skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I bought the wrong size of shower curtain from Walmart and for some odd reason I held onto it for 4 years. When moving into my new place I found the shower curtain, that still didn't have the right size... so I returned it no questions asked, I think the price had even gone up a little bit since I bought it.
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The true fairy tale is the intellectual "property" nonsense you people deluded yourself into believing. As I said, reality will continue to slap you across the face with each jump in technology. How I wish these slaps were enough to wake you up from your delusions but alas.
> Keep the rest of the HTML in place, and add JavaScript to that HTML for the interactivity you need (the web components approach)

It's not the web components approach. Almost nothing about web components is about progressive enhancement.

> Re-write the entire web page as a JavaScript “app”, including the parts that are just fine as static HTML

That is literally what web components are. They can't even participate in forms without Javascript
What I described is a bit different than a personal shopper program, which Nordstrom also has.

This experience involved basically no interaction with a store employee. The Nordstrom app would alert the store that the customer was approaching and their dressing room would be readied. After that the customer only interacted with salespeople if they wanted to.

Nordstrom also had a pretty cool personal shopping system that I'm not sure still exists. Apparently stylists and customers can have fairly close relationships and it was pretty common to exchange numbers so a stylist could alert the customer of new items they might like. You could link your Nordstrom account to your phone number and stylists could send you items and you could simply reply with a yes or no to buy them.

This was done using a custom texting app on the stylist's end. This gave Nordstrom some more visibility into their customer's shopping habits and prevented the stylist from having to give out their personal phone number.
I recently recovered data from a 2012 Macbook Air SSD that was powered off for 7 years with no data loss.
First time I've seen someone saying that Americans have better taste than Europeans (j/k)
There's lots of thornier issues that doesn't solve, like the famous Napoleon Dynamite problem from the Netflix challenge.
The sentence still does not make sense because the superconductors in the LHC (though, rereading it a couple of times it is somewhat ambiguous) are not high temperature by any definition. Also, again, ceramic high-temperature superconductors are metallic, or they would not be conductors. “Ceramic” and “metallic” are not mutually exclusive in material sciences.

There are lots of reasons to use more classical superconductors in the LHC, just as in ITER. Some are design and engineering issues, as you mention. Another one is that the tapes we use for YBCO were not a practical thing when the LHC was designed. But now they are (though they haven’t been used in such a large scale) and you can bet that they’ll jump at any opportunity to get rid of the helium loop and take advantage of the stronger magnetic fields you can get with YBCO.
Can you acquire new tech skills to get a higher paying job?
I'm a new tech immigrant worker to the US and I'm borderline tempted to qualify it as "cruel". I've lived in different countries so I'm familiar with immigration processes. The US has by far the most obtuse, difficult, involved and painful of all of them. And I say this as a Rest of World (ROW) worker, I know my Indian and Chinese colleagues have it much worse.

Yes yes I know, all of this is by design, there is plenty of demand, and they can get away with it. That doesn't detract from the fact that it is a crock of shit.

Good for Canada. There is a huge market for countries to attract talent simply by treating them humanly, specially as remote work makes people more mobile and wages more competitive.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37139610
> I don’t think you’ve ever been the level of our-of-shape that many people are.

No, I haven't. And I fail to see how being out-of-shape is a comfort and not a discomfort.

I do agree that we can't force morbidly obese people onto bikes.

But the narrative amongst healthy people has got to change that their life would be DRAMATICALLY worse if they biked instead of drove a stupid $80k SUV.

Only ~28% of urbanites are obese in the US, btw. Compare that to ~60% in most rural areas and suburbs. In most walkable urban areas - this number is ~20% or less.

It's almost as if the car and the design of our cities makes us fat, and maybe we should change that, instead of saying that the car & roads & parking makes us comfortable.
I agree. That's why I prefer bike party vs. CM. CM feels like blocking cars for the heck of it.
I would assume for dell, hp, and lenovo, corporate sales through other channels drive the majority of sales so consumer facing websites are left to rot.
I'm in NH and see many commuting to Boston in the morning. They should all take bicycles ~40 miles to work and ~40 miles home? What about winter?
Unfortunately I don't think we got "to see what peer review in science actually looks like" because this was such an unusual deal. The amount of interest and excitement gave us the ideal amount of peer review/reproduction. For the vast majority of things nobody even tries to reproduce it, and many of the publishers don't even provide the tools needed to do so.
Is that going to turn into Judge Dredd's Mega City One or Snake Plinssken's New York? It can happen as failed states happen but not premeditatedly.
One unfortunately unique thing about this is Albini listened to people. He listened to his friends/family, like his wife. He listened to the people he was insulting. Coming to an understanding, he was able to recognize what he was doing was accomplishing nothing but dehumanizing people in out groups, and this was equally dehumanizing him.

I think most people understand this instinctively, but some are just taught to behave differently and some doubting Thomases need to see to believe. They need to see that these people in the out groups are just trying to live their lives in ways that are not meaningfully different from their own. If more people would listen, we would recognize this.
For a well-traded commodity, it's a reasonable extrapolation. We even get to test it sometimes. When a company is sold, the offer price is usually about the same as the current market price. There's usually a small premium because you tip your hand that you want to buy all of it, but it's a factor of 10%, not 2x or 10x.

Shenanigans can flout that. Crypto trading is almost all shenanigans. So is most of the "pink sheets" (penny stocks). When the trading is thin, the metric is easily manipulated.
X apparently added 5-second delay for links to sites Musk doesn’t like
> a weather continuation model could take in all the available weather data up to the present moment and provide a continuation of that

And it turns out to work really well:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12794

predicts hundreds of weather variables, over 10 days at 0.25 degree resolution globally, in under one minute
i wrote something on an ibm pc back in the early 80s to replace several univac card punches, which we could not get sensible maintenance contracts for anymore. the program allowed the operator to specify tab-stops (much like a typewriter) and specify if a field was alfa or numeric. these were being used by some of the most fiendish (and in many cases the pritiest) data input ladiews i have ever come across. the input was written on to an msdos disk file, and then transferred to mainframes and minis via kermit.
> A hybrid approach is necessary. It isn’t good enough to allow compatibility. Although htmx and React can be used on the same web page, they need to be kept in isolation. But I’m not looking for isolation; I’m looking for fundamental integration.

Blazor United promises this hybrid approach. You code in C# in one way regardless of server or client. On first page load it renders everything from server-side. Then webassembly gradually takes over and it starts loading C# code on the client to speed up UI interactions that don't require server side data.

It works well but their current challenge is reducing webassembly files size which is about multiple MBs.

https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2023/04/20/blazor-...
That's because part of it is still on and has a battery/supercapacitor backing it. The above post is complaining about this.
I leads quite far away. Americans are demanding customers which makes the service and products better in a way. But people are similarly also litigious, so everything a bit higher stakes will be ridiculously expensive. If little Timmy breaks a leg while with daycare corporation, the parents are likely to sue, because Healthcare is also a business etc etc. It all has its reason, it's just a whole different system and lifestyle and concerns than elsewhere (not to mention the whole thing around tips in certain service sectors).

So while for me American students seem entitled, they'd see it as standing up for themselves.

In Europe, where education is state subsidized, students are not customers, it's their responsibility to study well, as it is they who are being paid. "I'm a paying customer so you better give me good grades" just doesn't fly in that case.
I don’t think the media caused the psychology replication crisis. The media plays a part in all this, but the scientific institutions shouldn’t crumble to media or political pressure.

See the FDA’s advice on Ivermectin: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/why-you-shoul...

“Ivermectin has not been shown to be safe or effective for these indications,” but fail to mention that there is no evidence that it is not safe for this particular indication. This implies it wasn’t banned for safety reasons. It was banned because many associated it with Trump and right wing conspiracy theories.

There was no science used to justify banning it to begin with, and we are now years later, with a potential mechanism for the benefit and it is still banned!

One more link to prove I’m not completely insane: the AMA and other mainstream medical bodies recommended not using it for Covid https://www.ama-assn.org/press-center/press-releases/ama-aph...
There is a TON of astroturfing going on. And we've got a Conservative Party leader who is happy to encourage the classic cowardice-based attitudes about how the immigrants other easy targets are to blame for it all. Basically, "this is a very complex situation but I want to be elected so I'll distill it down to something raw and emotional for votes."

But that's really just a symptom of the fact that there are very real economic problems here. Climate change is becoming a disaster. Economic ripples from COVID continue. The housing market is completely broken. Inflation up.

When times are tough, people get scared. When people get scared, they respond more to emotion and impulse than logic and reason. That creates a market for charlatans who will give them simple explanations and simple solutions.
As a canadian. I enjoy having people's gun hobbies restricted.

To each their own. Canada makes mildly different choices than the usa. If you like them great. If you don't, that is cool too, but maybe you shouldn't move here. There is nothing wrong with that, different people like different things.
Should we take them away from the cops as well, so only criminals can have them? Or should we allow law abiding citizens to defend themselves, so you have an option other than becoming a victim?
Purist libertarians believe in having enough state-enforced rules to prevent people using violence against each other. The gap here is only between deliberate acts of violence and irresponsibility large enough to yield the same effect. Like, if someone gets drunk and punches someone else in the face, libertarians say the police should step in (which requires that they know it's happening). If that person gets drunk and then mows someone down in a car, it's not inconsistent to say police should step in there too.

So I can't quite tell if you're in favor of laws against things like drunk/distracted driving but don't want them to actually be enforced, or if you're against the laws themselves. I'm not sure it can be consistent to be for such laws but against the most obvious way of enforcing them.

I don't think libertarianism as a classical philosophy has much to say on the topic of surveillance, as it would be captured in having a minimal/small state anyway. But given that it does believe in enforced laws, I can't see where the prohibition against cameras comes from.
So there are a lot of Asian countries that eat rice everyday. Including india. I can't even try to come up with anything in those countries that comes close to what's there in Thailand or Philippines.

Assuming everything you said is true your last sentence about how hormone production somehow switches. That needs to be backed up by some source. It's a big leap in conclusion if those fertilizers you talk about does not mimic estrogen
We shouldn't push other side away with statements like yours. It's vital to foster collaboration rather than dismiss their choices or views.
I’m a big fan of his music and his writing. Check out his cooking blog (inactive since 2013): https://web.archive.org/web/20190227102420/http://mariobatal...
I feel like there is a lot of steps between "so off that it looses the track of current time" and whatever exactly iphone does.
Actually it would say 2001 since that is the epoch on iOS.
That would be because there's a battery on your motherboard keeping the RTC alive.
Not even employed. Just "10K H1b workers applied for the permit in 48 hours". No guarantee that they will follow through with the application or have jobs.
> moving your entire life to a distant urban area

Who says you need to move?

~50% of the US population is urban, and that number is rising quickly.
Immich is quite good but in its infancy - I paused my containers, filed a bug report on the discord, and set a reminder for September because the iOS app kept crashing while uploading.

If they keep focused on it - should definitely be a top contender

I did not like Nextcloud but have not tried the rewrite in Go
Can’t you just use airplane mode and toggle wifi off, both in the control panel? Together with airplane mode, the wifi toggle does actually turn WiFi completely off. I believe that airplane mode even remembers that preference. Or do you have a use case for having wifi turned off but mobile services turned on?
I've used respondent.io successfully for a few years doing surveys on new developer tools and cloud provider portals.
Hi, I say this so much that it is almost a revolving PSA at this point, but here we go again:

Big reminder that the Bitter Lesson is _not_ saying "just scale your methods and they work". What the Bitter Lesson _is_, however, is "work on methods that scale". There is a _huge_ distinction between the two, in my opinion.

Effectively, if I can add my layer of (re?)interpretation on it, it's saying that specialized boutique, hand-designed solutions don't play very well in the long-term in an arena with Moore's Law and money. But, what it's not saying, is that just making an algorithm bigger is the solution. This is how I see most people missing its interpretation.

For an algorithm to be effective, it needs 3 things in my opinion:
1. It needs to scale (measurable by some factor)
2. Because we have 1, it needs to have an implementation with extraordinarily rapid iteration time
3. If we have 2, we need an implementation that is extraordinarily lightweight (enough to run on consumer machines)

These three factors together, in my personal estimation, unlock algorithmic research progress in an area.

An ancillary fourth rule that really drives progress IMO is competition, formalized or otherwise, that is 1. open, 2. well-known, 3. incentivized and 4. accessible.

This is my personal opinion of course, and bound to be flawed in some way, but -- from personal experience, at least -- when I've seen this field (or research fields in general) align with this kind of method of research is where the speed of algorithmic research has absolutely exploded. :) <3
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> S3's execrable ViRGE 3D cards

twitch

clocks so bad the screen would swim at 1024x768.
I don't see how 0.002 ohms per cm could be confused with superconductivity. Is that not orders of magnitude too high? Or there are no instruments which can directly measure resistance more precisely?
There is no such thing as ferromagnetic levitation (i.e. there is no stable position).

Nevertheless, a piece of ferromagnetic material which has a permanent remanent magnetization (which is possible only for a subset of the ferromagnetic materials) when put on a magnet may take a position close to vertical, with one edge pressed on the magnet.

It is very easy to verify if this is what you see by moving the piece of material to the other pole of the magnet, where it must take a reversed position, with the other edge pressed on the magnet.

A diamagnetic material will be equally repelled by both poles of the magnet, so moving it between the poles will not change its behavior.

A soft ferromagnetic material, like iron, will be equally attracted by both poles of the magnet.

The explanations that iron impurities could be present in quantities so great as to form some unknown iron compounds with high coercivity and some unknown experimental circumstances could magnetize permanently the samples, are not significantly more credible than the claims that room-temperature superconductors do exist.

In any case, anyone who has made some samples can verify easily whether they are ferromagnetic or diamagnetic. It would be more credible that someone has made fake claims, than that they have mistaken a ferromagnetic material for a diamagnetic material.
I had to look it up, i was indeed mistaken. It's 79 days on average. The road is called the A10, so I guess I mixed that up :)

Source, in dutch: https://www.hln.be/milieu/omwonenden-a10-snelweg-leven-79-da...
The battery will last months if it's turned off "all the way". I think needing many months, away from a charger, is a very very niche use case.
Reminder: The police have no obligation to protect you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_v._District_of_Columbia
Get a second remote job. You could effectively double your salary for a few months or as long as you can handle it. Personally, this is much better than the race of the bottom of all these piece meal contracting gig sites. Youtube is likely a major waste of time in that you'd need to compete and build a profile, etc. This takes time. If you want to spend years then you might make it work. I've done this and know from experience. It's well worth it if you have years to put into it. It'll open tons of doors too.

However, you know how to hold a job. You've had one for 11+ years. So, just get a second one. You could be making double your current salary within as little as 4-6 weeks after interviews etc. That's likely the fastest path if you need money quickly.
Putting an "AI" camera on a road in Cornwall, UK has no ability to affect how many people are killed on China's roads, and so it's deeply silly to use those numbers to try to justify doing so. There's far less invasive things that could be done to dramatically improve road safety in many of the countries you list.
Not really. It just appears to take an infinite amount of time for an outside observer.

For someone falling into a black hole, it takes a finite amount of proper time[1] to reach the event horizon.

For that infalling observer, the horizon is a boundry where, once beyond, the singularity is always in their finite future. No matter what you do inside, you will reach it at some point.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proper_time
Could HN be sued under any laws for not allowing ppl to delete their own shit?
I read "bookkeeping" instead of "beekeeping" and then thought: what, how is bookkeeping calming, relaxing activity? Well, maybe to someone...
This has been debated in the US ever since the H1B started. Does it suppress tech salaries or does it enable tech companies who are labor-limited to expand? Probably some of both. Still, many of these H1Bs in the US actually got their (higher) education here so letting them stay and apply that gained knowledge seems beneficial for the US economy. If they start moving to Canada they take that knowledge gained in the US with them and instead of building the economy here it contributes to building it there.
Indeed. The supercomputer in my pocket does high-resolution domain coloring and fractal generation in seconds or even just a fraction thereof, while the 1401 could probably have heated a house for a winter with the same compute load.
I think what they meant by end is that time appears to stop at the event horizon for outside observers. As something approaches a black hole event horizon, time appears to infinitely slow, for an outside observer, such that a frozen image of the object gets stuck on the event horizon. But this image can't be seen because it gets infinitely red shifted such that no detection device can keep up with the longer and longer wavelengths.
> Capitalism is doomed.

What's your suggestion?
I think as an isolated incident it wouldn’t be a big deal, but Jobs’ general behavior towards his employees and specifically Wozniak justifies some of the resentment people feel toward him.
The real choice however is between personal sacrifice of luxury today and sacrifice of life or livelihood for those alive tomorrow. And possibly a mention in future history books as 'the generation that was aware and could have fixed it'.
Existential dread.

Nietzsche was right to be concerned with the "death of God". People have a very hard time dealing with the inevitability of our own death and the fundamental meaninglessness of our existence. Even people who think they are comfortable with these concepts tend to still have many tactics of avoiding this reality.

For most of human history we solved this problem by pointing to the past (e.g. "when I die I become one with my ancestors") or another world (e.g. "when I die I will leave this vale of tears, and find myself in the world I belong in").

For most of modern society we have replaced this with finding salvation in the future (e.g. "My life is meaningful because my work is contributing to a better future for humanity"). I think most of us, striving to work on hard technical problems, imagine ourselves as ultimately being a small screw in the generation ship that will send humanity into the stars. Or, at the very least, most hope to live on through their children.

Catastrophic climate change challenges that fundamental system of meaning many people have established to resist this terror of existence. If society as we know it has no future, this is roughly the same as telling a devote Christian that their is no heaven. No matter how much evidence you gather for this, at a deep level they will be unable to accept this. And if they are able to accept this, it will only because there has been an alternate method of meaning proposed.

This is why Nietzsche was so sincerely concerned with the death of God. We can't simply go back to being a world that derives meaning from ancestor worship, or from religion. Sure some subset of the population might "find God", but realistically we can't trivially go back. Nietzsche saw how fragile our systems of meaning had become and worried what society will look like when they start to break down en masse.

Nietzsche was write, these climate deniers and many other similar radicals are near perfect representation of Nietzsche's "Last Man" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_man
I don't think that's the issue here. I think it's what message it sends. And also it's further confirmation of Jobs's narcissism.