Fein was the political wing of the Provisional IRA, an armed group which engaged in violence to bring about a united Ireland.

So, yes they are IRA associated (though the pIRA haven't engaged in political violence since about 1997).
I hope there’s a FOSS way to manage my FIDO2 login tokens.

As long as there’s a command-line app that I can use instead of my phone (which I will never do), I’m good with this!

I’d be willing to help develop such an app.