skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I can set timers and look up conversions

What you seem to be needing takes an old tablet and a slice of an evening of coding...
I’m a pretty liberal guy, but IVF has never sat right with me. Thousands of dollars to produce a baby when living ones already exist.

Of course adoption is no cakewalk and itself costs many thousands of dollars (plus the emotional toll).

In the end, though, the entire idea of having kids at all is repulsive to me. Why bring another life into this fucked up world? You’re just going to get divorced and traumatize the kid anyway. Better instead to make robots to do the jobs those kids would do when they grow up.

At the very least, leave the baby making to the immigrant families.
Newton's second law is also linear but you can study chaotic systems just fine. You can study coupled weird oscillators in QM too. You just take the classical problem and derive the Hamiltonian operator. I do not understand what the problem is here (I mean with the SE being linear) and I saw this repeated a couple times in the other thread too.
The phone is even more of a snitch than is an Echo or what have you.
Congrats on the release!!

Is opening where you left off an uncommon feature for readers?
They became the arbiter of truth. The edittor, working for the ministry of truth.
These days, I tend to play death-match in Counter Strike 1.6.
uBlock Origin, right? It’s an important distinction to save people searching and installing uBlock.
> Saying that I’ve been maintaining my dotfiles for a decade is like saying that I’ve been decorating my home for a decade.

I think it's more like decorating your home for the first time (which is a lot of work), but then in the proceeding years you keep tweaking a few bits to your liking as you learn more about "decoration".

The true benefits of the analogy break down a little, for instance one big advantage is persistence, stability and control - that some large corporation doesn't keep rudely breaking into your home every month and forcefully redecorate everything with the latest trend, or keep moving the furniture and light switches around while you are asleep, and inserting annoying store fronts into critical appliances like the fridge, or your toothpaste... The other benefit being that you can fairly effortlessly take your decorations with you to your next home!
I did the same thing with my range hood. Just no reason for those things to have electronics in them.

There’s a Canadian company Victory that sells a couple PCB-free models at prices that are reasonable.
For me, cats are the problem. They will always knock something over that vacuum will get stuck on.

I just run the vacuum 1-2 per week after manually removing objects from floor.
D News May ’22: D 2.100.0; GDC and LDC Releases; DConf ’22 Schedule Published
There's nothing in there about "extraordinary" and plenty about (along with years of moderator comments) about not why-is-this-on-the-front-page-ing. It is a decidedly answered HN question.
I would say yes, in the sense that the government would cease to exist if it were to declare: "Compute your taxes in whatever unit of account you prefer."

But I think a broader statement is that the "long dick of the US government" is the collective expectation for the behavior of major world governments. On the other hand, it's worth noting that US currency is not absolutely stable.
> You are asking for evidence for something which hasn't happened yet. Obviously nobody can provide that evidence. How could they? The comment you are responding to was obviously worded as a speculation about a future event.

No it wasn't, it was a statemet of specific fact. It was not phrased as speculation.

The government gave a contract to pretty much anyone who said they could supply PPE. A false emergency narrative was crafted to chuck procurement procedures out the window. Clapped on by catastrophists.

Complaining about people like Randox who were one of the only companies in the country with facilities to build covid tests getting a contract to manufacture covid tests is beyond inane.
These are actually great ideas for discussing more figures, with a focus on the human dimensions of global change.
I've justed installed 5 years' worth of Revit on my new laptop today, and with each year the UI on their installers are getting worse. On Revit 2022, some of the splash screen prompts are not resizable and not MOVABLE, ie they don't respond to alt+space for windows menu. This is not OK. On one of them, I had to answer input prompts that they rendered OFF SCREEN. I solved that by changing display resolution.. Another showed a clipped path of a missing install file, which thus couldnt be identified.. I solved that by moving the install files to c:/2/ (to get a shorter path it could display).
No, things are getting worse, today's ui is made with crayons :-/
so here's a fun question: it's become quite trendy in policy circles in california to incentivize the removal of lawns and gardens as part of water conservation efforts.

doesn't removal of fertile topsoil and replacement of it with rocks and cacti at scale actually reduce carbon sequestration and heat absorption capacity?
A significant part of the debate is simply scientists going, "please, for the love of god, look at the data."
The advertising element of 'smart' devices subsidizes their price. You're competing against devices that are both more convenient and cheaper, and whose drawbacks are not immediately apparent to the general consumer, both because there's no requirement to state plainly the implications of the 'smart' technology on privacy and data sharing, and because such drawbacks are more abstract.
On the other hand, an electronic notebook has infinitely large pages, easy cut & paste, ability to zoom in to work on details, and you can repeatedly erase stuff without any smudges. By moving stuff around you can easily rearrange the structure of your notes, and add lots of new stuff in the middle. You can carry around tens of thousands of pages on a single light-weight device. Electronic systems with OCR may also have usable search.

In other words, it's a trade-off.
What are the stats on mass knife attacks? Doubtful they cause as much death as shootings.

If guns are illegal it's far easier to rid the country of them instead of a complex mesh of laws that vary by state, county, city, township. Fewer guns certainly makes accidents, impulsive suicide and manslaughter much less likely.
China has a lot of things that invalidate common knowledge but that doesn't mean it is real, reproducable, or novel. There is a reason why scrutiny exists.
The data used by that study is actually based on the pessimistic estimates from the older WHO analysis. If you use the more modern estimates by the UNSCEAR (the United Nations body dealing with effects of radiation), nuclear power is safer than any other kind of power on a per-TWh basis. It's not really honest to say that an already pessimistic estimate (which is now considered by at least some scientists -- including the UN body dealing with the topic -- to be incorrect) might be underestimating total deaths from Chernobyl.
This is fairly obscure but the problem he highlights can be overcome easily by localising at the saturation of S_f, for D(f)=D(g) if and only if the saturations are equal, and localising at saturation is an isomorphism
The 10/12/14/16-ton pipe benders you get from China go up to 3" nominal (3.5" OD) depending on which one you get. The smallest cheapest ones do 2" nominal pipe (2.5" OD) which is fine for a bike rack.
Why this is potentially interesting:

> …

> This is a retreat center,” Kay said. “Our idea is to bring software engineers from the big cities, where they lead these very distracted and fragmented lives. My partner (Lyons) is a big believer in focused work, and the value of focused work.”

> Kay said she believes the Malone area offers that concept of focused work to prospective clients.

> …

(I am not OP.)
I've studied at an online university. There were quizzes every week that were not graded; one or two graded ones during the course; one final graded quiz at the end of the course. 99% of all the questions were multiple-choice ones. Some questions from non-graded quizzes would appear in the graded ones. Then the questions from the graded quizzes during the course would appear on the final one. After taking the quiz, you could see the correct answer for each question. As I went through the course, I would add every single quiz question I encountered, the answers, and the correct answer into the database. Sometimes I would google questions I saw on the quiz and would find the list of the questions somebody else had posted. I would then verify the correctness of the answers against the course material and add them to my database as well.

I wrote a JavaScript that would get injected into the page with a quiz using the GreaseMonkey extension. It would go over the questions on the page, do a fuzzy search against my database that I compiled, and put the top 5 best matches next to each question. The library had its limitations, but it would take care of things like words being in a different order or a couple of words missing. I improved it by adding additional transformations to the question. Things like removing any non-letter characters but being careful to handle things like dashes and apostrophes in some cases; removal of the stopwords; stemming.

That would usually take care of about half of the questions. Sometimes, more than 90%. I would then spend the rest of the quiz time manually answering the remaining questions. Since this course was an open textbook, I would have one giant text file that would contain every single text that appeared during the course. It was allowed to look into any course material while taking the quiz.
The end result of this is that I would get 98+% of the answers correct in almost every single course I took.

We also had written assignments which I always honestly completed while carefully following the citation rules. No clever tricks here.

I graduated with 10% in my university and was on the honors list. I never thought of what I did as cheating because I never collaborated with others. I never disclosed what I did and how I did it. I think that people who did those quizzes did them in a way that allowed me to do what I did.
Looks like he just unplugged the WiFi modem/module. But the software that looks for a WiFi connection is still thee and operating, which is no big deal on a fridge, but on a TV it really extends the startup time as the TV won't be fully on until its has searched for WiFi connections, even if it fails to find one.
This is the only sensible thing to do when uprooting your family and the changing the course of life of multiple people.
Hades on Nintendo Switch.
Each zone can take 5 minutes to complete making it perfect for a break.
> Can it be that we are just getting old?

That's rich, considering that I'm 18 and I have the same views.
Ask HN: Need help in understanding private equity offer
Hi,

I have a friend that is being issued 10k shares over a period of 3 years at a valuation of $70B. The company recently raised $17M in funding and it is a very early stage startup. The strike price is $0.01. Can someone help me understand what this means? What are the pros and cons of accepting it?

Edit: The total number of shares will be limited to 607,500,000
If depression rates in children and young adults are anything to go by, younger people absolutely cannot ignore adds.

--for example, use that new blockchain smart contract to open the fridge and order some food NFTs.

So in this instance grandpa would be using the smart contract to buy ledger space for a NFT about food? Because NFT's arn't food.
It isn't so much a "the author of that one liner is way smarter" but rather "the language features of APL naturally fit this problem space."
Because nothing screams like "great UX" and "QOL" like a tablet in a greasy kitchen you can't operate when your hands are full, and having to learn to code in order to use a timer.
As long as the host platform running WASM on is allowing both write and execution of memory page (as needed for the JIT mechanism), this too will be a security issue of large proportion.
The way I think of storage is that it competes with natural gas peaking plants, not that it is part of the cost of renewables. Even if we had a lot more nuclear deployed, we would need a way to handle short-term variance in load, which is either gas or storage. (An interesting alternative would be scalable sinks for extra power; some people argue that this is why proof-of-work crypto is actually good, just use the extra power to generate hashes, but I would rather see it used for something more useful, like making hydrogen.)
I don’t understand this sentiment. I have no preference for whether I was born or not. It is an immutable fact of the universe that I cannot change.

I was a pro-abortion rally (as a supporter of abortion) and an old man asked me, “Aren’t you glad your mother didn’t abort you?” And I told him “not really.”
> The UK's current gov is firmly wedded to a delusional image of itself as a major imperial power of vast wealth and influence. Such is its majesty it is for ever in danger of being infiltrated and undermined by unpleasantly independent Europeans, who for some reason refuse to see the UK as the most important country in Europe. And also by nasty brown and black people from who knows where?

This is complete nonsense! Inward immigration has gone UP since Brexit, the cabinet is more brown/black than ever before, and the establishment clearly intend to do nothing whatsoever about the porous border in the south (don't be fooled by the laughable Rwanda holding camps initiative, the main motive of which is likely to funnel even more to the legal system etc.).

OTOH I would agree that the government (regime?) are delusional, but I would extend this to the entirety of the establishment, who seem to have departed from reality a long time ago, and seem to believe that the correct response to the UK's reduced circumstances and the population's temerity in daring to vote against globalism is to hasten its destruction.
I recommend a basic drawing tablet connected to your normal desktop computer, and having a decent mount. They're $50-ish for decent models. XP Pen Deco Mini 7 is very decent. On one of my computers, it pivots out from under my desk (kind of like a keyboard tray). On another one, it's mounted on the desk.

They're all plug-and-play under Linux, Windows, and Mac. Some come with extra drivers for Windows and Mac, but you don't want those. It's like mouse and keyboard drivers -- they add a layer of obnoxiousness for normal users, and unless you're doing something specialized, worthless.

For whiteboarding, 6"x4" to 8"x5" is sort of ideal. Bigger than that, and it's too cumbersome. Bigger has upsides for e.g. artists doing Photoshop, but it's not really for business use.

I like these a lot better than screen tablets or similar. Your hand and eyes are both at comfortable heights. You can also have multiple views open -- I can share a large full-screen view of a whiteboard over Zoom, and on a different screen, zoom in on what I'm specifically drawing. Working this way, I have perfect handwriting, and uncanny artistic ability. You also don't have alignment issues.

Major issue is having lag-free software. Very low latency makes a huge difference.
I'm looking for a reliable source on why LUNA crashed, and am unsure where to find one. Anyone know of a good article or video explainer? Thanks.
why? I just put my dishes in and press a button. Dishes come out clean, I spend no time washing.
I hate how the future has turned all good concepts into weaponized commodities.
So many UIs are basically HTML rendered pages and rerended the entire screen in each paint.

And on a slower chip like found in a TV it’s really noticeable.

Add in latency from Bluetooth, etc and you get all sorts of mushy experiences.
Seems to have gained a lot of popularity since it's last posting a year ago :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26787002
I agree fully. There is a lot of "unnecessarily complicated technology" which should be simplified.
Hard work is not appreciated?
Sigstore, blockchain vs. transparency logs (why we selected the later)
You mean article? + recitals. It is nice to know what are your rights and since when :)

Anyway, check this beauty of simplicity:
https://youtu.be/-stjktAu-7k?t=402

"Be nice and you wont go far wrong"

Or maybe this one, also very nice:
https://youtu.be/-stjktAu-7k?t=1464

I consider GDPR very fair. The only "issue" (only for corrupt companies) with it is that it takes 'Wild' out of the Wild West of Internet.
Setting a time, setting alarms, playing music, turning lights on and off, controlling media, (eg Netflix), checking the weather, etc. I'm just focusing on the universal use cases, and excluding varying degrees of niche usesnlike interactively displaying recipes and saying the rosary.

Especially in rooms where you don't already have a sound system, it's really a no-brainer. And I question that you've ever interacted with a smartphone if you think either the responsiveness or the convenience (not everybody is glued to their phone, and sometimes it's in the other room).

This need people have to think everything is either super-tubular-amazing or completely-useless-dross is _exhausting_. For anybody interested in understanding instead of posturing online to fill some emotional void, it's plainly obvious how smart speakers could be a modest improvement to QoL for many people.
Why coreboot? Is it pretty common to have laptop/desktop firmware send usage data over WiFi or Ethernet?

I'd be impressed. The firmware on my devices anyways seems to be the minimum they could get away with...
Agree, this is probably the reason.
So their business model is to basically sell plastic and detergent at very high price using DRM.
The greatest contribution we will all make is carbon emissions that are ruining the planet. Another reason to skip the kids and rescue dogs. The robots will take care of me in the nursing home.
I don't mean to generalize, but aren't r-l-mixups also typical of native speakers of some East Asian languages?
I use it as a music score reader/annotator. Unbeatable on Linux, at least. The stylus support is excellent.
> I understand why people are upset with us on this, and we will do better. I know we have to do a lot more to rebuild trust, and I also understand that will not happen overnight. Our goal remains though to provide the most privacy we can in one download.

I don't believe you actually understand why people are upset with this -- it shows in the replies. You also don't seem to understand your users. It appears that you're entirely convinced that others are just misunderstanding you and that's why they don't see the genius/cleverness/importance/validity --whatever, in the actions DDG has carried out over the last months.

In all honesty, it feels like you're moving the company towards acquisition and looking for an exit.
Neuromancer vibes. I like it.
OP, any chance you dump their firmware from dishwasher? If people have this connected to net, it could be fun.
Yeah, I think we need storage (edit: including hydrogen) to compete with natural gas turbines, regardless of whether or not the base load mix contains more nuclear.
The device costs a ton more because of DRM. It's a shell game, intended to trick people into thinking it's cheaper. They're just happy to put you on an installment plan forever.

I agree that more honest marketing can help ameliorate the problem, to an extent.
I know an executive working for Haier who doesn't really think the smart home thing is going to work out in it's current form.

His view is that people probably want a washing machine that can keep track of it's duty cycles and let you know if water quality is affecting it's performance or if a part is getting close to end of life and organize purchase of the part and an repairer to do the fix. The gimmicks of being able to get alerts about the status of appliances to your phone are just fluff. But it's early days and people at the top who make this decisions are still working them out.
The article is cool but:

"£43 ($60) for 90 washes" is roughly in line with puck-style detergent, might even be a bit cheaper so it's not THAT outrageous to me.

Not that we should overpay for no reason, but I thought it's still important context.
Maybe? My microwave has something like 20 buttons, I really wish it had two knobs:

- Time
- Power

Hell, print a guide on the inside of the door on how to adjust power for defrosting or whatever. I rarely ever press more than :30 button, and changing power is more annoying than it should be.

https://ellis.fyi/tag/knobs/
That feels to be reductionist beyond the point of usefulness. Treating physical objects and violence as abstract concepts seems to always lose something, although I find it difficult to pinpoint exactly what.
Reddit actively removed any diversity. Somewhat like Tw.
Brilliant! I looked at one of those too a while back. Didn't realize they had gone the way of printers who get you addicted to their product and keep stringing you along. :)
If I were doing something undeniably thefty, like leaving a car on blocks or taking an angle grinder to a bike lock I'd expect to be confronted and maybe given a good beating depending on the details of the situation.

I live in the kind of city that most of HN would sneer at and make some quip about it being a rusting post-industrial wasteland of poverty. I guess we're not very enlightened but my Amazon packages don't go missing from my doorstep so I don't complain.
For some things a value provider is okay but it only takes one CloudAtCost promotion that gets you to pay 150 bucks for a "VPS for Life" to shit in the pool of optimism.

CaC you got me. Of course it is "life of the machine" which might only be a few months. Silly me.
Most ebook readers open at the page where you left off, not the paragraph.
Roombas really are like users.

Difference being that tools/tech/developers should ideally, and very often do, make users' lives easier. Whereas here it's partly the other way around: users having to come up with workarounds. Instead of the tool being fixed.
I keep hearing about speed queens. Are they available in the us market? Where would one purchase one ? What is the cost for one?
> set up by my sister... and is attached to her... account

> can inadvertently enter into premium subscriptions simply by saying yes

So this individual (sister to a journalist at the Guardian, which facilitates information spreading and highlights the possibility of under the radar cases) gives somebody else a voice controlled machine linked to a credit card. What could possibly.
The article touches on that exact point, where it argues that schools buying this product might be taking the word of AI as "the word of God" and just rubber stamping what's been decided by AI. The argument is presented there, you just need to read it...
I didn't go in wanting my atheism to be shattered, just challenged. I enjoy being challenged, and I really enjoy demonology as well.

On a simple level, I was hoping for something more profound, entertaining, or interesting on some level. In all, the article was a prologue in somebody's journey of discovery where nothing really actually happened, spiritual or otherwise.
Hence the Rewinder as a product: just plug it into the cassette and reprogram at the press of a button.
It's encouraging to read that young people are starting to get a good foothold on the ground. Tech is cool and helpful but only as far as we can throw it when it breaks.
You’re seriously recommending the manifesto of an anarchist that lived in a cabin in the woods without running water and sent dozens of mail bombs to innocent people?

Come on, you can’t find something to support your ideas that doesn’t help glorify random murders?
The water conservation need outweighs the marginal carbon sequestration I’d imagine.
Awesome! Love the slot for the Flipper.