skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You wrote: <<I can already see part of this movement.>>

We can summarise this comment as "Eternal September"-ism.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September

Be wary of falling trap to the feeling of: <<It has never been worse.>>

In late high school, watching the daily local television news around 6PM, I began to realise that when local news programmes interviewed local residents, they were always seeking the same response: <<It has never been worse.>>

Examples: Traffic; politics; manners; dress code; respect for elders; price of "milk and bread" (ask anyone in their 90s about it!); Internet discourse; buying/selling used cars; kids driving cars; fashion; fast food; the latest technology (radios, TVs, Internet, video games, mobile phones) ..., etcetera!

My point: Do not assume that things that are different from when you were young(er) are automatically worse. Really, really: Try harder. In 1920, "old people" were complaining about "young people" listening to too much radio -- made them "soft". Repeat for television in 1950. Repeat for Internet in 1990s. Repeat for mobile phones in 2010s. Repeat for video games in 2020s. I see this pattern repeat over and over again, and I chuckle to myself when I see old men complain about it!

As a counterpoint: This website is an amazing counterpoint/weight that "all things are getting worse all the time". I have been here for a few years now, and this community always manages to adapt to changing standards and conditions... and produce inspiring and thoughtful discourse about recent news.

And now for my over-the-top inspiring comment to end this post: Simply put: We, HN community, are the antithesis for Sturgeon's law "ninety percent of everything is crap"! (Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law)
> Whatsapp was ridiculously cheap - something like $1/year - but they still decided that worked against their network effects.

My boss of a multimillion dollar company took offense at being charged $1/year to use Whatsapp back when it came out and started getting popular, so it did have an effect

My eyes practically rolled out of my head when I heard him complain but that really stuck with me
Scientists do want meteorites. They tell a lot about the evolution of the solar system and even the planets. Meteorites formed in specific periods as the solar system developed, which allows geologists to compare there formation with how we expect the Earth to have formed. Additionally, there are some very rare meteorites which were cast into space from a neighboring planet (or moon) due to their own collision with a meteor and then come down on Earth, telling us even more about these celestial bodies. It's the only way we can study rocks from Mars using a full laboratory at this point.
What a fascinating piece.
I started reading this article the other day, read that sentence, and immediately dismissed the article as garbage and moved on.
It’s not about a social life outside my job, it’s about also loving my work and enjoying what I do. Anyone can trade time for money and use that money outside work. But true success to me is loving both, and to me that’s not possible without authentic relationships at work.
It was my experience at a bathroom on the SF main public library that led me to post my comment about it. It was beyond disgusting. There was literal shit smeared all over a stall, and bathroom had essentially been commandeered by mentally ill people living there.

I contrast that with the library in Austin. Obviously, as a free, warm, comfortable space, there are tons of homeless people there. But, unlike in SF, the Austin library doesn't let them trash the place - the homeless there are just using the library like everyone else. There is a strict no sleeping/lying rule (which I've seen enforced) which prevents anyone from basically taking over a section of the library. The bathrooms have always been immaculate whenever I've used them.

IMO the Austin library's policy toward the homeless shows how you can be respectful and welcoming to all while still requiring everyone who enters to respect the building.
Unrealpolitik and multicultural resistance in sci-fi
The sketches for the two guys that kidnapped Madeline McCann look an awful lot like the Podesta brothers. Then there’s the whole Prince Andrew thing. And then Epstein and Maxwell. How does Maxwell get convicted on trafficking charges but none of her clients do? As long as the political class is heavily involved the problem isn’t gonna get solved.
If a junior engineer isn't pestering me with questions, I know they aren't learning much. Also they overhear stuff and get drawn into conversations. Or more senior engineers join in conversations between them and another senior.

All of this is a challenge over zoom.

As far as being a part of something that matters, if I'm going to do a job for 8 hours a day, I'd like for it be as fulfilling as possible. For me that means pressure, teamwork, and at least some in-person interaction. I realize not everyone is the same.
Remote work will change, not devastate, American cities. It's pretty silly to live a split life anyway. Homes empty half the day and offices empty half the day; not an efficient way to use space.
Seems like you could do that with any router hardware that supports OpenWRT? An ESP32, although capable of running the algorithms, is going to have rather poor performance.
I'd argue the majority of Tesla owners are aware of who he is.
Veganism = reduce animal suffering as much as possible.

Why do you think it's extreme not wanting to cause animal death and suffering?

On the other hand you could also argue that veganism attracts people who want to move away from the extremes of the animal and dairy industry, which contributes massively to our carbon footprint and biosphere destruction on top of causing unnecessary animal suffering.
this is new (as of may 2022) and doesn't always assume the correct epub encoding, which can insert artifacts (eg see https://github.com/janeczku/calibre-web/issues/2508).
Hmm...

"Surprisingly Turing-Complete" https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete

> ‘Computers’, in the sense of being Turing-complete, are extremely common. Almost any system of sufficient complexity—unless carefully engineered otherwise—may be found to ‘accidentally’ support Turing-complete somewhere inside it through ‘weird machines’ which can be rebuilt out of the original system’s parts, even systems which would appear to have not the slightest thing to do with computation.
Maybe so, but protein is a different story. How many professional athletes are true vegans for extended periods outside of Tom Brady, who is kind of psycho to begin with.
Why would they need to? It functions the same way all oximeters do, which have been around for decades.

My friend is heavily tattooed and their apple watch doesn't even know its on their wrist and they lost alot of functionality because of that. They would love for it to work but understand the limitations of the technology currently.
The problem is not technology, the problem is that we (and in particular, the Boomer generation that was in power of society for the last 30 years) stood idle while democratic control of society was ceded to ever larger private entities piece by piece.

We could live in a world where technology serves the people so that we get back to the 20 hour work week that medieval peasants enjoyed - now, technology serves the ultra-rich elites (either as playthings or to further their interests) and increasingly repressive surveillance state governments, and unions have lost more and more influence.
Saigon, Vietnam is a massive massive city with something like 8m+ people living there. When I was living there and couldn't sleep at night, I'd hop on my motorbike and just go explore all the little back streets and alleyways that cut through the whole city.

As a foreigner, it is relatively safe to do this. Most people are just busy living their lives (or sleeping!), but seems super sketchy if you think too deeply about it.

I never really saw anything too crazy (beyond the absolute poverty a lot of people live in), but the occasional illegal cockfight or overhearing screaming and yelling was always entertaining. One time, I had a gang of hookers on bikes chase me around for a bit, but eventually they realized that I wasn't interested in being a customer and left me alone.

I'm sure in a few instances, I could have stopped and had drinks with the more than friendly locals. From what I understand, I probably wouldn't have been allowed to leave until properly lubricated. I never worked up the courage for that one though, mostly because of the language barriers.
My favorites are the interactive ones like https://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail?titleId=350217&no=31. They had very minimal movement though and it doesn't seem to work anymore.
Hi Guys,

I'm building a web app to create a centralized list of a SAAS companies that use GPT-3 for monetization. Was curious to hear your thoughts on the website (and if you have a GPT-3 Startup, fill out the Google Form so I can post it!)

Website is: https://www.applygpt.com/
MS-Access. It was fun to learn the relationships and queries.
In HN terms: imagine your assets are encoded in an array or list. Movement is represented by shifting elements right or left.

Most airlines are hub and spoke. Elements shift right (planes leave the hub) then shift left (return). Sometimes they shift two places right. If something disrupts this, like, a plane is stuck in [1] when it needs to be in [0], its generally recoverable when the event clears, or, you can use one of those 2 step moves in another flight to pick up stranded passengers on your way back to the starting position [0].

Southwest operate a point to point model. Assets start at [0] and have to traverse every point on the list through to [N] to succeed. N can be 3, 4 or higher. You can imagine what happens if a disruption happens in the middle of this list. Everybody upstream of the break is left planeless, everybody downstream who wants to go up cant make it further than the airport before the break, and everybody at the breakpoint is miserable.

So Southwest then fallback to a new scheduling model for which their system was not designed. Its like having a graph traversal system and trying to get it to solve matrix equations. Yeah, there are some similarities, but its not really the same.
App that tracks what politicians trade so you can win too
What opinion are you planning to share on Hacker News that is going to cause job loss?
I can't tell whether it's a coincidental invention and the author doesn't know about finger or it's a clone and an intentional omission.
Only for used electrics that cost under $25,000. The cheapest Tesla I see on Carvana is around $38K.
> My project naturally has 2 month "iterations" because that's how often I do a new crawl and load crawl data

I have a similar project type and timeline, and going through one of these iterations now. Could you share how you persist your data in between iterations?

For mine, these were some of the bigger iterations that were spaced out over several months:

1. I started out by writing raw http API responses to python pickle files. Scraping via api.

2. Then wrote some analysis logic in python that read the pickle files, and outputted to a csv that I could use for analysis in spreadsheets.

3. Scaled up to a couple orders of magnitude more data size, and multiple datasets. Added logic to bulk output any dataset to flattened CSV, then bulk import the CSV's to sqlite tables.

For each of those I had to rethink the code, simplify it, and make some parts generic where there was a common need.

I think my next big push will be loading new data to SQLite incrementally, and figuring out how and where to persist the SQLite data cheaply. Right now it's local but too big to check into a GitHub repo.
Wow. I am from the US. I have never heard of a man’s cold or that men suffer greater cold symptoms. Is this a commonly known thing where you are from? It sounds like you have a specific expression for it in your language.

What country/ language, if you don’t mind me asking?
Ask HN: What is the best conference talk you've seen in 2022?
My sense is that a lot of the political class throughout the world is heavily benefitting from it. As long as that’s the case then the problem isn’t gonna get resolved.
How Linux Works (also published by No Starch) covers a lot of useful commands too: https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3
Can the average Joe afford a Tesla? If they can, are they really average?

Can you clarify or should I just assume that I shall be downvoted into oblivion for asking?
Can you try again? You may have had bad luck as I broke something for like 5 seconds earlier today
I would rank SW roughly in the middle:

Alaska
Hawaiian
[Delta American United Southwest] (rough tie here)
Frontier
Spirit

It depends on what you value. If you always fly first class, of course SW is worse. SW does offer a lot of direct flights that no other airlines offer. For me saving several hours in not changing planes is worth a slightly worse flight experience.

Also SW doesn't gouge you when cancelling or changing flights, unlike all the others.
> You don’t actually buy digital books...

From Amazon and the likes, no, not usually. But there are some sites that offer DRM-free copies to buy, rather than perpetually rent.

Even on Google Play, authors/publishers can choose to go DRM-free. You can download those copies without having to be tied to the Google app. Sadly, however, I don't recall Google making it clear which ones were DRM-free before making a purchase.
Power on the moon: What will it take to survive the lunar night?
The Curse of the Girlboss: Holmes could've been the next Gwyneth Paltrow
There's a word for people who think health care is very good.... "healthy". There is nothing like illness to dissuade you of that belief. I'm not talking about the cost, or administration of healthcare, which of course is often lousy (esp in the US). I'm talking about it's capabilities, which is a universal problem.
Maybe before the Twitter fiasco. But after? I know about a dozen soccer moms with kids in elementary school and they're all tuned into Elon's antics.
Should we eliminate the word “buy” from all licenses and rights-restricted transactions? So like concert tickets (you can’t take video at the concert), physical DVDs (you can’t stream them online for other people), airline tickets (airlines reserve all sorts of rights, and international treaties even more), and houses (even if you pay cash, the local government can take your property for a variety of reasons)?

The ambiguity in digital purchases is a real problem, but if physical goods and services haven’t solved the problem with the semantics of “buy”, I’m not sure that’s a productive approach, unless the idea is to just scare people away from digital specifically by implying it’s materially different than other transactions where “buy” does not mean “receive irrevocable and unrestricted exclusive rights forever”.
The Romans usually let the existing culture and society survive as long as the peoples religion didn’t contradict the Roman gods and the taxes flowed.

Even without Rome, history from that era is not well known. Having architecture and literature spread widely across a continent like the romans will last a lot longer than wooden buildings and an oral tradition of a small localised tribe.
wasnt it super slow?
They could also be giving money to an "agency" with less scruples, or encouraging 3 other people to enter the trade. There's no telling.

Opting out of an exploitative system is self-justified.
I learnt Latin with LLPSI 1. Though I must admit, LLPSI wasn't the only resource I used. I had to use latintutorial's* youtube videos (his videos are great btw) to explain certain bits of grammar that I couldn't understand on my own, like gerunds, gerundives and the subjunctive mood with `ut' and `cum' clauses is what I needed help with specifically, so you're right about people only getting the basics or at least the things they can make sense of on their own. I suppose LLPSI would be easier for someone who has already taught themselves an Indo-European language and is used to Indo-European grammar. Latin, for me, was the first language I learned, so I had jumped into the deep end. "Allen and Greenough's New Latin Grammar" is another book I used occasionally (it's the best Latin grammar book IMO). As for your comment on feedback, if I can understand what I'm reading then that's all I'm interested in. I'm only learning Latin to read ancient Latin literature. I don't want to compose or translate Latin. An example of feedback for me, would be to read a page of Caesar's The Gallic War in Latin then read the same page in English afterwards to see how close I was to understanding everything. So far I've been close on almost everything, so the feedback I'm getting is that I'm reading Latin the way it was written 2000 years ago.

Here's what I read in order:

LLPSI with Colloquia Personarum, Pugio Bruti (waste of time btw) and Fabulae Syrae. After that I read Epitome Historiae Sacrae, the Vulgate, Fabulae Faciles, Ad Alpes, Julius Caesar's Invasion of Britain and half of LLPSI 2. Currently I'm reading The Gallic War. I also started studying German at the start of this year using the book "German for Reading" by Karl Sandberg which is taking up 1 hour per day of my time so I can't spend 2 hours on Latin per day which is what I was doing from 2020 to early 2022. I wouldn't say I'm fluent at all, but on a good day I can comfortably read Caesar (with a dictionary).

My goal since the start (January 2020) has been to read Ovid's Metamorphoses, which hasn't worked out yet, but it's a work in progress.

* Big shoutout to LatinTutorial/Benjamin:

https://www.youtube.com/@latintutorial
What was intense about mental health training if you don't mind my asking? I know nothing about it.
https://archive.ph/uc4JW
> Do you feel they should have a disclaimer about it being harder to take picture of dark skinned people in many settings with their cameras as well?

Yeah, I kinda do.
I don't think "not tested on animals" is something generally accepted as being required to be vegan.

AFAIK, the main qualifier is "does not consume animal products." Impossible meat does not have animal products in it and is not currently being tested on animals. Similarly, most medicine is animal tested, yet I've never heard someone claim that medicine isn't vegan.
Relishing in other people's actions that were driven out of fear during a crisis when our institutions (media and state) failed to keep public trust for millions. Empathy, even for those who make foolish decisions is difficult but necessary, you should try to understand rather than judge.
They're directly suggesting that food should have labels to let people know when foods are not wholly plant based. It seems they're really arguing that people should only rarely (if ever) eat non-plant-based foods and should avoid foods with animal products in them, because by default we should be eating plants not non-plants.

We didn't eat plants by default, we ate a mixture of plants and meats and other animal-derived products since we lived in caves.
That’s a good one. Context will indeed get lost…

I’ll consider clearing comments after edits
The Hamburger is a sandwich derived from a method of meat processing historically popular in Hamburg, Germany. The "hot dog" however may have in fact been some morbid humor about the processing of sausages:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_dog#Etymology
Here's my favorite video of his, where he reinvents computing from scratch while eschewing inelegant 1s and 0s for elegant floating-point values: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TFDG-y-EHs
It's good until that mediocre dude makes a bunch of mediocre JavaScript-based crap. And then I have to either import 9000 libraries or rewrite everything from scratch every time I do anything
That’s not true either. It was only plant based when they couldn’t obtain meat. Supplementing plant foods was the default when there was no prey available is more accurate.
Is anyone still using filters on photo nowadays? Apart from the occasionnal black&white all make the pictures crappier anyway.
It sounds to me like you described a situation where the regulations are working as intended.

In the scenario you describe, the EU wants Apple to remove a nonstandard lightning connector and replace it with a standard one for increased interoperability and decreased e-waste.

It looks like what you describe is exactly what happened, which is exactly what the EU wanted.
> Personally I strongly doubt that "modern" thermometers are in practice more accurate than good ol' mercury ones.

they are not more accurate per se, the reading and calibration is.

many cheap thermometer were printed with the temperature lines out of scale or shifted.

they are also safer to use, it wasn't uncommon that the old ones broke while using them.

Imagine the danger of a glass tube filled with mercury breaking while measuring the temperature anally or from the mouth.
As far as i remember SGI 3D stuff was based on PEX and xorg decided to drop this extension around that time.
Yeah that's basically it. I'm single/senior/ADHD/work-was-social-circle (at previous job). Hate remote full time.
Ask HN: Which causes do you donate to?
End of year is approaching (i.e. cut-off for tax deductibility of donations).

Which causes and organizations do you donate to? Bonus question: why did you pick these?
If this is true they already have several big patient groups taking it on a daily basis for the rest of their life so should be possible to look at if the prevalence of Alzheimers is lower in those groups.
I wonder which will come out first, the Roadster or the Cyber truck
Home airport is STL, I normally fly to the coasts.
Because developer tools are increasingly polished and easily accessible without in-depth knowledge of the arcanes of the command line. And that's great to welcome more people in our field.

The downside is that once they're welcome, the climb of the learning curve is barely started.
I could see this or something similar to it being beneficial for generating a REST API initially when the schema just happens to pretty closely fit what the REST API should be.

But after that initial step, I wouldn't want my API dependent on the schema (directly), nor would I want my database schema dependent on the API code. As a side note, that's one reason I didn't take a liking to Django.

Honestly, I'd rather have an RPC based API in the year 2023 than a REST API. REST, I think, was a bit of a mistake in terms of a source for data that would be sent to a stateful frontend as JSON. REST makes sense for webpages, but nothing about data is inherently page-like. I've run into enough quirks dealing with RESTful APIs and the libraries that claim to handle them that I think we should be looking for a better fit.
> Also, Buffalo Wings have nothing to do with buffalos, and everything to do with Buffalo, New York.

Yes, and hamburgers have nothing to do with ham, they're named after the city of Hamburg. Frankfurters also not made of Franks.

> Funnily, meat is never (or very very very rarely) disguised as vegetables.

OTOH, what exactly do people think they're eating when they have wieners? Because I'm fairly sure the meat shapes that get replicated — bacon rashers, sausages, burgers, fillets, deli slices — even where they had a specific original cause like "stuff meat into intestine", stuck around because they're convenient. The meat that still looks like the original animal (whole roast chicken, whole leg of lamb, stuffed pig head), I've not seen replicated. Well, not since the "everything is a cake" meme, at least.
I question the assertion that a typical Tesla customer is “totally unplugged from politics”. Why should I believe that the relatively small percentage of people that can afford a Tesla are also not at least politically influenced in their purchasing decisions?