skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> you might get heartburn, you have to suppress burps, you might get a buildup of muckus in your throat that you have to lightly cough away.

What on earth are you eating?
PyPI is so easy to self host it's almost a joke. You can run a single python simple http server (one command) and use specific file system layout and you have a compatible pypi.

If there is such a significant mismatch in what pypi is going for vs contributors, people will migrate to another solution.
To be honest, I didn’t entirely mean it as a comment on the search quality. But you would expect a search engine to return results about itself, and it was amusing it didn’t!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church

But it’s also in the submission,
literally the first sentence…
> In any case, my question here is: how do you not go mad in this techno-religious environment where people (seemingly desperately and earnestly) equivocate correlations in written text with thinking?

We can not unequivocally explain what thinking is (in a human sense), and what makes it vastly different from Cephalopod thinking or a ridiculously large NN 'thinking'.

Until we reach a body of knowledge in Neuroscience that can give such an explanation on is it that makes human thinking somehow special (other than scale) then it is equally religious to assume that human consciousness or human creativity are somehow unique (in nature) and irreproducible (with technology).
that it breaks the OP's the common misconception that australia is a backwater country that cannot do anything but export resources?
Honestly I think while this seems absurd if you're relatively knowledgeable about the internet, it's really not something that should be surprising or even particularly shameful? Like, why wouldn't they if it works, is easier to remember, and makes sense to them?

The reasons this is actually potentially bad are pretty deep in the internet wonk weeds, where you get into questions of gatekeepers and provinance of information and it shouldn't be surprising most people don't care about those things: those of us who do have failed to provide them with better tools.

On some level it's a little like saying "my dad sent me an email and he didn't use pgp! Can you believe it!??"
Depending upon your motivation for monospace, the iA Writer site offers my current favourite: IA Writer Duospace.

If you want monospace for the crisp, clear, draft-style, clutter-free look when writing code (or similar) then it's excellent. If you absolutely must have every character being exactly the same width then less so as the main difference is that it is monospace for everything except 'm', 'M', 'w', and 'W' which are each 1.5 wide (so it takes two to bring things back in alignment). In practice that is often less of an issue than it seems, and the benefit in readability/clarity/looks (literal mono for those characters makes them compressed) makes it worth giving it a try, even if you only end up using it for Markdown files etc.

They have a web page explaining it (alongside a download):
https://ia.net/topics/in-search-of-the-perfect-writing-font
I mean I used to have that but I seem to now. Did it move? This is 102.0.

Edit: You can make a bookmark and add a keyword, but that doesn't help me use it as a search engine. It used to be you could just create one from the contextual menu, what is this convoluted process.
Ask HN: Side/Freelance Work
Hi HN,

It's taking more time than we planned to raise and my savings are starting to decrease.

My background is in portfolio management (managing money at an asset manager/hedge fund) and software engineering (data science/data infrastructure).

I'm wondering what resources I should be using to find freelance work/part-time work to pay the bills.

So far, I've done a few things on Upwork, but there's not enough fitting jobs to make good money.
I've also done the whole process of Toptal but was told (at the end, great!) that there is no portfolio management jobs on the platform...

Where can I find part-time employment/freelance jobs in portfolio management/data science/data infrastructure these days?
Comments under news have few usages beside making click for ads:

- tracing single individuals ideas, attitude for the future western-Chinese social score;

- tracing how people react to the article as a driver for new articles

- eliciting potentially emerging ideas who might be interesting for a new article or interested to block them, writing an article that appear in the same line but diverge to completely different results

For us "readers" they are just useful to find extra infos by commenters who know something and decide to share, touch the climate a bit less than the media but still a view of a certain cohort of users ideas etc. That's is.
That’s about the same age as this show
Naming a cult on media is a taboo in Japan, for fear of retaliations and verbal abuses than as common courtesy.

There even used to be a P2P app called Perfect Dark, known in a... different... name early on, so as to make it 'immune to police prosecution'. Eventually the name changed to what it is, and stories of police working on it did start appearing. That was 2010s.
“Not the only answer” is right.

Elsewhere on the internet, BEV vs FCEV arguments descend into typical slanging matches. But it’s not A vs B. The world and market can have A and B and C and D.

Many of us will never be able to plug in at home.

With ICE cars stopping sales By 2030 in my country, options like fuel cells are totally viable. My local hydrogen station is green, using electrolysis from excess grid energy. The Toyota Mirai is a nice car. There are also promising projects into hydrogen combustion engines.

Then you have new tech like Zero Petroleum in early stages.

I’d not discount BEVs being the Betamax of the 2020s.
Or this acapella take https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MC0XMgTWIg
or just "echo 'another line' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
Will Windows Server/HyperV and VMWare run on these?
Being critical of someone does not make you their enemy. That is a super disturbing thing to suggest.

The fact that you had to eliminate part of the site to make the claim remotely plausible is something you should reflect on.

I will readily admit I think Musk is a bad CEO and a worse person who goes around saying he's saving humanity, but only willing to do it if it's sexy and cool and on his terms. Meanwhile real technologies that could really help the world go unfunded. Let's also not forget that he's suggested indentured servitude as a business model for Neuralink - we should all be able to agree that is a red flag.

Would you suggest that I am his enemy now? Would he be justified hiring private investigators to harass me? Should he direct his Twitter followers to brigade me? Is this the world you want to live in? Is this what free speech advocacy looks like?
I just recently watched "Diagnosis" on Netflix. One of the cases seems similar. It may not help directly, but it's an all around interesting show, might want to have a look.
I think I share support for this argument and might have even posted it on HN previously.

Basically, BEVs need to have huge batteries to sell well. Not because the consumer is actually using this huge battery to its full extent, but because otherwise the consumer will not buy the car due to range anxiety. This huge battery, of which maybe 1/4 or 1/3 is used throughout a day, is a huge inefficiency to manufacture and adds significantly to the CO2 footprint of BEVs.
For a lot of people it might therefore make more sense to have a PHEV with a battery big enough for one day of driving, and a range extender, which ideally would not be used in day to day driving. The range extender is an ICE engine or gas turbine, which is made of more common materials. In the future it might even make sense to combine PHEV with synthetic fuels.

The argument I heard against this is that people with PHEVs ignore the plug-in functionality and drive it on gas the whole time. But while this might be true, it does not counter the technical argument above. It is a completely other problem.
It is hard to expect a different answer from a person who works for a company heavily invested into hybrid cars.

What he does not mention and what the war in Ukraine has shown again is that dependence on foreign oil is just bad. Any engine that consumes petrol or natural gas products prolongs that. A purely electrical car can use electricity from coal that is abundant and much more evenly distributed on the planet than oil and gas. Moreover, when an electrical car use electricity from the modern coal power plant, the end result is less CO2 per distance driven than the corresponding petrol car.
Obviously our economies are going to need to find a way to adapt to declining populations within the next few decades, and there's something to be said for countries like Japan being ahead of the curve there, but at this stage it's hard to see how they can adapt quickly enough without avoiding significant economic disruption.
In case it's not already mentioned in TFA [1] "Musicophilia: Tales of
Music and the Brain" by Oliver Sacks is a fantastic read that will
change how you think of music [2].

[1] substack is hostile to me

[2] https://www.oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-books/musicophilia-...
This. 10 years ago I started a weight loss journey of some 50kgs or so. Biggest takeaway ever was the tremendous benefit of becoming metabolically flexible.

The freedom in daily planning and mental stability (never hangry) I can recommend anyone.

Low carb, skip a meal every now and then. Gets you 90% of the way there.
Yes, really great album! I’ve not listened to it for years so thanks for the reminder
You touched on some good points here in a well written way. I very much agree that “old school” forums without all the modern social media gamification are great. It seems to me this hinges on a notion of utility/purpose for the website:
Technical “old school” forums (engines/code for me personally) exist for problem solving, trouble shooting, and beyond. Where social media, by definition, has a purely/predominately “social” existence.
It’s unfortunate “social” on the Internet has been hijacked by user tracking and attention hijacking for ads
I second this, it's called magic wormhole, if you want the source, croc is a more friendly solution built ontop of magic wormhole. In any event, quick and easy.
After reading the headline my immediate reaction was that: "this scientist is going to try to make the case that PHEVs are the better choice". And of course, that's what he does.

The fact is that Toyota has made a major misstep in focussing on PHEVs (plugin hybrids) instead of full electric vehicles and they've been spreading FUD about EVs for years now.

I'm hardly an expert on this subject matter but just based on the fact that this man is from Toyota casts massive doubts on anything he says. I put exactly zero value to his claims given his obvious and massive conflict of interest.
Imho luxury brands should never change their logos. Ferrari is virtually unchanged since 1947, Porsche is still using exactly the same since 1963. Dom Perignom has never touched a pixel in their logo since their begginings in 1921, same as Dior since 1948. Sadly Moet-Chandon changed their perfectly valid logo created in 1743 in 2006, but at least they didn't botch it with sans and minimalism.

Then you have some back-to-beggining like Harley Davidson, which I'm sure YSL would do at some point in the future.
And “its”, not “it’s”, while we are at it.
Since the 90s internet has swallowed the world, and this changed it completely. The big platforms replaced the wild west of protocols, but this shift also changed content, from peer-to-peer to creator-consumer. This creator-consumer coupled with adds is how you get populations of people that feel so completely entitled: regular people are used to being the center of universal attention.
>then worrying about device isolation is the least of your worries!

Like your microphone or cam?
Also the ROLI Seaboard, which is a traditional piano layout but with a squishy continuous silicone surface with raised “keys” which track x, y and z movement
No, if I borrow money from the Fed to lend out, it’s the same as taking in deposits. Banks borrow money from their depositors, and lend to their borrowers.

What OP said is completely wrong.
This can make learning at lot more pleasant. Especially RegEx.

Another area of huge interest is legacy code, or low level languages like assembler, COBOL, and some C stuff. Also almost everything without proper documentation.

Well played.
local Stripe? local "one" means what?
Hydrogen is not considered a viable fuel alternative for the masses due to the high risk of explosion among many other factors. I wish people would stop mentioning it in these discussions. https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/hydrogen-storage-chall...
Russia had to fall back because they couldn't sustain supply lines further than 50km from their depots. They are reconfiguring their economy for total war, people are fleeing the draft while they can. A country with a historical problem of building factories to the extent that even now they rely on German machinery for stuff as simple as artillery shells, would have keep some supertech tucked away while it's taking their all to barely succeed to occupy a small strip of land right on their border?

These mythical advanced Russian weapons are so well hidden and only kept for alien invasions, only a fool falls for that Kremlin propaganda. Nobody else is buying their gear either, and deity knows they need the cash.

Then again, this line is literally in the troll factory guidelines, so that is almost certainly where it came from.
Tried, tested and true solutions: JMeter and ab, both by Apache
Yeah it’s a great synth. Capable of some crazy sounds with all the LFOs, mod matrix slots and CV inputs. It’s fun to use an LFO in quantised pitch mode as a kind of arpeggiator
> Going through court will lead to even more dragged out speculation and hurt Twitter more than any other party. They can't be 100% sure that they will win the case,

It's hard to be 100% sure, but there is a rather high probability that they will win and if they do, even if EM only has to pay a fine, they will have an official court statement saying that their bot statement is reasonable which is significantly better than leaving it with "we settled with EM since we don't think that we can defend this statement".

> In the end, even if they win, and Musk must buys the company at the deal price, by the time that goes through the markets may as well have rebounded to make the acquisition price reasonable again.

And that's fine. After all, Twitter agreed to the sale at that price.

> The winners at the end of the day would be the lawyers and millions of dollars dumped into fighting a case instead of settling.

There would be at least three winners:

1. The lawyers, but they probably already got millions over the whole mess.
2. The legal system, since there would be some indication that even EM has to follow the rules for once.
3. The shareholders who will get significantly more money and who are actually the people the board represents.
Ah so this is why Phase Modulation seems more common?
I think this is a great idea. How does this work with copyright? Search engines seem to be able to download a reproduce content from scraped pages (and wrap it in ads, and derive content from it) this is called “indexing” when they do it but scraping when everyone else does it.
Do you realize that writing the code is maybe ~25% of what a senior software engineer does?
From a very young age I rejected eating cucumber. It never "tasted right" to me, and it always makes me have horrible cucumber-flavoured burps. Blech!

I can't abide grapefruit or melon either, though I don't know if those are included in the list of potentially toxin-producing plants in the article.

Also, never been that keen on pumpkin.

Basically any kind of food of the above ilk.

Especially though with the cucumber - perhaps now I have an explanation for that innate dislike or reluctance to consume them?
Ask HN: Starlink for Mobile?
Is it conceivable in the near future that Starlink may become a mobile ISP? What advances in hardware are required to do away with cell towers?
That isnt relevant to whether NN models which record correlations in text are a model of language; they aren't. It isn't an open question.

This is an argument from ignorance: you dont know what caused the universe, so maybe god did.

Well, we do know much more than enough to regard any use of NNs today as having nothing to do with intelligence; and likewise, that any model of correlations in symptoms of human social activity (text, books, etc.) as not relevant to modelling/simulating intelligence.

A neural network model is just a set of averages over training data, which in this case, are simply recording correlations in word frequency. There's no neural "Neural network", it's just some mean()s.
> So do you think the UK’s plan to end ICE sales in 2030 is too soon?

> “I’m not sure. Of course, Toyota will comply with the law. But is the proposal the best way to reduce carbon?

> I don’t know. Maybe in 15 and certainly in 20 years’ time, it could make sense. But in eight? I’m not so sure.

Oh spare me.

Yes, wouldn't it be nice if this could be someone else's problem in 20 years instead of my problem in 5.

I get it, it's hard. Things are hard. Drastic action is hard. Doing mostly nothing for a long time while we slowly embrace change is very modest, thoughtful and relatively cheap and unrisky.

Of course that's what he wants. It's his job to want that, and advocate for it. Let's wait.

> the truth is that we don’t know what technologies are going to get us to the best way to rid ourselves of that CO2.

Maybe someone will come up with technology to solve it. It's not impossible... and, it saves doing hard, risky work now.

The question we should be asking isn't 'is it too soon?', it should be:

Given that climate change seems to be rather catastrophic, what do you propose to do about it?

Wait for someone else to solve the problem? No, I don't think that's an acceptable answer from the Toyota Research Institute CEO.

EV's aren't a silver bullet... but I tell you what does not the fix the problem: making it someone else's problem. Suck it up. You work for Toyota ffs; ICE vehicles are what, 25% of emissions?

It's not going to completely fix things, but hey, it'll help right?

That's good right?

Even if it's complicated, hard and risky?

Yes. It is.
Revenue managers were data scientists before it was cool
Revenue management can trace its origins back to the 1970s and 1980s. Back then, many airlines were hemorrhaging money due to unsold seats on flights. To counter this, they began to offer special discounts to customers who were willing to book flights in advance. Not so long after hotels started to implement the same strategy by having revenue managers on their own.

Revenue managers basically is in charge of structure and organize the revenue flow in a way to make it easy for analyzing and categorizing in specific segments.
Setting pricing strategies and offers, predicting the market and hotel performance using statistics and mathematical techniques.

I have created free dashboards that can help revenue managers using machine-learning models to analyze and forecast their property performance, to do some text and sentiment analysis for their guest reviews. Soon new concept of rate shopping tool.

Appreciate your feedback, new ideas or suggestions how to improve this dashboards.
> What he does not mention and what the war in Ukraine has shown again is that dependence on foreign oil is just bad.

Make your own carbon neutral synthetic fuel. You're going to need jet fuel at the very least:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-07-10/efuel-plant-proposed-...
I have ADHD. I lose things. I once had to restore access to a 2FA protected account I’d lost the token to. It took weeks of back-and-forth and involved sending personal information (selfies with identity cards) the service had no business knowing.

Never again. Especially for an unpaid personal project for which I owe nobody anything. If PyPI sent me this email, I’d immediately nuke all versions of all packages I maintain, replace with a blank/no code “upgrade” version that contains nothing but a readme explaining what happened, and close/deactivate my account.
Yep, seen that repeatedly among anyone who's not fully tech savvy (I.e. most people).
Just the way Google/MS/Apple like it, I imagine.
Servants ARE transporting goods for us. It’s called Doordash, Uber Eats, or Foodora, Glovo, JustEat in Europe etc.
The data is available! Not currently documented but check out the code for the API.
The point is that it's not due to safety or security that Spain and France require a seat reservation.

It will be to keep the quality of the service high, reduce boarding times, or something like that.
That’s such a cool fact re: libsndfile!
Public transport is already more efficient from the get go [1], so less work has to be done to meet emmission targets. It is also probably easier to electrify a countries rail/bus network as opposed to a full population's personal vehicles. Steel on steel also releases less dangerous pollutants like car tyres. [2]

Public transport also comes with many other benefits over cars (quieter cities, less deaths from collisions, fitter population).

For super low population density locations cars will probably remain the only possible solution, but for most of the population we really need to implement a movement away from car dependence.

[1] https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/... Page 3

[2] https://www.emissionsanalytics.com/news/pollution-tyre-wear-...
Like paid permits to travel to a city nearby and visas for inter-state travelling?

Sounds so 2022.
When you ask “where can I find part-time employment…” do you mean a place to find work or a field/sub-field to work in?
Not suggesting you make a huge pivot but maybe try adding some services/areas of competency to target for work.
Everyone is different, though, when I’m in freelance mode I’ll basically do anything that pays right.
Why the Japanese media has refused to identify the ‘religious group’ that formed the motive for the killing must remain as speculation at this juncture, though it reflects very poorly on Japan’s status as a democratic nation.

It is quite striking in the UK and US how mainstream media will be remarkably coy about identifying the cultural background of some criminals while straight off the bat into condemnatory opinion pieces with others who will resonate more as bogeymen with their readers.
Canada's internet outage caused by 'maintenance'
Strong Towns – Talks at Google (2019)
This is precisely the phenomenon that happens in HN with cryptocurrency-related topics. The stupid cousins of crypto (scams, ponzis, pump-and-dumps) have activated a heuristic in an intelligent body of people, leading to a blanket dismissal of crypto products.

Others (like myself) get defensive when their convictions are dismissed out of hand. And hence crypto/blockchain threads here tend to be the most polarizing.
It really can't understated how little Toyota can be trusted here. They've been sending corporate propaganda to schools in what amounts to grooming children:

https://electrek.co/2021/11/11/how-toyota-sneakily-spreads-a...
Neil, you’re peddling a long-discredited trope as if it were truth. Pencils are not used in spacecraft because of the risk of graphite (which conducts electricity) fragments getting into equipment and causing potentially deadly failures.

The evidence so far in Ukraine does not support your first statement either.
> Many of us will never be able to plug in at home.

Why is this a major concern? There's no possibility for me to plug in at home and my EV works just fine. Public charging stations are totally sufficient and the long range means I don't have to charge but every few weeks. Of course this is totally location specific (Netherlands).
This week in open source – Four new Linux Laptops, Shopifys $1M donation to Ruby
Health checks should include a read from the database(s).