skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like it, but most of my local shops don't have their inventory or prices online, sadly.
Looking for the book _Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy_ I searched for “Mechanical Accuracy.” While the site did find the book, it was the fourth one listed. None of the books above had “Mechanical Accuracy” in their titles.

Maybe this is your desired behavior. I found it a bit odd.
How is python package management a problem? spin up a new venv, pip install whatever, away you go. I don't do a lot of python work so maybe I'm not hitting the boundaries, but it's never been anything less than pleasant to work with in my experience.

JavaScript can go directly to hell.
But then how is this simpler or better than listening for webhooks (push)?
Also, PaymentIntent allows you to query its state (pull) as described in your link.
I haven't tried CMake recently but I remember using it in 2012 and it was awful - the documentation was unhelpful and as soon as I tried to do anything not in the examples I was on my own.
Yes and no. Real wages in US manufacturing have been on a steady decline for a long time now, and the cost of manufacturing goods overseas has been steadily increasing. After factoring in all associated costs with importing goods from a place like China, the difference in cost might even tip towards made in the US being cheaper in the long run. That said, a lot of countries other than China do still have cheap slave laborers that we depend on to give us cheap stuff, and we just can't compete with that using our domestic work force. Also if the local workers unionize and push wages up more towards what they would be had they kept pace with inflation, then local goods will be far more expensive. The cost of a new factory would certainly inflate a lot of short term prices too.

All that said, I know a lot of people that would be willing to pay a substantial premium for well made goods that were produced domestically. Everyone has experienced just how terrible the goods we source from overseas often are, and if paying double or triple for something means that you get a useful lifespan that's 5 times longer, a lot of people are willing to pay that. There are also a lot of people that would happily pay for goods that they know for certain weren't made in a Sri Lankan sweatshop.
Annuities that pay indefinitely are real financial products with finite prices. If I wanted to be more specific I maybe should have written "perpetuities."

Would you really price one dollar per year forever at infinity dollars today? That pricing implies some unusual beliefs about the time value of money.
Apple has been busy making their chips more efficient, while simultaneously putting beefier coolers & PSUs in their latest design. I believe Apple have enough leverage to raise their clock speed.
Agree, this photos not faked, but it is not memes I was talking about, so do not twist my point of view here in regard to memes.

We can find photos that as well show attack from Ukraine side on civilian infrastructure. And it is not different from an attack on a bridge by Ukraine that also took lives of civilians.

These photos prove only that war is still going on, which I strongly condemn.

They are not proving your words that there is `mass murders of civilians` and that there is `murderers and rapists`

You're labeling one side terrorist and other liberators. Please take into consideration previous 30 years of history in the region and reasons why the whole conflict escalated in the first place. Roles of multiple parties, including Russia, NATO, US, and west.

Otherwise, this labeling and rhetoric is twisted double standards and hypocrisy, that west by the way is soaked through.

If west wanted peace, they would argue for dialogue for peaceful balanced compromises between sides, instead it is propaganda of liberation from oppression, and warmongering, which I have mentioned before.

Instead, west fuel media with Russophobia and fuel conflict with arms and military intelligence, seems like west do not even care whether there would be livable cities and land left after all this artificially created bizarre conflict.

Russia also just like Ukraine uses somewhat twisted rhetoric in media, nonetheless any intelligent unaffiliated observer understands that this conflict is much more than just `liberation from ukraininan neo-nazi` or `liberation from russian oppression`.

I would recommend for anyone to not consume just one side of rhetoric.
Hmm that does make it difficult. Perhaps a solution that allows local bookstores to put their catalogues online easily, this data then feeds straight into the search product. It would be difficult and manual to make happen but it could be extremely useful.
> Your definition is emotionally-fueled and bears little relevance to the actual definition of a scam.

This is a shallow dismissal without addressing any of my points of which they are facts [0].

What is certain is that this Arweave project is searching for a problem with blockchain and it doesn’t exist. Cramming blockchain into it doesn’t make it novel or better than what already exists.

You’ve said it yourself, BitTorrent & The Internet Archive works well after 25+ years.

More importantly it is not surprising that this coin is a premine, I would argue that most of the money from that ICO would have been better allocated to IA (a non profit) than to some ephemeral for profit crypto project, that doesn’t do anything than enrich A16Z, Coinbase and all the other early investors who clearly want to make a quick buck in crypto.

I would have expected HN users to be more sceptical of pyramid schemes like this one and it seems that you are either: invested in this token, or are extremely naive enough to think this project would legitimately work at scale (assuming regulations in the crypto space are implemented), or both.

[0] https://icodrops.com/arweave/
Good to know there's a definite measure for that.

I for one liked it.
Helix is great! The out-of-the-box LSP for C++ is a major strength, no config needed for me compared to 100% of all other editors I've used. The context-aware popups are nice too, and the overall UI is snappy and fresh. Highly recommend if you are a fan of modal editing and willing to try something new.
What happens when the interest rates go back up?

Let's say they go from < 1% to > 10%?
"Japan has over 250% public debt-to-GDP. "

And an inflation rate of ... oh sorry that didn't fit the narrative, I'll just skip that bit.

"The market basically goes “no bid”."

except for the Gilt-Edged Market Makers (GEMMs) because "GEMMs are committed to make, on demand and in all conditions, continuous and effective two-way prices to their clients, in all gilts for which they are recognised as a market maker." (GEMM Guidebook, Sept 2021, UK Debt Management Office)[0]

I'll leave the rest of the article to the Gell-Mann Amnesia hypothesis.

[0]: https://www.dmo.gov.uk/media/22bbjndz/guidebook200921.pdf
this isnt for e-books too right?
In most developed countries experiencing population growth, it's mainly driven by immigration. That's pretty easy for a nation state to control.
Well I do.

I cannot imagine any worthwhile society where someone would be entitled to earn 1000 times the average. 10 times is certainly a common-sense maximum. If his only motivation for contributing to the society is to be in the 10-1000 range, I'm pretty sure the society will not miss much his contribution.
This is absurdly silly. These data sets contain millions of images at a bare minimum from web crawls, often billions, so of course there will be a non-zero number of charts in them. If you want to be pedantic about it be my guest I guess.

You could probably find a few driver's ed teachers who taught their students to do doughnuts too, but saying "driver's ed teachers don't teach their students to do doughnuts" would nonetheless be largely accurate.
American Express ends Covid vaccine requirements for working from office
Personally, I would cancel the card, just to be sure. The recent ruckus about PayPal threatening to charge people who violate their TOS doesn't inspire confidence, and I've seen too many anecdotes of people who get hit with charges.
I'm really sorry to hear. That sounds really, really rough.

I fully understand your dilemma. At least for my own sake it would be important that I could live with my choices. If my dad had wanted to fight it, and had suffered as a result, well... that'd be his choice.

Take care of yourself though, and be honest with yourself. During and after, I got myself into a dark spot until I dared being honest with myself.
Ugly/pretty is function of general familiarity. If we are looking more familiar with this kind of planes, we probably would have called Airbus or concord ugly.
Probably yes, but some of the countries we've outsourced to have improved their quality of living. So it is possible that made in America could be cheaper than making it overseas and then shipping it over (I think this is unlikely, but it is at least hypothetically possible).

Alternatively, touched on in the article, it could be seen as preferable to get some supply chains entirely inside the US -- would have been nice to have more US mask manufacturing a couple years ago.

They didn't mention any changes to law or trade policy in the article so I guess these companies are looking in the US for economic reasons. They might just see the shortened supply line as worth the US manufacturing costs...
> It's plain to read the nonverbal communication of Putin's inner circle whenever they appear on camera: they're wondering how they can get rid of him.

As much as it would be nice if it were the case, this is extremely nebulous and more likely just projection/wishful thinking.
I hope you're corrrect, but I am skeptical of storage tech following wrights law as the paper suggests.

The current battery projects are tiny and I suspect there will be greater costs from scaling them than Wright's law suggests. Not to say they won't get cheap, but that they will get cheaper slower than a simple exponential decay relationship suggests.

Just the scale of materials required and the fact that battery tech has been around for a long time. I suspect we have got more of the low hanging fruit than with PV.

Again, I hope I'm wrong.
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> People have been historically notoriously bad at predicting how good AI/technology will be in 5-10 years time.

Taking the people who are most incentivized to overhype things to get clicks and/or funding as the consensus view is maybe not the best take here.

If you looked at people in general or engineers in general and looked at the median predicted timeframe, it would've probably been much more conservative.
I’m glad I am not alone.
Multiple explosions in Ukraine capital Kyiv
I had a couple of colleagues complaining about Git, so I asked what was the problem. "Hard to use", "commands doesn't makes sense" was among the answers.

Two hours on a whiteboard explaining how Git works in a little more detail and now the complaints are gone.

The gist of my anecdote is; learn your tools properly, not only does it save you headache but also makes you more productive.

(It's a bit dated, but Pro Git by Strauss is an good book to get a better understanding of Git)
A version control system with atrocious object retrieval performance, and with which you have pin everything yourself (or pay someone to pin everything) anyway to guarantee that all your stuff aren’t lost? No thanks.
I think this part tells you everything you'd need to know:

"We turn to his views on government and politics and the Twitter Musk appears, the more emotional, unrestrained persona that comes across in his frenetic posts. He is lauding billionaires as the most efficient stewards of capital, best placed to decide on the allocation of social benefits. “If the alternative steward of capital is the government, that is actually not going to be to the benefit of the people,” says Musk."

Might as well return to having kings and queens huh, after all what is more righteous than divine intervention? And in any case, why stop at billionaires? Corporations are worth trillions, wouldn't they be even better suited to decide the allocation of social benefits?

Honestly, this much is known. I think Bill Gates shares this perspective, that somehow because they are billionaires they know better than the rest of us. But excuse me, not everyone has had the chance to be born in such privilege. The economic structures of our world will always produce billionaires because market systems often tend to concentration of capital and this concentration of capital and money is clearly translated into concentration of power which in turn makes the process even faster. Of course these people are talented and smart in many ways but it's silly to think that they would have the capabilities of solving the world's problems. I mean, why aren't they already doing it? It feels like somehow we're back at the gilded age.

Here's my opinion: If someone thinks they are capable of making tough decisions for hundreds, thousands, millions of people then they are probably not the right person to make such decisions. Personally, I believe decisions should be made collectively and locally and we should have systems capable of bubbling up decisions from the local communities into the global sphere. But the decisions themselves has to reside in the small groups of people that are actually affected by them, not in billionaires who will go to a restaurant and order a whole lamb just to have a taste because they're on a diet after looking fat in a picture from their yacht.
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Thanks for the feedback. There are definitely still issues with search if the title is not exactly the same or very similar to the title of the book. I'm working on improving it but the fix is non-trivial so it will likely take a couple of weeks for me to improve.
Oh that’s an interesting idea. I saw someone built SQLite over HTTP with the Range header: https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-database...

So presumably in a similar manner as https://github.com/phiresky/sql.js-httpvfs you could map SQLite pages to leaf torrents too and get the chunking you are looking for.
Existing housing is expensive because a substantial portion of the stock isn't owned by the residents. Housing is used to extract rents, by wealthy individuals or businesses, and rent-seeking drives up prices.

New housing is expensive because of safety regulations, environmental regulations, and zoning restrictions. Those categories are listed in increasing order of negotiability: some zoning makes obvious sense (e.g. separating industrial areas from housing), but housing density mandates seem less defensible to me; meanwhile, I don't particularly feel like relaxing safety unless something can be demonstrated as clearly irrelevant due to age, or requiring gross overbuilding. I invite someone more fluent in the subject matter to enlighten us with the relative impact of each factor.
One thing that worked well in practice (years ago):

- design svg template (eg. in inkscape)

- set placeholders (as svg is just xml -- {%address%} etc)

- replace the placeholders with the actual value & use headless inkscape to produce PDF
I truly love that book. I haven't found it specifically useful, but as background information to linger in my brain. I recommend reading it to all my graduates, very few 'get' it though.
Tremor – React library to build dashboards fast
I’m up there with the most libertarian people on phone alert annoyances and I think this is a non-issue. If you’re able to get out of the car, you’re taking the phone with you. You need to take pictures for insurance purposes — and of the other driver’s license (if there are others involved). If there are other people involved, you may need to call emergency services for them. If you’re too dazed to remember the phone, it probably _should_ notify emergency services.
This is not a guide for framerate. Netflix accepts multiple frame rates.

This is a guide about data bitrate, what it says is that for 24fps, you need at least 240Mbps (means it needs more if it has higher frame rate).

If anything, all the other language versions actually use "23.98" as example instead. E.g. this Deutsch version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WLz0O_dwmVWjqHafaHoLav0qvHU...

This guide https://partnerhelp.netflixstudios.com/hc/en-us/articles/441... mentions more about frame rate but it's basically just "don't convert frame rate around, and use constant frame rate for intermediate file".
Generally yes prices go up when goods are manufactured in higher cost areas.

But the profit/price can be the same with higher labor costs if the manufacturing efficiency is improved(due to automation mostly), or costs like shipping and taxes are lower.
Big projects are considerably more specialized to maintain. You don't just need a guy with a pressure washer, you need someone who can get a whole rig hanging over the edge of the building. The plumbing, elevators, fire suppression, trash collection, heating and cooling, and electrical systems require specialists.

They also centralize poverty, which has effects on the local area. The workers in those buildings need to travel all over for their work.

Small, two to four story apartment buildings can largely be managed by handymen. They can be distributed throughout a city, placing them in communities that can support them. The people who live there can work in their local communities.

Beyond that, their initial capital costs are lower, and it's easier to find land that is zoned for 4 story buildings than 40 story buildings.

> Isn't Amazon cheaper than your local electronics store?

Cheaper? Maybe. Better? Absolutely not. Amazon might save me a couple bucks, but the hassle and time dealing with quality control issues, poorly managed inventory, lack of local experience, etc makes the dollars I save disappear I into increased headaches.

The thought of renting a home from Amazon vs the local bookstore is nightmarish to me.
If it were so easy as "less government"! (Which, I agree, is often a good idea.)

The problem is that a house is seen as in investment vehicle. Buy a house, its value will always grow, they said. So people who bought houses expect their values to grow, and loathe their values to go down even a little bit.

Now the value (aka cost) of a house has grown so much that it's unaffordable for large swaths of regular working population, even well-paid. Cheaper housing is badly needed.

But cheaper housing also means that "value" of existing houses will go down! Either from being next to a cheaper house, or from a general downturn on the housing market (aka housing becoming more affordable). Every house owner will hate that! And these house owners are voters.

Now life savings of an old lady from the working class depend on a young family from the working class being unable to afford a similar (or any) house. We're in a pretty bad situation here :(
If renewables can produce relatively cheaper energy, it won't make sense to use oil or gas for anything other than chemical synths. And as other commenters have said, once hydrocarbon sources run out we can just build the required molecules from a hydrogen base.

Reminds me of clandestine chemists who can use clove oil to synthesise MDMA because other precursors are closely watched. As long as you have the right atoms, the only issue to building a new molecule is energy and time.
This feels like a roundabout way to getting bookshop.org, which might not be the cheapest, but is simple to use as a consumer.
I bought a kilogram of pure NaOH from Amazon to make soap with no questions asked. That will also eat my arm off. We don't sell peroxides because they can be used to make explosives.
Are you saying that you could never identify a usability or user experience problem in anything whose mechanisms you understand?
ActivityPub does not handle old posts. This post number is the number of posts since at least one person on that instance followed them. Before that, the instance didn't know they existed

ActivityPub is a publisher/subscriber protocol
Nintendo did this in the 60s/70s when they transitioned from trading cards to digital games.

I agree with your implication, though.

It's even less likely to succeed because Zuckerberg is the world's worst product manager. He didn't even invent Facebook.

Since stealing the idea for it, he's never come up with a successful new product. They've acquired everything that's become mainstream.
“My field” is a 20+ year MS ecosystem developer from
C++/MFC, VB6, .Net Compact framework, .Net Framework,
.Net Core, etc.

Right, and in that field you might be correct (I don't know but I'll take your word for it). It is however not the entire software industry.

As I said, very few new companies that aren’t “legacy” shops are
choosing .Net.

I'm a game developer and the most popular game engine (Unity) uses c#. The newest up and comer (Godot) uses their own scripting language or c# as the most popular options. I've also worked in Enterprise before and c# and java were the popular choices there and as far as I know from friends still are (especially when servicing the government)
A deepfake Mark Ruffalo scammed half a million dollars from a lonely heart
What about the empty, smelly, marshland? Sure there may be some limited wildlife there but what about you know, people who want a house affordable enough to have a family?
Think about it in terms of how many days of knowledge each rep gets you.

The first rep gets you 1 extra day of knowledge.
The next rep gets you 2 extra days.
The next one gets you 5 extra days.

So each rep is getting you more and more knowledge even though the time required to execute the rep remains the same. This is exponential growth.

If you only have 1 card then for most days you won't have any reviews to do so it doesn't work. But if you add cards regularly then over the long-run every day you'll be getting more and more "extra days of knowledge" by doing the same amount of reviews each day.
Amazon is forced to compete on price because electronics supply is flexible. People can find other retailers.

Even if every regulation was struck from the books tomorrow, housing supply doesn't have anywhere close to the same flexibility. It's limited by the availability of undeveloped (or redevelopable) land, and just as importantly, by the location of that land. You can't just create more land next to the metropolis of your preference. There are practical and physical limits.
Looks like the villains airplan in Disneys Tailspin?
Pretty sure the taxes in this area would. And besides, most of the USA is low density. Why does this specific area need to remain unbuilt?
Okay, if they're real financial products, I'd like to buy one. Which banks will sell me a commitment to pay out one dollar per year forever, including after I die?
The codependence spreads rapidly like a malignant cancer.

Hard pass.
If only cooperation was a thing.
I guess you wouldn't be buying it if you pirate it.
yes, both of these statements are true for crypto.

I don’t see the issue here.
Thanks for the feedback, we are going to add an export feature sometime soon