skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s great to recognise what we’ve achieved as a species. And maybe the arc of history has historically bent towards justice.

What’s different about this moment in time versus any other in human history is that we face not one but two known existential risks.

Climate change is the sort of knotty long-term vs short-term, private vs public, incentives problem that we as a species excel at fucking up.

In addition to that, we have a new cold war and the proliferation of nuclear weapons to states that haven’t previously had them and have different ideas about using them. If you’ve read any accounts of nuclear near-misses from the last Cold War, you’ll know that “there was never any real danger” is the wrong conclusion to draw.

Respectfully, I don’t understand the case for optimism at all. The fact that the vast majority of people are good (and I believe that they are) has little bearing on it.
you could have a comorbidity (rarely)
Agreed, I think it should only be called a paradox if it met the pattern “the more effort you spend on preparedness, the less prepared you become…”

Otherwise it just seems like a relationship between two variables…
There are different types of conversations. If it's "I am willing to dedicate my time to your needs", interrupting contradicts this promise, as you know best what your needs are, maybe it's just to be heard. But if it's "I can't get back to work till we are finished", it's your responsibility to not detain me longer than necessary and that includes being Ok with me interrupting to hurry things along. We need situational awareness, not making a church of either style of talking.
Guilty! but now seen, cannot unsee. A new verbal/written slip I have to try and un-learn to say.
Can you have local only calendars on iPhone? If it's the iCloud account, I'm pretty sure it's straight up CalDAV.
I was tired all the time. My sleep got really bad in my late 20s and I ended up getting a sleep study (AHI ~10, no RDI scored) based on recommendations from the HN crowd. My then symptoms were excessive daytime sleepiness and erectile dysfunction. My second sleep physician got me on CPAP (first one wouldn't do anything so I fired him) which helped with the cardiovascular aspect of sleep apnea but didn't do much for sleepiness. A dentist-prescribed MAD helped me a lot which convinced me that jaw surgery is the way to go (had multiple people telling me about needing jaw surgery, including the late Dr Christian Guilleminault who coined the term obstructive sleep apnea). I went to a Stanford sleep surgeon for maxillary expansion and jaw surgery, who turned out to be a butcher, so now I'm getting these procedures redone with another surgeon and trying a BiPAP.
The fact that KF goes after non-criminals, and functions as an infomob with no boundaries for privacy or parasocial etiquette imo is damning of their intentions.
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Well, it is farming. The farm is huge and the growing season is measured in decades and centuries. Harvesting is contracted-out.
I've watched a lot of Munro (and even bought one of their retail reports for fun) and the thing that most bothered me that looked like tesla bias was when he was doing side-by-side stats comparisons of all of the mid-size crossovers like the id.4, mach-e, and tesla y. he kept on harping about the epa range in the comparison and never once mentioned the methodology of the epa estimate and the fact that manufacturers have a lot of leeway to conduct the test themselves - and either overreport or underreport the epa range. this was really glaring to me because tesla is known to stretch their range estimates (as do other manufacturers), but some manufacturers seem to deliberately underreport (mercedes, porsche, ford with some models of the mach-e for example). given that he's in the business of competitive analysis he HAS to know this, but he never said a word about it, which I think made tesla look a little better than it should have. it's one thing to just present the epa range and leave it at that, but he was using it as the basis for a ton of discussion and derived numbers and basically putting down the non-tesla cars... all without mentioning the limits of the number

I think this is the video I'm remembering, but he reused charts like this a lot
https://youtu.be/p0kFZ9CVLNg?t=512

see this for some real-world testing, there's lots like it and the results usually skew a certain way for each car. for example, there's about a 20% delta in epa vs. tested range for the tesla y LR and mach-e standard range in his chart. the tesla artificially looks 20% better! and this delta was well-known at the time of his video
https://insideevs.com/reviews/443791/ev-range-test-results/

to your question about conflicts of interest, owning a stock is a conflict of interest. nobody needs to show that something is happening inside his head, the circumstances exist and that's it. I think he's usually pretty good and I still watch the videos, and he trades on his reputation and I still regard him as a good source. but I'm still glad to learn that he's sold the stock
Some people who would rather use their old phones don't because they can no longer receive software updates, either to the apps they use, or the OS. There are other reasons also like replacement parts are no longer easily available.

But anyway, you're missing the forest for the trees. Most folks who bemoan what you speak of simply want the option to repair their items easily in the case that something does go wrong.
I have a late gen Samsung plasma and it really is still impressive. I think one thing it handles way better than oled/lcd models is broadcast/lower rez/bitrate content.
What exactly are you doing with your back end? If it's database operations, you can try Parse Server. We use it frequently for hackathons.

I wrote a tutorial on it: https://smuzani.medium.com/setting-up-a-mobile-backend-serve...

If you want to do stuff like run code on the back end, then you might want another.
Why would you think that technology would make teaching easier and faster?
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I got some USB buds for my Pixel 6 for about twice the price of a pair of 3.5mm buds.

I grumble about not being able to use the buds and charge the phone at the same time, but it's a minor concern overall. The USB buds have equivalent quality and latency to 3.5mm buds, so you're not forced to take a step down like you would be with Bluetooth.
Google Maps, I can confirm. It works, but it's noticably slow on Firefox. Tiles appear a tab bit slower, and street view navigation takes a fraction of a second to respond. It didn't stop me from using Firefox, but I can absolutely understand if someone finds it as a deal breaker if they use Google maps often.
I wish it would be as easy as losing weight. I’m not overweight. My BMI is 23.5. Still, I tried dropping 10 pounds but it made no difference to my symptoms.
Thinking about how people use the words. I think "right" or "thats right" is a declaration of belief in correctness, but "correct" includes "marking" people, or declaring as the adjudicator something is right or wrong. "I agree" is the more mutual expression.

If we had "rightness" in more common use, as an act of adjudication, akin to marking homework (which is either correct or incorrect?) then the distinction might be smaller. It is a fine distinction, and I can see for vernacular english this may be a lost battle: indeed who am I to say this is "incorrect" usage of English in the Indian, or Singaporean, or even American community?

Correct is unfortunate because of its dual use: both to signal agreement, and to confer aprobation on something, as when Teachers reward pupils. "Thats Correct Harry, 5 points to Gryffindor"

English isn't alone in these problems: A spanish speaker went to some lengths to explain distiction between Amor and Quero to me. You wouldn't use one with your sister, when you would with your girlfriend.
> Like - how is BoJo faring right now?

Given the two abominations of humanity up for PM
now, in 3-4 months he’s going to look positively Churchillian.
Militaries have been shooting working electronics out of guns since WWII. The earliest versions were vacuum tube proximity fuses. The U.S, military has been shooting guided weapons out of guns since the 1970s. They work pretty well.

This technology seems to be suited for launching moderate numbers of small satellites. It's not a huge win on launch cost over filling up a Falcon 9 with racks of small satellites.

This competes with the Pegasus air-launch system, where a rocket is carried to high altitude by an aircraft. That works fine, and launches have been going on since the 1990s. But it's not a huge financial win.

It's good to have a few competing technologies. Keeps the price down.
Why is it that S. viminalis and other mentioned Salix species are so effective at this? Is it that the Salix genus is more effective or are more genuses (geni?) also effective but just haven't been studied yet?
Crypto is basically trading in conjunction with Nasdaq. The only time it deviates is if specific crypto news such as crypto regulations or hacks occur.

So the only way I see it crashing more is if governments finally grow some balls and prevent easy scams from happening in crypto or if Nasdaq crashes more.
Objective does not reducible to a metric. It means when given an object (a team of developers and your relationships wih them) then there is a space of correct answers (ie. not reducing those interactions to a metric) and a space of wrong answers (ie. trying to start an orgy every day).

Your real name is subjective (it depends only on what you decide it is)

Your favourite colour is subjective

Whether you like a piece of art, think it's good or think it achieved what was intend€d is subjective

The meaning of a piece of art is objective but not reducible to a metric and maybe not unique.

This assertion that things are objective if and only if simple models based on overly reductive metrics are the only correct tool for thinking about them is incredibly wrong and destructive.
"The audit of Maryland's lottery revealed that, in one year, eight players had won top lottery prizes 200+ times."

"An audit of Pennsylvania's lottery found that 17 players had won top prizes there 50+ times."

""If they're doing it honestly I wish them good luck and hope they win 79 more times," Moore said."

A ludicrously naive statement in the face of obvious fraud, wow.
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Covered wooden bridges last hundreds of years and they are very beautiful. Maintenance is required (as with everything) but life cycle cost is really good especially for shorter spans.
I bought the LG for games and it is great at that. It is also pretty good for movies and television, just motion handling is worse for low framerate content. I am sensitive to this as I find the motion handling of a lot of LCD tvs to be poor as well.

I will add that another part of the issue is that it is almost too good in terms of response time and motion handling. There is not enough blurring. Everything appears so sharp and crisp and motion resolution is so high that movie sets look like movie sets. When something isn’t real in the scene it is very clear. It is a problem of OLEDs being beyond the technology films are shot for. No one expects that you will be able to see everything in sharp detail during fast moving scenes.
Worth noting the vendor lock-in offers are quite significant. My wife and I both had Pixel 3as on Google Fi, both got offers of $300 to trade them in to buy a Pixel 6a. The obviously gimmicky trade in price was only for buying a 6a specifically (buy another phone and the trade in drops to $30)

Gimmicky but worth it, $150 each to get brand new phones that check all the boxes.
what sort of role has you taking care of things like that? i’d be curious to hear a bit more.

i took a job at a consulting firm in hopes of getting a lot of variety, but i keep getting stuck digging the dumbest customers out of the deepest muck for years at a time. :(
A Russian soldier's Ukraine journal: 'I will not participate in this madness'
Probably not. e-ink displays are much more expensive than a cheap $200-300 "smart" TV mounted to the wall. A 31" display module (not the stuff to drive it) is $2300. Maybe you can get the price down in bulk purchasing, but a 40" TV could be purchased for $200-300 right now from any big box store. So an array of 6 40" TVs displaying menus would be cheaper than one of these.

https://shopkits.eink.com/product/31-2˝-color-epaper-display...
My main high school income was from modding Xboxes. It was all just local kids but one of my friend’s brothers worked for a celebrity and one of the Xboxes was apparently featured on MTV’s Cribs so I called it quits.
People aren't willing to pay to emerging technology. You can easily buy a 25 inch eink black and white screen for around two years now. Every time I've seen it posted here it's someone asking why it doesn't cost $100.

Mean while I'm very happy with the $4k I spent to get one of the first models they build.
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I'm in my mid 40s. It's actually much easier for me to read text on displays that emit bright light than the ones that don't. :-(
Nice write up, thank you! I've tried to do some bookscanning a couple of years ago (well, it was mostly getting better and cleaner PDFs than scanning), and the best guide back then was the one by Nate Craun (former maintainer of ScanTailor).

Would you mind writing this guide in a less forum-y site? Or do you know any place to look for a good tutorial and best practices for this hobby?
You can reserve the Lucid now and have it available in early 2023.

I would suspect that it isn't too different from the Plaid.
What industry or domain are you in?
You are 100% correct, which means that whatever we will create, will be absolutely alien to us (and probably kill us).
I had a Panasonic from about 2008. It finally started having image burn-in problems and some yellowing from too much CNN on in the background. It had great speakers and rich colors until near the end. The Samsung I replaced it with is terrible in so many ways. Had to buy a sound bar to fix the audio. the color is not as rich. It has tearing issues with faster movements like when watching sports. I would get rid of it but not sure other options are better and hate contributing to e-waste.
That doesn’t really solve head of line blocking.
The National Republican Army (NRA) in Russia has claimed responsibility for the attack.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Republican_Army_(Ru...
The downloaded songs play great if you toggle to airplane mode.

The whole app is basically unusable with a spotty connection though. It is constantly attempting to do network things that block the ui.
> Climate change reports are all pretty clear we need to move to smaller, less powerful cars to meet our climate pledges. And produce less of them.

Might want to start then with Americans and their SUVs.

Few orders of magnitude bigger issue than a few rich people and their supercars.
The problem is the use of the word "evidence" to describe the output of a computer simulation. That's wrong. Computer simulation outputs are not evidence. They can be good guides on how to proceed to get evidence, but that's not the same as being evidence.
The overwhelming majority of solar farms are not solar thermal. And, the majority of solar thermal farms are also not of that type.
My attempt to explain:

Words have definitions. But also have connotations - a secondary meaning/implication/feeling. Connotations usually come from where these words are often used. Like formal vs informal speaking. Pub language is not often used during a pitch at a board meeting.

The word "Correct" is usually used by teachers or authority figures to judge the work of their students or subordinates. "Correct" works if the other person is contractually obliged to supply you with something to meet parameters.

The word "Right" (applied to validation) is more casually used by most everyone talking to their peers.

But many conversations are educational/clarifying and entered into by both parties voluntarily. In this context, "Correct" can seem an awful lot like they are trying to elevate themselves to be your superior or teacher, thus demeaning you to student/subordinate level. And so, many will opt to simply abort such a conversation if they don't have to continue.

For my part though, while this still irritates me, I see a person's use of "Correct" to be them validating their own mental model against what you've said. It is extreme shorthand for "No argument, we are in perfect agreeance on that point."
I really appreciate having grayscale or color scans of books rather than bilevel black and white. It's often much easier to read, and often illustrations come out mangled into illegibility by thresholding. Occasionally even text does.
Austrália isn’t really doing well too , is it ?
As someone not really into photography, I got a real sense for why people are passionate about it from this article and an insight into the mindset. That's a good skill!
So is that to say it's just an unintended consequence of the data being hosted on Firebase? That's wild. Especially as I'd be surprised if most integrations aren't using this feature (IMO it's by and far the best feature of the API).

To demonstrate, here's an example in 18 lines of code that v. efficiently listens to live updates to a profile (yours): https://codepen.io/theprojectsomething/pen/xxWBOWN?editors=1...
Who is doing the rejecting and regarding what path? What specific proposed fixes are you referring to?
This is a typical example of over-generalization. The author believes because he is successful, his approach to success must be correct or optimal.

The truth is that almost all ventures will end reaching his level of success if you simply don’t give up, and apply consciousness to your work. You’ll likely have to pivot as you learn more about your chosen market, but if you’re smart and persistent you’ll eventually figure something out.

Instead of shutting out criticism early on (like the author suggests), it’s better to listen and just throw out the unhelpful parts. I’ve actually found that investors are great at pointing out legitimate weaknesses in your business model, but they typically overstate the lethality of such weaknesses.
Yes. And I care about decreasing tracking for people who don't care about being tracked, because that's most of the world.
These ads were bonkers.

> the actor Jerry Carroll, often mistaken for the mysterious Eddie, would rattle off a sales pitch ending with the vibrating, bug-eyed assurance: “His prices are INSANE!”

I always assumed that individual was Eddie himself.
Yawn. Russian elites refused to diversify their economy and open up. Plain and simple. The Russia people have been instrumentalized andkterally made artificially poorer than they should be by their own govt.
> When Mark’s and Cassio’s photos were automatically uploaded from their phones to Google’s servers, this technology flagged them. Jon Callas of the E.F.F. called the scanning intrusive, saying a family photo album on someone’s personal device should be a “private sphere.” (A Google spokeswoman said the company scans only when an “affirmative action” is taken by a user; that includes when the user’s phone backs up photos to the company’s cloud.)

I assume it was triggered when the photos were backed up to Google Photos based on the above quote.
I think you could choose many other two properties and they would still make sense.

We all know it's simplification and it's easy to read so it looks intelligent, albeit incomplete.

For example I make 2x2 matrix of growing roses where axis are: amount of water and amount of sunlight, seems reasonable but we know that there are many other variables at play: soil, atmosphere, solar cycle, temperature, fungal growth etc.

I could make NxM matrix of all known variables, but it would be quite intimidating.
https://github.com/dtolnay/ryu lists that choice of license in its README, in its Cargo.toml, and includes the license texts in its repository.
I'm typing this on my small phone with a headphone jack and, equally importantly, an SD card slot.

There are dozens of us. Dozens!
I wish they'd clear out the PDF versions and replace them with DjVu versions. DjView is better than any PDF reader I've used, and DjVu files are smaller than scanned PDFs.
I just sold one on behalf of a friend who was moving, probably in the same series as yours- I was very surprised at how easily perceptible the flicker was. It also had some "dot crawl" noise even with HDMI, which seemed odd, could have been some mediocre capacitors already on the edge of normal tolerance after 11 years. It looked great with high-motion colorful content, but the flicker and the noise really bugged me with static scenes.
I was just testing it though, ended up selling it for only $100 at a yard sale (46" 1080P).
If I didn't already have a 30" 1080i LG CRT with an HDMI input I'd have considered keeping the plasma. The CRT needs some work though, it's not maintaining normal horizontal image size anymore. Tough to find shops that will work on CRTs now, only one or two in my region and I'll have to lug the thing out of my basement and drive a couple hours for it. I haven't tried taking it apart yet, but I don't have a real oscilloscope or the service manual.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unreasonable_Effectivene...
It's possible they exaggerated their numbers, certainly, but we can only rely on the public data.

I was very active on BBSes in the early 90's. I would call generally 5 or 6 a day myself. I also ran my own, starting around 1992. I don't have any exact figures, but I remember I had roughly 300 users registered, of which about 20 to 30 called a day (I only had a single phone line.) I was a teenager at the time, and most of my users were also teens, logging in after school, from around 3 PM to midnight. There were larger systems in that area that had 8 to 10 lines, and 1000's of registered users.

I remember Usenet quite well. I was active on it, starting around 1989, through a local system that had a UUCP feed. Also, not every "Usenet" user was necessarily an "Internet" (TCP/IP) user. You could receive mail and news through UUCP (batch, over dialup), without being connected to Internet with IP. More ancient history, but UUCP feeds were very common for smaller sites.
Oops.. I intended to answer the original post and somehow answered @deidei. Consequences of trying to type on a phone I guess.. And that made the tone come out all wrong.
I argue IE6 (P3P Policy) was an early great try.
Maybe the NSA has figured out the equivalent for other encryption methods?

Also, why is SHA1 being used instead of SHA2?

By the way, SHA1 and SHA2 were designed by the NSA.
If you're mostly reading on Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

I share the experience with Maps, though I never see it these days as the G gets its own ungoogled-chromium sandbox and don't get to play with other domains here anyway.