skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What an excellent question. I'm very much interested in the answer as well.

On a similar note, I read on Twitter a robotics expert talking the other day about how we can probably get robots that can recognize and pick up basic objects, moving them from one location to the next.

One great application of this would be a robot that picks up toys and socks that children leave behind into a chest or something of the sort.

I think lots of parents would enjoy that.
Yes, thanks I should have been more clear that I knew that going in. It was the contrast that surprised me. I wasn't sure if the original hunger was just my excuse for over eating, or something I was imagining. But after talking with other people who don't take ADHD meds, I found they had the same hunger level as I do on the meds, but naturally.
Worse still are areas where laws were enacted that _required_ you to get your solar from your utility vs your roof. Or there's a "minimum service fee" even though you don't consume any energy. In the early days you could "sell" your excess energy back to the grid. Now you can't and worse still, they don't know how to handle the infrastructure they have to meet the ever changing climates of the western United States.
Americans celebrated a fast food chain bringing back Mexican pizza recently. Other Americans never miss a chance to declare sushi rolls aren't proper sushi.
That can also be said for nearly all specializations/ventures of us humans, right? Physics (nukes), chemistry (explosives and refined sugars), electronics engineering ("engagement optimization"), biology (human experiments maybe), philosophy (started many wars), etc. There doesn't seem to be many things where we haven't corrupted in some way. Everything is about ethics and politics(?)
So you’re suggesting apathy in the face of victim-hood?
Non-nuclear power kills far more people each year than nuclear has killed during its entire existence. "...before having the slightest idea what to do with nuclear waste." implies that there is some way to do so that will result in a hundred thousand deaths annually. I don't know of a way to botch the job that badly?
Tagging doesn't work because there is an incentive to falsely tag to sell stuff. Tag sites with ads for cat products as "dog", "bird", "groceries", "boots", "cars" on the off chance that you'll get your ad for cat products in front of some random customer's eye balls.

It's exactly the same incentive as spam email. It takes zero effort, costs nothing, and if you get 1 hit in a million you still make a profit.

You can see this issue in play easily on soundcloud where people will tag their music with whatever tags they think will get their tracks played. You can also see it on all the porn sites where people re-upload porn with ads inserted or overlayed for their pay-for-porn site and then tag the porn with whatever they think will get click throughs.

you might claim with enough tags you'll be able to tell the accurate tags from the inaccurate tags but I've seen no evidence that that actually works. My guess is it's partly that the only people who have an incentive to tag are the content creators (or content re-uploaders) and they have no incentive to follow any rules.

Further, Agreeing on tags is nearly impossible. Consider "man" vs "woman" and all the political discussion around that. There's a conflict between those that want the tag for their identity, and those that want the tag to be useful for filtering. As much as I respect people's identities it's more useful for filtering if I can search for "brunette" and only see brunettes. And, if you find some other tag to use for the filtering then it's only a matter of time before someone demands they be identified with that new tag.
When we first started the show we were doing way dumber more youtube-y content (largely due to the interests of the producers, not PBS — look up the Majora's mask or farting in space episode). We got a ton of initial feedback early on that people wanted more actual science stuff, and it seemed like there was effectively no upper bound for what people would "tolerate" in terms of actual science vs. IFLS-core content. I think people honestly just like the challenge of understanding the show.
C wasn't really an option in the 1970s. It wasn't far into C's existence before Bell Labs internally had a C compiler for IBM OS/360 (predecessor of MVS), but it wasn't available as a commercial product (they did agree to share it with external researchers, most significantly the group at Princeton which used it to produce the first port of Unix to IBM mainframes.) C compilers for IBM mainframes running Unix were commercially available by 1980 (as part of Amdahl UTS, which was the productisation of Princeton's port), but it took a few more years before you they were commercially available for non-Unix IBM mainframe operating systems.

There was one alternative to assembler which saw some use (albeit never reached assembler's popularity) – SabreTalk (aka PL/TPF) [0]. That was jointly developed by IBM, American Airlines and Eastern Airlines. It was a custom PL/I dialect, rather than just standard PL/I, because (i) standard PL/I includes a lot of facilities which didn't make sense in the TPF environment (such as IO and floating point); (ii) standard PL/I lacked inline assembly, but that made it harder to invoke the TPF API which revolved around assembler macros. IBM has a long history of secret internal dialects of PL/I, which it used to write its mainframe/midrange operating systems (PL/S and its descendants)–SabreTalk belongs to the same tradition, although it is not identical to any of those internal IBM dialects. Eventually, someone developed a SabreTalk to C converter, and SabreTalk sites used that to move to a mainstream language.

Most of these airline reservation systems also used COBOL. COBOL was too inefficient for the real-time transaction processing part of the system, but these systems also involved some background batch processing (aggregate reporting, accounting, etc), and that part of the system was generally written in COBOL running under MVS. It was normal for TPF sites to have TPF mainframes to run the transaction processing, and MVS mainframes to run the batch reporting and other business applications, and also to host the development environment – TPF has never been self-hosting, developers would edit/assemble/compile their code under MVS and then transfer it to TPF for testing. (In TPF's contemporary successor z/TPF, the development platform has shifted from MVS to Linux.)

[0] See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SabreTalk and also http://teampli.net/Sabretalk_Reference_Guide.pdf
1. Spending time with wife & son
2. Inventing new idea and seeing/making it coming to life.
3. Learning and really getting some new fundamental idea about the world
Another technique is to enable the accessibility mode, which is a speech-to-text prompt and is supposedly easier to bypass.
my point is that the advantages of nuclear both outweigh its cost by a mile, and address most of the issues we're dealing with in transitioning to renewables and conservation. i'd throw hydro, desal, and terraforming projects like nawapa in that category too.

even with mixed use i'd still say renewables have a footprint problem, but the bigger problem i see is that the output is unstable and too low relative to input, and we're already seeing blackouts in part because of just that. we can't move down the energy ladder if we want to keep improving everyone's standard of living, and we have a moral imperative to do that
VC has always been about getting in really early and getting out early.

This is their bread and butter.
Germany is still a net exporter of electricity. France benefits from that, because in recent years they had to shut down their nuclear plants during heatwaves, when the rivers they use to cool them got too warm. I guess that will only get more frequent in the future.
I can't imagine how anyone could actually believe this if they were aware of the 100 years of history following the civil war.
Trades were not great for me. I felt like I was just waiting to get killed by a coworker constantly. For $25/hr CAD. Not a very good deal at all.

Apart from the risk imposed by working with totally careless and disengaged people in large machines, my body felt like garbage all the time. My elbow stopped working near the end and I couldn’t do simple things like open my car door. I learned to program as fast as my brain could accommodate. It was totally unsustainable.
Do you really think the Powers That Be, the ones that could Use Covid for Total Surveillance, can’t skirt HIPAA? COVID conspiracy theories are way too late to this game. If there’s any truth to them, sorry but it happened decades ago. You missed the boat the day you were born and the nurse drew samples.
> Look, all I can speak to is the quality of your engagement with me here. You misread a primary source which plainly states that slave labor was the precipitating issue in the conflict over state's rights which blossomed into open rebellion and bloody war.

I didn’t misread it, I read it correctly. Others put meaning into the slave debate, at the time this wasn’t as big as we make it today - it was propaganda and the rewriting of history that made it larger. Primary sources at the time definitely emphasize it, but there are a whole plethora of issues. Further, your coming at the discussion from your position in history today; projecting, if you will. At the start of the war and prior to it, there were decades of the north undermining the south. The fact there was a “fugitive slave act” was because of that undermining by the north.

Regardless, what I was trying to convey was a more factual basis for a discussion. Even in this discussion, the judgement is thick. I try not to portray a judgment, rather focusing on factual statements.

Though, to your point I think we mostly agree and I don’t think the civil war was avoidable. I just view it as a much larger conflict than slavery and I think that’s revisionist history to believe it was the primary cause.

From the founding of this country there have been two waring factions — the federalist and the anti-federalist. Rural vs urban. Populist vs elitist. Democrat vs Republican. Effectively, “what is American”.

It hasn’t changed, really. We’re still having the same debates, pro-life or pro-abortion. The idea behind a Republic is we can resolve those differences and allow greater regional freedom. We have mechanisms of government that enable no faction to dominate (though that’s being eroded). The original idea was states would also leave the union if they so chose - which clearly the northern states wouldn’t allow.

Personally, my fear is that we’re sliding into another “hot” period of the civil war. When we can’t resolve differences AND can’t leave, then war is inevitable.
It's not a theoretical problem, but there's a practical one: Banks themselves loan out the money, so a run on a stablecoin can cause a run on actual banks. And FDIC isn't enough to cover the full amount.

This can be mitigated by using many banks, but it's hard to find banks willing to deal with cryptocurrency. So in practice all the deposits are at 1-2 banks.

A stack of paper USD in a safe would work, but there's risk of theft/fire/etc.
Ok, after reading this and also your top-level comment, seems we're talking about the two different types of tagging ("personal curation" vs "collaborative") which you list in that comment. That makes more sense.

Definitely agree that if you're mainly tagging for your future self, you can derive tons of value without constraints. Whereas if you have people tagging for others, that needs more support.

Although, if you're so inclined, you could also view these as a continuum --- with "personal" tagging being the apex of centralized consensus, and having to increasingly labor for consensus with every added user in the system.
I would even question why construction costs so much in US vs. say China. It is all entirely full of regulations. Not labor. Material costs are probably minscule % if you scoure the entire supply chain for regulations.

The discussion whether certain regulations (OSHA) are needed or not is an entirely different conversation, but having worked on large government/military contracts ($1B+); I have seen the shitshow with my own eyes and mind.

Gross incompetence of Gov (and its contractors) x Regulatory Capture x Lack of Innovation = Current dysfunction.

I am not saying China is the role model for safety regulations, but we need to take a deep look at what's necessary and what's not.

SpaceX will make reusable rockets a few orders of magnitude cheaper than anything NASA has produced. And current NASA administration has been forthcoming in working with private industry (SpaceX, BO, Rocketlab, Firefly, etc.). Good.
Thank you for doing this! I've been following different posts on NixOS and how different folks have managed to get things working on NixOS.
Yes, we do that to control prices and prevent oversupply.
And China isn’t building major nuclear plants anywhere near the capital. All on southeast.
>Here's the front page of Forever 21, sort of a reasonable approximation to an "indoor mall" environment: https://www.forever21.com/

sort of, but not quite

even in my 99% indigenous European country, I'm seeing the same trend with the fancy brand ads in our malls - 50/50 or so with women models, 90% with men

I do realize of course the reason is that nobody bothers localizing these ads for our tiny market, but still, these ads don't reflect the demographics of the largest market either

it doesn't bother me though. if anything, not being the target demographic for 500$ shoes made by SEA child slaves is a badge of honor
SPAs suck at client side state, they barely work with the back button or scroll bar and if they do its because its reimplemented in JS.
It’s a “TED Talk” for the WEF alumni.
One of the things that I hate more than anything lol :)
Corn flour means fine milled maize. Coarse milled maize is called corn meal. Wheat flour tortillas are called flour tortillas.
I second that video: I’ve watched it several times over the years. I still use flags and conditionals, but less of them these days, and it’s made my life a lot easier
From my point of view, SPA is really good when you need to use one API for different kinds of clients: web, mobile apps, cli etc. Second benefit is predicted relative routing: in case you're serving your web app (with hash router) as one page, you may don't worry about subpaths (ex: page served as /webapp will work properly under /foo/bar)
Could archetype/al/ical (or possibly prototypal) have been used instead? Both have associations with artefacts (usually authored and manufactured, respectively) rather than gathered specimens.
Everything is political, and everything has ethical considerations, yes.

Refusing to take a side _is_ a side, it means you're fine with how things are going on their own.

This isn't corruption, it's just recognition that life has choices, and those choices have consequences, for yourself and others.
Top stablecoins shed $7B in May as traders redeem tokens en masse
Apologies, I am new to HN, could you please share a write-up of your experience and process in case you haven't already? I'm moving from an MacBook Pro to a Framework and before the MBP, I used Slackware as my daily driver. Would appreciate any tips on using NixOS as a daily driver.
Open protocols can evolve fast if they're willing to break other people (2019)
Of all the possible websites to choose as an example, Wikipedia is a strange choice since, unlike most websites, one can download its database and query it offline. For example,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

https://download.kiwix.org/zim/

Some other ways to search and read Wikipedia offline:

XOWA: (S: XOWA)
WikiTaxi: S: WikiTaxi (for Windows)
aarddict: S: Aard Dictionary
BzReader: S: BzReader and MzReader (for Windows)
Selected Wikipedia articles as a printed document: Help:Printing
Wiki as E-Book: S: E-book
WikiFilter: S: WikiFilter
Wikipedia on rockbox: S: Wikiviewer for Rockbox
That does not seem like a plausible explanation since the noise does go away and is not persisting. But I'm really curious about why it did work, in the hopes of a permanent solution.
> not necessarily deluded about reality

but the reality is that law was never this, and their life of protest is led against a straw man, and it's completely ineffective in bringing reality closer to that principle.
hello eu-central-1... :D
They weren't more draconian than plenty of other countries, including parts of the U.S. They were just kept in place for longer, as they were effective at keeping case/fatality numbers low until vaccination levels were high.

But more to your point, the federal government that has just been voted out was centre-right/conservative, and was unsupportive of many of the pandemic management policies implemented by the states, most of which are governed by the centre-left Labor party. In certain Labor-governed states, e.g., Victoria and Western Australia, this election result can be seen as a repudiation of the unsupportive behaviour of the conservative federal government towards the pandemic response, and an affirmation of the states' policies, which saved many lives whilst also keeping their economies running quite well.

In fairness, the federal government played a positive role through income support, business support, and other stimulus measures, but their propensity to use pandemic measures to seek to achieve political advantage when citizens were struggling and fearful has played a significant role in this election loss.
Feel free to open a PR on Github! You don't need to worry about the Chrome Extension specific stuff.

Or, you can just let me know the changes here and I can implement them in code :)
Not yet. However, if this is something you want, I can definitely work on it.
There are countless articles showing that literal monkeys throwing darts at a dart board can pick sticks as well or better than most fund managers. This is not the case with DeFi. I’m not all over the place with anything, DeFi is a place where skill still matters because of inefficiencies and the presence of a large amount of “dumb” money.
I suspect the underlying issue is that most people lack the skills to be a good judge of someone they haven’t worked closely with (through good and bad times too).

One needs to intimately know a business partner’s positive traits such as integrity and persistence, and one also needs to know a business partner’s faults (acceptance and mitigation as necessary). At least that was my experience: trust especially matters during tough times.

Also vice versa for the person choosing to work with you - it is a marriage you need to keep together for the sake of the child business. It is not a hookup, and love at first sight has its failure modes.

I know nothing about you, and I don’t really get what you are trying to ask. You would be better to ask people you trust for their opinion, since they can answer you based on your personal context.

Also I have seen more than one successful business where the founders met at their old work, so perhaps the issue is more about positive pattern matching. One particular business I can think of, the most effective marketer and the most productive developer went off and started a competitor, and they did very well for themselves.
I tested it, it's legit, they will terminate your service.
That sounds plausible, yet I haven't seen this mentioned anywhere! Mind expanding on what worked for you?
mea culpa. It's been almost 40 years and I was lazy with proofing.
I know Jira has support for linking tasks semantically (X blocks Y; is blocked by Z) but I wish more task managers had better support for this. A few do, but very few of those will actually show you a task graph.

I actually wrote about this exact thing: https://xavd.id/blog/post/my-perfect-task-app/#dependent-tas...

My hope for the perfect task tracker springs eternal.
Parallel Reality
I would like to know too, I have never seen an automated bot that is entirely profitable. Most of those that have been tried have over 60%+ losses.
Can't answer your question. I'd like to second the question however; our contemporary tools usually generate far larger and totally obscured components that marshal dependences from every corner of the internet using fabulously complex and fragile tooling.

I've done work using jQuery and several of the modern stacks and maintain much of it today. When I have to dive back into this work the jQuery stuff is usually painless. The Angular/React/etc. stuff causes an internal groan; even weeks after 'finishing' one of the latter some significant fraction of the tools and libraries are obsolete and the first thing you find yourself squandering time on is nursing it all into shape again. Years later you're also faced with either clinging to the old idioms that have been supplanted by 'better' ones or reworking a bunch of stuff. jQuery has never inflicted this problem on me.

Also, I don't really buy the "you might not need it" argument. jQuery reduces cognitive load by normalizing most of what you need to do to a vanishingly small and less error prone API. There is real value in that. jQuery delivers far more than just backfilling.

While I have a hard time imagining a client in 2022 that is so anemic that the cost of jQuery actually matters, it appears gov.uk has convinced itself that the removal of jQuery is a triumph for their use case. I've never had to deal with that use case. I doubt most people have or ever will. And so I take all of this with an appropriate grain of salt; if it's a choice between productivity and shaving a few points in blocking percentiles I'll take the former every day and twice on Sunday and the people that pay me are grateful that I do.

I learned about htmx in the comments of this discussion. I'm definitely going to give that a spin at some point. Thank you HN.
I’m not an expert but I feel like there is an actual merit behind these regulations. I mean I just did a quick google for "Hanford Cancer Rate" and immediately see stuff like:

> study shows that Hanford workers were 11 times more likely to develop mesothelioma, a cancer of the lungs strongly tied to asbestos exposure, than in the general population.

I know that Hanford was an exceptionally bad Nuclear Plant, but it is also a plant which was build in the laxer regulatory environment of the military with an excuse that appeals to "national security". But that is kind of the point though, without the regulations I would expect these plants to be at least as bad as Hanford.

This rhetoric about nuclear power plants being to heavily regulated is starting to feel a bit conspiratorial.
True, it's more verbose, but I'd take increased verbosity and standardization over increased ambiguity and inconsistency since every markdown parser and renderer translates things a little differently, which is why there's things like Babelmark[0]. That verbosity also provides consistent, more powerful features like multi-line table cells, table cell spanning, table nesting, sidebars, admonitions, footnotes, table of contents, image embedding, cross-doc references, latex-like includes, etc. that all follow a similar inline and block syntax and are rather clear from a glance.

It's certainly not perfect, but I much prefer it for the flexibility and consistency to the dozens of markdown implementations that all do things a little different and not needing to drop down into HTML when I need to do something just outside of markdown's capabilities.

0: https://babelmark.github.io/
"the Powers That Be" are your words not mine. I am simply pointing out that what we have now (i.e. bits of data, with non-zero regulatory compliance requirements, scattered higgledy-piggledy, across disparate systems owned by different entities) is not the same thing as the "total biometric surveillance" Harari is so excited about in the video. Those are his words BTW: "total biometric surveillance"
Snafu is still an all time favorite.

Looks like this project almost got there.
Mind to explain? What’s no fun, what do you prefer?