skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't want to debate the merits of Brexit, I'm not from there or the EU nor have studied the subject closely so it's not my place. I do think it's reasonable that you have those opinions of it and want to put them forward to debate and convince and learn. But I also think people holding opposite opinions, that Brexit didn't reduce soft-power or that a reduction in soft power is not a real problem, or that the EU is not fixable, or that it's not worth staying in the EU hoping it will be fixed, or that UK is not hurting now because of Brexit, or whatever -- are also opinions that a reasonable person might have and put forward in good faith.

I do think the banned comment was the tired, tiresome kind of thing that people who feel passionately seem to find a way to shoehorn into discussions where they are off topic or add nothing substantive. And I think the comment they replied to was as well.

I don't really see much difference, other than the nature of the opinion. Yes the banned poster did address their parent specifically, but... really the parent put out their opinion about a bunch of things, if that is substantive then it should invite questions or disagreements so addressing them on the topic of their opinions is appropriate, surely.
Ya, let’s not talk about the Nepali royals again. I’m still not sure what really happened when they imploded in 2004 or so.
I can't remember where I read it (probably a link from HN), about someone who, for a limited amount of time, had their sense of smell relatively suddenly become incredibly boosted, and my recollection is that they likened it to being a dog - the amount of information available to them about people in a Doctor's waiting room was surprising and confronting.
Related to the death of other tomato ketchups; tomato was not the original dominant ketchup in the US. Mushroom ketchups predate tomato ketchup by a century.
>I'm a big fan of hooks, but I'm still not completely sold on them. I like code that reads in logical sequence, like you're telling a story. When you use `useEffect` to coordinate side effects from prop changes, it makes me feel like I'm reading a story written by Quentin Tarantino.

I actually read this as a compliment considering Tarantino himself spoke in an interview about how his non-linear storytelling style comes from the way novels he'd read were written.
A simple open-source library to receive contact forms for static sites
Because Biden will forgive your loans?
Oh man, I just had a flashback to the 90s and trying to create a recipe database and all this stuff made me give up. Which I think was probably a better choice than so many of the programs that will turn recipes into shopping lists made.
The Gallup religion poll is self-reported.[1] But some of the questions asked are objective, such as "How often do you attend church or synagogue -- every week, almost every week, about once a month, seldom or never?" Self-reported church attendance in the US is about twice what churches report actually show up. (That info used to be on adherents.org, but the site is gone.)

Questions along those lines are tough to get answered well. Who asks makes a big difference. Phone surveys on drinking get quite different results if the people calling are drinkers or non-drinkers.

[1] https://news.gallup.com/poll/1690/religion.aspx
I cannot reconcile this article with this year's YCombinator stats..

43% of the batch were accepted with only an idea

71% of the batch had zero revenue before YC

https://www.ycombinator.com/blog/meet-the-yc-summer-2022-bat...

Is it about how you behave during the interview and/or your past record (ex. successful serial entrepreneurs)? Otherwise, I do not see any reason why this startup was rejected 5 times and many other startups are accepted presumably first time itself with just an idea or no revenue/customers.
Those are not contradictory. Without the ability to criticize others, different groups can each claim to be "the left", and they don't have the ability to work through their differences to unify.
There is no requirement that Oberlin learn anything here. The law pretty severely limits the extent to which civil damages can be used to teach lessons, as we just learned from the Alex Jones case: punitive damages are capped, constitutionally, at some low multiple of economic damages.

It is an enormous defamation award, regardless of how you feel about where it leaves Oberlin.
If there are bugs in software but no one ever runs it, does it really have bugs?

- George Berkley (apocryphal)
It's been considered, for a variety of heat sources. I'm long-term bullish on a related technology (thermophotovoltaics), although presently the efficiencies are not great & the compatibility with nuclear radiation is probably poor.
How is this different from tessellation?
ZSA moonlander has been a joy to use. After a few iterations using their highly polished and user friendly customization tools, I found a great layout and have been using it for over a year. Going between Planck (kit, assembled DIY) layout when traveling, 65% board at work, and split ortho moonlander at home has been fun.

Also props to the very fast and friendly ZSA customer service department. I had a defective keycap and they responded swiftly and sent a replacement.
This kind of knee-jerk reaction is exactly what many people don’t like about institutions like Oberlin.

You’re not going to hire somebody because other people who went to the same school said dumb things on Twitter? Even the most hyper-PC liberals don’t go that far
But entirely unsurprising, unfortunately.
It was a mathematical error in this case. Whether or not the poll itself is meaningful is inconsequential.
Do you play Minecraft? If so, drop your username right in here and we'll happily test that watertight FAQ for you.
You may find the following useful;

1) Internet System Handbook by Daniel Lynch and Marshall Rose - Classic oldie laying out the protocol foundations of the Internet.

2) Internet Architectures by Daniel Minoli and Andrew Schmidt - Another oldie laying out the operational framework of the Internet.

3) The Intelligent Web: Search, smart algorithms, and big data by Gautam Shroff - This is the closest to what you are looking for. For most people the Internet has become synonymous with the Applications (explicit or implicit) running on the Web and hence this book focuses on its current state and future possibilities.
[Software Architecture Patterns](https://learning.oreilly.com/library/view/software-architect...) by Mark Richards answers your exact questions - goes into multi-tier, microservices, event-driven, etc.

I'd highly recommend getting an O'Reilly membership. It gives you access to their entire catalog and you can just search whatever topic you're interested in and they'll let you read books on it.

In terms of free resources, I like [Quastor](http://www.quastor.org/). It's a newsletter that looks at all the big tech engineering blogs (Facebook Engineering, Uber Engineering, Lyft, etc.) and then sends a summary of the interesting ones published.
Not uncommon for addicts, but quite uncommon for users.

You have to use high doses extremely regularly for this to happen. The vast majority of users do not use it at high enough dosage or frequency to get anywhere near this.
Just the visual appearance. It’s so chaotic. I’m sure it’s very powerful, and that’s why people like it. I just don’t have a very high tolerance for clutter.
Ask HN: What do you think of Apple Watch Ultra?
Ask HN: Is $0.2/article to listen on a podcast app a fair price?
Hi guys,

Some context:

- What my product does? It converts web articles into audio (text-to-speech) with quite a natural voice. Then send it to a private podcast feed, that users can listen on almost any podcast app.

- Since I introduced payment feature, about a week ago, No one has paid for it yet. Currently, I have about 300 users signed up, About 200 of them add at least one article (to try out), about 20 - 30 users coming back from times to times

- My major cost comes from TTS API I used to convert articles to audio, roughly 16$/ 1,000,000 characters.

- I can charge based on number of words, or duration of converted audio, but I wanted to make it easier for my users, so I just charge base on number of article. And I also want to make it a peace of mind for users so I use one-off payment basis.

Here are link to my product: https://sendtopod.com

Would love to hear your thought on whether this is too expensive. And why do you think so?

To put this on perspective: My closest competitor is https://audioread.com/ and they charging for $5 for 5 HD audio hours.

(Sorry for adding the link directly to the post, I wanted it to show up in "Ask HN" but it's not very obvious to me how )
It’s interesting to see the plots of true change in opinions. There has been massive change in favor of gay rights, gender equality, marijuana legalization, and interracial marriage. On pretty much every other topic, change is negligible.
I, personally, did want something exactly like this. I have used a 55" OLED as a main monitor for several years and find that sitting close to it as I do, it would be excellent to have something a bit smaller which also has the option to be curved. The author just is not the target audience. I watched the HDTVTest video [1] on one of these a few days ago and just thought, "wow, perfect!" LTT has a recent video showcasing a 42" OLED as a main monitor, which gives a good impression of the experience [2].

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDHzz7syM_E
2: https://youtu.be/4mgePWWCAmA?t=949
> Have people found creative ways to communicate, or solicit/"bootstrap" further communications?

Not so much bootstrap other communications... but I remember how many penis emblems I encountered on Mario Kart DS despite Nintendo banning them very rapidly.

Nintendo hasn't done a draw-your-own-emblem since, I don't think.
... as opposed to Japan, which concretely did inflict national traumas that broadly the entire rest of East Asia aren't really over?

Banding together and liking the fact that you have to live in the same tent aren't quite the same thing.
And yet far less naive than believing a group of 10 year-olds are being repeatedly banned for no reason with their chat off, instead of the obvious that when parents aren't looking they're being abusive to others in chat.

Reminds me of the classic:

> No, I wasn't looking at dirty websites, it was a virus!
Hi, I am a professional FPGA designer. I used to be a board designer many years ago, and most of the time I used the tools from Mentor Graphics. Only when I worked for a startup I used Orcad who, compared to Mentor Graphics, was really in another (much lower) league. The differences between Mentor Graphics and Orcad (15 years ago, when I was still a board designer) were many: Processing speed, integration between schematics entry, constraint management and layout tools, etc.
Sorry, you’re making an aspic of foie and canard? Is it…good?
Hi, are you familiar with https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news ? I'm currently using it

It has some features like, if I select a part of a comment and hit reply, it will reply quoting that part

edit: oh, you're charging for it

anyway, my feedback is: there's a slow loading time whenever I open a link and I don't understand this
My previous account got banned because I expressed being against Russia's aggression. Just saying.
I'm thinking real world markets tend to reward first movers who deliver adequate solutions with the cheese, but surely there's leaderboard room for complementary wine of some objectively substantial performance vintage that may take a bit more time to refine for a balanced pairing---that is, so long as you're not already pre-game drunk at the wheel when the RFP opportunity window closes given misaligned engineering trade-offs tend to have real consequences too.
That's what I was pointing out, friend.

HN is one of those internet communities where people reply with what I read as an aggressive tone, but they agree with me, and it's as if they are angrily correcting me but they didn't realize I was saying their same thing. Is that just my perception?
Not sure why this is downvoted. Really curious of the Kremlin's response, given the juxtaposition of the history and current events (UK bring an early and strong militaristic supporter of Ukraine).
Once again: in a civil suit, Gibson's can sue to establish economic damages, and then ask for punitive damages on top of that. But the constitution doesn't allow civil courts to assess arbitrarily high punitive damages; punitive damages have to connect in some way to economic damages, often as a low integer multiple of them. Since Oberlin didn't do an amount of damage material to their endowment, there was no outcome here where their endowment was going to be threatened.
This is the readability of the Perl in the blog, captured on my system: https://imgur.com/a/EJFNO2U
> All I am calling for is that punishment meets the crime. Not meets the crime and exceeds it in order to prevent unrelated parties from committing the same crime.

That doesn't make a lot of sense. The whole point of the criminal-justice system is to attempt to deter criminal behavior. It's practically definitional.

Although the systems have often been merged in recent times, many places (including some parts of the US) had two entirely separate court systems: a "court of law" for the enforcement of laws by the government, and the imposition of punitive sanctions to discourage behaviors by making them unprofitable to engage in, and "courts of equity" wherein individuals could bring suits directly against each other and where the judges had broad discretion to impose various remedies (e.g. specific performance).

An example would be if your neighbor stole one of your cows: the government (often in the form of a sheriff or magistrate or similar) could decide to go after them in a court of law, because having people stealing each others' livestock is socially corrosive, hence why it's illegal. But you as the owner of the cow could petition a court of equity for relief, independently of the government's decision to pursue action in a court of law. The court of equity's remedy might basically be "give back the cow", or if they had already eaten the cow, maybe they'd tell them to give you an equivalent cow instead.

There are a few US states that still maintain these dual systems: Delaware is the most well-known one, and its Court of Chancery deals with lots of contract disputes and such between private parties. Tennessee and a few other states are similar.

AFAICT the existence of courts of law (or their equivalents) are almost universal features of complex civilizations and probably governments generally.

If there's no punishment for breaking the law, you don't have laws, merely polite suggestions.
I used to think you had to be a hashref to be blessed but The Damian put me straight on that.
Request from Coinbase to clarify EthereumPoW fork code availability
Fuel cells convert chemical -> electrical directly, batteries go both ways.

For nuclear fusion, the only practical reaction releases 80% of the energy as uncharged particles (neutrons), for which the only way to harness their energy is to convert it to heat. The 20% of the energy that is emitted as charged particles could in principle be converted with high efficiency, but the other 80% dominates.

For fission, more of the energy is emitted as charged particles, but it's not clear how one would harvest it directly in bulk. (It can be done on small scales, but not efficiently.)
I have HPPD and it is kind of fun and not at all distressing or problematic for my life. Cool part of how my brain works.
Why is this even part of the preparation for the merge? If Coinbase doesn't support this chain, there is nothing to protect with regards to users funds. No PR necessary. Pretty simple.
Temperature impacts on hate speech online: evidence from geolocated tweets
It is the closest I've ever come to what I imagine it is like to be a wizard and learn magic from first principles.
The people who weren't living on the Falklands didn't get a vote, true.
That's a clownish thing to say, and suggests that you're unlikely to be in a position to hire Oberlin grads.

The rationale you provide downthread, that you found a Twitter thread with Oberlin students complaining about the verdict, doesn't help your argument much.
True, and a process shrink from TSMC 7nm to 4nm.
Man discovers pitfalls of nut foraging with hydrogen balloons
Can you name a single moderation system that operates on this scale that will not automatically ban someone for getting mass reported? This is a fairly well known phenomenon.
The Immortal Awfulness of Open Plan Workplaces
Will the Apple Watch Ultra Make Garmin the Next Nokia?
Any chance to make it open source on GitHub?
In the SF Bay Area where I live the Navy used to have 50? ships parked. I never saw anyone maintain them. That's why I asked.
I'm sympathetic to the impulse, and I think it's a good one to be skeptical of things like that when they conflict with anecdotal evidence. However, I think you have to look at the context of the anecdata in this case to conclude that it's probably better to rely on empirical data.

The paper I linked even discusses this a bit - the problem is that psychedelics are an intense experience, and they have this reputation for causing psychosis (helped along by the drug war lies, naturally), and so people tend to attribute subsequent psychiatric issues to their psychedelic experience, inappropriately.

I'd ask you regarding your anecdata, do you actually know someone personally who you witnessed this happen to, or is it more like "a friend of a friend" had this happen, and told you about it? I've never personally known someone to whom this has happened, but like you, I've heard my fair share of tall tales from the gossip mill. It's just that, in this particular instance, I think it's pretty likely that the stories are just that - stories.
People will be offensive in the real world but I don't think we should encourage or accept that kind of behavior. If we build a society where people are shamed and shunned and not allowed to participate (whether it's a short timeout or a longer ban) when they behave poorly then hopefully we can reduce this kind of behavior in the world and instead of accepting it, people will be more comfortable fighting back in a positive way instead of simply flinging insults back which was how many of my childhood bullies behaved.

Playfighting is a different topic and typically even when you play fight, you set certain boundaries and there are things that you don't say/do. Good friends will recognize those boundaries and not cross them. You wouldn't call your friends soft and say they lack mental resilience for having boundaries, would you?
Crowd funding models seems especially interesting, since in theory you could fully automate the process. Submit the dataset and code you want to train with, then once it's funded the service automatically runs the training and releases the resulting model to backers.
The ancient greeks did not have this relationship to (written) knowledge. Greeks had to have a human vouch for the validity of the written document.

Tying truth to written history is noble but also flawed.
"criticizing public behavior" is a dishonest euphemism.

You can criticize someone's ideas all you want, but dogpiling a single person based on their gender identity in the way that KF did is not that. It is cyberbullying and it's lethal and the people involved should be fined or locked up in prison for engaging in behavior that had a non-trivial probability of causing another person's suicide.

I would say the same about people dogpiling someone online about their physical appearance or ethnicity. It should be moderated out of existence, and if that doesn't work it should be illegal.

If you throw bricks off a building, I similarly want you locked up for the same reason. You probably won't kill someone, but the causal connection is such and the probability is sufficiently high that we lock people like you up, because you're a menace and direct threat to your fellow humans.

Of course, I'd want the punishment for throwing the brick to be larger, I am not throwing proportionality out the window.
I have often wondered if it were possible to create a homemade diode -- out of nothing more than aluminum foil...

I'm guessing (but not knowing!) that this could be done as follows:

1) Take two pieces of aluminum foil.

2) Roll one of them into a pyramid or cone of some sort... Whatever shape it is made into, it needs to taper to a sharp point at the end, much like a pyramid or cone...

3) Take the other piece of aluminum foil and coat it with an oxide layer. Basically burn it -- but don't melt it!

4) Now take the conic/pyramid shaped piece of foil and "point it" (for lack of a better term!) at the oxide layer on the other piece of foil, similar to a "cat's whisker" diode (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_detector , https://rimstar.org/science_electronics_projects/razor_blade...)

5) Spacing (pressure) is very important! If the point is a micrometer too close or too far away -- it might not work! The casual observer would think that a "cat's whisker" diode has a direct connection between the surfaces -- but I would think that there's at least a little bit of capacitance (space) there -- determined by the pressure!

So, would it work?

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I don't know!

I don't currently have a multimeter to test the idea!

But, I think it would be tremendously interesting if someone could create a working semiconductor (in this case a diode!) out of easy-to-find household items! (Yes, I know the "cat's whisker" works -- but I'm talking about still other items -- the reason for this is to understand semiconductors better -- in other words, there's more to the "P-N junction" theory than is taught -- since early diodes (tubes and other devices) DID NOT use doped semiconductors to obtain this electrical effect!)

So, the thread submitted above, on the Raspberry Pi forums -- is about some other ways to make diodes...

Anybody have any other ideas on how to make semiconductors using non-traditional semiconductor materials?

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> but the tenderloin wasn't some beautiful panacea 25 years ago either, nor the mission, nor the dog patch

The dogpatch was a waste land 10 years ago, it got redeveloped thanks to new money and the new tenants that were willing to pay $$ to live there.

The problem of San Francisco is not tech (which gives resources to the city, and which every other city would do anything to have) or the lack of artists.

The problem is San Francisco is the utterly incompetent leadership that fails their citizens at every level (supervisors, mayor, school board, DA, police, etc). Technology was an incredible opportunity for this town to become world class, and now they got nothing to show for it.

How about we refocus on the real problems that are affecting this town? The tenderloin doesn’t have to be this way, the Fidi was thriving up to 2018/2019. The alleged lack of artists is at the bottom of the pile.

A world class city like San Francisco can and should do more to guarantee that no kid steps on poop or needles. Take a step back please: this is a very low bar, and these are problems that every city in the world doesn’t have. So what’s wrong with this place? Why is San Francisco a poster child for disgraceful and incompetent leadership? Why can’t it remove poops from the street with a budget of billions of dollars. What is wrong with this town?

These are the problems that we should be focusing on.