skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m fairly certain it does not. I dated a parole officer in my 20’s where I heard all kinds of things about ex-cons that I never knew about. They have a hard life because of people like you when all they (usually) want to do is get back to a normal life after fucking things up.

One thing I find really interesting about the country I’m currently living in is that nothing you get arrested for will show up on a background check unless it is specifically related to the job you’re applying for. Thus theft will show up for retail, but not for writing software or secretarial jobs. I wish the US did something like that so people could have a fresh start in a new career.
The state you live in has one of the highest potentials for wind power in the country, easily backed by transmission, batteries, and as a last resort, natural gas.

High level, the energy transition isn't simply a fossil->renewables story, but also a centralization->highly decentralized story.
> diverse array of skills, relationships and resources

IDK. The people I know who I would consider rich money wise also have the above in spades.
I left tech for law. Now trying to jump back to tech.

Tech is arguably objectively better than almost every other industry.

Can elaborate if you want.
Yes you can do that, but on the other hand, can hobbies really balance it out, considering the amount of time you spend working? 40 hours per week for 2-3 decades is a very long time to be feeling unfulfilled, even if you get the twilight hours and a few weeks a year to do something interesting. And by the time you retire you've lost your creative energy.
This is like the "great-man" theory applied to scientific research. Even if this were to happen, I don't think it would matter much in the long term. The scientific community seems to independently come up with the same or similar solutions to the problems being concentrated on.
LAION is arguably as important as imagenet was in the early 2010s
I was looking for an apartment to rent (circa 2010-ish), on Craigslist and Kijiji. Neither had a map feature, and both suffered from a lot of reposts. If a nice place came up, you had to be extremely responsive (like, contact the poster within minutes of the ad going up) to stand any chance against competing renters.

I wrote a pile of scripts that scraped both sites, parsed and cached the data, and displayed it on a map. I was able to set search criteria based on location, and kludged it so that if something good came up, the system would automatically email the landlord if they made the email available, text them if they left a number, and text me a notification with a link.

The scraper eventually got pretty fancy as I expanded the service across multiple cities - it self-throttled and self-scheduled, based on the average frequency of postings on each platform in each city at a given time of day. The repost detector was working pretty well too, it added a layer of data to the results (eg, "this rental was re-listed 12 times in the past two weeks).

Once I found a place I liked, I made the site public and shared it with some friends, and it didn't take long until I was seeing steady daily use. The site even won an award from CIRA.ca!

I wrapped things up when I learned of Craigslist suing Padmapper for scraping their data. I wasn't monetizing, it was a cool project, but it felt like it was done.
I always tell myself to leave one day buffer, so I can read a draft after a night of sleep, but I always finish writing right on the deadline...
Cold can be mitigated a lot by enhanced R-value insulation in a single application. Northern states have higher levels of insulation.

https://www.energystar.gov/campaign/seal_insulate/identify_p...

I don't really see a hot/cold stratification in this chart-

https://www.statista.com/chart/12098/the-us-states-with-the-...

And even then, the difference in costs seems quite small. Alaska is $332 and Georgia is $310.
> Must be the focus on profits that helps push companies to build products users want, while the love of the craft pushes developers to make the best foundations.

Shamelessly stealing this line of thinking to use in the future.
I'm not sure why airlines should be excluded. They were the "growth at all costs, we'll make it up on volume" business of the 70s and 80s. More capital invested than ever returned over 40 years.

Other businesses like this: franchise restaurants (many, many failed), motels, car rentals (you can see the gold rush in supporting the new tourist economy back then).
The difference is that people will be talking about football well after the game is over. There is SportsCenter, there are the blogs, the social media....all of these things matter to advertisers, perhaps even more than the base metric of how many were watching the live broadcast.
> This is common on 4k displays as many are too small for 100% scaling to be readable but too big for 200%.

This is why I went for 32" 2560x1440 when I got a larger monitor. Very similar pixel pitch to the 24" 1920x1080 units that I had before (one of which stands beside it in portrait, so 1080x1920). I didn't need more smoothness, just wanted more on screen without needing to make things smaller.
Show HN: Pinggy – What are you doing?
When we released Pinggy a month ago, we just launched with a bare minimum to convey our product idea. Now, we are adding more features, with the highly requested features that meet our product vision.

Comments:
Today we are happy to introduce the comment feature, now you can comment on other users' statuses. All comments stay as long as the status lives. In other words, whenever a user updates his status, the comments made on the previous status get deleted.

Avatars:
Now you can attach your avatar (or display picture) to your profile.

Dark mode:
Are you a dark mode fan? Now Pinggy will be in dark mode if you have chosen dark mode for your mobile/computer.

New home page:
Not a feature. But we are happy and proud to update our home page to a modern design.

https://ping.gy
The analogy doesn't really work. The utility of a steam engine was obvious to antiquity, but they did not have the materials technology to build it. They did not need basic science to do steam power. The first practical steam engine predates the understanding by chemists of combustion. It was invented when phlogiston was still the going theory.

NIF on the other hand is already a miracle of materials science. An absolute triumph. But you can't enumerate the list of unsolved problems that, if eventually solved, lead to inertial confinement fusion as a civilian energy source. On the other side you can make that list for magnetic confinement. There is a clear path from magnetic confinement research to commercialization, with a known set of major problems.
> NEAT is not focused on lie detection, truth detection, or assessing someone’s credibility but, rather, on aggregating preconscious brain signals to determine what someone believes to be true.

How is this NOT a lie detector?

This would definitely be useful when interrogating someone right?
Most things don’t start off cost effective, they become so due to investment, demand, industrialisation, competition, etc.

Maybe fusion will stay a small part of the energy mix for decades even after the first commercial plants are built but be part of what eventually enables us to use orders of magnitude more energy than we do now…
It’s similar with F1, it’s extremely boring to watch long term, most of the time it just looks like the cars are following each other, and it’s even worse live where you can only see a sliver of the multi mile long track. Yet it’s still a global phenomenon somehow.
Let’s build huge new habitats for them in orbit.
It's such a powerful technique and it's so simple to implement! I used the same technique for putting a bunch of icons on a map and making sure they were as close as possible to their target position without overlapping.
I think UMN did a study with 4 hour storage plus solar on the grid a few years back.

https://energytransition.umn.edu/modernizing-minnesotas-grid...
> most assuredly rely on natural gas from Texas traveling through a long underground pipeline to heat your homes and businesses

Last I checked, we mine our own coal, pump our own oil and put up our own wind farms [1]. Minnesota, for what it’s worth, runs on renewables, coal and nukes [2]. The fifth of natural gas it does use comes from Canada, the Dakotas and Iowa.

These cold-state energy security concerns are a big part of the political puzzle that gets missed in the national discourse.

[1] https://www.wsgs.wyo.gov/products/wsgs-2012-electricalgenera...

[2] https://www.eia.gov/state/analysis.php?sid=MN
I don't know. I am building custom integrations between eComm system and some niche ERPs - I haven't had a single person ask me about Magento, but many that asked me about shopify.
About 10 years ago I was contacted by an agency I used to work with, that they needed to change a little feature in the android app for the austrian lotteries.

The problem they had was that they had managed to lose the source code of the app, lol. Since the app was a simple webview wrapper I decompiled the apk to some horrendous java monstrocity and carefully extracted all used logic, the html, css and js and created a new webview app with the slightly modified code.

Oh and I had no experience in Java or Android development :)

Another hack I was very proud of:

Some weeks ago I had to pick something up with a car trailer. I went to my parent's place to get it and when checking if the lights worked (it was dark already) it turned out that they did not. Since I was driving to a larger city I could not just go without lights.

The problem was, that I really had to pick this up and also I had no extra time to find an alternative solution, so I wiggled the jack of the trailer's cable in all directions hoping to clear out some oxidation. After some minutes of trying I found a specific position in which the lights seemed to work.

Taking out the good old duct tape from my car's trunk I fixated the jack against the trailer hitch. For some reason it actually worked and did not break. I was very proud of this hack!

Obviously I didn't fix it yet :-P
You could have a "stolen content" pure HTML/CSS banner that gets removed by Javascript. Only proxy site visitors will see the banner because the proxy deleted the Javascript.
Aren't they getting a salary for those hours of practice? That's what I mean with pro, as in professional, as in having gaming as their profession.

Honestly, $17.7k for _18th_ place, in PUBG of all games, seems very high to me as a prize. But I am sure they split a lot of that with their organization, coaches and whatever they have, and taxes on top of that.

Even so, people work for minimum wage so it all just, depends.
The homepage doesn't tell me/show me why i should sign up.
From your description it sounds like something you could do with with Mastodon.

Are you using federation? If not, why not?
It'd just be a considerably less stable equilibrium than the one we have now.

It's not like treasuries and dollar reserves a central bank put into circulation before a certain date are natural things emerging out of a market demand and the ones after they put into circulation after a certain date are "interference". There is a market for credit and a dependency of that market on artificial things called dollars the Fed conjured from thin air regardless, the only question is whether the Fed's policy on artificially created dollars is to continue to attempt to supply them in quantities necessary to maintain a stable economy or not.
What makes this multimodal, labels?
> and a lot of people tune in even if they're not active players.

Do they? I played (completely casually) till 2013, and stopped watching after the 2014 championship. I didn’t understand it anymore. Too many new champions, meta changes that I didn’t keep up with. Patches that changed the behavior. I have a hard time seeing how inactive players keep being interested.
There's also the fact that nobody ever brags about turning down all the dealer options like warranties and wheel protection and then actually gets bad curb rash or a $3500 bill for a timing belt replacement.
I used them for years, even delayed finally getting an Android because I liked my Treo so much (the Treo is a reminder that Palm combined the PIM with a phone long before Apple or Google did)
I think that's unrealistic - they either eat all their food (if there is even a climate they can survive in) or they get caught. Though this won't apply to small species as much. But the small dynos won't necessarily ruin the ecosystem as they won't be the apex predator. Not like a T-Rex is going to run around without being found, unless the host country collapses and no one cares. But it will just go extinct again, after causing some damage.
In Germany people may not be as used to natural disasters and the like, but where I've travelled where the weather is way more extreme, these are like life saving emergency alerts so you don't get sucked into a tornado like a cow or die in a flood or tsunami. I love how jarring the alerts are, there was an incident in the USA recently where some way too close menu entry got hit at an emergency alert center for a nuclear bomb and people ended up taking cover thinking they were going to get nuked in Hawaii [1]. The USA system you can understand the technical workings of here [2] while this seems to cover more of the technical workings of the EU systems [3] - These are simply service area broadcasts [4]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Hawaii_false_missile_aler...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdmkTkWB40Q

[3] https://media.ccc.de/v/osmodevcon2019-107-production-grade-c...

[4] https://osmocom.org/projects/cellular-infrastructure/wiki/Se...
> will not be pay-to-win, you can only buy cosmetic items

Lied every gaming company ever. Blizzard has already lied about this with Overwatch. Why would anyone believe them when it comes to D4?
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Most people are capable to do about 500-800W for long time (30 minutes or more), and up to few kilowatts for short time, 1-3 minutes.
I say that because I know there are a lot of people on HN who browse with JS off and rail against sites that require it. But sometimes you need it.
Instead of blocking by IP, just check SERVER_NAME/HTTP_SERVER variables in your backend/web server (or even in JavaScript of the page check window.location.hostname) and in case those include anything but original hostname, redirect to the original website (or serve different content with a warning to the visitor). If you have apache2/nginx this can be easily achieved by creating a default virtualhost (which is not your website), and additionally creating explicitly your website virtualhost. Then the default virtualhost can have a proper redirect while serving any other hostname.

Those variables are populated by the browser, unless proxying server is rewring them, your web-server will be able to detect imposter and serve him/her with a redirect. If rewrites are indeed in place, then check in the frontend. Blocking by IP is the last option if nothing else works.
The Palm Treo and Pre filled in the gap between PDAs and smartphones. And of course there was the Blackberry from RIM, whose first true smartphone products (the 850 and 857) were released in 2002.

Keep in mind that the iPhone somewhat evolved from the iPod with the iPod Touch being effectively a WiFi-only iPhone. Largely what we'd call and iPad today, though the iPod Touch was produced through 2019 per Wikipedia.

There was also the Ericcson P900, a smartphone also released in 2002:

<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Ericsson_P900>

I do miss much about the Palm III, specifically Grafitti. Modern e-ink tablets with notetaking capabilities somewhat supplant that.
According to Elon Musk the US created a virus that killed 17+ million people around the world.

Has he thought out how much he puts Americans in risk of attacks around the world by pushing that lie?

I'm European so I don't expect lynchings of Americans in my country but I doubt the rest of the world will show the same restraint if they end up believing Elon Musk's reckless lies.
LLM is incredibly useful as an answer engine*. I can imagine this replacing the Google search box on every mobile device. Why search, browse, decline tracking popups and newsletters signup popups, and then try to fish out scraps of information out of a SEO fluff piece, on a tiny screen, if the LLM can tell you the answer straight away, and answer your follow up questions.

This can be a serious threat to search engines, and by extension information-providing parts of the web, and web advertising (you will be getting ads from your LLM provider, and everyone on the web will hate that their content has been hoovered up for free).

Then we'll have spam trying to manipulate data used to train the bot. There will be commercial spam, but also political/ideological spam. And here's the scary part: to reject the spam, people training those AIs will have to compile a big table of what is true. This will guide the AI that people listen to, and which can be an excellent bullshitter. There is a massive potential for abuse here.

*) the current one is too often confidently incorrect, but that is probably fixable to a good-enough level.
"Universal" USB stick support came slightly earlier, with 2k. I distinctly remember it being a game-changer
TBH, I don't feel we really got paid until about 2012 or so- or at least it did not reach me (on the east coast around NYC) until then. I spent the first ten years of my career lamenting my choice, for the amount of effort, both mental and number of hours, it took to do the job, while my business-oriented peers in college were doing well but seemed to never have to work on a weekend or miss a happy hour/dinner. Until around that time I was always considered a second class citizen in just about any company I worked at.

Two things happened around 2012- the "startups" became "tech giants" and started competing with each other for talent with real money or RSUs, not just options that may pan out one day in the future. And tbh the work became easier- its hard to really understate how important the ability to just "stack overflow" a problem is, and the modern stacks developed to a point where it was really hard to make a case to roll your own libs instead of just pulling one off the shelf. As an example, I used to do C/C++, and until boost came along and started getting adoption in the mid 2000s, each time I changed jobs, I had to learn about a whole new "stl" that each company had built and all its quirks and fumble around for at least a month or two while I figured out how to do basic things like string manipulation Their Way. Web went from straight DOM manipulation and fighting with IE6, to toolkits and later frameworks that smoothed over all of these issues and let you focus on building apps, not UI.

Even without having worked for a tech giant, I am very grateful for them lifting all tech salaries, and I get to live in a very nice comfortable house that is almost paid off. I am glad I stuck it out- I was actually starting to study to become an actuary because I was so fed up with being treated like a peon around 2011 by people whose job I could easily do, but wouldn't have the slightest idea on how to do mine.
Homes and cars are simply out of control. People are getting mortgage sized loans just to buy a family car. Something which will become worthless over 10 years of use. Getting a mortgage on a home is now a non-starter for a huge swath of the population. I suppose I can somewhat understand the price of homes going up. It's a durable item that, if reasonably maintained, has an unlimited useful life. A car on the other hand, no matter how well maintained, will become worthless in a decade. Freewheeling monetary policy does not just impact which cars a person is able to buy. It more insidiously impacts that cars which manufacturers choose to design and build. Even entry level cars are packed with features and electronics and carry a near $30k price tag. It's not going to be so easy for the industry to get back to building simple and cheap cars.
The strange thing about the thumb drive world - I can remember getting my first one in the early 2000s, capacity of 4MB or so I think. The odd part is I have no clue what brand it was, where I got it from, or how I heard that they existed. I vaguely recall it being some no-name vaguely sketchy seeming thing. But it worked great.
For practical context, Stable Diffusion 2.X was trained on LAION-5B as opposed to LAION-400M for Stable Diffusion 1.X.

At the least, Stable Diffusion 2.X is better at pain points of image generation such as text legibility and hands, potentially due to having more data points.
Your thinking is tainted by the american model where you buy carrier locked phones. But no, that is not usually how it works. The system partition can be modified by the party who issues system updates. Normally this would be the company making the phone, such as Samsung. But in the US, some carriers sell modified phones locked to their network, and in that case the carrier is also the one shipping updates.
Yes, that's what I meant; sorry if I mucked it up. :)
It is same idea behind https://xkcd.com/810/
whats the average life expectancy in your county?
I'll take 90s internet over what we have now any day, which is basically a collection of tv stations.
Fuel is hardly the only advantage, the major issue with fission is the enormous costs of trying to avoid problems or cleanup after them. Thus 24/7 security, redundancy on top of redundancy, walls thick enough to stop aircraft etc. Fission is still by far the most expensive power source even with massive subsides and is only even close to economically viable as base load power backed up with peaking power plants.

In theory much of that is excessive but there is a long history of very expensive mistakes with massive cleanup efforts. The US talks about three mile island as the largest nuclear accident ignoring the Stationary Low-Power Reactor Number One that killed 3 people. All that complexity and expense comes from trying to avoid real mistakes that actually happened.
I think there is lot of room for grassroot events. But those events will be small and local. Maybe couple hundred people being present and couple thousand viewers. Not that much to monetize and most teams playing will be amateurs.
"But you could say the same for most video games:"

For games that involve shooting at people, I'd agree. A particular first-person perspective may be difficult to follow but the core is simple and you can pick up the pieces as you go. Quake deathmatches have a lot of interesting arcana to dig into if you want to play at top level, but you can just watch one without any particular skill. From there you can incrementally pick up that shooting someone before the player even saw them is impressive, or that identifying, acquiring, and plinking them with a rail gun in <500ms is pretty impressive. The speed of these things might be inaccessible, but it's not the rule set that is.

Most things have a novice-level entry ramp. My sons seemed to pick up the basics of American Football in about 5 minutes when they were 8. It really isn't that hard. They didn't encounter their first "safety" until quite a while later, for instance, but their lack of knowledge of what a safety is didn't bother them. I've been watching for a lot longer and still couldn't simply whip off the names of all the positions or anything myself.

Not all esports have that, though. I can say from personal experience though that DOTA is impenetrable if you don't know what's going on. I've been at a local restaurant that was playing some matches for whatever reason. I know about video games in general but know nothing about DOTA. I suppose you could say I understood what it was I didn't understand, but I had no idea who was winning, what a good play was, etc.
Typical internet contrarian:
"The trend is wrong! I knew it! Read this!"
points at anecdote + straw man confidently