skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a difference between sociology (as taught in American universities) and cultural anthropology, and this article is a nice demonstration of that difference. Note that everything in this article only applies to a relatively small socio-economic grouping - i.e. relatively well-off college-educated Americans. This is explicitly stated, more or less, in the article:

> "The saga of adult friendship starts off well enough. “I think young adulthood is the golden age for forming friendships,” Rawlins says. “Especially for people who have the privilege and the blessing of being able to go to college.”"

There are many different cultures and economic groupings, globally speaking, and they don't all devolve into isolated 'nuclear family' groupings over time, as this article implies. The majority of people don't actually have Facebook feeds from people they haven't seen in 35 years. Their friendships are based in the communities they live in - the people they trade with for food, clothing, and other necessities. There's a much greater sense of mutual interdependence, not so much the concept of isolated individual success followed by what, retreat to a gated community?

If you attempt to take an outside perspective, it's rather startling how class-stratified and wealth-stratified American society has become, very similar to the posh/prole divide in imperial Britain.
Thank you so much! Really appreciate that.
I believe it's more of a desktop software crisis. I think that IDEs, for the large part, are actually the most active part of this sector.
You know what I mean, not too crazy / violent. Of course it's never absolute peace. But at the same time this is one factor that drove 'modern societies' to more and more isolation. It's tempting to not want to deal with others. But at that point it's detrimental.
As it should :)
I was under the impression that locally harvested oysters are basically carbon neutral. Same for mussels and clams. Why would you need a plant-based version of those? Surely it can't for animal welfare.
The world's most expensive Lorem Ipsum generator?
Mostly just vanilla JS on that page, and a tiny bit of Python glue code to turn the WebVTT output from Whisper into a data format for the JS.
You're right about everything except one: They didn't climb up a ladder, they climbed up a pile of corpses of the poor.
The time I save using jetbrains today is well worth the "risk" of having to learn a new tool sometime in the next 20 years.
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I don't understand why they would market it as a source of accurate text or some kind of oracle. Language models are useful for generating text. Believable or entertaining works of fiction.

The extra parts about truthiness and the dangers of misinformation were just too much for me. We have a bigger problem with our premises and status quo if inaccurate scientific papers are a danger.
Launching a Desktop App with No Existing Audience to Make $520 in 13 Days
I was working in a Telco that owns a big backbone network in south America.

Our director was very sensitive to traffic changes. Every week or two there was a big meeting at her office to explain what happened when some traffic went down.

That day she was really mad at us. There afternoon before there was 20% less traffic in the backbone and nobody knew where it went.

I was on call that week for the management systems and I was questioned about why the operators didn't have received any alarm.

Turns out Spain was playing soccer against some Latin American team. Spain was our biggest customer. I don't remember if the other team was Argentina, Chile, or Brazil... but it was our 2nd biggest market.

People just decided to watch TV instead of web browsing (that was before mobile phones had an affordable internet connection).

Funny enough eMule traffic spiked during the match. That was the reason I could justify there was no alert in the system for down interfaces.
> An apple is not an apple. An apple is a subjective construct that summarises the distinguishing features of a certain kind of object as it appears to our sense.

This is utter nonsense. An apple IS an apple. If I put one on a table, then obliterate every human being that’s capable of sensing it, the apple is utterly unaffected.

If aliens come down and experience the apple differently than we would have, that doesn’t change the apple one bit.
Since I am from further north, I consider Iowa to be more Midwest than upper Midwest. We do have some wind mills around, but they are stationary more often than not, especially in the period I mentioned in January where we don't get much sun or wind.

If we littered the landscape of Iowa with enough windmills to fill chemical or mechanical batteries, though, that might cut down on the distance we need to import energy at least.
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In the US, we have government programs to educate, feed and house the needy. None of these programs have solved the problem.

Public education in particular sees very bad outcomes for poor students. It is time to privatize.
They are probably your acquaintances (to play boardgames), not real friends.
Author here - I'll be in the comments for the next 48h if you want to ask/discuss.
Outside of the simplification of class, it turns out molecules are actually quite complicated.

Significantly more complicated than “this one single molecule is the flavour X, and therefore indistinguishable from an actual X”.

This reminds me of https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2019/09/solving-the-lo...

> Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus first reported friction-induced static electricity in 600 B.C. After rubbing amber with fur, he noticed the fur attracted dust.

> “Since then, it has become clear that rubbing induces static charging in all insulators — not just fur,” Marks said. “However, this is more or less where the scientific consensus ended.”

Of course, you get taught in class that when you rub things together you pull free electrons off one and that magically makes static electricity.

…of course, that’s a gross simplification and also wrong (read the article).

Ie. it’s a fair suggestion that what you learnt in class was not domain specific to taste and organic chemistry; and, wrong.

Pure chemical flavours are not equivalent to natural equivalents, because they are:

- not chemically equivalent (the natural product is a mixture of many molecules)

- probably not chemically pure (since they’re cheap ass imports)

- probably contain contaminants from the chemical process they were produced by, if they have obvious (eg. a smell) differences from the natural product.

So… yes, a chemical, in its pure form is just a chemical, no matter where it comes from.

…but that’s an ideal, not reflected, most likely either the source natural ingredient, or the cheap ass petroleum products you can buy for a few bucks / liter.
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Many people object to eating or using any animal products at all as a red-line on ethical grounds - that can't be news to you?
I use NameCheap as well for similar reasons -- their pricing seems as fair as it gets in the domain business, and they haven't tried anything scummy enough to make me switch providers.

One thing I don't understand: why can't I pay $100 today and get some kind of proof of ownership for life? Is that just impossible with the domain system as it is?
The typical solution is to use a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) or a energy recover ventilator (ERV). They exhaust old air outside and bring fresh air in, but they also attempt to transfer the heat of the outgoing air to the incoming air.
Because it adds an expensive swing to your otherwise bland product. And that without actually putting real truffles in it: a great marketing ploy.
FTX Trading Ltd. has a bunch of legal entities on the Bahamas. As shown in the latest Delaware court fillings. The Bahamas have at least jurisdiction over those legal entities and their assets. That FTX as a whole was unable, and/or unwilling, to keep proper track of accounts, cash and assets across their overly complicated corporate structure is hardly the Bahamas fault.
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The original article is quite good:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01809-3

Looks like the ion energy isn't thermalizing as expected. This is important because only the ions on the tail of the distribution have appropriate energy to participate in fusion. It isn't terribly surprising that there is a discrepancy as it sounds like good thermalization is one of their simplifying assumptions. Good to see that things have progressed far enough that people can iterate on ignition and burning plasma experiments.
Great strategy to coax those intractable WFHers into the office.
Leaving a comment here for someone more experienced to respond. How do chess engines like this which learn how you play over time better/worse than traditional coach
It even generated indicators for references, but not the references themselves. I could see it being useful if it was some kind of system that could basically synthesize wikipedia articles from the literature for topics that don't already have a nice review or other sort of summary, but references to actual scholarly works are absolutely essential for that to be useful. I don't know how taking random sentences out of context that happen to have the same theme, without any sort of actual sources, would help anyone aside from paper mills.
In Legal Fight with Arm, Qualcomm Just Has a Microchip on Its Shoulder
You are free to be the Musk's product, I will not.
Related:

"Universal Serial Bus Device Class Specification for Device Firmware Upgrade":

https://www.usb.org/sites/default/files/DFU_1.1.pdf

PDS: I'm guessing (but not knowing!) that "what JTAG is to hardware debugging", "DFU is to USB device firmware upgrades"...

My question is, can DFU be used to discover the ability to upgrade/retrieve firmware images -- in arbitrary USB devices?

I'm guessing (but not knowing!) that it could possibly do that...

If so, then it makes DFU interesting from a "hardware capability discovery" perspective, much like 'lspci', 'lshw', etc., etc.
I think any prices anyone has seen so far are pretty arbitrary and have no relationship to the 'cost' of actually providing that ride. The price is that cheap because if it wasn't 25-35% cheaper than Uber, why would anyone test it for them? They've spent billions of dollars so far and probably have a burn rate of billions more each year, and that's without doing any kind of future capital-intensive build out of cars and maintenance infrastructure.
We replaced a 25+ year-old propane furnace with a high-efficiency natural gas furnace two years ago. The difference in waste heat is astonishing.

The old furnace vented through a vertical chimney vent and the exhaust was so hot that touching the metal pipe would burn your hand.

The new furnace is direct vented with PVC pipes and the exhaust outside the house feels barely warm — that’s a lot of additional heat that stays in the house instead of being wasted.

Between the cost difference of propane vs natural gas, better efficiency and a programmable thermostat, we easily reduced our fuel bill $$ by 50% with no noticeable change in comfort level. I did not track the difference in therms.
That seems like a biased sample. People who exit are obviously people who didn't want to be in the industry. Try talking to people in it willingly.
> How can you say that with such certainty? Maybe he’s not listening to them.

They said "willing or able"
"showing porn to people against their consent is a form of sexual abuse" is more descriptive then your quotes I believe, at least this kind of precautions adds an alarm/notification options between kids in social media and twisted adults
According to the article, the problems are that "Conventional oysters are known to carry risks of foodborne illness and are currently threatened by overharvesting and pollution."

They don't link to any source though.
do you see the difference between "user stumbles across sexual content" (the previous conversation topic) and "showing porn to people against their consent"?
Last person claiming that ended up serving 10 years in federal… just saying
vegconomist is an anagram of vomit cogens, or loosely, "sickness-inducing"

just an observation..
The UN charter of human rights does not give us our rights. Some people consider the rights god-given, some consider that we have all negative rights until they’re taken away.
> brew analytics off

The issue is that by default on install Homebrew uses Google Analytics.

> And in general it does everything as user not su for a few years now.

Homebrew always did everything as the admin user and not as root, and that was always the problem. It mungs permissions of /usr/local; all files, not just directories. And it's not so much of a package manager as it is a needless frontend for git. MacPorts, alternatively, respects default file system ownership, is a full-featured package management system, and like pkgsrc, is based on the FreeBSD ports system.

And when uninstalled, MacPorts doesn't leave a mess. With these 3 commands, it leaves no trace (with the exception of the /opt directory in the event it is used for something else):

sudo port -vfp uninstall --follow-dependencies installed

sudo port -vfp uninstall all

sudo rm -rf /opt/local /Library/Tcl/macports*

If the day ever comes, good luck uninstalling Homebrew.[1][2]

[1] https://github.com/Homebrew/legacy-homebrew/issues/48792

[2] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32895800/cant-reinstall-...
There are people who believe explicit works of fiction. Marvel movies come to mind. I'll know we've arrived when super hero films begin with a disclaimer.

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The solution to this is probably technology. We need the ability to farm truffles on a large scale, which will bring down their price. Until then, expecting imperfect substitutes is reasonable to me.

I actually enjoy the taste of truffle oil (especially on fries) and don't like spending enormous amounts of money on food, so it's a pretty reasonable compromise to me. I was planning to order some truffles sometime and make a few things with them and it's entirely plausible that I will prefer the synthetic version to the real thing.
I wonder if they also taste like “snot with old silverware rubbed on it” to paraphrase John Hodgman.
A journalist/marketer telling us how to fix things, cool.

"You just... easy!"
This always comes up, but what does it actually prevent? Has Apple ever enforced it? It would seem likely that doing so would be hitting their power users.
> foie gras

As if just breading and killing animals is not sick enough, there's foie gras.

Finally it's being banned in more and more countries.

https://animalequality.org/blog/2022/02/08/what-is-foie-gras...

I find it bizarre that here on HN someone advertises it, albeit in parenthesis...
You may believe or not, but large businesses and even some medium, uses strategy of destroy low segments of market with products sell much lower than market prices or even free.

Simple example, HDDs of small sizes and very large, usually sell cheaper than cost production, donated from profitable medium segment, or from other source of cheap money (like VC or stocks).

Hard example, when IBM released Eclipse, killed lot of small companies, who made simple cheap IDEs (shareware). Those small companies usually are not threat, but sometimes could grow.
Ha! I came here to mention "How To Win Friends and Influence People" as well.

I read it more when I was around 38 or so, but it really helped me change how I interacted with people.

While it's ostensibly a book about sales, I took it as breaking down selling into the idea that if you get along with people and they like you, they will want to work with you. That can take the form of making more sales, but I took it as having people want to do more with you and be around you more.

And how does that happen? Kinda simple: be nice to people, be genuinely interested in them (even if their interests aren't your core ones, they still are often curious), and genuinely try to get to know people.

I took this as a great life lesson for making friends and getting along better with the whole world. And from that flows nice things. And if it's what you need/want, more sales. But it doesn't have to be about sales.
If it was operational, Hinckly would be subsidized if the market price was below the strike price, but they'd need to return anything above that.

It works as an insurance, if you think you can generate electricity for X while making a profit then the government guarantees that you get that amount, taking on the risk that prices might drop or some new tech might undercut your price and guaranteeing a steady cash flow if you deliver electricity.

In return for accepting that risk, they also accept the upside, by taking any extra when the price rises above the strike rate.

Currently there's a few offshore wind farms that are hitting this and returning roughly a billion euros per year.
He did. He directly said it was a hack in an interview with Vox.

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23462333/sam-bankman-frie...
You may disagree with it but so long as the kids get all the same nutrients from other food sources and they don't go hungry it is the parent's discretion what the child eats. Otherwise it would be the government or society that raises the kids not the parents or guardians which are the people who have the most affection and desire to see the best outcome for that specific child. If a parent or guardian is acting in malice or willful ignorance of facts that will result in harming a child, I have no problem with the government stepping in and figuring out who else would be best suited to care for the child.
Same. Due to the steady decline in the quality of Google results (even with an ad-blocker), I made the switch. Never thought I would pay for a search engine but my experience with Kagi has been absolutely worth it. I enjoy their product and am aligned with their philosophy so I’d love to see them succeed!
Harvesting oysters is easy if you live near the sea (like in Berkely, CA). If you live 500 miles from it, you start looking for other options.
Yes - they can, though by the time they become teenagers, what is a parent going to do if they disobey and eat meat?

Funny story though - we have a family relative with younger children who was raising them strictly vegetarian. No meat (the mother insisted), though the dad quietly admitted he eats meat on occasion much to her chagrin. On a family vacation the children were left at the house for dinner, and another relative began preparing a chicken dinner.

The conversation between that relative and the children went something like this:

"Dinner's ready! Come get the chicken!"

"This doesn't have meat in it, right?"

"What? Well, it's chicken!"

"Right, but does that have meat in it?"

"Well... No... Certainly not. This is bona-fide, 100% pure, Grade A Chicken. Now eat!"
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I don't know if it's just the couple of cars I've driven do it badly or if they're typical of hill assist on all cars, but I really hate this feature. It always seems to keep the break on longer than I want, and on a couple of occasions even causes me to stall because I tried to accelerate away and couldn't move. Now I usually put the hand-break on because I find it easier to find the biting point [0] and move from there (pretty much in one smooth motion, not needing to pause at the biting point).

I've never bothered to think more about it, because it doesn't cause me any trouble doing that, and afaik there's no harm to the car doing it this way, but maybe somebody has advice on how to use hill assist without finding it so annoying? (Or news that in most cars, hill assist is better than the ones I've used?)

[0] Biting point being where you pull your foot gradually off the clutch, not all the way but to the point that the front of the car bonnet starts to rise slightly, which is the point that you can remove the hand-break as you keep declutching without rolling backwards down the hill. Was one of the trickier things for me when learning to drive, but incredibly easy once you're used to it.
Decoding would probably be an issue. It’s already on the cusp with the current audio files, mP3s would probably throw it over the edge.
Is this kind of "science" really worth torturing and killing animals over?
> Any reason for which you still remember that book or its contents. Also mention the reason.
really? I already use axs and ticketmaster apps for tickets. Are you using pdfs or something? The app is nice because it rotates the barcode every minute, and idk how else you'd achieve that. I guess a webapp could work.

I don't think you need to rely on device fingerprinting, just make sure they're logged into their ticketing account. You might see people start to sell accounts with single/pair tickets but that just sounds like a pain, and we could mitigate it if it becomes a problem.
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

Read it in my first semester as a freshman Biochem major in college with a great grad student as the teacher of a class on American Lit. Really changed how I thought about books and how I approached writing.

The class was incredibly challenging. I stopped going to my chemistry classes and changed my major to English/Creative Writing.

That was 20 years ago and things have worked out OK. I’m sure I’m happier now (business management career) than I would be in a scientific field.
In Russia, you choose which one you learn and take your exam on. If you choose automatic, it's marked on your license and you can only drive automatic. But if you choose manual, you can drive either.

All car sharing cars are automatic, but other than that, it's really a matter of taste and/or budget. Some people buy manual cars because they're cheaper. Russian-made cars are almost all manual-only, and are cheaper than imported ones.

I got my license on manual, and... I just don't drive lol. Mainly because almost everywhere I go it's easier, cheaper, and sometimes faster to get there on public transit or taxi.
Agree with all but the last sentence. Because it seems the Bahamas had a legal court order to confiscate assets from a comoany in their jurisdiction.
We got comparable and tasty flavours fermenting algae with spices, but the texture... that is another story.
We've already had those "months later", it's still roughly a straight line since some time in 2021 that might have broken recently.

Again, I recommend just opening it and looking at it.
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I would agree if the Bahamas government didn't first deny that they ordered SBF to surrender those assets and then only after they were caught by us in the community through tracking the transactions did they formally announce the seizure. Do you not find that a bit coincidental? Why the conversion to ETH? Who authorised it? There was and is no judiciary evidence supporting the Bahamas government's position and the Delaware court has uncovered clear suspicious activity. Why did they lie and then change their story? We must wait to see what come out but a shady blacklisted country managing my money is not acceptable to most of us.
To be clear, the fact that it is difficult is not a defense of Galactica and its proponents; it is a reason for suspecting that these sorts of language models are fundamentally unsuited to the task.