skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends on why you're reading a book, no?

Are you reading it to find an answer to a problem? Then you'll probably skim, search, scan, and then closely read the part that (may) have your answer.

Are you reading to be exposed to something new, in a structured way? Then maybe it's not important to "learn" it, just to become aware. (btw, awareness is valuable, which is why talks and lectures are still important: to raise awareness and maybe provoke questions to explore later.)

Are you reading to be able to apply the information? And in what way? Just a bunch of facts? Then memorization techniques (Anki, et al) are useful.

But for learning to build expertise? No, a book is not enough. Memorization isn't enough. Even "integrating it with your relevant prior knowledge" (important!) isn't enough. You must do the thing you want to learn and _get feedback_. Generating summaries, explaining it to someone else, etc., are all great techniques, but if nobody is telling you whether what you've summarized or explained is right or wrong, how do you know if you've learned it correctly?
Oliver Blume Follows Herbert Diess as Chairman of the Board of Volkswagen
Perhaps of more significance, the top 10 countries with populations over 10 million with the lowest birth rates (same sources):

- South Korea - 51.78 million - 6.89.

- Japan - 125.8 million - 7.00.

- Taiwan - 23.57 million - 7.43.

- Greece - 10.72 million - 7.72.

- Portugal - 10.31 million - 8.02.

- Italy - 59,037,474 - 8.5

- Germany - 83,369,843 - 8.6

- Romania - 19,659,267 - 8.7

- Spain - 47,558,630 - 9

- Czech Republic - 10,493,986 - 9.2
I use it with my extended family for sending random pictures. Never see any ads because I never use anything outside of that one group chat. I’d have long since switched to using signal for this but the sister in law isn’t good at learning new tech.
They were for a very long time, but right-wing rhetoric takes decades to be updated. Most of it is recycled Ezra Pound/Eustace Mullins/John Birch shit.
From what I know many migrated to Poland after 2014 maidan. Simple google query yields many articles about numbers, I won't link here since I don't know about credible source I would feel comfortable to share. But from my observations during past few years I must say there must have been many, I'd risk to say buildings industry was able to grow because of inflow of Ukrainian workers. This helped post-February since many families already had somebody here so they could join. And also Polish bad historical encounters with Russians led to Polish society rising to help as many Ukrainians as possible, many school gyms and other public places were converted to host Ukrainian refugees, similar with some companies who donated their office spaces. There was a time all LinkedIn updates on my board were from such companies and from individual people who were organizing to help.
I was a paypal customer since the 90s. I recently had an issue where a site using paypal sold me something and blatantly lied about the product. I filed a dispute with paypal. It was only for $30, was a digital item, and I had pretty conclusive evidence. I expected paypal to side with me, especially given how long I had been using them and had never once filed a dispute. Nope. Immediately sided with the scummy company. I've tried to avoid using them whenever possible ever since.
Ask HN: How many people switch besties every 2 years?
I'm one of those people who switch besties every 2 years.

My latest just broke up with me when they realized I don't consider them a bestie (but they did consider me a bestie).

My longest bestie-ship: 2 years. The shortest: 1 semester.

Please define BESTIE however makes sense to you. I consider a BESTIE to be whoever I think about the most when I don't think about myself (FYI I have no biological children).

I'm being deliberately vague so I can get a wide variety of responses.
China was pretty much forced to do it by American embargo couple of years ago.

EDIT: Just realized: this is China, so they have a metric ton of money available for investment. They can build many, many fabs relatively quickly and flood the market several years from now.
> Jews do not travel to countries where VDPV2 is used

I would be interested to learn more about this statement.
Discworld was a real joy of mine in my early teens. I think some of my early computing forays including a Discworld mailing list I found on a webring via Yahoo or somewhere. I had the Discworld official map on my wall and used to love getting the editions printed as tiny hardbacks.

Probably my favourite sub-series was the Witches and Nanny Ogg. As I caught up to the newer books I found myself enjoying them less because it felt like there was more and more philosophising. Probably what happened was that they got a bit more sophisticated and I was too immature to understand many of the themes and allusions.

Time to start working through them all then! I recently reread Colour of Magic and it was enjoyable but also clearly had far too much going on.

Either Pyramids or Moving Pictures was the only one that I really struggled to enjoy for some reason.
Let's just get rid of user accounts altogether. We started wanting to get rid of emails then got insecure about our passwords...all in the quest of anonymity and security.

99% of us don't get hacked. 99% of us are ignored by everyone in the world. But we care about our privacy nonetheless. And we care because all these services are after data they don't need at all.

It's so annoying when during sign up for a service you are asked to provide company name, country, phone number, email, full name, date of birth, password etc. Does a reality exist where I just won't have to sign up at all?

Accounts are portals into the always connected digital world. In effect their only use is to connect a piece of information to you. Is it impossible to do that in a completely anonymous way?
I was curious and clicked on the [Dataset] link and got this:

https://github.com/transpchan/Live3D/issues/1

and here's the paper review notes:

https://github.com/transpchan/Live3D/blob/main/eccv.pdf

which complains that it's too similar to

https://anr-avatars.github.io/

and

https://ai.facebook.com/research/publications/continuous-sur...

To me, this looks like great craftsmanship: They have built a working implementation where others failed. And they found a way to cheaply generate lots of training data. But sadly, research optimizes for novelty, not for usability.
1. Not a work device.

2. We are discussing how ads are selected for presentation.
There are exceptions. I was recently double-charged for Apple Care. I could get someone on the phone very quickly. They also set up a communications channel between me and someone from their administrative department (IIRC you could e-mail or SMS them through a form). They called me twice to check if the refund came in.

We had similarly good experiences with them a few years ago. They were easy to reach and they'd call back to check if everything was handled in an satisfactory manner.

(Booking.com on the other hand was terrible, we never got back the 120 Euro or so for a hotel room that we cancelled with agreement from the hotel. Only Kafka-esque support mazes.)
It is hilarious how much Strata owes to Niven’s “Ringworld”, if you have read that as well. It goes to its own places in the end but it sure does spend a lot of time as a direct parody of that book.
Donate money to politicians who pledge to do something about it. And if you feel comfortable enough, (and if you earn enough, e.g. 400K+) attend donor events with both parties. Talk to senior politicians. Make it clear that the no 1 issue for you is climate change.
I didnt realise my ovh server was set to auto renew. I didnt want it. Ovh happily refunded my card. Just ask ovh to refund the unused credit and close the account.
SpatiaLite: Extends SQLite core to support Spatial SQL capabilities
Ok, but what do you do next? Because usually the answer is “try to hire someone who says they can do this”

Ideally it’s not Accenture’s battalions of scrubs, but it’s not like the problem is just gone.
Promises are an implementation of lazy evaluation for Javascript. This is exactly lazy evaluation.

By the way, lazy evaluation is the one that offers no guarantees about when your code will be executed. If you can delay the execution, it's not lazy.
In large part, while a "solved problem" in aggregate, every engine has different solutions in play.

In part, because of trade-offs baked into engine assumptions. It's certainly possible no two engines will ever agree on asset loading due to such tradeoffs and how engines themselves are built/optimized.

In part, because there's still not much coordination between different game companies and few shared libraries/middleware/"content/asset pipelines". Think about how many bundlers there are in JS today that we know of because of open source (and HN headlines about them) and multiply that by how proprietary most game companies still see every bit of their code in 2022 and generally avoid HN headlines about low level details of their tech stacks (for "competitive advantage").
Ah yes, good point, apparently some of the local nurseries have sprayed their milkweeds with some sort of pesticide, which means you have to keep caterpillars off them for a year. If you go to a nursery that specializes in natives, that's usually not an issue. In bay area, my favorite nurseries are Watershed and Oaktown Native, and they don't spray.

We've actually had a ton of swallowtails this year, which I'll admit are all over my non-native dill. I intend to plant Yampah one of these days, since that's the native version of dill.
Expiration date on exercising options – total BS?
I don't understand why there is an expiration date on exercising stock option grants. Anyone have a compelling reason why this even exists? Seems to force stock option holders to 1) Make decisions when they aren't necessarily ready to and 2) Take on tax burdens before they ever see a payout.
I run my PayPal account from a dedicated bank account. If they try and take more than authorised then they will fail because the funds are not present.

They can take me to court if there’s an issue.

I have been burned before. Unless it’s a bank and are heavily regulated they are not your friends.
RT60 Calculator
FST: Finite State Transducer. Widely used inside search (Lucene), DB powering prefix, fuzzy search
My cousin started her goat business about five years ago. It took some time and patience, but now it's successful.

It helps that my cousin is quite the animal lover, went to vet school, and also works part time in a veterinarian's office.
I'd like to know what company this is. There's an email in profile if you like.
> ...fine the teenager with a loud exhaust on his car ...

I couldn't believe how mostly-positive the comments on this story[1] were! I get that loud cars at night suck ass. I've been there. I currently have a related problem of neighbors randomly lighting of fireworks at night, so I'm not unsympathetic to these quality-of-life issues.

But there's something heartbreaking to see the hacker community—which was once overwhelmingly opposed to mass surveillance—starting to beg for it instead. Yeah, yeah, I know that HN is not a monolithic group; viewpoints do vary. But I can't shake the feeling that if the story below was posted to HN 10 years ago (or Slashdot 20 years ago), the comments would not have been so fawning.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31299641
The principle of Stare decisis does not mean the supreme court can't overturn any decision it's ever made. It's routinely overturned previous decisions, many times overturning previous conservative rulings to put in place liberal ones.

If you watch this youtube video of Kavanaugh answering questions I never get the idea that he says he won't overturn Roe v Wage, or that it is a binding or super precedent.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjs-qO0N2ZI
Yes, support is abysmal, but they are good at refunding and fixing billing issues.
It sounds scary but it's seriously worth doing & getting the hang of a legal (or legal-ish) process if it's new to you.
About your game:

My guess is that 6 colors is too much. I can't find long path and combinations to feel smart. Try a version with only 5 or 4 colors.

An idea from a sibling comment is to reduce the size to make the game shorter. It may be good, but I think it will make people happier to discover big blocks using fewer colors.

About Wordle:

One of the underappreciated features of Wordle was that the list of words is highly curated. It's not a bunch of obscure worlds from the dictionary. My guess is that in your game the map is generated randomly. A curated set of games for the daily challenge may be a good idea. Some maps are silly and you only have to click the buttons. Other maps have some interesting part that can be discovered and used to solve it faster. I guess most maps are uninteresting, so it's necesary to manually curate them.
> How does an engineer get like this?

There's nothing special about engineers that makes them less prone to human weaknesses. I had a (software) engineer colleague who believed in overunity energy, and was so into it they traveled to paid conferences.
I opened as "order not received" because I canceled the instance before it got delivered.

OVH argued that the charge was a credit and not the service itself and that I still have the credit (hence, it was delivered).

Then I said that the reason should be charge unauthorized, as I canceled precisely because of the unexpected amount of the bill, and I didn't perform a credit. The reason switched mid claim.

PayPal finally said that I didn't prove I had credit on OVH, which is indeed confusing (meaning I didn't spend it?). If I didn't order it shouldn't matter what's on their platform.
I am looking forward to the deflation once the energy prices recover.
Most people aren’t competent. Most people are also poor at evaluating competence. And most orgs don’t actually have harsh hiring and firing policies to try and address this. Not that they would work anyway because of (2).
We can provide resources for people who want help without taking away rights from other people who aren’t doing anything wrong. The original comment was about banning guns for everyone to prevent people from committing suicide.

Following that logic, should we lock everyone in a cell under 24/7 suicide watch because it would prevent some people from committing suicide?
It might not be useful after the timer goes off but you could try looking for them via

powercfg /waketimers

Or checking what last woke you via

powercfg /lastwake
Everybody is trying to explain this away with Russia, Covid... I'm not even following the excuses anymore. It'll be climate change soon. But that's ridiculous.

Literally the only way to have inflation is if the Fed chooses to cause inflation, or not to resist inflation, of which it has done both in the last few years.
Yeah, to be fair, I'm in that situation with swallowtails right now. I planted non-native dill, and it's swamped with happy swallowtails, as I didn't know about the native Yampah. Hope to replace the dill with yampah next year. Until then, the swallowtails shall have a dill buffet.
The house price doesn't change depending on the buyer, and reasonable priced houses are getting hard to come by.
Oh, I remember the case. Nobody believed Barry Marshal and he had to use radical method of getting solid proof - infect and cure himself. I admire the man.
Yup, nice catch, no need to reset it to nil if you wanna keep it in memory indefinitely.

I guess making it nil can be also used if you don't wanna make the same request when there is one already in flight, in case you have a 403 error and need to request a refresh token, you don't wanna make two simultaneous requests, but you also don't wanna catch it indefinitely either.
I actually have had really good support from them. Used to have a few servers with them which were getting DDoSed all the time.

Their free support was good, but we decided to pay for the ~60usd a month premium support and we even had some video calls with one of their engineers who worked with us to help mitigate the issues.
What are some of the coolest algorithms you know?
Following https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32186203, what are some of the obscure/coolest algorithms that you know?
> has something gotten to the average American population ?

Social media makes it very easy to find like minded people and this is not always a good thing. It also makes it easy to reach people that are susceptible to disinformation.
Depending on what kind of 2d: https://www.chebfun.org/docs/guide/guide12.html or https://www.chebfun.org/docs/guide/guide16.html
I used to use MPC before switching to mpv, glad to see it's still updated after the lack of interest in development 5 years ago. I like MadVR but I found it doesn't work as well as glsl filters in mpv like Anime4k and Nvidia Image Scaling.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32191678

(Humor on Hacker News is hard. I thought if I made two joke posts about goats, at least one would get modded up enough to undo the downvotes from the other.)
Man I love Terry Pratchett's books ! It next to Asimov and Conan Doyle are my absolute goto for pure joy in literature.

Also it just hit me ! Captain Vimes and Ronald Swanson (Parks &Rect ) They from the same cloth :)
Or, hear me out, they are less than pennies to produce and don't expire, and I can buy that one bottle for basically many years, for multiple people
The reason is taxes.

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/images/th...

According to that, Germany has the second highest, just behind Denmark, which has even lower production costs but even higher taxes.

And both are almost exactly at the EU/European average for production cost.
I'm in the US and I had an oral polio vaccine.
They are middlemen, not a tech company.

Using tech for your business doesn't make it a tech business.

The same business has been run for years before the internet with cork-boards.
they could have done it if they thought that there was a problem for the people buying the Air. If those people are frequently doing 8K Final Cut Pro renders, then this kind of modification might make sense. If the Air buyers are browsing the web, doing photo edits, and doing basic programming, there is no need because those tasks don't push it into the heat limits.

Of course, there is the problem that those mods cause the case to heat up past the limits that EU safety regulations allow, but they just don't need to sell it in the EU then?
Pretty much no media player supports Dolby Vision profile 7 as it is only used commercially on 4K Blu-Ray discs.

The newer Nvidia shield advertises support, but it is incomplete and does not suport the enhancement layer included on most Dolby Vision discs.

MakeMKV supports preserving all this metadata so I would love a solution that lets me watch my 4K Blu-Ray rips with Dolby Vision.
> I'm increasingly convinced bureaucracy is a power flex. Making it difficult/impossible for some people to do their jobs is a way of keeping them in their place. They're not a threat while they're tied up in frustration.

There's a few sociopaths who create some fraction of bureaucracy with that purpose, but it doesn't sufficiently explain the sheer volumes of it.

The more plausible explanation, to me, is that people create bureaucracy for two reasons:

1. To protect the firm from bad outcomes. Someone, at some point, screwed up, and burnt the firm, or allowed an external third party to burn the firm, and bureaucracy developed as institutional scar tissue to protect against this happening again.

2. To protect their jobs. If they aren't involved in something important, there's no reason for the firm to employ them. If they can wedge themselves into a business-critical workflow, they can increase their importance to the firm, without actually having to do anything useful.
I gather that in later versions of the ML Kit, the contents of regions were also garbage collected. The problem they had with the compile-time lifetime / region analysis was that in difficult cases an object would be given a longer lifetime than necessary, leading to space leaks
In general is there any reason to use PayPal? I think 15 years ago people were no used to using their credit card on the web but now its normal.
half of your time*
pitch your product*
Virtual Drone Tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's Demolished Imperial Hotel in Tokyo
I find Pratchett's incessant moralizing and judging and lame caricatures to be unappealing. And when you remove that meat what's left is an extremely conventional and mediocre skeleton. It's like Stephen King with the horror switched out for glitter. Walmart grade stuff.

And all the old ladies are randy witches who ride Harleys. Ugh.
What is your answer? Mine would be energy costs. Methods which employ more manual labor and less energy are preferred.
Meanwhile many people are getting between 1000 and 1500 euro salaries with an university degree, and living with parents until they manage to marry and get 20 - 40 year credit to pay for the apartment.
It was not a counter argument, we are not having an argument. It was just an observation. Also you are mis quoting me I did not say “always”.

I am not here to tell you who you are or how you are like. I am here explaining a hypothesis.

Labels are what they are. Some are useful some are not, some are emotionally coupled some are not.

If you look at what a person does you can make hypothesis's about what is in their mind. It is what the field of psychology is all about.

Proper behavior, like not being mean, answering people when they talk to you, not bashing your head in to walls when you are upset and so on.
> Sure, I went on to address exactly why that is. US labor is expensive, because our currency has been continually hollowed out by the deliberate government policy that prices must always go up, despite continual technological and economic progress trying to make things less expensive.

Sorry, what policy is that? Are you talking about how the Federal Reserve targets 2% inflation? Every country does that. It's important that nominal prices increase. Otherwise, people just old on to their money and the economy slows down. If that's not the government policy you're talking about, or if you have an example of a country without inflation targets, I would like to see it.

> Also I would be surprised if relatively small runs of long lasting municipal fixtures could be "stamped out from sheet metal". This seems to be a bias towards disposable consumer crap talking.

Sheet metal is an amazing material. It lets a company focus on producing a high quality steel without worrying about how every consumer downstream will consume it. It also allows for highly efficient shape forming and stamping. The fins on the garbage can almost certain come from sheet metal. Airplanes and cars are made with sheet metal. It's probably one of the most important materials in modern manufacturing.
I am curious now, too, maybe it's about proper linkage for a paperclip-chain?
Airbnb vs. hotels is like Mom and Pop restaurants vs. fast food to me. You might have a better experience at the former, but you know exactly what you're going to get at the latter.

My last Airbnb went perfectly smoothy but there was still a ton of communication with the host. And that was only part of a dozen+ emails and a similar number of app notifications related to the stay. Why? At some point I just want to show up, crash, and leave.
Problem is a) it is the same stuff that is being sold all across youtube, b) aside from maybe audible none of that is a good offer, c) the claimed benefits are non-existent or bullshit (see all VPN ads) and finally d) the problem is not advertising, it is terrible products. Good products should not need creators to sponsor them, they should get creators so excited they can't stop talking about it.
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