skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. It probably helps make the decision because of how easy it would be to fall back on the FOSS version if needed, but for now its worth offloading the setup/hosting for the relatively small fee.
> The solution here isn't more regulation, it's individual sovereignty over data you generate.

It us government regulation that protects your sovereignty over your body or anything at all, including from the government itself
> since there are 2^{\aleph_0} functions from \mathbb{N} to \mathbb{N}

I think you mean N->Bool, not N->N
Do you have a link for gemstone, google is failing me. Is this GemStone/S ?
How do you measure that? And how can I corrupt that measurement to make me more wealthy and powerful?
Think about the bank you could roll in if you opened a childcare facility. I understand it's not as simple as printing money as there are obvious risks, liabilities, etc.. I imagine it wouldn't be too expensive to get up and running or maintain compared to something like a restaurant.
For certain. I'm less arguing that it isn't a conversation style, than I am that it is a dangerous one. Even in families, it is easy to see this form lead to resentment between folks. Or a contest to be last person talking. In a large sense, mansplaining is similar. Echoing back and explaining things even to people that know them isn't, itself, bad. But it is very easy to portray in a negative light and should not be the assumed default.

Now, I fully grant that the largest poison in all of this is the transactional view of conversation. The interrupt style is still predicated on an open transaction that will eventually commit.
Transmitting in-band (headers) seems ripe for arbitrary complexity. Someone out there would write a Turing-complete header DSL. And then someone else would write an incompatible alternative implementation.

At least file extension is limited and externally visible (and thus accountable) to third party behavior, which should limit the worst complexity excesses.

Is filesystem metadata actually different (theoretically) from extension? Or just data in a different format?

Extension seems a nice balance between simplicity / brevity and utility, albeit as a hint, not a commandment.
Sounds like you found a class boundary, definitely interesting

I'm curious what the step by step algebra for 100 / .95 = x is, isn't it already solved for x?

Edit: n/m I see, in this case google shows you a trivial solution so it's not surprising that the classification as "algebra problem" or whatever they use is ambiguous here. If I put "x^2 + 3x +1=0" it walks me through the quadratic formula, and I'd speculate I could change the coefficients and it always will do that
The Mystery of 355/113 (2010)
You're assuming Putin is rational. That's not a good assumption. Putin is elderly, likely in very bad health or possibly dying of cancer, and wants to make his mark on the world. In addition, if he loses in Ukraine, he'll likely be assassinated, so he has absolutely nothing to lose here. There's not really a good reason he wouldn't launch armageddon. We can only hope that his underlings don't want to get themselves and all other Russians exterminated in nuclear fire and will refuse to carry out his orders.
I compressed the full PNG via Guetzli (Google's high-quality jpg compressor) which took a couple of hours (now 15MB at 84% quality), so here it is:

https://github.com/dvasdekis/images/raw/master/pillars.jpg and https://mega.nz/file/BTdWSb6b#NHK9lAtGMIr1UxabLiC174ZvJWo7KS... and https://www.mediafire.com/file/n0qjxogsp203z0w/pillars.jpg/f...

The original crashed Windows when set as desktop background, but this one works.
There's that "HN Egg Cup" picture someone shows, if the person hits their site from HN.

I have a couple of downvote stalkers. It's really cute. One of them even went and wrote a pretty much embarrassingly childish one-star review on one of my Apple App Store apps. It was so bad that Apple hid it.

Sometimes, we deal better with machines, than with other people.
Funny, as with the cards, this should be a bit easier to literally act out. Intent to play a card is to lay it down. If someone has an instant, they can put theirs on top.
I was toying with the first world war at the time. You could query famous soldiers born in the same home town as the current president, for example.
The crazy part is a good portion of the population prefers feeling like they got a deal because something is “on sale” rather than just paying a lower non sale price.

See JC Penney’s disastrous experiment with removing sales/coupons and just offering low prices.
> What I've noticed is that my habit of interruption is received wildly differently by different kinds of people. It drives some people absolutely crazy

I think it hugely depends on which of the cultures you grew up in. I grew up in an interrupting culture family - interrupting was just the norm, nobody considered it rude. My wife grew up in a wait culture family. If I interrupt her she can get really mad. Over the years I've had to learn to use the wait-method when talking to her and it's made me more mindful of the two different cultures. I try to do more waiting than interrupting anymore since I now realize there's a large percentage of the population that considers interrupting to be rude.

There's also another thing that the waiters can consider an interruption, but I guess I never considered an interruption - saying something in agreement with the speaker as sort of an affirmation of what they're saying. My wife considers that an interruption, I consider it just participating in the conversation.
This is really interesting. Would you be willing to do a writeup of how your setup works?
It is, however what's been happening in CA is a direct result of poor forest management and planning
It's wild how they offer zero justification for this.

They know it's wrong. They removed the discussion about this on their own board: https://community.t-mobile.com/accounts-services-4/firefox-i...

Apparently there's an extension called 'Hide Private Mode' which gets around this. Browsing in containers also reportedly works. But these workarounds shouldn't be necessary. This is creepy behavior.
So those aren't examples of contraceptive access being removed, they're examples of the Supreme Court ruling that government can not force private insurers to cover specific things if they don't want.

It seems like the solution to that would be to pick a different insurance plan (Obamacare marketplace has no plans that restrict contraceptive coverage) or go through one of the hundreds of organizations like Planned Parenthood. Since any employee is free to pick an Obamacare plan by law, does that not ensure contraceptive coverage is always available?
I propose "syntactic konnyaku".

> Konnyaku is a rubbery, flavorless zero-calorie food made of yams that are high in fiber and added to various Japanese foods for its squishy texture.
This almost sounds like some sort of corruption, but i must be over-reacting
I quit my last job for several reasons but one was my team leader's inability to go 10 seconds without interrupting myself or someone else. I'd caution anyone against romanticizing it because for some people, being unable to complete a thought without interruption is unbearable.

To expand on why this can be so frustrating for me at least:

* If I have something significant or impactful to say, and someone interrupts midway through, the effect is diminished.

* If I'm saying something which I intend to follow with a qualification, e.g. "Elegant code is a priority, but we need to actually deliver code too", and someone interrupts before I add my qualification to dispute my claim or add their own qualification, then now we have pointless conflict, and I appear silly as though my statement wasn't thought through.

* If someone interrupts to complete my thought for me, and they get it wrong, suddenly I have to navigate the social implications of gently shutting them down and possibly returning to their comment later, and I'm now focusing on that instead of the topic.

* One can engage in active listening without interjecting at every opportunity, but admittedly it takes practice to learn the cues of each person you're speaking to and when is an appropriate time to jump in. I'm sure that I've been interrupted by many people many times in my life so far, but there's only 2 that I remember as having made a habit of it. Probably because they did it regularly, never caught themselves and apologised, and frustrated me which I imagine imprinted on me in some way as emotional events tend to.

mkaic, I don't mean to liken you to these people. I obviously don't know you or the way you converse so please take these only as anecdotes about the experiences of someone on the other end of the interruption spectrum. I've also just seen another comment of yours relating to "good" and "bad" interrupters and that seems like a reasonable distinction. I think my experience is with the bad ones, and maybe the good ones just fly under the radar because it feels like a natural interaction.
Sorry to disappoint but I'll never win any election. Inconsistency annoys me so I'll try to make my thoughts consistent.

One thing I learned from HN is housing cannot be both a universal human right and a reliable asset for people to retire out of so I must choose the former. This by itself means I cannot win any meaningful political office, or if I do, I cannot imagine not being swiftly nerfed so I won't be able to act on it.

Now that I've alienated homeowners, next idea I have is elimination of all credits, deductions, and exclusions or anything like that when it comes to taxes. You can probably see how this is a very bad idea for national security.

Next idea is eliminating income eligibility or similar ideas in government programs. Everyone from the richest people to the poorest should feel safe to take advantage of all our programs.

At this point, I'm sure I've made enough enemies that I won't even get ballot access (:
My (21 yo) default assumption is that Google gives whatever result is relevant to the most people. If you want algebra, just add the word “algebra” to your query. I think this could be a useful example for teaching people how to narrow down their Google searches.
So the artwork itself is preserved, while it's annoying and expensive for the museum (arguably coming out of the oil companies' sponsorship budget).

Sounds like the mission was accomplished?
thanks for the tip - just added myself!
That could be solved by tacking on 2x the file size worth of pointless html code to the file.
I'm talking about the general case, and it certainly makes everything worse in the general case.

Please just follow the rules in the future. You obviously broke them there.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Or just live in places that don't require active management to such a high degree. It's also very energy intensive and completely preventable since humans merely would have to move to safer places.

It's like people who like to live on a cliff by the water and then are bailed out when few years later the cliff is in risk of collapsing. Just avoid it in the first place.

Edit: some governments are already realizing this. It's impossible economicly to properly protect all people who live in remote locations surrounded by forest. At some point we just have to understand that the outsized costs to overall society of keeping small towns with dozens of people safe is not smart when they can move to somewhere safe. I'm just being honest. Governments are doing this implicitly by doing the bare minimum that will fly in the press, while demonstrating through actions that the more time goes on the more you're at your own risk if you live in a small town in a fire zone.
What makes you think that? If anything I think the state of the world today is strong evidence that is more unipolar than ever.

The US has demonstrated that it no longer takes threats of MAD seriously and we'll destabilize any country that doesn't fall in line. Look to the obvious situation with Russia and continued pressure to sanction and damage the Chinese economy.

The only way I see this unipolar situation reversing is if someone actually lets some nukes fly
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33266292.
A 20 year old pickup is fuel injected, has a catalytic converter, and is checked by it's OBD2 controls constantly.

Unless the pickup is failing its smog tests, and driving around with expired registration, it's operating pretty well I promise.

Regarding oil consumption, that might be possible, but would eventually clog up the catalytic converters with an oily residue and also cause OBD2 faults for bad catalytic converter efficiency.

Maybe they're leaking it on the ground I suppose.

Or it's two stroke oil for the leaf blower.
I have a genuine question which I have been wondering about for sole time:

Is there anything positive to this “one nation can veto everything” rule? It feels like this is really blocking a lot of progress in the EU where some of the right-spectrum nations can simply block anything or bargain from.

Why do we have this rule and is it hard to get rid of it?
I don't believe our current system (in the US) is based on evidence, so I see no reason to limit alternatives to being backed by evidence. I've never had the opportunity to run my own justice system, so no, I can't say how well it works.

I think corporal punishment is vastly more humane and prefer it largely for humanitarian reasons. If we were torturing prisoners, and I proposed we stopped, would you ask for the evidence to back up the idea that cutting out torture was a good idea?

There needs to be some deterrent, but taking years from a person's life, and forcing them to live in squalid conditions and in close proximity to violent criminals, is not a humane deterrent, it is not an effective deterrent (as evidenced by recidivism rates), and it is not an effective deterrent in terms of either dollars or time.

Flogging, by contrast, can be executed quickly and cheaply, and, while the injury might stay with you for weeks, doesn't take a large quantity of your life. Flogging is also visually impressive and likely to be something that most people want to avoid. Flogging has a long history of use as a punishment too - suggesting it would have a useful deterrent effect.

Regarding execution - no mistakes can ever be corrected. If you send a person to prison and they commit suicide, die of disease, or are killed by another inmate, all of which are vastly more common in prison than in the general population, you can't undo your mistake should you discover that the person sentenced was wrongfully convicted. Likewise, even if you sentence someone for five years, discover after two it was a mistake, they do not get their life back. Does this mean we should never imprison people?

It's fine to say there should be a higher bar of proof required for execution, but the finality of the sentence is not a reason not to employ it. There are people who have committed heinous crimes caught on video, attested to by witnesses, placed at the scene by evidence, and who have confessed their own guilt, and who have no plausible defense. In such a scenario why should we stay punishment out of a paranoia that maybe, despite all evidence, we might be wrong and might one day want to release this horrible criminal back to the general population?
Ha! Erdős–Bacon numbers originated in a 2002 Telegraph article by Simon Singh, referenced by Wikipedia as [1]:

https://web.archive.org/web/20121112081753/http://www.telegr...

I came up with this game after realizing I had an Erdős–Bacon number. He credits me, but spun the article to make this sound like a "thing" other people cared about.

I was written out of that Wikipedia page long ago. Very little of what survives on that page stands up to close scrutiny.

Combining these numbers is an obscure amusement, but people take the separate numbers seriously. For Erdős numbers, should one count posthumous papers? My "2" via Persi Diaconis goes to "3" if one doesn't.

The original intent of the Bacon number game was to count actors in fictional speaking roles. My "2" here is from a speaking role in "A Beautiful Mind". The "Oracle of Bacon" replaced this intent with whatever their database could easily report. Appearing as oneself in a documentary on Erdős had the obvious hilarious effect.

One understand these links better by studying IMBD credits. Daniel Kleitman's "2" depends on a "Thanks" credit from "Good Will Hunting", and few of the other low Bacon numbers on the Erdős–Bacon Wikipedia page can be confirmed at all.
This is really important if you have multilingual software. It lets users find help in all the languages they understand, not just their OS language.
the stuff bellingcat can do is really incredible. It's a pity they decide to waste their large resources pursuing an absurd woke ideology. They waste their talents going after "far right individuals" or "fascists". I respect them for going after Russia when nobody else was looking, but why do they have to be so openly and radically political? Who do they think it's going to help?
The article is wrong on multiple counts.

Brave's ad blocking and advertising are separate things - the adblocker is basically pretty much like uBO, but written in Rust and integrated as part of the browser.

Brave Rewards is a separate module that lets users watch ads that get delivered as toaster popups. Brave uses a part of the revenue to buy BAT from the open market and gives it to users who viewed the toaster popups. The company also operates a tipping service that lets users give those crypto tokens to content creators they like. (Since Brave buys the tokens, the tokens will have a buyer who pays with real money from the real, normal advertising business).

Second, the browser did actually start being built on top of Gecko - as far as I know they had an Electron-like solution just with Gecko, and used that for the first versions of the browser. Later they transitioned to being a Chromium soft fork.
Curious, what would you have google do?

Disable GA tracking when in incognito, and if so, how should they handle other tracking scripts?

Possibly they could try to explain to the user what GA is, but I imagine if users don’t understand the internet already, this isn’t easy to explain.
It's already been said plenty of times that mutual trust is a requirement, this will be my last reply to your comments if you keep straw-manning.
Meanwhile in Florida

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/interactive-see-after-p...

You can find failed/failing/failing to implement infrastructure in every state in the US, it’s a national issue
Honestly, as a Californian; I see this positively. We need our butts kicked a bit to make progress. I want California to be the best place in the world. It’s trying hard to not be.
https://glitch.com works on phones, codesandbox doesn't iirc and I doubt github codespaces does either (they both use stuff from vscode), codepen does.
No. Stripe is a bit insidious (that's probably too negative of a characterization) in that way. Once you start using a product, the pricing for that product then gets rated on your bill.

Stripe billing is .5%, Invoicing .4%, Tax .5%, Rev Rec .25%, etc.

Products like Checkout are included in your prevailing rate (2.9% or whatever).
Discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33262375
I live near the towns of Detroit and Gates in Oregon, both burned to the ground in the 2020 labor day fires. Many people died. Hundreds of homes destroyed. I think it's worth trying better management.
IBM surpasses quarterly projections and lifts its full-year revenue forecast
Wait a bit. If it gets brighter, it's morning; if it gets darker, it's night.
Indeed. I noticed my hearing was getting worse since in office I kept increasing music volume in (futile) attempts to block out chatterboxes at the next desk. Destroying your health is not worth whatever faster promotions in-office work promises.
The whole 'quantified self' thing was both about addressing niche wants for metrics and creating a mainstream market for those metrics, and the devices that collect them, as well.

To answer your question, the appeal was originally niche and expensive advertising campaigns convinced consumers that they needed it, too.
Find some way to give back. Cut back on job hours, volunteer somewhere, help people learn software, whatever.

Spend time with your spouse, see if you can given them something they’ve wanted for a long time.

Think about adoption.
There is a straight answer. Government is far too big and inefficient, which adds tremendously to the cost when it is involved.
MOSS, now that's an acronym I haven't heard in nearly a decade and a half. I worked on that product at Microsoft 2004-9.
Starlink Aviation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33256378 - Oct 2022 (476 comments)
Why didn’t they open up the bids? My firm would’ve been willing to do that toilet for only $1.45 million and get it done within 18 months. Because we are go-getters

/s
Everything you listed requires integration between the hardware and the software running in lockstep. By 2010, Apple had 4 years worth of experience releasing operating systems that shared features between the phone, computer and the iPad.

Apple has also started designing its own processors by then for the iPad and the iPhone 4.

Even the idea of taking a call from your phone and transferring to your computer using the same headset took a specialized processor and micro operating system on the headset to work on AirPods. Microsoft didn’t have tte hardware expertise then and still doesn’t.

Even today in 2022, the ARM processors that MS uses in their laptops are so bad that you can run x86 Windows programs running Windows ARM in a VM on a Mac faster than a Microsoft laptop.

As far as the Innovators Dilemma, the author was completely wrong about the iPhone.

https://stratechery.com/2013/clayton-christensen-got-wrong/
it's already a thing since forever, just a quick one from the top of my head https://www.social-searcher.com/google-social-search/?q=Paul...
Equilibrium all the way down.
Aldi's is an outstanding example of the inefficiencies of micro management / JIT. Coin for grocery cart wastes time messing around to get a quarter & lock driving away customer volume that more than pays for an employee to push carts back. Leaving the items in the container wastes shelf space & time by disallowing spring loaded or gravity dispensers & senselessly manually drags the boxes into the store as almost all of the boxes then are taken back out once noticed by an employee. Also, in contrast to the individual empowerment theme, but with the anti-customer view lacks self service kiosks & usually have 1 lane open that blocks with large volume customers & no dedicated x items or fewer lanes. The floor plan sprawls proportional to economies of scale & is divided appropriately by interest in contrast to Aldi that has random furniture between grocery.