skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You said it your self "without cruelty"

That's the entire problem, that's why most police forces can't enforce shit against drug dealers and addicts.

There is a balance, and currently its at the wrong side.
Imagine the power savings if chrome users switched to lynx.

Imagine the power savings if everyone used pihole, ublock etc.

Second uses more power than the first and is better. Do it!
> Let's not even get into the fact that most religions are covered in blood throughout history.

It's interesting how commonly non-theist's facts are expressed in conveniently ambiguous figures of speech when it is convenient, but when something similar is done in religious scripture it is considered a big no no.
>> you save for a holiday.

UK or EU?

>> their spouse needed the car for something else

Most have a second car.... or even 3... hell for most of my adult life I had both a Car and Truck, I was single. I dont today just a truck but I have thought about getting an EV Car, It would not however replace my Truck but in addition to it.

Uber / Lyft has gone a long way for me not having that 2nd vehicle

>How do people go places and get things done if they can't drive? Like being under 18, or elderly, or poor, or with vision disabilities, or mentally retarded

Bike, Bus, etc.. But I am unclear why you think people under 18, the poor, or the elderly do not also have cars? People can drive here as young as 15, many poor people have cars... hell if you drive through some of the government funded housing / income restricted housing (i.e housing for poor people) some of them have newer cars than I do.

and the elderly drive all the time though I would like them to stop as they drive to f'in slow....

>> litigious system would deter one from wanting a sidewalk next to one's house.

and we have come full circle. see my first post in this subject.

>>by taking sidewalks into proper public ownership (not this "easement" frippery) and allowing for coordination and economies of scale in their maintenance.

I dont know if that is a good case either, the roads in many area;s or pretty shitty, and low traffic residential streets often never get replaced until you can no longer tell if the road as paved or is gravel, and there are soo many pot holes that looks like a photo from a bombing run in war zone.

"Economies of Scale" is not a thing with government project. No Bid Contraction to government preferred contractors aka corruption is ....

Most studies show governments massively over pay for road projects compared to if a private citizen were to simply hire the same company to do the same job. Companies charge the government MORE not less.
Don't have any data to back this up, but I would think that the average linux user will instantly turn off firefox telemetry and won't show up on these graphs. It's one of the first things when I install firefox, disable ff telemetry, set privacy mode to strict and then install uBlock. Nevertheless Windows has a huge market share, even if no one turned off data collection, and the year of linux on desktop didn't happen.
He did. And he also convincing lost the next election.

In that loss the red/blue line didn't move a lot (it doesn't have to move much to get a change of government). But what is notable is that prime ministers party fractured. They lost a lot of seats to a bunch of business women.

Those women look to be of the same colour politically as the prime minister - free market, fiscally conservative. But in the lingo of the culture wars they aren't "woke". They care the legacy they hand their future selves and their children. They regarded dissing our largest trading partner to the point they sanctioned our imports (which lost us billions in trade income) to make a few woke points as insanity. The regard putting effort into fostering cooperation and "just getting" along as a priority.

Thus it looks to me is what happened to Australia's culture wars is one side of the war has won. Meanwhile in the US, it looks like the battles continue.
I read somewhere a couple of years ago, some scientists showed that as CO2 levels rise, IQ scores drop.

But, me, I fully believe it is due to the war on public education by the US GOP. I wish these articles broke down these scores by school type the children go/went to.

Kids sent to high end private schools by their ultra rich parents probably have seen no such decline. It is like the US is trying to move into a caste society, ruling class and serf class.

edit: spelling
> Yes they did, and they did a lot worse than that

See above reply. Wikepedia completely contradicts what you are saying. I also know what you're saying about AEI is mostly garbage, too.
You disagree with my moral judgement about your stated view? You don't get a vote in that lol.
https://archive.ph/pmiVI
The first time I heard about Elm, I was overjoyed with its promise. For the first time, it made me interested in working on a web FE. To bad it ended the way it did.

Thank you for sharing the article. It makes good points, particularly on the historic context as well as the steam behind Elm waning.
Apple cannot promise human rights to all of their customers. They can believe in certain things (eg. "gay marriage" or "privacy is a human right") but they will forsake these values when enough money is put on the table. This is because (as the parent originally said) Apple's foremost priority is money; we can smile and pretend these things don't butt-up against each other, but then you have to justify things like Apple's Chinese Mainland policy. They do not co-exist peacefully, greed has consistently cannibalized them without a second thought.
It's worth looking up whose blog this is before trusting any of its analysis.
My apologies, then. I do understand your point. I may have a bit to say, but you know, that ol' Tradition Eleven, and whatnot. Just be aware that there are others, on their own journeys.

I found that using was exhausting. I don't think that having addiction under control, is exhausting at all. Others have far worse crosses to bear, and all the good things that have come, have more than made up for any issues that I may have, as a result of a .44 magnum, pointed at my head, all the time. It's definitely "endless," but so are many things.

I've found that the Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, and Tenth Steps are about losing the shame of of active addiction. In fact, their most practical use, is to have us become so comfortable with our pasts, that we can routinely recount them, to people looking for help. What It Was Like, What Happened, and What It's Like, Now.

That "What it Was Like" part is real important. If we're not comfortable telling some shaking newcomer that we used to rob church poorboxes, then we're kinda useless.

But what do I know? I'm just some Internet rando. I wouldn't have even written this, if this story hadn't been shoved to the back of the broom closet in record time.

Have a great day.
Tell HN: Quest 2 Resale is Frictionful
I could easily sell this thing for $100 or so with all the extras I have. However:

- I cannot factory reset it on device

- Tried via the app and that failed repeatedly

- There’s no way to simply log out - forcing the buyer to deal with this

If I sell it without cleaning it or logging out, the buyer can simply be me on facebook.

Meta, you have lost the last iota of my trust!
The moment I read this headline I went straight to comments to find the 20 people decisively declaring it completely useless. Classic HN
Things I've found clicking so far:

- Clicking the HEV charger near the start of the food conveyor belt (far left) plays the sounds from Half Life

- Clicking the middle arcade machine to the north of the HEV charger lets you play that game

- Further north in the shower area there is a camera in the shower gag if you click on the shower area

- Slightly to the east just past the gym sign there is a bunny girl sign which plays a song when clicked

- To the east past the avatar tree Chuck Norris has a click effect.

- To the far east of the map there is a guy between Jabba and Kenny with a synthesizer who will play one of many tunes when you click

That's all I found!
A lot of dealership mechanics are mindless flowchart followers that aren’t even allowed to use their brain.

Though I’m surprised “update” wasn’t a part of that official flowchart.

Have had dealership mechanics ignore my notes and identify a part as being failed despite my method of 100% excluding that part as being bad.
I assume you're replying to me in error as my post says nothing about any of your points. In fact 50% of my entire comment was specifically saying I had no opinion either way.
But then Google would be responsible for that one-time computation instead of making the clients do it billions of times.
I would like to believe this, but as someone with pretty privileged kids, it's not this. It's the phones.
Simulation Environment with Customized RISC-V Instructions for LIM Architectures
Gotta love when they give it to as a %% without the monetary change (not that I want postage to increase, but still)

It's a proposed $0.63 to $0.66 change (3 cents) on first-class forever stamps: https://link.usps.com/2023/04/10/new-pricing/

>The proposed changes include:

• Letters (1 ounce): 63 cents (current), 66 cents (planned)

• Letters (metered 1 ounce): 60 cents (current), 63 cents (planned)

• Domestic postcards: 48 cents (current), 51 cents (planned)

• International postcards: $1.45 (current), $1.50 (planned)

• International letters (1 ounce): $1.45 (current), $1.50 (planned)
I would like you to point out a specific argument that Dawkins used and you feel has been debunked or proven wrong by theologians.
"such is life" = I refuse to take any action to improve this situation
You need lithium refinement not just for batteries. You don't need lithium as poor for other applications, but its still has to be refined. So its more like 60% of all global lithium refinement.

China has less % of that in terms of battery materials production, as that is also very common in South Korea and Japan.

> and the coming changes as proposed plants

Yeah but its not only the rest of the world that has plans. Lithium refinement capacity in China is also growing.

Partly why Tesla is building the refinement plant is because of Chinas dominance.
> If you were bootstrapping, would you take out > $130k per year for living expenses?

Why would you ask this question?

> I believe the $130k is meant to be in addition to whatever equity the founder is retaining.

Obviously. But I would control 100% of my bootstrapped business, and not be eligible to being outplayed by the VC who controls all the strings and always makes all the money in the end.
What papers or data out there support spaced repetition? Has its support weathered the replication crisis?
Can you? You just linked a StrongTowns video.

(I was 100% expecting that lol).

Let me spell it out. I was looking for peer-reviewed publications. I am not going through an ad-infested StrongTowns video to hunt for references.

He has links to his Patreon, paid-subs on Nebula, and donations but zero links to any peer-reviewed articles. That says a lot.
I asked it to list an outline for a French course, then for each item in the outline I asked it to make a table of English-French sentence pairs of increasing complexity.
If you turn off your computer power usage goes to 0% too.
It's not even worth refuting because Hasan got his assertion wrong, or is using the confusing nature of the CIS/CISA naming conventions to his advantage. Everyone seems to have forgotten that the government using NGOs to launder their preferred policy/other outcomes into the public consciousness is just bog standard behavior.

https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/1644392551066255361
Not being able to distinguish between a feature and a bug is a feature, not a bug.
> every copy of Shakespeare

Sorry, I assumed that was your complaint about the Shakespeare book printed in the 1700’s.

There are multiple orders of magnitude less ghostwritten dreck than self-published books. In publishing the long tail is vast. A library can easily have every book that sold 50,000+ copies from the last 10 years without wasting much space. Simply as a practical measure there just aren’t that many “popular” books.

I am not saying that the tail end of books with 100 copies has no value, but you can’t keep everything for all time. If nobody has checked a book out in a year it’s only so valuable to the local community.

I find nothing wrong with ILL for Plutarch simply on a cost basis. Shipping books around isn’t free, but neither is shelf space. The point where the probability of someone wanting a book is significantly less than the cost of ILL is a real benefit.
And pro-tip if you need to go down the line past the fuse box: if you have a DC clamp-on ammeter, you can do multiple windings to 2x or 3x the current readings for smaller draws that the clamp-on might not pick up on.
You're probably right, but, from what I am learning while reading up on whole house battery / solar systems, future EVs could be an important part of rural residential electrical resiliency. In the southern Appalachians, ice storms result in power outages that can last for days to weeks and, at least for my personal situation, an EV battery would be an attractive second storage option (with power coming from the utility when available and solar backed by a generator on propane otherwise).
The problem is when you sit down to teach the beginner, all the boilerplate clutter forces you to either A) teach them the magic incantation to be unquestionably written before they start writing any code, or B) you explain everything before getting into any real programming.

Both suck. In the first case, students are torn away from the mode of thinking that programming thrives in: that everything is made up of simple, understandable pieces, that can be built up into complex solutions. It ends up serving as a trap for the very kind of inquisitive student that is equipped to succeed in programming. In the second case, everyone's bored to tears, and you can be assured that your entire class will be hopelessly lost before they write their first line of code. It's a bad time all around.

Basically, programming wants to be built up with the following concepts, in order:

1. Algorithmic Thinking (solutions can be representing as a series of simple steps)

2. Structured Syntax (these steps can be represented as structured text)

3. Symbolic Reasoning (types, variables, arrays)

4. Control Flow (loops, conditionals)

5. Functions

6. Higher Structures (classes, objects, etc)

Python, IMO, is pretty good pedagogical tool in this regard

print("Hello World")

"We want our computer to display to us (or 'print' in software terms) the phrase 'Hello World'. Python provides us with a built-in way to do so: the "print" function. In the majority of programming languages, we express a call to a function as a command, followed by its inputs (or 'arguments') contained within parentheses. As our one and only argument, we provide what we want printed, in this case the text "Hello World". By wrapping this text in quotes, we can tell the language that we intend this text to be interpreted as a chunk of literal text, called a 'String' rather than as a variable or other symbol for the language."

In contrast, explaining everything going on in the equivalent Java

public class MyFirstClass {
public static void main(String[] args){
System.out.println("Hello World");
}
}

would take more text than I'm willing to hammer into a HN comment, but to be explained to a complete beginner would likely involve skipping, but promising to explain later: classes, functions, "public", "static", "void", command line arguments, and the uniquely weird "System.out", followed by a similar explanation to the Python example, with the added "we end each step with a semicolon".
Sure, I agree. But this is equally true for VC companies.

However, in a bootstrapped case, I can just work as a consultant if I need some extra revenue. In a VC case, I don't have extra hours available in my life.

I'm also not rich and don't have an appetite for extreme wealth, I'll make a couple milly and call it a career, so that should color your perception of my statements
With all the attention being paid to macOS these days, there's enough mods and addon's that I don't miss Linux so much on my laptop. Hammerspoon gets me drag and resize windows how I want, and there's Rectangle.app for tiling-ish window management. There's no /proc, and all the rest of the cli utilities are just wrong (netstat, route, top, etc) but I can live with my M1.

(brew addresses a lot of the issues though, even if I do have to remember to run gdu instead of du (for gnu du))
Demoscene not dead Revision 2023 – 41 cool new demos, last one is the winner
The premiere was just last night so you can't find these anywhere else!

This is all very random but also fun to watch. I like the song in demo 33. Some demos are very high-effort and others....no effort at all :)
Pretty nice! Makes me wonder why they didn't take the final step and say that anything not inside `void main()` gets bundled up into an implicit function run first.
To save another search:

On desktop and mobile devices:

While playing a video, select the Settings button.
Locate the Ambient Mode setting in the list of preferences.
Toggle it to off to disable Ambient Mode for all videos on YouTube (in that browser).

It's in the same popup used for video quality and playback speed.
Hell yes. This is akin to offering an 'internship' without paying. Internships should be paid. They should pay Social Security tax as well.

Not paying founders is just a tactic to burn them out and push them out. It doesn't have to be market rate, but it has to be more than half of market rate.

BTW, while we're on this, if you're interviewing someone and it's going to last 3 hours, feed them lunch.
Then use R2, which can be used for everything with no usage limits as you are going to pay for your usage anyway.
‘Knee-jerk reaction’: Sydney cycle path to be ripped up months after opening
that's not what 50% too high means, sir.

But even so, living in SF on 97K before taxes is questionable experience.
It also seems that with 30K a year or 2.5K a month we are essentially nickel-and-diming.
As a CEO you have to sometimes look presentable, you may need to travel, you also need to eat, exercise and rest. Sure you can do ramen style for couple years in your 20s, but how much money will you realistically save your startup if you pay yourself 97 vs 130k
Solar panel? Depends how big the draw is.
They could do it on a few clients then ship the data back to the server. If they’re resourceful those clients don’t even need to be watching the video! (they could send it and compute the output in the background of another stream)
I am curious if the advent of GPT and LLMs allows linguistic theorists to adjudicate where we are with understanding the language instinct and settling the Chomsky vs Pinker vs Others debate.

Perhaps it is entirely irrelevant as GLT has learned through billions of examples a child never could. Or perhaps it is totally relevant as it can synthesise billions of examples better than any linguist.
The lead does not vaporize at soldering temperatures. The fumes are just flux. Will irritate eyes and airway, but won't really hurt you. However do wash your hands, and if you are de-soldering with a pump you probably want to vacuum wipe surfaces with a damp cloth, as you can end up creating some lead dust in the process.
Open Source tool to translate JSON locales with Chat-GPT
Exactly. If you're going to assume some call is free, write that down in a test that can be periodically verified and, preferably, is.
Remember that The God Delusion was published 20 years after The Blind Watchmaker. While certainly TBW made no bones about the author's atheism, it primarily focused on evolution, which was, in 1986, still considered rather subversive and doubtful to much of the public. Even more so when The Selfish Gene in 1976, only 4 years after the first gene was sequenced.

A lot of public opinion changed from 1986 to 2006, making evolutionary biology unlikely to be a radical, controversial or even interesting topic any more. Probably also changed was Dawkins' personal outlook on religion and atheism. Possibly this was affected by the reactions drawn by TSG and TBW, as two notable books that helped finally drew evolution into the mainstream and Dawkins himself being a self-made pro-evolution lightning rod.

I also don't happen to think it was a coincidence that the more philosophical angle of things like Unweaving the Rainbow gave way to more aggressive writing (uncharitably I might say "Reddit bait") just as the Internet really hit its stride. Alternatively, and rather more prosaically, some people seem to just get, well, angrier, in their mid-60s.
I hope you make it work!
Implementation of the Undocumented Twitter API
15k miles on a 2013 CR-V? Enjoy the last car you'll ever own! I assume you know this, but some of the maintenance items for that car are 8 years I think; worth checking the manual to find out!
Come on, anyone that has even unzipped Linux-centric stuff on Windows knows how slow individual file operations are compared to Mac or Linux.

It's very common knowledge that on Windows you will get terrible performance if you have many many small files.

I don't know why Microsoft doesn't fix that. Maybe they can't for compatibility reasons or something. But that's the way it is, and any software that wants to run well on Windows needs to deal with it by using fewer bigger files.
Exactly. Which means drivers are getting a great discount thanks to the people who don't use a car, and the non-drivers are getting a markup on all the prices they pay. And the non-drivers were already paying a huge amount to maintain car infrastructure (at least in the US) because the gas tax doesn't nearly cover it.

Now don't get me wrong, I understand the value of a public good. Grocery stores receive food via trucks on roads, so even non-drivers get the benefit of the road. The parking subsidy, however, is insidious because it's so much less visible. It's not a government investing in a public good: the city instead requires businesses to maintain off-street parking, and they pass that cost on to everyone. It lets everybody believe that parking, and driving altogether, is much cheaper than it really is, because the (actually enormous) parking costs are hidden away and subsidized by those who don't use it.
My my initial reactions to your comment:

1) Are you sure it is?

2) And, if so, so what?
If you’re going to do all that, just rewire it so the circuit only turns on with key-on.
Being able to learn within context, without updating weights is amazing. Imagine how much more efficient and/or powerful it could be if we found a way to update the weights in real time.
> My buddy loves them but I always felt like they were so... sterile.

I'd love to know which specific model you found sterile (wouldn't happen to be some 4 cylinder would it?)

People who drive boring cars love to parrot magazine reviewers... not realizing their definition of sterile is relative to a 911, not their Accord.

> Unless you are at a track or love cutting off people in traffic it feels really hard to have any fun in one.

I track my cars, but it's not hard to enjoy pleasant driving dynamics without resorting to being an irresponsible driver in a well-sorted car.

I'll defer to you on how fun cutting people off in traffic is though?
I haven't read the comments there but IQ differences among genetic groups is real and deeply studied, it is one of the least refutable things about homo sapiens that we know. Should we be able to talk about it?
Couldn't this be done cheaply on the GPU?