skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Why would they do that when one entity's losses can be used as a tax write-off for the other entity's profits.

Because it's better to not have losses than to use them as tax write-offs (also, because basically every use of funds other than retaining profits is already a tax write-off for business, and the ones that aren't losses contribute to future profits.)
If it's hugged to death, archive link: https://archive.ph/8vwVB
https://archive.ph/0szRY
There really are limitations to the amount of time the core editors and administration have to devote to it though. Even if they could keep on top of the blatant spamming and self promotion and nutty theories and articles created purely to harass, if you have an order of magnitude more pages you have an order of magnitude more pages that can get out of date, be vandalised, be total bullshit etc.
> I don't like filling bags with tea, so I buy tea bags that are pre-filled

Uh, that's not how loose leaf tea is used...

Usually one would use a strainer or a gaiwan. Your point still stands, tea bags are less hassle, you just won't get to drink fine oolong or puerh. I don't mind cleaning the gaiwan - taking out the leaves takes a couple seconds.
> I'm old enough to remember news and events that counter the popular views, and those events are not even in historical news articles.

I would be genuinely fascinated to learn some examples of this.

This is something I've been suspecting for a long time, but I can rarely put my finger on anything specific.

But I'm sure we're all being collectively gaslit.

Lots of things feel disconcerting these days, like reality is being erased and shifted.
> do you want a future where everyone is required to purchase one, an a cell plan to exist in society, to engage in commerce, enjoy shelter, health care and security?

This seems like a slippery slope argument. Almost everyone purchasing these products has a phone and service. Cash is expensive to accept. (And makes zero sense for online-only services, which a cash-mandating law incentivises.)
A little story some may find amusing and possibly pertinent: many years back one of the Wikipedia editors said something really silly. Silly enough it got reported on. So… I went to see if they had a Wikipedia page. And, of course they did. Despite the fact that they were, objectively, not notable.

So, I did the decent thing and, in a “Haha, only serious” fashion updated the article to include easily the most notable thing they had ever done. Even provided multiple citations and everything.

I mean, everyone here knows what happened next. I didn’t expend any more energy on it.

(For the record, when I say silly I mean it, it was mildly embarrassing, offended no-one and wasn’t problematic in any way.)
My first taste of Wikipedia’s controversial policies was on an entry for the song “Regulate” by rapper Warren G. Someone posted a synopsis of the lyrics which various Wikipedia editors found “clinical to the point of parody” (paraphrasing) and thus worthy of reversion. I have never been able to look at Wikipedia the same since.
Study that the article goes over:

> This paper studies the potential of a cryptocurrency to become a medium of exchange. We use evidence from a natural experiment: In September 2021, El Salvador became the first country in the world to make bitcoin legal tender, and all economic agents were required to accept bitcoin for all payments. The Salvadorean government also launched an app, “Chivo Wallet,” which allowed users to digitally trade both bitcoin and dollars, and gave major incentives to download it. We conduct a representative national face-to-face survey to obtain information on bitcoin’s usage and effects. Leveraging this data, we document how, despite the government’s “big push” and a large fraction of people downloading Chivo Wallet, usage of bitcoin for everyday transactions is low and is concentrated among the banked, educated, young, and male population. We also estimate the fixed cost of adopting the new payment technology, the importance of strategic complementarities for users, and the elasticity of substitution between mobile payments and other payment methods.

* https://www.nber.org/papers/w29968
I've grown to really appreciate MQTT over the last few years. It's useful in ways I didn't even expect.

It's just enough transport over TCP to be useful without resorting to HTTP complexities.
My god that looks like a god send!

I've tried using xdebug for profiling, but as you say it is just not up to the task. Even leaving the extension enabled without any tracing or debug session enabled wreaks havoc on the performance characteristics.
There are too many to mention, even Clojure supports inline templating, but it's a horrible design pattern. Have a look at Enlive instead if you want something close but solid.
I can imagine if you are running 70s vintage DEC hardware, there might be appreciable performance benefits to not spawning that extra process.
I don't think that this being around 9 years and not being noticed has any bearing on whether the world needs this. There are plenty of things that you and I have no idea exist but nonetheless serve important functions.
> Canada had MASH medical units

Are you sure you're not talking about Red Cross teams from Canada (not exactly Canadian troops).

> and theres even a canadian webpage listing medals award and names who served in Vietnam.

Aren't you talking about Canadian recipients of US medals (because they joined the US military)?

There were also those involved with the ICCS during the US withdrawal, various defense companies who sent contractors to work on equipment in Vietnam for their US customers, etc.
How to build a BVH – part 5: TLAS and BLAS
Article 5 in the series is now online, explaining the tech behind RTX / hardware ray tracing. With 'sane C++' source code.
> We need to be actively thinking of ways to roll things back

Although I agree with you, it is not realistic.

Do you think kids who are 3 right now will feel the same when they are your age?

Reminds me of the US General who, in WW II, insisted cavalry still had a place in warfare. Can’t remember his name.
They are, except one is actively being viciously suppressed, and the other already exists and is working great.
I appreciate they serve different purposes, but I had some unknown bottlenecks I wanted to discover, and explored 3 ways of doing so. In my case, one was far easier to actually gain any insights from than the others :) FWIW I use Xdebug regularly during development anyway.
> better security systems take advantage of that by combing all three. For me to log into work I have to use a password (what I know), use a hardware token (what I have), and be logging in from a location where they'll expect me to be (what I am).

Perfect is the enemy of the good. FIDO is better than just passwords. That’s what it’s replacing. You can keep using triple-factor authentication if you want to.
They are just another set of expendable cogs in the logistics machine of Amazon. They are incentivized to enact and enforce harsh management practices on those cogs further down the line while being subject to similar constraints coming from above them. Shit rolls down hill so they don't get the worst of it, but they are nowhere near the top of the hill and they still have to handle a miserable amount of it.
Users don’t know how a site implements FIDO either.

With any authentication system you do have to trust the server you’re accessing to identify you correctly. Take FIDO: sure, in theory someone would have to be close to you to steal the “thing you have”, but if the service you’re authenticating with doesn’t implement the protocol properly or is hacked, then attackers may be able to access your account without being anywhere near you.

All authentication schemes offer benefits only if implemented correctly.
There's no harm in unionizing bus attendants as well.
I like levity. I value my vertical text space even more.
Similar to what a mid-range phone has :)
Wow, a Mac and ios exclusive app that I can't use on my android or Windows machine!

So incredibly useful to me since I don't own a Mac at all, nor any iphone. Perhaps if you considered that people use other operating systems you'd see why your solution is a nonstarter and electron will continue to dominate the area?
> but this smells like the usual progressive tendency to glorify population-importing immigration

That is a massive leap from what I said. I really need you to point out where I “glorified” anything.

> There is nothing wrong about disliking foreigners on one's own land

When you put it that way…yeah something definitely sounds wrong.
How to stop synchronous code in a web worker?
Right - putting my loose leaf into a strainer or a gaiwan, and then emptying either of them, takes nearly no longer than grabbing my tea bag, opening it and dropping it into a cup.
Yes, people are being steered towards behaviors that are more profitable for manufacturers and away from behaviors that are better for themselves.

And the way to stop it is to stop buying that stuff. Stores get pressured to stock things, and they can only justify it if it gets bought. If a store doesn't stock the things you want, don't buy things from that store except the things it does have that you do want. They will make the alternatives equally accessible when we demonstrate that we can go without what they have on offer. We always have a choice, always.
When you've got thousands of books, you lose track of what you've got, just like with files.

It's not necessary to ask how I know this :-)
If an extension supports user-defined rules, rules lists could be crowdsourced and/or delegated to dynamic lists downloaded from a server (like uBlock Origin). The “I don’t care about cookies” extension is a good example: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... . The extension even has UI for users to report websites whose cookie popup are not known by the extension.

The first step might be creating a shared JS library for generic remote list management (periodically checking for updates, downloading lists, managing local list versioning) that extension developers can use in their extensions.
this is a shallow read of a really in-depth article. your comment does it no justice
Safety razors are so sharp it’s hard to feel when you’re cutting yourself - I get little spots sometimes and see them more than feel them. Weirdly the biggest factor between getting cut shaving and not for me is how foggy the mirror is. I never get cut when the mirror is clear.
> It doesn't feel like something where the local leadership was free to make their own plays.

Firing managers where unionization happens encourages managers where unionization efforts are under way to make their own plays, whether this is formally allowed or not, whether by company policy or the law.

Obviously, getting caught on independent, policy/law-forbidden, efforts would also have adverse consequences, so the incentive also is to not get caught.
Having a beard, i have a trimmer, i only just replaced one i had for fifteen years because i saw a sleeker, smaller and more modern one on sale. I still use razors occasionally for some things, but i’ve never bought more than one pack of blades a year, seems if you only use them for bits of hair in weird places and rinse them well, they last a long time

Pans i understand and probably don’t replace my non stick ones as often as i should, i consider cast iron but it seems like a huge hassle.

I do like teabags, actually particular cheap brands from my home country that i just really like the taste of. At work we have tons of fancy loose leaf tea, but i just really, really like my imported stuff.

I have a mocha pot at home, these are great. I always thought the nespresso machines were slightly less convenient. I have one coffee a day and those machines take up valuable kitchen real estate.

I walk to work or use public transport

I find the packaging of veg intensely annoying, if you’re single and want a handful of a particular veg for dinner it is hard to find. And i hate wasting all the excess i have to buy for one meal i want to cook. I have 2 supermarkets right by me, and they mostly offer loose veg, but on some they don’t (green beans seem to come only in hugely over sized bags) there’s some supermarkets (and markets) in the city that offer all loose veg, but i find i can only use them at the weekends. I find this ine particularly annoying as it discourages healthy eating.

My smart tv is disconnected from the internet and it works just fine with a combination of my playstation as media server, and a raspberry pi running a plex server

I live close to supermarkets, am a fussy eater and the idea of having unknown and unexpected food stuffs delivered to me frightens me
> You can buy a ticket VIE->FRA->SXB for 1000 EUR in Business class.

There's your problem. Put them in economy. That adds 50% more seats to the flight AND saves money.

Or rather, reimburse them for economy and let them decide whether they want to pay more.
Wonderful stuff, I'm so interested in what wearing them would look like.

The hammerhead reminds me of https://xkcd.com/941/
It's dropping dirt-bullets out of the sky with enough momentum to penetrate dirt -- probably enough to penetrate most flesh.

Air-dropping pinecones and seeds, however, might be sufficient (and very fast). Cones and seeds are already designed to fall at/near terminal velocity and later on yield a tree.

It'd definitely make me smile to see a Hercules flying across recently-logged terrain or historically-deforested offloading tons of seeds that drift to the ground to start a new life.
Yeah this is a really hard problem. There is stuff that legit should be deleted because it's either BS or spam. I somewhat wish there was a setting like "show dead" that HN has.
At a 50-100 price point they seem to break around the 3-5 year mark.

I got a cheap one sub 20 and it lasted 3 months.

I tried getting a wired one hoping it will last a bit longer.

It may just be me, my hair is really hard.
It's depends on the site that uses OpenID Connect federated sign-in if they ask for your email address from the identity provider.

An application/site can optionally request the "email" scope during OpenID Connect sign-in, but if it is not requested (only the "openid" scope instead) then the provider must not return an email address in the ID token, or an OAuth access token which is authorized for an API method which returns the user's email address (OpenID Connect Core 1.0 section 5.4 - "Requesting Claims using Scope Values").

Google implement this (https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/oauth2/open...), by returning only a unique numeric user ID in the returned id_token. I haven't checked other OpenID Connect providers.
The Symbol Management Problem
I got a vintage Gillette handle off eBay - it definitely has heft.

Could be worth trying a different set of blades. The Astra Platinum were the Reddit hive mind recommend at the time, but this was ~8 years ago.

I’m also wondering if it might be a hair thing. My facial hair is thick/coarse, particularly on the upper lip, which is where I consistently nicked myself.

Short of a several pound handle I can’t imagine cutting it with the weight of the razor alone.
Poor people lives got better under Blair, whereas the Tories have gutted large amounts of the state. If it wasn't for Iraq people would (and do if you ask them specifics) look back on New Labour policy favourably.

It's very easy to wax poetical about systemic change, and I often will too, but i don't want this government's absolutely awful record to be swept under a rug of abstraction.
As cool as this looks I can never see myself placing something as important as my notes in a closed source app under a locked-in vendor.

https://joplinapp.org/ does the trick for me, Synology NAS makes sure notes are copied over to multiple devices at any given time.
> Pentium IV single-core performance is almost identical to a modern entry-level netbook processor: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-4-300GHz...

Almost identical? The wimpy netbook processor is 59% faster on a single core. Ignore that site's overall speed numbers, they make no sense.

But a fair comparison has to be to a desktop chip. Let's look at an i3-12300. It rates +597% on single core performance; seven times faster.
Those are pretty impressive feats of engineering, given how hard it is to operate a record player in a relatively stable environment. Just having a room with wooden floors would be enough to upset the needle when walking around if your record player was placed un-carefully (or was not properly decoupled from the environment). To do this in a car with three potential axis of acceleration is pretty amazing. I would love to see more about how they managed to get away with this without the records skipping. Also interesting: a 45 RPM single would give you 3:30 playing time or so, replacing records every few minutes must have taken quite a bit of attention away from the road.
Yes, I suppose people do that through the official channels blessed by the employer? Are you likely to write any of your employer's opinions as 'vntok'? Why would you do that?
Of topic, but the guy has an interestingly apt name given his job, until you look up the meaning of his surname. I believe Fleischman translates to butcher, so he's "Forrest Butcher", which makes it wholly inappropriate given his job!
Another person reverse engineered the hardware protocol and built a replacement controller which also implements MQTT

https://www.revk.uk/2022/04/new-air-con-part-2.html

https://github.com/revk/ESP32-Daikin
If all you want is to have a copy of what you wrote, you can ask a Wikipedia admin to temporarily undelete the page (perhaps moving it to your user space). If the reason for deletion was just that the subject was not notable enough, I see no reason for not doing that.
>Spreading seeds from the air you're basically spreading bird food.

That is traditionally how seeds spread...
Sorry, thanks for the tip. Looks like I cannot edit the title anymore, sorry.
How to Pick a Winner in SaaS
Globally we are burning a lot more coal than 20 years ago.

https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/global-coal-pla...

40% of electricity globally is generated with coal.

US per capita CO2 emissions are still high. If all 8 billion people got to live like the average American, we’d have an even bigger problem.
That's why I provided the Wikipedia URL. Here's a useful quote: "In 2012 Richard D. Wolff, an American professor of economics, hailed the Mondragon set of enterprises, including the good wages it provides for employees, the empowerment of ordinary workers in decision making, and the measure of equality for female workers, as a major success and cited it as a working model of an alternative to the capitalist mode of production."

The other standard source for a critique of Capitalism is in the early works of Marx, especially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Kapital . In Marx' later works, he gets a little cranky for my taste.
Not if it was literally covered up systemically at each warehouse where the issues lie?

They're not omniscient.
It's worth noting that Wikidata has far more inclusive standards than any Wikipedia, though it still excludes true vanity submissions. Many of these deleted items could get a Wikidata entry if they don't have one already.
I live in a small town in Northern California. Been here for over 20 years, and the population keeps growing. A bigger problem is housing and jobs for all the people who move here.

Of course that's just anecdata, I have no idea about the state as a whole, but if the population is shrinking, it's not obvious from my point of view.
Folk Theorem
> I wonder what will take for anti-union companies-can-do-nothing-wrong people to consider that maybe companies can be authoritarian and bad.

It will take an ideological inversion. Those people already recognize that companies can be authoritarian, but they see this as a positive thing (and often have a strong financial interest in it.)
But do you have NFT to sell "your own tree" to people or not?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBL8ff8emo

Something like this, but you'd probably have to tweak it to produce the right format and the sync is likely the tricky bit.
Hence why it's nice to have your own copies of things. They won't get altered or disappeared.
> It's such a tragedy for hard work and human knowledge to disappear into the void just because radical deletionists managed to take over Wikipedia.

After browsing the site and seeing mostly crap, I'm genuinely curious: do you have examples of content erroneously evicted by radical deletionists?
You Shouldn’t Trust Success Stories
Yeah that's part of living in civilization. If you don't like it you can go live in Somalia. An alternative would be to just get rid of social security but that seems pretty unpopular. If you're going to have socialism you have to think through the issues like this.
Why create waste if you don't need to for no real benefit especially in cases where it's minimal effort to avoid? I'm not saying this tip alone is going to save the planet, but you could use the same reasoning to say it doesn't matter if you litter. Not creating waste and littering when it can be easily avoided should be the sane default.
They do this on purpose, create non-interchangable disposable parts and EOL the system by ending manufacture of those parts.

You can do what the article says and just buy a double bladed razor, more environmentally friendly because you don't get stuck in this trap, the disposable part is just steel, it's easily manufactured and not proprietary. Or, you can buy the disposable parts for your electric shaver with the shaver, keeping in mind the actual, working lifespan of the device. Or, you can use a straight razor and a strop, no disposable parts necessary.
Agreed, disclosing ties is a good idea. I guess I'm just not too keen on the specific wording...
What's wrong with reverting content that isn't relevant for the encyclopedic format of Wikipedia? A decent example of this might be https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempted_(Squeeze_song)#Backg..., which goes into the background of the song without analyzing every lyric. Save that for Genius.
I believe the developer of Notable is working on a mobile version.
Every group can organize. There's no magical barrier. Dunno about the US but unions for management does exist in other countries.
from the point of view of american's interests, not from the point of view of european's interests

big difference
To give some benefit to organizations trying this, airseed does have a FAQ if you scroll down a bit on https://airseedtech.com/what-we-do/ . Curious about their differentiator mentioned in the article:

""The niche really lies in our biotech, which is the support system for the seed once it's on the ground," says Walker.

“It protects the seed from different types of wildlife, but also supports the seed once it germinates and really helps deliver all of those nutrients and mineral sources that it needs, along with some probiotics to really boost early-stage growth.""
Did this submission’s title really have to be changed? It went from the author’s choice

“Shaving is expensive”

to:

“Shaving is an example of how consumer products extract more money”

I appreciate the HN mods’ often thankless task, but there are times when title overrides feel overzealous and IMO this is one.
This story is elliptical to the point of unintelligibility. Nobody knows what happened next. We can guess a page was deleted from the context of this thread, but we have no idea why.