skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the seven currencies?

Also, I'm not sure the draw of a cosmetics only shop is that compelling. I haven't felt the need to buy a skin that doesn't do anything to gameplay.
iOS

Yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/jellyfin-mobile/id1480192618

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728

Android

Yes: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jellyfin.m...

Roku

Yes: https://channelstore.roku.com/en-gb/details/cc5e559d08d9ec87...

AppleTV

Yes: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/swiftfin/id1604098728

various SmartTVs

Depends. The Android ones, yes. There's one for Samsung but it isn't officially packaged yet - works quite well from what I've seen tho.
Everyone in Texas should put solar on their roof and add a small battery pack. If (when) the grid goes out again you have to be able to run your air conditioning (or your heat if it happens in the winter again)
The Texas grid is woefully unprepared for extreme temperatures.
To be even more fair, the US lost the War in Afghanistan. It's an unambiguous Taliban victory. That's how it will read in every history book that doesn't have an American flag and a bald eagle on it. 20 years there and all the US did was create a whole new generation of terrorists who will spend the rest of their lives seeking revenge.
> 30 years is too far out to make sense.

You're correct. It's very likely to be far worse than that.
I agree we should avoid appeals to authority, but Mick West's argument is essentially saying all the secondary evidence, including witness testimony corresponding to the video he is trying to disprove is false (or ignores it altogether), so he unfortunately turns it into a he-said-she-said (where his credibility becomes relevant, since he doesn't have any, and the pilots have at least a little).

Mick West always starts with a conclusion and works backwards from there. He had a satisfying explanation re: parallax on the "GoFast" video, and developed a cult following from there, but the Gimbal one is really grasping at straws.

I've read about enough anomalies and see enough statistical patterns to develop an intuition that some percentage of them represent something really interesting, even without a smoking gun. We've had a lot of time to experiment with implanting experiences and studying mass hallucinations and they are no better understood than when people first tried using them to wish away inconvenient data. It just seems like a deus ex machina to ignore something frightening observed by someone credible (where frightening == worldview-changing).

Have you ever honestly considered, if you were a casual naturalist in Galileo's time, whether you with your present personality would side with the church or with Galileo?
I've never understood that proud declaration some people make "Once I make up my mind, I never go back".

"Oh, so in the face of new information, you doggedly stick to your original conclusion? You magnificent bastard, you."
I used to know a number of NASA programmers out of Houston. They did a lot of Java programming on some pretty hyper-optimized and specified JVMs. They liked it because it would be easier for them to run simulations on and could achieve good portability on higher level things.

That was like 20 years ago though. Things could easily be different now.
> This is a push by the DoD to make American's believe in US military and intelligence superiority

Do you have any evidence of this?
> USA borrows immense amounts of money from foreign economies (China and others) with no intention whatsoever to ever pay the principal back.

That isn't true. US treasuring notes are in demand because they are incredibly reliable. The US doesn't default on them, so they are safe places to stash billions of dollars that you might not want floating around in your economy (which is why China is such an enthusiastic customer for US Treasuries).

> USA spends a huge portion of the money that it borrows on its military.

US spending on military is 3.1% of GDP, expected to go to 2.3% by 2033. The US is not borrowing from other economies to fund its military, they don't have to. If that number starts creeping up (like to say 10% of GDP), bad things will happen. But if other countries stop lending us money, we aren't really going to be in trouble at all (we just stop selling treasuries, our military is funded as a part of American production, it isn't using much production from China).

In comparison, China spends 2.7% of its GDP on its military, so not far off from the USA, although the PLA is sort of entangled in the private economy, so it isn't so clear.
I have a feeling a lot of people don’t have that kind of support network. I certainly don’t. If someone’s taking care of my kids, it’s me (or I’m paying them).

Just so happened that my family had to move for work, health, etc. I love raising my kids so it’s fine. It has been the equivalent of drop kicking my career against a brick wall occasionally, if I’m being honest.
While people in the 1850s probably would not have been able to fix or turn the iPad on they would have been able to examine it. They could have taken it apart and looked at the various materials and perform physical and chemical tests on them. They could open up some of the electronics and look at them with a microscope. The understanding of electricity, circuits, and electrical devices in the 1850s was developed enough to learn something from an iPad. Perhaps they could examine the glass face and learn about that. Perhaps they could learn about new manufacturing techniques by examining the way the device was assembled and formed. I think humans would be able to glean similar types of information from alien technology even if we weren't able to actual use it in its intended way.
SpaceX deliberately decided not to use a flame diverter for that launch site, which is a few hundred feet from an endangered bird nesting area. It's clear they could have done more to avoid damage to nearby wildlife and property and it's a travesty that they were given a permit to launch without using standard practices.
Eliminating all the policing work to prevent malicious actors exploiting the free tier must be a pretty good reason?
Tbf, it's hard to fight back when a portion of the Taliban was explicitly sheltered by a faction of a nuclear armed state's intelligence service.
It is indeed a blue ozempic cylinder. There is one with selectable dosages for ramping up and acclimitizing and a 1.0 mg only for prolonged use, but I got good results before I got to 1.0, so went back down because why not take less.

I believe the weight loss dosage of semaglutide is well over 2 mg.
I Love Stereotypes Just as I Love My Enemies
D4 barely has any, especially compared to Diablo Immortal. The game is actually pretty good at handing out resources that farming doesn’t really become an issue.
Pirates spend tons of money on legit content. Movies https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/may/06/piracy-fi... music https://torrentfreak.com/pirates-spend-much-more-money-on-mu... and books https://bookriot.com/book-pirates/
> If you need to style something when it is stuck, why not make the css class that made it stuck include that style?

Because the CSS rules that define sticky only defines when something gets stuck, not that it's stuck. Ergo, it can say "this element becomes stuck when it's containing element is 200px from the top edge of the viewport", but until the user actually scrolls the document so that's true, the CSS rules that defined that doesn't make it stuck yet.

Personally, I'd settle for a pseudo class (e.g. `:stuck`, like `:active` I suppose). Currently I use an `IntersectionObserver` to dynamically toggle a `--stuck` class on my stickies, and I can target that as you describe it.
They have a nice mobile music client
At Citadel and Citadel Securities, the median wage for interns jumped roughly 25% to $120 an hour this year. For a standard month with 40-hour weeks that’s $19,200 before taxes. Not shockingly, the bigger paychecks got the attention of job seekers: Ken Griffin’s firms received more than 69,000 applications for their 2023 internship program, a more than 65% increase year-over-year, according to a spokesperson

but do interns work full time hours though?
Electron is truly the worst of both worlds, used by those who don't care about the user.
I like to think of western music notation as not the most intuitive choice for a lot of popular styles of music. But it's kind of like when people talk about X programming language "making hard things possible".

It's like math notation. There is a canon of work over a very long period of time that can be used as a foundation for expressing many different intricate ideas in a compact way. And in the 20th century tons of non-traditional notation styles have been thrown into the western mix.
If the rest of the world is using a word a certain way, they are right and you are wrong and no amount of whinging about it is going to change that.
Will the government of Brazil like this?
Are y'all using OpenAI as a backend? Maybe a vector db system to supplement prompts?
So, a hands-off manager with feelings but no vision?
If I'd have to choose between water or microplastics to spills everywhere, well...
I am hoping these Airbnb’s come on the market as long-term rentals and help bring down rental prices.
You want to be concrete? OK, literally every real-world SQL setup I've seen, when not piggybacking off the application-level infrastructure:

- Has no way to deploy a specific historical version of the SQL (e.g. deploy this git tag)

- Has no automated checking that the SQL behaves as expected (e.g. this query with this test data should produce this output; if it doesn't, the git tag will not be created). Even checking that the SQL is syntactically valid is rare.

- Has no reuse of expressions smaller than a view/table

- Has not even basic type checking, e.g. something that alerts if you are combining an expression that might produce null with an expression that does not handle null well

- Has not even basic library/dependency management

- Has no practical structured values (since none of the infrastructure that would make using ad-hoc temporary tables safe exists). CTEs are an improvement but still thoroughly noncompositional since you can only put them in one place.

Let me guess, "these are solved problems" but no details of what you do to solve them, because none of the solutions actually work.
You think of US as a monolithic entity and that really isn't true. There are lots of agencies with lots of employees and future obligations; they all have their own budgets and "books"; congress doesn't like bailing out an agency due to them thinking they have the whole US budget to spend. Maybe if we bothered to just force all public employees into 401Ks, we could summarize it as mostly SSI and Medicare future needs (though we are increasingly hitting pay as you go).
Is this basically like Interac Email Transfers that's been in Canada forever? With more mobile-friendly UIs?
A modest proposal indeed!
I have objected in the past to the characterization that someone who changes their position on an issue is a waffler or flip-flopper or whatever.

There are times when changing your position is absolutely the right thing to do.
Laws on whether and what PTO needs to be paid out vary a lot by jurisdiction (including, in the US, different states), and in some cases are contingent on mutual agreement with a default setting in the event that there is no explicit agreement to the contrary. So, you need to check not only your contract, but also the governing law (both as to what the default is, and as to whether the contract even has the power to override it.)
Wikipedia: "After passing 9,000 metres (30,000 ft), one of the outer Plexiglas window panes cracked, shaking the entire vessel."

If anyone else is curious about why the cracked window didn't cause an implosion, I found the answer in an interview: it was a plexiglass window on the entrance tunnel, not the viewport that was part of the sphere.

"A Plexiglas window in the flooded entrance tunnel had cracked under the pressure. But Walsh and Piccard were safe inside their cabin, separated from the tunnel by a thick steel hatch."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/don-walsh-describes-the-trip-to-th...
What part of if there’s a bug in the screen reader it’s on the vendor did you fail to understand?
They talk about tax revenues as if that’s a relevant component of bond market cash flows. It’s not.

I have an easy solution for bringing it down to any number you want: more government spending, the more wasteful the better.

You see, government spending is part of that ‘economic activity’ number. In fact, certain types of especially wasteful spending require purchases that guarantee it will count for double in that number. Of course this creates more debt, so every year you have to create enough money to increase your spending by a huge factor, but it works in the formula used here.

This is not a new idea; it was most recently popularized by an Obama economic plan to introduce stimulus on the same premise. And he’s right; spending does bring down the number temporarily. Is it insanity to believe that this represents an economic benefit? Well, you may recognize this response from Rick Santelli:

“You can’t buy your way into prosperity. And if the multiplier that all of these Washington economists are selling us is over one, then we never have to worry about the economy again. The government should spend a trillion dollars an hour because we’ll get $1.5 trillion back.”

Now as a historical exercise, I would like just one example of a long-term financially-responsible central government that had full control of the issuance of their own legal tender. I’m not suggesting a different system; I’m merely pointing out the possible futility of our expectations.
I'm not buying pine or poplar for the appearance.
It was fun until I had to provide an answer to Wordle, a game I have never played, did not know about, and really could care less about. gg though.
> "It's our belief, we understand from inside the community, that they had dropped their ascent weights, and they were coming up, trying to manage an emergency," Cameron added.

How would they have known that?
KOReader is fantastic!

Technically it's not really a firmware replacement, but an application on top of it (implementing pretty much all e-book related features).

There's even an Android version, which is how I use it on my Boox tablet.
Natural resource extraction, agriculture, and conservation/forestry aside (because of course those happen outside of the big cities), you have an excellent school in Waterloo for academics at the top of their industry, Ottawa and Victoria (and I'm sure some other cities) for politics, Alberta for a decent film/acting scene, and a few other cities (Gatineau?) for misc government jobs.
Plexamp is my default music app. It's great!
How is this not good news?
Republicans haven't really cared about paying off the debts since before Regan. (Except for when they're not in power).

So it wasn't actually the norm when Clinton tried to make a dent in the foreign debts of the US.

Modern economic theory says that there's a big difference between normal household finances and national economics.

Countries don't reach retirement age, they get new taxpayers every year. (Either through births or immigration).

So there's essentially no limit to how many times they can roll the debts over via issuing new state-backed bonds, except for how the market views the country's future prospects.

That's the theory, at least.
> To achieve this feat, we engineered the largest bladder ever used
Once it was setup was it really that painful? I’ve worked with buck and for day to day usage it didn’t really affect much.
Really wish one of these interviewers, in the middle of peppering him with solicitations for opinions on Titan, would ask James Cameron the important question on everyone's mind: why hasn't he released True Lies on Blu Ray yet.
"Airbnb Revenue Collapse"

The stock is unchanged since its ipo 3 years ago, and the company is worth $80 billion. Just more alarmist language. Reminds me of similar doom and gloom with Uber stock, which has now surged after being stagnant for many years too.

"Revenues are down nearly 50% in cities like Phoenix and Austin," Gerli wrote. He added that the collapse in revenue for Airbnb might force homebuyers who had put their homes on its marketplace to sell their properties—and trigger a housing bust in some cities comparable to that of 2008.

thankfully more than 2 cities exist.
You can think of it this way, the higher the debt, the more of your tax dollars go towards paying off that debt, which means less money goes into services you think you're paying for. The earners of this are institutions and the wealthy who lend the money to the government.

A government can print more money to pay off that debt (causes inflation), it can lower interest rates on that debt (also causes inflation), cut costs (causes deflation but politically unpopular), or it can raise taxes (also causes deflation but politically unpopular). In the first two cases, the value of your savings diminishes.
Both Kobos and Kindles are very hackable. On the older Kindles (not sure about the newer ones) the included shell scripts and JavaScript files are even (pretty well) commented. It's a standard (apart from upstart) X11/Awesome WM/GTK2 stack.
You can pick up a Honda Monkey with a 5L tank and get the same efficient fuel mileage as they did, just have to fill up more often.
You can absolutely delude yourself with the wrong design and materials that have going for them that they're what you can afford and call it innovation and whatnot. It still is wrong design and materials.

I didn't pay attention to this until the day they were supposedly running out of oxygen. I searched for pictures to find a hollow long cylinder made of carbon fibre with end plates. That and reading their Wikipedia entry made me angry. It was obvious that the reason for losing contact days before was that it had imploded killing them instantly. My background is physics.
And just to add that last part. Moving fast was so damn cool. That shared understanding of responsibilities and freedom of making changes. In most cases of course they were added as reviewers to the revert diff review, and in some cases they knew it could adversely affect us and they’d tag us for our perspective before pushing, but the open-ness of it all. The freedom to bring me in at a later stage or for me to do the same to them.

These days at different companies it’s all planning and hashing out all those details before implementing, and then guess what? Surprises happen anyway. And in the end we become master planners and never actually build anything. Those blueprints sure do look great though.
Cargo-Dist
After they switched to a monthly/annual subscription fee with the release of construct 3, I pretty much threw in the towel and switched over to Gdevelop.

https://github.com/4ian/GDevelop

Open source, completely free, and I can run it as a native application on my computer versus a weird web app. The idea that my game is basically tied to a SaaS is just not OK for me.
No, unfortunately the Gawk/awk --csv option doesn't support writing back to CSV. FWIW, GoAWK supports CSV input mode with "-i csv" and CSV output mode with "-o csv" for this purpose, as well as special syntax for fetching a @"named-field" rather than a $numbered_field. Docs: https://github.com/benhoyt/goawk/blob/master/docs/csv.md
This is a very bad idea for image models. They pick up and amplify imperceptible distortions in images no human reviewer would catch... Not to speak of big ones when the output is straight up erroneous.

This may apply to text too.

Partial or fully synthetic data is OK when finetuning existing LLMs. I personally discovered its not OK for finetuning ESRGAN. Not sure about diffusion models.
While we do successfully track many asteroids (for at least part of their orbital periods), this does not mean that we track every asteroid, or even anywhere close to it. In fact, the vast majority of detected asteroid impacts were not predicted by tracking systems before they collided with our planet.

This Wikipedia article [0] presents data measuring the (in)effectiveness of the current tracking systems ("the vast majority are still missed"), and describes flaws in the current approach, such as "blind spots" that exist for various reasons depending on tracking methodology, e.g.:

> all ground-based telescopes have a large blind spot for any asteroids coming from the direction of the Sun.... [but even] space-based telescopes which can observe a much larger region of the sky around Earth.... still cannot point directly towards the Sun.

From this perspective, not only do we fail to track every asteroid, but there are specific and predictable "blind spots" where we cannot track any objects. So if the argument is that aliens could park their ship where we can't see it, then it's not a sufficient counterargument to claim that we track a lot of asteroids, because (a) we still miss the vast majority of them, and (b) many of those we miss for predictable reasons that could be exploited by an adversary who wants to hide an object from our tracking systems.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid_impact_prediction#Eff...
Precicely this.

Mutual cooperatives have all the pieces we need in my opinion for the core organization of human action. Unfortunately they are effectively impossible to start for anything with more than trivial startup costs, as capital is (somewhat understandably) allergic to promoting Democratic employee owned organizations.
I guess it makes sense. Why would you participate in a price bidding war (causing the crash) unless you really needed the cash to pay the mortgage or something?
The post describes why Amazon is bad as a small businesses selling original products, not whether it's good as a customer.
> I wonder how the working paradigms and, importantly, the tools, got defined as they are.

Answer: The profit motive.

A cheap retort would be that the profit motive has produced so many great things as well. I am comfortable holding two contradicting ideas in my mind at once, but we need to be careful. The history of computer technology development, including all of its most groundbreaking technological discoveries, is overwhelmingly built on top of publicly funded research with no foreseeable path to profit at the time.

Humans are far more driven by the quest for love, justice, dignity, and discovery than profit. Until we reorganize our society accordingly, we can only expect our greatest accomplishments to be exploited and dismembered by the pursuit of profit.
That's a bold strategy cotton, let's see how it plays out for them. ;-)

But seriously, I expect to see a lot of software lose the ability to be run on systemd because they don't ship a service file.
"stock and market investments" vs other uses of money (e.g. loans) is a difficult distinction

Presumably this would just look like deposit banks only ever... what? Buying US government debt?
It's time to mark six decades of computer networking
I don’t think you fully grasp the implications of this. It’s not only about Airbnb, it’s also about the housing market. And the housing market is probably more important than Airbnb.

And if Airbnb is that the same price as it’s IPO, I wouldn’t say that’s a good thing either.

Yes, more than two cities exist, but there is such thing as an economic contagion that can spill over into other markets.
Not made by Microsoft, but 'embrace, extend, extinguish' which is a strategy of these folks I saw coming years ago, will no doubt surprise many...
Lyfebloc Network
Lyfebloc Network is a sustainable modular blockchain network designed to make it easy for anyone to deploy their own blockchain with minimal overhead.
https://github.com/toeverything/blocksuite/blob/master/LICEN... MPL 2.0
Every time I've asked them about an app for Samsung or LG tvs - the two most popular brands they've pushed back "we're volunteers, we don't use those TVs, it's not on our to-do list but feel free to code it yourself". They aren't open to being paid to develop it either.