skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am curious what makes the author think that expert reviews are free of any incentives for abusing their influence. Also, if you ever built anything useful in your life, you should know that it's not possible to count solely on word-of-mouth, even in a upotian marketing-free world.

Listen, I get you are disappointed by bad actors, but going to the other extreme is never a solution.
> A LifeStraw Home water filter

I went a little bananas on filtered water a while back and bought a giant Berkey. I love it. My family goes through an entire container each day somehow. We use it for cooking as well as drinking, but it's still a lot of water. I highly recommend it if you ever decide you want an even more thorough, longer-lasting, high-capacity filter.
"Pacified" is a bloodless word to hide a bloody reality.

According to Julius Caesar's own figures, when he conquered Gaul he killed roughly a third, enslaved a third, and left the last third under Roman rule. Thus did the future dictator create the power base with which he overthrew the Republic. (Though it took his nephew Octavian, better known as Augustus, to make that stick.)

Even in modern times, autocrats seek to glorify their power with titles that derive from his name. Titles like "king", "kaiser" and "tsar".

Calgacus, as quoted by Tacitus, purportedly said of the Roman Empire, "They make a desert, and call it peace." The authenticity of the quote is questioned, but the description is historical fact. And so I prefer calling a spade a spade, and replacing "pacification" with the more accurate", "conquest, genocide and oppression".
There are other associations and organizations who would desire higher availability of sporting firearms.
Any suggestions for a good brand?
Ubiquiti Dream Router and a couple of WiFi 6 Access Points. Excellent WiFi is so underrated and not as common as we might think. It has allowed me to work comfortably in all corners of the house as well as outside when the weather is nice, all without skipping a beat during calls. Highly recommend setting up a proper WiFi network and looking into this more prosumer level hardware which has been rock-solid for me.
FWIW, the snowpack this season is well above average:
https://www.ksl.com/weather/snowpack
I made two larger purchases this year that have had significant use and brought me enjoyment:

- A good stereo (Wharfedale Linton/NAD Amp)
- A simracing setup (Fanatec DD/8020 Rig/Triples)

I listen to music probably 60+ hours a month and watch a movie every couple days, and it's a lot nicer not using headphones or a soundbar.

After using an entry-level sim wheel and pedals, I decided it would be cheaper and almost as fun to build a good rig compared to going to the track. Not to mention that I can race throughout the winter and in cars I otherwise wouldn't be able to experience.
Yes! Fellow pen nerd here, love the hobby and writing with a ballpoint now seems archaic.
Sometimes its i.protant to understand the culture correctly-
perhaps the institution has degraded now. Or perhaps your word only matters if it was goben to an equal, and Joe the public doesn't count? I dont know
I would describe 3.5% real as pretty reasonable, I would not even call it overly conservative
A close reading of a scientific paper of any consequence does not take half an hour. These days a published paper may typically be only a few pages but it isn't at all uncommon for the paper to be accompanied by 20-50 pages of supplementary text. When I'm asked to review a paper it takes me the better part of a day, at least. If I were a senior author on that paper that would be the bare minimum that I'd consider an acceptable commitment of effort.
> nationwide, yes, renters turn out to vote at a far lower rate than homeowners

Wider than I expected. Thank you.

Asking because in New York, renters turn out, and that drives policy outcomes. (They’re also less likely to think supply and demand is a myth.)
Ha! I agree! That usage seems to presume YOU are "serverless" not the application or the system running.
There's always something worse, so that's not a reasonable way to decide whether something is sufficiently moral. Hit men can say, "Sure, I kill people for a living, but it's not like I eat them or have sex with their corpses after. Those are the real bad people; I'm just a professional doing a job like any other Joe."

You can try constructing a universal moral scale if you want. For me it's sufficient to see if the people I might hire are good matches for the work and the team.
It's not about complaining. The goal of copyright is to create an incentive. Leaving uncertainty in there, when you could easily write the rules to eliminate it, makes the incentive less valuable and undermines the original purpose.
And weren't the measurements also based on a very wet year or somesuch?
Powerful computer, good large monitor, quiet wireless mouse and keyboard.

We spend so much time in front of a screen, but it’s easy to stay with old tech as it still work and do the same thing, but quality and speed matter. An improvement of a few percent pay for itself many times.

Choosing the best with what you work with will push you to also be the best at what you do, it serve as a yardstick to measure your work.
I’ve been afraid to move on from my 2015 MBP for the reasons you stated. Good to hear they’re getting back on track
My understanding is commercial real estate operates a bit differently than residential. The value of the property is based on a multitude of factors and the people that invest in commercial are not making an investment in residential.

For example, the value of the property is based on the last or current rent they have received. It is better for the property owner to not have a tenant, than it is to accept a lower lease because it impacts their financing agreements and property valuations.
Vaccine and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection confer long-lasting protection omi-BA.5
Mine is also an air fryer. :D
I've been using the "Omega Paw" box for years. You don't scoop. You just roll it upside down (one side is rounded for this) and when you right it, everything solid is in a long cup, which gets dumped into a garbage bag.

More work than the Litter Robot, but a lot cheaper.
> Rates of homelessness are not correlated with "life choices"

What could this possibly even mean? Someone roles a dice and then somebody materializes on the side of the road with a tent and a shopping cart and a fentanyl addiction?

This person just existed in a choiceless state up until the exact moment where the gained agency and simultaneously became homeless?
Thanks!

The font is ET Book: https://edwardtufte.github.io/et-book/

I borrowed heavily from Tufte CSS: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
A Japanese-style ryoba hand saw. I'm a hobbyist woodworker, and I didn't believe the hype until I tried one myself. I just have a $30-ish one, and it's like night and day compared to any other hand saw I've used. Having ripping teeth on one side, and crosscut teeth on the other, alone is worth it. Then, you get into how much less force they require and how rarely they bind.
Unfortunately wealthy established homeowners don't want more people to near to them so they vote against any and all change.

Yes, combined with useful idiot "anti-gentrification" activists who have convinced themselves that the concept of supply and demand is a capitalist myth.
I love my Litter Robot 3 but it gets stuck every once in a while which can create a mess if you don't notice it relatively quickly (occasionally the "poopie paw bandit" will strike and track litter all over the floors). I'd love to know if the Litter Robot 4 is more reliable.
I really like having a lot of screen real-estate. So, I bought a LG 34WK95U-W, which is a 34" 21:9 monitor with a 5120x2160 resolution. It was about $1100. I also bought a very sturdy monitor arm ($100). The monitor floats above my laptop (the two screens form a squat "T" shape) and I get a lot of screen space and it looks very crisp.
But the other thing is not necessarily true. Lots of places have high poverty and little homelessness.
I see the logic, however I don't think an analogy with physical product industries is in place here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34277750)

Even if AI were to disrupt entire industries the way delocalization did, until local lawmakers catch up, I think creatives will keep creating regardless, will organize together, form new streaming services and keep creating, because a creative job is something you want to do, not just have to do, like any other assembly line manual job.

I still think passion will make a difference in a post-AI world, even in the worst-case scenario of no legislative action against AI (which is unlikely, looking even just at the current anti-delocalization movement in global politics and lawmaking).

More exclusively commercial and product-driven creative jobs like programming may be impacted more by AI competition than purely creative jobs though (still, I still would've gotten into programming as a kid even with AI competition, simply because it's fun to come up with solutions to problems).
great! seems very well made, the active button state reminds me of a guy called bill wurtz [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZUcpVmEHuk
When you receive a letter from anyone that starts out with

FTFY
In 2021, I went with the Breville Barista Touch. I paid the extra over the Express version for it to froth the milk without me having to do it. For me, the price tag was justified because my wife used to drink ALOT of starbucks. This thing has already paid for itself.
The cops trying to defend all elected officials from a mob breaking into a building they had no business breaking into with unknown goals.
Without question, the Grilla Silverbac pellet smoker. With my spouse and I at home during the day, being able to slow-smoke proteins and veggies for dinner without much hassle has resulted in a remarkable increase in the quality of my cooking. In addition, with the intense recent price increases surrounding restaurants or takeaway due to inflation, being able to cook more inexpensive foods with better results has been a huge benefit to our budget.
They have those too, working dogs love them
How about the bald absurdity of tacking on a "convenience fee" for purchasing things online instead of in person? The theater near me will add a couple bucks if you buy tickets online, but that fee is not present if you buy in person at the theater! There's never more than one person behind the counter, so I have no doubt they're saving money by leaving registers unstaffed, yet they still have the gall to charge us extra for using the online reservation system--they want to have their cake and eat it too! Of course, complaining about the ethics and pricing practices of theaters and the entertainment industry in general is like shooting fish in a (very expensive) barrel.
Open Source AI Image Classifier with Automatic Dataset Creator
"Fascist" is one of those curious words when - used outside serious history - it says more about the person using it than it does about what the person is describing.
A Kinesis Advantage2 (almost 500 dollar in the EU, but read on). I had a flare up of wrist pain again. Decided to invest in a good ergo keyboard. Started with a Kinesis Freestyle Edge RGB (pretty good), then Kyria, Ferris Sweep (meh), and then I did what I should have done in the first place: buy a Kinesis Advantage2. It immediately felt great and after some weeks my wrist pain was gone. Concave key wells are just fantastic!

Since then, I also got an Advantage360 Pro (> 500 in the EU) and replaced the controller of the Advantage2 with a KinT [1], so that I can program it with QMK. I can now keep similar configurations between the 2 and the 360 Pro (which uses ZMK).

[1] https://github.com/kinx-project/kint
1) Roborock S6 MaxV Ultra
2) Sony wh-1000xm4
Especially since it's developed without Git or any sort of version control...
History of Empire, History of Travel Technology, and History of Communications Technology are huuuuge fields with tons of professionals working today. I'm a little concerned about huge claims being made about empire by a Stanford MBA and a community of people mostly experienced in software and tech.

The historians would love for you to read their books! AHA is literally happening right now! Go to bars in Philly and talk to them!
With HATEOAS, are you just not pushing complexity of change into the client/consumer?
You have my attention. Can you please give more details about tax savings?
If you like baking bread and you have the space, I would suggest getting a steam-convection oven, like the one from Anova.

You can also steam-slow-cook meat and get juicy tender chicken.
How software changes over time?

API versioning, API deprecation

Code bloat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_bloat#

"Category:Software maintenance" costs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Software_maintenance

Pleasing a different audience with fewer, simpler features

Lack of acceptance tests to detect regressions

Regression testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regression_testing :

> Regression testing (rarely, non-regression testing [1]) is re-running functional and non-functional tests to ensure that previously developed and tested software still performs as expected after a change. [2] If not, that would be called a regression.

Fragile -> Software brittleness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_brittleness
> Not sure what tautology you're referring to

This:

"Unless that's being assessed by a "skeptic" who literally can't do the math required to fully understand the topic they're being skeptical about."

The subset of skeptics who "literally can't do the math required to fully understand the topic they're being skeptical about" (or in other words: aren't smart enough to form a non-incorrect opinion) are necessarily ("by definition") going to be incorrect.

While this sort of rhetorical, heuristic-exploiting language can be persuasive (because it exploits heuristics), it is often misinformative.

This can be easy to notice by replacing "skeptic" with various other categorizations (such as based on race, gender, religion (but often only certain ones)) - if one is to do that, the accompanying logic typically changes, &/or the person will take object level offence at the content of the analogy, causing them to be unable to appreciate that the modification to the topic has caused the logic to change.

> but nobody is claiming experts are infallible - that's silly.

I agree, hence I made no such accusation.

I'm curious why you brought this up - were you under the impression that I had done that, or were you maybe framing the conversation to make it appear that I had done that (which could cause 3rd party readers to have a negative opinion on my other words)?

> I made my comment based on having seen lots of HN commenters confidently dismissing various widely accepted (read: current best) physical theories based on appeals to intuition and specious or incomplete reasoning.

Well sure: skeptics, being humans, are often incorrect. But similarly, I've also seen lots of HN commenters who identify as ~"scientific thinkers" confidently dismissing various widely accepted theories (and various other cognitive errors) based on appeals to intuition and specious or incomplete reasoning. Consequently, I am "not a fan" of these sorts of people - however, the degree to which* various subgroups of people are guilty of various crimes is a very easy thing to get an inaccurate read on, since perceptions seem to necessarily rely upon substantial heuristic thinking (which makes sense if you think about it).
> Similar to the Do Not Track header, a Accept Cookies header?

Do not track can do that, it has three possible values.

0: The user prefers to allow tracking on the target site.
1: The user prefers not to be tracked on the target site.
null: The user has not specified a preference about tracking.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/DN...

The problem is that DNT is mostly ignored, and also deprecated by now.
Seconding the Steam Deck - it's surprising how many games work well on it, and as a hobbyist game developer, it's great to run my own games on it. The fact that it makes a perfectly acceptable Linux desktop with zero tinkering blows my mind too.
> smaller amount of toilet paper.

this
> In these cases the casualties are authenticity, connection, a frank assessment of and confrontation with reality, and humanity. In lieu of them, we've created a network of symbols and signs overtop of existence that pretends to be true reality, but really distorts it to the benefit of the holders of power

My point is, we have always done this, but with different vocabulary and different institutions. When has human relations at any scale been properly characterized as frank or authentic? I suppose you could say that the Mongols butchering their way across Europe and Asia were being frank and authentic in their relations with others, but I doubt they were so in their internal relations.
While the 2016-2019 MBPs were a step back, the Apple Silicon MBPs are better than the 2015s in virtually every way.
Yes! Altras are great, especially when paired with iniji toe socks. Once you get used to them traditional shoes are so uncomfortable
If you have enough saved up.
Take 1 year of work, disconnect from the rat's race, go to parties, go dancing, chill at a park, let people look down on you for being unemployed.
Hang in there, buy only the things you need.

Slowly you'll realize what's important, you'll find yourself.
And you'll come back stronger than ever, with a different attitude towards careers, jobs and you'll learn to be human and just BE.

EDIT: YMMV, Not advocating for social isolation and complacency
When the Colorado flowed into that valley, it also flowed out through the Hardy River, with the exit near Nuevo Leon. The metastable state that existed then inundated most of what is now the Imperial Valley; the city of Mexicali (pop ~1M) would be underwater.
Here's a non-standard answer. I bought a pair of boots/trail hikers that I like a lot. I wore them for about a week and bought 2 more pairs. (total around $600). I alternate the pairs every day so they are always dry, and they stay in the "good" range of broken in and useful about 3x as long. I walk trails with a baby in a backpack or pushing a stroller about 3 miles / day and was in the habit of replacing shoes after 300-400miles, with the last hundred miles being noticeably worse than the first 300. By alternating shoes, it stays comfortable for a lot longer. it doesn't result in longer lasting per-pair life, but does mean I can go longer between getting to the part where it sucks, and can retire individual pairs that go bad sooner. (even identical pairs seems to have dissimilar life spans)
I think it’s further than that. If the drones, satellites and if necessary the humans with guns that get their paycheck wired from earth are already prepositioned then the latency becomes minutes.
It didn't predict it, so much as it shows a continuous historic link.
This reads like an AI generated nonsense article.
Waterpik water flosser! I can't believe I didn't get something like that earlier. It's so effective and useful. Best purchase of the year for sure.
https://www.kqed.org/news/11901878/californias-marijuana-eco...
QuiteRSS is great desktop program for reading (or more like aggregating) RSS, but I found myself in a need to have RSS reader available on more than one device. Thus I'm right now on the quest to find a self-hosted alternative. So far CommaFeed [0] wins. If you haven't already, start using RSS before this great method of content delivery get crushed down too.

[0]: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
Couldn't ski resorts just charge snowboarders more to make up for the extra grooming costs?
80.7%: Percent of the US population living within urban areas
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/geography/guidance/g...

The fact that some US urban areas are less dense and more car dependent than most European urban areas is at least in part due to the reasons I mentioned already. Obviously people who live in rural areas will need and prefer cars but my point is that it is hard to say "Americans prefer cars" when most Americans have never had the opportunity to live somewhere where they don't need a car.
> Space heater, 20 bucks.

Which probably produced just as much heat as a $200 space heater. Technology Connections did a great video on that. https://youtu.be/V-jmSjy2ArM

I used to occasionally run a space heater under my desk on low because my legs and feet would get cold. It felt nice and cozy, but eventually I just got used to putting on socks and pants.
Can’t you use ternary internally but exposed binary to the system?
This article is somewhat confusingly written.

This is the timeline that I could gather:

1. In 2020, Saudi Arabia arrested two Saudi nationals who at one point had Wikipedia admin privileges, for posting things that the Saudi state didn't like.

2. In 2022, Wikimedia did some kind of investigation and banned 16 users for a "conflict of interest", but didn't provide further details.

3. Now, whistleblowers are alleging that Saudi state agents had "infiltrated" the "highest ranks" of Wikipedia admins, that this infiltration is what enabled the arrest of the two Saudi admins, that the 16 banned users were those same Saudi state agents.

There is a further implication that now Wikimedia is denying the whistleblowers' claims in order to keep from further upsetting anyone in the Saudi government.
100%.

If you are even vaguely into fixing things, a degree of patience will save you a lot of money.

I’ve got an addiction to Mazzer grinders. Second hand they are cheap and the more beat up the better as it reduces the price and they are basically bulletproof.
I pull them down, respray and add any parts I want.

Ex cafe equipment is cheaper as people don’t want large grinders. The Super Jolly hits a good spot between size, quality and price.

I like the Major and Robur - air cooled too. Overheating with 6-8 coffee a day will never happen, but the ventilation slots look so good!
Yes, very easily. No noticeable friction on my desk mat (also by DeltaHub). You don't even notice it.
i’m confident that someday in the future we’ll look back at our insistence on profiting off housing as a huge miscalculation.
Russian saying: be further from higher ups, closer to the kitchen (подальше от начальства, поближе к кухне)