skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is very unusual for software that's been around for a while to actually have better UI than it did two years ago. Every time I pull out an old laptop or phone running 5+ year old software I notice that things look different and buttons are in different places, but functionally there's very little difference.

Most changes to already functional software are just changes. They aren't improvements or regressions; they're just making things different.
Yes, a private cloud should be able to do it; I don’t want to imply that it is impossible to build such a solution.
It kind of feels like devs have been duped for the past twenty or so years.

Want to save in project management? Just make devs responsible for planning and estimating, and call it "agile".

Want to remove sysadmins and ops? Make devs write their own configuration for the infrastructure, and say you do "devops".

Want to eliminate QA? Say that you do TDD.
> without recognizing that web centralization was a feature, not a bug

This is a nice pithy way of putting it.
I was very disappointed that this wasn't a price/performance breakdown of the Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG compared to other vehicles in the same segment.
I would like to add housing to your list of inelastic items.
From a certain perspective you could say they these effects belong to the 90s so they could have used 90s'... or even '90s'
>There's way too much moralizing from people who have no idea what's going on

>All the filter actually is is an object recognizer trained on genital images, and it can be turned off

I'm not sure if you misread something, but neither I or the person I was replying to was talking about this specific implementation, but in a more general sense?

I'm pretty sure you are the one who missed the point of the parent post and mine.
That's extrinsic value -- the value is derived not from the software itself, but from the gain in quality of life it gives your clients.
Also a happy Legion user, although the power brick is obscene.
The different tax brackets do make things more confusing, but You still seem to be looking at the data and seeing things that simply aren't there.

The numbers show that a poor person in Texas pays more than a poor person in California with the same income. The average income of the bottom 20% is 13,000 and they pay an average of 13% in total taxes for an average tax burden of 1690. The average income of the bottom 20% in California is 14,300 and they pay an average of 10.5% in total taxes for an averagr tax burden of 1501.5

Thus the bottom 20% in Texas not only make less money but then also have to pay more total taxes than their higher income counterpart in California.

For poor people Texas is a higher tax state than California.
There are things called ‘branches’ you know.
Were you doing low impact exercises?

Something like burpees should have caused some indentation to the ground!
This is a content-free extremely meager blog post that doesn’t really belong on the front page of HN but the discussion in the comments is quite illuminating.

The discussion shows how a lot of people have wildly different ideas about what devops is and that in and of itself is interesting.
The problem with these alternative programming environments is that the developers push off everything other than compiling code. Then the community is left to struggle for years with:
1. How to debug in the language that they write in.
2. How to write unit tests.
3. How to debug unit tests.
4. Common IDE and code-editor integration for 1, 2 and 3.
5. What's the package management story?

For example, the newer programming environment that's released in most recent history that attempts to do an excellent job at this, Deno, still struggles with basics such as IDE integration for debugging unit tests. It's a struggle.

I've heard the creator of Clojure all but say he has put no thought into package management. Nice language, but it's not worth the cost of having to change how the rest of us work when there's existing environments that address the very basics that a developer needs.
My point is that they never intend to hold it thus I see their "support" as a kind of "fake trades"/ pump. They "support" the price until enough bag-holders start buying. Isn't that the very definition of pump & dump? Perhaps more correctoy it's pump<with limit> & dump.
Which claim are you attaching the “because” (and, I think equivalently, “they”) to?

I ask because I can’t see how that response fits on to any part of that quote.
Friends: the globe was censored, presumably because no one can be sure if Taiwan is marked as part of China: https://twitter.com/williamlong/status/1492775822859517957

There's also a funny clip when Ross is trying to explain his ex-wife is a Lesbian. This part was censored, so you see Ross is about to say something, next his parents act like surprised. It actually made the scene funnier.
There are tons of abondened places like this in Turkey and no one cares about them. They are used as barns these days.
Turkish government probably doesn't even know most of these places but treasure hunters loves them.

If you are interested with this stuff check this youtube channels.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9f3EQl1eTWrLpS5o1fQMYQ
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCN1b69YfMmuX6gOoWQaHI-Q

This Turkish guy is a treasure hunter which is illegal. There are many treasure hunter youtubers in Turkey but this guy is the best because he is not faking it.
I enjoy it alot, highly recommended.
No English subtitles but you can understand what's going on.
It's a feature of Reader actually. The library they use has a "isProbablyReaderable()" function to determine if a page can be simplified, and their extension uses that to decide if Reader mode should be available or not.

[0] https://github.com/mozilla/readability/#isprobablyreaderable...
Conservatives get criticized for tribalism more than the left because they're simply so much more tribal.

All you have to do is look at how many Trump flags you still see compared to Biden flags.

Also, believe or not, the far left dislikes Biden.
OCaml has nested comments (and comments are also aware of string literals). Thus any fragments of valid OCaml code can be commented without changes. In other words, the whole line below is commented-out.

(* let x = "*)" (* inner comment *) *)
Cool! Speaking of "complex games that can be played with only checkers," I want to give a shout-out to Breakthrough: [0]

All your pieces are the same, and move sort of like pawns in chess. (Slightly different.) The first player to move a piece all the way across the board wins.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough_(board_game)
Probably because more people in silicon valley are technical than other places, and they know it's mostly bullshit.
Perhaps OP meant Pascal programmers arguing among themselves, rather than arguing with anti-Pascal programmers? I'd expect such a smallish community of developers to find plenty of common grown in such a stable technology, so no need to throw stones.
There are people hacking billboards and posting their own subvertisements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subvertising). A while ago, I came across this 20 min mini-doc about the movement in London: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zunPa9rGndg I think you might enjoy it
in some ways you already are - the price of gasoline and even diesel have eased significantly over the last few months, for example. Long term, that will pull prices of energy-intensive products (shipping, etc).

However, "prices are sticky", they go up quickly and go down slowly. Companies aren't going to race to bring their margins back down, if people are paying X then they'll keep prices at X. Especially if they are worried that prices might continue increasing in the future - this is the "inertial" part of inertial inflation, it isn't just about inflation itself but about managing expectations in the economy around future inflation. So far there supposedly hasn't been a big inertial component but who knows.

Really what we needed to discourage it was a massive windfall profits tax - the Fed is also basically saying that we need actual fiscal policy here and that they don't really have the tools to manage this like they want - but this gets back to "there are 48 definite no votes for any bill, and we're dependent on what we can get those last 2 senators to agree to". The fed is using the only levers it has, and that lever is "a gut-shot to aggregate demand for the next decade", that is not the right policy tool but it's the only one that congress can't block.

This is why you don't throw gasoline on the fire during 2018-2019 when the economy is already going gangbusters, because when the economy inevitably dipped, suddenly those policy tools like government spending become much more "expensive" to implement when there's already tons of money sloshing around the economy.
This sounds like a manager's ideal. It's a luxury to demand people wear multiple hats up to the point the market allows you to turn the luxury into a commonality.
If it was up to bosses, they'd rather have jokers ready to switch from customer support, to development, to sales, and back.

It's ok until the market decide it is no longer ok. So far, it looks like all these "hats" are complicated enough for the average to make the market think twice about demanding that combination of breadth and depth of skills.
You could plug two hot wires into the patient and measure their current imbalance: the difference is ground-loop leakage. That's how GFCI breakers work!
A lot of it is also out of control careerism, promo culture, and short sighted product management.

No one is going to say No to something new and sexy, especially not the customers (since we won’t ask them).
I think 19-TET is the most viable alternative to 12-TET. It fits in a standard piano form factor by adding a few black keys, and uses the same note names everyone is used to. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:19_equal_temperament...

And it sounds really unique! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJfTu1Y2H44
I'd still have 99.9% of my clients if online advertising went away. Turns out that there are entire sectors of the economy that are not dependent on intrusive ads at all in order to remain solvent.
Not really, they couldn't if you pay attention to what happens to your account. First of all, they'd have to gain access to ACH initiator - for which criminals do have some, but it's not likely those will be easy to access to a random trash digger. Those have non-trivial costs to establish and easy to burn and get prosecuted. And, ACH transactions are reversible for a long time, so unless you're in a coma, you keep your money at the cost of some inconvenience and some waste of time. You won't need any lawyers for that, unless a) you have an extremely shitty bank that's not afraid to lose their banking license, or b) you want to do more than getting your money back for some reason.

If they have access to a very quick and efficient cash out system, they might offload the costs onto some chump (see various "cashback" scams) but it's not trivial to make this scheme work. It can work, so shredding your voided checks is highly recommended, but it's not as trivial as finding the check, coming to a bank and saying "I'm that guy it says here, give me all my money now, in small bills please".
Actually even worse than pointless for FT subscribers...
America is much more sensitive about sex and nudity than a lot of other cultures.

In I, Robot, a scene that showed in the European version did not show in the US version. It was a full body nudity shower scene and the point was to show you how extensive his robotic parts were. They had to find some other means to explain that to the audience in the US and it wasn't even a sexual scene. Just full nudity (of Will Smith, to be clear).

"Tentacle beasts" in, I think, Japan can do all kinds of sexual stuff that would be outrageous in the US and not shown here. I am not super familiar, so can't really elaborate.

We also have a long history of using "coded messages" to talk about racial stuff in the US. When Elvis first aired, he sounded so much like a Black musician compared to what was the norm for music at the time that they would talk about what high school he was from as code for "This is a White guy" because segregation was a thing, so naming his high school was signaling his race.

We have a history of censoring LGBTQ topics. I saw something once where they showed a deleted scene from an old black and white film about Roman history and the scene was a coded message about whether someone was gay or bisexual or something. They used some euphemism or other and it was considered too much and got cut.

Violence. I have become a fan of things that are careful in how they show violence, showing just enough to know something bad happened while sidestepping unnecessary gore. I think that's generally a good thing, but it is a form of censorship nonetheless.
Not generally, but I did get an ad for this company. I mention it because I thought it was strange.
Then when development gets slow, fire the laggards!
There are about as many mammals as birds, maybe a few more mammals. https://reducing-suffering.org/how-many-wild-animals-are-the...
thanks for this, that’s a potential game changer for me!
I remember its existence but never used it. It was also not popular in the USA. Motorola dominated, and if you looked at their offerings and their syncing software it was incredible how utterly incompetent it was. For example, their contacts didn't have addresses... I mean, WTF? And the syncing software (to Outlook, for example) just straight-up didn't work. I had a Motorola phone with 32MB of memory, and it couldn't hold the data my 8MB Handspring Visor could.

When the iPhone came out, that was the dominant landscape: PDAs and horribly incompetent phones. Internet browsing meant WAP (a clumsy attempt to dumb Web pages down enough to show on tiny, all-text phone screens) or a Blackberry. Blackberry rested on its laurels and a shitty, shitty browser until dead.

There are plenty of things that Apple remains bafflingly ignorant of, or just petulantly refuses to fix on its mobile devices. Great example: The iPhone, after 15 years, STILL doesn't notify you of missed calls. That's right: You don't even have the OPTION to get audible alerts of missed calls, but meanwhile you can get up to 10 alerts of missed TEXTS. That is simply stupid.

Then came the Apple Pencil... and no support for it in iOS. Every app developer had to implement handwriting recognition independently. WTF? Why didn't Apple simply allocate a square area in the on-screen iPad keyboard to accept written characters, which Palm OS nailed in the '90s?

Annnyway... I looked up Symbian because I work in Qt a lot now, and it was originally from Nokia. I knew it had been developed for phones, but could not imagine why. That's because I didn't ever interact with Symbian or see it in the wild and know it was from Nokia. So thanks for the note. I think Qt is pretty cool, and my team just made a good desktop app with it. I'm curious why the C++ Symbian experience wasn't good.
Pythagoras and his followers at first thought that irrational numbers didn't even exist, though the story that they drowned a guy for proving by contradiction that sqrt(2) is irrational is probably not right. Rather, strings with length ratios made of small integers, like 2/3 or 3/4, sound good (harmonize) when played together. So the started with the ratios, because that's what made sense. Not to use ratios was considered, well, irrational. :-)
But this is streaming not broadcast daytime television. Censoring crude jokes/porn/violence that might be happened upon by a toddler flipping the remote makes quite a lot of sense.
In The Ministry for the Future, which is speculative fiction about attempts to mitigate climate change and its impacts,

one small sub-plot is the idea of seeking to freeze the motion of ice sheets and glaciers, by pumping the water serving to lubricate their motion to the surface to refreeze. Not exactly the same idea, but similarly ambitious.
Why do you assume the changes automatically mean "much better"?

In my experience it feels about 50/50 for better/worse, whether that is features taken away due to some business concern, blatant contempt for existing muscle-memory, or misguided designers reworking things that did not need a rework.
Disclaimer: I work at Exafunction

I empathize a bit with the cloud providers as they have to upgrade their data centers every few years with new GPU instances and it's hard for them to anticipate demand.

But if you can easily use every trick in the book (CPU version of the model, autoscaling to zero, model compilation, keeping inference in your own VPC, using spot instances, etc.) then it's usually still worth it.
Some of these jokes which are censored for criticism of China are so tasteless that they ought to be censored in the American version as well, or better still, never written at all. A joke about whether the "chicken" at the local Chinese takeout restaurant is actually chicken? In the 21st century? That is supposed to be amusing?
Show HN: I used DallE to create default avatars on my Creator community website
I'm an indie dev and I built a community for creators to get together and collaborate with each other. Mostly for amateur creators, but some famous ones use it as well. It has about 700k users so far.

There are about 100k of those users who don't bother to upload an avatar, so they've had a boring default avatar for nearly 7 years.

Today, I used my credits on DallE to do make them a bit more fun.

Since the creators self-identify, I was able to create specific kinds of avatars for them.

For example, if a creator is a writer, my DallE prompt would be:

"an oil painting portrait of a serious-looking owl, standing in front of a typewriter"

Voice Actor:

"oil painting portrait of a robot who is made out of a microphone, wearing a hat and headphones"

Comic Illustrator. This one was a little more tough, so I chose 'tablet' as my key object:

"Oil painting portrait of a brooding chameleon, wearing headphones and a hoodie, standing in front of tablet"

Producer:

"Oil painting portrait of a happy hedgehog with headphones on, wearing sunglasses, standing in front of a megaphone"

All four images on this thread: https://twitter.com/_buf/status/1564327370219261954

Overall, I generated over 200+ new avatars. What a fantastic bit of tech!
Usually someone posts a link to bypass the paywall (see other comments).
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – official trailer
Typical HN response where you pick specifics but really ignore the crux of the issue. Thanks for perpetuating the stereotype. The _bay area_ (silicon valley), also generally known as "San Francisco". Yes we all know there is really San Jose, Oakland, SF, Palo Alto, as actual cities.

The specific geographic location is irrelevant to the discussion. I can make the same exact argument for housing in NYC or some other city. People want cheap housing where people currently live.
Huh, I wonder if it varies regionally? Or maybe by generation? Millennial here, when I was using this system Second Base was fingering, handjobs, etc., and Third Base was oral.
Sure, but like other people in this thread are saying, it's not objectively true that the Chinese restaurant down the street is selling you dog meet and pretending that it's chicken, or that Chinese academics in the US are siphoning grant money and funneling it to Pyongyang. "Pervasive cultural norms colliding with reality" is a two-way street.
I've been doing complex UI with a few different IMGUI libraries for years now and they can all lay out and rasterize complex scenes in under 2ms, even when written in C# instead of performance-tuned C++. Modern hardware is just plain fast, in particular drop shadows and transparency are effectively free if you're drawing them using the GPU. (I say 'effectively' because if you opt out of transparency and antialiasing, you can do front-to-back rendering to skip drawing stuff entirely... but I don't know of many cases where people do that since it's not that much faster.)
It adds a huge support burden to devs and UX, as they need to support an increasing number of different UX versions or basically never change anything (which is bad for their career).
I'm pretty much in the same situation right now. Inflated prices are already dropping where I live, but I'm afraid the more I wait the higher interest rates will be since that's fairly guaranteed to happen according to the Fed.
>Some see the plus at the end of LGBTQIA+ to signify support and acceptance of those who live with HIV.

https://www.bustle.com/p/what-does-the-plus-in-lgbtqia-mean-...

Though I'll admit the contentiousness of this designation, I don't think the intent of "+" was to include incest.
The politicians are deliberately misusing funds. Pork barrel is misuse, generally.

And the extremely huge organizations that take the funds are not exactly misusing things themselves but they are facilitating the politicians.
> can definitely see why the censors took offense at some of them

Take offense maybe… censor absolutely not
It's worth mentioning that stacking fifths this way creates something pretty close to an octave, but it's still noticeably different from an octave. The difference between an octave and 12 fifths is called "Pythagorean comma", it's about 23.46 cents and it'll be obvious to all humans who don't have a speech/hearing impediment, even if you were never musically trained. (It's believed humans are sensitive to small intervals like this because it's required to process spoken human language). Traditionally, it's considered anything more than a synctonic comma (i.e. 21.51 cents) will feel different to even untrained ears. (but of course, this is just the theory, in reality there is some small variance between humans, background, culture etc).

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

This is pretty significant to mention, because even though 12 fifths are "very close" to an octave [1], they're far apart enough that no one will feel an octave. In music, near misses like this are very significant since they cause the feeling of harmonic "dissonance". Since 12 fifths is a very dissonant interval (since it's so close to an octave but still noticeably out-of-tune) Western music developed techniques (such as well-temperament, equal temperament etc) to make sure this "error" is blend in. We achieve this by changing other notes ("tempering") ever so slightly so that critical intervals like fifths (or in other cases thirds etc) are stable. Other cultures, such as classical Indian music, have their own way dealing with Pythagorean comma! Since music is a universal phenomena found in all cultures, but it doesn't manifest the same way in all cultures (e.g. not all cultures give the same kind of emphasis to pitch or harmony Western music gives) various cultures developed their own different and interesting ways to work around this "error".

[1] To be precise, we're referring to the difference between 12 fifths and 7 octaves. Since an octave is so consonant, sounds N octave(s) apart feel "equal" albeit with different timbre.
I suspect it has something to do with resonance. Resonance occurs when frequencies match approximately. It isn’t just in the fundamental or pitch frequency of two notes— resonance can also occur via frequency matching in the shared overtones of two notes.

Consonant notes tend to share a lot of overtones. I have heard that the pentatonic scale maximizes internote resonance. This seems relatively straightforward to test empirically.

The first known scientific experiment (empirical test of mathematical model) was the attested case of the pythagoreans casting bronze chimes in the same rational proportions of lengths of a string. The experiment demonstrated that small integer ratios produce consonance.

Here is the most recent and up-to-date theory of harmony in music (that I know):
https://downloads.spj.sciencemag.org/research/2019/2369041.p...