skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was aware of the biscuit thing, but think it should just be rolled out more widely. We sort of have that with luxury cars, but an across the board increase of VAT to 30% on high-end goods is really what going for - defining luxury goods is left as an exercise for the reader.
>electric leaf blower

Easily my best purchase of the year. Along with the snowblower.

I can’t believe I didn’t get these sooner. I’m thankful I didn’t stick to gas-only devices.
Show HN: A decentralized semantic web built atop Activity Pub
Chatter Net is a modern decentralized semantic web built atop self-sovereign identity.

This is a very early prototype. Help, comments, criticisms are all needed to help the project move forward.
I never understood this part about football. The players, owners and almost everything about a club can change except for the fans. Where else do you see a pattern where the followers remain the same but the entity itself has nothing except the name and history attached to it?
Indic scripts are LTR, and so stayed the big-endian numerals when they were borrowed by medieval Islamic mathematicians. Numerals in modern spoken Arabic are big endian (mostly, with an exception for the teens that also exists in English).
The video mentions a certain amount of pressure, so I suspect it's about keeping the button right above the trigger point, and the jolts from the rolling makes the trigger happen, with the applied pressure allowing the button springiness to jump back above the trigger point between the rolling taps.

It does look like a drum roll: https://youtu.be/zJBcPRyBd8U?t=68
You're not my enemy, sure. But I'm not interested in working with coddled and entitled individuals who are half checked out, self-important, have a warped perspective on life and humanity, etc. I end up having to pick up the slack. No thanks.

Musk absolutely smashed that culture at Twitter. It will be rough seas for a while but the company will emerge stronger. Maybe even profitable!
So again, if let’s say a waiter assaults their manager who isn’t covering the difference between their tips and minimum wage, that would be allowed? What if I slash the tires of an illegally parked car with an expired police placard?
Did you type the code on the phone's touch screen or using an external keyboard?
There is only one wrong, which is the story of western nations (the british mainly, but all of Europe to a lesser extent) and non western (Japan) colonizing, invading, and exploiting China as a colony. Honk Kong was taken from China and only restituted in 1997. That the BBC, the main promoter of british colonialism talks about the honk kong protests as if they were some "heroic" people, is just imperialism in the 21th Century. Plain and simple. Is disgusting. The british invaded and subjugated the chinese for centuries, took their land from them, and now they have the nerve to try and stir internal rebellions? Are you so deep into imperialist ideology that you cannot see what this is? China has absolute right to govern over their lawful territories, which include Honk Kong and Macao. Western powers cannot continue exercising imperialism in the 21th century.

This is absolutely disgusting. If China was trying to incite rebellions in british territories, promoting the views and opinions of independentist terrorists, what would be your opinion? What would be the opinion of "the media"?

Is simply disgusting, plain and simple imperialism.
Same for Gen-X in the US: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-wes...

> Now, though, there is no confusion: Generation X is safely Republican. One model from 2014 measuring only white voters through the 2012 election shows those born in the mid-to-late 1960s being the most Republican-leaning of all, more so than the older Boomers and Silent generation.
Slick app. Thanks for posting
I'd agree with you and reaffirm that I think his statement is more focused towards the types of tech leads, as millionaires, from the Bay Area.
In emulators and the like I always see it written as CPS1/2/3, so why not "the book of CPS1"?
>Those boomers spend that money. The money enters the economy. It creates the economic activity needed for the ones who you call 'those who work' to be able to do business and make money.

Let's break some windows to create more economic activity, amirite?

>Its THEIR money.

They paid fuck all and set up a system that disproportionally rewards them and robs a future generations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SARS-CoV-2_Delta_variant

Delta was named at the end of May 2021 and started to become the dominant strain worldwide in the following months. As shown in the chart under ”Prevention” (and described in the linked pages), Delta significantly reduced vaccine effectiveness against infection and symptomatic disease, though not against severe disease.

However, it’s also true that vaccine effectiveness, regardless of variant, significantly declines over the months following the dose - again, much less so for severe disease than for any symptomatic disease.
Sure, it’s the binary tree equivalent of reversing an array.
We've had 4 vaccines available in my country at the beginning (astrazeneca, moderna, pfeizer and J&J). Astrazeneca killed a few people in neighbouring countries (clot issues), so we stopped using that. J&J killed a young girl in my country, so we stopped using that too. Moderna killed people in northern/scandinavian countries, and we got a recommendation not to use it on people below 50yo.

So, 3/4 vaccines went from safe to "clot shots" in just a few months.
series of tutorials and comparisons that aim to teach a foundations about vector search:

https://vectorsearch.dev/
It's somehow strange because in any sunny place, all you need to have hot showers is a black surface tank. Could have been done very long ago at scale.
PureLB
One can deactivate the safety in the source files.

Commercial UI wrappers might or might not do so but should be up front about it.
Is there anywhere this is not the case now? At many drug stores here a lot of stuff is locked up. A lot of drug stores are woefully understaffed because they all want to rely on automated checkout and not have anyone in the store.
> You can generate infinite recognizable Basquiat from an AI, but is it Basquiat? No, of course not, because Basquiat's style operates within the context of a specific individual human making a point about expectations and the interface between his race and his artistic boldness and audacity as experienced by his wealthy audience.

I'm not sure how I feel about this - I agree with the conclusion, but not the reasoning. For me, AI-generated Basquiat is not Basquiat simply because he had no ownership or agency in the process of its creation.

It feels like an overly romantic notion that art requires specific historical/cultural context at the moment of its creation to be valid.

If I could hypothetically pay Basquiat $100 to put his own work into a stable diffusion model that created a Basquiat-esque work, that's still a Basquiat. If I could pay him to draw a circle with a pencil, that's his work - and if I used it in an AI model, then it's not.

It's about who held the paintbrush, or who delegated holding the paintbrush, not a retrospectively applied critical theory.
I think the cool thing (regarding toxicity) is that with moderation at the instance level, and instances able to choose their federation partners, there are natural limits that aren't in place with a half-assed moderation in a centralized system.

It's sort of "think global, act local", but for discussion.
Thanks but no thanks. Britain joining the USA would be hell on earth. Why would we want coal? We have loads of it that we don't even dig out of the ground any more.
I would find the infrastructure work and scaling of Google, Apple, Microsoft, Netflix and AWS (I currently work at AWS on the consulting side) to be very interesting. Working at scale is very interesting to me.
I always thought this was a flaw with the anti-vaxxer logic. They were (or still are) convinced that the vaccine is designed to harm the vaccine taker for the benefit of the elites. From my point of view, if this thing is a grand conspiracy, the elites would be far more likely to want to keep vaccine takers around as these are the people who are more likely to comply with their commands. They could then kill off the people who didn't comply (troublemakers) by releasing a stronger variant of the virus.
One of my gateways into Making was during grad school when my housemate brewed beer. He wanted to make a counterflow wort chiller, went to Home Depot, bought some parts, assembled the whole thing, and it worked perfectly. I was completely blown away you could make "scientific" apparatus from Home Depot. And immensely jealous.
There is shitloads of money to be made in Idaho off of the national nuclear labs there. Can you machine simple parts and secure an American supply chain? Can you get security clearance? Can you handle living in that state that has such horrible governance?
There's no situation in which the NYC subway can accommodate a 50% increase in riders. Just building housing isn't enough.

I do think this article is right about a lot of things, but I think that if we could magically increase housing, we would find what NYC found building highways: building them actually created traffic, and they could never catch it.

If a city's infrastructure can't dramatically increase, the city's full. New York would need to double transit infrastructure to make current use comfortable.
Thank you so much for the responses!
Amazon is the worst of the places I've tried. They were even terrible when I had to return an item that arrived broken. I ended up without the item and without a refund.

I can't think of a single reason to recommend Amazon to anybody.
Information shared between two nodes is as secure as any one node.
I was driving back from a remote film shoot with a colleague and client last week. The client was absolutely incredulous that neither of us believed that ghosts were real. I was in a fair bit of shock at her reaction!
I tested StackStorm sometime ago to confirm you can have cycles in the workflow graph: https://kinoshita.eti.br/2021/10/01/cyclic-workflows-with-cy...

I work with climate and weather workflows, where cycles in workflows are common (ecFlow and Cylc are popular tools that support it).

Haven't checked in a while but I expect StackStorm's Orchesta engine to have even more interesting features now.
My entire comment is about how I learned to accept that I can't rely on constant willpower, did you read the whole thing or discard it as just being "learn what macros are"?

Having someone else come up with a diet isn't really what I'm talking about. I'm talking about internalizing the stuff, so that it's not just a constant willpower battle.

I used to have the same "etc." mentality about all that "Whole food protein stuff", but actually sitting down myself and learning the underlying concepts rather than the fads was completely different than getting talked down to by a professional or reading some weight loss guide.

Just look at my example about pizza, I didn't have the willpower so I "shortcutted" around my willpower. If I had tried to make it a battle of willpower I would have lost. It's small things like that which make it less constant of a battle.

Same with not multitasking while eating, something I learned was that I overeat when I'm multitasking because it's harder to sense when I cross the line from hungry to full.

tl;dr, I didn't mean just "food education", as in learning to read labels, but learning about your own relationship with food, like the emotional component, the situations where your willpower is tested most, so you can develop strategies specific to yourself.

A dietitian can't do that for you, it's a deeply personal thing.
I apogize for not being pedantic enough: Elon Musk was neither born on American soil nor to American parents, so he can't run for president.
Pretty comprehensive list here, https://www.gov.uk/guidance/rates-of-vat-on-different-goods-...
> Baking at least you can open the oven to take a quick look

This can really affect what you are baking, not always a good idea.
Didn’t this issue loosely arise with the 2020 US election and all the people trying to argue that the authority on who won was not legitimate?

Most bets cannot be discretely quantified because there’s always something to argue about (such as the measurement methods). I think all it requires is for all parties to agree on an authority that makes the call.
The FDA Just Approved the Most Expensive Drug in the World
Not at all, more precisely, they are annoying but in not in the same way.

Most cheap 3D printers are children of the reprap project, and the hacker spirit is still there.

3D printers are often made of cheaply available standard parts, and use the same type of filament. Not all printers can print all materials, but there are no technical measures preventing you from trying, and they tend to be mod-friendly. On the software side, they almost all run open source firmware, and take standard G-code. G-code is generated using a slicer, there are several of them on the market, also typically open source and compatible with all sorts of printer from many brands. Everything is interoperable, even when a brand has the whole vertical. For example Prusa makes filament, printers, slicer software and has a repository for models, and none of these are tied to the brand. No DRM, no huge drivers, no overpriced consumables, totally unlike 2D printers.

The flip side is that you feel like you are buying a new hobby rather than a tool. It is certainly a useful tool, but especially on cheaper printers, sometimes, things don't work right out of the box, you have to make some adjustments, understand its capabilities, know what parameters to use out of hundreds, etc... It is rarely "push a button and get your part", you have to know what you are doing, and even then, sometimes, it fails. That's how they are annoying.
No. The iPads of the time beat the Macs in performance and efficiency.
Probably impactful for real money websites, but I can’t imagine anyone really cares for this fun money website where a good judgement can be applied pretty easily.
CCS supports 3 phase power, which is common in Europe. Tesla’s standard does not, which is fine because it’s not common in North America. If the US wants to standardize, they can pay Tesla for the network they paid to build out. To expect them to adopt another standard at their own cost doesn’t jive with property rights in the US. Europe plays to their own tune in this regard (for better or worse), and Tesla’s advantage is theirs in North America because they funneled revenues into their network (while other automakers didn’t; VW did with Electrify America as required with the US Dieselgate settlement).

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/05/10/vws-2-billion-penalty-for-di...

Aptera made a reasonable decision based on the North America Supercharger footprint.

https://supercharge.info/map

https://youtu.be/E-NrDH6mWYA touches on the comparison between CCS and Tesla is a fairly neutral approach (imho).
Like anything, it depends.

You can get a 46' Morgan sailboat for $50,000 or a 44' Jeanneau for $475,000.

But I would say an average 45' sailboat is about $50K - $100K.

I'd go with a sailboat - the wind is free, but a motorboat can be very expensive. And of course, you can still have an inboard motor on your sailboat.

100% your own boat would be a vastly better deal, if that's what you want to do.

Plus, if you want to spend a lot of time on a boat, you can even find sailing partners to help you sail around for free. People who don't own a boat but want to sail the world. If you want. But the cool thing is, if you own the boat, is it is your decision, you can do whatever you want.
They're not letting every other criminal speak, is that also a startling position?
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you posters and commenters.

I'm a passive reader here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their knowledge and wisdom and help me to learn new things on a daily basis.

The comments here are almost always more informative than the link itself.
China has not reached the level of brutality that the british inflicred upon the world, not by far.

But there is also a key difference: Honk Kong is China. China didn't invade Honk Kong, is not a colony, is simply another chinese region.

What bussiness did the british have in India? Would you consider India a "legitimate" british territory, or a colony? Same with Puerto Rico, it is a colony, what bussiness does the USA have in Puerto Rico? Is not part of their natural geographical territory, they are simply colonies. The same cannot be said about Honk Kong. Is as chinese as Alaska is american or the Canary islands are Spanish and so on.

The british and american media are promoting independentism, terrorism and civil war to cause internal conflict in peaceful nations. That has always been their strategy when they cannot subjugate a nation by force. Promote conflict, war, divisions, invent excuses to invade, to boycott, to embargo. Blame others of what you do.

This is simply imperialism against China. Honk Kong is chinese territory, plain and simple, and western nationd have no bussiness promoting civil wars or independentism in foreign nations. This is not the 19 and 20th century anymore. Colonialism and imperialism are simply unnaceptable.
I think they point in the general direction of Google's Play Store, and exclaim, "Here's another app store, hence we're not a monopoly", and then proceed to enjoy their monopoly.
My favorite, although there's so much amusing in here.

> That MSG—a standard amino acid glued to a sodium atom—is naturally present in lots of things like tomatoes, mushrooms, grapes, and parmesan cheese, meaning Italian food is high in MSG, which is good because MSG is harmless and delicious should be enjoyed by everyone including people with psychosomatic issues.

I read a comment by some chef, who, when asked by another chef why she has a giant tub of MSG beneath her sink, said, "Why don't you have a giant tub of MSG beneath your sink?"

MSG is wonderful. It does not give you a headache; that was debunked decades ago. If it had been discovered recently, instead of 1908:

https://foodinsight.org/msg-a-brief-history/

it would be as trendy as kale. I've heard only one compelling argument against it:

If a food has too much umami you can't taste all the other flavors in it.
Terminals don’t really have a concept of an alt key. Most map it to meta which you can get by tapping ⎋.
> I mean it when I say that software engineering as a career would not be as fun if HN didn't exist.

I wanted to make gentle fun of this then realized I feel exactly the same way
I will! Great stuff
Reminder that reprocessing (in addition to being the dirtiest part of the fuel cycle and incredibly expensive) doesn't really produce much energy.

All you are doing is getting the tiny leftover fissile scraps, 95% of the material is irrelevant U238 and 4% is fission products (the really bad waste) which just gets leaked everywhere. It adds 15% to your energy output and quadruples the fuel cost (bringing it close to the total cost of solar).
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The real reason is mentioned I the article: it’s absurdly easy to sell bulk stolen goods online. As long as that’s possible, there will always be someone stealing it, no matter how many people you lock up.
It's a relatively minor thing but the thing that drove me away from Mastodon was the "content warnings" that are used all over the place. People (ab)use them like they'd use hashtags and it makes viewing the content either annoying (web) or frustrating (iOS app). Twitter provides a vastly superior interface, somehow.
The iPhone 6 was actually approved by Steve Jobs.
Very relevant and becoming moreso. Check out job postings at research institutes and universities with healthy research departments
Hey! Thanks for playing the game.

This ratio is describing the game shape (the games are automatically generated and they are all different depending on the wiki article content). 4/8 means that you needed 4 answers out of 8 for example. Having to select 8/8 is too hard and not fun for a game imho.

Some games have only 2 "answers" in total, so then i make you select all the correct answers, otherwise it's too easy. So the game shape would there would be 2/2.

There may be bugs of course. I'll take a look at that number later. I agree it's a bit confusing but I was trying to make the game more usable. It's tricky when the content is dynamic.

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At least from where I'm looking, working mostly with Europeans, Skype is still pretty popular. Sometimes replaced by Google Meet for meetings with transient acquaintances.

Skype's not as buttery smooth as Telegram, but it sure is a more polished, stable-feeling piece of software than Zoom.
It's obviously more impactful for real money websites, but realizing that two people mean different things by the same statement is pretty common. I think even fake money prediction markets are much more interesting if you largely avoid that.
Dog whistles to what? Petrodollar conspiracies are linked with american imperialism, not new world orders.

If you want to poison the conversation with accusations of dog whistles that only you seem to be hearing, at least get them right.
See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33733310

It's also not "unsearchable", just sinking much faster than other posts: https://hnrankings.info/33730985/
No, but that's how I peel an egg.
To say "most" criminals thusly, presupposes that all societies are in degraded states, regardless of the actual causes of criminality.
You posted five sentences. Three of them are mostly just vague conglomerations of charged symbology. Did you expect an entire treatise in response...?

Anyways, the point remains: the difference between a police officer and a civilian is a small amount of training and a whole lot of in-group politics. Not sure how hiring different people solves either problem.
The struggle to survive is the starting condition in nature. That society doesn’t completely eradicate it (but only makes great strides in that direction) is not an indictment of society.
Apple can now include All Manchester United Games with Apple TV+.
My mistake, I should have said oil.
Two wrongs make it right? Shouldn't workers get a pay rise?
By chance have you tried reading the Ada wikibooks page? https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Ada_Programming/Libraries/Ada....
> https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

It's a perspective. This bit was interesting:

> Think of the history of data access strategies to come out of Microsoft. ODBC, RDO, DAO, ADO, OLEDB, now ADO.NET – All New! Are these technological imperatives? The result of an incompetent design group that needs to reinvent data access every goddamn year? (That’s probably it, actually.) But the end result is just cover fire.

So what's happened to the start menu is cover fire. And the point is to create illusion of progress, progress your competitors feel they have to match(?)

I guess all those database access strategies cost little more than the effort to create them, because they were all thrown away in the end. But cover fire coming from the start menu has come at a cost. It's the Start Menu what finally made me decide Windows wasn't worth revisiting. Like any GUI oriented OS, you have to use the Start Menu repeatedly to get anything done. Which means it has to be fast. Yet sometimes it was taking seconds to respond.

I guess that's what happens to something that gets more and more features added to it to create cover fire. It gets slow, and so bloated that most people wont' use a fraction of what it provides. Yet even though they don't use them, the features still extract their cost.