skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd rather not learn a whole new language and leave my family and friends so far behind

You could live in New York, Boston, DC, Chicago, or other dense cities with decent transit options without leaving the US entirely. It is certainly not impossible to live in the US without a car.

EDIT: not really sure why this is downvoted. Just taking OP's statement that they would prefer not to uproot their whole life at face value. I have lived without a car in both the US and Europe, so I promise it can be done.
Ah, the infamous Bloomberg article with a provocative headline and 99% speculative content that everyone keeps posting as “proof” of Apple’s plans.

I have no idea if Apple is planning to expand ads, but neither does the author of this article.
Linux 6.1 will make it a bit easier to help spot faulty CPUs
Highly skeptical of this claim. Citation please.

When has public opinion ever influenced the US government? They do what they want and manufacture consent later.
Would those smaller social media platforms then be large, end up commercialized some how, smaller ones pop up, and something else take over until we repeat the process?
Me too. Either my city calms traffic, or we're moving to a walkable city in Europe. Having young children makes the decision feel more urgent.
It feels like the wind has shifted because of Stability AI, and now companies doing this are going to look like those that have “call to get a demo” links on their homepage in a SaaS world.
6: DRM control over what the user can/cannot listen to.
Do cheap, tiny copper cables fail frequently?

How long have you been sampling the electronics market?, heh
Considering only the size of the discarded item(s) hardly covers the entire waste scenario.
How would you tie housing costs to cars?
Visiting Chicago and NYC were what woke me up to it. Those places are the closest you can get to a car-free lifestyle here. Yet they're still very pedestrian and bike-hostile areas.
For a static site HTTPS is wholly unnecessary.
On android there is always the open source waistline app: Waistline (Libre calorie counter and weight tracker)
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.waist.line/

Uses the open food facts dB and can use the USDA food database api as well
There has never been a case of a known orca attack on a human in the wild. They are only known to attack when we confine them.
Typescript's main design goal is not to be a statically typed, compiled language but to gradually add type hints to massive legacy Javascript code bases. This is a very different goal than just having a simple language which compiles to WASM, but still looks familiar to web devs, and I bet if Typescript would add WASM output as official feature, it would have to restrict itself to a 'static' subset - it could never be all of Typescript, because this also would include all of Javascript, including all the 'dynamism' that's hard to bring over to WASM.
Effective is a slippery word. I use it to mean effective in the sense of affecting what is presented. You use it to mean effective in the sense of making sales.

It is extremely effective in the first way, but extremely ineffective in the latter.
It is nice that they thought of "oil rig bros" though. I can't imagine the publically funded research ships I've worked on will even legally/politically be allowed to use Starlink even when within good coverage areas of it, at least not for a long time due to institutional pressures, and there's a risk that people see Starlink as "the" new shiny satellite provider and assume that's the worst-case latency/bandwidth target!

Like - our 2mbps internet connection shared between ~50 people does _actually work_, the Internet is _fine_, but so much of the WWW is frustratingly broken - not just because of large page sizes (we have caching proxies onboard, large downloads are fine), but predominantly because of so much parallel loading, servers being impatient with connect/read timeouts, DNS servers treating us like a DDoS attack, a lack of progressive enhancement (page blank = hanging waiting on a font to load from jsdelivr...). Seeing people still focusing on the nitty gritty like optimising for page loads given TCP slow-start is nice to see from a "LITERALLY accessible all over the world" standpoint :-)
With the rising obesity rates in America I feel that doesn't help the situation either. Many would probably rather ride in a climate controlled car than get out of breath and sweaty walking. Which is somewhat sad since more physical activity including walking or biking would help a lot here.
I want the opposite so I sound like Indian when I pick up the daily spam calls received.
Yeah I'm sure Russian bots are basically running r/trains
> Starting October 26, 2022, we will begin deleting inactive accounts and associated storage for accounts that have been inactive for over a year.

Inactive for over a year? That's really interesting, because I was a paid Heroku customer for multiple years, but am no longer. I don't even have resources running, but I do have a few apps sitting in the dashboard. I guess I'm fair game for culling, despite being a paid customer in the past and not taking up very many resources.

> Starting November 28, 2022, we plan to stop offering free product plans and plan to start shutting down free dynos and data services.

I understand this from a business perspective, but wow this sucks. There's a lot of projects hosted on Heroku that are just SPA-like demos of OSS tools -- things like theme demos for static site generators and the like. Sure, these are all good candidates for the myriad of other hosts that exist, but I'm sure that a lot will go down and linkrot will creep into the OSS ecosystem. Not a lot of people are eager to migrate projects off on someone else's schedule.

I wish Salesforce the best of luck with Heroku, but this sounds like a "we care about the numbers" move. I hope this means that they actually invest in their product.
Now argue the total security of a phone with Bluetooth enabled.
The indignation of still having to go to work every day when this could all be automated
How are people supposed to find sites they like without those goo companies? Yes, yes, DDG, but it'll either live long enough to become a goo company or die in (relative) obscurity.
How is that verification system not at odds with privacy concerns?
You know these dongles increase your audio latency, right? Fidelity is faithful to both time and space. Latency is temporal distortion.

(it's probably better than BT, but nothing beats a hard line)
30% of people can be a lot of people, expecially in a political environment where there are only 2 parties, and the district lines are optimized/gerimandered.

Also, you really don't have to travel to realize that life can be different elsewhere. In fact, if you're going for an out-of-touch idealized belief, not traveling is almost a benefit: see "Paris syndrome".
Is that necessarily a bad thing?
One of the hardest parts about buying a home, apart from all the stuff that isnt fun about buying a home, is finding somewhere that is walkable to... anything. I've rented my whole life and spent my entire adult life in cities. The idea of having to get in the car to get milk or something from the corner store, or have to drive to ANY restaurant, or not have some type of walking/running path within a few blocks of my house is foreign.

Part of this is from living in a cities and in mixed zoning areas rather than neighborhoods but it just seems to odd that to get ANYWHERE one needs to drive. Even living in a city, but just a bit further away from a major area, you can run into this issue.

Wife and I have looked at the Netherlands as well for similar reasons. Jobs/visas are the main concern. Family is the other big one.
Designing for Improvisation (2010)
That is actually just the tip I needed. I could have thought of that myself, but I did not.

I want to make my own track, hence the non-electrical route. Lego is what I need for that bit. Thanks!
> I've seen so much anti-car, pro-walkability, pro-transit, pro-bikeability sentiment online recently.

Bikes bring me joy. I guess label that however you'd like!
As a former resident of Manhattan, this is where I'm most resentful about car supremacy. I truly don't care that there exist car-centric suburbs. Anybody who lives there knows exactly what they're signing up for. What's insane to me is that we allow cars to dominate even our most urban spaces. When I would walk to work through Midtown, my senses were practically assaulted by automobiles. Honking, speeding, stereos blasting, engines revving, cars encroaching on the crosswalk, and on and on. It's an enormous quality of life issue and one of the things I hated most about living in NYC.

"Cities are loud and dangerous. This is just life in the big city!" No, no, no, and no. Cars are loud and dangerous. This is a choice. It's not an unavoidable fact of life in cities. We choose to live this way.
That’s an interesting idea. You could define a custom type that has the type of [number, number] and combine it with Omit to remove methods that allow extending the array.
Is there any open source database with all* barcode numbers collected? Preferably with API.
> what hasn't really taken off for various reasons is the concept of open source or community owned databases

WikiPedia, and the many wikis around the Internet come to mind.
I see people write “I like their content” and have the same irking feeling that some people feel like their life is little more than consuming entertainment, and the word “content” elevates the worthwhileness of their behavior/addiction somehow.
Probably a TikTok thing.
I don't understand why open source developers think they are owed anything by anyone.
They chose to work for free and give away that work.
In the process they killed any proprietary competition and therefore a chance for anyone to get paid for the equivalent work.
Now there are users who demand that these developers fix the bugs they introduced during development or add missing features, and rightly so, since there is no other choice.
Users cannot just hire someone to do the work since that is going to be too expensive, more expensive than if they asked proprietary developers to fix the same issues since proprietary developers work would have been paid by many users.
Should open source developers be forced to work for free?
On the one hand the answer seems to be obviously no.
On the other hand, these developers killed all the competition that could have provided cheaper development alternatives for the user so maybe they do owe some free work to these users.
Compare this to other professions, electrician can install the wiring for free but they are still liable for any work they do that is not compliant with the relevant standards. They don't have to install more wiring for free but they have to fix any mistakes they made.
Software development is still a wild West of professions and it is in dire need of regulation. Then if it costs too much to work for free and release certified code, developers won't do it and users will pay to get a quality product.
Keep in mind that the US is only about 10% smaller than all of Europe combined.

While I would love more walking/biking friendly cities, what about all the rural areas? It would take millions and millions of buses or train connections to get to all the places I drive and would still be more of a hassle than just driving there myself plus I couldn't pick the scenic routes.

People in major cities have different needs than those in rural areas.
While I generally like the idea of city centers, I think that this kind of anti-car stuff comes off like wild-eyed propaganda. For instance, the title suggests that the places were built for cars alone, kind of like the garage where Jay Leno keeps his collection. No. The suburbs were built for people driving cars. Not just cars. People getting rides in cars, avoiding weather, sitting comfortably, transporting the handicapped and the infirm and the older folks. Car haters need to remember that most people love cars because they work in all kinds of weather and transport them to work or health care or entertainment etc.

As for the bit about human connection, that's kind of silly. Life is what you make of it. For every lonely suburbanite trapped in a house with a two-car garage, I can show you a lonely city dweller who doesn't even know the name of the people in the apartment down the hall. I've lived in NYC and that is VERY common.

I don't really like driving myself. I prefer to walk, or when the weather is good, to ride a bicycle. But I can easily understand why others want to buy a car. They're very useful and the car haters who deny this come across as fools or shills.
Cloudflare also provides services for the Westboro Baptist Church[1] and helps serve copies of Dabiq (the Islamic State’s propaganda magazine).[2]

They treat hosting like a utility and I’m glad they do. It’s not Cloudflare’s job to determine what I’m allowed to read online.

1. https://godhatesfags.com/

2. https://clarionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/islamic-state-... (Warning this is very NSFW.)
Yep. $12/month in taxes to help their fellow members of society. Less money than a Netflix subscription to help many people literally afford food. People who have massive student loan debt that this "fairly large group" does not have.

I'm not sorry to say that if people think it's valid to argue "I shouldn't have to pay $12/month to help other people live a healthy life", then our society is broken because the people in it are broken.
A better analogy would be this:

You run a business that, while pretty unethical, is fairly soundly legal (as evidenced by winning multiple lawsuits and not being taken offline by a court order). An aggrieved person incites a mob that attempts to burn down (DDoS, etc) the business. Thankfully for the business, it has a deal with the local, privatized fire department (CloudFlare) that mitigates most of the ongoing arson attacks. The mob protests outside the fire department's front door for them to drop the business as a customer, with the obvious intent to destroy the business once the protection is removed.
> frustration and anger

The root problem in your story is that your developer doesn’t feel like they can safely convey to their manager that the project has unexpected constraints. That form of intimidation happens, sure, but it’s not very nice to bring random strangers into the drama of your poor work environment.

If you have a shitty manager that you can’t communicate with, the maintainer doesn’t deserve to become the outlet for your frustration and anger, do they?

There’s a classic story of the workee coming home and taking out his work problems on his wife, who takes it out her marital problems on their kids, who take out their problems on the pets.

It’s meant to help you see that shuffling your problems on other people doesn’t solve problems and instead just makes other’s lives worse.
I lived in New York City my entire life and I am now wanting a house. I am tired of living in an apartment building. This idea that people live together communally within buildings or neighborhoods is very overrated.

I have lived in multiple apartments and never has there been a real community there. The building has one holiday party and out of 144 apartments maybe 15 people show up. The posts on the chat board that the building now provides is more about neighbors complaining about each other.

I know people who live in houses and they have more communal respect then the people who I have lived with within the various buildings I have lived.

I understand why people have houses, I just cannot afford one right now.
He should just quit. That’s ridiculous.
Easy, supply and demand. Before cars, dense housing was the norm, but cars popularized spreading everything out as much as possible so you have room for wide roads and lots of parking.

Less density -> less housing overall -> decreased supply -> increased prices
Who ships things to you in packing peanuts?

Everybody uses those air pillows now, or else those crinkle cardboard strips for things like ceramic.

I'm genuinely curious what types of companies ship to you with packing peanuts. I honestly kind of assumed they weren't even made anymore.
How would the platforms know you're a human? You'd have to share personal information to them.
To be fair, I don't think that's what's going on here. I think every American is familiar with the "Indian call center accent". That is, it's a unique accent specifically because it is "people with an Indian accent trying to speak with an 'Americanish/Canadianish' accent". It's kind of like the famous "mid Atlantic dialect". Nobody actually speaks it naturally; they are trained to do so.

Point being, this Indian call center accent, while unmistakable, IMO is also extremely easy to understand. I find call center workers speak more slowly and with more "rounded" vowels to try to mimic an American accent. So lack of intelligibility isn't the reason to try to hide this.

But I think trying to hide even this accent isn't so much about racism, it's about trying to fool customers into thinking their support request hasn't been outsourced to the lowest bidder. I'll admit, when I know a call is being handled from India, I immediately think that if my problem isn't a common one that can be handled by a script, that I'll be disappointed.
Yes, but ideally much simpler
Good point. Although the thing you are insuring against is federal lawsuits. So maybe a different structure like a non-profit?
This is a subjective matter. Calling it bullshit is not an accurate way of looking at it (or listening to it).

There are use cases for audio where "good enough" is simply not sufficient. You may never have need for these use cases.
Curious... What does a mid-Atlantic accent sound like?
Wont matter in the long run, with where AI image generation is going eventually you'll be able to automate even an IG influencer account just using prompts to generate a fake individual in whatever situation you want.
Throughout history, the leading empire or nation (by GDP) has always had the best universities. Also the best music industry, the best visual arts, etc. Ok, that's just what GDP measures, so it's a bit tautological. (Or is it?)

It sure as hell isn't whatever policy these authors determined was most likely out of the 3 or 4 they considered using regression over a time period containing one observation of the dependent variable.

(Reading the abstract, it seems the above charactization is even generous.)

Hopefully the next great center of research will have higher standards for what is subsidized than we have in the U.S. today.
An obvious consequence of the war is that Russia is going to lose ground as an arms vendor.

(1) As Russia rebuilds its military, production capacity will be diverted from exports

(2) Russian arms contain western sourced chips. For instance the microprocessor used in the S-400 missile system is made in Taiwan. Sanctions will disrupt the supply chain for military systems.

(3) Russian weapons have underperformed in the war. You'd have to be crazy to buy any of the T-72 derivatives (T-80, T-90, ...) On the other hand the Javelin looks good, HIMARS looks good.

The S-300/S-400 missile system is the wildcard in that it has been basically effective but is fantastically expensive so that it is a prime target for the enemy. Ukraine inherited them from the Soviet Union but now they are largely depleted and are being replaced with NASMAS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASAMS

which is a very low-cost weapon in comparison. On paper NASAMS underperforms the S-300 in terms of range, altitude, and capability against ballistic missile. On the other hand NASAMS terminal guidance is better against cruise missile and other airbreathing targets so it has a very high hit rate.

NATO member Turkey bought the S-400 because the Patriot sucks, India is another major "non-aligned" S-400 buyer. That is an export business endangered by this war.
You've repeatedly misdirected or minimized key elements of the case throughout this thread: these aren't "random people," but the targets of explicitly violent and cruel harassment. Ironically, KiwiFarms' culture ensures this: anybody who criticizes them too loudly becomes a target of harassment, leaving no disinterested bystanders to complain.

They are perfectly within their right to ignore harassment coming from their customers. But it's absolutely not within the realm of socially acceptable behavior; nobody (successfully) runs a coffee shop where 2% of customers actively seek out victims within the other 98%.
> It wasn’t until the daguerreotype for images, the phonoautograph for audio, and the Nipkow disk for video, that more complex and information-heavy forms of content began to emerge and become mainstream.

The daugerreotype may have been the beginning of photography, but it was hardly the beginning of images as human-generated content. See: White House portraits, the Sistine Chapel, cave paintings.
Sorry, I phrased things poorly: why does the outlook app matter at all if you use Thunderbird exclusively?
Calves today are just the worst, amirite? Why can’t they just play “terrorize then eat the seal pup” like we did in my day?

I attribute the trouble with today’s youth to an overall decline in the importance of traditional pod values in Orca society.
Non-paywall version syndicated at ArsTechnica:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/08/amazon-to-close-...
If you could live in a detached home but the next block over had a restaurant or two and a small grocery, wouldn't that be pleasant?

Zoning that allows ONLY single-family detached housing, and no retail or business, forces car-dependency.

"Detached home or high-rise apartment in a city" is a false dichotomy.
Something like TV but it makes me feel good about myself.
Thanks everyone who helps to keep this metric down.
Which of my StackOverflow questions was bad enough to get me banned?
I honestly don't get this. I put a lot of effort into making sure what I am asking is clear. I put code snippets wherever applicable, software versions, literally as much information I can think of. Sure, some of the answers to my questions turned out to be very simple, but isn't this the benefit of a site like stack overflow? To have someone with a fresh perspective to the problem offer solutions.
I subscribe to MFP and the barcode scanner doesn't work on CalyxOS for whatever reason. It's not so bad, you just type the barcode in.
>You still have to decide what you take a pic of, that's the artistic part.

You still have to select the 2 AI jpegs out of the 15, that's the artistic part.
I think reposts should be automatic anyway. Lead if you cannot win. Users who crave for new posts and discussions don’t go necro because the discussion is closed, and also they couldn’t say anything there without repeating someone else. Most people discuss posts not to engrave knowledge into the internet, but simply to interact with someone and satisfy their need to be heard. Those who don’t want reposts could then set some today’s-rating threshold.

The slightest historical and often not very well-thought nuances of platforms that we use can influence the whole internet landscape.
I would argue the material science done that enabled the raptor and raptor2 rocket engine (the o2 side pre-burner specifically) was pretty innovative scientifically.
Interestingly, there's almost no documentation of orcas attacking humans in the wild: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orca_attack . While there seem to be some cases of attacking boats, wikipedia lists only a single known instance of a human being bitten by a wild orca. It's actually rather surprising, considering they are an apex predator with a highly varied diet. Though it's said most attacks by sharks are a case of mistaken identity, and with better intelligence and echolocation an orca is far less likely to make that mistake.
This says the Lightning to 3.5mm adapter doesn't cause meaningful quality loss.

Nothing about Bluetooth, which seems to be buggy, insecure, widely-poorly-implemented..mWiFi's bastard-child.