skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plaster is on the one hand, harder to repair correctly, but on the other hand, can be repaired more seamlessly if done well.

It kills me when people replace plaster with drywall. Sometimes they'll even have it all torn out and replaced because they just need to do some repair or are doing a renovation and just want all the mess to happen up front and tacking drywall up is cheap and easy later on. So stupid.

In my last house I retiled the tub and behind the tub they had mold-resistant drywall that they used as a tile substrate (this isn't proper, but it's common enough that people think it's proper.) The drywall was nailed into plaster, which itself was covered in wallpaper. Taking all this down to fix it I found the wallpaper and drywall was moldy, but the plaster itself was not moldy. The spores just wiped right off. It's great stuff.
> When rates fall, pensions take huge paper losses because the present value of liabilities moves inversely with interest rates. To hedge this risk, you enter into a swap with a bank to essentially pay current floating interest rates (in return for receiving a fixed rate).

Honest question: why is the devaluation of bonds from a rise in the interest rate considered a risk to a pension fund? It doesn't impact the ability of the pension fund to fulfill its purpose: deliver an income stream to pensioners.

Sure, the market value of the bonds decrease when rates rise, but the bonds still provide exactly the same income stream as they did before.
The first recipient of a human heart transplant died 18 days later. Now the average life after one is 15 years.
Microscopic View of an Intel I486
I have a 1940s place w/o cinderblock that does this heavy dust thing too. I'm also not fantastic about making it sparkle so as a result I do get dust bunnies. I've examined a few up close, and they look like laundry lint, a generally uniform light colour and texture. It's weird, I installed the exhaust duct myself, it's sealed and directly vented to the outdoors, my furnace fan runs every 20 minutes or so and has a merv 11 filter on it I believe, so there is some minor filtration. And yet, all this dust..

My place is not at all airtight, but I am skeptical that the outdoors air has this degree of lint fibers floating around at all times.
It's easy to find and mention deaths from drunk driving.

The article could have mentioned deaths from falling bullets (if there are recorded instances). At the moment, it gives the impression that there are no instances.
Well jukedeck has been bought by TikTok, so their product was indeed valuable for someone. I guess the point with such AI systems is not to replace existing creators, but rather fill in new market needs
Well they do that around here.

Still want to gentrify my neighborhood?
It fits neatly with a bunch of other measurements, avoiding the need for awkward conversion factors. E.g. a cubic meter is 1000 liters exactly. A cubic yard is 168.18 gallons approximately.

But that's neither here nor there. Using football fields as unit of measurement is odd. You don't see metric countries resorting to using soccer pitches as unit of measurement.
Oh yes! And the "cachang cachang" sound when turning on/off... was like a nuke switch!
This story was retracted by CBS because it turned out to be hugely misleading and is no where near the truth about the situation today. Trying to pass it off as such is at best misleading and at worst actively malicious.

But even going down that path of thinking, it’s amazing Ukraine has decimated the Russian armed forces with only a fraction of the weapons they were supplied with!. /s.
We do live in this paradigm of everything being in the cloud and clients are stupid and constantly need to sync, often times in a "stop the world" fashion. Last time I used Twitter web I saw three spinners in the same screen. So that's a big factor as well. It's incredibly poor engineering culture imo, but again those are there because that's what they wanted to build.
> [...] and they missed, or failed to properly cover, an edge case in the liability they were taking on.

What was this edge case? Rates rising quickly?
> I see that you refuse to compare Android to its most realistic counterpart - Apple.

Uh, what? Of course the iPhone is more profitable than Android, and I have already said so in this discussion. If you think that a product needs to reach iPhone numbers to count as successful, I really don't know what to say.

But I note that you are indeed incapable of naming a single Amazon product that was as successful as Android, while still maintaining that Android was somehow a commercial disappointment, while Amazon is a success story. You really don't see the disconnect?
Back in the 80s, the number of people who had been and were killed organizing this way had a lot of zeroes at the end of it. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for a low tech approach to security where it makes sense, but it’s not a panacea. And it’s not like this evolving movement wasn’t organizing the same way at the same time, we’ve learned more from them than the inverse.
I don't need a lawyer to use a LGPL lib. Considering how many threats you have to go through to get the LGPL version, I need one because Digia is likely to disagree with my interpretation.
I’m not, it’s the other problem after the promo issue. Google is an engineering only company, if you aren’t an engineer you’re second class. So engineers see a cool problem like live migration and solve that. But they do an awful job at building a product customers want(product managers), and supporting(customer support, marketing) that.

If you look at stadia, they built the cool streaming platform, but failed to actually sell it.
You could fix the communication by putting participants in something like a Faraday cage, or lining the walls with lead etc.

However, if someone puts the actual chess computer inside their body, even those measures won't help.
I think there was nothing more standard than RS232. You needed to add a "multi" board (joystick, parallel, rs232), yes, but that was absolutely standard.
I predict that in 2 years half of the music people listen to on Spotify will be AI generated.
What are you even asking for here? Sites like Reddit, Twitter and Tumblr cater to "American laws" (most of these aren't even laws, the US is generally quite liberal on sexual content and nudity; thus producing a significant chunk of the global supply of pornography) is due to their primary target or largest slice of ad revenue coming from Americans[1][2][3]. There's no law forcing themselves to self-censor, they generally do it for financial/accessibility (American traffic) reasons.

What it sounds like you're proposing is, if Denmark has carte blanche topless legality, that websites that want to operate in Denmark must respect their liberalism and allow said content. Which is far more draconian and intrusive. If a site wants owner wants to err on the side of conservative social values, that's their prerogative; create an alternative to fill the niche if you feel it's lacking. OnlyFans filled an entire void in that manner.

1 - "Two hundred twenty-two million users live in the US, which makes up 48% of the Reddit community." / https://thrivemyway.com/reddit-statistics/#Reddit-Usage-Stat...

2 - "The United States of America has at least 83.4 million active Twitter users" - https://datareportal.com/essential-twitter-stats

3 - "While Tumblr is used worldwide, the vast majority of its users are based in the U.S. Domestic visitors alone account for 42% of its overall traffic." - https://cloudincome.com/tumblr-statistics/
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In the gaming world (at least the parts I touch) there was a widespread belief that Stadia would be shut down by Google and therefore it was foolish to buy games on the platform. See the running joke on SkillUp's youtube channel[1] for example. Part of that was driven by the business model whereby you pay full price for games but if the service goes away you have nothing. This was trying somehow to compete with subscription models from Sony and Microsoft where you pay for the hardware + a monthly subscription but that gives you games which you then own and can play on a continuous basis because you also own the hardware.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/SkillUp
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People in western Europe do it too, that's why you can get liability insurance, to protect you if you get sued: https://www.simplegermany.com/legal-insurance-germany/
And an addition note: That we happened to survive playing Russian roulette before is not a strong argument that we will survive future rounds.
Ask HN: How do you read the news?
Using different techniques I am training to change the way I move around the internet (I guess digital well-being is the best-suited word for that). My last concerns are about news - how it comes to me from social media. I switched to RSS (feedly), but I'm thinking even about using printed newspapers. Do you have your ways or tools of getting and reading the news?
> reverse policies

Have you ever seen authority figures backing off? When questioned or face backlash, they only double down. In fact, that's what happened - the official word is "this is the right way", and "the government is not responsible for market movements", "it sends the wrong message to tax windfall profits", "The poor can't pay bills? That's fine, we'll cut tax for the rich - that'll fix it".

#KamiKwasi, as Twitter called it, will continue.
MAUI is looking DOA to me. Third parties have been doing a better job than Microsoft for UI work in .NET.

I think they should just dump it and grab whatever UI library is under VSCode. That works pretty well.
I regret so much having dumped that keyboard... best thing ever. Only problem: when typing at night (what I really liked) the whole block was awake! :D
I guess leadership's moving to Texas..
Most people don't know what notepad.exe means. We're an extremely narrow set of people.

Also, it's about caring enough to actually stop using it. Have you ever changed software to a competitor with better performance? I don't know if I have..
What else can you do when your task is to deliver a fixed income stream to pensioners and interest rates are 5% one year and 0% the next?

The fundamental problem of our current monetary system is unstable interest rates. Pension funds can't fulfill their purpose under these circumstances. Not without taking risks, at least.
Quickly, what's the exact definition of the US foot again?

You know, the precise definition in use for 129 years since 1893 .. the one used to ensure one measured "foot" matched another . . .
> I'm an individual who's opinions on unfettered anonymous speech have changed over the years, so I'll give my take.

Alternative take: you never supported free speech and were just upset Bush era policies censored porn, gays and contraception. Once those things stopped being censored you stopped caring.

I'd imagine the people who are now pro-censorship would turn back to free speech zealots if we banned all mentions of homosexuality online like they have in Russia.
CCL Plastic Bank Notes Factsheet (2020) [pdf]
we do not talk enough about Palantir - a state approved spyware company, started by an Ayn Rand acolyte with some sort world changing agenda, seemingly given free hand on government contracts, both domestic and foreign. The name itself should give us pause
> Workers at large just need to be able to kick out any management that decides to exploit their labor.

Corporate politics are already bad as it is, and this is going to make it worse.
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The conference for reference
When rates fall, liabilities increase, but so does the value of the bonds that the fund holds, so if they are properly funded and invest solely in bonds they are perfectly even.

But bonds have had very low yields for decades, which makes funding future pensions solely with them very expensive, so pension funds started investing in stocks- this makes sense, as pension funds are long term investors which can earmark funds as "not to be withdrawn for the next 30 years".

Now THIS creates the paper loss problem: yields fall, liabilities rise, but funds don't have enough bonds raising in value to match that loss. So they use derivatives to hedge the risk.
Past tense, I still don't see why this was wrong back the day. Also, I never said Europe didn't form closer ties with Russia. I still think thisbis a, generally, good idea. One that is just impossible in the current situation and under the current Russian leadership. Long term so, it is still a viable strategy. Isolating Russia for good is a bad option, IMHO.

That being said, Russia has to end the war in Ukraine, retreat from the occupied territories. And the West has to do some soul searching once this happened, our track record when it comes to invasions and occupations isn't that great in the last 20 odd years.
People are investing in pornography production companies because they just like to get people off? No, the goal of production companies is to make money. The goal of the consumer is to get off, but the production company's goal absolutely is to money. As other commenters have pointed out [1] non-consensual pornography is indistinguishable to viewers from consensual pornography, so the risk of filming yourself commit rape and uploading evidence of the crime to the internet is not a decision I can see productions companies being keen on making.

For a very loose idea of "sex trafficking" that includes people deciding to work in porn to make ends meet - but at this point you could say your janitors are being trafficked because they wouldn't do their job if they didn't have to pay rent.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33028286
Agreed... For a very long time you would not get me anywhere near celebrations with fireworks or gunfire, and if I was exposed, it was not a pleasant experience for anyone. Took some time, but things are far better now. Still prefer not to be around, but no longer a huge negative experience.
Gottlob Frege: The machine in the ghost (2017)
The economy is going downhill from now
"Patch day, no play!"
You introduce land value taxes and demurrage currency with a citizen's dividend and enjoy your higher standard of living.

But people are so obsessed with capitalism and the socialists so obsessed with a non functioning solution that nothing gets done.

Before you ask why these two policies end capitalism, you must understand that in capitalism there is a profit expectation that is completely independent of market conditions, if you "believe" in markets this permanent profit expectation is irrational but because money and land are effectively monopolies they allow coercive extraction of economic rents and any real business must compete and pay even higher returns just to be allowed to function. As capitalism progresses and growth stops people put more money into extractive monopolies which then paradoxically despite all the wealth makes people poorer rather than richer. This is why capitalism requires the axiom of permanent scarcity as it means people have unfilled needs and would rather spend their money on consumption than monopolies, something that is only true for the poorest in the economy, middle class citizens spend most of their income on a mortgage aka on land which is a monopoly.
“Star Wars (Main Theme)” on Spotify turns song progress bar into a lightsaber
At first I thought it was a glitch, but then it hit me full force
We don't have a public API yet, but you can schedule reports and alerts by email or send them to Slack.

I am curious what use case you have in mind?
Bitcoin can't do that.

Bitcoin will consume as much cheap energy as it can get. This leads to more consumption of energy through Bitcoin and not less.

There is a slo nothing worse for Bitcoin to not keeping it running. So the incentive is also to be were you can run it reliable.

And as usual the pure capitalistical economy is shit in regulating itself therefore laws are required (we already have tons of laws to protect people because stuff like asbestos is great as long as you don't pay for the hospital bill).

Bitcoin takes energy and increases demand for solar etc while consuming it and making it unavailable. It even eats solar panels as Bitcoin is a global market while energy is more often than not local.

It's quite depressing to see such kind of nonsense when we clearly in a position were climate change costs us more and more every year and we still talk about bullshit arguments from Bitcoin instead of talking how to cleanup our current mess.

IF Bitcoin/crypto can be an interesting side hustle AFTER we solved climate change, I don't know. But Bitcoin will not stop the droughts etc.
I am surprised to see that this quite Linux centric community missing the obvious. With Stadia support 'cleaned up' from game engines it is a game over for Linux desktop gaming.
A HN poster questioned the existence of 80286 computers with VGA displays.

And then there were a bunch of Amstrad PCs with 8086 and VGA:

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc2086

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc3086

https://www.seasip.info/AmstradXT/models.html#pc5086
Holy shit! It even glows!
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For a job whose going rate is M, a company would offer N to Bob and N-d to equally qualified Alice. If they want to hire Bob, they have to publish that they offer N so he applies. Now Alice knows that something is up when they offer N-d.

Theoretically this pushes d toward zero. M and N, I don't know.
A perfect storm of events happened during 2020-2021, with the country on lockdown from the pandemic people were working from home, and the ones who didn't have the luxury seeked out ways to earn an income during these struggling times, and it created an influx of new retail investors or traders. In a tiny corner of the retail trading community, whom didn't know what was brewing and about to happen, a meme stock was born- GameStop. The new year brought an unprecedented event like no other before called a gamme squeeze, which was stirring up on the wallstreetbets subreddit. The investors who got in early were in for a massive profit, but the unknowing newcomers with zero experience or knowledge were taking a huge hit- some reporting on losing their life savings.

This is when Trade Hub was constructed. I witnessed the almost cult-like following and blind investing strategies, or lack thereof, creating the need of a platform that is more than 'tendies' and memes. A safe place where newcomers can find solid educational content, material, and mentorship. The art of trade signals had also peeked during the frenzy, and was difficult to sort the quality analysts and traders from the "furus". This is how the trade tracking & sharing came to fruition, a tool where top traders can prove and showcase their tlanets by submitting their trades to be tracked & shared using real-time market data and accurate performance stats.

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>The ⌘ symbol (the "looped square") was chosen by Susan Kare after Steve Jobs decided that the use of the Apple logo in the menu system (where the keyboard shortcuts are displayed) would be an over-use of the logo

Never thought about over-use of the logo, but Jobs did have a good point. I always felt that Windows key on keyboards felt a bit ugly and out of place.
I think it's in the order of magnitude of ~5 years until the refresh rate is good enough.

I meant high refresh rate in context of eink screens today. I want a refresh rate nearly as good as a normal monitor (~120) but I'd be happy ~100 too. EInk seems to be anywhere from 15-70 (hard to pin this down) so still some work is needed.
I genuinely despise the people that make [1][2] for monetisation purposes and ad dumping. Intentionally torturing and starving small animals for likes. Fuck.
Agreed.

About the self-reinforcement: London is a great example of how to evade this trend.

You see, London pedestrians seem almost suicidal. They often cross the road without even looking. In addition, by law traffic-lights in the UK are only advisory for pedestrians: crossing the road when the lights are red is legal and common.

Individually, each 'suicidal' pedestrian endangers their own life. But collectively they train drivers to watch out and make London safer for everyone.

It feels like some sort of inversion of the tragedy of the commons.

(London still has helicopter parents. At least more than they used to have in previous decades. But the feedback loop seems weaker than what you describe for the US.)
Last time I checked one of the market based approaches requires me to start my own bank. In Germany that means you would need 7 million € and hope you get the license at all. Once you add the costs of buying land we are easily in the tens of millions to get started to end capitalism through market competition.

The people with 10 million € would rather keep the system as it is. After all, what if it fails and you become a "peasant"?
Human intelligence is primarily limited by the 6-10 item limit in short-term memory. If you bumped that up by a factor of 5 we could very easily solve vastly more complex problems, and fully visualize solutions an order of magnitude more subtle and messy than humans can manage today.

That's a relatively easy thing to do architecturally once you have a model that can match human intelligence at all. TBH if we could rearchitect the brain in code we could probably easily figure out how to do it in ourselves within a few years, but our wetware does not support patches or bugfixes.

We can't improve ourselves, but that's only because we're meat, not code. And of course no AI has done it yet, because we haven't actually made intelligent AI yet. The question is what happens when we do, not whether the weak-ass statistical crap that we call AI today is capable of self-improvement. Nuclear reactions under the self-sustaining threshold are not dangerous at all, but that was not a good reason to think that no nuclear reaction could ever go exponential and be devastating.