skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of designs use black plastic as a contrast color. This works nicely with uni carpaints, less so with metallic paint. Not a big deal.
> [Y]ou're not addressing the concern, but dismissing it.

You're right, I should have done better there. To me, until this comment where you described this as "reprehensible", it sounded like you were employing "just asking questions" rhetoric, because you were asking all the same questions as TERFs, and to me it appeared you were only holding back the transphobic conclusions. However, that I should have done a better job assuming good faith on your part, and I apologize.

> This is both true, and a non-sequitur.

It isn't a non-sequitur though, I'm explaining to you what my issue is. If you were aware of the context around this narrative the whole time, you could addressed it instead of implying I was being disingenuous; the best-faith interpretation I could see was that you didn't understand my objection, so I added more detail. I would like to engage with you presuming the best, but can you see how saying I'm being disingenuous and that my points are non-sequitur (when it seems like you do understand what TERFs are, what bathroom bills are, and what it was I was getting at and how it relates to our discussion) made that difficult for me?

> Addressing and empathizing with the actual concern will get trans people into their preferred bathrooms and keep bad men out.

Happy to listen to what you may propose, but I don't have any thoughts. I certainly empathize with women's feeling of unsafety and the desire to create spaces without men, to the extent I can as a man. But I understand if you are done with this conversation, I myself need to log off for a few hours to attend to things, and of course you don't owe me any of your time.

All the best to you, as well.
> But is there any real evidence that adult content is harmful to underaged people? Unless scientists have put together a rigorous study, which even then there are confounding factors. Like all existing studies are small and don't control for desire to access such material.

Plenty of people who have gotten completely out of pornography can tell you directly about the difference in their lives. That doesn't require a study. It's as simple as, I touched the hot stove, I got burned. Perspective provides better answers than numbers. We don't need a controlled study of 1500 randomly sampled people to establish that touching a hot stove is bad. The difficulty is that this "touch" can play out over years or a lifetime and is done principally within your mind and affects your relationships and emotions. You can find various studies [0] to support these general conclusions also.

When you're a regular consumer of porn, you cannot really see its effect on you unless you have a clear perspective of what it is like to not be a regular consumer of porn and indulging in objectifying sex objects in your mind. Teenagers, or worse, children, who have become addicted, haven't had the time or experience to have any other perspective. All they know is the haze of porn sexuality.

It clogs up your love receptors and transmitters like a drug. It's like seeing love through a thick fog, being unable to really comprehend it. Without perspective the individual just assumes they can see everything clearly. That a sexual relationship can be cheaply bought at a glance and satisfied in a moment and then tossed in the trash when inconvenient without even needing to talk to someone. It creates the appetite for low effort relationships, which are often short-lived instead of durable. We should strive for the kind that can go 60 years of happiness for both parties and be more in love than when they started. That's what we're capable of. But with lust addled minds mired in selfish indulgence — we don't get there.

0: https://marripedia.org/effects_of_pornography_on_marriage
It's a problem with politics in general: that of some slogan going around which gains traction among a wide range of people, but different people have different interpretations of what the slogan actually means. They support their chosen definition, not that of others.

In fact, I would propose this kind of ambiguous slogan has, as a memetic advantage over more well -defined ideas, precisely because of this "broad appeal" which is actually the broad appeal of a slogan, not a policy.
I must be old-fashioned! My variable names in throwaway programs tend to be x, y, and z and my iteration variables tend to be i, j, and k.
I grew up in a prewar house in EastVan but the neighborhood had a lot of these houses around it, usually filled with East Asian or Indian immigrants. Taking the Skytrain was so fun as a kid. It was certainly a unique experience. The big culture shock for me was moving to New York and having to deal with large five-floor walkups in Queens, but the diversity was just the same. And the subway was so much bigger.

Truth be told, while I have a lot of nostalgia of the Vancouver of the 90s, I've since been back to visit and if given the choice, I would pick living in New York every time.
> Do you know if you can get this beneficial UVA from an artificial lamp?

I mean artificial tanning uses UVA lamps. But since you can get UVA even in winter, it's probably safer and more effective just to go outside.
Man, and people give me a hard time about speaking hyperbole 8-/

I mean WTF? Really! OMG there will only be 10B people! OMG!! OMG!!!

Seriously, if 98% of the human species vanished, it can't be anything but a good thing.

The only people "worried" about this reduction are extractive capitalists who are afraid there aren't going to be enough idiot herd to pilfer.

OMG!!!!!
I was wondering, maybe this has to do with all the assistance systems in cars? Maybe all the radars, cameras and lidars work better on mate colours?
the spent fuel still produces a lot of heat. have there been examples of somehow utilizing the waste while it degrades?
We don't have to forger DJI and Autel - Skydio beat them in autonomy. Period. You seem to lack the understanding of fundamental difference between how a DJI drone flies around and how a Skydio flies around.

I work on drones for research. I do RL. No one in academia can build something so robust. You seem to think that flying drones autonomously in the real world is same as running an RL simulation. Good luck trying to build it for a 1000$ lol. Sure, go ahead and try your open source project. Good luck to you!

I strongly suggest you to do some reading before talking about things you clearly don't know anything about.
This is cool and, I believe, a necessary step.

I know that some hospital price data has been previously available for years on govt websites listed by billing code. You could, for example, see the price differential between getting a procedure done in Alabama vs. Oregon. This article states that hospital data was only available after 2019. Is the distinction that the previous data was only based on Medicare/Medicaid reimbursements? Or that they weren't itemized lists?
I also like making art, but AI has no bearing on my enjoyment in doing so. For me, it’s just a matter of carving out time to do my project organically (and analog), enjoying the process, and reflection on the results. Someone creating their own “work” with AI doesn’t make me enjoy the artistic journey more or less.
> Corporations seem to do a good job of avoiding taxes in a way that people cannot replicate. The ultra-rich founders also do a great job of making sure they pay a lower tax rate than the rest of us.

Focusing on the latter is fair enough. Thinking that a corporation having lots of money is bad seems completely pointless. That money ends up as dividends or higher salaries or lower prices. Tax the first two and celebrate all three.
This seems wrong. Didn't TSMC have to throttle down production recently because Taiwan had a drought? Why would they have had to do that if the plants don't need new water after the "initial fill"?
Just cite the comment as the source and you’re golden.
If the creators are hanging out, what does "first visual IDE for React" mean when there have been other visual IDEs for React (and React frameworks like Next.js)?
obtuse data pipelines are a strategy..... if the government forces you to make something available, it doesn't necessarily have to be easy to get
The myth of the vertical retrace interrupt
I'm not sure if this is the same as the DJ apps that remove vocals and other instruments but there seems to be a surge of apps that have this feature. It's impressive how well some of these work and I believe they are mostly based on an open source project (I can't recall the name).
It's a fashion newsletter. You're likely a step or two away from these influences but not the intended or expected audience of the products themselves.

It's like how your favorite musician's favorite musician is often someone you've never heard of and sometimes not something it's even easy for you to like. Their entire professional life is in experiencing and evaluating these things, so they get way "out there" compared to people who are not focused on it, like us.
Cmake is terrible to use.
It does support Lyrics: Control-Command-U will toggle display.

If you use the Help menu's search feature it will direct you to the “Show Lyrics” option, too.
I’m not very good with SEO, but it doesn’t roll off the tongue
I tried to refer a friend to AWS and this happened to them as well. Twice.

Here's the thing though: you know all those horror stories you've heard about big tech companies and how they operate? Most of them are true, so if you actually care about the field then AWS is not the place for you. Especially if you're senior. Junior devs: you'll want to start here to build your rep and get a taste for awful at least.

EDIT: I should add that the ghosting of my friend was confirmed to be due to lay-off of the recruiters, so that's most likely the reason for the majority of the ghosting complaints here.
Oh I love this! I've been trying to understand ActivityPub from first principles, looking for a really simple hackable server. (Really what I want is a server that lets me write the ActivityPub equivalent of CGI scripts to easily host diverse content.)

I've been failing to find a simple example server other than maybe Darius Kazemi's https://github.com/dariusk/express-activitypub

This little static file experiment is a great teaching tool. To folks complaining about conflating ActivityPub with Mastodon, part of his goal here is to do the minimum ActivityPub implementation so that his account looks a certain way on Mastodon. Other ActivityPub instances might be asking for different requests; he's doing the Mastodon minimum.
downvoted, i mean what did i expect on a discussion about the idea to add a scripting language on top of a scripting language that is used to generate a script in an other scripting language

c++ is doomed
There are towers outside of downtown. In the 90s, I marveled at Vancouver's density compared to Seattle. But I guess it is a matter of perspective.
[dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878216]
This factoid about coal power plants is often repeated, but I have my doubts about the accuracy. It seems to be based on a 44 year old paper [1] which comes to the conclusion that the radiation dose you get from living near a coal plant is on the same order of magnitude as the one from living near a BWR or PWR (Table 5 in the reference). However, emissions regulations for power plants (fossil or nuclear) are surely very different in 2022 than they were in 1978.

[1] https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.202.4372.1045
> forcing Apple devices to use USB-C was a bellweather.

Apple has been migrating all of their devices over to USB-C for years. The iPhone has been a holdout because people will bitch about not being able to use their 10 years of accumulated lightning cables. I hate to have sympathy for a big corp, but c'mon, nothing they do will appease everyone.
It's a trend and fashion, and not a particularly new one. Why is the author so annoyed by it? I got strong "old man yells at cloud" vibes from what seems to be a very young person. Strange.
"People stopping stealing iPhones" is not going to happen. And the current Apple policy of "well, enter your AppleID credentials to unlock this phone" deals with that pretty effectively.

What we're talking about here, is disabling that possibility once the fingerprint sensor (OK), screen (huh) or battery (double huh) has been replaced.

In other words: after which "repairs" exactly does Apple get to disable a device? Some of these would enable fencing, others definitely not... TL;DR: yeah, difficult!
I drive a 2002 bright yellow Mini (official color name Eggyolk Yellow), which is showing its age a little from the dings in front but still shines up nicely and makes it easy to see in the parking lot.

The other day our family and some friends of us were driving in the family SUV somewhere downtown and saw another, newer Mini, with a totally custom paintjob, it was a pearly, shiny, electric pinkish-purple, kind of like a fancy candy wrapper. I think they cranked their flake content up to 11. The entire car OOOHHed and AAHed and asked to slow down to gaze it at. Great color, great statement, wish more were like that.
Whoever has the algorithm is the founder
Consequences of poorly performing GBP and Euro.
Not only that, but this story is about 1,220 mice and a statistically insignificant number of pigs, sheep, and monkeys (the article doesn't even say how many of which). We breed mice exclusively to feed to our pet reptiles as a society. This is just another Musk hate story cause he took one of their toys away.
We Don’t Need Nginx Anymore. Hello, KONG API Gateway
> NGINX and other reverse proxy servers are simply blown out of the water by the ease of configurability and sheer dexterity that KONG provides out of the box.
It's grey primer with clearcoat over it. How could that be a good thing?

It's also as invisible as possible against the background of an asphalt road. Also a bad thing. Unless headlights come on automatically in fog or twilight, that aesthetic will likely be a deadly one.
Sorry to be a noodge, but the insider trading charges didn't stick. Stewart got in trouble for obstructing an investigation.
https://harbert.auburn.edu/binaries/documents/center-for-eth...
For the most part, the cutoff is in the reflector. However, you can be really obnoxious with bulbs that are too bright.
Which ones have they not followed?
Is the answer to this supposed to be obvious enough to not actually require a response? Whether or not that is the case, it seems useful to lay out an example.

A paradox of the Right is that they say that they fight for peoples' freedoms, yet they continue to fight to restrict freedoms. See any of the Right's stances regarding the freedoms of LGBT people for a salient and current example.

You could say "the Right is against rights", if you want to be cute about it.
At the very end of the post:

> Those 6 files is all you need to create a Mastodon user. Here are some caveats you may have already noticed.

> - Following doesn’t work

> - Posts don’t work

> - Only 1 user per domain

The post might be technically interesting, but I find the title misleading.
That is what though, 2 hours of coding for an experienced dev? And the trade off is you have no context over the code running your product?
This is the same argument people made against CGI, and web apps in general, and that argument turned out to be on the wrong side of history. What makes .well-known URIs different?
Agreed, it's a huge mess. Often, you are also not always told when something is even a billable item at all. You can find examples of itemized bills including things like band-aids at crazy inflated prices.
Can We Reboot Britain?
This is what an architect should be doing. Too often people are made architects that never had to maintain a system more then a few years if that and aligning new tech for every problem until you end up with an unworkable, inconsistant, mess that can't be easily estimated.
My favorite PR stories will always be the "self-made millionaire" who managed to get himself a multi-million dollar startup valuation via his personal investment from his trust fund and another investment from his father's hedge fund.
Thanks for the note! That’s exactly why I made it and created the post.

I plan to implant the active parts of the spec in future posts
Do these plants not require tons of water?
Nope, hydroelectricity is about the same levelized cost of energy. Include storage costs and it's vastly cheaper: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/aeo/pdf/electricity_generation....

Look at the countries that produce all or nearly all their electricity from renewables. It's dominated by hydroelectricity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_renewable...

And since it's a well understood problem we can just build it everywhere, in arbitrary quantities.
They may also use ML to sync the lyrics to the vocals, meaning they don’t need prior timestamp metadata for the syllables.
> I don’t like the view that having kids means giving up on what you love to do in life.

Is there anyone other than you and your spouse helping raise the children? Does your spouse work?

Lots of people do not have support from friends or family. Being able to take off while spouse is pregnant and taking care of 3 other kids is surely an abnormal situation.
I like "Wet Putty" cars. I would ask "Why do all other cars look like shiny Christmas ornaments"?
Clanfolk, though it's more medieval than fantasy.
> We don’t sue gun companies for selling legal weapons which are then used to illegally murder someone, do we? Do we sue knife companies when someone stabs someone using one of their knives?

_You_, don't sue gun companies. Don't project. Plenty of other people do and get money from it.
10M would give you a safe withdrawal rate somewhere between 300-400k a year. A fairly common household income for people on HN. It affords a very nice quality of life but you're certainly not living the lifestyle that most people think of as "rich."
There are a few, but the vast majority of Vancouver’s residential land still bans apartment/condo buildings of any height: https://twitter.com/GRIDSVancouver/status/640544192045826049
That sounds like you may have defective hardware or something else like an overheated environment forcing it to throttle. On a standard unit everything built-in is snappy.
I would expect you havee 0 experience in starting a company?

The overwhelming majority of small business starts fail.

People who come from wealthy families, or have other sources of finance, are able to be repeat offenders until possibly they succeed.

Almost everyone else fails.

Starting a business is primarily the best way to blow you life savings while working 60hour weeks.

Some exceptions exist...
The article specifically mentions the monkeys are treated abnormally well.
Now is about the right time for my family. We've got critical mass for USB-C -- the macbooks, newest iPads for the kids, chromebooks, etc. We're down to only having Lightning for our iPhones and my wife's iPad. So we've crossed over the point where losing the lightning cable would be annoying, and into the zone where it'll be nice to throw it out and only have USB-C from here forward.
In which case programming will become stringing prompts together, ChatGPTLang anyone? That's still programming.
That's the default unless you ask it to make it in a different style.
Conflating mastodon and activitypub might fly in your title or your seo, but this is a technical comunity of technical people and we're all clickbait-averse pedants, so maybe use an honest title here?
It's the next step beyond a "road to nowhere". These would be from nowhere, to nowhere.
I love it. The author has earned confidence in their subjective aesthetic judgements, and the tone relays that confidence without being condescending or dismissive. It's miles better than the "hyperrational dispassionate contrarian" stance that is standard here imo.
You ask this in interviews...? What makes this a good 1st round question in your mind? What is there to learn about the candidate?

It seems to me that it's one of those things you've either encountered (and go "well, that's weird") or... haven't encountered (and go "well, that's weird" upon having it explained). Have pop quizzes about the sharp edges of various languages proved useful as a filtering mechanism?
Not that you would necessarily use the same words in Haskell, but I'm curious how you would read `user1^.name` in Pascal, or `user1->name` in C or `(*user1).name` in C?

(Edit: I'd also be curious about `x += y` and `x << y` in C.)
Strange comment - nobody was suggesting banning trade (even weirder about banning sex).
And who was it that created the automation? The automation just creates itself?!

That was such a terrible take.
A lot of meetings across many teams and a lot of powerpoint for those meetings. It's not unusual for an entire week to be completely booked back to back with meetings. The upside is I get to meet and work with lots of different people regularly so I learn a ton as well as contribute. The downside is lots of powerpoint.

I'm also the last point of escalation for a handful of dev teams. That's the fun part, getting to work on problems, mentor, and help out. I really enjoy mentoring and watching inexperienced people blossom and start mentoring others and passing on what they've learned. It's very fulfilling.
When I think karaoke, I think microphone. It appears this makes no use of a microphone or captures the singer's vocals in any way, it just isolates the instrumental tracks and eliminates or reduces the vocal track.

A microphone (and ideally having your own vocals mixed with the audio output) is the core feature of karaoke, not playing an instrumental version of the song.
In college, usually a few minutes before an assignment was due, I'd frantically Ctrl+F the project for various curse words.
I noticed that the job posting locations and the headline locations don't match. Are these for Canadian candidates only or are all roles also open to US remote candidates?
How will the AI overcome the halting problem?
Every Commodore 64 in every department store that I went to was running that loop (but with "Hello") after I left.
Hope you move out of USA the next time that country starts a war of agression under the pretext of "fighting terrorism" or whatever excuse they come up with.
Wow. There seems to be 2 main responses to this. 1) Sadness and depression or 2) Excitement and possibility

I really expected this thread to be more of #2 since historically Hacker News has been full of ambitious founders and founder-like engineers.

The great leaps in automation, especially with the recent AI developments is any founder's dream. To be able to go faster with less friction than ever to create something valuable for the world. Now this is within reach of even more people.

It's an amazing time - for those who choose to see the possibilities.
The headline is manipulated to imply it's worse than it is. A small animal bio research lab kills thousands of animals a year. They're trying to take Musk down, and unsurprisingly, some on Hacker News are taking the bait.
I'm fine waiting an extra-decade and killing 3k animals for that. Hell, let's make it 10k animals.

This is huge. Even just moving the cursor on a screen... you're fixing carpal tunnel syndrome for every white collar employee working at a computer all day.