skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be honest I am bad with this, but I think really the only time it's actually useful is at any point you can do something about it, else the rest of the time you can avoid. Even a few hours a month seems wasteful to me, there will be a lot of stories playing out and speculation that doesn't mean anything to you right now.

Really only at elections is when it seems important to me, do your research and go deeper than most and then make your choice, but avoid the news the rest of the time seems the optional thing to me.

You tend to hear about things anyway, everyone has an opinion on this thing and they love to share it, no matter how much they know about the topic, the best way to not get suckered in, is not to follow it at all.

I've in no way managed to apply this to my life yet though, but it is my goal.
> We are not really fit to do anything else.

If you go by that logic we are only fit to live in tropical savannahs in Africa where modern humans originated.

What I find supremely arrogant, though, is any Westerner who, while living in comfort and safety amidst high technology, proposes that everyone in the world should just be content with not having the comforts they are currently using (including some, like vaccines and modern medicine, which arguably have vastly less negative effects than PFAS and burning fossil fuels).

Anyone actually serious about this philosophy should try as much as possible to make their lifestyles like what they want for everyone. It probably wouldn't convince everyone, but it would certainly earn them a lot more respect.
Every time I brought it up, it gets a bunch of up votes and then [flagged] within 1-5 minutes. And yes, I think it's a big deal. It is a MAJOR intrusion and threat to user's privacy and security and somebody needs to step up and blow the whistle.
I knocked up this site a bunch of years ago. I should probably update it now that I have half a clue how to do that.

https://isitchemicalfree.com/
Doesn't the underside of bottlecaps have a plastic liner?

Plus, microplastics are a global phenomenon. Like, they're found on the bottom of the ocean.
Google/copy/paste/repeat is the quick and mindless replacement for read/understand/write/debug.

AI for machines and humans alike - and it works much better than you might expect.
And, as, always, glosses over the fact that even if EVs are simply just equivalent to ICE vehicles, moving a million point sources of pollution (cars) to a small number of single point sources (power plants) makes the pollution problem much easier to solve and improves the air quality in cities dramatically.

One number I challenge, though, is "0-4% for auxiliary use". My AC on an EV looks to be closer to 15% of cruising energy in a hot clime, and I know that my ICE cars always had a significant drop in MPG when I ran the AC, too. In addition, heating is "free" in an ICE car while it's probably a similar 15% in an EV car.
Show HN: `pdf2searchablepdf` command-line tool to make PDF have searchable text
Easily perform OCR (Optical Character Recognition) on PDFs. `pdf2searchablepdf input.pdf` = voila! "input_searchable.pdf" is created & now has searchable text
a little downward boost at the beginning, trading away some health for time, love it!
If you're looking for web scraping API having more friendly pricing, especially with premium proxies and JS rendering, check out https://scrapingfish.com
No, you are basically wrong to assume that Lebanon crisis has anything to do with islamic banking. Lebanon is not even a Muslim majority country. The problems arises from just how bad their reliant on financial sector for decades and how much unsustainable debt they acquired.
How to rewrite a press release: a step-by-step guide
The only thing that worked for me so far is, if the project I built is something I really want/need. Otherwise, it'll just go like that.
(2015)

Previous discussions:

- 2015-12-13: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10725859

- 2019-12-01: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21674610
yep - but that doesn't do much good if people overwhelmingly /think/ otherwise.
Only about 60% of Lebanon is Muslim. Roughly, it's like 30% Shia, 30% Sunni, 30% Christian, and 10% Druze. Their laws are made such that they can accommodate all the different religions and lifestyles.

Their banking system is similar to Switzerland's, at least that's what it used to be. Now it's just a fully burnt down dumpster.
By that logic, you might as well rant and rave against SSH being available on most if not all Unix systems...?

As I understand it, it's a helper app you have to run first, it's not something permanently on?
This article is a perfect response to anyone asking 'why do you need blockchain?'.

Maybe you live in a stable and developed country. Nice. Those people don't and it's extremely hard for them to open a banking account elsewhere. What they can do is save in usdt or usdc on ethereum. It's empirically much, much safer than holding dollars in a Lebanese bank.
I think Lebanon and especially Beirut are pretty liberal. There hasn’t been an “Islamic rule” in Lebanon. I could be wrong on this but even the Hezbollah doesn’t have much of a social agenda - probably not yet.

Western media likes to classify along a bell curve (radical Islamic, moderate, liberal, etc). That classification is mostly wrong though. As an example Iran is more liberal than Saudi Arabia in its treatment of women. It’s not the west, but women have been in government, can hold jobs, drive etc. However, Iran is generally radical but the Saudis are moderates. So go figure
Note, that post is over a year old and it looks like the book is available here

http://antirez.com/news/136

I also just realised the name was familiar, it's the redis guy that moved on.
With the Screen Capture API: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Screen_Capt...
This Week in Linux and Destination Linux, both by the TuxDigital network.
No. If anything, I find it to be much easier to learn anything that extends what I already know, and being older you (hopefully) just know more. You have a much more solid base to build upon quickly and easily.
Not to mention transportation energy. Glass bottles are ~40-50x heavier than plastic and plastic lined aluminum cans. At ~180 Billion cans per year that fuel usage adds up. It's not an accident or malevolence that plastic is so widely used, it is efficiency.
It's in nixpkgs (for MacOS and Linux). I haven't tested it because it's flagged as having a security vulnerability (actually that's an excuse - it's really because I'm busy) but it should work.
Is this like a global threaded #general slack channel?
An SSH server doesn't come pre-installed and pre-configured to give access to random people you don't even know.
All in Podcast has really grown on me.
Getting DGEEV to work requires 50,000 lines of mechanically translated code to work from HOMPACK, BLAS, and LAPACK. At no point is the "COMPLEX*16" data type used in the public interface to DGEEV because the routine demands real and imaginary parts are split into separate columns of the eigenvalue array and eigenvector matrix, i.e., actual complex numbers are never constructed. So things are "easy".

As such, ZGEEV would require

(1) getting COMPLEX*16 values and arrays to translate appropriately into Common Lisp (where the representation is as a boxed, heap-allocated object, typically), and

(2) introducing approximately double the amount of code (totaling well over 100,000 lines of mechanically translated code... just to get one function!).

To (1), I think F2CL supports this, but it's evident from the longest-maintained distribution of the software that it hasn't been as thoroughly exercised as the real-type code. So, if LOC doesn't cost anything, this might be a fine starting point.

Lastly, "antiquated" specifically refers to a 15+-year-old LAPACK distribution written in FORTRAN 77, for which F2CL works—sort of. F2CL is actually more strict than F77, which makes translation of real-world F77 code difficult. For instance, in F77, you can pass an entire string to a function that declares itself as accepting only a single character. However, after translation, Lisp will raise a type error when that happens. So, our choice is to fix 30-year-old F77-to-Lisp translation code, or manually fix those Fortran type errors in the output. The latter is what was done to make the real code work.

Reference LAPACK is now written in Fortran 90+, with many numerical bug fixes in each release. As such, this cannot be translated with this tool, unless somebody writes a full-blown F90 parser and refactors the translator.

If one wants to use modern LAPACK directly in MAGICL, there's already a MAGICL/EXT-LAPACK system one can load, but it requires your system to have the binary library installed.
If every single user wants to be a soulless robot (pure capitalism), then yes. However if the userbase understands that larger accounts will be subject to larger fees, in order to support smaller accounts, then I would like to think at least some users would support that. Not everything in life has to be decided on a purely selfish basis.
This keeps on being reposted.

1) its not blurays as a whole just UHD blurays

2) it has nothing to do with the technical capabilities of the chip to playback the codecs, but simply to do with AACS's lack of desire to license playback without sgx availability

3) as noted elsewhere with anydvd/makemkv this just hurts regular users as the ability to decrypt and playback UHD blurays is readily available and one can't easily put that genie back in the bottle.

4) As a caveat to #3, AACS hasn't been broken (as opposed to DVD's CSS), its just well understood and people know how to put the effort in to exfiltrate player keys from devices. As each player key can be used to figure out the volume unique key (VUK in terminology), its "easy" enough to make a database of VUKs for each unique disc that one encounters. Of course player keys can be revoked and then not be able to used to generate newer VUKs (happens with newer MKB revisions) so then people have to exfiltrate a new player key.

In fact, AnyDVD basically does this itself, you can make a bit perfect image of a bluray (making an assumption you have an old drive that avoids bus encryption, or use other mechanisms, say libredrive, to prevent it) and assuming AnyDVD has seen the disc before (anywhere thats connected to the internet and their servers), it will be able to decrypt the encrypted image.

This is opposed to DVDs, no special areas of the disc unreadable by normal mechanisms are used on blurays, for DVDs while one can also make an encrypted image and decrypt it, one is then limited to normal DeCSS brute force methods that require a certain amount of data to work so dont work on the smallest of files, in practice, this limitation doesn't matter much and is more noted for technical interest.
Another question worth asking is: what is the rate of randomly directed violent crime? I suspect it's small enough to be a rounding error vs violent crimes between people with pre-existing relationships.

Still, I agree with your point about the rhetorical focus. Simply reciting the statistics isn't going to alleviate anxieties.
My Dasung Paperlike is a monitor also. In practice it's not a great solution for me compared to laptop (self-contained, batteries included). An external monitor (incl. the Boox) is quite impractical to lug around and set up.
So another interesting thing about nonstick pans: if you brown things in them, the fond sticks to the food, not the pan. Now obviously you can't get a super hard sear on teflon, but you can brown things, and I find it can give more control on delicate stuff like fish.

Also re oil, a great tip is to oil the food not the pan along with using nonstick too.

Oh, on that famous Pepin video (which is the one that taught me how to nail the texture), consider that Pepin probably has 100 pans a month sent to his agent/pobox unsolicited. He'd don't give a crap about that pan lol.
A hackernews thread, about a tweet, which is a reddit screenshot, that is actually a link to a youtube video.

This is why we can't have nice things internet friends.
> Unfortunately

What’s the argument against capitalism/international trade in this context? Trade increases the cost of war, which is a good thing, right?
If you like Star Trek and dumb jokes, I enjoy:

The Greatest Generation

https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/greatest-generation/

The Greatest Discovery

https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/the-greatest-discovery/

Other good ones that are more serious:

Triple Click

The Ezra Klein Show

Ear Hustle

BBC In Our Time

BBC 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy

The Amp Hour

PCB Chat

On Track PCB Design Podcast

Internet History Podcast

Smartless

The Well

Song Exploder
Most likely realistic outcome is biology will be forced to adapt to plastic and its side effects rather than the genie goes back in the bottle.
I just threw out my last pair of alkaline batteries store branded to Frys. The end of an era.
Weapons the War in Ukraine Is Proving Obsolete
This is a pretty good example. Sure, we should know our tools, but This is not intuitive behavior if you don't know.

https://superuser.com/questions/101676/is-there-some-differe...

It is not until the last comment of the accepted answer that you get to the difference in permissions.
(along with the answers that are not accepted as best)
Dmoz ftw!
Yeah aluminum cans with deposits are extremely rare to see as litter

/s
Anecdote, but I like the Python community's emphasis on "readability counts". I did not get that from e.g. Ruby.

Python's internals are also relatively accessible and easy to work with, so it's smooth sailing once you have that need. The language starts out easy, and grows with you. Of the languages I've tried (and there are many), only Smalltalk and the Lisp family were comparable in expressiveness.

The language mostly gets out of my way and lets me do what I want. I don't feel like I have to fight the compiler (at least until I tried Mypy) or write a lot of tediously verbose boilerplate just to get out a "Hello, World!" like I did in Java.

Unlike, say, JavaScript, Python is pretty strongly typed and fails fast. The stack traces almost always point you to the exact location of the problem (unlike the JS tendency to propagate `undefined` everywhere). There aren't a lot of surprises or gotchas. I can pretty much run it in my head just by reading the code and be right most of the time. I cannot say the same for C++ or JavaScript, which naturally tend to become inscrutable without discipline.
>It's empirically much, much safer

*unless you held your stablecoins on Anchor Protocol or a centralized entity that became insolvent
I think they're referring to this one: https://meet.google.com/
Who said the prefixes had to go to /32? Just to /28 would only need 16 million routes.
Nah, real linux hackers go raw.
I think at this point the Arch Wiki has supplanted all other sources as the definitive source of Linux howtos, given the size of the community and its values.
Chain emails were common, and were mostly just annoying. But some would ask you to send money in exchange for getting much more sent to you later.
I could not relate less. I'm guessing you don't have ADHD?

I wish lack of excitement and being tired felt the way you describe, but if anything it's the opposite.

I get more dopamine from being exhausted physically but overextending myself than I do from being bored, much to my misery.
Slab City reaches its boiling point
Quick Assist also doesn't do that. maybe spend 5 mins googling something before you go on an internet crusade?
It's well understood that testosterone levels in US young men have dramatically
decreased in the last 20 years. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32081788/

Is it plastics? Is it other synthetic compounds like PTFE, PFOA, PFAS?

I don't think the links are clear, but I'm not going to be surprised if it becomes clear these synthetic compounds are <all> negatively affecting human health.

Leaded gasoline was sold between 1922 and 1996, and it's been claimed
leaded gas has killed millions, and affected the IQ and mental well being of many.

And the sad part is, lead was well understood as toxic before leaded gas was sold in 1922.
> Before you would use a HOWTO to teach yourself everything about a specific piece of software or technical thing.'

The whole point of HOWTO's as a documentation format is that they don't try to do this; rather, they address specific user needs. They're somewhat like the "next step" beyond simple Q&A and FAQ collections, and this is where much of their value could still be found.
>I doubt many people are buying bottled water to drink at home.

No offence meant but you're really out of touch here.
Does anyone know a good podcast about climate change, renewables, new technologies that are being tested etc.?

Something without all this technobabble about making "green" solutions that act mainly as solutions to get VCs money. I would like something honest, preferably from people who really care and know what they are talking about.
Webrings rise once again
We do, in fact, know what it would cost to extract the heat in usable form. And that would be enormously more costly than what we do with fission. Extracting a few grams of tritium or helium-3, at a few parts per billion, from a thousand tons of molten, radioactive lithium every day, for fuel, can be no picnic. We can anyway be glad most of the lithium itself is not radioactive, just metal impurities spalled from surfaces of the pipes it ran in.

Decommissioning would necessarily be at least as big a job as a regular nuke, because the whole reactor, thousands of tons of embrittled metal, would have been blasted with hot neutrons for months or years. A good home for a thousand tons of what was molten neutron-irradiated lithium is no easier to find than for spent uranium.
Technically 144 a week, but yeah. That's a stretch even with spaced repetition. On the other hand OP is doing 15 second solves, i.e. 240 solves an hour (1hr per day) plus a lot more on the learning day, so cycling through all the 1LLL algorithms fairly frequently.
Yes, there's and most caps even have some lining - resin or pastic, I'm not sure, but there's a really small surface and most cases during transporation water won't touch it. Well, I'm idealizing things as the water from the spring most probably goes thru PVC pipes into the bottles anyway...
One App to Rule Them All: My Experience with Raycast on Mac
Yeah, the downside is whatever that stuff is, it obviously doesn't bond as hard as PTFE, because every ceramic nonstick pan I've seen degrades even faster.
Playing the devil's advocate here - bottled water provides safe drinking water in certain parts of the world, in places where citizens do not have access to clean tap water.

With that said, some of the businesses practices around the extraction and marketing of bottled water are abhorrent and cannot be excused.
I was taking this article seriously until I arrived at the Terrence McKenna bit. His opinions are highly subjective, based on personal experience with drugs, and they aren't a compelling, testable, or comparable line of thought. Not to mention that TM is pretentious as hell and basis his whole outlook on life on doing loads of DMT (he hardly talks about anything else).
But the lapack functions have been thoroughly tested, over decades.

Don't roll your own lapack functions is generally good advice.
Have you ever had tap water from San Jose, Los Angeles, or Las Vegas?
>who says that the payout distribution has to follow the power law?

The payout distribution is proportional to the number of subscribers, which follows a power law.

>And even if it does naturally, OnlyFans doesn't have to just let it happen. They could take a bigger cut from the larger accounts, and distribute it such that the payouts are more linear.

How is taking a larger relative cut from the content creators bringing in the most traffic a good (much less optimal) business decision?
Apparently some are skeptical that cryptocurrency would solve anything here, but a year ago there was a story, posted on HN, about the Lebanese using it for sending money into the country:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28300000

Edit: Not saying it's an ironclad defense of relevance to this use case, but your eyes should at least glance there first before resuming their ordinary eyeroll upon mention of crypto.
The article says

> Banks are running low on cash to issue to people, leading them to place strict limits on the amount of money people can withdraw.

I interpret “running low on cash” as physical notes. This does not imply any restriction on transactions, or does it? It’s a genuine question.

Note: on the topic of expectations, I’ll quote from HN guidelines available at the bottom of the page: “ Please don't comment on whether someone read an article.”
The reasoning is given, but - ironically - no “connection” is given between the idea that “other languages don’t have enough mechanisms for connection” and “other languages aren’t general purpose programming languages” or “other languages are DSLs for writing algorithms”. That connection isn’t really obvious. For one thing, lots of things I do on a day-to-day basis in languages that aren’t Objective-S don’t “feel” particularly “algorithmic” - for instance, when I’m modeling data in a class hierarchy or as a composition of types, using mechanisms built into the languages of choice, am I just “writing algorithms”? What about when I’m plumbing stuff between APIs and databases? Writing - or using - Lisp macros? Etc.

It’s an issue of terminology, I’d say - you’re using very sweeping, imprecise language to describe your critique. “This particular mechanism is a useful feature other languages lack” would be received much better than “other languages are fundamentally only suited to writing algorithms, rather than general-purpose software” when we’ve got 60+ years of every kind of software imaginable written in them. Arguing about the criteria for what “general purpose” means, this far down the line, is vastly less interesting than actual features, and I’ve read two blog posts and I still don’t really see, specifically, what Objective-S has that’s so paradigm shifting. Reprogrammable literals, so I can embed URLs in my code without delimiters or anything? Syntax for “connecting” things?
How does it compare to the immensely popular JSON for Modern C++ library by nlohmann? https://github.com/nlohmann/json

Also, you should add your library to the JSON benchmarks here: https://github.com/miloyip/nativejson-benchmark#parsing-time
I have filtered water at home. Before I go anywhere, I have metal water bottles and canteens that I'll put ice in and fill with water. No need for me to pay for expensive water that I already have at home, and no need for me to drink out of plastics.
>These questions are explained in the article.

No, they are really not, as the article sticks to using the term withdrawing, regarding what's being restricted. Generally it's expected that you read things before correcting others here.

That said, and to answer the grandparent, transfers are probably also restricted, it's not just about limits on withdrawing cash. Or they need to pay in cash, because all accounts are frozen transfers-wise - so, even if they could just make do with transfers internally, they can't use them to pay any foreign imports/services/etc.
Solar is on par with fosil fuels. And at least in EU with cap & trade system accounting for externalities as well as stopping sponsoring Russian wars and terrorism, I would not be surprised if renewables were twice as cheap.
Only one person has done it. That's beyond "hard" and into "you need a very unique type of brain", imo. Many other people have tried it and failed.
Yeah, you should definitely find a way to stream it from a third location. You have the same problem as the lofi girl stream: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKfPfyJRdk

Before their problem with content ID last month, their stream had been uninterrupted for two years.
I just started listening to "Hardware To Save A Planet" but it's pretty pop-sci press-releasy.
https://archive.ph/0dxle

https://web.archive.org/web/20220813215554/https://www.unila...