skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We get that advice. We know that advice. We give that advice to one another.

What “women” typically object to is when the first response from someone after reporting an assault/harassment/attempted assault is to be immediately questioned, “what were you wearing?” “Did you lead him on?” “What time of night was it?” “You were drunk, weren’t you.”

That’s what pisses us off. The immediate move to blame the victim as if they asked for it (and in some parts of the world, rape is still framed that way. She asked for it.) and thus deserve this to happen.

I can assure you that every woman I have ever met over the age of 21 (I don’t know any girls who are in high school now, sorry) has been told her whole life to be careful and take precautions when meeting someone, especially someone from off the internet.

“Text us when you get there.” “Be sure to watch your drink.” “Meet in public first, just to be safe.” “If If you don’t text me by “X,” I’m going to blow up your phone.” “Be sure to take an Uber if you’re going home after X o’clock.” These are things we say to EACH OTHER. These are things our mother’s taught us.

We don’t get mad when reminded to be safe. We get mad when the instinct is to blame us for our own assaults. (And it isn’t just men that blame women. Women can blame women too. And women can blame themselves, even when they did absolutely nothing wrong.)
Samsung Galaxy S23 proves that we don’t need new flagship phones every year
I know this is meant in the spirit of good advice

but I hope people from the US consider the fact that your city/town planners destroyed your liveable areas to make America car dependent

And honestly it wasn't that long ago, it bankrupts your cities and costs everyone
This sounds very cool! How does it work technically? I have checked your website but I am still not sure.

How do I "buy" the instances using usage.ai instead of AWS? Do you need additional tooling or does it work with awscli/terraform? How do you integrate with my account and how do "your instances" appear in my account and how can I sell it back?

As far as I understand, I can buy/sell reserved instances from you in a flexible way, so they can be used like on-demand instances.
Totally. I came into this thread just to post about the 407, but figured I'd search to see if anybody else had mentioned it already.

What a sad fiasco.
Nearly all of the cars I've purchased have been inexpensive used cars, and only one of them has ever given me any real trouble. That's the one I bought from a used car dealer.

The rest I've purchased from individuals. So my approach is to never buy a used car from a dealership. And, of course, always have a mechanic look it over before you buy, even (or especially) for the cheap ones.
> Services can often be run more efficiently in private hands

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen an example where “efficiency” wasn’t just giving up on social obligations (either by screwing employees, or screwing customers, often both).

I’m looking around and see postal services (it still breaks me that “going postal” means what it means), roads, railways, energy production. I don’t see any of them having gotten meaningfully cheaper or providing better service or handling their employees better through privatization.

As an hybrid, splitting into nationalized infra management and privatized customer facing service potentially worked for ISPs. That’s the only mildly positive example I can come up with.
On the corruption point, it depends on if it was an open bidding process (there are many laws and protocols governing the sale of public property). The city has probably borrowed against the meters in some form many times over so they may have transferred certain debts to the new owner as an additional way to reduce debt and raise liquidity (I don’t know the details of this transaction specifically however)
Ask HN: Do we need guidelines on posting ChatGPT responses in comments?
I get the temptation to do it. But as a reader, the walls of text are becoming increasingly annoying. Proper etiquette IMO is to link to an image, or even better, a shareable link from OpenAI (not sure if they added this yet).

As a bonus, we can avoid polluting the HN corpus of GPT-5 with output from GPT-3! :) I suspect our comments have some heavy weights in their training data, and it would be nice to keep it that way. I don't want to spend 2024 talking to a simulacrum of r/ProgrammerHumor

@dang, if you see this, what do you think? Time to update the guidelines?
> How long before we create a meta language that can then be auto-translated to any number of languages — Rust included - before final compilation?

What reason would someone have for doing such a thing?
As an American, I envy you. I've spent much of my adult life trying to life car-free but it's really, really hard in the USA. The infrastructure is simply nonexistent or needlessly dangerous, and the few places you can live car-free have become ludicrously expensive.
I recommend too. This is the documentary created by Spencer Wells who led the National Genographic project. This was created using data about 15 years ago - I've been looking forward to an update that accounts for recent data.
> which, yes, happens

At extremely low rates compared to other professions. It's effectively "can't be fired", unless the teacher has an affair with a student or something like that.

> career advancement means "leaving the classroom" in practically all cases

Having the reward for good teaching being leaving teaching is not a good riposte for my proposal.

I expect that a cash bonus for meeting grade level will incentivize the more competent and confident teachers to want to teach classes with the harder cases in them, so they can collect more bonuses.

The core idea, obviously, is to pay for the results you want.

Like a salesman. They get a (low) base salary + commissions on sales. It's in common use because it works. For the good salesmen, it's the path to riches.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the pay can also be considerably higher if you work at a federally funded research lab but are not a direct federal employee. Employee of an implementing contractor company. Such as various positions at Hanford, Idaho National Lab, Los Alamos, Brookhaven, Argonne, Sandia, Livermore, etc.
An ICE uses ~50 tons of gasoline over its lifetime that have to be included in total lifecycle calculations. That gasoline isn't easy to recycle.

OTOH, Lithium is easy to recycle, and a car only uses ~50kg of it.
I've proof of concept-ed the same workflow and it just doesn't hold up in practice. Even so, there are some benefits that truly do help a solo dev.

It's actually easier to de-bake yourself than use SD-derived assets. What I mean is that img2depth is severely lacking at the moment. The geometry it produces it unsuitable for compositing with other game assets. You'll notice compositing was avoided in the demo.

As such it's easier to just block out geometry in Blender, and either project image as textures to it or repaint them by hand using diffusion output as a reference (or both if you're into that kind of thing). Even so, that's still incredibly useful.

One of the most common things holding back a solo dev are art assets. I might not be able to create concept art, models, and textures ex novo, but I can pretty easily block out some geometry, repaint textures, and throw in some basic lighting.

Looking forward, ideally img2depth+normal+diffuse+lighting would be a thing, but until that's something it's easier to take SD output as advice and suggestion than tangible assets and that's still worth a lot.
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The most recent thing I've worked on is a Payment Solution in Django. A lot of refactoring and restructuring.

I can start part-time and if both sides are happy, move to full-time after 2 months.
Sorry for my tone, I didn’t mean to come off as rude. It’s understandable why one would be confused here.
I clicked the „Don’t need a refund“ button. I was a happy Tweetbot user for over ten years. Since the API shutdown I tried using the official Twitter app (Catalyst for Mac) and its user experience compared to 3rd party apps is abysmal. Hard to believe, if you remember that its ancient origins was Tweetie.

As a sidenote: If I were an iOS app developer and my app used subscriptions or other IAP, I’d quietly remove year-long subscriptions as an option in the next updates.
Agreed. Editor buttons always get in the way of my typing in weird ways and can’t be hidden reliably.
Busy communicating.
We know, but what can we do?
No. The only way to a post-scarcity economy is by continuing to harness technology whenever and wherever possible.

There has been, and will be, no point in time at which the optimal strategy is "Stop" or "Wait" or "What about my job?"
If all of your agents are seeing the UUID for the first time, they cannot deduplicate amongst themselves without quorum or shared state which has race conditions itself. It’s non trivial.
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34% in 2022 and likely will keep dropping as that ship has sailed few years ago.
Can't even build highways.
>I call it indoctrination.

But but swayv, without it, what would separate the savages from the civilized? (e.g. Who would sla^h^have their whole life for their retirement? How would barrages of ads increase their needs without limit?)
And what happens when a meter breaks or gets run over? Chicago fixes it?
That's how he ended up there in the first place
Why is mozilla funding a closed source IOS only app?
Thank you. Yes I understand this needs an explanation and I am working on it. I agree with you though, I should have held off on sharing here. Just a start and I was too excited to share.

For those who are still confused: You can upload your .sql file or copy paste your sql to generate a database documentation.
It is repackaging the case being made that social media is the key driver for the startling increase in mental health problems.

And the evidence for that case seems to grow stronger by the day.

Beyond that, it’s simply good writing style to address the strong points of the argument you want to rebut, before rebutting it. You seem to be set on finding on something more nefarious than that going on here.
It's the wood. You can rank woods by the amount of strain energy per unit of mass that they can take before breaking. The higher this figure, the better the bow, because it'll store more energy for a lower mass in the limbs before it breaks, and the differences can be fairly significant.

The best bow woods are all at the top of this list, along with a few that should be good in theory but aren't used likely for other reasons (i.e. the plant just doesn't produce the kind of limbs you need to make a bow). The best Australian woods are fairly ordinary by comparison. On average they're hopeless. This isn't to say you can't do it (people do with spotted gum, which isn't a good bow wood), just that there are better ways of going about it if you want to hunt.

I'd be surprised if northern Australians at least didn't know about the bow, because there was frequent contact with Indonesia and people from PNG, all of whom practiced archery. There are oral traditions in places like Arnhem land testifying to this contact going back generations.
I'm VERY curious about those "#inner_monologue" sections...
Annoyingly, pypi has a pretty simple API and you can host it directly from a static webserver like Apache or Nginx if you skip some of the optional features in the spec
> decide to put themselves into adverse circumstances

If you've knowingly put yourself there, it's much less likely to be genuinely traumatic. It's only when someone finds themselves trapped in an unexpected and undesired negative situation that real trauma manifests.

A roller-coaster ride and an auto wreck might have the same physical effect but very different psychological effects.
Now they won't be able to use my perfectly fine, USB-IF certified cable to charge their devices fast. The cable supports 100W, is certified, but not by Apple.
Cost of power usage is marginal compared to that too:

300W per A100 * 8766 hours per year * $0.12 per kWh = $316 to power an A100 for a year
NetBox Labs will spin out from NS1 into its own company, with IBM as an investor
I think business is actually better at long term planning than most people give it credit for. There is a lot of discussion about "next quarter" thinking but in my experience working in bizdev, I haven't really seen that. There are always long term directional strategies in play.

But politics, (at least democracy) has the double edged sword of election cycles. This heavily incentivizes short term thinking.

Ex. Should the mayor pour millions into sewer system maintenance or millions in flashy projects and waste?

If the sewer maintainance is done right, none of the electorate notices. But the electorate will see the flashy spending and vapid superficial projects. And who cares if we defer sewer maintainance, that will only cause issues 20 years from now.
Curl has been delisted from Microsoft NuGet
> If you think housing, economic equity, or employee rights are trampled today, just wait. It's only going to get worse, until the mass of the population wakes up to who is actually screwing them!

A lot of people have been voting for who has been screwing them since they pulled the lever for Saint Ronny with both hands. Why would they realize anything now?
There will be be repercussions from both China and global trade organizations as applicable - although that may indeed be worth it in the end. In addition the country will lose a bit of credibility with investors putting at risk investment in other areas where the government might "change its mind" like natural resources. This is hard to quantify but has an impact in aggregate.

Ontario, Canada sold one of the countries most important highways back in the 90's to investors for 100 years but at least the owners were still Canadians.
As far as I can tell you are agreeing with the statement, as you agree that factors other than the economy must be driving the increase in unhappiness.
Why don't Japanese characters in seal script or handwriting get different codepoints from mincho font characters? They look different too.

Sometimes looking visually different doesn't matter because if you know how to write them by stroke order, you'll still be able to read it (which is how handwriting works, I think; I'm pretty bad at reading that…)

Hanzi simplification in the Mainland also complicated things, since I doubt they wanted to make all of those into different characters.
In the US, this is common, particularly among those who would need subprime car loans:

1 A job where WFH is not an option (either because it's physically impossible (e.g. service industry), or because even if it is physically possible they are at the whims of their boss)

2 A long commute

3 Poor mass transit; even if there is "okay" mass transit both where they live and where they work (already unlikely) there is unlikely to be mass transit connecting the two.

4 Multiple jobs, at least one of which doesn't fit any available mass transit designed around 9-5 commuters.
It might support the prescientific racial classifications, but it definitely undermines the idea of a nationally pure identity for any country. The "Aryan race" comes from the mixture of several different ancient cultures. The same can be said for north Indians, and other groups which claim to have some pure ancient genetic lineage.
It's exciting to read about new discoveries like this. It suddenly sheds light on my own lived experience, confirming what has always felt true, and I hope new treatments will come from this.

I've been on a long term therapy journey for C-PTSD stemming from childhood trauma, and there's a part me that has always felt like I should be past all of that now that I'm some decades beyond that environment. There's part of your brain that tells you it's your problem, and won't accept that the mindset was deeply embedded before you even understood what was going on, or that other modes of existence are possible.

The built-in pessimism has served me well in some professional capacities, but when this permeates all aspects of thinking, things do not go well in the long run.

I'm on a much better path now, and meditation/yoga/some useful parts of Buddhist philosophy (and a really good therapist) are opening my eyes to new ways of thinking.

But it has been a long and often painful journey.
Unison lang has a lot of overlap with model: https://www.unison-lang.org/learn/the-big-idea/
It only took 200 years for 200 of those 260 languages to be lost or brought to the edge of extinction. It's at least plausible and to me quite believable that the arrival of a group with a technological advantage 4,000 years ago could have had a substantial impact on the existing languages.

The same set of languages definitely will not have survived for 60,000 years. Tribes come and go, merge and split. Outside influences bring in new words and grammatical structures. Oral tradition is a low fidelity carrier of language and culture, and easily accommodates change in language.
Normie dating apps are horrific for being absolutely loaded with the worst dark patterns combined with the worst userbases. The only one I have used which wasn't terrible is Barq which is like tinder+grindr for furries. No paid subscriptions, no cypto chud scammers, no only fans thots, no fake profiles, pretty much everyone is friendly and will chat.
tldr; Maybe hardware decoding 4k HDR is to blame
But not impossible.
Lets you copy characters that are the same (like people's names) between text though.
Check out OpenJourney. It's Stable Diffusion trained on Midjourney style images. I had great results with it.
They also didn't invent the wheel or build a space program
Thank you for that info - I honestly didn't know that border-radius didn't work with border-image.
thanks for the shoutout. Dealers of Lightning is indeed excellent.

My book takes the path of putting fictional characters (except for Dan, who is me) in it, who do not know how it's going to turn out. I had the help of nearly everyone who's still alive, and all the actual events really happened. Xerox really did have a guy with a roll of $100 bills for paying off the unions at the trade shows.

As for the 40+ year-old debate about what Xerox should have done, Jerry Morrison and I considered that at length here:

https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight
Raster CRT Typography (According to DEC)
Yeah this can't be a hard rule on how brains develop.

All I have is my own experience, but there are loads of happy and successful people that came from a rough start.

From that very same experience I can also say that the trend for people to leave this world the way they came in seems stronger. I think personal values and culture play the strongest role.
> The study involved two groups of male and female mice. One was exposed to adversity early in life by living for a week in cages with limited bedding and nesting material, and the other was reared in typical cages. As adults, the early adversity-experiencing male mice had little interest in sweet foods or sex cues compared to typically reared mice. In contrast, adversity-experiencing females craved rich, sweet food.

It seems like mice evolved so that males who were deprived or damaged took themselves out of competition with other males by not having interest in sex and sweet foods. I suppose as a species that might make sense by cutting the losses on a damaged individual, but it is a cold logic.

It is uncanny that it maps to our religious practices, where "damaged" males drop out of sexual competition and became monks (but I suppose nowadays become "incels" instead).
Yes, ppl in the same country have more similar genomes. But modern population genetics has found that 1. There is more similarity than difference between any 2 humans on earth (there are africans and europeans who share more dna than with others of their own ancestry. And, 2. People move around, a lot! We knew this already but there are a huge number of undocumented migrations that are being revealed by these studies. Turns out 20th century multiculturalism is just an acceleration of what we already did.
So does the response count towards the token count?
Star Citizen might be too much, what about something like Homeworld?
It was very insightful for me to know that its common amongst Aboriginals there to have that view. I will corroborate it elsewhere now what I know what to look for.
Are you joking? Starting to learn a language by watching native content? Get out of here with your bullshit. And fuck you for implying I don’t actually want to learn a language on a thread defending a language learning app.

Getting to the point that you can consume media and actually learn a language is the hard part. That’s where Duolingo excels. Obviously fluency takes additional work.

Duolingo’s lessons for foreign alphabets are perfect examples. Some are better than others, but they all teach you how to read the script in a fun and time-manageable way. This aspect of Duolingo is free, fun, and it works.

I’ve made multiple attempts to learn languages with foreign alphabets before, and they’ve failed because of the logistics of studying the basics. Practicing and consuming content once you can function in the language is different, and it requires a different kind of motivation. I’ve never struggled with picking up additional vocab or grammar once the initial hurdles were overcome.
I personally do not - if something seems like it might work but doesn't I'll leave a comment in words explaining why I didn't do it that way, but I pretty much never leave wrong code commented out.
I don’t like the phrase “normal reward behaviors” in this article.

We don’t live in “normal” conditions relative to our evolutionary history.

Maybe these responses are adaptive and provide a fitness advantage under historically normal conditions even if they appear maladaptive in the current environment.
Yes, this documentary (and the book) are far more approachable and understandable for the "common man".
I think you might find that labs like the one in Wuhan are or were being operated at arms length by US companies and individuals anyway. I doubt much will happen here, maybe some funding cuts
No reason to say that though. The person you replied to was saying it is a shame it is an emotionally charged discussion and he is right. That one particular discussion on HN might not be emotionally charged doesn't negate his point.

Were you just pretending not to understand?
Doesn’t the word “recouped” imply the profit was at least enough to recover the investment cost (and millions more in this case), or am I missing something?
Why would Chinese owners want to buy that? It seems unlikely that Australia will hold its bargain for the whole 200 years given current political climate.
Ecommerce Architecture: Monolith vs. Microservices
I'll build on that.

It seems to me like the intentionally-obscure writing of somebody trying to show they are big-brained by making writing that is hard to understand: hard words, unnecessary metaphors, leaps of logic, long-winded.
$75 is not enough to pay a lawyer for 1 hour to prove the company’s right to collect $75, and they have to file a new suit for each person who didn’t pay. Not to mention there is a chance of losing and having to pay legal fees for both parties after years fighting in court. It’s far more profitable for them to pocket the money from those who do pay and forget about the rest.

In my case, the tickets I get are usually $150 to $350 per and there isn’t a single instance of someone being sued for non-payment.