skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Making a claim that a race hate group has taken over the flag is pretty laughable.

I mean, it is literally the flag the South flew when they seceded from the Union in the name of white supremacy. The Southern states were very clear in their secession documents, as was Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens when he said of the Confederate government "its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition."

This isn't laughable, this is plain history. Southern culture is white supremacy, end stop. And I say this as a born and bred white Texan - that flag is a disgrace, and what it represents is a disgrace.
I read a very boring but useful paper on curiosity by Lowenstein.

He frames curiosity as a drive (similar to eg hunger.)

If you’re starting but not finishing projects, maybe it’s due to curiosity about a sub problem that you hack a solution for.

But once your curiosity is satisfied and you have no other drive eg money, stars on Github, you finish without releasing it
Ask HN: If you could only use one, would you pick Google or Reddit?
A couple years back the answer for me would've been Google. These days, I really wouldn't mind if Google went away, but I would really miss reddit. My use case for Google is mostly as a reddit search engine anyway.

EDIT: I meant Google Search only, not the rest of Google.
No, they avoided the issue. I was hoping for it. Surely Nintendo would have worked with them to license this; I feel it would be in their interests too.
While you're here, I should ask: what do you think of my middle-ground proposal (https://lobste.rs/s/oxzs1q/note_on_metal_shader_converter) that the interface contain a black-box scan primitive, rather than stronger low-level guarantees?
It isn't anecdotal data. This is the number from BLS.
That is an excellent question.

In theory its more expensive to produce than an H100, but in practice... shrug.

But I was thinking 3090 or lesser tesla/Quadro instances would be sufficient.
This was not something I thought about, understood, or really had conveyed to me until I was in my late 20s and saw it happening first hand with product after product. When I asked "why" the answer was there, but I didn't get the answer until I asked the question. I didn't ask the question until I saw the harm.

So while what you say might be true, there is still the question of what culture your from, how these ideas enter that culture, and when those ideas are introduced to the people in that culture.

There is the subjective experience of "collective consciousness" to deal with and subjectively, I think that "growth is great" was louder than "short termism is bad".

We were drunk on VC funded growth, and now we are dealing with the hangover and asking how we got ourselves into the position. Getting drunk was great. The hangover is not.
Blood sacrifices won't be enough, unless the sacrifice is the company as a whole. Oddly enough, the only time that Reddit managed to unite its userbase for a cause, that cause was against Reddit itself. Users might disagree on the best approach, but practically nobody trusts the company any more, it isn't just the CEO.

That's specially bad for the company in the light of the IPO.

>Although I do foresee Reddit “super mods” forcibly removing the blackout through their backend, removing mod status from the “rebels” and inserting their own friendly mods until they can find replacements.

They could, but this would cause damage on its own. People might hate the current mods but they'd hate the sycophants even more.
> they run out of ink quickly, they dry out quickly, the ink smudges until it dries, the ink will run or be erased if the paper gets wet, they are very sensitive to the quality of paper, they can leak easily in your pocket, etc.

Wut?

It sounds like you're talking more about dip pens than fountain pens? Because aside from the ink drying time (it does smudge for up to a minute for really thick lines), most of those are artifacts of older inks and pens. And there are a lot of varieties of inks to take care of fast drying or waterproofness, etc.

And a good cap will keep a pen from leaking in your pants.
There is a great migration guide here from the flux team on how to onboard coming from Eagle

https://docs.flux.ai/Introduction/eagle-to-flux---migration-...
Aren’t you kinda telling someone how they should write a post? Even though you start writing most sentences with I, it comes off as what they should rather do.

Which, you know, is fine. I would maybe have {insert similar advice here} :)

Actually I do have a contribution, inspired I think by _why. Rather than telling them how to write, just write. I don’t do that enough myself.

On writing, I think strong points often get through better. Challenge people. They’re adults, they can consider if it applies to them or not.

On completion, for those who have difficulty achieving self love, achieving small completed projects is nearer “fake it till you make it”. It’s easier, actions and thoughts and beliefs impact each other. You can start with any of them, but some might find it easier to start with actions.
Maybe. I'm not sure though. Reddit has an organic way to grow it's user engagement. It didn't start out with all of these mods. The general mood/experience on reddit today is much chiller. A lot of the people susceptible to feelings of indignation are gone. I think it's very possible new mods / content contributors will grow organically, conforming to whatever in house tools reddit creates. But who knows, maybe it will go the way of digg.
There is a lab that had planned and did the research. This is well documented. The virus spread had started nearby. There is nothing else that you need to know.

There is evidence that the Chinese authorities were suppressing information about the leak (information about that virus had leaked accidentally, by an ophthalmologist that saw cases spreading in his hospital).

Yes, it is not clear exactly, how the furin site got there. Was it a long series of mutations and a recombination with another virus in a lab animal? Was it spliced? We’ll never know, unless the scientists responsible would decide to tell how it had happened.

But I’m not particularly emotional about that virus. If you read the above, you’ll see that I see positive and negative after effects. Viruses and mistakes happen.

But it’d be a good idea to make a point and get rid of that lab. Failures like that should not be rewarded with continual existence.
2023 National Recording Archive Additions
A great read! Awesome that James can turn a beloved pair of shoes into a wallet you can keep forever
This is exactly what an LLM would say. Nice try, Open AI.
I love that you can get mechanical watches for between $50 an $100 now. They don't keep great time (loose/gain a few seconds a day), but there's something mesmerizing about watching that second hand sweep.
Thank you for letting me know, that's encouraging for me to hear. Good luck!
Yep, there's plenty of business process level instances as well. They tend to be in the form of "pointless" meetings or other process steps that people feel are "bureaucratic gatekeeping".

When creating line of business apps these chestertons fences can appear when a product owner does not fully understand the complexity they're supposed to be owning, and they remove / fail to capture critical validation steps in a process for the sake of efficiency.
Then move your money into an MMF, like Vanguard's VMFXX or Schwab's SWVXX.

There's plenty of ways for even the poorest to get direct exposure to 5% interest rates.
>US healthcare is easy to access

Emergency care is typically easy to access. Non-emergency care is pretty easy to access in some places and quite inconvenient in others.
>I didn't say a judge should do it. I said the Congress should do it. And what Congress should do is a political question, not a legal one, which is why our opinion is as valid as yours.

Is there something wrong with you? I'm clearly valuing your opinion... this will be like the 7th time I've asked you for it, yet you refuse to give it and now insist that I'm being some sort of gatekeeper for patent opinions... this is bizarre. Hoping its because english isn't your first language.

>As for 'just answer my question': I think you mainly want engineers to say something concrete so you can critique it. So how about if you tell us: what are some examples of good software patents?

Lol dude why are you being this obtuse? It's not a trick. It's just that hard to come up with a workable line here. It really has nothing to do with my opinion on enfish. Engineers are here saying it should be easy to filter out the bad patents... okay, if so, tell us how...

I'm here waiting.
Cisco has iOS too.
But there's a very big difference when it comes to convenience: the Instant Pot (Or in my case the Sage/Breville Fast Slow Pro, which is great) has a built in timer and cooks automatically. Once you hit "start", you can walk away and come back any time to perfectly cooked eggs.

With a stove top method, you have to stand there and watch the timer, and manually turn off your stove when it's done.
> Rose colored glasses if you ask me. The difference is it seems you use Node often (daily?) and have rationalized the pain.

It’s not just that. Node can also handle arbitrary dependency graphs, including transitive dependency conflicts, sibling dependencies and dev dependencies. And node doesn’t need symlink hacks to find locally installed dependencies. Node packages have also been expected to maintain semver compatibility from inception. They’re usually pretty good about it.

It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty nice.
History helps the never-ending human dance with water
At the height of tinder, I worked in a sales office. When we wanted a bit of a laugh, we'd troll women by asking if they would go to whatever fancy spot with us, if we paid and gave various amounts of cash as spending money. That was our opener. You'd be shocked at the success rate. Some of the more innocent coworkers thought the girls were trolling us back. So we'd ask for phone numbers, and call them on speaker phone and troll more on the phone. At that point you can't deny she was serious, no girl gives away their phone number under that scenario unless she's serious.

As days went on we'd reduce the cash, and still many would agree. We eventually tried just offering cash and still some would agree, but eventually our account got flagged and banned.
So what is the purpose of this? The article is light on details, heavy on fluff. It’s gpt2 fine tuned on the rockyou list? And it makes up realistic passwords, so someone can put them in a list and say “these are also insecure passwords”?
I'm using Firefox on Android on an S21 FE 5G and having the page as the active tab without any interaction seems to cause 30% CPU usage in my about:processes listing.
I wonder if we are in a different situation now than in the 70s/80s when the Fed last fought rampant inflation because of globalization. Like maybe before raising rates more directly affected costs because American companies had a large proportion of their customers in America. Now if the Fed raises our rates Apple can still sell tons of phones in countries that didn't raise rates and whose consumers didn't lose that buying power.
I know it feels a bit reductionist, but what % keyboard would you call this? Feels like its somewhere 40% to 45%.
How is it a poor argument?

You don't entrust anyone, it's simple. If you want data to last a long time, it has to be distributed, and not under the control of any single entity. Otherwise, I can virtually guarantee there will be a failure, whether it's because of maliciousness or just an accident (how many old Hollywood movies were lost because of one big fire?). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lost_films) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1965_MGM_vault_fire)
This is exactly how I feel about it. Once was enough. Once and forever haunted.
Licenses, certifications, shipping, marketing, local distributor management, etc. is all extra overhead when dealing out of state makes your beer cost more compared to selling it locally. And when selling outside of California accounts for 30% of sales it might not be worth the effort.
Would this work as my main IDE?
As others have said, they're character graphics. Much used in ZX81 games because the ZX81 didn't have direct support for full resolution (256 x 192) bit mapping.

There were a couple of hi-res hacks - pseudo (partial_ hi-res, which was a hack of the character system, and full bit-mapped hi-res which only worked with internal RAM or special modified external RAM.

Both were a bit of a project (for the time.) Some games used them.

My fav ZX81 program was the 1K chess. Very basic character graphics, but it somehow managed to fit a minimal but workable chess engine into 1K of Z80 machine code.
Apparently the wasm code fetches it directly, and I just needed to look at the network traffic. I figured I was missing something obvious!
I think the reason medical costs are on an upward spiral is not consumers not shopping around. It's that it's extremely hard to get a price for healthcare, that hospitals are being bought up by investment companies uninterested in improving outcomes but very interested in jacking up the price of service, and that it is perfectly legal to have the only cure for debilitating, potentially fatal illnesses like hepatitis C cost $24,000.
A dwindling population also has lesser impact on the environment. Ironically, with your example a smaller population would also mean you have fewer people to compete with in finding a camp site and gathering firewood. In terms of long-term health of humanity on Earth a shrinking population is not necessarily a bad thing.
It’s like the dark sibling of Keynes, eh?

At least Keynesian theory had a notion of slowing an economy that needed slowing, and boosting an economy that needed boosting, through a complementary mechanism.

The poisonous application on the other hand is to boost an economy at capacity, and use the inevitable crash to funnel wealth to… who knows where?
I am working on a LLM-powered newsletter (https://distilleddaily.news/) that aims to solve this exact problem for myself (and targeting ML engineers, data scientists and AI researchers).

I've only started last week and have launched among friends, and so only source HackerNews for now but will quickly include curated sources: Twitter popular users' tweets (@hwchase17, @hardmaru), popular blogs (@chipro, @lilianweng), popular research papers and more.

I'm currently prioritising features to build and so would love to hear your thoughts!
One thing: internal satisfaction. External success, too! The biggest one recently was releasing a course on MySQL at https://planetscale.com/mysql-for-developers. It was painful to push that over the finish line, but giving up on it would have been a huge disservice.
Yes, OrCAD is used by Apple from the style of iDevice schematics floating around on the interwebs.

A contractor told me he can get OrCad for a few hundred dollars per year but I never see the actual price being listed on its web site. It looks like those "if you need to ask the price you cannot afford it" software. My gut tells me it is one of these, seeing it is from one of the big EDAs.

And OrCad looks atrocious on the HiDPI screen the contractor is using... UI scaling is all screwed up.
$100 in the ER? Where, for what?

My recent ER visits have all resulted in $1K-$2K or more (don’t remember exact numbers). A stupid sling costs about $100 in the ER. All due to deductible, Co-insurance and other provisions.

Also $350 for surgery?

You must have a really nice plan.
A lot of ex-Hubbers went to Shopify. Additionally, a lot of upstream commits to Rails occurred from things pulled out of GitHub. GitHub has (had?) an entire team dedicated to Ruby and Rails and performance and optimizations/improvements
I went to the doctor a few weeks ago, spent a couple minutes there, got a quick test done, then left. I received a bill for a couple hundred bucks (after insurance paid most of it) the other day.
I spend maybe 5 minutes a day moving windows around. Not a lot of room to optimize.

The meme whenever dev productivity comes up is this picture of Jeff Dean — arguably one of the most productive programmers of all time — on a single monitor in a default Ubuntu environment: https://twitter.com/nufuau/status/1159007803316396038?s=20

I used to use esoteric dev environments but I think the net effect was negative on my productivity due to things breaking. Also, being comfortable in default environments means that you are better able to move between environments without a large productivity hit.
Here are two lectures about Blood Meridian from a Yale literature course.

https://youtu.be/FgyZ4ia25gg

https://youtu.be/7ZFmf4T5L3o
No, if you update upstream Firefox you'll see a prompt inviting you to restart when you want. If you update distro Firefox you'll see a page blocking everything telling you you need to update now.

That's because upstream Firefox separates out downloading and applying the update.
Why don't they simply ban the mods and reopen the subreddits?
> Can't you just hire a "CEO" who will take over all management responsibilities

You, the retiring doctor, hire a manager whose job it is to hire another doctor? Do you not see why this works at scale but for one practice?
You don’t need to test every line of your CDK application
Into the Wilderness with a 'Bug-Out' Bag Essentials
Some people believe the notion that women are attracted to status is inherently a misogynist idea. When people allege misogyny and other *isms, it's often more telling about what they believe is offensive.
I think cup is a translation of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge_(unit)

Which like cup has different definitions depending on where you are.
Now that’s some creepy doublespeak: “minors in violation”
nah, people can do whatever they want with it :)
You have trouble understanding this? Try this: can 90% of the population live in cities, supported by food and oil produced by the other 10%? The answer is yes. Now, can 90% of the population live with the farmers and oil workers (in a very rural lifestyle) and still yield the level of civilization and economic development we have now? The answer is no. Without cities, there's no modern economy: just look at any place that's still agrarian, or was in the recent past. Or even the US during its civil war (the agrarian, rural South had no chance against the industrialized North).
Where can you get a single pack for $3?
It did not seem especially burdensome last time I tried it. Are you familiar with the LLVM dialect of MLIR?
For me its the matter of actually liking The notebook environment rather than overcoming the shortconings of IDEs.
What do you make every day that you can stand to eat for 5 years?! (=

The original was good, but the version I got later has issues. Like sone of the button controls stopped working, and the pressure seal leaked and sputtered even when it was “locked” in the close position.
redditors really think they invented shitflooding lol

“Fact: there is NO DEFENSE against the digital ghillie suit!”
Matt Wolfe’s Future Tools site is a good compilation of consumer-facing AI products and news:

https://www.futuretools.io/

https://www.futuretools.io/news

He also posts videos that I find informative:

https://youtube.com/@mreflow

I like the AI Explained video channel as well:

https://youtube.com/@ai-explained-
I think this is smaller than 40%. A classic 40% Planck is 4x12 keys
arxiv, paperswithcode, NeuroHive
Seeking Insight: Plaid vs. Stripe-Empowering Freelancers for Financial Stability
Hey there, amazing HN community!

I'm in the midst of building a freelancer growth platform with a mission to help freelancers achieve financial stability. Payments are the foundation of this endeavor, and if that were my only focus, Stripe would be a no-brainer.

But here's the catch. My initial research with small businesses reveals that they prefer paying freelancers through bank transfers or even checks, rather than using credit cards. And Plaid seems to have a better handle on that.

When it comes to the nitty-gritty of managing finances—moving money between income, safety nets, payouts, tax payments, and retrieving transaction history for deductible expenses—Plaid feels like a better fit, especially since I'm targeting US transactions initially.

But wait! Stripe has a service that's somewhat similar to Plaid's, although it's been around for about a year now and I couldn't find much feedback about it.

To make this decision wisely, I need your insights, fellow founders, tech gurus, and anyone who's been in my shoes. Here are a few questions to guide our discussion:

1. When it comes to enabling online payments for freelancers as the starting point, is Stripe such an obviuos option that I shouldn't even consider Plaid? What factors would influence your choice? Maybe both, but in different steps?

2. If you've integrated Stripe or Plaid into similar platforms, I'd love to hear about your experiences. How was the integration process in terms of ease, reliability, and customer support? I've heard Plaid's support in basically.... non-existent :S
3. Based on your experience, do small businesses generally prefer bank transfers for paying freelancers? If so, does that make Plaid a more favorable choice for my platform?
4. Looking ahead, which platform offers better scalability and access to transaction data for tax deductions? How do Plaid and Stripe stack up against each other? Are there any other options I should consider? I was also exploring Abound, but they deprecated the freelance tax API.

Your guidance, personal experiences, and industry expertise are priceless in helping me make an informed decision that empowers freelancers with robust online payment capabilities and comprehensive financial management support.

Thanks a million for your invaluable input!

Laura Warjan
Gigflow Founder
https://www.gigflow.co/
GitHub did publish it, but they didn't write it! I (the author) don't work at GitHub, and they don't tell me what to write. The brief they give me is basically "write something a developer would like" and off I go. Not sure if that changes your mind, but at least now you know how it worked behind the scenes!
They need to start counting live watch hours towards those thresholds. I only do extremely long lives (and no VOD) and have more than 200K watch hours over the last months but they don't count.
$2400/year looks like.
> boom-bust cycles enable capital to buy everything in the bust period.

Out of curiosity, what happens to the busted capital in this toy model?
I deleted my account and my 3rd party app and I found myself reflexively tapping the now-empty spot on my home screen 5-10 times yesterday. Today I haven't and only went to the mobile site a couple times to see what's going on with the state of things, but left as soon as the first "Oops, this /r/AskReddit text-only post is NSFW, open in the app!" message came up.

I have however visited HN and kbin 5-10x more today.