skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you just go for the cheapest anyways, why are you buying containers at all? I'm in a position that I can afford whatever containers I like, and I use glass for anything that'll be reheated but use plastic for freezing. We re-use butter/yogurt/sour cream containers, and after 2-3 uses toss them in the recycling.
As to keyboards: Yusha Kobo in north Akihabara has only existed for a few years and is famous among DIY mechanical keyboard enthusiasts.
There is no physical shop like that anywhere else, AFAIK.
I rarely set out to go to Reddit (in the sense of “my task is to read Reddit”), but I pretty frequently land on Reddit from search results.

I think the Reddit utility was substantially reduced for that use case (too often landing on a closed subreddit) and that damage could last far beyond when this protest ends/is ended.

I sure won’t be adding “reddit” to the end of my search queries for a while!
Huffman will spin this into the result of economic forces outside of Reddit’s control.
>> Boggles the mind why people still fall for the iPad Pro as a serious work machine beyond writing meme.

So it’s not good as a work machine…apart from most jobs. Most jobs are email and documents. If you’re on the move a lot then it’s a good device for those jobs. Jobs which require a lot of computing power, large screens, input devices other than a keyboard and touch screen, are definitely the minority.
What's the difference compared to steel?
On the other hand I find that they tend to close tight and be robust. So they are great for throwing in backpacks. Without care most plastic containers will flex and pop open. The weight isn't much issue for one or two containers in a backpack. Health concerns aside a sturdy plastic container would likely be the best option here, lighter and more durable (think Nalgene bottle quality) but those are very hard to find.
Glass gets very hot in the microwave. Hot enough to burn skin.

So does plastic.

Also, it's a microwave oven. Who thinks that you can stick your hands on something in a device called an "oven" and not get burned?
I’m not sure I even understand what the title is saying.
IMO, it's not the government's job to protect people from their own failure to identify a fraud. The government cannot protect people from fraud any more than it can protect them from going bankrupt due to poor management of their personal finances. It's a lesson they have to learn on their own.

Also, I simply won't believe that narrative while gambling is still legal and while the government itself uses the monetary system to run the economy like a game of musical chairs.
Sam Adams "Just the Haze" is my favorite 0% beer right now. Personally, I prefer a tonic & (lots) of lime or iced tea if I'm abstaining.
I think what RH did is ethically questionable but is a great development for the use of GPL in the enterprise (for releasing SW under GPL that would otherwise remain closed-source): there is now a path for respecting GPL freedoms (in a slightly round-about way) without necessarily making the product gratis.
So two free distros are not enough, got it.
I remember getting a subscription and canceling it immediately after getting my first issue, somewhere around 2015. It was about how Detroit is actually a very cool city and had photos and interviews of cool young people with tattoos.

Simply not what I remembered of the magazine as a child. And I have no problem with tattoos, just the strange political agenda that had nothing to do with the environment or animals.

I know they also covered peoples in past issues as well (e.g. iconic photo of woman from Afghanistan with striking eyes). This was clearly quite different from that.
Nearly every single newspaper and magazine company has the exact same revenue and subscriber growth chart over the last 20 years. Its a roughly 30-degree angle down and to the right, from a high around 2000 to todays near bankrupcy across the board. Everybody got laid off, everything is produced by freelancers hitting wordcount and postcount metrics by the hour. There's nothing special about NatGeo here, Time, Newsweek, Vogue, Wired, across the board.

Even the digital upstarts ready to disrupt and replace them have all flopped now, having never actually had a plan beyond "i dunno what if web pages instead?". Huffpo sold for a dollar, buzzfeed shut down its news division, vice went bankrupt, gawker got murdered, mic and ozy were scams. gizmodo jezebel and deadspin run into the ground by private equity. Vox limps along aimlessly, the atlantic is an insipid clickfarm.

The recent drama at reddit is essentially the end of this trajectory/narrative. Magazines and local papers were places for communities to organize around and communicate with, we have subreddits for that (and other niche fora like the very one you and I are communicating on right now), but as the recent IPO related drama and layoffs have shown, there's baaaaaaarely a business model there. Serving communities that used to support hundreds of magazines with tens of thousands of paying subscribers. HN only works because its a glorified content marketing strategy for the epicenter of the zirp/vc bubble.

It makes sense that the internet changed everything. It makes sense that often the old things have to die for the new things to truly take over the ecological niche. The last 20 years has been the death of media (the content side) as a business. Theres not a ton of point in picking apart why any one given dinosaur like NG died. The internet-meteor did them all in.
If this forgiveness stands, future borrowers will take out even more debt, believing that future presidents will likely cancel some of it. They will probably be right.

This moral hazard increases the cost of the loan program; more and more is paid out, and less and less is re‐ paid.

The moral hazard of believing education should be free at the point of usage!

My dad fought in World War 2 along with 2 older brothers. They benefited from the GI Bill and went to college and ended up with good careers. We call them the greatest generation but the thing that made them the greatest was the investments the government made into them. His 2 younger brothers did not go college and they had much less lifetime income and died earlier than the older 3.

Government ought to invest in people. It benefits the nation to have an educated populace that is not saddled with debt upon graduation.
yeah, this seems like a mark to market change (the market just isn't paying as much as it used to) and is lagging by a few months. The impact of the blackout hasn't been quantified yet by investors and probably not even internally at this point.
This is just plain spreading pro-Russian narrative, while Russia plans to commit yet another disaster, this time nuclear one. Guess that will be just another bullet point on pathetic "NATO made me do this" bingo menu.
If you have an interest in Japanese but can't commit to learning it, you can have a lot of fun by just learning Katakana (the alphabet used for foreign words like this). You see english words like this all the time, I used it multiple times a day there and it's a neat party trick to read them. I still catch lots of words in the wild even here in Aus.

Surprisingly useful if you travel there! Want some coffee? Well gosh, that's コヒ (kohi). Need a bathroom? Look for トイレ！(toire). Worth noting these are more than annotations, they are loan words and are part of the language in daily life.

It's easy to know if you are looking at katakana, and if it is you can expect to be able to sound it out to a foreign word, commonly english. It's very different stylistically to the other two scripts, hiragana and kanji. Much sharper, more masculine but still simple looking.(kanji) 漢字, (hiragana) ひらがな、 (katakana) カタカナ.
Most folks that cook a lot don't use non-stick pans much anyway because they just don't last very long. I keep a couple around for eggs and pancakes, but that's it.

The usual recommendation for skillets is carbon-steel and cast iron because the seasoning does provide some non-stick properties. I have the full gamut with carbon steel, cast iron, non-stick and stainless steel, and find myself mostly leaning on the carbon steel. (I don't have any other materials since I cook on induction.)

But here's a catch: that seasoning? Basically a plastic. It's polymerized cooking oil. You can decide if you care. But you'll also polymerize oil when cooking on stainless. Basically: if you want to go ultra-paranoid, don't fry things.
A 30% marginal tax rate across 100 years would be extremely abnormal as it implies you are mostly getting taxed at income tax rates at a very high rate.
True, which is why any buyer must search for glassware that is said to be "borosilicate" and not search for "Pyrex", which has become a meaningless trademark.

When you hold it in the hand, real borosilicate glassware is very easy to distinguish from other glassware, because it is noticeably less heavy.
For those interested in the Ongoing Saga of HN Front Page Analyticcs, I've been posting occasional updates to the above site-based classification (~60% of posts now classified) to the Fediverse: <https://toot.cat/@dredmorbius/tagged/HackerNewsAnalytics>

(It's a bit much to dump massive tables to HN, I'm trying to keep that to a bearable minimum.)
Watchy – an eInk watch full of interesting compromises
Pokémon Go maker Niantic laying off hundreds, cancels NBA and Marvel games
>The #1 reason I started to consider buying an iPad a few years ago was for one thing, and one thing only: to read coding books.

Considering the sheer price of an iPad Pro, you could have just... bought the books. Quite a few of them too.
How do they plan to make the software vendors comply? I don't think my Firefox build by Debian would give a shit about any such list. And than, what? How could anybody even detect that I'm using an "illegal web browser"?
Well, depends how you're defining 'final', really. Like, one way of looking at it is that Livejournal hasn't had its final day yet; there are still people on Livejournal. Another is that it had its final day in 2006 or so; from that point on (at least in the English-speaking world; I think it stayed relevant in Russia for longer) it was kind of a legacy semi-zombie social network.

Twitter's whole thing is its outsized cultural relevance for a rather small user base. If that goes, well, arguably, it's had its final day. This particular change seems like it might go a long way towards ending its relevance; an awful lot of people used twitter only via clicking links from news articles etc, and never actually had an account.
Tele bunny, that big frying spoon, that All Tomorrow creature, some eldritch doodle
The story of Battlefield, only now the clueless newbies they hired to underpay & make it believed it must be a Battle Royale.
It just has the slight problem of weighing 200 tons which makes it mildly impractical for anything but use at home.

And yet, somehow it was the standard method of operation for more than half a century before plastic bowls became widely available.

I feel bad for those poor 1940's housewives, all hunched over and disfigured from dragging 200 tons of Corningware to the church potluck supper.
this is another straw man, no one’s complaining about 50 shades of grey not being in elementary schools - states like florida has banned books from schools based on a characters race or sexual orientation
Are there any open source multimodal (vision + text) models? Or any in progress?
Not that wimpy. I've been using the manufacturer's EVB for this chip since March and it goes really well. Streets ahead of anything else in the RISC-v world at the moment. And dual- and quad-socket boards are coming soon.

Even on things that don't parallelise well it's still pretty good.

For example on building riscv-gnu-toolchain (binutils, gcc, libc) for which the stupid GNU recursive makefile buildsystem means it only averages using about 9-10 of those 64 cores, it takes 34 minutes. This compares to 11 minutes on a 32 core Threadripper, 20 minutes on a 6 core Zen 2 laptop, 32 minutes on a Thinkpad X1 Carbon with i7-8650u, and 102 minutes on a Pi4.

On things that use all the cores, it's comparable to a 12-16 core current generation x86 -- which costs the same or more.

It's a lot powerful than the Graviton 1 that became available on AWS in November 2018.

The vector unit work great, that's been my main reason for testing one.

There will be much much faster RISC-V SoCs with lots of cores in the next couple of years, but this lets you get software ported on a realistic machine right now.
We've managed to crack one - no idea how, since they're never treated particularly roughly - but even then, it didn't fully break. I'm definitely a fan.
The obvious outcome is people get over it and change nothing. Their individual sharing makes no difference.
There are definitely ways to leverage the horsepower natively. Having toured with musicians pretty recently though, I'd be lying if I said I saw a single person using an iPad for performance purposes. Everyone uses a laptop, and I don't think Logic Pro on iPad would have changed much. People want Ableton Live and Omnisphere with deep audio hardware support in the drivers and a proper file manager. The iPad makes a valiant attempt at supporting class-compliant MIDI and audio hardware, but it's enormously outclassed in capability by Mac and Windows.

It feels like even if Apple's DAW utopia came to pass, the iPad would still be an imperfect and less powerful option compared to a similarly specced Mac.
Doesn't matter if the government mandates MITM and forces install of root certs on all clients.
They dumbed down long before that, that was just when you noticed. It was that success in the 80s that largely killed them, because they realized that their brand pushed product. The business turned to commercial branding or retail stores and selling random stuff, culminating in becoming one of the random logos on a bland Korean fashion brand. My guess is that many who were turned off because they "went woke" loved it when it was cranking out low quality tat or opening retail stores in tourist areas.

There's still plenty of room for high-quality writing about the world and its inhabitants; although the US is up its own ass there's the internet now. It's not a business where hundreds of millions of dollars should be involved.
30 years later, Myst demake for Atari 2600 reminds us how far we’ve come
There is the Atom Feed Format and there is the Atom Syndication Protocol:

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4287
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5023

These specs and the discussion about them at the time really are from a different era of the web. The Syndication Protocol fully embraced REST which was also white hot then. There was a real feeling that with a good format and a standardized way to consume and interact with the resources, it would allow for easier sharing of not just blog posts but other data as well.

As intense as the discussion was around the development of RFC-5023, it was basically ignored from the moment it was released and even the main spec author declared it basically dead not very long afterward:

https://web.archive.org/web/20090421042741/http://bitworking...

Needless to say, the web took an entirely different direction and while these specs exist, there isn't much interest in them any longer.
Most unhoused opioid users in SF are happy to remain homeless. Their base income is north of $12k tax free a year (SNAP and their SF homeless grant); one woman I’ve been trying to help for over two years makes north of $30k annually, tax free, with zero expenses other than fentanyl and food. Very few are willing to trade the amenable weather and lack of any behavioral restrictions for the (frankly quite minimal) requirements that come with temporary shelter, let alone those associated with a SRO or permanent long term housing.
> We all want to live in present moment, don't we?

not at all
> The web is brimming with more new stuff than you can eat, which spells doom for NG.

Not sure if you mean "new stuff" in general, or content/stuff of the same quality. For things like news I feel like you can either pay for really high quality content, get the shitty ad supported content or just drink from the firehose of social media.

It's hard not to assume that other types of content isn't the same. You can either get rehashed content based on Wikipedia articles or shitty click-bait articles, but actual investigating work is really rare and expensive. So you either have to buy "the book" on a topic, get research articles or rely on the few YouTubers who spend money on going places.

We have more content than ever before, sadly much of it is opinion pieces, blatant attempts to trick the all might algorithm to release advisering dollars or respins of the very real work of a few people.
Doctors make too much money. Pharmaceutical companies make too much money. Everything in the healthcare system charges too much.

A 5 minute, yearly "wellness visit" costs my insurance company $200 (or so they say) and that's not even including any bloodwork.
Such lists already exist, for example in Italy there's a number of official government blocklists that the ISPs are already obligated by law to apply using their DNS servers and soon at the IP level, once the latest law is implemented.

In typical Italian style, the blocklists are actually published as a set of HTML articles on various government websites, that must be scraped and parsed by the ISPs using toolkits like https://github.com/mphilosopher/censura.

The latest proposal now additionally requires acknowledgement through PEC, i.e. domains to block will be sent by rightholders through certified emails to ISPs, and upon processing them ISPs *must* send an acknowledgment in the form of another certified email within 30 minutes, or else sanctions will follow.

This latest proposal has rightfully caused an uproar of the ISPs in groups like itnog (https://t.me/IT_NOG/106605/106606), considering that most PEC providers only offer a few GBs of space, there's already a high risk of ack emails being lost (with subsequent sanctions), not to mention that the concept of automating domain distribution and acknowledgment using email instead of a simple JSON-RPC API is ridiculous, but that's what you get when bureaucrats make technical proposals :)
Visited DC in 2010 or so. Kids were eager to see Nat Geo headquarters. Turned out to be a big disappointment. Lots of empty spaces where displays had been. We were told they were renovating. Looks like they've now lost a lot of their experienced writers, but I wonder about the photographers and artists who were the real stars of the show. On one hand, it's amazing they lasted this long against the Internet and digital media, on the other I can't help but wonder if trying to run a knowledge resource like Nat Geo like a business no longer makes sense.
I've been using Morg's anki decks, The Morg Way, highly recommended so far.
Show HN: Lemonade – a stupid simple Lemmy community browser
Today Reddit is killing the 3rd party apps, leaving us with no way of accessing user-generated (but not user-owned) content.

People are moving away from sites like Reddit to more open, friendlier online communities like kbin and lemmy.

I wanted to make this easier especially to the less techie users who might find the process daunting.

More info about the project here: https://lemonade.sonnet.io/about
I'm for all sorts of government regulations. Most around social services. The EU makes me feel like my crazy uncles ranting about the EU. Does anyone think that the EU could regulate themselves into a second tier market for tech products(they get the same products but not on the same schedule. The release is based on a second level of development to meet the EU specifications.)
I could concede that all of their goals are worthy but I feel like I have a Project Manager defining tech solutions.
Softbank Shop, on the 6th or 7th floor, if its still there .. was a veritable oasis of amazingly well-maintained and available super rare synthesizer gear. If I was a wealthy man, that floor would be half-empty .. ;)
which cd from SOAD? i never heard any clipping
I'd like to add that building trust with the team is vital for your and their long-term success. Have one-on-one conversations with everyone on the team and outline what you're trying to do (build a team that can scale) and that you need their help to achieve it. Ask for their input and listen.

You don't have to win this guy over on day one. If you can get them onboard, the loudest detractors often become the most prominent supporters in the long run. Take time to understand his concerns, outline your goals, and get his input. You have a greater chance of success by giving him a voice at the table to help define the solutions. You can also outline how code reviews allow him to have an opportunity to review other people's code, making sure it's up to his standards, playing to his ego.
Warning: those are not technical books.

IMO, certainly not the ”greatest” books either , but I thought it was worth sharing it because it provides a good sample of the current anti-tech zeitgeist (certainly more anti big tech and anti Silicon Valley, but I do think there is a general suspicion against anything tech these days).
Slightly off topic, but am I the only one that disliked Pokemon Go the minute it came out? It was just so transparently grindy and "Free+". I wish there were more games like this that actually felt like a game and not a money vacuum.
Roboflow (YC S20) Is Hiring Engineers to Democratize Computer Vision
I knew about the instruction that Daniel Lemire missed too.
It seems useless to me.
> To me, it's clear that what's illegal are private genetic tests.

Which is even worse ? Why the hell I have no right to know my own DNA ?
If you don't wear a seat belt, you're a risk to others. In the event of a collision, you can very easily become a meat missile capable of significant harm.
That’s a strange reading of that study, and at odds with the abstract.

>The lawsuit Students For Fair Admissions v. Harvard University provided an un- precedented look at how an elite school makes admissions decisions. Using publicly released reports, we examine the preferences Harvard gives for recruited athletes, lega- cies, those on the dean’s interest list, and children of faculty and staff (ALDCs). Among white admits, over 43% are ALDC. Among admits who are African American, Asian American, and Hispanic, the share is less than 16% each. Our model of admissions shows that roughly three-quarters of white ALDC admits would have been rejected if they had been treated as typical white applicants. Removing preferences for athletes and legacies would significantly alter the racial distribution of admitted students, with the share of white admits falling and all other groups rising or remaining unchanged.
It seems pretty mad. Apparently Redhat doing all of their work as GPL'ed OpenSource and upstreaming everything so that everyone benefits, and anyone can take the software and build their own, sell it, etc, isn't good enough.

Is literally the only thing that would make people happy is to give away RHEL for free for people to run their production servers on?
> - Illegally collecting personal data or using it in a illegal way

In GDPR times, nearly every website is collecting personal data illegally (no clear consent, GA, US data transfers, etc.).
Good luck to them to enforce this.
I thought it was an interesting alternative viewpoint from one of the founders of Stonewall, back when it was a charity for advancing LGB rights.

He gives some historical background, and then compares and contrasts the LGB activism towards shared societal goals, that worked very well in recent past, to modern transactivism which is having a significantly and unhelpfully divisive effect.

For anyone curious about the process and principles of effective activism, from an expert in the field, this should be an intellectually gratifying read.