skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes generalizations are the real solution. Wait weren't those the things that started racism and colonialism...? the things you seemed to be concerned about?
> Here is the UK National Health Service's Cass Review:

Not NHS. It's not a great sign of accuracy if you're getting this wrong.

And the Cass review calls for an expansion of provision of gender affirming care for children, which is why we're moving from a single clinic to multiple clinics.
Christmas tree has it's roots in Pagan traditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yule
How good is the bang for the buck in reducing CO2 emissions compared eg on the CO2 credit prices on the EU carbon trading market?

Apparently this program cost 2.5 billion (https://www.german-way.com/travel-and-tourism/public-transpo...)

Edit: so 2.5 B / 1.8 M is 1400€/ton. Credits have been about 80€/ton this year according to https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/carbon - so direct emission reduction cost of this program are about 18x vs buying and sequestering credits from market. (Both ways have second order emissions effects of course, eg getting people to give up cars if this is continued, increasing carbon credit market costs for industry etc.)
Pollen is big enough that you could detect it directly.
Google lighthouse can be use for auditing a website for performance, best practices, accessibility, progressive web app (PWA), and search engine optimization(SEO).
Where did I say this would be a final choice? Where did I say this was something someone couldn't change their minds about?

Your point lacks nuance.

How would you address DNRs? Do you think they are wrong? Why or why not?
https://deno.com/blog/fresh-1.1#experimental-denoserve-suppo...

Just use --unstable to enable it.
What I'm really waiting for is foldable monitors that stow easily, something like the Zenbook 17 Fold, sans computer.

The utility of a nonmobile monitor that bends slightly is pretty questionable in my opinion.
I doubt "most people" go out of their way to 4-7 websites on average to buy anything.
One step closer to electric vanlife in this decade.
Finland has two plants. One is Soviet in origin and one is financially struggling.

Nuclear power simply cant exist without lavish subsidies.
The ironic thing about this language is that it is an attempt to be "inclusive" by introducing weird shibboleths that exclude most people.

I was once informed by someone at a big tech that the reason for these "x[n]y" codes is because these words can be hard to spell for non-native speakers of English. Also, they added "a11y" (accessibility) to the list.

I think the real explanation was that these were introduced because "internationalization" is a long word and file path names used to be limited in the 1980s.
> Marketing tricks eventually fail if the product is crap. You can only polish a turd so much.

For a particular product, sure - but that doesn't matter if the company makes enough money off of that product first, and then releases another one and starts the cycle over again. The company's reputation, meanwhile, takes far longer to decline than that of an individual product, especially if information transfer between buyers is low (which seems to be the case for most casual consumer markets, i.e. not business and professional).
Not wooly at all. The "abuse" of a "dominant market position" is illegal. Vendor lock in to raise prices above the competitive level or to extend market share is the abuse, and "dominant market position" is well defined through law and thousands of precedent cases in antitrust. (In Europe Hoffman-La Roche vs. Commission is one of the cases defining it.)
Well, she’s the head of state of a number of countries and the commonwealth. Represents political and social continuity. This has historical significance, which might be of interest to some of the readership. She was trained as a mechanic and is one of the few old enough to have been an adult in the war. Her death might, maybe will, be responsible for a number of commonwealth states changing their structure of government.

Bit more significant to RL than one might think.
> essentially all such efforts are banned by the London Protocol.

Interesting, why? Plankton != dumping, right? Could there be contained plankton "farms" that are similar to fish farms?
Belief in gods and participation in rituals are different things. Japanese people are very traditional, they like to maintain the rituals of their predecessors. However, this doesn't imply that they believe in traditional gods. This may be strange for people that grew up on Christianity, but it is natural once you stop believing in supernatural beings.
Some extra things I do.

My combined water boiler is set to turn on/off on schedule. When running off electricity it only heats water during the night.

Some other appliances are also set to work on schedule.
Washing machine, dish washer etc... usually run overnight.

All computers are set to sleep after 10 min of inactivity.
The only things that are on 24/7 are APs, a few cameras and a NAS.

I also have a garden. I grow/pickle my own tomatoes, cucumbers, pumpkins, apples, prunes, mushrooms, nuts, berries.
But not potatoes, since those are cheap to buy.

I think in total, it would be enough to last for 3-4 months.
Using this declarative approach dramatically reduces the need for persistent host permissions

Reduces != eliminate. Obviously, for some features, like adblockerblocker unblockers and cosmetic filtering, you still need persistent host permissions. Nobody has ever disputed that. The fact that DNR can remove persistent host permission for some ad blockers doesn't mean that it needs to remove them for all ad blockers. Also, you're taking that statement out of context: the documentation lists *three* separate reasons for DNR: privacy, performance, and compatibility with service workers. This reduces both the time it takes to process a network request (no need to serialize it to background page and then execute filter list matching in slow javascript) and the memory footprint of the browser (no need to keep an entire DOM background page loaded). It's clear that the performance goals here are at least as important as the security goals, if not more important, and they both go hand in hand.

I don't understand what you perceive this negatively.

By calling this the "MV3" version of uBlock, you're implying that MV3 has limited uBlock to these features and these features only, when nothing could be further form the truth. It's simply a form of misinformation to label this as the "MV3" version of uBlock. That's why I'm reacting to it negatively—it's hard not to see this as a continuation of your frustration with Chromium development team, and an attempt to paint MV3 in a bad light by purposefully releasing a crippled version of the extension. Users are going to see this extension, see that it's named "MV3", and then blame Google for the lack of features. It's just the same as lying to your users.
ELI5: wouldn't a large proportion of USA's lawmaker's have ties with a Christian church?

Sorry for being uninformed, but why is this an issue?
Allowed and worth spending time listening to are not same thing.
The word is superstitious. Other parts of Asia (like China) often claim no religious belief but are _very_ superstitious too.
Christmas Trees are something coopted by Christianity and are pagan in origin.

Also there's very little about baby Jesus in 'Here comes Santa Claus' or 'Frosty the Snowman'
I'm mostly experienced with < $500 dive computers, which maybe isn't a fair comparison, but now I have the choice between the expensive apple watch or a single-purpose expensive dive computer. With the Ultra I can also buy or build different software if the UX isn't working for my needs.
Ask HN: Tools for simulation of complex physical effect
Hi, we are working on a novel method to measure blood glucose non-invasively (see: diamontech.com). We are using a new kind of tunable laser (quantum-cascade-laser) to specifically heat up glucose molecules in the skin. We have a working prototype and start miniaturizing the whole system right now.

In order to expedite testing of different hypothesis we'd like to simulate our whole system with all its components (optics, electronics, thermal, mechanical, in best case even sample/skin) and I was wondering what is the best approach. Commercial simulation software like Zemax, Matlab/Simulink, Solidworks seem to focus on only one subset and it's complicated to string them together. Then there are some python-libs of different quality levels to support simulations. And I found modelica, which seems to be a good candidate, but I don't know anybody who has actually used it.

Are there any best practices? Any advice?

Thanks, Thorsten
There's been talk of dumping iron particles into the ocean to to spur phytoplankton growth [0].

[0]: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/iron-dumping-ocea...
Show HN: Inpainting with Stable Diffusion
Hey HN. Long-time lurker, first-time poster.

Inpainter is an open-source web app that lets you do inpainting with Stable Diffusion. You can bring your own source image, erase parts of it, and then the model fill in the blanks. Or you can start with just a text prompt and let the model create the first image.

Under the hood, Inpainter is a Next.js app that uses Replicate's REST API to run the Stable Diffusion model. It's open-source and intended to be a helpful reference for learning how to use the Replicate API from a Node.js app. Contributions welcome. :]

https://github.com/zeke/inpainter

Happy inpainting!
Show HN: Step CI – API Testing and Monitoring Made Simple
Hi, this is Mish and Sebastian. We’re building Step CI (https://stepci.com), a Continuous Integration platform, that lets you test, monitor and secure your APIs.

Currently, testing APIs requires you to get familiar with different tooling, depending on programming language. It also adds infrastructural and operational overhead, if you want to run automated (continuous) tests. Monitoring your APIs over time is often a forgotten aspect, that could lead to service disruptions and business losses. Likely, you also depend on third-party APIs, which could introduce unforeseen risks and increase troubleshooting efforts in case of failure. Additionally, you need to make sure, that your APIs are secured against incoming threats.

Me and Sebastian started working on Step CI after meeting on YC’s Startup School Co-Founder matching platform. Previously, I have worked as a Software Developer and Sebastian worked as a Financial Specialist and Business Consultant. At Step CI, I’m responsible for the tech, while Sebastian takes care of business operations.

With Step CI, we offer a simple declarative way to write tests, that are programming-language agnostic and work for different API paradigms (REST, GraphQL, XML). Our infrastructure lets you run tests without operational overhead. On top of that, we monitor popular third-party APIs and let you know when these fail. We are also looking forward to integrate your favourite tooling, such as Git, Slack and Pagerduty with Step CI.

Compared to other tools we embrace the idea of multi-step testing process rather than writing more tests (this is where the name comes from!). We want to make a tool, that other developers love to use. We’re also actively considering open-source as a way to spread our work.

Today, we would like to invite you to try the demo and tell us what you think. You can also subscribe to our newsletter or reach out on Matrix (#stepci:matrix.org) or via e-mail (hello@stepci.com) any time of the day.
AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D-Win11 vs. Ubuntu 22.04 – About 10% difference in performance
Counterpoint: I am heartened to see this post. Weaker writing skills are the norm, even if they don't (always) bubble to the top of sites like HN.

The shortening of our collective attention span hurts our ability to reach and be reached in many ways, writing included.

It would be easy to cry "hypocrite" on seeing someone whose writing needs work (and significant editing) calling for longer-form content and more focus on the written word, but I feel a bit more hopeful instead.
Hooray! Yet another framework which will do what Angular already does for years.
Power conversion breakthrough could increase plant efficiency
East Asian society somehow went almost uncontrollable with cults.
Yellow turban, Taiping, Aum Shinrikyo and now this.
a11y looking like ally makes it the only one I don't roll my eyes at... but that only seems clever/memorable because of all of the preceeding awful uses of that abbreviation form.
> Migrating from svelte to react, is months if not many man-years.

I’m not sure what your argument is here, but I’m pretty sure you have it backwards.

The fact that it might take a while to migrate a svelte project to react is not because of poor documentation or tooling or communication or anything like that. It’s because so many things work out of the box in svelte, and to do the same things in react would take tons of boilerplate or third party libraries. Some things may not even be possible to port, at least not easily.

This doesn’t show that svelte is bad though. It shows that react lacks functionality and is more difficult to use.
It is also important to note that they are specifically using features distant from one another (they are manipulating the latent and not using textual prompts to reproduce the face). It really does feel engineered to be creepy. Looking at the images closely it really does seem like a big reason for the creepiness is that there is a combined masculine and feminine features. That both are strong and since our brains are good at detecting human faces we instantly realize that something is off. Then there are the shadows on the face. The lighting is all wonky. Shadows are cast at weird angles. Either dark on the eyes compared to what should be seen or the opposite. Same goes for the mouth and chin area. Stable Diffusion and Midjourney aren't very good at human faces (specifically eyes, mouth, and skin textures), so that's going to add an extra creepy factor, especially combined with the negative weighting.

But you are spot on in noting that Vice is engaging in clickbait and misinformation. The tweets are purposefully being creepy because that is the art style of cryptids. But as your second link clearly shows, people aren't going to randomly find images like this (and let's be real, I wouldn't recognize this as the same person unless you told me they were). Stop engaging in melodrama Vice. You can't do that if you're claiming to report news.
Bendable? No thanks.

Where is the kindle style monitor (no backlight)?

Staring at an LED panel all day for decades isn’t great. I’d love to see improvements to non-backlit monitor tech but it seems the demand for that is low, and somehow lower than the demand for a bendable monitor.
See https://developer.apple.com/bug-reporting/ for full directions.

Use the URL applefeedback:// to open the Apple Feedback application.
The program made mobility accessible to many more people as well, so it's not like you can divide the cost by co2 savings
This is an issue with more than just the tech industry. It’s an issue with modern society itself.

Take the GDP, the number that when it’s first derivative goes negative, we shout “recession” and use it as an excuse for all manner of harmful (and sometimes beneficial) behaviors. What is GDP? It’s not a measure of wealth; it’s a measure of production.

Take the boots paradox, for example. A society making $50 boots that need replacing after a few months, will have a higher GDP than a society making $100 boots that last for years. And the shitty boots society, despite spending more on boots - to paraphrase Terry Pratchett - will still have soggy feat.

It’s a hard problem, and I can’t see any obvious way to solve it. Both in social networks, and in economics. For whatever reason, consumption seems to be much easier to measure than wealth.
So creating a pointer to a type with a fixed length and a sentinel and creating a new one will automatically allocate enough for the length + the sentinel? That's nice.

I'm still not sure I like the .len 'misreporting' since it would be harder to
manually optimize around, e.g. packing a struct with a 8 byte + sentinel array would take 16 bytes that I might not notice if I am going by `.len`. This is all speculation, though. I need to actually play around with Zig.
Eh, this thread is for people who are banned not who just had bad experiences ;)

My story: used AirBnb perhaps three or four times. Always got good reviews from hosts. Months pass without me using it at all. They're emailing me from their marketing lists, no signs of any issues, so I know I was active in their system despite not using it. A few months later I go to log in, discover I'm banned.

So I write to their support. Why am I banned? It can't be for bad behavior because I'm literally not interacting with their service at all. "We can't tell you that for policy reasons". That's the end of it. Cause of ban: literally nothing.

Presumably it was something like an IP address I used was also used by someone who got banned, or some script that ran amok. My GF got banned because she rather foolishly let a friend use her account and then that friend hosted a party in an apartment, but that's her, not me. Can't think of anything else that could have caused it beyond being clustered. The weird thing is, whilst that kind of screwup is understandable for something like a free webmail account where the users are all anonymous, AirBnb requires identity documents!
I don't know why do you push this foreign view on their country (i kind of know, i'm just trying to be playful, hopefully you got the reference), maybe you have a specific agenda, i won't comment on it

However i'll remind you that for the majority of Japanese, Abe is a 'traitor' (their word) [1]

[1] - https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/abe-ignores-cont...
iPhone marketshare is pretty high in the US, and a couple other countries, but it's not that far above 50% in those places, still.

If some people with iPhones won't talk to the half of the population without iPhones, why am I supposed to care what they think?

It's like in elementary school when people weren't willing to have conversations across gender lines.
If we have a mild winter, rolling blackouts won't be necessary.

I know the government reached some industrials which were usually left off energy offset plans (basically processing factories), so this might be serious, but honestly, people heating with electricity should be fine.
Only US specific I think. In the EU, everyone uses WhatsApp, Facebook messenger or some other App depending on the country.
France has lot more electricity demand in winter than in summer (due to electric heating and not a lot of AC). They traditionally stop their plants in summer to maintain and refuel them.

So it is easy to look in the middle of summer and say "Look, half of France's reactors are offline! It is obviously not working out! They should have been green like us and use lignite and Russian gas!!!"

France also messed up when they decided to postpone some maintenance due to COVID (not sure how that was a valid reason) and they have a lot to do this time, so it is taking longer than usual.
This essay is really hitting home for me (sorry for leaving a few comments in the thread, they are hopefully each contributing), and I think has some resonance with this essay I also just saw today:

> I’m a psychologist – and I believe we’ve been told devastating lies about mental health /
by Sanah Ahsan

> To return to the plant analogy – we must look at our conditions. The water might be a universal basic income, the sun safe, affordable housing and easy access to nature and creativity. Food could be loving relationships, community or social support services. The most effective therapy would be transforming the oppressive aspects of society causing our pain. We all need to take whatever support is available to help us survive another day. Life is hard. But if we could transform the soil, access sunlight, nurture our interconnected roots and have room for our leaves to unfurl, wouldn’t life be a little more livable?

— https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/06/psycho...

Compare to from OP:

> I think lots of people are stuck in that first relationship, stuck next to their tiny little pond, skeptical that anything greater exists. But it takes a lot of work to be satisfied with their relationship and their pond, because they don’t get enough love to fill their hearts or enough fish to fill their bellies. So they end up reading articles about how to love things they don’t love that much and how to feel full without eating enough.

> …When they get home at the end of the day and they’re so tired that all they can do is sit motionless and watch TV, they blame themselves, as if it’s their fault that they feel exhausted after racing to meet a deadline so they can avoid being publicly shamed. And that breaks my heart.
> Android doesn't have this problem when messaging any other platform, because all other platforms use RCS

I broadly agree with you about this being an interoperability issue, but what other platforms besides Android use RCS?
Do you want me to go alphabetically?

Albania, Andorra, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Austria, Bahamas, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Bhutan.

There's 10 countries, I'm not even out of the B's yet, and this is still skipping any country for which I think anyone might try to argue for the military's main focus to be to "loot and plunder other countries," not whether I agree with that assertion. Hell, I excluded armies whose main focus could arguably be to loot and plunder its own country rather than other countries (hi, Algeria).

And note that there a more countries on my list in this alphabet range than not on the list. Truly, there are more exceptions than examples to your proposed rule in the modern era, a very far cry from "there isn't one" indeed.
> Retraction: This post should be disregarded for now as in an attempt to reduce the problem I made a mistake and in fact, reduced it to something that is in fact (trivially) solvable. I will follow up with an replacement post that hopefully is more accurate.
Exactly. You can build machines to tally them up and sort etc. but in the end if all else fails you can physically do or verify the election.
Plenty of religions were happy to add Jesus to their pantheon too.
Central Banking 101[0] is a great primer on this as well

[0]: https://www.amazon.com/Central-Banking-101-Joseph-Wang/dp/09...
If this inspire more affordable products like this[0] that would let me store the TV away easily, I'd be very interested.

0 - https://www.lg.com/global/lg-signature/rollable-oled-tv-r
Yeah I've found a few great authors over the last two years due to reddit that I would have never read on my own. Pretty much because they are small or independent and their cover art is bad/not impressive. Crazy how much those things impact buying habits.

The two that come to mind at Blindsight by Peter Watts and Wherever Seeds May Fall/any of the other, 20!!!, First Contact books by Peter Crawdron.
If I understand it correctly, it’s more like a big association model. So the word “pig” has a lot of images of the word “pig”, or images that had been tagged with those. They also have weighted associations with other things that have to with pigs.

IF I understand it correctly :)
Most Chromium-based browsers package Google lighthouse as part of their DevTools however, we will focus more on the Chrome DevTools in this article. Using it with other browsers should be similar, with slight variations.
It is summer ...
You can't outcompete the government?? Hello, Federal Express, UPS, and the Internet.

USPS First Class mail volume is down substantially, because no one writes letters anymore.

You're right that you can't drive them out of business, and they get a texpayer subsidy. I sold over 100 vinyl records via Discogs, and I used USPS because they have Media Mail, which is much cheaper than the private services.
It's a cult. I think it would be more akin to a large portion of American lawmakers being ties with Scientology.