skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> and try to get back to where they were before covid

I’m only one person, but… I don’t want to get back to where I was before covid. I really like not getting sick. I really like limiting my social engagements to those I will especially enjoy—particularly those which are one-on-one, a preference I’ve been pleased to rediscover after a few years as a miserable barfly and a brief stint in much more severe social isolation (unhealthy relationship in a place with no other friends and godawful weather).

I’m sure the old normal is a much more appealing prospect to others, and I don’t begrudge them that, but I like my quieter life and my years without infectious disease. And if that means wearing a mask whenever I go into public buildings, that’s fine! I’m not doing it very often, it’s just a mild personal annoyance that harms no one.
I lived by Waze in DC. Want to know if the usual route home was going to take one hour or three? It was the only way to find out and was semi-reliable and updated rapidly. I did not always trust its routes but once I knew a few alternatives it could help me choose the right one.
If all billionaires actually did place all their money in a Scrooge McDuck cash vault and locked it there for good like Scrooge did, it would actually be good for the rest of us in one way: the value of our money would go up.

To illustrate this, imagine an expensive sports car. It's only expensive because there are people that can pay for it. If everyone who could afford it locked their money up and stopped spending, the person who wanted to sell that car would have to sell it at a much lower price if they wanted to sell it at all.
For new construction sure - for existing it’s already there and apparently needs little maintenance.
narcan and narcan accessories
Garret Ryan from Told in Stone has something on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k8R3Xe9eZQ

(Apopudobalia is an invention, but beer pong has an unbroken history from classical antiquity to the present day.)
Most heat pumps where I live are inverter based and have a very gradual ramp-up, they also control the compressor according to the demand. Some heat pumps even have several inverters to control the compressor and the fans.

One of my fridges has inverter based compressor too.
What is this?

I see decentralized, I think crypto scam. I see a Notion-like screenshot, I think Notion clone. Decentralized communities, I think social network?

Imagine having to explain this to an end user… you need help with copywriting urgently. Even in the early technical stages, it’s just as important as launch day. Because I have no idea what this product is supposed to be.
To me, it seems that having the panels on the bot is not an efficient design.

Why lug those huge heavy panels everywhere?

A modular design, where panels are installed on the farm, and the heart of the machine is small, compact and has different chassis to suit different farming requirements, is a better way to go forward.

The solar panels charge a swappable battery and the farmer can switch batteries every two days or so.

Currently, the width of the bot is an issue. Its too big. You want small bots that can go between plants close together and do their magic.
Waze innovation died as soon as they were bought by Google. It’s really sad. Same thing happened with Nest.
You haven't said what tech things interest you, but if you enjoy keeping up with programming languages or Linux development I recommend trying a subscription to https://lwn.net/ after you block HN. The comment noise is very low and the article quality is extremely high. It isn't constantly updating like HN or Reddit so if you check it 10x a day it might only change once.
I guess age plays a big part? In my teens I was very insecure and awkward, too. Now in my late 30s: whatever, I don't care. But then last summer I noticed my hair is thinning and I'll probably be bald or balding in n years, and I was surprised how much this worries me :-/
Up north, the Indigo bookstore chain did the exact opposite.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indigo_Books_and_Music

They are a case study in business school that selling tchotchkes and trinkets is more profitable than books. I disagree with GP's article. It is the same myth in tech that "engineers make better founders" and "companies ran by execs with engineering backgrounds are more successful". It is feel-good masturbation for professionals without objective data backing it. In this case they are running with "booklovers run better bookstores". Not necessarily generalizable to all booksellers. The pandemic has shown that cheap rates play an oversized role in picking winners and losers.
Really? Or is it that you think of a reference to poor mental health as a legitimate insult?
Google maps has gotten my route wrong many times.
This is very little effort to do and yet at some point I stopped bothering or caring.
I really wish Intel had let this ride for a couple more years. This feels way too soon. The two (HPC/data-center & consumer) are very different products, yes, but I really want to see some interesting synergy & co-reinforcement. It gives me enormously bad feels to see a company with one of the lowest P/E rations in tech abandon one of the most forward-facing most-hopeful efforts to maintain ecosystem relevance so quickly, to let themselves fracture apart like this.
> Whatever faults you’d lay at his feet were not only de rigueur for both Europeans and Muslims of his time,

No, they weren’t, which is why he was known as a notoriously cruel administrator by contemporary Europeans, which was a substantial factor in his being removed as governor, arrested, and returned to Spain in chains.
I wish the negative comments were right, but from these models it’s clear that the next step in evolution, AGI is something many of us will experience at some time in the future.

I would stop that kind of evolution, as it can be catastrophic, but I know that humanity is not able to stop itself from evolving further.
Low six figures.

More then I made last year, about the same as the DevOps position I left at the beginning of the year, but bonus opportunities and way better benefits.
>> how do I protect my freedoms from these people?

By creating or maintaining a monopoly on violence. There is unfortunately not much more to it than that.
10000%.

The most hated guy at my old job would start every request with an elaborate hand-wrung introduction to make sure no one could possibly be offended by what he was asking for.

Because of this, everyone had to read one or two paragraphs of niceties before they had any idea what he actually needed.

It was incredibly annoying and actually quite selfish in practice since it wasted so much time.
It could have been titled Gen Z and millennial workers pay $480 to overcome their fear of talking on the phone.

I had a fear of talking on the phone 30 years ago, but since I’m not a GenZ or millennial people aren’t going to make snarky comments about that; and no I didn’t get tangled up in the phone cord.
Yes, really. <3
> Thankfully virtually everyone has woken

That is not my impression on HN. Anytime I comment that Sweden did better than most countries by not following WHO lockdown orders I get downvotes. When you look at excessive deaths, you see there is small bump in 2020 and nothing else. Lockdowns didn't help at all, people died anyway.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/525353/sweden-number-of-...
The requirement to re-verify the license if likely from the content owner and not Google. Cappy experience nonetheless.
I used to run a Solana validator. After compiling the Solana perf libs for my installed version of CUDA Solana consistently used at least 75% of my RTX 3090. For a validator.

Solana validator hardware requirements are incredibly high compared to anything else I'm familiar with.
I usually appreciate this feature but being unable to turn it off is annoying. When driving from LA to SF I often find it a poor choice. Anyway, the option I use is to waypoint my path deliberately so that I hit the right spots and then it can't nav you away from the path.

You need a passenger with you, but I have noticed this is more a problem on longer routes. And on longer routes, I have a passenger with me anyway.
I use Waze every day. The police (speed trap) notifications usually appear in the same spot so it’s already the case if you remember where they were the day before.
I've been considering this and the only real options I've landed on are teaching, long-term thinking, and increasing entropy in social systems.

A lot of the hinky things that are done (by governments as well as private entities/individuals) are only possible because there is a level of ambient ignorance in the general population. Moving that needle might accomplish something (in the same way that literacy started as a scribe's gift but eventually was taught to schoolchildren): Arm your fellow travelers.

Long term thinking and planning (on the scale of centuries and decades rather than quarters or years): One major weakness of people with power is that they have to devote a substantial amount of their (large but still limited) time and energy towards preserving that power in the near future.

Increasing entropy in social systems: As dril puts it [0] "in a world where big data threatens to commodify our lives,. telling online surveys that i "Dont know" what pringles are constitutes Heroism" Essentially, the people in power rely on the gathering and interpretation of large amounts of data to maintain their power. Garbage in, garbage out. The more their inputs are skewed, the more likely they are to make mistakes that lead to cracks in the system and therefore more opportunities for change.

This might just be cope, idk.

[0]: https://twitter.com/dril/status/1061091401251745792?lang=en
There's no coin that have gained ground against Bitcoin after their first cycle ATH against Bitcoin. Not even Ethereum.

You basically have to gamble on a coin that have never been seen in a Bull market. Otherwise Bitcoin is always the better bet.
As the 'online space' becomes more important and bigger relative to 'meat space', this matters. There re many choices of food and cars, far fewer choices of popular social networks, payment processors.
> Something went wrong, but don’t fret — it’s not your fault. Let’s try again.

That's what I get when I try to login.

Unsurprisingly, trying again doesn't help
Seems that their api for their web app is currently returning a 503 from POST https://api.twitter.com/1.1/onboarding/sso_init.json

Response payload:
{"errors":[{"message":"Over capacity","code":130}]}

And then it redirects to https://twitter.com/logout/error
I probably agree with this in substance. It's an independent good of it's own accord akin to British public recognition of its role in slavery but probably has next to no real impact on the deep time resentments inside China.
There is also lobste.rs

I agree with the submitter and I've tried ignoring HN and just visiting other tech sites, but I admit I'm partially here for the "tabloid" type tech stuff. For me it's a question of understanding its place and not treating the more common and salacious themes/stories as reflecting reality

Edit: just thinking about the submitter's problem, there is an HN api, I wonder if there are any sites that mirror HN but with filtering functionality, so one could lose the Musk stories and only get stuff closer to their interests
I thought my wife's aphantasia is related to her difficulty in orienting a map and figuring out where she is on the map. If GPS is off by half a block and/or the magnetic compass has the map mis-oriented by more than 45 degrees, then it's very difficult for her to compensate. Certainly, when I navigate by map, imagining the street scene overlaid when looking at the map and imagining the map overlaid when looking at the street scene are huge aids to navigation. She's not able to generate that augmented reality in her imagination, and I attributed that lack of mental augmented reality to her difficulty in using maps.

Generally, I'd prefer to navigate and let my wife drive, but she's used to driving in countries where they drive on the left, and I'm used to driving in countries where they drive on the right. Also, if a manual transmission is significantly cheaper to rent, then I end up driving, regardless of which side of the road the locals drive. More than once, I've down-shifted while turning on my wipers instead of my turn signal while entering a roundabout. At least car manufacturers don't flip the shift pattern right-to-left when changing which side the steering wheel is on.
Fake News, Echo Chambers and Polarization: How Bad Is Social Media? [video][19m]
Twitter homepage doesn't work.

Viewing a user's page works. Viewing a specific tweet works. Twitter app works.
Which will be heavier, the batteries, or the panels?

I'm sure there's a concern that the panels are undersized, especially when it's working in mud and trying to dig holes on a cloudy day.

What is the ideal row spacing in your opinion? Row spacing is a factor of the size of the equipment (tractor and various devices they pull), and a size of the plants.
I am not sure how they’d know what you do to a file once you copy it to your PC, which is allowed.
Not noticeably worse than a wired connection.
>"Try me; who knows what I'll know or be able to figure out".
This mindset is usually highly toxic in workplace. At minimum it's a nice way to get yourself branded the official a-hole smartypants of the company.
Yes (assuming no further bullshit from Disney), in 2024 you would be legally allowed to sell a verbatim copy of the original Steamboat Willie animation, including any bits where it says "this animation was made by Disney" (because that's just factually true). But if you remixed Steamboat Willie into something different, you wouldn't be legally allowed to even remotely suggest that your remix was made by Disney.
> I (in Australia) want preferences about avoiding right turns across busy roads (equivalent to left turns in the US). I use Google Maps and it seems to constantly choose options with all of the difficult turns.

This would be incredibly useful in congested areas. Good feature suggestion.
This point is getting missed by a lot of people I think. FTX / Alameda had a part in funding almost all solana-based projects, and almost all of these fundings involved some kind of "use FTX as your bank" fundraising stipulation. So not only were they propping up the ecosystem with projects getting funding that might not have really deserved it, but now those projects have no treasuries.

The entire solana ecosystem is just nuked now and it isn't hard to see this in on-chain activity and project/dao comm's.

edit: as a dev solana had some nice implementation details and was a step forward over some other chains in some ways. IMO it's totally DOA now, but I hope the dev community (whoever is real and not an alameda-funded "anon" dev etc) continues on in some capacity on a fork or other chain.
I agree with you and this was my reasoning anytime anyone’s suggested I’m being overly cautious. I’ve given up vocalizing the reasoning for the most part, it’s felt like strapping on another head and begging people not to look at me as if I’ve three heads. But I’m glad I’m not totally alone in wanting to protect others around me from trivially avoided infectious diseases.
Is it going to have enough power and rigidity to carry and operate tools that can plant things and harvest things?

It'll presumably have to carry and process the harvested materials too.
Ironically, Conan O'Brien visited Waze headquarters in Tel Aviv and jokingly complained about just this problem (although I'm sure it's not the same intersection).
I'm using Qt for https://ossia.io ; the GPU parts uses Qt's RHI: https://www.qt.io/blog/graphics-in-qt-6.0-qrhi-qt-quick-qt-q...
There used to be a website dealing with just this issue on old T-series Toshiba Satellites. Actually, I found it: https://www.vobarian.com/toshibaProblem.html

I've seen a lot of discussion around bad capacitors on forums dealing with old stereo equipment too. So it really does seem to have been a widespread issue.
If you don't count Bitcoin that's true.

Bitcoin is used as a tool against French colonial CFA Franc in Africa. A a lifeline to access the outside financial world for citizens of countries under sanction.

https://iharare.com/african-countries-are-no-strangers-to-th...
Perhaps an inward effect of the Rougon-Macquart coefficient — corollary to the outward the light-bending phenomenon.
https://twitter.com/cpriestman/status/1230821595222028288
Both major B&N stores in Austin have had both of those titles within the last month. They all tend to be relatively overstocked on No Starch Press stuff (not to say they don't produce good books), but understocked on basically anything else.

The best I've encountered is Foyles in London, though even that had cut back substantially prior to the pandemic when I was last there.
Well this does go back to traditional high yield techniques like terra preta which besides making superfertile soil has the added benefit of being a carbon capture and soil preservation solution or the three sisters system where you get yields from three crops on one field and even get nitrogen capture from legumes. What does high yield mean in the short term when you are destroying your most valuable resource. Even if you have high yield one dimension, how efficient is this when you have multiple inputs and outputs and you end up in a pareto efficient situation. The highest yielding farms do not necessarily have the best scale efficiency. Permaculture and food forest systems can have very high yields if designed correctly. California is losing thousands of acres of land to salinization because of bad irrigation practices. Permaculture means to improve and protect to soil and increase water retention with the help of carbon content in the soil. I'm not from the US so I would'nt know about Indiana.
Question: what is the average delay in real-time traffic reporting in the app? In my area it always seems to lag at least 15 minutes behind actual conditions, which makes it less than helpful.
The B&N in Flagstaff is being turned into a Goodwill.
He's probably fine with the trade off. Get rid of the salary of 5k people for a minor outage (as of now).
Some college libraries are open to the public as well, and are often really amazing spaces. I grew up going to one with multiple levels of sub-basements, and even as a kid, I just enjoyed the sense of it. Like a secret that only I knew about, full of ancient knowledge.
...No idea if it's still open to the public or not these days, but if I ever get back there I'm going to make a point of finding out.
Neither Rogan nor Fridman are really "right wing", but of the two Fridman is certainly not. We're talking about a guy who spearheaded the "masks 4 all" push back at the beginning of COVID. If we're assigning arbitrary labels that definitely falls on the left half of the spectrum.
Question wasnt directed at me but if you like three body problem I also recommend the expanse series.
+1000. Not only her writing is fantastic, the articles are also extensively linked to each other, so you can easily spend 1-2 hours jumping from one excellent article to another. I have learned about so many people from the Marginalian.

If you want to delve may I suggest:

* The unfortunate story of Virginia Frances Sterrett, an illustrator of great talent: https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/01/27/virginia-frances-s...

* Maria Mitchell, the astronomer, who was the “first woman employed by the American federal government for a ‘specialized non-domestic skill’”: https://www.themarginalian.org/2021/04/03/maria-mitchell-tel...

* Ursula Le Guin on being a man: https://www.themarginalian.org/2014/10/17/ursula-k-le-guin-g...

* Popova’s review of the book Literary Witches, An Illustrated Celebration of Trailblazing Women Writers Who Have Enchanted and Transformed the World: https://www.themarginalian.org/2018/02/07/literary-witches/
> Communism wasn't even suggested as a solution by me

Communism came up when someone asked who was working on solving wealth inequality. That is what this particular thread is about.

> You clearly don't like communism

Neither do the people who've lived under it. It produces a bountiful crop of misery. That's why communists had to build walls around their countries to keep the citizens from fleeing. If you know of one that produced joy, I'd like a reference, please.

> Do you know of any government-policy-free societies that have scaled and prospered?

Government is necessary. But there should be as little of it as practical, because governments wield power and power is dangerous. It's like gasoline. I need gas to run my car and the lawnmower. But I keep as little of it around as possible. And I don't use gasoline as a household cleaner, and I try not to inhale any of it.

> No one said it didn't.

Leftists do.

> Any thoughts on how to harness self-interest in a way that doesn't bifurcate society socio-economically quite so much?

I don't see the mere existence of wealthy people being a problem. The fact of someone creating wealth (which is how people get wealthy in a free market) is not taking something from someone else.

I understand that point of view is unpopular.
MicroStrategy Adds 2,500 Bitcoin to Holdings Despite Tax-Loss Harvesting
In the 1970's there were very few Internet providers so probably a bad place to create a startup.
Twitter Global Outage
As we are on HN, I'm going to assume that you are comfortable using Github and can follow instructions.

Write it on Github and publish on your domain. Github has an option for you to fire up a web-editor (VSCode) right there in the browser with the keyboard `.` (<- that is a period). So, you can write right then and there (I do it quite often these days).

When publishing, choose a Jekyll theme of your choice from Github Pages[1]. Your focus now are just enough plain text (Markdown).

If you want to bring it to your desktop/device, just checkout the repo and write. These days, my choice is to just write in Obsidian and don't even try to run Jekyll.

What do you get out of this? The simplicity of focusing on your writing with almost Plain Text while Github takes care of your theme, hosting, SSL, and custom domain[2] for FREE. I have been on the Internet long enough to know that the best intentioned services will go away one day and so you need to be able to own your content and use tools to publish them the way you want.

Of course, you will need to book a domain and own it. I like Cloudflare[3] that takes care of pretty much everything you want to do with a domain for free. If you so wish, you can even let Cloudflare do the page building[4] and hosting while you keep Github for the source.

Plug: I build a super simple Jekyll theme[5] just so I can do this. I wrote an article about it on my website[6].

1. https://pages.github.com

2. https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain...

3. https://www.cloudflare.com

4. https://pages.cloudflare.com

5. https://oinam.github.io/oinam-jekyll/

6. https://brajeshwar.com/2021/brajeshwar.com-2021/
I make heavy use of mental imagery while navigating. Is that not the case for most people without aphantasia?
Isn't this just programming with more steps? For example you had ChatGPT try different ways to implement the data model, as you might assign a junior code monkey, until you guided it with your experience on how it should be implemented
The eugenicist movement appears to be quite dead, and good riddance.