skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Definitely +1 on stainless steel pans.

Also, Carbon Steel > Cast Iron. It requires about the same maintenance as cast iron, but is much more familiar for those used to cooking on non-stick pans. It isn't yet ubiquitous in the home, but is a de-facto standard in restaurants, so you can get very good pans for incredibly cheap. I have a pan that's about 6 months in that's very well seasoned, and its surface feels just as non-stick as anything else I've used.
Korean Culture Went Global [audio]
What in particular did you find strange and unconventional?
What does that have to do with it? One military shooting down another military's aircraft is an act of war.
I think you're really misunderstanding how React works here.

There's no "thrashing" involved, in the sense of "make DOM update A, then need to make B that reads layout or does reflows right after".

- React does a render pass based on a state update, compares the element tree from this render vs the last render, and determines _all_ the necessary changes to make the DOM match the newly requested UI

- It then applies all those changes together, synchronously, in a generally efficient way (ie, modifying just specific attributes to existing DOM nodes if possible, vs recreating the DOM from scratch)

Which "performance issues" are you thinking of? Excess renders? DOM-specific reflows?
It's probably the same as a 4090 chip, but a higher quality bin such that it's more efficient than the ones binned for 4090s.
Biased opinion here (working for Google).

I love Linux and I would consider myself a power user (understanding HW arch, working with kernel sources).

Basic Chromebook apps (+ Play Store) are something that "just work" for 80% of time for my use-cases (which is, browser and ssh-ing into a power machine in ze cloud/DC). I also have rather good understanding of threat models here, and the quality of the sandboxes and HW roots-of-trust, hardening and software isolation on a typical Chromebook, so it gives me a relative piece of mind for specific use-cases (personal/family files etc.). Supporting an extended family, if they can get used to Chromebooks (it covers 99% of their needs, esp. that Android apps can be installed here) is a bliss.

Customizing Linux is mental fun, but on a road you probably something that just works, and typical Linux is rough at edges - GFX support, hibernation, esp. if you don't want to stick to some LTS distro, b/c you always need this newer package for dev purposes or tinkering.

The remaining 15% is covered by a VM, which seems really nicely integrated (X11 proxy etc). The remaining remaining 5% cannot be covered - custom kernels, custom USB drivers, occasional need to use Windows, but that's fine, I can do that on a desktop or on some random, cheap, low-power laptop.

In essence, it's just a thin client on steroids, which almost always works in its basic form. But if you want something more interesting, there's always a VM with some Linux distro, or Android apps via the Play Store. But these are optional and don't affect stability of the core system, if you don't use them.
Will it be possible to buy and use these new audio components to improve a standard FrameWork?

In the Markeplace I can see the new speakers but not the new audio board (or is the codec actually on the motherboard?).
Yeah exactly. $999 isn't exactly Chromebook territory.
The page addresses how this is different than filtering books for appropriateness:

> It is important to recognize that books available in schools, whether in a school or classroom library, or as part of a curriculum, were selected by librarians and educators as part of the educational offerings to students. Book bans occur when those choices are overridden by school boards, administrators, teachers, or even politicians, on the basis of a particular book’s content.
+1. I have a ridiculous number of Gmail accounts (like 20+), and regularly monitor 5 of them, and none are seeing regular spam.

I will say I’ve gotten what I consider spam from Experian where they claim to be MSAs (mandatory service announcements) on my account, but they’re clearly marketing, and I’ve just set up a rule to delete those. Done.

I also have gotten on political lists where unsubscribing doesn’t seem effective, so set up another rule to block those. Done.

Other than these 2 edge cases (that don’t seem to be blatant spam, just dark patterns), my inboxes are clean of spam.

I also have family (wife and two older sons) on Gmail, and haven’t heard them complain about spam.

One potential hint though: all of my Gmail comes through personal domains. So maybe these spam attempts are targeting gmail.com domain? I do have a gmail.com email, though, that gets forwarded to my personal domain one, and I still haven’t noticed any spam, FWIW.
Isn't correlation also what you would expect in an honest scenario as well? If there's demand for acquiring tether to trade Bitcoin, and it has to be printed, so it is, and then it's used for Bitcoin trading, I don't understand where the fishy-ness is. At least not from that one timing perspective.
Isn't this a massive case of survivorship bias?
This, so very much this. I flat out refuse to do business with any company or organization who hides who is profiting from the money I spend.
Haven't tried guix yet, and haven't used nix in years, but if what you struggled with is the language, guix might be less strange and more conventional since it uses Scheme as the language. It uses strict evaluation like most languages and there's probably more documentation about it.
I had an idea recently to try out Fedora silverblue with Guix on top.

Silverblue gives you an immutable root filesystem, which is great for building a reliable and reproducible system, but it makes installing software more complicated. Containers are the main solution, and stuff like flatpaks and toolbox. That (mostly) works, but it’s a bit heavy handed and not without annoyances.

But with guix, your packages live in the guix store, and don’t touch your os packages. So that seems like a good way to manage software on top of an immutable OS.

Unfortunately when I went to try it out, I learned that the only way to change the default location of the guix store (since /gnu/store won’t work in silverblue, and Guix isn’t available as a package for fedora) is to build it from source... and then I ran into some build issues when trying to do that and gave up.

...So maybe someone less lazy than I will pull it off and report back whether it’s actually a good idea or not!
That's not a rebuttal dummy.

Do you want the legitimacy debate confers your position? Then debate.

None of my points are any one else's talking points. That's a sign of a non-dogmatic thinker, dummy.
Congrats on the launch, guys! A much needed product!
Mechanical Principles Combined in a Useless Lego Machine [video]
> compromised GMail accounts

If it is coming from compromised Gmail accounts, I wonder if these same accounts are also being used to post the handful of deep-fake Elon Musk crypto YouTube Shorts that inundate the Shorts feeds.

There's hundreds, maybe thousands of these videos being posted making Shorts practically unusable. And no amount of reporting or downvoting seems to affect their algorithm.
Check out the accents in this video: https://youtu.be/Xv8Rb-E_Gw4?t=1516
I tried replacing Google with TikTok, and it worked better than I thought
I think the main difference is that Guix will only support open software officially, whereas Nix will also happily allow proprietary stuff, like nVidia drivers.

See e.g.:

https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

> Guix channel for packages that can't be included upstream. Please do NOT promote or refer to this repository on any official Guix communication channels.
> Says who? Cuz this awfully seems like western propaganda talking points, where it's always "we best, they worst"

Its obvious, if you think the Ukrainian military really represents the might of NATO you are kidding yourself.

> It is an established fact that Ukraine's army was trained under NATO's instructors and since weapons are not clothing, being second hand doesn't really make it less effective.

Yes but Ukraine does not have the numbers, nor the latest weaponry at all. Ukraine is pushing back Russia with a hand full of HIMARS and old Russian and Soviet aircraft that have been jerry rigged with HARM missiles and Russia and Soviet tanks, when Ukraine gets F16's and Ambrams tanks the difference will be even starker.

> (Un)fortunately there isn't really a benchmark against which one can compare Russia's successes or failures, all recent modern conflicts boiled down to hit and run tactics of safely bombing the complete shit out of some far away backwards country, assuming control of the flaming ruins, and then just dropping it for it to deal with the consequences by itself with no fear of repercussions, as it's just too far away.

The 2003 invasion of Iraq is comparable, it latest 26 days and was conducted thousands of kilometres away from the participants.

Russia cannot take a city that is less than 300km from their border in 6 months.

Thats the comparison.
It is almost never used. People draw occasional diagrams, but that's it.
Solid take. It always blows my mind when people in the west try to paint russian military as some sort of "spetznas spec ops elite soldiers from call of duty" tier, all while growing up there I was given a very different story.

A month or so before the war even started, as I was talking to my dad (who used to be a low-level officer back in his days and, unfortunately, currently lives in Russia), he quickly pointed out that Russia is about to embarass themselves big time, as the military is extremely corrupt there. All those tanks that have been presented to higher ups as maintained and functional for decades? As the tradition goes, some local military higher ups just pocketed the money and were relaying the "everything is well and maintained" to higher higher-ups from the outside. That's not just tanks, that's quite literally every single piece of equipment, as long as there was a way to pocket the money by not maintaining the equipment.

My dad had stories from his own military days, where his platoon had been given orders to "dress up the vehicles" to make it look like they are all good and operational when higher ups from outside of the region were visiting. In reality, they all were rusted up and wouldn't survive a 50 mile drive. I kept hearing those stories since I was a child, and the current performance of Russian military in Ukraine certainly affirms them.
I would love to support creators on other platforms where it's monetization first. My issue is I primarily consume this content on my living room TV through an AppleTV 4K, so I rely on apps being available for that to access that content. I think Nebula is available. Floatplane does not have an app (though I think there's a third party app to access Floatplane content, but not sure if I can trust it).

The other alternative platforms have the same problem. A few youtubers I subscribe to encourage joining them on their other platforms, such as Odysee. Again, not available on my TV.
OpenAI open-sources Whisper, a multilingual speech recognition system
> False. The US electricity consumption per person has fallen in the last decade.

I don't have stats for the US, but for the world, the trend is growth until 2016:

https://imgur.com/a/WkaF60w

> It’s easy to assume people want to use endless amounts of energy, but consider once your AC gets things to a comfortable temperature lowering below that isn’t a benefit.

We invent new ways to consume power every day: video games, bitcoin, air sanitizer, food delivery...

> Hauling mangos long distances isn’t an inherent advantage from the trip, it simply allows them to be grown in a more efficient location

That's a good example: before, you just didn't eat mango if it didn't grow next to you, unless you had a lot of money.

> It’s easy to see a trend like people buying larger homes and assume it can continue forever, but if you look at billionaires you find they eventually find ever larger homes impractical

I consume more than my father, and he consumes more than my grandfather. The later didn't have a fridge when young, me, I can use a plane several times a year.

There is a huge margin between me and a billionnaire, and everybody wants to live like one.
How do we know they processed withdrawals to plain USD and how much? Is there any tracker on that? Thanks!
Recently outdated joke.
> How do we know when it becomes ok to question fact or scientific consensus or not?

I mean, the straightforward answer to this is "when there is a high degree of confidence that the claims are harmful, incorrect, politically motivated, and reported in the media rather than scientific publication". At some point we have to draw an epistemological line and say we're sure about this, and we're sure what you're saying would cause suffering. The fact that humanity has been wrong in the past doesn't mean we should stop trying to prevent harm.

> Is there not room to disagree with many proposed climate change solutions without being labeled as anti-scientific?

There is, but that's not all that this website is doing. A very quick search brings up two articles where it publicises very fringe claims by people who are not climate scientists:

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/09/14/climate-emergency-not-su...

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/24/climate-scientist-says-h...

The second of these is particularly bizarre. The title actually says "climate scientist" and in the slightly more measured footnote calls him an "atmospheric scientist". It neglects to point out that he is a retired researcher in laser engineering who has apparently conducted his own investigations - neither published nor peer reviewed as far as I can tell - http://hharde.de/#xl_xr_page_index . This is very typical of presenting a false balance in order to push an agenda.
> OSI (Open Source Initiative)

Right. OSI is steered by business interests, and has distorted the public view of what open source actually is. So currently anything that is not "business friendly", is not open source. I reject that notion out of hand.
> If you write code that doesn't need to be touched over a 28 year period, chances are that code has produced more value (ROI) than 99% of the code that is written every day will ever do. Even 10 years is pretty good.

Just because it's been in use for a long time doesn't mean it's any good. It only means it's good enough that they can keep enough clients to stay in business. And when it comes to logistics, a lot of times the quality of the tech integration is way down the list in terms of decision factors, like price or the ability to handle some special needs you might have.

We have plenty of problems with this system, some of which require our ops people to get on the phone and for instance find out why the number of orders they see in weekly reports don't perfectly match the reporting we have through the EDI.

> Sending XML, CSV or JSON files over sftp is a simple and relatively robust for exchanging data, especially when a latency of minutes to hours is acceptable and the data volumes are non-trivial.

It's fine as a data transfer protocol, but it's terrible as a real-time communication interface. Yes you can use sftp to exchange messages, but if we want to send an order out and give the customer confirmation as soon as possible that it's been confirmed, REST is the right tool for that job and sftp is a square peg that's been trimmed down to fit inside a round hole.

Using REST to solve a problem like this is not about being "fashionable", it's simply about using the right tool for the job. We're not talking about GraphQL and protocol buffers, REST is an old and extremely well-tested approach to web services, and has won because it's so well fit to the problem it solves.

And there's a huge benefit to standardizing web service interfaces. It means that any 3rd party you work with already knows how to talk to your system, and can just focus on which data has to be passed back and fourth. You don't have to teach your clients how to communicate with you via some arcane in-house protocol which has weird corners you only find out about once you start to work with it, like the system breaks if the documents come in the wrong order or something.

By not offering the modern standard, these kinds of businesses make it slower and more expensive for clients to work with them. If I am trying to get a product to market, give me a REST API and I can have warehouse integrated in a week or two. With some proprietary protocol who knows how long it is going to take.

This system is also solvable without a rewrite. If your system is so complicated and arcane that it's impossible to re-write it, just wrap it in a REST service. Your REST service can talk to sftp or whatever crazy system you want to come up with. But there is zero benefit to deviating from the standard from the client's perspective.
There are two separate open US legal questions:

1) Does the use of copyrighted images in the OpenAI training model make the output a copyright infringement? This is not yet settled law. If I read a thousand books and write my own book, it's not an infringement, but if I copy and paste one page from each of a thousand books it would be.

2) Can an OpenAI generated image be copyrighted? Courts have ruled that an AI cannot hold a copyright itself, but whether or not the output can be copyrighted by the AI's "operator" depends a lot on how the AI is perceived as a tool vs. as a creator. Nobody would argue that Picasso can't hold a copyright because he used a brush as a tool, but courts have ruled that a photographer couldn't hold the rights to a photo that a monkey took with his equipment. The ruling here will probably stem from whether the AI is ruled to be a creator itself, which the human just pushes a button on, vs. a tool like a brush, which needs a lot of skill and creativity to operate.
I have 9 people with same problem. Just in case I used revo unintaller and removed malwarebyes with the advanced options. rebooted and have access till they figure out what they did.
Ask HN: Why are calculator apps better than spotlight/Python?
Even someone who knows nothing about programming can do arithmetic in spotlight.
I like Rust the language, and i have found most people in the community to be smart and reasonable. But i also find "Rustaceans" to be rather cringe. I don't think it's specific to Rust; i think this need to form a visible community identity, a brand really, is very common in Silicon Valley culture. Hence why most startups there have cutesy names for employees, people go round sticking logos of software they use on their laptops, etc.

The crab is cool though. As language mascots go, it's a lot more adorable than the Gopher or that LISP alien thing, and almost as adorable as Bjarne Stroustrup.
Looking forward to see if this works well with foreign accents
What's with these accounts created just now for this post?
Are there any published benchmarks available outlining how this compares to other open source ASR software, such as Coqui.ai?
Sriracha Shortage Is Taking Some Spice Out of Life
Someone has seen a basilisk...
You need people to work in giga factories.
LiteFS/Litestream author here. You bring up a lot of great points that I'll try to address.

> What I'd like to have seen is how this compares to things like rqlite or Cloudflare's D1 addressed directly in the article

I think a post comparing the different options is a great idea. I'll try to summarize a bit here though. LiteFS aims to be an analogue to Postgres replication but with built-in failover. Postgres uses log shipping to copy database state from a primary to its replicas, as does LiteFS. LiteReplica is probably the closest thing to LiteFS although it uses a dual GPL/commercial license model. LiteFS uses Apache 2.

There are Raft-based tools like rqlite or dqlite. These have higher consistency guarantees, however, they tend to be more complex to set up -- especially in an ephemeral environment like Kubernetes. LiteFS has a more relaxed membership model for this reason. As for Cloudflare's D1, they haven't released many details and I assume it's closed source. It also requires using a custom JavaScript client instead of using a native SQLite client.

There are also several eventually consistent stores built on SQLite such as Mycelial[1]. These work great for applications with loose consistency needs. LiteFS still maintains serializable isolation within a transaction, although, it has looser guarantees across nodes than something like rqlite.

> Most workloads are already have database of some kind setup, typically not SQLite as their main database (MySQL or PostgreSQL seem most common)

Yes, that's absolutely true. I don't expect anyone to port their application from Postgres/MySQL to SQLite so they can use LiteFS. Databases and database tools have a long road to becoming mainstream and it follows the traditional adoption curve. I wrote a Go database library called BoltDB about 10 years ago and it had the same adoption concerns early on. Typically, folks try it out with toy applications and play around with it. Once they get more comfortable, then they create new applications on top of it. As more people use it, then late adopters get more comfortable and it further builds trust.

We're committed to LiteFS for the long term so we'll be making updates, fixing bugs, and we'll keep trying to build trust with the community.

[1]: https://mycelial.com/
What's actually amazing to witness is an A-list Hollywood director making a documentary on the CIA financing of neo-nazi groups inside Ukraine and their involvement in the killing of Donbass civillians in the civil war now raging for over 8 years and being censored so effectively, few US citizen seem to know about it.

Another fact I find amazing is the maidan revolution being televised for weeks across the globe on all major news channels, with prominent EU leaders traveling to Kyiv and holding speeches to the crowds. One of those was Angela Merkel and hundreds of millions must have seen it. Today this fact is considered Russian propaganda and apparently never happened. Anyone watched the news 6 years ago and isn't afraid of being downvoted on an internet forum? Remember Merkel's "Right to be forgotten" act? Guess what she used it on.

I came to this forum expecting a higher level of conversation than the horror I've witnessed on reddit. Instead I see outrage over "Russia support everywhere" in a thread where literally 1 heavily downvoted comment was not making fun of Russians(at the time of writing of course). I question the sincerity of people behind such comments. We all know psyops exist, but apparently never in our neighborhoods. Another theory is it's just trolling, which is basically a modern version of wife-beating. "Husband comes home from work frustrated where he was taking insults all day from an abusive boss and takes it out on his wife." vs. "Modern internet user is put down by society/boss/wife and takes it out on strangers on the internet." This whole propaganda shit-fest is playing right in the hands of abusers. My father used to say "come war, the bastards move up in society".

And for gods sake, can someone tell me what percentage of the global production is weapons manufacturing? One used to be able to find that piece of information, but not anymore.
I found the like/dislike ratio to be very useful, personally. Since it was removed and I have no signal as to whether or not the video is any good, the number of crap videos I end up playing has increased substantially. It's really annoying.

Yes, certain videos would get bombed -- but that, too, tends to be obvious and tells you something useful about the video: namely, that it's controversial in some way.