skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Obviously there are differing views on this, but is it that pathological to see absolutely nothing wrong with a consenting adult making an informed decision to place their own life at peril? Most of my concerns would be regarding a malfunction or the triggering device not operating as advertised. But if it actual works as labeled then who am I to judge.
I think you might be thinking about FaceTime. At announcement, Jobs said on stage that it was going to be an open standard, which came as a surprise to the developers. I don’t believe iMessage was ever announced to be open.
Not every joke is satire. What point is he trying to make here?
I think it depends what your goal with Duolingo is. I've had great luck using the app as smart flashcards, less so an end-to-end language learning solution.
A modest proposal was about the English's treatment of the Irish and how their conversations come off as barbaric while mascaraing as intellectualism. So he presents a solution to the Irish problem. This in tern is making fun of weebs that want SAO but forgot the premise of the show.
Every time someone complains about ram in the iPhone it’s evidence they don’t know what they are talking about and chase the numbers trends of android.
>I think you just personally dislike Palmer Lucky's politics

Why act like this? It accomplishes nothing aside from grafting a hostile tangent onto a conversation. You may be correct coincidentally, but the parent's opinion, as written, presents nothing to justify making such an uncharitable leap out loud. I read the parent comment and sympathized with them before I even realized the subject was Palmer Luckey.
“It doesn’t matter how liberal Austin is. You still live in Texas.”

Says it all. Stay for the cash if you’d like but state laws win in the end. Y’know, there’s a name for people like that…
People (including HN) are just bad at using SM.
> Nobody wants a language where whitespace is significant as a debugging extension language! It’s verbose and unpleasant and fiddly to write in a REPL.

You are correct about it being fiddly to write multi-line Python scripts at the REPL.

However:

- Modern python REPLs are really good. They auto-complete very well and suggest indentation when they recognise the syntax of the previous line:

```

$ python3

>>> for x in range(1, 10):<user presses enter key>

....<indentation is provided by REPL, note the "....">

```

- Python indentation rules are quite simple once you get the hang of it

- The issue with typing at the REPL is really more about remembering the syntax of various language statements rather than the white space rules of Python. This is a problem with using any (other language) like, say, Lua/Javascript at the REPL.

- Most "scripts" at the REPL tend to be just a single line where you don't need to worry about whitespace indentation. When you have a long script then you simply run a program directly

- Yes, Python scripting at the REPL is a bit more verbose than Javascript (for example). But most people can live with the extra characters and the verbosity makes it easier to understand what you meant a few REPL commands ago

- The reason to use Python generally its insanely large ecosystem of software. The inconvenience of the white-space-significant aspect of language at the REPL is totally offset by that.
yeah this is performance art/trolling. It clearly seeks a reaction, which is amplified by the casual description.
What does your completely anecdotal experience add to the conversation? Especially seeing that 35% of EU cell phone users own iPhones?

It means about as much as the old Slashdot meme “I haven’t watched TV in a decade. Do people still watch TV?”

Could it possibly be that your experience is not representative of the broader EU?
A Modest Proposal was written to sway the readers to a line of thinking about a topic that was prevalent at the time.

What prevalent issue and what line of thinking is Palmer's article about?

Right now it seems more likely to me that Palmer had an idea, built it, shared it along with their interest in anime or SSO in particular, and is not making a moral argument about the state of the world and what we should do about it.
That's a weird take. There are better phones that fit on your hand.

It's like saying that people don't like licorice because people absolutely detest eating.

Maybe it is because it tastes like shit to them.
This might the cringiest post I've seen, especially those tacky cake toppers.
Free? "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
This invariably leads to fucked up diffs and useless blaming. In theory tabs are superior as a way to provide configurable layout but as soon as you have to collaborate between users with different tooling you end up in a mixed whitespace hellscape.
Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN. It's not what this site is for, and it destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It seems a stretch to label this "intentionally" making interoperability between platforms worse, when in order to create interoperability they would have to devote significant engineering and design effort into creating a solution for a platform they don't own or control. Recall that when iMessage was introduced, the messaging landscape was very different. It was basically SMS "but nicer" for iPhone users with a simple fallback.

My understanding of low res images and video is that it's a limitation of MMS messaging?

I dunno, I read the exchanges and it seems fairly benign. Execs asking the question of "do we want to invest in this or not?" and coming to the conclusion not to invest outside their own platform.
To be honest ethical principles sounds like an even worst optimization target then engagement due to Goodhart's law.

When it becomes the measure it ceases to become effective, and will likely be gamed to some extent.
If it was anyone but Palmer, my assumption would be that it is satire. However, since it is Palmer, my assumption is that he did actually build enough of it for it to be lethal if fully armed, and that it is genuinely a tribute to SAO rather than a warning about VR.
4 kids so far here. If you mean training to sleep independently through the night in their own room -- we wait until they are good and easy and don't really need to nurse any more (other than comfort nursing). Then they move to their own room and I sleep in that room with them without my wife. I'm a heavy sleeper. If they cry enough to really wake me up, I comfort them for a bit. Mostly I sleep through their crying. Within about three days to a week, there is zero crying at night and I move back to the bedroom and we use a baby monitor.

It has worked like a charm 4 times straight, but your mileage may vary.

Other sleep tips, as they get older:

- No reading in bed near bedtime, ever.

- No playing in bed near bedtime.

- No nighttime routines except short short hugs and kisses. No tucking in.

- Train them to put their pajamas on by themselves and brush their teeth by themselves as soon as they are physically able to do those things, and make sure they do it without help each night.

- No toys in the rooms except stuffed animals and similar bedtime items.

- If they get in the habit of calling for you unnecessarily at night, start taking stuff away each time you come (e.g., their least favorite stuffed animal). That alters the risk/reward ratio for them and they'll stop calling for you for no reason very quickly.
> Those cameras make traffic less safe, because once they're in place, municipalities shorten yellow lights to collect more revenue from them.

Only in your world, not mine. We don’t allow that here.

> If other countries that have those are safer, it's despite them, not because of them.

Or because they don’t allow city governments to overrule traffic engineers.

Sorry you live where stupid people screw with your lights, but that doesn’t point to any flaw in automatic traffic ticketing.
You can do comedy and satire, but if you do it badly (like Palmer did here), expect some ridicule.
Can Elon pull this plane out of the tailspin?
I never really got into SAO and haven't watched Log Horizon but in the same theme "I Hate Getting Hurt, So I Put All My Skill Points Into Defense" was pretty fun.
I typically take a mix of things, cold soaking is only one element. Couscous, instant oatmeal, ramen — stuff with flavor packets in general work well. I’ve also done bulk buy and added my own spices for a change - it just depends on how much prep time I have for the trip. I also eat salami, cheese, and a home-made trail mix with a lot of dried fruit and good amount of nuts and chocolate chips. A few bars for emergencies, backup water purification system plus a Sawyer Squeeze as my primary filter, and I’m good to go. The Talenti jars work great for me, and my kids enjoy having to “make” me a clean one every now and then.

I’ve backpacked with people who bring a lot of fresh food — avocados, eggs, bread even, plus the normal dehydrated food plus stove and fuel. I obviously swing all the way to the other extreme, eating like I do at home is not the point for me. Long days with lots of mileage and elevation gain make almost anything taste good, so why not save a few pounds, simplify your trip, and save a fair amount of money in the process. In general my backpacking systems are all moving in this direction as I get older and get more trips under my belt — with the one exception of a Garmin InReach, which has saved my ass a couple times now (with weather reports, not rescues needed).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Man-Bat
To add my own lived experience, the whole blue / green text thing is absolutely a cultural label throughout continental Europe. As a 20-something who has recently lived in France + Denmark, you do seem like a bit of a pariah without an iPhone
"You might be thinking, “Okay, but now characters won’t line up neatly.” Thats true, but the upside of this sizing means you still retain the typewriter aesthetic with a bit more legibility. Notice the difference?"

Umm... no?

"The difference is subtle but notice that the sample on the right gives letters like lowercase “m” a little leg room, improving the readability of the code."

Uhh... If you say so...

I honestly don't see any of the upsides he's talking about. But the downside of things not lining up is definitely real.
Thank god the sort of people who mindlessly seek “cool” stuff to work on in the absence of any kind of ethics seldom have the intelligence, skill, or charm to realize any of their dreams.
> This is the same as if one set of friends are on WhatsApp and another set are on telegram etc… and having to deal with either switching between apps or dealing with reduced capabilities.

It's not really the same, since if a group is using WhatsApp and you want to join, but don't have WhatsApp, you can simply install it. The same with all other messaging platforms.

With iMessage you can join over text/MMS, but it will make the experience so much worse for everyone that most people (from my experience) will simply not allow you to join.

There's a reason this is a major cause of dread for socially vulnerable teenagers https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-... but it's not that different for adults.
Are we supposed to find every forced attempt at satire funny ?
Where in Continental Europe?
Pretty sure this is not how satire is written. Was looking for an ice breaker throughout the blog which never came. Then I realised he is casually talking about killing people in real life as if its a video game
> When children in China are asked what they want to be, #1 is astronaut. In the US it's social media influencer. Play that thought experiment a couple generations.

Pretty sure that in the Soviet Union (and early Russia), the answer was also "astrounaut". At least it felt that way, when I was growing up there, and it certainly was the answer for me.

Didn't end up leading them that far though. So I am not much worried about that "astrounaut" answer in China today being much of an indicator of anything meaningful either.
American cities where people smile the most
He was cc'd. You can see in one of the screenshots in the second tweet in the thread.
Yes. I cringed so hard I’m wearing my endothelial layer as skin.
Zillow: https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1488-Sunland-Ct-San-Jose-...

Redfin: https://www.redfin.com/CA/San-Jose/1488-Sunland-Ct-95130/hom...

The history between May and August was deleted on Redfin. Either there is a way to pay Redfin to delete history or @lotsofpulp is right, or maybe a convenient bug?
Recently became a tech lead and I am enjoying being able to identify and lead cross-team initiatives.
> Failing that, there’s limited reasons to use BSD systems instead of Linux unless you have highly specialised requirements. Under many cases I’d imagine it would be more expensive in terms of effort required to hire/train skilled staff.

I'd expect you'd need more training for Linux, since it changes more often.
If this is true, it's the opposite of what you imply. The fancier and more expensive the phone, the less productive you're likely to be with it.

My 4 year old Android device can do anything productive that someone else's iPhone 14 can do. What it can't do is play the latest games (not enough RAM), stream Netflix comfortably (small screen), or impress people with face unlock (lowly thumbprint recognition for me).
> You obviously can, but indexing with `[]` is the default way one would think of doing and it can certainly be surprising that it panics.

True. I think it would've been nicer to make it return an Option type, but I guess performance would suffer if they made everything consistent.
Accurate reporting of the error positions is one reason this is a non-trivial thing to implement. It's a fixable problem, just takes quite a bit of tooling and complexity for a good experience, and all things considered: is it really worth it?
Society only exists as is today because people went through that "undesirable" period.
> we're sorry, but we just ate a pangolin at the wet market.

rofl.

I meet ex-colleagues for lunch every now and then. It ain't that bad... But I mean it depends. There's also a lot of ex-colleagues I never see again. Some are more like friends, some less.
It’s the same format as ‘100 years ago people thought we would have flying cars by now’. 13 years ago a Japanese author thought that by 2022 we would have ‘full dive’ VR technology indistinguishable from reality (that also had a fatal design flaw of being able to kill its wearer). Today we’ve only managed to reproduce the fatal design flaw, not the amazing VR experience.
> What does your completely anecdotal experience add to the conversation?

My original comment was answering an existing comment that literally started with "I saw a humorous exchange at a social event" and described literally an anecdote.

I'm hoping you'll see why it's obvious that my comment was very much fit to the existing conversation that was already happening.
I might be wrong and have just looked at a couple houses where the data is missing now. I set the Zillow filter to “price reductions”, which Redfin does not have, but I compared a few homes and both listed price changes.

The houses I had favorited with the missing price changes are gone from my Redfin favorites list now (owner decided to remove listing?).

Zillow definitely has better history though, and a filter option to show price reductions.
Yeah, so I went down the Freebsd rabbit hole last year for my personal hosting and I have some mixed feelings about it. It's a much nicer/less changing environment than Linux, and it's really good for the things it does well. But the moment you step off the happy path then you will find yourself lost in the woods.

Basically I ended up using the Freebsd box as a fileserver (ZFS and Minio), and still running an Alpine Linux box with zfs for most other things.

I did briefly run a Minecraft server on the Freebsd box which worked really well.
> Reports seem to say that Wi-Fi and Bluetooth are problematic.

They've always been fine for me, and sound is more reliable than Linux. What went wrong for you?
It's not even hard, just boil a solution of 1/2 white vinegar + 1/2 water, and the CaCO3 (+ 2H(+) from the vinegar) changes back to Ca(2+) + CO2 + H2O
You can even see the bubbles from the CO2
With non-monospaced fonts, it doesn't matter how many or how few leading spaces you insert, the columns may never line up, and your IDE can't determine them automatically.

With monospaced fonts, the columns will be guaranteed to line up with the correct number of spaces, which your IDE will determine anyway.
This shouldn't have been flagged.

While the specific way this was presented may be a little ascerbic, , the underlying complaint behind it is sound.

A large majority of the world is fine with their identity being e.g somename@gmail.com, but the more technical among us choose to explicitly own not just the first bit, but the second bit. E.g. myname@myname.com for sound reasons. The reality is that we don't always care where that resolves to (fastmail / protonmail / google domains), because the namespace is portable.
Yes except you talk to each other and work on the same thing with pair programming.
Oh, looks like he is in both games!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshimitsu
If you didn’t watch it and anime is something you enjoy, you definitely should give it a watch. I saw all the seasons and throughoutly enjoyed it. While the premise of the show is pretty simple, they really do it justice by showing how life would look like after spending literally years in virtual reality, how people adapt to the new situation etc.
No one is taking it seriously, everyone is just satirizing reactions to posts like the one submitted here. But since you are taking those reactions seriously, they must be good satire.
It is far more ethical than ostensible moral superiority and thin ethical postering by SV crowd, Palmer addresses it quite well here: https://youtu.be/nK0NfL2M5L4?t=820 and here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q95LjvFdoAQ
How many hashes will you include? A single one for the whole CD? That tells you if you have an error, but not where?

A 32 bytes hash for every 32 bytes? Then you double your storage requirements.

There are actually WAY better algorithms for this than a hash (a hash is meant to handle secrets and cryptography - it's the wrong thing for this purpose).

ECC codes can tell you if the data is bad - and you can choose how many bytes this covers, and that can also fix bad data, again, you can choose how many errors per byte you want.

If you are curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_correction_code
> The Inflation Reduction Act imposes a corporate alternative minimum tax equal to the excess of 15% of a corporation's adjusted financial statement income (AFSI) over its corporate alternative minimum tax foreign tax credit.

This is not an impactful tax for any of the affected corporations. They will simply choose the method under which they pay the least and continue their tax avoidance through declared max depreciation et al, as normal. This is the USA and billionaires aren't to be inconvenienced by public policy.
He definitely convinced me I was using far more water than necessary when boiling pasta. Cooking pasta in a shallow pan, with barely enough water to cover, was a revelation. Not just from the fact that you get a starchier water to help emulsify your sauce, but it just takes way less time to get bring to a boil.
I also found it weird how he talks about "the SAO incident", in which thousands of people were affected as though it was real.
HBO Cancels Westworld
The ironic meta quotient is so far off the charts Humanity might need to reboot.
It keeps falling off the front page despite engagement, weird.
The Human Brain in Numbers: A Linearly Scaled-Up Primate Brain
I clicked on demo with my mobile, got a very unusable login prompt, and decided it's not good enough for me at the moment.
> stirrups (using the weight of the horse with the rider) with spears

Stirrups are not a European innovation but borrowed, probably from Asian invaders, and spread across Asia to Europe from China beginning in the late 6th century AD. China and Korea had stirrups for almost a millennia by then.
~50% overall but something like 87% for teens. That discrepancy in numbers is really going to be interesting within a generation or two.
To clarify, my pixel wouldnt die after 3 hours. It would drop to around 50% or so, i would put it away, and it would die on its own by the end of the next day without me using it pretty much at all (outside of it sitting there and receiving notifications).
As an ex Windows user, I like Linux Mint.
What if all your ideas are bad and you never get to the phase of having good ideas. That seems to be my problem, probably others too.
I take issue with the introduction. Nearly all of the ails of the world he mentions are nothing new. As an example, managers have been complaining about workers "not wanting to work" since industrial labor began.

Paul Fairies tweets will make you realize that not much has changed with people complaining in the past 100 years. https://twitter.com/paulisci/status/1549527748950892544?lang...
> Instant-runoff voting (used in practice for counting RCV ballots in the US) actually satisfies the "later-no-harm" criterion[0] of voting systems (unlike Approval Voting)

This is a flaw for instant runoff voting at a benefit for approval voting.

In a nutshell, later no harm means voting for your second can't hurt your first. But it can also mean that your vote for your second can't hurt your third either. Thus if it's more important to target your third than your first, you want to hoist your second favorite into the first position by burying your true favorite. That can never be strategically good with approval voting.

https://medium.com/@ClayShentrup/later-no-harm-72c44e145510
It would be a poor explanation if it didn’t fit the facts. When faced with a body “the butler did it” is an explanation, but in the absence of actual evidence or reasoning to support it, it’s not a compelling case.
It would be pretty cool if duels were still legal, you could have some elaborate game living as an abstraction over a duel to settle your fued.
Show HN: I made a Django admin shortcut interface
> they would have to devote significant engineering and design effort into creating a solution for a platform they don't own or control.

They wouldn't even have to engineer it themselves. Opening for third party developers would quickly solve the problem. Besides, making a multiplatform app doesn't seem to be an issue for Apple im other contexts, or for any other maker of messaging apps.

> My understanding of low res images and video is that it's a limitation of MMS messaging?

Apple could fall back on a more modern MMS version, like RCS.

It's pretty clear from the article, as well as countless others (like https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-apples-imessage-is-winning-... or https://www.npr.org/2022/09/08/1121756012/iphone-android-tex... )
that they simply don't want to.

They'd rather make more money while making people less happy. You don't have to blame them, but you can understand why it makes some people unhappy.
Meanwhile, at the other extreme, in many proportional fonts the widths of letters vary so characteristically that clever readers can decode a text mostly just from the widths: see Donald Knuth's "N-ciphered texts": https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl...

(Not linking the solutions here to make it harder to spoil the puzzle, but you can find them online with a bit of effort — maybe this will help: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?articl... — and it's also reprinted in Selected Papers on Fun and Games.)