skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The food-trucks seem to be doing pretty well. Within a mile of where I live, there are at least two taco trucks and one barbeque truck, all permanently parked there.
I lived there for a bit over three years. Never spent any time trying to learn the language. I learned more about Finnish from this article then in three years of living there. The language is so hard that I just did not see the point of even trying to learn it. Everybody speaks English and I already learned a bit of Swedish when I was living in Sweden so I figured that speaking one of their official languages was good enough (even though non Swedish speaking Finns hate having to deal with Swedish). At least for official stuff (which you usually can do in English as well), that was sometimes useful.

The need to learn new languages is slowly disappearing. And not because English is so dominant (which it is) but because machines are getting better at translations. That is about to become very disruptive. Right now, using machine translations is nice when you really need them but still a bit awkward and tedious. And they still get a lot wrong.

But that's not going to last very long. Real time subtitles are already a thing in video chats and on Youtube. They aren't necessarily very good yet but improving over time. Once we hit the good enough stage, Having real time conversations with people you don't share any language with also becomes a possibility. Right now you can use your phone for simple stuff but it's a bit awkward.

I think in a decade or so, you'll be able to go wherever and have meaningful conversations with just about anyone you meet. I think that's going to be massive enabler for businesses.
I ditched Clipchamp in favour of Flixier. It is 10 times better. It is usable on other platforms, allows both video and audio processing (including features missing on Clipchamp, like audio eq and green screen processing).

I am no associated with Flixier in any form but a customer.
Discord lacks features like SSO, auditing and security controls, making it impossible to adopt in many business environments.
>That's Athens, not Rome,

That's simply not true. All three of the historical dictatorships during antiquity (The Gracchi brothers + Marius) were caused by 'Ballot stuffing' by slaves.
Does the reasoning go beyond "it's ok when I do it"? Jared Kushner has been given things his entire life, from his Harvard entrance and degree (paid for by his father who actually spent time in prison thanks to Chris Christie) to his stint as a white house special advisor.

And I'm supposed to believe that anyone who thought all that was OK has a problem with Hunter Biden getting a salary from a company in Ukraine?
I’m not sure those famous math papers apply here - while programs can be proofs, they in general occupy a much larger category, don’t they?
Calculable functions quickly “outgrow” mathematics.
Op literally ended a statement with whatabautism in mind
that is important! Thank You
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There is a clear line between "the cat says meow and you figure out what it wants based on the context" and "someone thinks something and says it out loud such that you now have the same thought". It's this process of transfer of abstract thoughts between people, and later the ability to preserve those thoughts on paper, that made our civilization possible.
macOS has "paste as plaintext" instead.
I was talking about energy intensive industries, not electricity production. If Finland has to compete with other countries that have cheap renewables, it will lose these industries. As an example of something like that today, look at primary aluminum production.

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

There are 31 countries on that list, from China to Venezuela. Finland is nowhere on there.

In the all-electric economy of the future, every energy intensive manufacturing activity will start to look like aluminum production.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_lithium_problem#L...
That's the main answer proposed by one of the five books on the list: "Guns, Germs, and Steel," by Jared Diamond. It's one of the best books I've ever read. It reaches its conclusions by considering verifiable facts and methodically reasoning about them. Highly recommended if you haven't read it.
Did he order from these places? The article is incomplete without it. May be the food is good…
And when they are not too lazy to find out, they are labeled as racists, Russian sympathizers, anti-vaxers, conspiracy theorist and have their voices silenced... to protect democracy.
Even better!: You can refresh the clipboard regularly, for as long as the user is on the page! That way, they'll get access to important notifications about our cool products, while they are coding or handling text in other ways!
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32549604

"Audible feedback on just how much your browsing feeds into Google" (290 points | 5 days ago | 205 comments)
Not the OP but I think if free slack becomse unattractive enough people might start to look around. There are enough alternatives (self-hosted like Mattermost, Rocket.Chat or free tiers from other vendors e.g. Zulip, Discord). That presumably has two effects:
1. People are used to them and if the decision at the workplace comes up to choose a solution the other product is on the table. Or worse if Slack messes something up with the paid tier people might be more willing to switch to something else that they know already.

2. Every private group chat might involve people who never used something like it before. For these people the software they use first is the baseline. And they are more likly to recommend the solution they already know to a organistation that is willing/able to pay for a higher tier.
Through the Eyes of Jon Sarkin [video]
I mean.. it kinda does.

If a small opensource dev group gets pissed at slack, and those people have a say in a chat solution at their workplace (paid plans there of course), pissed people won't recommend slack but other alternatives.
I think there is one very powerful argument against the idea that any alien life form has visited Earth since the humanity existed: the humanity still exists.
I thought that all the cool kids are squatting in Discord now?
Great idea with such a script. Do you want to share it?
"Reference check" is a better way to describe what it does. Under the hood I think it does the classical natural language inference task. There are benchmarks, datasets and papers on this topic.

https://paperswithcode.com/task/natural-language-inference
I think it's important to be able to work with mod(%) 12 for some operations on year <--> month relationship. All years have 12 months. For day of the month you need additional logic to handle diferent lengths... and other issues.
> Put the marketing departments on the ark ship along with the telephone sanitizers and we'll all be better off.

... but we'll still have nice-looking hair :)
I remember the laptop story being flagged right here on HN the day it came out. Before it was flagged, many insisted it was a BS story. Links to the Tucker Carlson interview of Tony Bobulinski's connection to the Biden family were also flagged. There's a serious problem with group-think in online communities.
I don't balance it. I prioritized my kids. I stagnated while they were young, and just worked my jobs, collecting my checks, taking care of my family. When they got older, I did catch up on skills and got some salary boosts in my career.

Are there people more successful and more skilled than I? Absolutely. But I don't regret the stagnation, nor the time spent with family, and we're doing just fine at the older end of the story.
yeah but we're getting more and more plants that are bigger and heavier but contain the same amount of nutrients or even lower so you're paying for calories instead of shit you need
Of interest is that none of the points in the "What could be done to reduce bills?" section increase the the availability of gas. The tax cuts, support packages, price freezes, etc. will result in more money chasing the same amount of energy.
This list is ridiculous, Japanese is nowhere that hard to learn.
> The disaster for Russia is that natural resource profits will plummit

For oil and gas, AFAIK, rising prices for now more than compensate for decreased exports.

(Can’t find newer info than https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/russian-fossil-exp..., though, and that’s 2½ months old)
Four actually. There are also heavy metals
Just the video I was hoping for. That's the plan! After moving somewhere less hostile to people. Rode 30km with my kids in a Gazelle Cabby last week and they loved it!

In the meantime, it's not going to help them survive getting run over by a Land Rover on this road https://twitter.com/fuzzbizzed/status/1561650019811430400
Breeding Millions of Mosquitos
https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete/paving/buildings-stru... these are not uncommon but concrete is not as cheap as it once was and isn't as environmentally friendly as wood. However, it is very durable and provides great insulation.
The people who use Slack for their weekend DnD group are the same people who bring it into the companies they work for during the week and ultimately suggest a paid plan. That's the entire idea behind freemium: just because someone doesn't get their own credit card out doesn't mean they don't influence the person who does.
It's not that they are too lazy. People don't have time to devote that much energy to small details. That's why credibility in journalism is of top importance.
From the link, it sounds like recent study has pushed back on Pomeranz's thesis of "coal and colonies":

>So is Pomeranz’s book, his theory about the Great Divergence, now the received wisdom?

>It’s the received wisdom among some historians. However, I would say that the empirical evidence has moved against it in the last 20 years.

>It turns out that in England silver wages were three times those in the Yangtze delta and five times those in India already by 1600. So the latest you can probably put the Great Divergence is 1700, which means that Pomeranz’s story about it being all about colonial windfalls and British coal use is probably misguided.

>One historian, Deirdre McCloskey, has pointed out that if coal was so important, Chinese industries could just have moved closer to coal because they have tons of it.
If you're upset with changes like this, you weren't using Slack as it is intended to be used. Nowhere is Slack advertising itself as a data archival platform, a file storage, or a project management software. It's a chat application.

Look at all the reactions in the article, they all are using Slack in ways it is not supposed to be used.

Also note that the article is written by a direct competitor of Slack...
For people not familiar: we have an energy 'price cap' which is kind of just a profit cap. The regulator considers wholesale prices when setting it (among other things). It was never intended to shield consumers and businesses from wholesale price movements.

It makes a nice headline during this crisis, so the media is going crazy talking about it. Much of the public is complaining that it keeps going up and up as they don't understand the cap's origin nor intention.

It's annoying that the mass media refuses to publish the actual unit rates and instead obsess about "average bills" (which, among other things, hides the reality of extremely high bills this coming winter)
Or put Dec a second time, at 0, and then % 12 works.
>So what do we do for the next 30?

We encourage everyone in our lives to ride bicycles by being responsible, fit and healthy cyclists. The more people cycle, the better things get.
I have done something a tad different.

I am running my custom made proxy (dns blocking like pihole is a joke, you can circumvent it as simply as https://2899908462 ) with interesting features like ASN ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_system_(Internet) ) blocking and for fun I have blocked all google ASNs.

Half of the internet stopped working.

Then I have expanded this to google, microsoft, amazon, facebook ASNs.

The whole internet stopped working. From all search engines I am aware of, only yandex.ru was still operational.

What you are seeing with beeping is just a tip of iceberg. The google is getting far more data from its cloud.

I don't believe that most of advanced users are aware of, how deep the rabbit hole of internet centralization has gone.

And until people figure out how important self hosting actually is, it is only going for worse (yeah, I understand how convenient, blah, blah... the cloud is).
> My simple question is "why can't every child cycle to school on a car free path way?"

After growing up in the Netherlands and doing exactly that for 17 years straight, I am asking myself the same question every day.

My solution (given I’m not in the Netherlands any more) is to live within walking distance of the school.
> especially if we ever have CPUs that want to address more than 256 GiB of memory.

Given how common of a scenario this is for Linux, I imagine this sort of a change would be more trouble than it's worth...
Yeah, the problem is that when they are not too lazy they tend to try and save the children locked up in the basement of a pizza restaurant with no basement, assault armored FBI buildings with nail guns, or mail non-functional explosives built in their van-house to members of congress and the media.
That masks help prevent spread of Covid?
This could still work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32618016
When the FBI gives you specific guidelines on what to be vary of, shortly before a news story that fits all their criteria drops, you listen. I doubt it was a taken as a friendly heads-up by Facebook, given the numerous accusations, threats of additional regulations, and congressional grillings in the years prior.

When the then-head of the FBI released a particular public statement in 2016, many believed it swayed the election. On the other hand, you might claim the FBI was simply telling the American public something.

I disagree with labeling either “regime change”, but the influence such an institution wields can’t be taken lightly. Claiming Facebook could simply have ignored the warnings without any consequences would be disingenous.
The times are such that urging moderation in anything but vague terms means that I'm now painting a target on my own back. I personally think that President Trump is a crook and worse, but that's just really very separate to whether or not I should ostracize people who voted for him (I shouldn't).

Western civil society doesn't have many strictly saintly people even among our most popular role models. In the United States where I live, we're constantly jammed up between trying to admire legitimate, world-changing accomplishments by our founders/framers and the fact that many/most of them were unapologetic slave owners. I imagine it's similar in a lot of the world.

Even in software anyone who cares has to try to navigate a set of opinions about key figures that range from "Luke Skywalker" to "pedophilia apologist" on the same person while trying to remain somewhat balanced about the whole thing.

Im my travels I've never met a person who isn't a monster judged by their worst act, and who isn't a saint judged by their best.

That's all very platitudinous and PC, so to grind out something actionable: I think every person should be vigorous in determining their own allegiances to and admiration for and condemnation of public figures, and very conservative in judging others for differing opinions. So basically Postel's Law: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others".

I'm bad at this myself, but I'm working on it.
Average commute is 40 mile round trip so 10 hours of charging.

A top up fast(-ish) charge then becomes something you need to do about as often as visiting a gas station in an ICE.

EVs generally shouldn't be run to 0 or charged to 100%, so this works out well if you have a suitable parking spot.
Hmm, good point and no question about the fries. I do like their burgers as a guilty pleasure from time to time, but that may just be have been habituation. (And no, I do like "high-end" burgers as well)
The other aspect is that bike routes should be continuous without too many slow/stop points as that zaps a lot of energy from commuters.

Here in the UK we have the worst designed cycle "paths" that are just painted onto pavements and stop at each side road, so it's far better to completely ignore them and use the road as then you have priority over the side roads.
That’s not entirely inaccurate.

Capitalism requires that the capitalists (who own for a living) are in control of the state, so it has little incentive to stop Google from messing with your system.

The only certain way to stop them is for workers (who work for a living, the majority of us) gain control of state power through a socialist revolution. Those historically are led by communists or similar.

So if you want control over your computer and ultimately life, join us in conspiring to overthrow capitalism.
Wasn't Zyxel named Zyxel so that it wouldn't have to compete with "AAA tech" and "1 Tech" for the first page of any catalogue, but would always be found first by people wary of name squatters that would read catalogues backwards?
"Weird" describes far more options than just ETs.

My dad worked in the defence sector, on IFF transponders; Plessy when I was young, Marconi bought them out, I think his division was bought by BA around the time he retired. Not sure who before Plessy.

But I digress: one of his stories was about a light in the workshop that would not switch off. Eventually they got a technician in, who saw the switch did nothing to the light, measured the thing with an ammeter and confirmed that the switch both worked and was connected to the light, traced the wires to the light and confirmed they were the only ones.

Nothing made sense. The light stayed lit even without power.

He took the light out of the fixture and the light stayed lit.

Weird story, right? Can you work out what was going on from that description? My only hints are that it's a true story and that it wasn't aliens.
Wow, I wonder if this can also be applied to academic papers. Not for detecting plagiarism (there are already tools for that), but for 'improper' (?) citation
Don't know if it is their intention, but this is probably more of a cost-cutting measure than a revenue-increasing one (or maybe even a technical one, with their data strategy/partitioning it may be much easier to do everything time-based).

Many people expect free things to stay the same forever, which obviously isn't realistic, but this is still going to have a damaging effect on their brand. As well with the free tier, there are a ton of OSS projects, community groups, etc. that will no longer be using Slack, and the network effects will drop substantially. This has been seen a bit with Discord, so maybe they are going all-in on dropping these types of customers.

There can't be _that_ many people who are on the free plan that will now be migrating to paid with this change. If anything, it now incentivizes larger groups (which would generate more revenue) to use the free plan since data is gated by time, not by usage. A slack instance with a few thousand active users on the free plan was basically unusable, 10k messages can be eaten up rather quickly. Now if you only care about the last 90 days (which honestly, isn't a bad idea with Slack to not use it as permanent storage) you can have a much larger group on the free plan.
TSDZ2 Flexible open source firmware
And yet, nobody seems to care about paradigm-shifting ways to generate energy. On the surface, nothing makes sense anymore.
I don't think that this issue is getting anywhere near the amount of attention that it needs.

We're rapidly approaching the point at which the only thing that's going to work is rationing.

I'd propose that we have marginal rates like income tax e.g. first X units for a household are 30p/kWh, second X units are 100p/kWh, third X units are 200p/kWh, with the aim of heavily penalising usage above what is necessary for basic needs. The bands need to be set based on analysing how much gas we can physically secure and deals need to be struck at a governmental level.

Basically, wartime footing to keep homes and factories running.

That might not even be enough, but the alternatives are worse; some mix of the following:

- people disengage with the system (e.g. ignore the bills, riot)

- millions of people end up unable to cook food or heat their home

- disposable income _disappears_. not goes down, but does not exist or goes negative for 80%+ of the population

The projections for early next year are that an average home will have to pay 7000 a year for energy, up from around 1000-1500 previously. It's not a matter of cutting back on luxuries, most households literally don't have that, and cutting energy use to 1/5th of their previous is impossible.

For businesses it's even worse, there's no cap, some places are facing 10x increases in energy costs e.g. just stop trading, your business model is unviable until/unless costs come down.
If they’re willing to pay a competitor or self-host why wouldn’t they be willing to pay Slack?
No shade intended, phrasing reflects the minimal diligence I put into decoding the acronym.
Did they finally add exports bigger than 50 items to the new app? Last I checked, you still had to install the old one for a full export, and I don't expect it will work forever.
I think the people arguing the opposite view might have misunderstood the complaint as being about software. I'm sure Pine64 does get complaints about the software not being usable and that's why they have the big red disclaimers. There's no excuse for shipping a broken screen and not fixing it, or issuing a refund, prototype or not.
The real issue is how the environmental cost is a real trade off now. The last few decades Europe has been closing coal mines, banned fracking, encouraged renewables over more secure but damaging sources. With Russian gas this wasn't such a big deal until it is. I think its probably a good thing overall to have the new higher prices as its just reality.

One potential solution is to send troops to Libya, to sort that country out and help it export gas. I used to be horrified at thoughts like that but maybe it makes sense for everyone? Is it just something America does?
No-code development on a $1000 / Month subscription
Launch your MVP and test your idea without breaking the bank.
Did the internet maybe stop working because you blocked all the major cloud providers?

Nextdns (lazy man's pihole) does a decent job of adblock and seems to stop stuff like Braze tracking from working.
Hunter-gatherer can support only like ~10 millions persons globally [1].
Take that number with a grain of salt, but it's only 0.13% of the current population. To get a full hunter-gatherer world again you must get rid of 99.9% of the current population.

[1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1721726115 One of the first results searching in Google. I'm not sure it's the most accurate number.
There are reports of burning gas in some russian sources.this is because shutting down costs more money that resume operation and burning gas.
Point is… you pay taxes in the US as well… you just don’t get much from it…
Yes, that guy pressed the button even though he should have known there are consequences to that.

If you implement heuristics, it's your damn job to test your implementation and monitor it for adverse effects.

In the context of this article, somebody made the decision to specifically change the thing (no matter if you want to call it a heuristic or an algorithm or whatever) to bury a certain story. This is not even an unintended outcome, it's an entirely intended outcome.
That depends on mass EV takeup, and the problem is that particulate pollution will hardly be reduced as EVs are significantly heavier and particulate pollution is mostly from brakes and tyres.