skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but after more than a decade using it, I feel like changing it now is just an appeal to futility

And that's why your learning to use these tools a decade ago was as painful as it was for me 20+ years ago, and so on. Nobody improves it because the only people with the clout to make the changes is too set in their ways to change it, and have come to believe the ridiculous notion that it's beneficial for people to learn it, despite not being related to the actual problem.

I worked in technical roles for the better part of 25 years, including 10 as a back end developer. One of the reasons I got into design was to try and break chains like this, but talking to the FOSS community about design gets nearly zero traction and a whole lot of pushback from folks who think they know a lot more about design than they do. Nothing you do matches the information density of a train schedule in a large city, and those designs are so ubiquitous and intuitive that we take them for granted. That was not always the case— someone decided to lay things out like that at some point because they knew it works be easier and more intuitive for the majority even if it might take some adjustment for existing everyday users. And designers still work to make them better, to this day.

I wrote a tutorial teaching non-technical folks to use a rest API. It required no knowledge beyond familiarity with using web browsers, and ended with people making useful queries with curl. It was short, visual, and effective- I learned that multiple non-profits at the time used it in their materials to teach folks technical literacy. Just because using a bunch of terse jargon is easier for developers to write and acceptable for other developers to read doesn't mean it's optimal... Or even good. Especially when the realm world be much more accessible to non-technical people if it was designed better.
How exactly would you prevent the need to travel between cities? Vancouver-Seattle or Seattle-Portland isn't exactly a "commute".
While I am very skeptical, when working with what seems to be a fluke, it is more important to test the claim then to test a reproduction.

Figure out how to send an independent lab's equipment and personal there or a sample of the substance to an independent lab that verify and if true. Also ensure that they can also do material analysis such as X-Ray spectroscopy & diffraction , and a battery of other stuff if a miracle did occur.

For all we know, this could be one of those accidents of sloppiness that introduces a particular containment that makes everything line up as a super conductor that nobody else will easily reproduce.
Can you elaborate on what’s problematic with this test? Testing that the component does what expected based on input is telling me the component is working as expected.
Marketplace? I miss when Craigslist used to be popular :(
1) Words of My Perfect Teacher: A Complete Translation of a Classic Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by Patrul Rinpoche translated by Padmakara Translation Group.

2) Essential Mind Training: Tibetan Wisdom for Daily Life translated by Thupten Jinpa.
I highly recommend ExpTV for this:

https://exptv.org

It spans the vhs era, curated by hand to flip through different oddities and ephemera.

No tracking, no algorithms, just a stream of fun wierdness. It even has a TV guide type thing so you can pick when to tune in.
I wish we had trains just like Japan and Europe have, but we don't have geography or population density like Japan or Europe has.

We have surmountable problems in regulation that drive up our costs to 6x per mile what it costs other countries but the problem is the revenue per ticket mile. Hard to match the city and population density.
A co-worker who once worked sales for a food distributor explained this to me. A term of art if one is interested: “private label”.
> If I and other chromium leads didn't actually care about openness then you'd be able to tell pretty clearly because Chromium would be closed source, we wouldn't have big programs like wpt.fyi, and we wouldn't bother even trying to talk about this stuff on open mailing lists.

That only helps if anyone believes you'll listen to anything on the mailing lists. Right now it looks like you publish things there so you can claim community input, and then go ahead with whatever you wanted to do in the first place.
In the 2020 election in Georgia, 49.24% voted for one party and 49.49% voted for the other. The "blue droplets in a red ocean" is very obvious: the ocean has very few people.
There should be a voluntary code of pop Sci white out until reproduced, or claims qualified.
Speaking from a Canadian perspective, US flights from Canadian airports (and a select few others) almost exclusively go through pre-clearance. This means you do US customs and immigration on Canadian soil before boarding your flight into the US, and the plane lands in the US as a domestic flight. It's not much different than a land border.

> If you flew in on a plane, they have to get you deported which costs money and energy.

Being denied entry can be quite summary, no proceedings, for most people. Admission is broadly at the discretion of the border officer and recourse for most people is either heavily limited or just straight up zero.

Note that for flights from non-preclearance countries, the airlines are fined if you're not admitted (averaging $3500 at the time of writing but I think closer to $10000 now). I believe they're responsible for paying your way back too. [1] In fact I think USCIS even tried to fine United after paroling a traveler during a transit that wouldn't have otherwise been permitted.

[1] https://airlines.iata.org/2016/10/13/document-verification-t...
Do you have evidence of that or is it just based on anecdotes? Studies have been done that show the opposite of what you are claiming; eg https://www.deseret.com/2018/7/11/20648686/do-you-own-an-iph..., https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5933261/iPho..., etc…
As a nslookup user since before dig, i find the default dig output to be less than ideal. The top->bottom flow, the "important" information is always the third option on a line, etc.

Basically how do I put this, uh, its obviously written by someone for themselves and people who use it everyday.

So, for most things I continue to use nslookup, it gives me what I want 99% of the time, and for me its easier to parse.

So, various other people have said something similar but it reminds me of a couple utilities in AIX that an office mate of mine wrote. The thing was a very sharp tool but the 3 cases that comprise pretty much 100% of its usage required three+ mode selection parameters, etc just to print the equivilant of "its working" or "its not working". The result was 50 characters of typing that quickly turned into a shell script with two parameters. I sorta have the same thing to say about the "ip" command which showed up at the same approx time as dig. Yup it can do everything, but its a terrible UI too for all the same reasons. The defaults are ugly/hard and the hard stuff still takes 10 mins reading the man page for the once every two years you need to do it.

So worst of both worlds.

PS: I sorta feel the same way about bind, its written for people who run big public DNS servers, the rest of us are better served with "unbound" or the half dozen other utilities that are more oriented towards users looking to run an in-house split dns/caching resolver setup.
> So what they did was they had these listeners, while they were listening to songs were a wearable device, sort of like an Apple Watch, or a Fitbit, something that can track your cardiac activity. So your your heart rate, for instance. And they collected this cardiac data, and use it as a proxy for brain activity by putting it through this commercial platform immersion neuroscience, which claims to be able to measure emotional resonance and attention by using cardiac data.
This article is weak for so many reasons (mentioned my others), but I'll just point out this nonsense:

> Netflix could buy 10 top quality screenplays per year with the cash they’ll spend on that one job [$900k]. They must have big plans for AI.

Most films Netflix makes have a budget of over $5M. According to the WGA agreement with the studios writers get paid a MINIMUM of $175k for those films. Which means you could buy 5 of the cheapest screenplays on the market for $900k. But if you think paying WGA minimums will get you top quality scripts you're in for a surprise.

[ref]: https://www.wga.org/uploadedFiles/contracts/min20.pdf
I didn't find that to be the case when I was in school. Handwriting in cursive with a fountain pen was miserable, an utterly pointless waste of valuable class time.
ANYTHING that has the word "blockchain" is automatically disqualified from pretty much any real use.

In particular, pretty much nobody wants to trust DNS names that can cost hundreds of millions to blockchain. Because if you lose (or compromise) your private key, then that's it. The domain is gone.

With regular DNS this would be solved by a couple of irate phone calls to registrars. At worst, via a court case.
would be cool if there was a plugin for petals (https://petals.dev/)
> […] the status they feel an iPhone brings […]

I am baffled why people keep making this asinine remark.

Stock iPhone is not status. Vertu is status (and is an Android platform), moreso the Vertu Signature line. Aftermarket modded iPhones that are encrusted with gold and diamonds are status. The former is the Jane Birkin bag of the smartphones, the latter is pure bling. Both send the same message: I have done financially exceptionally well (or my daddy has paid for it).

iPhone is equally unobtanium to anyone pre-launch nor does Apple make bespoke or customised editions for anyone, both of which also obliterate its purported status symbol. Ironically, it actually makes iPhone more equal and less status compared the status smartphones.

iPhone might be a status symbol in low income countries, and so are Samsung Galaxy's, the top of the range Huawei's, Xiaomi's and whatever else expensive there is out there.
I have a couple extra. Will relatively recent mini-desktop with a consumer Intel chip, 4GB of ram, wifi, and a 128GB ssd do the job?
Open Ownership – an equitable alternative to Open Source?
Hi, I'm trying to bootstrap a startup, and I'm interested in mixing some elements of open source with for-profit companies.

I'm looking for feedback on this agreement I'm working on.

Take a look at the link for a more detailed overview, but the TLDR is that both open source projects and top down companies take advantage of their contributors in some way. I think a better model would be a for-profit company that is owned by all contributors proportionally to their contributions. How to achieve that is open to debate.
There are at least 3 costcos that I know of in NYC and they are always packed. Even those living in hyperbolic zoning love costco.
Hasn't python been getting much faster since 3.x? Where is your evidence that new py3 features is making python slower?
I'm... actually impressed by the comments in this thread. Normally when I look at the comments on a thread with a human aspect, HN can be relied upon to provide a truly horrific pro-corporate, anti-human comment upvoted to the top. But I'm genuinely and pleasantly surprised this time. Good job guys, maybe there's hope for y'all.
>We assign "race" based on physical and cultural traits, not genetic.

Not really, everyone knows that an albino African is still an African. Physical traits are just the most visible aspect of genetics. And your second point is just explaining outliers, it doesn't say anything.
It is call Time4CM4 and it comes from the OCP-TAP GitHub. Not sure how it ended up being called Time Card mini. Here is the full source code for it anyways.
https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Time-Appliance-Project...
They probably don't suffer from as much graft as we here in the U.S.
I use iPhones because I can get 5-7 years of use out of each one. Can you recommend an Android phone that has the same level of software support? Preferably something that also works properly with my MacBook, because that is what I use for work.
> No, you're not. A captcha already knows the correct answers. Otherwise, it wouldn't know if your selections are correct.

It doesn't need to know that your selections are "correct", only that they match responses given by most other users.
Unless in the meantime the authors realize they made some mistake in their analysis & retract their claims.
I don't know how funny a social network is that to be part of it you have to have an instagram account. I didn't find anything misleading on this social network I signed up to take a look as a programmer and I already regretted it
I wish there were comparisons with Cython 3.0, which seems like it would be a competitor with the AOT part of what they are doing. For some reason they don’t mention Cython at all.
My friend decided to buy zenfone 10 rather than pixel6. pixel is more expensive than iPhone, why people even try it?
There's nothing bang for your buck about apple laptops. I can get a pc laptop for half the price and arguably better quality.

It is true about phones though, especially when you consider how badly all the big brands except apple and Google add unremovable money making spam apps to their phones.
That isn't 'social media', that is a friend network utilizing a social media network already in place as a communications device.
I like their curated inventory model, and focus on quality, value, bulk sizes, etc.

It's almost a stake in the heart of consumer marketing and retail, which seems to be all about bamboozling customers with endless new products or packaging, and dressing up staples with new marketing angles or features, eg 'marine hydrocolloids' or whatever the latest BS in cosmetics is, before that 'microbeads' (aka glitter), etc.
Excellent primer on 702 from the EFF https://www.eff.org/702-spying
> They come up as part of a challenge-response when the server thinks your traffic is sus. I generally avoid them by staying logged in, not blocking cookies, and not using Tor or another route obfuscator.

Which sounds great until you leave your cozy little corner of the first world and discover that millions of people are behind CGNAT.
Wouldn't the wiretap charges have to be filed against the tax filing companies rather than Google? It's they who caused the data to be transmitted in the first place.
I full-heartedly agree.

People like to pretend that prolonged back-and-forth discussions are valuable. But at least in my experience most people, especially me, only have one or two points to bring to the table. After that the discussion quickly devolves into nitpicking or bickering.
Check out auctions.ipv4.global website you can sell your /24's or buy others. I have used them before successfully.
> So I don't believe remote attestation in itself favors corporation, it really depends on how and where you make use of it.

This is true but also ultimately irrelevant. The truth is these corporations have all the leverage and they use it to force us to accept those terms. If you can get a business to give up its limitless power over their servers via remote attestation, you're probably a business with leverage yourself. We mere mortals don't enjoy such privileges. To them, we're cattle to be herded and monetized.

These days apps will not even start up if they detect anything out of the ordinary. I can't exactly choose not to use my bank's app and it refuses to run even if I so much as enable developer mode on my phone. I used to be able to hack these things and use them on my own terms if I cared enough. Now the remote service will refuse to interoperate unless they get cryptographic proof their hostile software is running unmodified.

It's all about who owns the keys to the system. If we do, it's good. If they do, it's bad. The paper explains it really well: "Cryptography rearranges power: it configures who can do what, from what." These corporations are using it to systematically reduce our power and increase their own. The reverse should happen: they should be completely powerless and we should be omnipotent.
I would argue Reality Shows are indeed a new form of low budget Game Show (someone is always trying to "win" something).
Yeah I think it's a great idea! Right now because the models are so finnicky changing the seed often does lead to an image with desirable qualities(ie: good hands) so this makes sense.

I do think over time the feedback loops will look much different, as the models get more solid.
A significant number of Republican politicians in fact do want to ban condoms and other forms of contraception. Clarence Thomas in his concurrence on overturning Roe v. Wade indicated he wanted to also reconsider Griswold v. Connecticut, which was the case the overturned state bans on contraceptives.

After that there was a bill introduced in the House of Representatives that would have codified Griswold. All 220 Democrats in the House voted for it. Only 8 Republicans did so, 2 voted "present", and 6 did not vote. The remaining 195 Republicans voted "no".
> Our profits and the industry's profits are more important than your freedom, so shut up and take it, since you can do nothing about it.

I honestly think they are saying it, just in their weasel speak gaslighting way.
1 hr Seattle to Portland probably doesn’t even really make it commuting distance because very few people are going to live and work close enough to the endpoints to keep things to 90 minutes total. Boston to NYC is 4 hours or so and that’s useful for a lot of purposes although that’s admittedly in part because driving and parking in Manhattan is so awful. (I could drive from my house to Manhattan faster but I hardly ever do.)
Biden- Harris Announce Actions to Lower Housing Costs and Boost Supply
An advantage of building on farms or other greenfield land is that you can start off with dense, walkable planning rather than car-oriented suburban expanse.
Residential toilets only use gravity to flush. Water flows down from the tank into the bowl.

Commercial toilets use water pressure which helps clean the bowl with a jet of water but will also create much more of a spray outside the bowl.
A) dumbed-down interfaces are bad design; Most you see were made by developees trying to be designy. No shade— it's a different profession with relevant degrees and career paths, and most designers would make terrible code if they tried. B) Good interface design absolutely does not require a gui. I've been professionally using (and loving) these tips for decades, but many cross the border from negligent to user hostile. C) Download SideFX HOUDINI, which has a nice pretty interface and is fully scriptable with python and it's own language, vex, and tell me that's "dumbed down."
If Wikipedia can be believed, this archive (or well, at least some of it) is CC0 licensed.

In 2023, Craig Smith released a copy of the complete recording from the original session on Freesound on behalf of the USC under the CC0 license, along with the rest of Sunset Editorial sound effects.[12] On May 20, 2023, the entire collection of Sunset Editorial SFX was mirrored in the Internet Archive (also under the CC0 license) for the purpose of enabling a wider distribution, especially thanks to its BitTorrent support.
I have a relative who was an FDIC auditor and spent the last 10 years assessing commercial loan portfolios as a consultant for hundreds of small banks across the south and Midwest. Most banks had at least a few loans that were poorly underwritten (insufficient income verification, collateral declaration, improper property comps, etc.) She had some crazy stories though.

A rural bank gave out one of its largest loans, a few million, to a guy to build a crypto farm 3-4 years ago. She called me up during the crypto crash asking for advice on how to price all of these GPUs he bought at the top of the market since he was facing liquidation. The bank took a bath on it. And that was just one of many. Tons of PPP fraud, small Town corruption, etc.
The live news is unreal. It's not unique to Twitter but seeing multiple accounts of any event anywhere in the world within seconds is kind of insane.

I remember when the Beirut explosion happened so quickly you had footage of what had happened.

This kind of latency is unachievable by traditional news
> This suggests standard lid usage reduces but does not eliminate flush-related bioaerosols. Lid-use changes their characteristics and apparently prolongs their residence time in room air.

There is another problem with lid: the success rate of toilet flushing is not 100%. If you close the lid, you cannot verify if your flush was unsuccessful and then retry. If you close the lid, flushed and then immediately verify the result opening the lid up again, some amount of aerosol will still escape.

All and all, I'm pretty sure you don't want to see a surprise when you open the lid especially when the toilet is shared.
> we all know Asian kids are better at math than other kids on average.

Mostly because of who immigrates to the US. Those Asian and Russian kids you mention probably have software engineers as parents. The Hispanic kids probably do not.

If we got the poorest and least educated immigrants from the same places, we'd be seeing rather different results.
Germany: population: 84,270,625 area: 357,592 km^2 density: 232/km^2

WA: population: 7,785,786 area: 184,827 km^2 density: 39.6/km^2

In almost no way are they comparable. 1/10th the population, 1/2 the area, 1/8th the density.
Thunderbird Is Resurrecting Firefox Send [video]
Front end and Back end devs collaborating [video]
Has there been any serious discussion about using GitHub for peer reviews? Specifically the pull request functionality?
Twitter abruptly took the x username from the guy who originally had it
I'm not going to comment on Rust, since I haven't written a single line of it. That abstract is an abomination, it transcends the boundaries of English grammar.

The abstract does talk about cyclomatic complexity and Halstead metrics. My understanding is that all of those are little more than a proxy for lines of code.

Color me highly sceptical that this paper has merit.
Well, we’re talking about the US…
It doesn't. If you are using GPT instead of MBR partitioning, AND you use particular partition type UUIDs that SystemD has reserved, THEN you can skip creating an /etc/fstab, and systemd will be able to mount the partitions where their type IDs indicate. If you do choose to create an /etc/fstab that will override the partition type IDs.
You have a month left to get your share of Facebook’s $725M settlement
Maybe the dude they responded to should avoid aggressive, sweeping generalizations about people who like a different phone than them?

I buy iPhone for a lot of reasons, 0 of which are “status”. I had no idea there was even any status. The flagship devices are all within a couple hundred bucks of each other.
Okay, then we should be able to answer: Does having standard help prevent lock-in? AFAIK, the answer is a resounding "no"; only the big browsers can use EME and everyone else is locked out.
ugh came to say the same thing, no thanks.
Attestation can be considered a good security feature if we own the keys to the machine. Some PCs let us use our own keys in secure boot. For the people who use it, this absolutely enhances security without sacrificing any freedom. What's unacceptable is corporations using the same technology to protect themselves from the users of the computers.
You'll see a bunch of old scientists saying a legitimate revolutionary breakthrough is bullshit, but you didn't see the other 99 times they called bullshit correctly.
And I wonder how many times over Tesla makes up for it.
> There is something extremely addictive about flipping channels on TV.

The worst is when the remote dies on you because somebody keeps forgetting to replace the batteries. So you have to sit a foot from the tv screen to manually flip the channels. Then you get yelled at by your parents because it's bad for your eyes. And now everybody, including your parents, is frying their eyes looking at a monitor or smartphone screen up close.