skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is "whatever" a similar word in any way?

"“Person 1: I was at the whatever down the street when that bad whatever from up the block walked in. But she didn’t say anything.

Person 2: oh that’s a bad whatever”

?
Trying to build a computer algebra system. Basically like a small version of Wolfram Alpha, but customized and accessible by my own code so I can use it for whatever I want in the way I like to. It's starting to get cool enough to be usable for a bunch of things, but I'm still trying to figure out what I really want to use it for

It's challenging and interesting work, and I'd recommend building your own as a way to gain deeper understanding of math.
The north side was completely white when the redlining maps were made. That was late 1930's, the black population of Chicago even by 1940 was only 8%, almost exclusively on the south side east of State Street. The west side was also almost exclusively white then too, there were a couple of black neighborhoods (not West Garfield Park at that time).

In the 1930's there weren't many Puerto Ricans in Chicago, the ones that were there lived on the south side. They didn't start coming in numbers until the late 1940's, they moved into Lincoln Park in the 1960's.

So, Wicker Park was white when it was redlined, Lincoln Park was white when it was redlined, West Garfield Park was white when it was redlined.
have you tried restoring your adb backup?
Most apps set the backup=false flag in thr android manifest and adb will sput out an empty backup. This is what grandparents meant.
> Virtual Friend: become a friend to a random person online. Chat with them, play games, etc. will be more and more common as the loneliness epidemic grows exponentially over the next few decades.

How about "Virtual Non-Romantic Matchmaker". Pair up lonely people with similar interests who just want to be friends and play games, etc.

Wonder how much of this could be solved by removing the automation around matchmaking in online games. I used to find a server with a good ping and mods / rules that I liked and then I'd usually see the same people day after day, eventually people would start saying "hi" to me or laughing at my gameplay even though I made minimal effort to connect with them.
I jumped ship to an ipod and ripping my CDs - big box electronics shops dump albums for 5 euros each, decent stuff to be found.

Would recommend tbh.
Around 100k/day with lots of requests concentrated around the start. Still mostly rpm rather than rps.
I'm going to hijack this thread and mention the modern spiritual cousin of terminal games (but not really a terminal command line game at all) "Caves of Qud"

https://store.steampowered.com/app/333640/Caves_of_Qud

It's like Nethack, only weirder. In a good way. Don't let the Early Access label fool you. It's been around for seven years already and is highly polished, and getting weirder all the time. In a good way.
I took a bus many years ago from Rochester, NY to Toronto, ON. As ID for crossing the border, I only had my driver's license, not my passport, as this was allowed at the time. But the border agent was a bit grumpy about it for some reason. He asked if I had a birth certificate, and I thought I'd be cute about it and responded, "Sure, of course I've got one... but not with me! :D" He stared at me dead faced and just said, "Go over there and wait in line J". Line J felt kind of like "The group W bench" from the song Alice's Restaurant. I waited in that line for about 45 minutes for the new border agent to give me a tired look and then wave me through. The rest of the passengers on the bus waiting for me were not amused.
You haven't thought about peer pressure enough. It's got depths.

"You must do this thing" evolves into "you must support this thing" and then into "absence of support is equivalent to nonsupport (antisupport... whatever)".

And in social media this evolution is fast.
In the video, they say they informed nVidia of this in April of 2022, so probably nothing.
That’s very kind of you to say. Do I get to put this on my resume?
If someone's family/connections had the wherewithal and resources to get picked up by the ACLU and go to the federal court once in a decade I wonder how often it actually happens. I was subjected to some abuse by CBP, and found out there were a steady stream of people getting the same treatment ('internal' examination of their body without their consent by a nearby hospital, often without a warrant). The last federal lawsuit is practically a decade old, but I can assure you based on the bragging by CBP officers themselves the shit was happening daily. So a decade old court case doesn't mean it isn't happening more frequently.
Sec 230 repeal? Or something adjacent to that strategy?

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/09/08/white-house-renews-...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
Let’s look at the text of the 14th amendment (The pertinent Section 1):

> All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

Clearly applies only to the states. Not sure how anyone could reasonably interpret this as affecting presidential eligibility.
I'm pretty sure procreation just refers to the process of reproduction, sexual and asexual inclusive.
OMG that's funny! Thanks for sharing.
The main thing to remember is that typically early stage options for an engineer will make you a bundle iff everyone else gets paid (often first).

When things go badly, or even just not well, it doesn't matter what your plan was or how transparent everything is - the founders/board may be staring down a choice between folding the company up or decimating the equity of everyone currently holding it. It's a pretty easy decision usually. The good ones will take it on the nose with everyone else, the others ... well they aren't taking the same hit.
It genuinely does happen. I can't find a summary of how often, but if you Google "lineman electrocuted back-fed generator" you can see a bunch of cases.

It's not enough power for everyone in the neighborhood to have power, but it's enough that the lines have thousands of volts in them when the utility company thinks they're dead. The amps are low, but enough to be lethal.
Hey! Huge shot in the dark, but I am working on an ML/NLP driven CMS for content creators. Have made great progress, just started on the CMS piece. Maybe we could collaborate?

Email is in profile.
The experiment ignores the fact that the heat and pressure applied to the winning M&M's weakens them for future battles.
When I bought my power supply several years ago, I went with the highest rated one from johnnyguru at the time which was an EVGA one. It is only one anecdote but at the time at least, the G3 EVGA power supply came highly recommended from johnnyguru with comprehensive tests completed.
Because of Article II section 1

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.

And the lack of an amendment explicitly changing that.
This recently happened to me earlier this year. I am a U.S. citizen, coming back to the states from South America. I have not broken any laws nor do I intend to.

I put up a fuss and almost missed my flight, but they took both my laptop and cellphone into a back room with about 5-8 other people on my flight. Made me unlock of course.

Here is the pamphlet they let me take… saved and documented. They take down hardware addresses and more, and would not allow lawyers on the scene or for me to witness their search. Here are all the pages of the pamphlet:

https://imgur.com/a/qNovC83

As a tech worker and privacy advocate for all I was rightfully not thrilled. I still need to buy new hardware, I had no idea this was the case as far as data storage and 15 years but figured they probably upload malware and all that fun stuff. Neat. I have been a citizen my whole life.

Reading through the comments now, I am glad I learned a little. If they pull the stunt again I will happily deny and wait however long and just rebook a flight and maybe hire a lawyer. It’s a gross abuse of power.
I would contend that marriage is neither a privilege, nor a right. Government recognition of your marriage is a privilege. In theory you can jump the fence with anybody and say we are married. With contractual law what it is today, you don’t need government recognition for your marriage to be valid.
Of course the shop-keeps will attmpt to protect their stores. That is completely beside the point.

The point is that without a democratic government that is at least attempting to self-govern, the alternative is either a new autocracy comes in (see Russia, CCP, Venezuela, Myanmar, etc.), or it starts with anarchy, and quickly falls to the first crimelord/warlord.

Every one of those options is far worse than a flawed democracy.

Unless, of course, you can point me to the magical stable stateless advanced society where I can go live... (srsly, it'd be great)

And no, believing government acts on your behalf does not "wreaks of 'very high privilege.'". Aside from the fact that the word you want is "reeks" (as in smells bad, not inflicting punishment of vengeance), thinking that an attempt at democratic govt is less bad than being ruled by a crimelord, warlord, or fascist autocrat is not high privilege, it is simply a fact. Being able to live in such a democratic govt is, sadly, a bit of a privilege, as many are not so fortunate.
Agreed... by nature a "command line game" would have to be turn oriented, I think. I was curious what kind of games where going to be linked here. It seems is mostly games that run on "text mode" on a terminal, as opposed to turn based games using the command line as UI.

Counter example: command line tetris! [0]. Although... still gives the player the advantage of "freezing time" on every move :-).

0: https://github.com/mattbierner/Super-Template-Tetris
Do know that if and when they do, they'll question your StarVPN IP. Time to pay someone you know to keep a second glinet router in their home in the state you're supposed to be in.
They didn’t check the license and registration of the vehicle?
I am working on climate repair, specifically the removal of methane from the atmosphere. Although the excess methane is only about 1.3 ppm, it's responsible for about a third of the temperature rise.

We're not building a huge machine to try to suck the atmosphere through a straw; we're doing chemistry in the open atmosphere. Plan to have a pilot running within the next year and within five years be removing up to 100 Mt per year.
Sure, will do, though it might take some time to finish writing the blog post, you can get a preview of our previous setup with 4x GPUs here: https://twitter.com/ftufek/status/1569367127878139905. For those that are curious, that's running a Threadripper 3970x.

It's not exactly a "clean" one, like a proper 2u/4u chassis and server grade GPUs but it does the job for 70-90% cheaper.
GraphQL kind of has the reputation of not supporting super deep expressive queries. It is meant as a frontend query language after all.

If i saw a graph db with that as its primary language i would probably assume that its targeting a very different segment of the market than most graph dbs, and doesnt support deep recursive queries, and probably move on without a second look. I wonder if this sort of attitude hurt dgraph.
Hacker news does not display the reply button for a bit after someone replies to you as a means of trying to blunt quick back-and-forth discussion.

My sibling commentor has the workaround.
Sure, a Hollywood-style car chase is incredibly dangerous, and I never understood why they were tolerated as much as they were. (I mean, other than the obvious explanation that our culture of policing taught that effective policing required an indiscriminate and overwhelming show force and authority.) But some municipalities draw different lines such that once a suspect gets into a car, that's often the end of any pursuit, whether the suspect was even aware of being pursued.

People complain about, e.g., "chilling effects" on legitimate free speech rights stemming from policies designed to restrain unprotected speech. Well, all manner of policies can have "chilling effects", sweeping more broadly in practice than they were intended. Such effects are modulated by various norms. In San Francisco a growing chorus of people (across the political and social spectrum) are complaining about cops failing in an unprecedented manner to investigate, detain, arrest, or otherwise enforce laws as dictated by formal policies (i.e. excluding cases where city policy clearly required abstention), and to the extent it's true (some of it is demonstrably true), part of that is because the political culture in SF causes police to be excessively risk-averse regarding modern reform policies. If you follow seemingly inconspicuously, or your pursuit nominally meets policy but things go sideways, that's your job on the line, and cops enjoy much less deference administratively than in other cities--certainly the DA, but even the Mayor and Police Chief in SF are less tolerant of cops who create controversy, whether or not negligent.) The situation in Chicago might be similar to some extent, especially as of the past couple years.

The new equilibrium might still be preferable, or if not there may be ways to reach a better equilibrium without revisiting sins of the past, but this sub-thread began from you saying that you didn't believe a poster who claimed a police officer deliberately abstained from pursuing a suspect getting away by car. You apparently believed such events are so rare as to be fictitious. But they absolutely do occur, with increasing frequency, and in no small degree driven by changes in formal policy. Maybe the poster is being misleading, but on its face nothing about it seems implausible; quite the contrary.
>Also your statement that "Since a majority of states at the time had Republican representation, they would have elected Trump" is laughable.

Actually, it's not. The way this works (I really hope you're not an American, because if you are you really should know this) is that if the counting of electoral votes is sufficiently disputed (in this counterfactual case, the vote certificates were destroyed), deciding the outcome of the election rests with the US House of Representatives.

If that were (and it has, several times in US history), to happen the members of the House would vote (on a state by state basis, not each representative voting individually) on who was to be the President.

Since a majority (26 or 27 out of 50, IIRC) of states have Republican majorities in the number of House members, a House vote would likely have gone Trump's way[0].

This is something of a peccadillo of the US Presidential electoral system that probably should be reformed[1], but it currently is the law of the land.

[0] Which is why it was so important (at least for the Trumpists) for the proceedings to be disrupted. It was the final opportunity for them to overturn the clearly expressed will of the people.

[1] Because regardless of which party's state cohorts have a majority, that's a supremely undemocratic way to choose the winner and is a relic of the state of the states (as essentially separate nations banding together for defense) in the late 18th century.

Edit: Fixed typo.
"Thing" isn't used for people or places though.
I do hope it is a feint and they end up in AMD-land.

I would not be the least bit sad if I never put another dime in Nvidia's pocket. They're not the ugliest scumbags out there, but definitely in the bottom 20%.
Yeah, that's roughly where I was coming from in what I said re: bad-faith termination in my other comment.

Without chasing your link, I assume it's the one where anything backordered (i.e. paid for but not shipped, which would technically be the case here) must get status updates every 30 days and be fully cancellable. I couldn't remember if that applied to internet sales too, or just the old mail order sales laws it came from. If it is that law, I agree it'd be potentially a violation of that, hence thinking probably technically fraud to block that option by claiming fulfillment.
There's a similar word in southern Italy, "cazzafà" or "fattappost", which can mean basically anything you don't know or remember the exact word for.
With regards to editing an imported image, you’re looking for a bitmap editor like Photoshop. Figma is vector based and definitely made for digital experience designers who need to collaborate with large cross-functional teams.
> Not sure how anyone could reasonably interpret this as affecting presidential eligibility.

You could say the same thing about gay marriage. Obviously, the Supreme Court…disagrees.

The Civil Rights Act clarified the meaning of the 14th Amendment, and they now go together whenever the Supreme Court is deciding what the Constitution requires/allows.
I think whatever "linguists" did this "research" must be undergraduate internet searchers. For example in Russian the words "fignya/fignyushka" or the less polite "huynya/huynyushka" are used in a very similar way. They are a noun representing an abstract "thing" that the listener would understand from context.
> If you have to talk with somebody because there was a complaint about them, and you send the invite "Re: X project issues"

I see your point. But in that case, wouldn't it be "Re: HR issue" or somesuch?

> E-mails are typically archived and have to be produced in case of a litigation, or could be requested by HR.

True. I may be weird, but I count this as a plus. I want a paper trail for everything -- so if I have an important verbal exchange, I will always send an email to the person restating what I took away from it.

It's saved my ass countless times.
Earth's Magnetic Field Strength and the Cretaceous Normal Superchron: New Data
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I'm getting downvoted on my original comment, sigh HN.

> Perhaps you are right about power companies wanting to sell more power (although it seems like that is not the case for the marginal kWh given all that power companies do to incentive energy efficiency for their customers).

It is literally called a power company. They offer special rates for large customers. That alone creates a marketplace.

> But even so, at least that power would go to something useful (keeping buildings comfortable, purifying water, who knows what) rather than being burned in the crypto-pit.

Did you have a choice in where that power went to begin with? No.

"No one has the moral authority to tell you what is a good or bad use of energy (ex: watching the Kardashians)" -- https://twitter.com/danheld/status/1479135584685854729?lang=...
animals that operate in the dark tend to have bad vision

their counterparts that operate under the sun tend to have good vision

is there causal effect? or just correlation that light intensity matters?
Maybe Vanguard could create a US Politicians ETF.
It surprises me how much companies fail at the basics of online shopping.. FB market is a garbage fire. They’re more interested in selling ads than making a market place.

For new stuff Amazon is huge and cluttered yet still manages to run circles around almost every other online store for similar reasons to what you listed. The only exception I’ve found is BH Photo and Video. But all the others like Walmart/Jet, Home Depot, Newegg (now) etc all just “don’t get it”.

Craig’s list really nails the simplicity and usefulness of online used markets. It still amazes me.
Because you can discuss the movie afterwards. Also getting there and back.
Ask HN: Are mini breaks worth it?
Life is short and I’m 27. I spend many countless days and nights working and it’s very hard on my mental health. Society looks down on people who take breaks, which seems crazy.

Have any of you taken breaks, was it worth it? I have about $600k saved up and feel like it would be nice at some point to take 6 months off and study my own stuff
Lung function and radiological findings 1 year after Covid-19
Sounds like it was too small at the end of the day. 2 people accepted and 2 others are proceeding with class action suit. They failed in their goal of snuffing out the class action suit. Maybe $30k would have been enough. Though that might have attracted new litigants.

Clearly a lose lose for Philly, which is not surprising with such a shit show of a policy.
> And the lack of an amendment explicitly changing that.

The 14th Amendment (and the CRA) didn't explicitly change the definition of marriage, either.

You are hung up on technicalities that the Supreme Court has already rejected many, many times.
I'm sure NVIDIA is a serious pain in the ass to deal with (Linus_middle_finger.gif), but perhaps one of the unspoken reasons is that, as suggested by the rumor mill, there's a serious oversupply problem with next gen GPUs. NVIDIA and AMD placed orders with the foundries based on the ridiculous demand levels they were seeing in the last couple of years, but now demand has cooled off from both crypto (Ethereum merge) and gamers (waiting for new gen), so there's still plenty of current gen stock sitting around. Supposedly they tried to cancel some of the volume with the foundries, but were not allowed to. So maybe EVGA is seeing the writing on the wall and getting out ahead of the game. I'm sure putting up with all of NVIDIA's crap is barely worth it even when making a decent profit. But it's definitely not worth it to EVGA if their cards will just to end up languishing in the bargain bin along with everyone else's.
The article mentions a recent case where federal courts rejected your argument:

> In 2012, Peta Lindsay challenged the presidential age restriction by running as a presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party candidate, at the age of 27, within the state of California.

> In 2014, Federal appeals Judge Alex Kozinski and two other federal judges rejected arguments that Lindsay’s rights were violated under the First Amendment and the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and that the 12th Amendment’s language didn’t allow states to set age requirements.
It's gotta be crowdsourced. Like reddit/hn voting. But smarter.

Like voting weights the value of peer's votes and such.

I think it's the only way.

Otoh, the true Lord of the Flies might emerge that way. Maybe democracy is inherently flawed. I dunno. Experiments are called for.

How do we test social media designs?
Not if they form a co-op!
The article mentions two women who had each reported their cars stolen after the "courtesy" tow which makes one wonder -- _is_ this theft? If not, why? Does it matter if it's done by a private towing company?
How did you handle legal/tax on the European side? In modern western world, any business basically becomes a local business wherever the CEO/shareholder sit usually (to put it in very simple terms).

Other than that, I couldn't agree more. It is astonishing how much more business friendly about anything is in the US vs EU. Although, it's easily forgotten, that in the US you still often deal with certain local taxes/regulations that sometimes somewhat remind someone of the EU :)
I'm actually working on a product that identifies catalysts via AI and presents them (currently through text, possibly through API and imagery later). Drop me a line if you'd like to chat more about this space.