skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just can't help but think there's some truth in the conspiracy theory I read on twitter from Kim Dotcom... this Ukraine war is an awfully convenient way for the US to completely decouple and destroy Europe and Russia. Which is a massive win for... the US. Who definitely didn't do much to PREVENT this war at any point.

I don't think this was necessarily 100% intentional, but it definitely seems like an energy independent, moderately industrial, innovative USA is THE biggest beneficiary of this war on the relative scale.
How about we simplify it a bit:

My dog

Having a job

Parents and relatives who don’t get involved in scams. Except that one aunt.

Living in a first world country and not having to deal with citizenship issues.

No need to add all this additional complexity to something that should be so simple.
Why dandelion seeds are so good at spreading widely
Well-put.

Perhaps, distilled, it's this: having a 3D printer, by itself, won't turn you into a MechE. But, if you do have a 3D printer, you can learn the basics of ME and try out some practical ideas with real parts.

I specifically got my 3D printer to make gears. I do have a Sherline mill, as well as a 12" (Chinese) lathe; so I do have the specific tools to create involute gears out of metals. However, since I planned on doing so many different gears, as I wasn't really sure what I needed, AND the fact that with subtractive manufacturing, if you make certain mistakes, you throw the whole piece away and start over -- 3D printing makes creating new parts as trivial as starting it up again. The other total win of 3D is e.g. Thingverse where you can d/l a design -- it's the closest thing we have to Star Trek's replicator.

Lastly, Michael Faraday wrote an entire book on candles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chemical_History_of_a_Cand... So much can be learned from little!
I’ve heard ActivityPub has mixed reviews. Perhaps someone here with a little more expertise can answer this question.

Does ActivityPub have a batching mechanism?

Imagine you are on server A and you have 3000 followers on server B. If you create a post do 3000 messages get sent to server B? Or just one?
$1.3B/year interest payments is still likely to go up if the interest rates keep raising.
Yes, exactly. The mount point is then used as a general disk for container data.
I'm skeptical of #8. I sometimes leave detailed reviews for items that I purchased or used elsewhere and have a deep understanding of to dissuade other people from buying. Especially for new products that are being overhyped on YT or through Amazon Vine (how is that even a thing), even though they are of dubious quality. I have quite a few non-verified reviews that are voted most helpful, but Amazon obviously prioritized Vine reviews, even when they don't have any votes.
To me, HN delivers on what I'd hoped the internet would largely become.

Happy Thanksgiving
All changes are in the service of surveillance. If making the honey pot sweeter works then they’ll do it. If making it more pervasive and intrusive while not offending anyone away they will do it. They will do nothing that hurts the mission to mine and sell advertisements, and all actions will lead to that.

I know you mentioned other things but they’re all sort of in the same bucket of “not that hard once done” and “google can surely do that without blinking an eye”. I would posit the move away from a subdomain to a root domain is hard and complex and benefits end users not one bit. Perhaps the end state is easier on the margins, but again, I doubt given it’s been that way for so long it’s effectively any easier for engineers or operators at google in any way what so ever.

Well, other than those responsible for surveilling all the things.
Amazon has actually been requiring vendors to supply this info for a few years now. They have it in their database, but refuse to expose it. The Indian government forced them to, mostly because they are in a cold war with China and want to wean themselves off from Chinese goods.
I feel like we need a progressive VAT, which differentiates necessities from luxuries. Probably too complex to implement though.
Yes, I see the same. Exactly 31.
"solely" implies some kind of authentication of the recipient by the sender, which sounds sufficient yet not too onerous.
It doesn't follow, but history post 2016 wasn't written in gold if the UK had stayed in. The north of England, the central belt of Scotland and the south of Wales were in a terrible state. Brexit has failed to help, but remaining almost certainly wouldn't have either. The biggest issue the UK has experienced since leaving is Covid-19. Remaining wouldn't have helped us in that contingency.

The UK has blamed Europe for it's ills for 40 years. Remainers/rejoiners are still centered on this - we have to start to look to ourselves. Being in or out of Europe is not at issue; working to build a sustainable national economy and polity is.
The most efficient way to rob a bank is to own it.
Amazon Vine is a thing, so of course they encourage fake reviews of free products.
The docs are confusing.

This is really about how to make your UI more responsive by performing intensive tasks only when your browser isn’t doing any other tasks related to the javascript code.

In non JS applications, you typically would do this on any thread but the UI thread. But with Javascript, you have the option of doing tasks on the main thread, but only when all other tasks are not being executed. IE a priority queue.
Yes hate is not appropriate but still there seems to be issue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuXzvjBYW8A
Emperors have a great need for honest feedback on their lack of clothing. The biggest risk to them is being surrounded by all yes people as Putin is learning painfully.
Protesters overturn car amid violent clashes at largest iPhone factory
This is the best troll comment ever :-) Look at the replies taking you seriously :-) Including me.

When you have a lot of wireless devices, for every one you take off wireless, you have less radio traffic, less interference, and everyone else has a better connection :-)

In my network, unless something has to be wireless, I run a cable :-)
This is a misunderstanding of how pricing works. The homes that are beig built aren't expensive because they're fancy, they're expensive because they're scarce and people need them, so they bid against each other. Every building markets itself as "luxury", but this is in fact just marketing. In principle you could make units cheaper by dividing them up into units with less floor space, but that people are already renting the larger units in groups.
You've not gone far enough, they need to give up the Avocado on toast for any chance of that happing. /s

In all seriousness though, I think the current generation of 20-30 yo are increasingly giving up on any plan to buy a house, ever. They are making the decision that even with sacrifices it's unattainable, and so they just want to enjoy themselves. And eat the avocado on toast.
Why don't the employees just go and produce it on their own? That way they can capture 100% of the value they produce.
And, having (temporarily) achieved that market share, are they earning enough profits to justify their risk-adjusted cost of capital?
I find the suggestion of using `apropos` somewhat weird, since `man -k` has been functionally identical, easier to type, and easier to remember (for me at least) in the 45 years I've been using unix systems. And I think I've only come across one esoteric system (which was some unix on a PDP) that differed in any way between the two.
Pipe CEO loaned $80M to a Bitcoin mining company, didn’t tell board
No, also known as "tax". Original taxes were always on wealth rather than income. We should go back to that.
Brexit means Brexit;

Let us make the best of it!

What a crock of shit.
It is amazing that in March the media was gleefully writing obituaries for the Russian economy.

In the end when Putin told us our sanctions were stupid and would hurt ourselves more than Russia it turned out that the bluster was on our side.
It’s not only throughput. Wifi is more susceptible to jitter as well. But yeah in some cases wifi works well, whereas wired always works well. And if wired doesn’t work then your internet connection is bad and wifi won’t help either.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671264

^Most recent discussion I’ve seen.

I worked in genomics, left this year because you’re underpaid and often disregarded “IT-help” that assists wildly over-educated and underpaid people driving the actual research in 95% of cases.
A dream job? In the US, an entry level return offer for an intern is at least $160K at most major tech companies. Your average enterprise CRUD developer can get $120K after 3 years and one job hop (no insult that’s what I spent most of my career doing).

If I have the technical skills to solve the types of problems that he wants solved, he needs to offer a lot more money and stability than 6 months.
Pretty sure the article is just for fun. But also you can be grateful for both simple and complex things at the same time.
Came here to recommend Managing Gigabytes as well. People these days are managing far more than gigabytes but the fundamental ideas remain useful.
I find a general web and pictures Google search for shopping on Amazon more effective, native Amazon one is a dumpster fire.
2 general elections and a referendum all returns clear mandates for a poorer weaker more isolated country. People are finally getting what they voted for. Yey democracy.
> It doesn't look like they really wanted customers.

Elon blabbered about making Twitter a bank to avoid bankrupcy.
There was a tax measure on the ballot here in California and the argument against was "taxes are theft from people who probably have better use for that money"

The measure passed easily.
Poor trade relations is a big drag on the UK economy. If you can’t plan you can’t invest.

I’m hoping the UK joins the United States. We’ve already started to merge our military industrial base and have a long, shared history. Maybe they would receive preference for US LNG/coal shipments too as a result.
Full self driving is only the most prominent example of many unfulfilled promises.
It depends on the assistance program, but yeah, this is one reason poor people make 'stupid' financial choices. Resaleability is a concern in my purchasing habits as someone whose financial life is likely to fluctuate throughout my life due to disability.

Jewelry is the classic go to for women.
And get to keep the fish they would otherwise have to export!
I've been in the mastodon world for longer than the Twitter drama, so I'm well aware.

When you block other instances you realize you are islanding yourself off, right? Not the other way around.

Everyone is federated until you block, so you are isolating yourself from the norm when you block others.

It's not too noticeable as the english speaking instances are small currently, but those who don't want wolfballs and friends, or this or that are more isolated than those who do.

It makes sense that those who want to hide views from others are the outliers. Those who want to be open and allowing of diverse thought are more interoperable.
Do you have any sources showing how the Russian economy is growing?
The war was and is caused by exactly one party, and that's Russia.
> 7.1.3 Shared Inbox Delivery

> For servers hosting many actors, delivery to all followers can result in an overwhelming number of messages sent. Some servers would also like to display a list of all messages posted publicly to the "known network". Thus ActivityPub provides an optional mechanism for serving these two use cases.

From https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#outbox-delivery
Powerful people have blind spots – now neuroscience has proved it
Coding is not a great example. It can be fixed silently and the error disappears, unlike published claims. And I'd say you're making an analogy that is extreme. The corrections we are talking about are shared in the same forum the error was shared. If you had presented the mistake to the CEO or on linkedin then it would be appropriate for the error to be pointed out there too. Otherwise the audience will remain misled.

If it's some minor code bug from a typo or something, your embarrassment should be correspondingly tiny. And still the right thing to do is say "thanks" or "nice catch".
Why? Do you mean because it leaks microwaves? I believe that’s an urban legend as you’d notice very quickly.

Microwaves always kill wifi for me if they’re in the path between device and AP.
Would I be reading into the timing too much, if I noted the timing of this post and how recently Ancient Apocalypse aired (and subsequent Rogan appearance)?
Totally agree! Just offering a counter point. All in good fun.
No, money doesn't buy happiness. A combination of hope, access, and money support happiness.

Without those three ingredients, you have a serious handicap to a stable life.

I make more money now than I ever did, and expected to be much happier. My pandemic "depression" has killed my hope and that money is not making me happy.

Anecdote is not data: understood.
In my experience, it's the exact opposite. The gain of such things in logistics, stock management, production are much better than a slightly higher cost of goods. It enable to sell stuff even in cases when it would be too expensive, and enable cheap followup businnes.
I would say that such model is much more acceptable in b2b
With every fake handoff, American football takes on a second ball momentarily. What makes it interesting is when it isn't actually there.

But to your point, there are the Globetrotters who use multiple balls to make it interesting... though this may be outside the definition of sport.
I tend to check 3-star reviews; you (hopefully) find out what's wrong with a product, but not from someone who hates it and may focus on trivialities just to trash it.
The Most Expensive World Cup Ever
Yup, the incentives when you're poor are perverse. The welfare cliff is real: I still remember my mom's bitching growing up about how she got a dollar per hour raise and lost her childcare assistance, so that raise cost her hundreds of dollars a month.
Let me ask you this: did he need to make a poll about Trump's return?
StackStorm: Event-driven automation
A few examples of Lisp code typography (2013)
A way to explain the activity to a child could be: "Mention three good things that happened today". There are no rules, you can mention anything that you consider to be good. Do it every day.

I didn't come up with this and obviously cannot say if it would work for you. Look up "Three Good Things" if you're curious about the theory.
A “Jump to Conclusions” mat.
I used those qualifier words as HN tends to be pretty pedantic, and I happen to know it is illegal in some countries, and pretty sure someone from one of those countries would pass by and be like "Actually, in X it's illegal no matter what".
I have never experienced this cap. I downloaded at gigabit last time I used it.
What is a good intro programming class for a 14-year-old?
My niece is excited to learn programming but about to get scammed into paying for an expensive course. What’s a good free course that’s mostly hands on and applied - prefer starting with a working program rather than with pointers and structs.
How are they identifying these as ads?

I really can't see any differences (which I suppose is the point the article is making)... but if so, how are they confident what the highlighted listings are ads?
Is you username relevant here?
Yandex to Cut Ties with Russia
Here's one: that you don't have progressive lung disease.

Enough of you I am sure have experienced briefly with COVID what it's like to acutely lose the freedom of an unobstructed breath.

(And I hope those of you with long COVID are seeing eventual remission.)
Adam Ragusea's brief recipe for that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OI2-6Ps2Hcc (video)
Monetarily, perhaps[1], but there's also the time factor - buying 4 McDonalds meals is a lot quicker than preparing, cooking, and cleaning up after 4 people.

[1] I wouldn't say it was 100% true - McDonalds is a pretty cheap way of getting calories.
Thank you to you as well
> Let your food be thy medicine
- Hippocrates

> It is vain for you to rise early and put off your rest at night
- psalms 127:2

> To be idle is a short road to death...
- Buddha

Things that have been known since... Well, forever
You assume as much. Assumptions are interesting things. They often assume too little or assume too much, and are based on subjective beliefs instead of objective facts.
This annoys me every time I see it. Good boots don't cost 1.5 months of a worker's salary. They cost a day's or less. And if you buy used stuff you can live cheaper than ever. In that respect it's a golden age for the poor.

The problems for the poor in modern America are health care, education, and rent.
I have had this argument too many times. It is a combination of cargo-culting and a flawed understanding of basic security principles.

I use paid VPN services a lot as well as cloudflare warp. I understand and accept the risks the anti-vpn crowd keeps repeating. In the US, your local ISP and like you pointed out sites that sell and mine info about you are much higher risk of compromising your privacy or posing a security risk.

My traffic enters hostile network territory once it is delivered to my ISP router or the remote end of a VPN tunnel. Take NordVPN for example, I don't use them but it is more difficult but still possible for law enforcement or surveillance/ad companies to coerce or collude with Nord than with site owners and ISPs. TLS metadata including timestamp, SNI and other details along with my IP are known to Nord. To my ISP, they know my current location, usually social security number , birthday and whatever info their router can gather is known to them. Sites I visit without a VPN have my IP user-agent and whatever they collect with JS. A VPN removes the IP collection by sites and traffic sniffing by ISPs that can and do sell to whoever can pay them a fee.

VPN providers pause a significantly reduced risk than ISPs and they reduce risk from sites you visit. If you research a VPN provider and pick ones that have the most to lose by working against your interest, you reduce the risk even further.

Setting up a VPS and maintaining is a hard dealbreaker for me since I don't have the time and even if I did there is a shit-tom of more productive things I would rather do. But even if that is the case, which VPS provider should I trust more than a VPN provider? Digitalocean or cloud providers?

You know, few months ago I needed to setup a VPS fast, I must have tried 5+ including DO amd OVH. They needed to collect my email, some of them were picky about what card I used, others like DO wanted my phone to be valid, it was crazy! Only one weird vps provider let me but they didn't provision it after waiting a while. OVH wanted more info back and forth eventually after a few days supposedly they let me have a VPS but I no longer needed it after wasting money at so many places. Whether for anti-abuse reasons or anti-privacy VPS providers these days are hostile, they need too much info from you so how can you trust them with all your traffic?

Mullvad, PIA and Proton along with many others let you sign up with cash or giftcards and you can use a fake name/address. The only info they have TLS sni/metadata and your IP. They purposely get the least amount of identifying information from you.

I said cargo-culting because the people that oppose VPNs had some setup work for them and they think that and only that is ideal.

I see extremely talented security folk say that and similar cargo-culting on other subjects like how you shouldn't have an AV/EDR or just use only mac and Linux if you want to be secure lol.
That's just not true. GM had lots and lots of R&D going on, and that bailout absolutely kept the lights on. This was expressly listed as one of the reasons the government needed to step in, so that the US wouldn't "fall behind", etc... You're imagining a distinction where none exists (e.g. by being hyperspecific about "assistance via DOE loan to keep product development on a consumer EV running" -- something GM didn't "technically" get, simply because it wasn't a product focus for them).

If you want to argue that Tesla required government assistance to bring EVs to market, that's fine. If you argue that they weren't recipients of exactly the same kind of assistance offered to other parties in the market, you're way, way off.
> Wheel reflectors are also pretty useless

Never understood that. More visibility = potentially slightly less likely to get hit by a distracted driver so why remove the shiny reflectors spinning on your wheels?

And what’s a 20g saving per wheel when we carry so much more extra weight on our bodies.
Here's a Reason article on the origins of the US healthcare system: https://reason.com/2020/04/05/how-doctors-broke-health-care/

The origin of the current system was in the AMA and insurance companies lobbying to make everything except health insurance illegal, trampling all over the system put in place by employers, unions, and mutual aid societies.
When he bought Tesla it was run out of a garage more or less.
If you're on SSI, you're not allowed more than 2k in savings and assets. Other assistance programs also have asset limits.

And a splurge for the impoverished isn't '$50 here and there'. My last 'splurge' was 12 dollars for a pair of fleece lined tights so I don't freeze on my way in to work (I walk to work). Or 3-4 bucks at McD's once every two weeks or so.
Whatever the opposite of an elephant in the room is, that's Brexit. It was talked about to death. It was the cause and reason for everything.

It was talked up by as either a glorious thing or a monumentally cataclysmic event when it hit in 2020 and in the end it was... mildly negative. It was skilfully played up as a wedge issue for 5 years.

The elephant in this room isnt Brexit it is war.

(and idiotic energy policy)
This is not a reader mode. You are literally building a beautifull ‘Read it later" app [1] around a reader mode, or is it a "News Reader" app? You choose.

If you position it this way, I think there is demand for an open source based, local-first option. You will have to differentiate yourself from others like memex.garden.

I can tell you: It is a hot thing right now. People in the tft/note-taking community just can't stop talking about Readwise [2] in twitter. And it is charging 5-10$ PER MONTH !. To be Fair, their app does a lot of things and does it right.

The prices will surely go down with competition, but I don’t think it is a Fad. As a business model, you can take some inspiration from the popular freemium open-source note-taking apps.

[1] https://alternativeto.net/category/books--news/read-later/

[2] https://readwise.io/
Interesting in how it resembles the situation in traditional retail.

FMCG companies typically pay a lot of money in so called trade funds to the likes of Walmart, Tesco, and others. One company I worked for spent Approx 20pct of its topline a year on that - double digit billions. Ostensibly, this is to place the product on the right shelves, run promos and have the products featured in the chains' newsletters.

The real reason is, however, efficient taxation. The "trade funds" make all the profit for legacy retailers. Branded products are sold at near zero, or sometimes - if allowed - negative margins. The operating companies make near-zero taxable profits. The marketing spend is typically channeled to different legal entities than actual sales and taxed "efficiently". I think it might be the same with Amazon.
+1 for DigMyPics. I digitized more than 10k slides and photos with them and they did a phenomenal jobs.
Lurkers make the best commenters, because they only come out of the woodwork for something they're passionate about.

It's all one big ecosystem, and I quite like this corner of the reef
CS50

> prefer starting with a working program rather than with pointers and structs.

It starts with Scratch. And then gets into lower level C stuff and back to higher level Python/JavaScript/SQL.