skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think people are far too easily offended today

One has to wonder who was ever offended by the usage of the term "whitespace". Yes, that is actually on the list under "Institutionalized Racism" because it "assigns value connotations based on color (white = good), an act which is subconsciously racialized."

I am skeptical of the entire "subconsciously racialized" idea in the first place; to the best of my knowledge there is no evidence for it. But even if we accept it for the sake of the argument, does "whitespace" assign any value connotation at all? [Insert tabs vs. spaces joke here]

I don't really have a problem with with a policy on this as such, but the issue tends to be that once you start drafting a policy you will get a committee or the like and they will search for words that that could possible maybe perhaps be considered problematic by someone, somewhere, sometimes. That's kind of the reverse of how it should work: policy should reflect real concrete problems that were encountered. "I'm black and find the usage of 'slave' problematic" is, I think, more than reasonable, and a concrete situation. But grepping the dictionary for (white|black) ... a bit less so.

Once you start looking for something you will find it. This is why studies are double blind etc.

I have a lot of issues with this list. Does "more than one way to skin a cat" really "normalize violence against animals"? Cruelty against animals – especially pets – seems one of the very few topics where everyone from the most hard-core "Stalin did nothing wrong" communist to the most hardcore "Hitler did nothing wrong" neo-Nazi can find common ground. Does a phrase like that change it? I don't see how it does. I can go on and on, but clearly this is a "dictionary grep" list and not a "let's solve concrete problems" list.

So, are people "far too easily offended today"? I'm not so sure if they are.
Resigned from Twitter today.

Appreciate the opportunity, but didn’t think there was any real impact I could make there. Besides, it was sad to see my GitHub withering. Back to coding!

https://twitter.com/realgeorgehotz/status/160534120710993920...
> This is not always true. Often, the price of real estate outpaces rent. I.e. renting is cheaper than buying.
> As a renter, you're not paying property tax, insurance, repairs, maintenance, and maybe utilities.

You are though, are you not? Ie the only thing that changes between renting and owning is who is maybe economies of scale. For sake of discussion, lets say you rent from someone who owns a spare house. You are paying everything you just mentioned, on average, as the renter. If you don't, then the owner is losing money - and that's not likely.

Now with a larger business owning your home/apartment/etc, i imagine there is room for economies of scale. They don't have to pay to have a plumber come out, they might already have one on staff or retainer. etc. Perhaps they get better deals on land taxes and whatnot too?

But lets not forget - you're paying for everything your landlord is, plus profit. Always. The only way it works out cheaper for you is if they are more efficient at it.
Want to make South Side Chicago prosperous? Make it an attractive place for productive people to set up shop. Cutting taxes and regulation is how that works.
Discord audio quality is much better.

So is zoom if you turn on original audio mode and /all/ participants have a headset so it does full duplex.
Because we spend too much on the military industrial complex and not on our own communities. We are rotting from the inside because we create generational poverty in these communities and just leave them to themselves. Occasionally when a cop kills someone there, we will remember them for a few days and then forget them in a couple of weeks.

Over 3000 people were shot in Chicago this year so far. And that’s down 20%. Did you even hear anything about that? We let these poverty-stricken neighborhoods live in violence and don’t do a goddamn thing about it. Meanwhile we feed the military industrial complex to fight wars on the other side of the world. That’s bullshit.
I agree, it's almost definitely bullshit, but the claim was lossless.

>single DVD with thirty full-length movies on it - all compressed *losslessly* using such an codec on a laptop
Yes but almost everything is going to break quick and you will be back buying more soon.
Patterns are solutions or practices applicable to a certain problem. The code you presented isn't that.
Heat-set threaded inserts: https://www.mcmaster.com/press-fit-nuts/threaded-insert-type...
Not trying to evangelize you, but you may not necessarily see the value in gathering random notable ideas somewhere until you put in the effort of documenting them and then see the network effect in action, i.e., new meta-ideas and patterns emerging from linking those ideas in a central location.
Simple things that have little effect for an upper middle class family can completely devastate a poor one.

If you own a 20 y.o. car that you bought for 3k to commute to work it will for sure break down. You go to the mechanic and they quote you 4k, while you live paycheck by paycheck.

Now you cannot drive to work. In non coastal America, that typically has 0 public transportation, you are now convicted to bankruptcy.

An upper middle class family just buys a new car every 5-6 years and they avoid most of the maintenance.
Generative “Choose your own adventure” with ChatGPT prompt
Super fun prompt that you can customize to your persuasion:

“ You are the narrator of a story, beginning with the reader waking up on a spaceship that has crashed on an unknown planet. I am the reader. For each response until I say otherwise, Tell me what happens based on my last answer, and ask me what to do next from two or three choices. For the first response tell me more about the scene.‘

Enjoy
Calling not being able to be a consumer of the company their firm is suing punishment seems to be a bit of a stretch. And it's only during the duration of the lawsuit.

And again, why are the lawyers so surprised when they knew ahead of time? If they had asked, it could have even been pre-approved, and thus a non-story. If anything, I'd almost consider this to have been an intentional act by the law firm because they knew ahead of time and took their Girl Scout troop anyway, knowing it could look bad for MSG.
I'm pretty sure the people of Oakland would welcome you to keep these ideas confined to whatever place you currently inhabit. Why don't you take your weird crusade to a city that could actually use it, like Memphis, Tennessee?
Ask HN: Is there a RockTheJvm equivalent for ML
I have been learning Spark through the RockTheJvm course. I like it a lot since it cuts down on a lot of fluff. Do you have any recommendations for the same for ML? I don’t want to spend 4 months learning it, I just want to know how to use it to derive business value.
> My parents were dirt poor because their country was devastated by war, but they were able to concentrate on education and were middle class, and now me and my siblings are 1%ers.

You just described me and millions like me in India. Education continues to be the most reliable path for the poor to escape the poverty trap.
An interesting thing is that the rich will keep the poor down in a strange way: they'll encourage crime in poor communities, demanding less policing, asking for shoplifters to be let free, etc. resulting in food deserts.

The poor want safety and peace and our society wants them to tolerate violence and crime.
I can’t find much in this article about why food deserts exist in the first place. One big reason is it costs more to deliver food into high crime areas. It costs more to secure the property and employees who work in those areas.
> why America's obesity rise can't be linked to the rise in average calorie consumption

I think most (certainly not all) folks agree with the general "people gain weight because they're eating too many calories". I think the interesting question is "Why did people seem to start doing this now?"

Ice cream and butter and so on are not new inventions. We as a species have never hurt for desserts or calorie dense foods. So what change is it in our environment which seems to be causing the increased intake in calories?

And some of the usual suspects that get trotted out: sweetened soft drinks served in huge quantities for basically free, extremely processed foods with surprising calorie density that still leave you hungry, maybe changes in some of the ingrediants we're using, so on.

I suspect, given that lots of intelligent people have worked really hard on this and haven't landed on an obvious single answer, that it's a big combination of things. The more I talk to obese people the more I'm convinced there's some sort of sociological or psychological element as well as a food element.
As a renter, you're paying at least 1/N of things like utilities and maintenance, where N is the number of renters for that property, right?

In the case of N=1, where someone is renting a single family home, you must be paying at least as much as if you owned the home, since presumably the landlord wants to make some profit on top of all the expenses being passed to you.
You just track calories in, and weight. If you stop losing weight, reduce calories in.

It doesn't matter if you "have a slow metabolism" or whatever, because that just means you don't get to eat as much as someone else who weighs the same as you.

There are confounding factors so that you can't predict how much weight will be lost by a given calorie deficit. But that doesn't matter.

You will lose weight if you eat less.
Boring in a good way, absolutely. Definitely not simple though
The gallery problem is easy to solve, the models put these Stripe links on their instagram or snapchat, and then fill up their pages with saucy photos to serve as the gallery.
Nobody in America will starve to death unless they have a severe mental illness that prevents them from obtaining help that is otherwise accessible to them. The welfare system is not great, but it's not that bad. Food stamps and food banks are a thing.
I kind of hate that your being downvoted b/c your perspective here is a very common one.

It’s not just a matter of unit price, but also time, convenience, and cal/$. Fruit / veg in general is pretty expensive when looked at from a cal/$ perspective — you pay for a lot of water there. Potatoes, beans, rice are pretty slow cooking, and require dealing with dishes after.

So for my single mom, it was pretty hard to provide anything but

1) fast food (decent cal/$, extremely convenient)

2) microwaveable tv dinners (Meh cal per dollar, but long shelf life, extremely convenient)

3) PB / lunch meat sandwiches (basically god tier for poor chow)

For reference, my mom worked many jobs and got maybe 4-5 hrs sleep a night. Adding 30 minutes for a days worth of meals was a lot.
> The only way it works out cheaper for you is if they are more efficient at it.

One easy way would be the difference in credit scores leading to lower payments for the landlord.
don't use clickbait-y link text in submissions

(submitted title was "don't click")
In the scale of $20t debt and $3t deficits, and $700b tax cuts - $100b is not an either or situation.
You clearly haven't bought eggs, beans, rice, etc. at the grocery store and been on a budget. In the last two years the price of eggs have easily doubled--a dozen large store brand eggs are over 3 bucks now vs maybe 99 cents pre-pandemic. Every single staple you mention has gone up in price significantly. Food inflation is astronomical and if you don't feel it then it's quite a privilege. If you were struggling to make ends meet two years ago, you are in deep deep trouble or probably completely forgotten by society and/or dead now.
> This country will never solve the poverty problem

When poverty is defined as the lower quintile of income, it cannot be solved. America's poor are the richest poor people in history. It's one reason why millions flood over the border to get in.
Ask HN: Is there a good video manager for Desktop?
Any ideas for a decent media manager that can help organize videos that can be installed locally? I've ran across https://mediadrop.video/, but I wonder if there are some others out there.
The most corrosive idea in our society is the notion that someone somewhere is getting slightly more than they deserve, just slightly more than you think they earned through their god-given talents, and that it’s therefore worth trying to correct at huge expense, because we certainly can’t have that tiny bit of unfairness in the universe.

And the correction, when applied, is always to the detriment of a huge number of other people who actually needed the help.

This is how we get means-testing, SALT caps, and bad immigration law. We have got to be more humane than this.
Who will rule Twitter next?
I was so excited to roll up to my grandparents house for Thanksgiving and have to stop for wild turkeys crossing the road.
still yen is far weaker than a year ago
It’s as basic as Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Food, shelter and Safety are foundational. Everything else comes with they. The poorest neighborhoods in the US are like war zones. Once they have safety and middle class jobs, things like 2 parent households will flourish.
I mean —- have you been poor? I can say when my mom and I were dirt poor, we literally didn’t have the time. My mom didn’t take benefits mainly due to pride, but all the foods you mention were way out of her time / price bucket
And here I am driving a 17 year old car which is worth less than I make in a week. It doesn’t really break ever either, just some small stuff over the years.
I understand this is point-cloud diffusion but Ajay Jain et. al. (BAIR + Google Research) accomplished the first version I saw of this back in June with their Dream Fields paper (CPVR'22).

As always this goes to show that if you can't be the first, be the loudest. OpenAI has the most well oiled media machine I've seen in awhile.

Seeing the waves of publicity OpenAI gets with every new release, I think we're seeing a new model for big-tech AI research groups. It isn't enough to just hire world-class research talent that publish area-defining papers. There has to be a commensurate investment in media to publicize the research. Obviously, if you don't have the research, you have nothing to market. But it should say something that OpenAI prioritizes great design, communication, and publicity in addition to the world-class research team. It wouldn't surprise me if we see Google AI / DeepMind / FAIR / double-down with their own investments to expand the media presence of their AI orgs.

[1] https://ajayj.com/dreamfields
Deauther and Bad USB Watch
Citation? I found:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1092217/bullying-in-euro...

https://www.pacer.org/bullying/info/stats.asp

Which suggests the rates are comparable between the US and Denmark.
You don't see much ruby anymore that uses `DelegateClass`, the primary interface to delegate.rb. It does use metaprogramming but no more than Forwardable does. Also, it's "the good kind" of metaprogramming: active at program boot only, not a whiff of method_missing. This is closer to a lisp or rust macro: code which writes code. Exactly what ruby excels at.

https://github.com/ruby/ruby/blob/afd46429fcdb83aa9fa7c193ed...

SimpleDelegator is still pretty common though, I wouldn't blink if I saw that while reviewing a PR.
Still is if you live in Saskatchewan
> an FHA mortgage only requires 3-5% down and a credit score of someone with a pulse

Those kinds of loans are a huge government subsisdy, contributing quite a bit to the unaffordability of housing. So many mortgages today are backed by the government. These came about in the 1930s with the New Deal.

Without government guarantees it would not make sense for banks to take on the risk of underwriting fixed rate low interest 30 year loans. Many other countries, like Canada and the UK for example, have mortgages that must be rolled over to new interest rates every 5 years. Would you wanted to underwrite a 30 year loan for 500k a couple years ago at 3%, knowing that rate could only go higher?

It's not fair. These government loan guarantees skew the price of housing, negatively impacting people who need a roof over their head and don't have the money to compete with investors who can bid up the aritificially limited supply of housing to make passive income collecting rents.
Indeed. I think we've lost a little something from that era, though, where it took some effort to reach out, sending a letter on paper. These days, it's super easy to contact someone on social media or whatever, which is very convenient and efficient. Dijkstra to me really personified a slower, deeper way of interacting.
Cash in USD has been one of the better performing assets of 2022
Perhaps the fee would be a base per times renewed plus the worth of a portion of the total reported wealth that the IP has generated over it's lifetime, instead of just since the last renewal. So if you've made sixty thousand dollars over the first twenty years, you owe six thousand for the renewal. If you've made ninety thousand dollars over the next twenty years, you owe ten thousand dollars plus eighteen thousand for the renewal. The base fee scales to make it feasible for low earners, but increases to prevent copyright abusers from perpetually milking an unused IP like how Harmony Gold did with Robotech/Macross for thirty eight years.
Just saying - when you work 60 hours/week you really don't have time to cook. Cooking is not an option. Not cooking is not out of choice.
Midi is a serial protocol. It has been implemented over serial, FireWire, usb, Bluetooth, http, Ethernet, 802.11, proprietary buses, etc.

The DIN 41524 / IEC/DIN EN 60130-9 connector is a common way of connecting MIDI devices. It is often referred to as “DIN MIDI” and “5 pin MIDI.”
You can quibble over who the employer. I don’t care if it’s Amazon or the federal government. Putting middle class jobs in these areas is important. Middle class jobs inherently means some form of health care.

Universal health care by itself won’t solve poverty.
I think I realized two things a while ago:

1. calories in / calories out is true when calories are around what you need or below. If you go above, a lot it the excess calories will, for many of us, just leave unused.

2. Many people consume a lot morr calories than they think, but because of 1. it can hide itself.

When some of them cut a lot of calories (not count exactly how many they eat in total, but just cut the sugar Cola and the extra chocolate) they might still be above 0 because of the big breakfast, big lunch and too big dinner.
I've been doing low carb myself and think this makes sense. Less insulin spiking => more manageable hunger. It's not magic, though. If you're trying to lose significant weight, you still have to make peace with hunger. And low carb—particularly strict keto—can lead to accidental micro nutrient deficiencies, so I track nutrition anyway, even after reaching my fitness goal.
There is a small seeming exception in regions where housing prices are rising rapidly: if the owner is willing to forgo increasing rent at the rate of housing price increases (which is pretty common among smalltime landlords), then renting can appear to be cheaper than the present-day mortgage for an equivalent property. Of course, in that market as a renter you lose out on appreciation of the house, so renting is only better if you can get bottom-market rates near the top of the market.
> Making money off your house often depends on how good a negotiator you are.

Good luck negotiating with the bank's appraiser. During the 2021 housing craze you might've been able to get 5-digits over closing, but from what I've heard, it was still rare to have a buyer with another $20k to throw your way. Nowadays, you're completely at the mercy of the market and how much the homes around yours are being sold for, relative to your home's square footage and whatnot.
How long have you lived in your house? Can I have it now?
Most of those strategies are equally popular in Ruby but without the guardrails that at least make them cumbersome enough to make you think "is this really how I want to approach this?" The pitch for Ruby has always been productivity because it's terser so I'm trying to be charitable here and grant them their greenfield case.
If I'm watching something I want to retain, I intentionally reduce the volume and turn on closed captioning.

I do wish closed captioning worked better with speed controls, though.
Too much $anything, and it will stop your $something you need to live.

Having said that, most by mouth potassium supplements are delayed release so you don’t get it all at once (and absorption already slows things down a lot).
Thrift stores in rich neighborhoods have significantly higher quality of items than ones in poor neighborhoods. I would not recommend shopping at poor thrift stores.
Threats do not tend towards a Functional Society
I am looking at $400 - $550K or so if I were to buy an apartment here in downtown Austin, which is something like right around $3700 a month or so with current interest rates, taxes, HOA fees, and the actual mortgage itself. My current salary has kept up fantastically with inflation to the point that affording it won't be a problem in a year or two when I buy, others, not so much.
Youre training your children to go do a mass shooting at Wells Fargo?
Family heirlooms? Your art is not a heirloom. It's just information, transferred from your mind into your medium of preference. Information is just bits, nothing but a unique number whose discovery you feel entitled to.

You think yourself superior to people who "piece together code from StackOverflow"? You're not. They will prove it to you with machine learning AI.
A lot of replies to this post (and to fears about AI in general) are of the form "But humans are as untrustworthy, if not more. So the AI can't be any worse". I have to say many of you have a very dim view of humans.

When I read an answer off of stackoverflow that is not highly voted, I know that the answer could be incorrect. But there is a trust that the actor on the other side was also facing the same problem, and is not malicious. After all, why would a malicious actor care to give a wrong answer to a "Rust borrow checker question"?

If the answer was AI generated and posted by a bot operated by a karma farmer, out goes that trust. This is obviously not a threat to society, and chances are the asker will eventually figure out the right answer, but you can see how this sort of thing reduces the signal-to-noise ratio of almost anything on the internet by orders of magnitude. Trust underpins everything.

Hacker news IS a social network in my opinion. I come here to read comments knowing that there is a like-minded person on the other side who is sharing their thoughts. If I was looking for information or something to learn, I would read a newspaper, a textbook or a research paper. The discussion with a real human from some corner of the world is what makes this forum tick.

This tech is not going away and I presume some steady state will be reached eventually, but in the meantime, there is no doubt in my mind that the internet as we know it is in jeopardy.
Our 2005 Honda CR-V was ~$7K 11 years ago and all the maintenance (except tires) has been easily done by me with no unusual tools needed. It’s probably a $3K car now and there’s literally thousands of them around.

It’s not that hard nor time-consuming to do basic maintenance and it saves low four-figures per year.