skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is a smorgasbord of cliche outrage topics... I'll just say at least in Canada, first time home buyers can get 5% down payment, so the "takes 10-20 years longer to get a 20% down payment" point doesn't make sense.
I look forward to the post coming into my RSS reader :)

> they didn't have to do stuff like chase down NPM problems or debug Webpack.

The ship has well and truly sailed on that one. Building a reactivity framework into the browser isn't going to solve dependency management or transpiling.

But I wonder if ESM is going to change this game a bit. Now that dependencies are statically analysable in the page source, a CloudFlare or similar could sit between the "source" and the browser and do intelligent caching and bundling transparently.
> The image generation models weren't trained on chart images, everyone already knows they're gonna be bad at that.

Stable Diffusion was trained on images of charts and graphs. It knows what a powerpoint presentation and even an excel spreadsheet look like.

Here:

https://imgur.com/a/V4a6W4I

It just doesn't know how to generate a graph like the one it's asked to.
Its possible all the low hanging fruit for automation has been picked.

Pretty much every industry is reliant on computers and automation now, and all the high ROI process improvements are done.
Google "json to graph" and you will find many tools to do this.
Google Japan designed a (long) single row keyboard
> I'd think the opposite is true. Interruption is natural, and prolonged sedentary focus is a human invention.

Have you never spent an entire day in the wilderness? IME it's usually devoid of interruption, unless it's a popular spot where other people show up.
Is there a public list of Google approved keyboards?
Yeah they explicitly allowed movie streaming from basically any site but not voip.

There’s no way they had all the YouTube cached on the olane
I hope someone designs a vertical version too
I made a YouTube video a long time ago in 2013. It's wild to think about the fact that somebody could be in trouble with copyright infringement over that video in the year 2141.

I expect to live at least another 50 years. In a large amount of countries copyright is granted for the lifetime of the author and an additional 70 years.

It seems a little excessive.
I use outlook which lets you set the from address as required.
Six Shooter Glue Gun
I thought Apple bought a company that did Cassandra like functionality and started using that?
that whole nanomachines sci fi, e.g. nanobots making grey goo or whatever is not as exciting if you consider cells are alreay microbits made out of protein nanobots
Building a Microgame (2020)
Defending Earth from Asteroids
Life Extension for Stars
If you’re committing genocide in EU, you’re prone to have a short game.

Fratricide in CK is definitely par for the course, however.
From reading Snopes, they say that the patient was in an automobile accident and was taken to hospital. They were cleaned up but died 3 months later. No evidence of symbiosis that I can determine. I presume he got in the accident because of his deteriorating mental state.
And the butterflies are full of hate.

https://www.schlockmercenary.com/2017-07-13
I know some of their backend services use a lot of Ansible (for at least the automation / config portion), but I don't know which ones. Apple's devs are pretty mum on the specific stacks they're using, usually.
until trees with their wood laid waste to this balance?

at least until fungi figured hoe to break lingin?
Long reply from a young programmer that recognizes this trend and what it implies:

Alan Perlis says you can measure the perspective of a programmer based on their thoughts on the continued vitality of Fortran. Many universities are now going full Java and lowering standards on fundamentals for financial reasons, this is a bit alarming.

If you really want to stand out, spend serious time on fundamentals. Learn to develop and deploy clean, efficient software from scratch without relying heavily on external resources that add said bloat.

A huge trend in software right now is low-code/no-code tools. These tools can replace programmers that don't have a deep enough grasp of fundamentals to compete. A very small percentage of the world population knows how to code, so these tools are becoming massively popular.

This is what separates the programmer that can quickly throw together a basic CRUD app and a programmer that can develop a successful programming language from scratch. If you can make sense of the Linux kernel and you have the drive to constantly learn new tech, it doesn't matter too much what trends come and go.

If you just want to ride the wave and think just having a CS degree or knowing how to code will guarantee you an easy life, it will be a rude awakening when the industry keeps moving forward and economic crises trim the fat from the cyclicly overvalued and monopolistic world that is software development.

This is the duality of being a programmer. Yes, you can teach yourself many useful things and acquire powerful skills relatively quickly, but if you stop learning and challenging yourself, then you are liable to be left behind.
Reminds me of this doctor from Italy who claimed first that cancer and fungi have a close link and patients experience relief by a simple application of baking soda on the affected tumor. He was convicted of manslaughter for a patient who died.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tullio_Simoncini
I also found it confusing, but I don't think the Economist was trying to "make it racial." I think they were trying (and not succeeding) to succinctly express this sentence, in TFA:

> The schemes are organised by ethnic-Chinese gangs, which sometimes collaborate with their local counterparts, says Jeremy Douglas of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime.
According to uMatrix, there's 7 third-party domains loading stuff just to display a simple blog article on this site.

If your site can't load a page of text without multiple third-party domains, that's not good.
> I had grown up in a conservative, Christian household, and held to the beliefs that my parents (and the majority of my peers) did; but as I grew older, I began questioning why I believed these things, and at the same time started to think more deeply about the liberal opinions I had seen on social media.

Not as a slight, but this reads to me as someone who grew up conservative (written), and so understands liberal policy through a conservative lens. I suspect that it's very difficult to impossible to approach any viewpoint through an opposing lens, and actually come out on the other side as that viewpoint. So I'm mostly just dubious of the claim that they became a "liberal" in the first place.
tl;dr a problem in research data analysis, not computer science or branch prediction or anything
I think it will be something necessary and interesting
Making heuristics smarter with GPT-3
They probably meant the "on Linux" part.
Biodiesel
Excel or Numbers, backed with data, would have been the right tool for this job.

However, once the wow-factor for text to image AI wears off, you start to realize:

a) “AI” doesn’t understand anything about the real world (physics, proportions, shapes, etc.) You curate and pick the image that makes most sense. You start to settle.

b) TTI “AI” can never evolve and become better than the data it’s been trained on. It can combine things for sure, but it will won’t start evolving and become a master artist.

c) Limited applicability - there’s always going to be an edge case in every image that’s going to look off (strange blends, non-perfect circles, coloring…). You need to be a creative and know how to use photoshop to fix this stuff.

Right now it’s cool for creating album art, but that’s easy [1]. Generally I just hope that creative people aren’t too worried about “AI”, otherwise we’ll run out of training data.

[1] https://www.intheknow.com/post/album-cover-challenge-tiktok/
If it were in an Indian restaurant you would expect the vegetarian option to also not contain eggs, as eggs are considered meat for many Hindus. On the other hand, in a Thai restaurant the vegetarian option might contain shrimp paste.
My question is what stops landlords from eating it all? Assuming the ubi is primarily to help low income people who are most likely renting
We definetely need something like this, just operated by an independant entity

I know, how about eff.org?

You ignored the first part of his post which shows that Firefox by default doesn't fair particularly well on privacy in their tests either.

Mozilla devotes more lip service to privacy than they do actual effort toward making it happen. A default install of Firefox allows most ads and trackers and can be easily fingerprinted. Is it reasonable to expect otherwise from a company that lives off privacy invaders?
can confirm, I was trying to set up my(is it really mine?) copy of obra dinn for my mother to play. and was unable to get it to run given the time I was willing to invest in it.

I was vaguely surprised because I figured that obra dinn being a small single player indie title would not have any drm. and I don't think it does. I think just linking it to the steam dll(for steam integration) makes the check occur. I suspect the solution is a bogus steam dll. but did not find one in the couple of minutes I was looking.

Note that you can copy a game to a friends computer then authorize them to play it, so good for valve, but I did not want to set my mother up with a steam account. so did not use this feature.
There’s also the `;`, which repeats the last movement! So if you did `dft` and didn’t see the extra “t” in the way in the first place, you can then just do `d;`. It’s like `.` but for movement!

I think that’s right anyway, no vim terminal at hand to check myself.
Yeah but batteries spin motors which are 90+% efficient. ICE is < 50%. And we have electrical distribution pretty much figured out already.
The document also looks like crap, so I doubt it.
I'm a lifelong vegetarian. I agree the ethics of eggs and dairy aren't great. FWIW I primarily eat eggs from chickens I know personally.

I've been a vegetarian since I was a child. My parents are not. I went to public school and had government subsidized school lunch. A no-dairy meal with sufficient calories was simply not an option. It was also generally much harder to maintain a vegetarian diet say 20 years ago than a vegan diet today."Salads don't make friends."

I'm basically just set in my ways now and live with the hypocrisy. Until they perfect the CRISPR bugs that make casein from plants I'll continue to eat cheese made from animal milk.

own a pair of leather boots, purchased new as well. It's not fair to the cow, but they last 5x as long as any comparable shoe made from synthetic material. Do I contradict myself, very well then blah blah blah

https://64.media.tumblr.com/e238fe868189a39c4903ce7b7bb1a7b7...
Writing style feels like GPT assisted blog spam, very odd flow.
unnecessary ad hominems aside, This definitely reads as someone who has never taken the time to work through why they (and others they agree with) have an opinion on a thing, and so is prone to believe whatever persons they spend the most time with.

I have been more frustrated in the past talking to people like this who agree with me, than anyone who disagrees with me. Because they don't have a reason they believe what they do.
"The law also mandates that businesses make it obvious to children when they are being monitored or location-tracked (by a parent, guardian, or any other consumer)"

This just horrifies me. Silicon valley companies have already made it incredibly hard to parent children, with things like disappearing photos, and locked down phones given even to young children.

Like I get 16 years and up needing stuff like that, but younger than that? Parents should be able to see what's going on their kids life. These days 90% of their life is in the phone, which is the one place blocked from parents.

In the past children had a limited circle of people in contact with them, and for the most part parents knew who was talking to their children. These days? It's the entire world who has access.
Awesome. There needs to be a federal program in the USA to help (force) every city to convert every single one of their public transport and school buses to hydrogen. Garbage trucks would be a nice bonus.

They all go back to a central depot every day/night and the amount of pollution their engines put out right next to people every day is staggering. Every time one of them goes by me as a pedestrian makes me gag. Can't imagine what that does to someone's health over a lifetime.
I don't know how it happens, but you'll never escape it. Just give up and enjoy the suck. Do yourself a favor and start a side hustle project using plain javascript and python or something. But don't get too attached to it - if it gains traction and you get funding and hire a few developers, they'll rewrite your app in the latest trendy pile of abstractions. And the suck will be back. Just move on.
Try Blazor. Backens C#, frontend C$, shared project for DTO classes, 0 other required dependencies, no 1GB node-modules folder. Easy and fast.
They were, however, dying from organ failure and blood loss.
I use quadruple rot13 for extra security.
> Feels bad but can't seem to do much else.

> I don't feel bad. I don't care.

???

You seem smart. You do you.
Was Medium paying people to write? Substack’s current growth hack seems to be paying certain writers as a way to subsidize subscription support. So I don’t think Substack’s goal is as clear as some might think. They aren’t a picks and shovels newsletter company. That was just a way to get people writing for them. It seems their real goal is to become a genuine publishing company.
Similarly you see disclaimers on various softwares that they shouldn’t be used for life support or nuclear facilities.

I use them anyway wheeeeee
Gov. Newsome: we have a $56 billion surplus.

California Legislators: keep taking the money.
I mean, you're the one who made it racial. Asia is a location, and the English language demonym for people who live there is "Asian."
>Hydrogen production is the family of industrial methods for generating hydrogen gas. As of 2020, the majority of hydrogen (∼95%) is produced from fossil fuels by steam reforming of natural gas and other light hydrocarbons, partial oxidation of heavier hydrocarbons, and coal gasification.

Unless there is a something I'm missing, it seems that large scale hydrogen production isn't very 'green'.
I suspect you could math it out and the result wouldn’t be that much.

Also they could have already converted those to CNG or propane if they’d wanted to.
Show HN: Gosqltojson go command line app to run SQL queries and output JSON/CSV
And this, more than anything else, is why I've shifted 100% to (1) open source software; (2) native system apps—which, on iOS, have gotten increasingly capable—and (3) apps with the pay-once licensing that remains. Greedy licensing has pretty much ended my impulse buys and window-shopping the App Store.
I don't think the recommended dogma for this is necessarily about feeling guilt per se, but I think a lot of people do end up in that, and it's probably not super healthy.

The dogma is more about being compassionate for others and recognizing that they may have had more struggles than you and they certainly have had their own life that has led them to where they are.

The times that I have seen this dogma well-enacted it's been about listening to people, and it has not been limited to recognizing this only for people of different races/creeds/colors, but also for people who are acting in a racist way. It's definitely very hard to navigate well, but it has been convincingly correct to me when I saw it happen.
Edge + ublock
Nice to see that gore-sploitation films appeared right at the start. After all, there were plenty of completely nude women in earliest films, though those were pretty tame—but afaik porn followed in a couple decades or so, when film stopped costing more than a live tour.

By the way, regarding ‘L’arrivée...’, Wikipedia says that Lumieres attempted 3D films even before getting properly started with flat ones. So, considering that accounts from that time were of quite meh quality, it's possible that the running-out occurred at a 3D showing, making the ‘illusion’ story more plausible.

Lastly, since J.G. Ballard is mentioned, I'll say that both ‘Crash’ and ‘Atrocity Exhibition’ are very cool. Aside from obvious connotations to real people's habits, just the atmosphere of the books is engrossing in the weirdest way. They tickle the brain in a manner that's only similar to what I experienced in childhood, when the world was big and anything could be in it—only, these books are for adults. I don't think they quite make surrealism like that anymore. Kobo Abe and animator Piotr Kamler are contemporaries that are somewhat similar in effect; Cronenberg's ‘Videodrome’ is likewise good (however his ‘Crash’ doesn't really have the feel). Of later stuff, Bret Easton Ellis is proficient in such immersion, and funny enough has a pair ‘American Psycho’-‘Glamorama’ that are close in the themes to each other but are related in execution like the two books of Ballard's, and likewise the film is its own thing by necessity.

Of very current authors, I know only Vladimir Sorokin who can pull off such feats—but his thing is that he can do what he wants with Russian language, and as a result is next to untranslatable. Apparently there's a dude who took on the challenge with English as the target, and several books at once are going to be published very soon (this year, they said)—I'm looking forward to diving in that the first chance I get, but my expectations are high and the outlook cautious.
We did see. It was the famed Eldred v. Ashcroft case. Lead counsel before the Supreme Court was Lawrence Lessig, darling of the Open Source movement. In a 7-2 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that, so long as the time limit for copyright was in some way limited, the length of time, even if lengthened after the fact, was permissible. Justice Stephens wrote an excellent dissent, but being only one of two, was official Wrong.
Yeah, in a small Italian village you're just as likely to find vegatable-only food.

In a weird way, it's become harder to eat traditional vegetables (say, edible wild weeds salad) than some tropical import.
CaRFG suffers from being a niche product with regulatory capture. It's even legislated that it can't be handled by the same supply chain as EPA RFG. (1)

CARB should recognize that its rules aren't that different than the national ones which came after their own standards were adopted, and that declining gas consumption (2) has reduced asset amortization and driven supplier pricing power. It's time to give up on CaRFG. Reductions in demand also decreased the relative impact of whatever vanishingly small merit the custom fuel might have offered.

Interestingly, the phase three specifications for both fuels are even closer to identical than phase 2, with the proposed EPA rules (3) actually being slightly tighter on sulfur than the proposed California rules (4). At this point the state is needlessly draining billions of dollars away from its people basically for the sole purpose of being different. And they've dragged Washington State and the rest of PADD 6 along for the ride.

(1) https://19january2021snapshot.epa.gov/fuels-registration-rep...

(2) https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=PET&s=A...

(3) https://www.epa.gov/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engin...

(4) https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/sites/default/files/barcu/regact/rvp2...
The PRC gangs to be exact.
There's a flagged and dead comment elsewhere on this page that shows up just fine when I view the user's comment history.
Shhhh stop talking about PHP, the ruby devs will start contributing code and ruin it! (I'm already angry that they moved the YAML parser out of the PHP standard library...)
Air New Zealand doesn’t allow trackers either - I expect most airlines don’t, so I don’t know why Lufthansa is getting shit here. Air NZ says: “Baggage Trackers (battery powered): Only battery powered baggage trackers that can be turned off i.e. are not in sleep mode, will be accepted in checked baggage. Some devices have an automatic On/Off feature, but not all. Always check the specifications of the device you want to buy as it may not be accepted by us. For those devices that have an auto On/Off feature, the tracking App must not be used in flight.” — https://www.airnewzealand.co.nz/travelling-with-lithium-batt...

FAA specifically allows non-rechargeable small Lithium cells if in equipment in checked baggage. However, the table on the second pages says that small battery/cell spares are not allowed in checked baggage. “Lithium metal batteries (a.k.a.: non-rechargeable lithium, primary lithium). These batteries are often used with cameras and other small personal electronics. Consumer-sized batteries (up to 2 grams of lithium per battery) may be carried. This includes all the typical non-rechargeable lithium batteries used in cameras (AA, AAA, 123, CR123A, CR1, CR2, CRV3, CR22, 2CR5, etc.) as well as the flat round lithium button cells.” — https://www.faa.gov/hazmat/packsafe/resources/media/Airline_...
Cartoons used to make jokes about kidnapping Asian kids to use them as slaves for math. It's interesting to see it become real now.
Ancient AC system will cool your house without electricity
Doesn't Molly get literally sick from being so absolutely negative all the time?
Unfortunately, whether you personally care about this sort of thing isn't good enough anymore. Owned Linux boxes on IoT devices are now being marshaled into massive botnets used to perform denial of service attacks, while other vulnerabilities are exploited to enable ransomware. You having negligent security on your own unpatched box because you don't personally feel like it's a good tradeoff has many negative external consequences. Fortunately, the decision isn't actually up to you (and having fewer vulnerabilities won't influence you negatively anyway, so I'm not sure why you're so angry about it).
Wait a sec, I thought it wasn’t acceptable to use locations in virus naming anymore (and Sudan ebolavirus has two places). Or is that rule specific to 2020?
Capitalism seems to have no trouble selling you those diesel cars. It's dealing with the consequences of their emissions or ensuring that they have a long term fuel supply that is the problem.
Nintendo doesn't have a relationship with anyone (content creators included), apart from their lawyers.

Despite the video being retracted the desired effect has been achieved. The flurry of news has more lay people thinking about the Steam Deck in the same class as the Switch, even if their intent is not to emulate.
Check out the free, open source https://stablehorde.net/ for stable diffusion image generation via a distributed cluster (with REST API).
Agile Classrooms – Reinventing the way we learn – one classroom at a time
No it is not. Hydrogen is laughable, absurdly inefficient as an energy storage method:

"Due to its relatively low volumetric energy density, transportation, storage and final delivery to the point of use can be one of the significant costs and energy inefficiencies associated with using hydrogen as an energy carrier."
https://www.hydrogen.energy.gov/delivery.html

"Natural gas stored at 20.78 MPa (3000 psig) and 21.1°C (70°F) contains five times as much energy as hydrogen stored under the same conditions."
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/036031...

Battery electric vehicles, by comparison, are vastly more efficient.
Why Disconnecting from Your Phone Is So Good for You – and How to Do It