skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right wing are incredibly easy to market to.

Some of the products I've seen shilled almost exclusively to that market are hilarious.

One of my favourites is a certain "gold subscription" service, where you sign up for X$/month, and every time you have paid enough in to cover the cost of an amount of literal gold, they send you the gold.

I did some calculations at the time based on my own purchasing of gold in the past and worked out that people buying via that service are getting absolutely rinsed.

The ad/sponcon copy tends to blather about inflation, etc, etc.
I always found it weird how people think/say red wine is good for you because of antioxidants.

Why not just get the antioxidants from grapes directly? And skip the alcohol?
Standing isn't a panacea for health issues caused by too much sitting, movement is. I found my overall health and well being improved greatly when I stopped trying to use my standing desk and instead made sure to go for a walk first thing before starting work and paying heed to my Apple watch when it says get up and move around.
Increase your string compression ratio with emojis
This is a bit of a joke but with certain text you can actually get decent improvements.
Software to Prevent Human Conflict
World's First Human Conflict Predictive AI solves the biggest problem in the history of mankind.
These days, it's mostly related to faceted search.

Eg. Elastic search, Azure Search Service, Algolia, SolR, MeiliSearch,...
Countries with highest default risk in 2022
Or base64 encoded as a document anchor in the url, like zerobin. This relies on bookmark storage (so, you start to worry about shredding such a key).
No. I'm just saying if there's an address you simply don't want to read mails from (for any reason), there's a way (among many ways) to do that.
really?

edited:

yeah, add two rules to macOS Mail app:

* delete From: “info@twitter.com” rule

* delete From: “twitter” rule

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtB1OFNN4Ak
"Shaken"? That seems a bit hyperbolic.
If you listened to the rhetoric from Russian state-sanctioned media you would know that's not true. It was was scaremongering that Russia would invade Ukraine, until it wasn't.
I'm not necessarily arguing it was GWH, but for sake of argument say it did have that effect, it then gets perpetuated by journalists, enters the public psyche, and goes on from there.

I don't think the suggestion was that everyone watched GWH and then had that misconception straight from primary source.

I probably view(ed) it a bit wrongly too, and I have seen GWH, but I'm pretty sure I'd read ('pop math'/news) about the award/it's winners before that.
Can you link to a single video of a HIMARS being destroyed? Your the one making the assertion you need to provide the evidence.

If this isn’t all that Russia can do then why have they not being doing it’s all from the start?

Russia has lost around 50k troops, close to 1k tanks, thousands of supply vehicles and hundreds of helicopters / planes and a number of ships including their flag ship in the Black Sea.

But what for?. So one day they can reveal their ‘true’ might?. Sounds like it would of been better for them to go all in instead of bombing Ukrainian malls with anti ship weapons and losing their Black Sea flag ship to a country without a navy.

It’s not Russophobic to think that maybe Russia should be able to fight a war only hundreds of kilometres from its own border, but I guess no one accounted for just the level of corruption their was.

Russias advance has pretty much entirely stalled for the past two weeks but it’s not surprising when close to 30 of your ammo depots explode over two weeks.
Iceland’s forest and bush cover has increased sixfold since 1990
> It's as if a syringe full of heroin ready to inject was on sale BOGO for $2 at the supermarket and completely socially accepted while you had to cook up aspirin yourself on the stove for $8/pill with 30 minutes effort. "Why are so many addicted to heroin? Experts have no idea." Please.

This is a v good analogy.
If you're seeking a horrorshow of real life "don't do this" examples of questionable driving practices I recommend DashCamOwners:

UK: https://www.youtube.com/c/UKDashCameras/videos

AU: https://www.youtube.com/c/DashCamOwnersAustralia/videos

both drive on the same side.
I no longer have "Viewing activity" because once it's turned off, there's no way to turn it back on. And I never turned it off, but after fighting with customer support for months I gave up.

The fact that they cannot reverse a simple db change is insane.
While the problems presented are real, the solution proposed is laughable. None of these are new problems. It’s amazing how often we think we’ve discovered something new when it’s really an age-old problem that has been debated forever.

I like to sum it up as the tension between two contradictory yet true axioms:

(1) Failure to plan is planning to fail.

(2) No plan survives contact with the enemy.

You can’t just abandon long term thinking because it’s hard. Grow up. You’re an adult. Life is hard. You still need to have a destination in mind. The path to getting there probably won’t look like the one you planned, but your odds of success are much better when you both have a plan and are ready to adapt and evolve that plan as you go.
Wow! VCs trying to destroy the market again... What could go wrong?
You won’t likely find a framework such as Django.

You can’t go wrong with Express.js

If your logic is detached from the API (http), then ultimately the framework you decide to go with will not matter that much.
> ...a fictional coal mining town called Grantville, in West Virginia, that gets transported to 1631 Thuringia, Germany, in the middle of the 30 years war.

> Eric studied the actual town of Mannington...

One got the overall feeling he spent those union-organizing years in towns like that.

He will be missed (at least by me) not only for the 1632 series but also (perhaps more so) for his anti-DRM work and the Baen Free Library.
Just tried it and JPEG -> XL -> JPEG -> XL is bit-wise identical between the two JPEGs and bit-wise identical between the two JPEG XLs.
My first encounter with one of those was years ago, the person who had it referred to it as a "geyser".

I should pick one up sometime.
I was about to write this off as a case of "If you do DIY you probably have a drill", but then I remembered that hand tools do have a weight advantage and having some way to drill in a small field repair kit wouldn't be a bad thing at all. Although, perhaps a micro rotary tool would be better in some cases.

I still don't understand the people that say gand drills are more convenient for just one or two drills, unless they are comparing to a corded drill. I don't think I've ever actually used a corded drill though.
I'll mention libraries and museums as well. Instead of having a tiff available of high quality record images, some institutions use jpeg2000 and a zoomable js library like openseadragon.

In this case, the jpeg 2000 is probably considered a derivative and thus not a big issue for preservation.
> Why didn’t they have more computers? The story is interesting and you can see it in the video below.

Summary? (Can't watch video now.)
No it's not.. It's very bad for your lungs and very dirty.

Houses down wind of industrial plants back in the 1800's were covered in black soot. And Cancer followed.
Microsoft has a fork of VS Code called Azure Data Studio. It's made for DB queries and notebooks: https://github.com/Microsoft/azuredatastudio
From what it looks like PlayStation bought for the now dissolved Sony Online Entertainment. They haven’t been in the live services genre since then for the most part. This partnership is leveraging Bungie’s expertise in this space. Especially being multi platform studio. With them trying to attract more players in this space, allowing independence feels like a steal if half of the 10 LS games by 2026 are a success.
There's a whole website seemingly built around this concept - WikiHow : )

It bursts at seams with brilliant "do not say!" type of tutorials - one my favorites is "How to Survive a Coup". Here's some of the advice given by the expert authors (who clearly must have survived a few coups back in the day):

"The most important thing to do during a coup is to stay out of range of gunfire [...] Stay tuned into social media sites like Facebook and Twitter to get regular updates on what is happening [...] If you have television, then you can also try watching your local news channel for updates [...] Leave the country or go to a safer region if the conflict continues"

So remember, try staying out of range of gunfire and don't forget to subscribe, everyone
I think the issue at hand is that behind the scenes, JPEG XL the image format actually combines three different kinds of image compression algorithms:

1. native JPEG XL lossy compression

2. JPEG lossy compression, but using a more space-efficient storage format than classic JPEG

3. lossless compression

The lossless conversion between JPEG XL and JPEG only works with 2).

Normally you'd only use 2) for existing JPEG images in order to avoid a lossy re-compression, and use 1) for any freshly-created images because native JPEG XL compression will compress the image data even more efficiently than the JPEG compatibility-mode, though if you've got strong interoperability constraints with clients requiring JPEG data you might possibly want to store even newly created images using sub-format 2) in order to get the ability to losslessly convert back and forth between JPEG XL and JPEG.
I never understood the rapid part of it.

I either need something really quick, or I can wait. If I need something really quick, they basically need to be very close to me. If they are close to me, I can be just as quick myself. These service only work in dense urban areas. I have 3 supermarkets in 5 minute walking distance.

The non-rapid delivery service in the other hand is a godsend - that's how I got me food when I had COVID. And I guess there are a lot of people sick, injured, old or somewhat indisposed for which this service can be a real life saver. In these situations, I'm also happy to pay for this kind of service.

The rapid delivery part of it always made me feel bad for the delivery people. One time I happened to wait for the delivery on the stairs, he took 15 minute instead if 10 minutes, I was enjoying the sun in the meantime. He apologized for being late and was really stressed about it.
"Plans are useless but planning is indispensable" D. Eisenhower
Am I the only one that absolutely loathed Mr Bean? I have to immediately change channels when it appears. It makes Mrs Brown's Boys (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs._Brown%27s_Boys) look like PG Wodehouse.
There were numerous spectrum clones as well built from local parts. My dad built one himself, actually made a business out of selling these in 87-88. As far as i know there were plenty of them in my small town back in Lithuania.

Bigger machines, PC clones were definitely a rarity.
yeah your Nephrologist might have something to say about that...
XDPerimenting with DNS Telemetry
> but now, all the top search results about anything remotely current (be it politics, covid, russia/ukraine, crime, heatwaves,...), all you get is mainstream media (cnn, msnbc,....). If I wanted to watch CNN, I'd watch CNN, not youtube.

I think this has nothing to do with monetization per se, it was an explicit decision taken by YT and hard-coded into the search and recommendations algorithms in light of the craze about "fake news".

It's very funny to notice when looking at videos from new media creators - even though I am subscribed, Like most videos I watch, watch them till the end etc, I will almost always get "redirected" to a mainstream news video if Auto-play is on, at least after 2-3 videos.
I have been donating some money every month to an Icelandic tree planting project to offset my carbon emissions after reading an article on HN about how the Vikings cut all trees of the island. I find the numbers fascinating :

> Forests and bushes now cover over 2% of Iceland, Vísir reports. That number may not seem like much, but since 1990, the surface area covered by forest or shrubs in Iceland has increased more than six times over – from 7,000 hectares to 45,000. In 20 years, the number is expected to be 2.6%.

And from another article :

> The Forest Service intends to deliver six million plants this year, says Þröstur, which is equivalent to pre-crash levels of production. “It was around five million last year, and four million the year before that. This is a rapid increase. Then we need seven to eight million next year, which we may not manage, and ten to twelve in 2025.”
Shouldn't it have hit in ~8 minutes?
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I think the article could be improved by defining or giving an example of a long term plan.

At the start of each year we have a plan, but it's a rough plan. We know we have certain external constraints that need to be met, for example system A is moving from sending XML files via SFTP to a REST API in June. If we already know the scope, we'll have some rough dates for when we should be ready for testing and so on, if not we have some (much) earlier dates for studying documentation to determine scope and requirements.

We also have some internal goals we would like to meet, for example making a new module for doing X. They also got some rough dates attached.

This yearly plan is then used to ground our short-term planning.

However, I didn't get the feeling that it was this sort of long term plan the article had in mind.
> mandated means more government which is more energy spent, i fear.

Mandated also means various degrees of ruining the lives of people who won't get in line which seems pretty drastic over something as petty as paint though.
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And nobody that watched it ever spoke of it again, to anyone, ever. Especially about them apples.
Also add a robust Translation in browser.
> A huge complaint among even the most stalwart Google Chrome users is that the browser eats through your CPU like a Snorlax at a buffet. While this is an issue for any PC, having a browser that consistently takes up almost half your processing power is especially a problem for laptops or other devices with very little RAM.

> Which is why Mozilla Firefox is such a breath of fresh air, as it uses much less of your CPU while still delivering a fast browsing experience.

This.

Even for identical set of tabs, Chrome eventually slows down my entire machine, whereas Firefox does not!

In both Linux and Mac (don't know about Windows because I don't use it).

Anecdotal.
I think there's a lot of confusion in this area. A long term plan tends to become too rigid, making us unable to respond to change. If we are dealing with a complex problem
where the outcome is hard to predict this is a death sentence to the project.

On the other hand having only short term "agile" plans can on the extreme end turn us reactive and without any focus. If we are dealing with a "big" problem this is a death sentence for the project.

If the project is big complex and hard to predict we have to be able to be agile on both the short term and the long term, and sometimes on the really really long term, all at the same time. Oh, and also for the group and the whole organisation at the same time.
Twitter's global agenda, with or without Musk
> There's definitely still organic, passion-driven content out there, especially with new fan-funding mechanisms like Patreon, you just need to focus on it, because it's really easy for YouTube to shovel junk down your throat, if you give it the chance.

With all due respect, your whole post smells of "blame the victim", or "you are not doing it right" vibes. I think we can all agree that the big numbers in YT are in videos made explicitly for that, where some new stars arose due to the new media but now it's not that different from mainstream TV (yes, there is still this plus that if you dig deep enough you might find something worth that the TV didn't have due to much lower bandwidth, but I would ignore that since you can/could do that "in the Internet" anyway).
I really want to try out a desk cycle, looks dorky AF any down sides to hip wear etc?
Followup: Is there a VSCodium equivalent for that (reproducible build, no tracking)
Developer working on speaker updates has neighbour with soundboks speakers turned up to 11 day and night
But of course,

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/28/23186742/google-spam-prop...
No. But he is PM, who will overrule him? He probably finds it convenient for some reason and can't understand the problem. Or maybe the innards have been replaced.
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This article assumes a very narrow definition of "long-term plan", yet doesn't give that definition to the reader. Here are some clues towards that definition:

> Instead of rewarding teams for delivering useful, profitable features, companies which worship conformance to plan reward developers for features on time and within budget

"The plan does not look at the usefulness of work done. The plan decides in advance on a time frame and budget for each feature."

> Consequently, to make up for these delays, teams are pressured to deliver the next feature in less time than they originally estimated.

"The plan must be rigid with respect to unforeseen bugs. Scope or time frame cannot be adjusted."

> Consequently, long-term plans either force you to stick to useless features or pressure the team to accelerate the following features to compensate for the delay created by listening to feedback.

"The plan does not allow adjustments based on feedback."
The article seems to contradict itself.

It asserts that in boom times the bottom lines are checked less rigorously because money is flowing freely but then also asserts that it's the bad times that has greater fraud risk because of individual incentives.

Neither position felt well enough sourced or argued to convince me which is the case, whether fraud is a greater risk in a boom or bust part of a business cycle.
> I suspect this won't last long on the HN front page, alas

And in today's lesson, we learn that I still have a ways to go in project estimation...
While I certainly would not want to discourage anyone reading Fichte, doesn't the discussion of the distortion of "self" assume an ontology that cannot be demonstrated?

Social Media has not distorted our sense of "self" - quite the opposite. We have, perhaps for the first time, a clear sense that "self" has always been an illusory construct.

That said, I'm inspired to know that people are reading Fichte and engaging the topic!
I totally agree, and what's annoying is that when YouTube runs an ad I have the feeling that the App on my LG TV is increasing the volume when showing an advertisement.

Since as you said most of the stuff has become marketing garbage, I am not willing to pay for an ad free experience because YouTube anyways can't guarantee that content creators are not doing secretly paid content in favor of their sponsors regardless of ehat they say.
Glad you liked it! I co-created and directed the Adrenalini Brothers. You've made my day!
The leadership is mostly female, and I think the white % was somewhere less than 60. Certainly nowhere near population representation.

I recently worked with a diversity recruiter and was allowed to select from one of 7 black candidates. Just black candidates.
In my childhood, our reference for paper planes was Capt. Barnaby's classic:

http://www.jumpjet.info/Offbeat-Internet/More/Misc/How_To_Ma...
Dude, that's why we use Virtual Machines. We will run them thru QEMU or another multi-architecture solution.
Typical implementations of payment processing and related security issues
Let me guess how this works: from the nose view, the paper strips being at one side cause the stick to angle toward it, since the center of mass is close to the stick than the center of the drag force due to the stick's relatively small cross section for its mass. This causes the craft to keep pitching up. In addition, the same difference in cross sections between the hoops and the the stick from the plan view give it roll stability. Meanwhile, the larger hoop being at the back causes more drag, giving it yaw stability.
There's also a pre-school spin off called Timmy Time, which also uses animal noises in place of speech.

But the best thing is that they subtitled it.

https://subsaga.com/bbc/childrens/timmy-time/series-1/6-timm...
As a fun project during family gathering I try to snap picture of every pair of people. O(n^2) tends to grow quickly so I frequently don't manage, but it's a fun way to get original photos.
Interesting, considering this old Icelandic joke I found once in a guide:

- What should you do if you get lost in a forest?

- Stand up! (other version: Just get off your knees!)
Google Play hides app permissions in favor of developer-written descriptions
Naval Ravikant discusses this with Joe Rogan (episode #1309) at min 25:20-28:20 youtu.be/3qHkcs3kG44?t=1520

What do you think?
Thats the exact opposite point to the author’s. Both can be true depending on context, but I find his take more realistic for the majority of products in tech.

You’re suggesting that plans fail due to poor execution, he is saying long-term plans are pointless when you don’t know where you’re going in terms of market fit, design, feature set, which is usually the case (and arguably should be the case if you want to build a competitive product).
Great news -- Ireland is another country in bad need of reforesting. The British took all our trees to build their navy and Irish farmers finished off what little remained. We have very few old growth forests as a result.
Creative work doesn't pay well <-> Creative work doesn't pay well because people who are competing for the jobs don't need to make money off their job
This is as old as history of art. To me art is "anything you don't have to do". People start doing art when their basic needs are met and then start doing things they don't have to do to survive.

Looking in history you can see a lot of rich kid artists doing great art. For instance Gustav Klimt was extremely wealthy. He literally painted with gold! His art is great but without his family's wealth nobody would discover his talent.
Are you suggesting the parent sets up test suites for a cloud solution and call it a day?

How would that guarantee safe storage, given the previous discussion of all the broken implementations.