skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are right of course but I think Canada is a pretty unique case. Canada exists in huge part because of the american revolution. British-american loyalists have basically founded upper Canada, which is now Ontario, so it makes sense that they were particularly close to the throne and the British homeland and government. French-canada was also just recently conquered and placated by the Quebec Act, but still tried a couple of uprisings during the Patriot wars of 1837-38.

I don't think Canada would've stayed british without the loyalist escaping here, since they made it an inherent part of their identity to not revolt against the british as opposed to the americans they left behind. But agreed, there are too many exceptions in general to the article's point.
Speaking on the topic of Reddit and mods and it's power structure:

In the UK Reddit has pushed a new subreddit called "HeyUK". It has turned up in the subscription feeds for some (all?) UK users automatically without the user asking for it or adding it. If you remove it from your list of subreddits the posts will still show up in your feed as "sponsored". As far as I can see this new subreddit is seeded with just cross posts from other UK subreddits and is created/pushed by Reddit itself.

The big issue I have is that this is just another subreddit with 15-odd random people who are the mods. These people have the unilateral power to shape discourse and be the arbiter of what is "UK" and what isn't.

Reddit is getting a bit too big, this feels very strange. On the swing-back we then have Reddit not banning the "jailbait" subreddit until it made major US news.

I have no idea what's going on with social media anymore, I'm just left with the overwhelming feeling that the people with the voice and the power are not the best of us.
Does anyone know how well these work with an Android phone?
The GSL wasn't formed from a dam. Its the remnants of Lake Bonneville
The article contends that the reason why the 'month rule' is in play is because of the logistics of ruling over a local population which will attempt to rebel.

So I think a mitigating factor for US, Canada, Australia was that the local native population was wiped out by old-world diseases, so there was minimal capability for local population to rebel. This is also the major factor of why those nations' population is largely made-up of the descendent of the colonists. Contrast that with Africa, which suffered from similar attempts at colonialism, was much closer to Europe, but because its native population was not susceptible to European diseases (and in fact, the colonists were decimated by native diseases like malaria), Africa today has a tiny number of colonial descendants (around 5 million European descendants out of a population of ~1 billion)

The population of pre-colonized North America was on the order of 60 million (European population was on the order of ~70 million). Had that population been maintained (i.e. not wiped out by old-world diseases), there was zero chance of European powers being able to establish large colonial populations. In that scenario, once the technological advantage was removed (due to trade, for example), I think you would have seen successful native rebellions.

I would say South America also follows this pattern. No chance of the Spanish being able to establish large colonial populations or maintain hold over native South American populations had they been not wiped out by old-world diseases.
Reddit is a worse echo chamber than Twitter ever was.

I gave up on it when I got banned from certain subreddits for posting quotes from congressional testimony. If you post anything that deviates in the slightest from the moderator's viewpoint, you get banned.

The end result is an echo chamber that's getting tighter and smaller, excluding any diversity of opinion. It's no way to run a business.
“…driving salinity to levels incompatible with the lake’s food webs” - this is a fantastic was of saying everything will die.

Although in a doc titled “Emergency Measures Needed” it might more useful to have less euphemism.
- darn tough socks: these retail for 20ish a pair last I checked but they're super high quality

- water boiler: can get a basic one for less than 30 bucks, or go with a higher end one for 100+. either way, having hot water readily available will change your life

- kettlebell (20lb, 35lb): these go for like 30-40 bucks on amazon. there are a lot of compound movements you can do with kettlebells that will highlight various muscle imbalances you have. super easy to incorporate a few kb exercises into your workout routine
It involves a supply of specialty paper.
> the other person in your conversation will speak into your phone

Well that sort of ruins it…
The Keychron K2 keyboard supports both wired and wireless so when it's at my desk it's wired but I can take it on the go and pair it with my laptop to use it wireless. It's a good medium :)
> does anyone else do this?

maybe Zoho for business apps?
Self-Driving Cars Are a Natural Fit for Rural America
>Cameras are only really relevant in Europe. We don't really have these in the US. I do get the cops angle - google maps doesn't really do this.

Well yeah, in Europe we don't have cops on the roads. In the US you don't have cameras, but have cops everywhere. You still want Waze in either case, probably more so for the cops.

>PRICE OF THE MODEL IN THE VIDEO: 185.269 EUR

This has to be including local taxes, which in some EU countries can double the price of a car.
Local DNS/DHCP (with a raspberry pi for failover), Zabbix for monitoring devices troubleshooting Internet outages, Zoneminder as a front-end for the security cameras. But mainly, it's about my day-to-day, real-life, human-readable data and content, which I've tried to digitize as much as possible...

Email: Most of my email going back to the mid 90's. Available locally via IMAP or remotely via webmail.

Photos: new photos I take, plus scanned versions of old photos, organized by photographer and year. Shared via HTTP and DLNA

Audio: My entire music collection, in FLAC or MP3 format. Also a bunch of free music downloaded from Internet Archive and Musopen. Shared via HTTP and DLNA.

Video: All my home videos, including digitized Super8 films from my childhood. My entire collection of DVDs and VHS tapes (including shows taped off TV). Also, public domain movies downloaded from Internet Archive. Shared via HTTP and DLNA

Text: Scans of important documents, bills, bank statements, PDFs of the instruction manuals to most appliances and gadgets in the house. Scans of letters I received in college. eBooks. Interesting articles from the web or from periodicals. Public domain texts (Project Gutenberg, government publications, sheet music, textbooks). Shared via HTTP.

Software: ISOs of various old operating systems and applications. Netboot images for whatever OS I'm using on the desktop at the moment. Archives of old software. Drivers, ROMs, firmware, fonts. Shared via HTTP or TFTP where needed for OS installation over PXE.

While I've organized things in a pretty logical file hierarchy, I also use Yacy as a private search engine. It periodically crawls and indexes the file structure and categorizing results into collections, such as 'books' 'manuals' 'music' etc. to make searching easier.
"the note just says 'i do what i want'"
in all seriousness, i'll take the contrary opinion, i love targeted ads. saves me time, and there's no way to keep my data private anyway, so i might as well get some value out of it. i wish there were a browser plugin called "please accept all cookies" which would just get rid of the friction, and as a downstream fringe benefit, show me better ads.
In my opinion, the point of a coach, whether it is a life coach or a personal trainer or another type, is providing accountability. If you think a life coach would help you with accountability it would probably help but before spending that money I would brainstorm other ways to hold yourself accountable to your goals and forming any habits needed to reach your goals. Best of luck!
I write web applications in C++. I definitely do not wait "several minutes" to compile. If it is a change in single CPP file it compiles under a second on my AMD 3950X desktop. Full rebuild takes 16 seconds (it includes compiling some libs I use).
So far as I have found, there really isn't "a simpler DR-40" on the market, at least one that's widely available as consumer electronics...and I thought surely there would be.

And probably because of DRM/intellectual property/anti-piracy lockdown of consumer computing devices. The success of the iTunes ecosystem was because Napster was the statistically likely alternative future for the intellectual property industries.
Good for them. You obviously wanted something else than the actual users.
You're assuming robots won't be able to sculpt, dance or theater.
30x distance to Voyager

1/50th the distance to the nearest star (Proxima Centauri).
Interesting to check what the various stores prices the book as. Cheapest I found was 34 EUR and most expensive 68 EUR, pretty much double the price.
Ditto - worth every penny!
Show HN: Siri shortcut to let Siri tell you your ouraring sleep score
I did the same in 2022 and I managed to rewire my brain to switch from AZERTY to QWERTY. I used typingclub.com and practiced 20 minutes each day for a couple of months. Enough to get the good habits in muscle memory.
> Sodastream. Has significantly increased the amount of water i drink and conversely decreased other crap being drunk

I agree with carbonating your own water, but sodastream is expensive compared to a DIY carbonation setup. Get a 5LB CO2 tank, some carbonation caps on Amazon, and a good gas regulator. Total should still be less than $200 USD.

The 5LB tank will last at least 5 times longer than the sodastream and total assembled size on my counter is about the size of a sodastream setup. Refilling that tank at a food safe gas supplier is even cheaper than exchanging a sodastream tank.
Is this really impressive? All of the samples I listened to had some degree of weird intonation and digital buzz artifacts. Maybe I thought the state of the art was further ahead than it actually is?
I agree it's up to interpretation, but in this scenario, the seller has shipped a set number of goods that the customers have paid for. The revenue has been generated but not moved successfully through a service provider to the final destination.

So it's not just an estimate. The money is not imaginary, it has already been collected from the customers.
Even if true, AI is just another tool and combined work of artists and AI can produce greater art than the artist alone. For example, natural world has a lot of repeated elements and hand painting each one detracts from time that could be spent on more expressive aspects of the work. Airplanes let us fly further and faster than birds, should that be avoided / considered not to be real flight just because we are getting technological assistance?
Yup! Also diversification. It is rare to have ONLY equities (in my experience, though I only have equity & cash positions!!) and having even 10-20% of bonds would make a MASSIVE difference, especially through the 70s, 80s, 90s!!! (when yields were an average, EYEBALLING, like 8-9% or something!) see: https://www.macrotrends.net/2016/10-year-treasury-bond-rate-...
> you end up having to match them anyway

You are clearly pickier about this than I am, hah.
I finally got rid of my Samsung fridge, which had a bottom, open ice box. I too recall when we found the perfect scoop. They are actually hard to find. I believe this one was intended to be a candy scooper, at one of those do-it-yourself frozen yogurt places.

I can't recall the name of the store... It's a chain store that is overpriced "imported products" found next to an REI or some other middle/upper scale strip mall.
Thanks for putting the time and extensive effort into this book. I am deeply interested in concurrency, asynchrony and parallelism I even journal about it everyday on my GitHub journal ideas repository (see my profile)

I've been talking on the r/programminglanguages discord about syntax for async/await. I am writing a programming language that has parallelism as a first class citizen. I use this actor2.java lock free algorithm below for sending messages between threads.

I want my async/await tasks to be eager and run in their own threads.
So if I do this

handle1 = async task1();
handle2 = async task2();
handle3 = async task3();
// at this point in time, the token ring thread pool shall be running 3 tasks in parallel
return1 = await handle1;
return2 = await handle2;
return3 = await handle3;

I believe other languages do not run CPU bound async/await computations on a thread except for IO.

I wrote an unrolled state machine for my async/await in Java. This models a simple async/await program and runs tasks on other threads - without locks. I use a design I call token ring parallelism, where threads take turns and are linked together in a ring structure. A semaphore communicates write status along the ring. The plan is to write a transpiler to generate the switch statements automatically. Then any language with threading can have async await support even if it is not native.

https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

I wrote a own lock free algorithm here that I use to do message passing between actor threads. My goal is high throughput performance and low latency.

https://github.com/samsquire/multiversion-concurrency-contro...

With 11 threads (on a 12 core processor, deliberately left one core for Windows)
I get

This code with 100 threads, gets
114657500 total requests
22079241.286347 requests per second
Time taken: 5.193000

166512180 total requests
33249237.220447 requests per second
Time taken: 5.008000

For a lock based benchmark with 100 threads, I get:

16307090 total requests
3246484.172805 requests per second

With 11 threads, the lock benchmark gets

178770160 total requests
35732592.444533 requests per second
Time taken: 5.003000

Each request is a synchronization event that sends 10 messages in a loop or adds 10 to a counter to represent the synchronization event.

There's probably problems with my measuring methodology, I am doing the simplest possible thing that shall work. I am trying to show that my lock free algorithm scales even with heavy contention.
To give him the benefit of the doubt, he seems to be writing to people wanting to make small electronic gadgets. You can't sell something for $19.99 retail that requires a lot of hands-on time.

At a quick scan, Bolt.IO includes "Carbon Robotics - Building intelligent robots for agriculture-related applications", "Denizen - Personal prefab offices...", and "Spyce - An original restaurant concept featuring a robotic kitchen that cooks and serves delicious meals". I guarantee those robots, office furniture, and kitchens contain CNCed parts, if not hand-fitted parts.

On the other hand, he also wrote "What happened when Apple wanted to CNC machine a million MacBook bodies a year? They bought 10k CNC machines to do it." If a CNC machine can't make more than one piece every 3.5 days, you're either building aircraft or you're doing it wrong.
+1, I'd also love to learn more about your experience, especially about how you found your stylist.
"says something about you" is a warning shot for a potential shaming campaign. The expected reaction is for the warned party to backpedal to avoid having their defects loudly discussed. You can see it play out in other responses, wherein terms like "decent people" and "old, dead narrative" are deployed. In other words, trouble in the same sense that those subjected to "microaggressions" have trouble.
> in a world where a notice can announce in all seriousness: "In order to better serve you, we are closed this afternoon."

This is so spot-on. I am not sure this qualifies as "nicespeak" but if you pay attention you will hear this type of messaging everywhere. As we hear it we seem to just nod along and miss the fundamental irony of it.
How does an air fryer compare to a speed oven? I want to remodel my kitchen someday with a speed oven (convection microwave) over top a steam convection oven (for cooking things with steam without pressure). I'm not sure what I would be missing without an air fryer (and none of those are less than $2-3k, so the price ranges are completely different).
...or linux. But I guess it should work with Proton.
Wouldn't you still need some personal identifiers like SSN? Not sure how much voice makes a difference over the phone anyway, it's not like the rep on the other end knows your voice.
> I'd tried Stitch Fix and felt like it wanted to reinforce my habits rather than break me out of them.

Wow, same! Who/what service did you use? This was my biggest gripe with Stitch Fix, my friends are all surprised I complain about it. I wanted an opinionated new style and all I got was the same stuff I usually wear, just more expensive.
Isn't that 24000 bookmarks and not "tabs" - a tab (to me) means an open tab in the browser.
Outbound bandwidth has always been limited out here in the sticks and our inbound has only been "high bandwidth" for the last few years. For a while I was employed as a contractor and had to run all my own development environments locally and still do so I have more reason to not have an office at HQ.

- 2 x Xeon X5650s running Ubuntu as hypervisors and one acting as dnat router for our Starlink connection. Hypervisors include Asterisk, Invidious, staging mysql/dreamfactory, CIFS server. One trying to run yolov7 on docker with cuda on an external GPU. [edit] Forgot the Pihole kvm instance for all local DNS.

- 1 x GPD mini pc (4 core 8G Celeron n4100) with Homeassistant supervisor mode on Debian for Temp/humidity/pressure monitoring, AC compressor control, 110V AC Aqara Switches, remote Aqara buttons (outside lights, garbage disposal)

- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 iredmail running three SMTP/IMAP domains over Wireguard DNAT forwarding from Vultr public IP

- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 with 3x7TB USB drives for DNLA & CIFS

- 1 x Raspberry PI 4 with Octoprint on 3d printer

- 200AH lead acid battery bank with 12V/100A charger and 3kW inverter
How easy is it to create a kubernetes cluster between local and cloud? Was thinking about doing this but was puzzled by how to bridge the network.
They're like... plus ultra superior toaster ovens, because they circulate the air.
Some are pretty much modded semi-officially for corporate cucks that remove anything that might hurt their favourite corporation, even if community clearly wants to discuss the topic
This stupid argument gets thrown around so much it's become really annoying, what really matters in art is the process, not the result; intent, not content.

A model randomly remixing human works to reach an approximated result that matches a few words inserted by a human cannot be put on the same plane as a human expressing a concept or inner feelings using knowledge he acquired by looking at other works.

When I look at art (be it paintings, stories, animation, or any other medium) I always think about the people behind it, what stories are they trying to tell, what life lessons and ideals are they trying to bring across the screen.

A text prompt absolutely cannot convey the same amount of meaning as a work of art that takes actual time to make and refine, and however amazing the output may look, it is inherently meaningless, with no human intent behind it to make something great and original.
It's definitely not a toaster oven. The fan is important - there's a reason CPU radiators have fans on them, and it's not because they don't do anything.

You can argue it's just a convection oven with a faster fan, but that doesn't make it a "meme".

They're also, like, very much not expensive at this point. It's a very commoditized, competitive market, and you can pick them up for <$50.
iOS 16.1: Clean Energy Charging
Orion Browser by Kagi
I'm single sided deaf and have exclusively been buying Aftershokz products since I lost my left ear in 2019. I own 7 pairs (because of an Amazon screwup mostly, but hey, free headphones). I thoroughly recommend them. I can wear them ALL DAY LONG and not feel uncomfortable. This makes calling and listening to music much better now.
USB rechargeable arc candle lighter $12
> The team also ensured that none of the individuals had been depressed or taking antidepressant medications. This is important because previous research by the same team demonstrated that antidepressants negatively affect neurogenesis

That's sort of misleading, the research (at least the visible portion) says that Benzodiazepine negatively affects the neurogenesis that Fluoxetine (Prozac, SSRI) causes
Photograph of ISS in conjunction with Tycho Crater as it transited the moon
XML syntax is fine so long as you're using a proper IDE. I manage a team of reporting analysts and all of them come from Business Analyst or Accountancy backgrounds; they write and maintain XSLT transforms just fine, once they spend a day or two getting used to IntelliJ IDEA.
I believe they meant productive as in they have produced more work than expected.
A really nice car phone mount with Qi/wireless charging was great for me. I've hated most of them I've used, finding them flimsy or just awkward. With this, I just throw my phone on there and go.

https://www.proclipusa.com/
Protecting the property rights of the rich is protecting freedom and civilization, protecting the property rights of people who share their work is ego.
1 light year = ~0.3 parsecs

1 light month = ~0.025 parsecs
This is really sad. I really hoped this would finally result in a fully integrated ZFS with a Linux distro.

Maybe its just to much work?

But then other distros have implemented many of the features with BTRFS so it can't be that much effort.
One workaround, possibly with caveats, is to convert the raw files to DNG, Adobe has a (free) utility specifically for this: https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/using/adobe-dng-converter...
Perhaps everyone who cared about Zsys/ZFS had already left Ubuntu due to other things, like Canonical's insistence on using the Snap (mis-)feature.

Disappointing, because Zsys is quite good. I believe it would have gained prominence among competing ZFS boot environment managers if it hadn't been so tied to Ubuntu.

Ubuntu was the first Linux distro that I could actually boot, back in 2007. Steam and ZFS were reasons for me to continue with it in 2020, but now, everything I want to do can be done better on NixOS.
Reducing residential water use is a nice symbolic gesture, but the vast majority of available water is used to grow alfalfa and a few other crops.

Symbolic gestures are good, but careful analysis and appropriate changes are needed to really make a difference.
I'm not sure where I encountered this hypothesis but I find it compelling. As noted by many, junk DNA, acquired from viruses and mutations and genome shuffling, is quite a puzzle. Why does it persist? It takes energy to copy, and misreading it can cause fatal or maladaptive mutations. From that perspective, it shouldn't persist (with slowly accumulating drift) for billions of years, as some shared junk sequences have across species. But it does.

Obviously, because it isn't junk; it is of value to the organism. Even if it's not of any use right now, even if it's completely biologically inactive at present. Because it is still extremely high entropy information. They're remnants of solutions other living systems once used, at some point, to solve the problem of staying alive.

If I were going to try and exploit genetic mutation to produce novel solutions to biological problems, I would start from an existing genome. In fact, I'd start with as much data, from as many organisms, as I could get my hands on and store. Perhaps we carry junk DNA because mutations in existing coded sequences, even mutated, currently useless ones, are far more likely to be functional, and so potentially a useful adaptation, than literal randomness. It's life's portfolio of solutions, badly photocopied little snippets accumulated over the years, and we all carry it around for future generations that might live in an environment where it's useful.