skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I meant that the economic discussion is off topic concerning the subject in the article as well as the thread on looted cultural artifacts.
This may come as a shock as I admit the extent of it surprised me as well, but the speed with which children change size soundly outstrips the lifetime of the average piece of clothing.

And I’ve heard rumors that adults change size quite a bit as well. Sometimes they move from one place to another too.
> Degrease your bicycle chain with kerosene or some other solvent, and submerge it in molten paraffin for 20 minutes.

Clean it with isopropyl alcohol after degreasing it and before submerging in the paraffin.

After a few hundred kilometers you'll need to submerge it again. Boil a kettle of water and use it to clean the chain before submerging it in the paraffin.

Some people suggest adding PTFE to the paraffin, but I have no idea whether it has any benefit.

https://youtu.be/HHr9znwpwmQ
Microsoft claims Sony pays for ‘blocking rights’ to keep games off Xbox GamePass
Some companies don't give you a choice ;)

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What is shitty is this attitude of accepting the "solutions" sold by Big Tech and finding fault at whatever minuscule issue with the free alternatives.

What is shitty is being on HackerNews and seeing (presumably tech-savvy) people more worried about the product's name and "marketing" instead of discussing the system on its technical merits. Or seeing comments like yours that think that privacy is something that only concerns a "small bubble".

That is just not shitty, it is profoundly depressing.
I already fixed it, by not using Instagram.
I really like how manuals often require less brake action by the driver. They normally just decelerate on their own or with a downshift
Pichai and Zuckerberg's PR departments are doing their job to "position" them ahead of layoffs.
I don't get it. Why is fiber to the home so expensive? I think in principle, it makes sense for us to pay for rural broadband the same way we paid for rural electricity. The problem is some companies took the money but didn't deliver the results, no?

> In 1936, the REA was made permanent through the Rural Electrification Act. It was granted an initial budget of $50 million for the first two years, then $40 million a year for the following decade ($550 million in 1936 is approximately $10.3 billion today). Jul 12, 2021

snippet answer from Google search https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=how+muc...

I can't imagine how our government can justify subsidizing anything other than fiber to the home in the current year. As far as I know, there is very little ongoing maintenance cost and glass fiber is much cheaper than copper, no? Coax people are saying they can get symmetric gigabit up and down with docsis but I will believe it when I see it (low latency symmetric gigabit up and down, no data caps, reasonable pricing). Until then, we shouldn't give them any money.
And paying customers.
I'm glad to see someone mention addicts. I feel as if internet addiction, and especially subsets of it such as porn addiction, aren't given enough weight by either the addiction treatment community or the technical community.

Before someone accuses me of being a conservative religious zealot as tends to happen when anyone denounces porn, I'll say that I'm far from a puritan and am extremely liberal in my social views. That said, I firmly believe that easy access porn is one of the worst things happening to the young men and women today. I (23) know many men around my age who suffer from chronic porn addictions to the point that it severely impacts their ability for form real relationships and median age of first exposure is getting lower and lower.

It's an absolutely crucial issue that no one seems to be talking about or taking seriously.
It's really concerning that everyone treats their children like prisoners. Your kids are gonna find a way to look at what they want anyway, why make it MORE appealing to them by making it verboten? Are you protecting them or are you controlling them?
What’s the increase in property value by now appealing to tech/knowledge workers? Would you personally move to a place that only offered shitty DSL?

I almost pulled the trigger on a $30k quote from Centurylink to run fiber to my home but they proved incapable of backhauling anywhere near what i was looking for. I didn’t give a shit about its amortized cost.
I can answer this- at the time I joined GOogle, my goal was to use their resources to enhance my future career as a researcher. Google gave me access to world class hardware, software, and employees, which I could use in ways that never would have been available at any other location. It helped me build and achieve a system that academia would not have allowed, that I could not have done on my own time and money.

But my goal was always to take that newly learned skill and credibility and use it to go back to academia with a stronger hiring position. I mean, that's the mental model nearly all scientists have: couple your job with your interests to maximize your impact using other people's money and time.
Have you tried hooking up the C functionality with "sol2" and regular Lua?

I have been prototyping with it the past couple of weeks, and it took just an hour to wrap all of the glm matrix and vector types, including overloaded operators to do fully transparent vector and matrix algebra in Lua, including passing of values to and from the outside world. I was really impressed by how straightforward and simple it was.
What? No, Ukraine and the Western world would be the ones participating in appeasement, not Russia.

In your mind, how justified is Russia in this conflict?
Telephone and electric lines are above ground in most of US. I assume adding one more overhead line is easy but just make it more ugly and prone to outage due to storms or bad weather.
On a construction site I was working on, the box of "recycled rags" was just old t-shirts cut up.

they're still doing it:

https://nowlinens.com/collections/tshirt-rags/products/pro-c...
I think the spirit of the comment is that the CEOs aren't taking responsibility for something they created. They should write a postmortem.
Here's a chart from 1997 to 2018 with prices with and without inflation adjustment: https://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/home-prices
Agreed. We aren't even on next gen satellites (far larger) or laser communication yet. Those should significantly improve speed, bandwidth, and reliability.
Research shows circadian clock influences metabolism, cell and tumor growth
It shouldn't be a parental controls thing for IG, it just needs to be made so when you're using an in-app browser, you're using it for one reason, whatever site you clicked on. Leaving the domain ends the process or opens in another browser.
Not paying a subscription for a password manager. And don't want a single point of failure for all my accounts.
I think parent means has Mark experienced how difficult it is get code to prod these days, not can he still code
burnout only happens if you are working on something you hate and actively have to force yourself to work on it or have external stress from bad coworkers, managers, or general life stuff. I've worked 12+ hour days on side projects for fun and felt fresh and mentally sharp because I enjoyed what I was doing.

The idea that the human brain hits some brick wall at the scheduled 40 hour work week and can't do anymore thinking is comical
> Call me crazy, but I think most people care less about Nike knowing what their shoe size is

They don't care because they don't understand. "Most people" think their shoe size or what ad they see doesn't matter because they're right, those things don't matter. What matters is that all of the data being collected about them will be used against them at every opportunity so that other people can get more money and power at their expense.

The data they give up will be increasingly used in every aspect of their lives. Restaurants will use it to decide how long to leave them waiting on hold when they call for a reservation. Employers will decide to hire them or not based on their purchase history, their health, or their political views. Stores will decide how much to charge them vs their neighbors for the exact same products.

The data they've been handing over will be used by corporations to extract more money from them. It will be used by by politicians who want to manipulate them and to create maps that will limit the ability for their votes to make any difference. It will be used by activists looking for people they can target for doing things they don't like. It will be used by law enforcement who will use that data against someone anytime they think it might help them make an arrest, or win a case in court. It will be used by their health insurance company to raise their rates when fast food spending in their zip code goes up.

The data "Most people" gave up thinking it was about shoe size and ads will be leveraged against them in countless ways by people they've never had any direct interaction with at all. The data never goes away and it ends up in the hands of hackers and data brokers who sell it to others. "Most people" aren't allowed to know who is accessing their data, how accurate that data is, how (or if) it is being secured, or what the people who have their data will be using it for.

Well, although they'll never be allowed to know specifically what their data will be used for, in a general sense they can be pretty sure it will be used to manipulate them, to categorize (and often miscategorize) them and to assign them a position in one or more unregulated digital caste systems that will increasingly limit their options and cause them to spend more money.

They don't care about data privacy now, but as more of them figure out that what they've been giving up is going to impact the rest of their life in ways they couldn't imagine they're going to start caring more and more.
And very high expectations of its designers and engineers.
I would agree if the same standard was being applied to the existing telecoms. But it isn't.

In the last several decades, telecoms have routinely been paid billions for projects that didn't produce, and then won money in the next round as well. Indeed the fight isn't usually about whether to continue this, but who should win this round (established telecoms, municipal broadband, etc).

It was a surprise when Starlink won in the first place. But it is no surprise that it is being held to a higher standard than, say, Charter.
Which password manager out of curiosity? I assume the issue with the browser plugins is tricking the Password Manager into auto submitting passwords.
Almost any dry lube will achieve the supposed benefits of this product. Even dumonde tech lube dries so much that you can barely tell the chain is lubed.

We've also had belt driven (with pinion) systems for years, both of which would seem to solve this in a much more straightforward approach. This seems like a technological dead end to me.
Top Secret Rosies: The Female “Computers” of WWII
Natural and cultural are not the same thing. Culture is made up, nature is not.

Overconsumption of meat can lead to bodily issues as does a lack of particular plant foods. Particular meats are processed/digested in different ways, and have different pros and cons on what it does to your body and health.

So there very much is a "natural" way to consume meat that is most compatible with the capabilities and constraints of our body.

What is recommended/natural is an entirely different concept from what people actually do, which was entirely my point.
I turned into dead weight once during a hostile takeover of the company I was working for. It was pretty shit, and I'm glad I moved on after a few months of being unproductive. Management removed our ability to move forward on any existing work, and allocated no new work, and rejected any proposals from anyone from the 'old' company.

Wound up spending most of my (remote) work day occasionally checking my work laptop for emails, working on personal projects on my personal laptop and gardening or doing some DIY fixes on our old house.

Felt bad the entire time and finding a new job was a huge weight off my shoulders.
Downvoted because (a) sarcasm isn't helpful; (b) generalized criticism of unnamed people rather than specific ideas.
Something is clearly wrong if you are being exposed to hazardous materials 40 hours a week.
It's a tradeoff. The problems with fixed wing are difficulties maneuvering in crowded low-altitude urban airspace, energy and space required for takeoff, higher speed and mass thus force of impact, and at the point of delivery there's no easy way to hover without going hybrid and the alternative of simply dropping people's goods to the ground with parachutes doesn't result in an ideal delivery experience. This is often fudged with extra packaging, which is environmentally irresponsible as well as spatially constraining for payloads on already limited airframes. Copters are roughly superior in all these regards, but can't go very far due to energy inefficiency and tend to be noisier. I think copters will dominate urban/precision/high value or theft risk, and locally sourced retail such as food, whereas fixed wing will be suburban/semi-rural/rural/industrial/low precision/low value or theft risk, and further sources retail such as hardware, commercial and industrial supplies. It's been somewhat amusing to see the huge amount of money in the space and watch the strategic directions of Amazon Prime Air (hexacopter; 5lbs max payload; 'drop' strategy), Google Wing (hybrid + 'lower on a cord' strategy; numerous designs), Manna (quadcopter), Zipline (fixed wing + 'parachute' strategy; larger payload).
Absolutely! This isn't high priority but there is some very low hanging fruit. It's not that reducible though since llvm is 84 of those megs and they have to go into memory if you want to be able to generate new code.
That's a completely different round. There will be different rules, and different competitors. They have to recompete.

Next year it's likely the Senate will have changed hands, so the likelihood of the program still existing is low.

That's like telling the winner of a sports tournament that sorry, the prize you were promised is gone. But we might have another tournament next year, so that's OK.

Starlink is going to sue over this, and they'll win. By 2028 Starlink expects to have two orders of magnitude more capacity than they do now. 15x as many satellites, with an order of magnitude more capacity per satellite.
This, this, this.

You can’t disrespect your core, dedicated audience.

Apple slapped every serious, dedicated, industry director and editor in the face who used Final Cut with the release of FCPX.

The incompatibility of plugins was one thing. That we couldn’t - for the first time ever - open project files from a previous version into the new version, made it further useless for folks who would be looking to ‘upgrade’. Then there was the staggering lack of basic features.

One had to wonder what the hell Apple was thinking. There are easier ways to shoot oneself in the foot.
Is this a problem everyone has? This is a problem my wife has, and a cause of arguments amongst us.

I wear clothes until I get a hole in it. Classically this would be when I would throw it out. I thought this was a waste of money and I have learned to darn (from an HN post no less) - I do not buy clothes until there I a serious gap in my collection, and even then it's usually because my wife has dragged me to the store.
Not sure that’s completely true — I’ve heard great things about fiber availability in Romania, Switzerland, and Nordic countries for example.
I played it for a bit but the combat felt like it was optimizing for spectacle rather than depth or satisfaction. Diablo III delivered the top-down grindfest fantasy better for me, so all throughout I kept asking myself why I wasn't playing that instead :p

But why do you ask? Did it go this route too? With Amazon money behind it I figured they'd be ruthless in stopping RMT.
I was thinking of the twitter breach - just mention CF in your tweets or profile and become a target.

It should be a simple matter for CF to figure out which is the case.

It would be nice to know if CF customers were also targeted.
Can you share the current state with regards to basic functions (phone calls, SMS, mobile data)? Does it work reliably?
I really don't think price would be a factor for these companies.
Do you have a source other than hearsay about the doubling? I find nothing in their rates (or rates published by watchdogs) that indicates a double payment. I only see places like Fox News style "some people have claimed..." stories.

The only actual stories with solid data say the increase is due to natural gas prices, which have not nearly doubled, so it'd be surprising that the end product doubled. And stories showing how unusual high heat waves have caused people to use more energy, which naturally results in a higher bill.

Also, that's completely different than inflation caused, and I doubt the higher bills would last long if that double monthly bill is true.

Also, if people were undercharged, then they owe the money. Basically they got a better deal by paying less early.
Totally agree!

I've done this method a lot. Honestly scraping Google Reviews was the most difficult in terms of complexity. This was like 6 or 7 years ago. You would get back these huge nested arrays that mostly had 0s in them. Occasionally a value would be set and that's what I would go with. I'm assuming their internal tools were obfuscated and/or using protobuf. But it certainly took me back to the good ol' days hexediting games in order to make your own cheat codes.

Another difficulty I faced were sites that relied on the previous UI state to pass the API call. You'd have to emulate "real" browsing by requesting the subsequent pages and get the ID number. Still much faster than emulating the whole browser via Selenium.

Honestly, it was the small sites that actually proved more troublesome. The ones that had an actual admin reading logs. They would ban our whole IP Block, then ban our whole proxy IP Block. Once I implemented TOR functionality into our scraper for a particularly valuable but small site and they blocked that too. This site ended up implementing ludicrous rate limiting that had normal users waiting for 2-3 seconds between requests, all because we were scraping their data. I kid you not, by the time we gave up trying, this Section-8 rental site for a small city had vastly more protections in place than Zillow and Apartments.com combined.
I never saw IE or Windows running on Novell Netware. It was a server operating system. What you’re saying is akin to saying you can create a windows shell from inside linux.
I installed nip2 and played with it for a while. It is _the best_ notebook/spreadsheet tool I ever experienced. I don't know if the folks from Equals.app have notifications on their name in Hacker News, but they should consider taking some inspiration from nip2 and not just from Excel.
The semantic web is dead. Long live Topic maps [1] ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topic_map
As someone who makes a record high salary doing Rails development, I beg to differ.
Your project sounds very impressive. I would like to try it out, unfortunately I'm unlikely to be able to get it to run by building Rust. If I understand correctly it should be able to run it on the Web, you have a demo somewhere? Or a video?
Is anyone else delivering anything even close? Aiming 10-100x better than competitors and missing by a small percentage is considered failure apparently.

Hughesnet was one of the best options prior to Starlink.
Government has given hundreds of billions in broadband funding to the giant telecoms and cable for ages for absolute nada [EDIT, 1]. The clients I put in Starlink for last year had a 10 meg connection for which they were charged hundreds of dollars per month and were fortunate since a mile away it was 56k modem of HughesNet or nothing. It's really good tech. I've been hearing promises and aspirations about fiber for like 17 fucking years. I can completely believe that in designing and putting into being a brand new network like that SpaceX has misjudged cell density vs satellite density and capabilities in areas and let the average speeds fall. But given what they're doing and the (non)alternatives I'd be a lot happier if there was some leeway to bring that back up and see how v2 comes out. Funding very promising technology that is aggressively trying to ramp hard and has a clear 1-3 year horizon is precisely the sort of thing government should do after all their failures up until now. And there are others less well off within a hundred miles who were hoping to get Starlink if the monthly cost could be brought down by this program. And Starlink aren't assholes like the incumbent players either. No datacaps, zero billing crap with surprise charges or fees, no port blocking, no bullshit in general. Of course more speed would be better, but that should be worth something too vs theoretically faster connections that then punish or restrict.

Bottom line: I don't think these $886 million now going elsewhere are going to benefit even a single person up here near the Canadian border in the next few years. Fiber is still not going to appear here. The border is over 3000 miles long. In contrast Starlink can do something now (if you look at the Starlink map [0], there are very few filled cells in northern New England or northern Midwest/Pacific West up near Canada), and has the real promise of doing better. Now that will be harder, and I do not believe anything better is going to come of it for any of us in that time frame. If fiber comes in 2028 wonderful, Starlink could be cancelled then. That's a long time though to still be on 56k/HEOsat.

To sibling comments talking crap like "do you work for SpaceX" if you wish to volunteer and come up to lay fiber for us right fucking now by all means.

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0: https://www.starlink.com/map

1: I'm editing in response to tyrfing below because I suspect I'll hit the HN reply speed cap sometime shortly. This got tons of coverage in the 00s in particular but has fallen away over time as these things tend to. I had a bunch bookmarked at one point from old /. stories and the like and actual paper books but all the sites now seem to be dead. Here's a more recent one though that seems to cover the gist and could be a place to start for more: "The Book Of Broken Promises: $400 Billion Broadband Scandal" https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...
Literally begging you to display some empathy.
This has actually been fixed since iOS 9: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs...

This opens Safari, but makes it appear like it's an in-app browser. Best of both.
People do not live in rural areas "to save money".
> Still, are you suggesting that clothes should be kept forever?

Fair point!

> Because whether you're talking about someone who discards entire wardrobes at the end of every season

I would assume these people buy high-end garments, and you'll find more boutique second hand stores that will take it. I suspect, if somebody is that devoted to fashion, it's more of a hobby or a passion, and I think we're all allowed a few vices, splurges, and wasteful pleasures.

> or someone who rotates the same very-few items until they no longer fit

I think the natural end point for heavily worn clothes would be as a rag?
This feels quite a lot like asking why should healthy people subsidize the sick, poor, and old?