skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> There is selection.

Of course, but the point is exactly that there are plenty of other things that are more important to determine the affinity between peers.

> all of which are effected by culture and religion.

In the US, maybe so. In Europe, not so much. My experience in Berlin is that even though you might notice some clustering in different demographics (e.g, parts of the city where you see more Turks, others with more Polish, Russian, Greeks, Vietnamese, etc...) this separation is not strict. It might be that in France this segregation is more explicit, but what I hear from my French friends is that their division goes on the lines of "French/Non-French".

> The original example suggested social groups would suddenly have 50% Muslim membership.

It doesn't have to be 50%. Consider a scenario where muslims are a minority and they are not segregated/ghettoised. So, for every group of 5-6 close friends, you could have one muslim. Whenever one of these groups has to choose for an activity, they would know that by choosing "skinny dipping" they would be excluding their nudity-averse friend. So all these groups would end up looking for something else to do.

> enough (...) to cause so much strife in their social group

No one is saying about "strife". This is not a polarizing issue! You have someone in your group of friends who has some type of restriction about the activities and there are other alternatives that can appreciated by all, there is no "problem" to be solved.

> maybe more Muslims will try skinny dipping.

This shows a complete disconnect to reality and/or wishful thinking. Do you know any Muslims? Do you understand how display of modesty is a central part of their beliefs?
Other package managers are okay with requiring sudo because they install stuff globally. Nix doesn't have that restriction, you can use it for local stuff, temporary shell environments, etc. So you need non-admin users to be able to use it too, and even admin users need to be able to use it without using sudo. For example, when entering a nix shell, you don't want the shell to run as root. Or when using direnv. Or just when using it as part of your build system.

Nix is a package manager, yes, but it's more than that, it's a generalized build system.
You can still buy a physical card with cash, eventually at vending machines in stations, but also at places like target
> Amazon says that intentionally bad reviews shall not pass

Will "intentionally good" reviews also be banned? For example if they like the show for the "wrong" reasons?
I subscribed to Pixlr, used it extensively, and don't recommend it compared to Photopea. I have also been a photoshop user for 10+ years.
Mastodon still can’t replace Twitter
Totally unable to do any activity is not a side affect of cannabis. If that happens to you, you’ve taken too much.
I happen to be building this exact same product, but closed source, and somewhat attached at the hip to my company's 3PL WMS product.

One thing I did not see in your demo, is inventory synchronization. I'm guessing thats because your first use-case is drop shipping.

I'd also disagree that you're open-source Amazon. You're more like open-source DropStream or maybe Boomi.

If I were you, I'd do this:

1) Pick an open-source WMS and write a channel for it.
2) Make it dead easy to write ad-hoc channels.
3) Quickly implement shop connectors for BigCommerce, Magento, and WooCommerce.

Good luck!
> usually larger networks are require to get access to gear and systems that can pose a challenge

Exactly. Simulation program is not going to suffice. Sometimes one has to bring a firewall home to debug something. And there's going to be several vendors, not only Cisco. And it's going to need more certs, not just CCNP, CCIE.
My personal favorite was a usb-c gpu dock that I had actually shorted out and smoked when used with any other cable.
Are you bullish on any crypto
I appreciate the intent, but I suspect that’s not something they could do as I think they’re mostly using third party modems and presumably drivers still and many of those companies are utter asses.

But also what does open source driver mean here - does it mean for any OS, public domain, etc? Because if so then you’re talking about the government requiring people to give up their property.
You recommend any reading on how Linus achieved that?
If not using the app and physically going somewhere is easier than using the app then the app clearly has some room for improvement.
glaciers do have a certain minimum size, though.
Yeah this knee jerk downvoting sucks. Have an upvote.
There are so many things factually incorrect here

> most of us live in a country

No we don't

> here half the political body actively denies

By actively deny, you mean that they force everyone like you? If you mean that, then it's factually wrong.

> no amount of drum beating that is excessive.

Umm, as a suggestion you should look for more effective way of convincing people.
Can't wait for some absurdly low COL state tries to follow
I think you’re looking at this from the wrong perspective. If your other option is to be a FAANG software engineer, sure, do that instead.

For the vast swathes of the country where the available jobs are some mix of retail/warehouse low wage drudgery, long haul trucking, drug dealing / fraud / other crime, or welfare, working in semiconductors might be a welcome and attractive option.
> What if there was a marketplace where all the underlying tech was open-source?

What about the actual "marketplace" part? E.g. the channel-partner product listing management; the product recommendation engine that combines global factors (user reviews) with personalized interest; the shopping cart that packing-problem's your order on checkout into separate orders according to logistics-provider constraints, etc. When you say "open-source Amazon", this is the part I envision.

As far as I know, many pieces of the technology stack required to be an individual FBA seller already mostly exist as FOSS; but what does not exist as FOSS, is the technology to build your own two-sided-marketplace on which others can list products for sale.

Even more starkly, the software and systems to run an "Amazon-style" warehouse to back that marketplace — one where the sellers on your marketplace can send you SKUs of merchandise to hold such that you can then centrally fulfill orders for a bunch of sellers, and the whole ecosystem of backend support to allow them to remotely manage that held inventory — are nowhere to be found outside of Amazon itself, for love or money.
Demo > Try it > password creation fails for me
Exactly.

I disagree with both the points made about both Bitcoin, and Ethereum made by Vitalk. Proof of Work (PoW) is more 'decentralized' and censorship resistant than Proof-of-Stake (PoS) at the cost of burning up the planet and PoS is the direct opposite, and Vitalik knows this and has to do everything he can to protect this and his bags / holdings for the Ethereum fans and maximalists.

The problem with Bitcoin is that it cannot realistically be used as a form of payment and it is effectively useless for on-chain payments and unable to scale properly with lots of users just to be better than the current existing payments system as it was meant to be a "decentralized peer-to-peer electronic cash system".

Before someone says Lightning, it isn't Bitcoin and defeats the point of using Bitcoin for on-chain payments as the system tends to centralization. As Ethereum becomes more centralized with the Merge, I would expect it to abandon the claim of it being 'decentralized', so it will be just like any other permissioned validator chain that eventually needs to comply with regulations and validators will begin censoring addresses.

So for them to be regarded as remotely 'useful', they have to abandon their claims of 'decentralization' because without centralization, they are both useless.
One of the credit unions I use has predominately cashless branches. They've got ATMs, but the people can't do any work with cash. Kind of ugh, but they were open during 2020 when I needed a cashier's check, so there you go. I've only asked for a large number of bills twice, I had to do a currency order to get 100x $2s, but for 100x $5s, a non-cashless credit union near by had that in the vault, no advance notice required.
I've had to go to a branch for two reasons and only two reasons in the last decade:

(1) To buy a house in cash, I need "proof of funds" so the seller of the house I'm making an offer on can be assured I can follow through with that offer. The "proof of funds" every realtor has told me to get is a letter from a bank branch, on bank letterhead, showing my current balance at that bank. Not just a printed out online statement.

(2) A big nasty red banner appeared on my online banking telling me that I needed to complete a "KYC Refresh" or my account might be closed! And that I had to do it in person, so call and make an appointment. Apparently it had been so long since I'd been in a branch or used my debit card, that they wanted to verify my identity and business registration in person. Unfortunately, this happened in 2020 when we had no idea how COVID spread nor any N95 masks to wear, so it was either risk my health or risk my business bank accounts. I went in.
Fraud has intent as a component. If it was an honest mistake and no fraud was intended, the sign-ups was an error but not a crime.

Same if you were confused by "your" Roku account, so you decide to remove it.
Notarization, medallion stamps, safe deposit boxen, reliably getting larger amounts of cash in larger denominations, and getting cashier's checks promptly. I'm not saying these things make the bank money, but they're definitely reasons I maintain an account at a local brick and mortar bank. Also the old manager loved to drop into shop talk, like say about the economics of truck rolls to reload ATMs, which was fantastic. Alas, she retired and the new one seems to be a bog standard robot.

Last time I was there, there was an older woman next to me asking about a CD coming due. The teller was giving her a list of pathetic rates, and a slightly less bad special term of like 0.2%, while online rates are somewhere 2-3%. It was cringeworthy to listen to, but people that don't know any better are unfortunately their best customers.
The books are going to people who want them. I think that in that way it is pure gain.

Of the books around my house, those that mean the most to me are not generally the most valuable. In fact, I'm not sure what I have that is really valuable, though I am confident that I have very few books I couldn't replace for $50. Yes, a first edition or two, yes three signed by the authors--though not inscribed to me.

I expect that my son will unload my books as best he can, if I don't deal with them first. I think that is well. He is an intelligent man, he reads widely, but the intersection between our areas of interest is only so large.
You may be shocked to learn that humans are natural. We and our behaviors are part of nature
Yup, the core part of Tor is written in C so it can't get much speedier. Rewriting it in rust is almost is entirely to reduce the footguns you get in C
the toxic combination is (a) virality and (b) remote end user access triggering the GPL rights.

You could have one but not the other. We really need "LAGPL" to parallel LGPL, to make it clear that there is a clear and well defined way to stop the "remote access" part of AGPL from propagating accidentally into proprietary code.
Tires do spontaneously lose tire pressure. 1-3 psi/month.

There was no margin on tire pressure. TPMS would absolutely have saved lives. General public runs consistently low tire pressure. Source: I am a member of general public and consistently forget to top up. Also, paid my way through college in the 1980s in a gas station back when full service was a thing.
Ocarina of Time PC Port [video]
>Not only cannabis isn't a good painkiller, but it comes with very strong side-effects: it makes you totally unable to do any activity. This is fine for a recreational usage, but for a therapeutic usage, it's a serious problem. Especially when alternatives exist.

I disagree. There are varying levels of pain. The pain from being cut open and (metaphorically speaking) my spine scraped out with gardening tools, then being stitched up again is much more significant than pain from muscle aches, mild nerve pain and many other sources.

Cannabis was insufficient (for me) immediately (and for a couple days) after surgery. However, it was absolutely sufficient after three or four days.

Yes, the psychotropic effects can be debilitating, but that's not true for everyone.

N.B.: The observations below are anecdata, so obviously YMMV.

I find (as an InfoSec/Infrastructure guy) that I can't give the level of focus required to do my job effectively if I use cannabis regularly.

However, I know several lawyers and other folks with mentally rigorous professions that use cannabis multiple times daily and are able to function reasonably well. Note (as I mention above) that I am not one of those people.

The impact of cannabis on an individual is subjective and nuanced, so I don't accept your assertion that "[cannabis] makes you totally unable to do any activity."

In fact, different strains of cannabis (presumably based on THC/CBD/other cannabinoids levels) have different effects on different people.

I don't doubt your (and/or others you know) experience has been that cannabis is disabling. But that's not true for everyone in every circumstance.

Which is why I strongly believe (as I stated in the comment to which you replied) that cannabis and the chemicals it contains should be thoroughly researched to determine its impacts, both positive and negative.

tl;dr: I disagree with your statement because it was categorical, not that it was necessarily wrong in all cases.
Would they not also pour billions into transit if everyone in NYC lived in smaller, rural towns?

Just a spot check, but Montana received $491 million in 2020 (https://leg.mt.gov/content/Publications/fiscal/leg_reference...) and has a population of ~1 million.

NYC has ~8 million, ~20 million in the greater metro region.
>indecipherable to the average person

Average person? This shit is indecipherable even for hardcore computer nerds.
>Not only cannabis isn't a good painkiller, but it comes with very strong side-effects: it makes you totally unable to do any activity.

Well that is just completely, wildly untrue, and laughably so. C'mon now.
No wonder our industry is in such a bad way
The civilization Aristotle existed in also only lasted a few centuries. Seems like not much has changed.
The fact that you and I have to calculate if it makes sense to switch from natural gas to heat pump heating is an abject policymaking failure at several levels. This should have been abundantly clear months ago, with information campaigns and economic stimuli.

Heat pumps are an important part of the solution. Even with 100% natural gas electricity production, they cut energy consumption in less than half [0]

Simple measures and clear communication about them are desperately required. What about something like an EU level free energy voucher:

- heating: local degree days [1] * 0.5 kWh/person for winter 2022-2023

- non-heating energy consumption: 500 kWh/person voucher for 2022

- voucher redeemable against electric bill, pellets or firewood, district heating bill, insulation, (shares in) new non-fossil electricity production/storage/interconnect capacity

- clear communication about the future: less voucher/person, no more redeemable against Russian natural gas portion of district heating/firewood/pellet subsidies, ...

[0]

- natural gas electricity generation: 60% efficient

- heat pump seasonal coefficient of performance: 3.5 (typical for central Europe, lower for northern Europe, higher for southern Europe)

- heat pump efficiency: 3.5 * 60% = 210%

- natural gas direct heating efficiency: 95%

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_day
Most Germans understand English perfectly fine. So, feel free to scam, I guess.
$4 in 2002 is equivalent to $6-7 with the US treasuries own inflation calculator; but I never really argued that, I argued their current cost.

Other than that it is obvious to me that you’re out of touch with reality entirely. $12 per user per month for a chat tool is a legitimately unjustifiable amount for the majority of the current slack user base.

You can argue that free is freeloading, perhaps I agree, but saying anyone not forking over €12/user is not a serious user is just insanely dismissive to the point of absurdity.

You also completely missed the point: BBSs were a one stop shop for all the features and more that slack has, IRC was the same but lacked persistence, which was bolted on, XMPP also had all the features slack had and is being sold to you as things like google talk and Facebook messenger (which is XMPP underneath!).

Slack innovates in marketing, telling people that they want this stuff. The product is not innovative and for the average/prosumer user the value simply isn’t there.

Zulip is so superior it is actually disgusting; and it’s FOSS.

Not to mention “matrix” or the multitude of fantastic walled garden chat tools.

Slack enjoys a niche because of rugpulling, bringing people in with marketing and UX and the promise that you can work with your existing client and cheaply so don’t worry about it! (IRC/XMPP gateways; generous free tier) before removing them.

That you defend this makes me believe you have a financial incentive.
The weird thing is, it wasn't long ago when HN was praising TikTok for feeling refreshing and quirky and reminding them of the creativity they missed on the "old web." How this place can sometimes turn on a dime...
Assuming Methuselah doesn't work for you, you can still do that in about 200k of memory.
Is that supposed to be Twitter winking at Kiwifarms because they do the same thing?
You can separate from business relationship too. IME it's less messy than divorce.
Show HN: SMS Interface for Stable Diffusion
If you text 8145594701, it will send back an image with the prompt you specified. Currently only US numbers can send/receive texts because Twilio. Sorry to the rest of the planet!

I think this will likely fall over but I figured this would be a cool little thing to demo. I removed the NSFW filter so be mindful of your prompts!

I don't persist numbers and there is no linkages being saved between the original text message and the generated images.
I think he was just being a realist. FTL travel is essentially just fantasy at this point. Pragmatically we don’t know of any way to make the physics of the Alcubierre drive possible, and there’s nothing to suggest we will.

Even getting something like a working generational ship up to say 10% light speed would require technology and levels of cooperation unknown to humanity at this point.
Yet Ethereum is pretty centralized with stuff like the premine, and it's even more centralized with ETH 2.0, the Merge, which moves it to Proof-Of-Stake. Now, the richest (read: Vitalik and co) are the ones who can change the course of ETH. Well, they could before too with the hard fork but now they can do it even more so.
Having seen your edit: just wanted to chime in and thank you for the comment - I learned something I never would have otherwise.
I'd also donate if I could be sure that the money would go to the (online) privacy.

I honestly don't give a damn about abortions in the US and I don't care about any local policital movement, that is cool for the season.
can we agree that it’s mostly content free then? The text of the posted article is on par with cable television news, and I mean that derisively. I think we can do better here on HN.

Feel free to submit a link to the PDF directly, or at least something that talks about the merits of the case.
Yeah, but ideally you should make a donation of lasting value.
Thanks for the hint. I am aware of this afecionados community. More power to them but none of this will make your old Mac grow an M1 processor.

My previous laptoop was an Macbook pro intel 64gb ram full specs. The M processor is much faster, even with just 16GB ram. Now if going strong means use the terminal, Vim etc. all is good.

If you use a laptop professionally you do want the latest updates from apple, not a Github repository.
Alternatively, transparency could make things more fair and eliminate a lot of jealousy, etc. It's this weird not-very-transparent place we are that's unstable.
But its a real pledge for the environment. Not just words.

Everyone wants green but refuses to do the work.
asset management groups are not so happy with this since they deal with pharma, bar/entertainment, and other areas that are receiving profit drops. they could sell on site but even then people would homegrow then smoke use before entering.

but pharma is very upset because with extreme pain the patient is given a pain killer and an antianxiety med. cannabis happens to be both.
> You can still use a branch manager to achieve an escalation of a routine issue into a bank’s call tree, because they likely have a special number for that,

Yeah, not for B of A, at least in the Seattle area. I've had plenty of times when they were holding $1 million of my cash (yes, I'm not the best investor) and getting simple tasks done meant they had to call the exact same numbers I did, getting hung up in the same menu trees. Infuriating.
Indeed - in fact I live in a suburb of Lisbon that was just fields maybe 30 years ago - I am continually astonished at the vast scale of reasonable quality high density housing, all with schools, parks, hospitals etc - there must be hundreds of thousands of people here, a miracle of urban planning. Apparently the Lisbon middle classes fled to these new suburbs to get away from their small damp draughty downtown apartments, which ironically have now become so desirable.
>I have a fear that in the future only governments and large companies in bed with governments will have access to this data and use it in unethical ways.

I'd look back to the Memex for the solution to that problem, it stored everything locally, thus links couldn't be broken. Output included all the linked items. It's possible to build a system that stores everything you've seen on the web locally, to prevent things from disappearing.

I think local storage is highly undervalued, and the pendulum will shift back.
“Better than welfare or crime” doesn’t really sell me that it’s a great option
Sure, if it meets their needs all is fine. But why limit knowledge but what you need/ed a decade ago when there is so much more in the new processors, software etc.? to save money? For what ?

My point is that the article seems to suggest that is a good idea to stop buying new laptops. It isn't.
I appreciated the comment. This kind of tangential but interesting tidbit is one of the more attractive aspects of HN to me.
Grew up near Turów. Germany had a number of large mining operations right across the border, and started pushing for the closure of Turów just as their shift to NLG ramped up, with arguments around “air quality”.

Poland (and others…) warned the successive German governments since about the risks of increasing dependence on Russian gas, and… here we are.

The borders were based on rivers, no idea what you’re insinuating there.
That’s like saying that introduction of a Mafia boss as “not a killer” is a scathing indictment of the Police.

After all, the hostility between the Mafia and the Police is mutual.