skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no "regression"

Not according to your standards, and that's fine, for your standards.

> There is a reason why you're losing this battle, and it's because for many devs developing small apps, Electron is easier. That's it.

What "battle"? Decent software still is being made, I'm still using it. But if someone is presented to the world, saying why I would never dream of using it is fair, no?

Why should I care what's easier for some "rando dev"? I'm the person who would use their resources to run it, while not using things that are faster and don't introduce even half a second of "waiting" (who does that?) when starting them, doing the thing, quitting them; even when I already have dozens of similarly well made programs running. So while someone else might say "oh this is great, because I don't know about Avidemux (or would rather wait 5 seconds just staring at nothing than spend 2 seconds hunting for the menu option)", I don't. Either you accept both types of reaction, or none.

> We're not talking about civil engineering, we're talking about an ffmpeg wrapper.

Exactly. Why again is that over 100MB big? Even making it in Love2D or something would be a million times more sane. And again, I'm not talking about civil engineering either, the alternatives I presented were "an Avidemux tutorial" which would be like 5 sentences and 3 screenshots, or Avidemux minus all the other stuff.

> If your alternatives were better at what devs and users cared about

My opinion of something isn't about what other people care about, in their state of what I'd describe as ignorance. And you aren't even saying what you care about, you are talking about "the average user", which is a complete waste of time. Bring even just one actual non-technical person in and let each of us make our points, let us show them the process of installing and using each respective software, and you'd have the start of an argument.

It's also not that everybody and their dog drives a SUV because that is sane. I don't care about what leads people to doing these things. I see the outcome, so whatever the root cause is, I see it as something to be improved, not accepted. If everything that anyone did was perfect by default and shouldn't be criticized, because that'd be a "weird moral judgement", why talk about anything?

> You should be excited that frameworks like Electron allow more devs to make powerful tools accessible to the public so quickly.

Why? Why can't you be excited that I can don't find them powerful, because they do 1% and take longer to do it, then sit there constantly taking up more space? After saying I am making "weird moral judgements", now you tell me what I should be excited for?
I've got a blue light "monitor filter" in my indoor glasses and that UV-reactive shading stuff in my outdoor ones. I can definitely tell if I've forgotten to switch when coming home, screen does look harsher.

However, it's not a miracle cure. I still get eyestrain if there's too high contrast. Like if I play a dark game, turn off lights, then forget to turn lights on after playing, I'll notice my eyes straining and I'll go "oh, lights", turn them on and feel much better within a short time.
>The idea that you want to put yourself in harms way when you are no longer able to work is saddening. There are plenty of other things worth living for.

It is sad, but for countless Americans, the grim reality is that if they can't work, they become homeless very quickly. So in that case, offering themselves as guinea pigs makes perfect sense. They simply don't have the financial resources to enjoy those other things.
Oh my God, thank you! That was infuriating. This twist on Geoguessr is an awesome concept, but that UX detail really needs a re-think.
Well OK but how much progress have those mini Bitcoin payments actually made in this regard?
Unless things have changed and Ruby has stream fusion now, this is bad advice for scale. You are iterating over a fat object multiple times. Even if its uglier its much better in this case to create an empty array/hash, iterate over with #each and #<< to the hash.

I worked at the largest Rails shop in the world and this would be rejected in code review.

Edited to add more detail: the only method you need to write to implement Enumerable is #each. Every step of your pipeline here is _another_ call to #each. Just do it once.
The confederacy could easily have prevented the war by not attacking union forts. And as you say the war did not end slavery. So all we’re left with is a thirst for blood.
Mountpoint for Amazon S3
While rammed and compressed earth is great, building underground regulates temperature because the temperature a few feet underground is constant, and such a building is basically a passive geothermal heated and cooled system.
That is where the antenna is located yes, You can see it in this teardown:

https://youtu.be/6CPFYwTOatc?t=304

It's a nice 5-element (in 1 direction of course) phased array. There seems to be no room for a second one so if you use mmWave you'll have to make sure not to cover it with your hand. Non foldable ones usually have two for that reason.

Edit: oops you weren't talking about the flip but the iPhone. In that case, no I don't think the mm wave is where the sim slot was but not 100% sure.
Turing kicked us out of heaven
The number of ways to arrange things grows exponentially with the number of them. Sounds fine to me...
I think this'll basically take over all social media sites, and many others as well, sooner or later.

And I also believe that individual sites shouldn't be in the verification business and should definitely outsource this to companies that specialize, like ID.me (choose your poison.)

This is developing, not only as a means to track and monetize people, but also as a desperate defense against misinformation, bots, trolls, and AI taking over these platforms. If you require real people to put up real ID, then you reduce the feasibility quotient of running a massive bot army.
I always figured a valuable long-term asset would be to buy mining rights for landfills; in the future, why deal with international issues to get access to low-grade ores scattered within an entire mountain, when there's a vein of discarded appliances just a few metres beneath domestic dumps?
Wholeheartedly agree. Even if someone is unkind to you, you will find a bunch of experienced users coming to your defense. Long ago, I said something out of topic/speculative on a comment and got downvoted. Then someone with 5-digit karma replied "Who is downvoting these good-faith comments?" Followed by a justification why we shouldn't. It felt good.
I think you’re spot on about the clear advantage of your approach relative to the article and blood biopsies: If you’re looking for cancer in the blood, you’re probably too late as this suggests metastatic spread.

You suggest something better: look for tissue level markers.

The immunotherapy revolution (ie CTLA/PD1 molecules), you’ll recognize that leveraging the immune system is brilliantly effective.

Presumably stealth genes do not evolve first, but rather proliferative genes. And this is why any chronic damage triggers cancer because renewal is a replicative process, and replications begets copy errors. wanderers and passersby will have to recognize I’m simplifying.

I have a great lateral. Not sure if you have the funds to try two things, but TCR characterization is a wonderful idea. At least thats the best way to do it, as I see it. has many application beyond cancer

Good luck!
Android and AirTags (Part II)
You appear to assume all of china's cities are either Tier1 or Tier5. That's not how it works in any country. Obviously, the higher tier cities look nice. But that doesn't apply to the entire country. You take one step into a lower tier city and you end up in what looks very similar to Indonesia or Malaysia.

That's not necessarily all the main government's fault either. The scale of the country means control is incredibly difficult. Which also happens to be part of the motivation behind the Social Credit Score that everyone brings up.

Honestly, it's actually quite surprising how similar the city tier dynamic appears to the relationship between Singapore/Malaysia/Indonesia.
This does exist, as a combination of a spectrum analyzer and software defined radio. But For the bandwidth you're talking about, esp 6ghz wi-fi, and to get good signal fidelity and fast data decoding, they cost thousands.
Serious question, overblown or not? CEnter has passed San Diego and they got .97" of rain (SD Airport measurement). Riverside 1.4". LAX 1.27", Long Beach 1.56".

This was fear mongering: "The 19/12z NAEFS is indicating IVT values 19.1 sigmas above the mean;"
Cloudflare DNS or certain VPN providers seem to trigger this.
It's pretty close to the same for Britons (26%). So it's not just Americans' "extremist individualism."
Look what happened, a lot of rain, but not an outlier 1 in 100 year event.
Growing up in the north east, my parents had a solar pool heater (they still do), Heating a pool via thermal collectors meant that we could reasonably use the pool through the end of September / early October some years, and it wouldn't be freezing cold on hot days in June before the water had a chance to warm up naturally.

It also had the side effect of keeping the heat off our roof and would actively pull heat out of the attic. PV panels would have worked with a heat pump but probably would have cost a ton more for the required capacity needed. Not to mention the extra heat on the roof from not having it watercooled.
How does the rear end move out of the way? Wouldn't it be blocking the light? It's not like the object could move out of the way faster than the speed the light it traveling at (ftl)
My house is half dug in to a hill; west TN USA. Summer cooling is a bigger concern here than winter heating; and it wins in the summer.

In the winter, it's still a minor win, the half the house with the dug in brick wall wants to be ground temperature (say 60F), which is still higher than air temperature... but its difficult to get it heated up to temps i can live with (72F).

Much thermal mass that has inertia.

Moisture and mold etc are problems even with some extreme measure against direct water incursion. We've got river rock / french drain type gravel between the house wall and actual dirt, on the buried side. That's in addition to some heavy sealant on that side of that wall. Without that, if the dirt came up to the wall; there'd be constant water seepage on the inside of the brick wall. I know, it happened; we dug the dirt back out and refilled with the river rock. fiddly backhoe work that.

in the summer that wall will collect condensation water if we let the house humidity get too high. in the spring and fall when we open windows and don't run the air conditioner that wall can be moist to the touch.
But they are great at making you sleepy!
Sony testing real-time cameraless production for new Ghostbusters movie [video]
I like your attitude toward all this! I haven’t seen much of that kind of approach before and it’s inspiring. Thank you for sharing.!

I think the smugness is a compensatory disguise, so like a psychological defense, both in reaction to something that people are genuinely scared of being real and also in reaction to something they can’t understand.

Some people are very uncomfortable with that level of ambiguity, used as they are to being across everything in their slice of life normally (or feeling like they need to pretend that they know everything to maintain the position of authority they feel expected to by the people around them) and so they react in that kind of way.

the smugness, I suppose helps bolster the points they’re saying as if we should believe them more so because this person delivers them so confidently and treats, any other possibilities, so dismissively, we should kind of take what they’re saying on faith and trust them.

I think when you take a step back and look at it, it’s very obvious that an individual couldn’t have such omniscient knowledge as to be able to conclusively deny all the possibilities of the universe from the point of view of their own slice of experience as these SmugMug’s seem to pretend. Ha! :)

I think the curious thing is that boring dismissals like that became a kind of norm in the discourse, while people are missing out on the sheer adventurous interest of engaging with something unexplainable in a curious way. I mean what could be more fun even doing that?

Yeah, it’s funny to me that the boring view became popular like this, at least for a while.
For Russia Luna-25 mission is actually a step ahead. Both Mars-96 and Fobos-Grunt - missions launched after USSR dissolution - ended up in Pacific. Luna-25 at least successfully got itself to an orbit around the Moon.

Of course this mission took years to prepare, and it's much better to launch probes to the Moon than shells to Kharkiv. At least failure of Luna-25 gives less to brag about for propagandists.
That's a false dichotomy. JSON could have comments and not be ambiguous like YAML.

In fact: there exists a specification called JSON5 which does include comments.

But I agree that it would've been nice if it had comments before it achieved a critical mass of adoption.
DeSo Offers $1M Bounty for Decentralized Reddit Competitor
I feel the same way with DataDog. All I need is a tool to monitor logs. First I tried Signoz and the docker gave me an error on clickhouse. Then I tried Loki but the docker agent never sent the logs and I received no labels although I received a test one I sent. I tried azure log analytics and lost the plot after creating about 15 services. Paying a premium to DataDog just for log analytics seems to be an overkill
An end to the reading wars? More US schools embrace phonics
That explanation doesn’t make sense. DeSantis didn’t particularly campaign on socialism, and won Puerto Ricans, who don’t have any historical aversion to socialism: https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/politics/elections/20....

It also doesn’t make sense because the GOP has been messaging to Florida Hispanics on socialism for decades. But the group with the strongest anti-socialist beliefs, Cubans, are mostly second generation now and that messaging isn’t as powerful. Obama narrowly won Cubans in 2012, with 53%. A decade later, DeSantis won them with 68%.

The third reason your theory doesn’t make sense is that the most educated Hispanic groups most strongly favor republicans (at least in Florida, which has the most well developed GOP messaging to Hispanics). 40% of Cubans have a college degree, double the average for Hispanics. For Puerto Ricans it’s 30%.

The exact opposite is a likelier explanation. Prevailing academic theories of race—where Hispanics are lumped together with black people as oppressed “people of color”—are offensive to many Hispanics. Cubans came to America (mostly, to Reagan’s America) in poverty, and within a generation achieved parity with whites. Why would they respond positively to Democrats’ messaging on race?
in the northwest region of China, there has been a tradition of building 窑洞(yaodong) since ancient times. The 窑洞 are warm in winter and cool in summer, but this type of architecture depends on geological conditions. The area is located on the Loess Plateau, where the soil is sticky and rainfall is scarce. You can find many photos and videos of cave dwellings online.
This is probably the best positive application of LLMs I've heard. It will be like putting Jarvis inside Ultron's body and unleashing it into the world as Vision.
My voice is my passport
Heat index in Kansas today was 135F.
(2020)?

Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23988269
How does this work if the dev's want to do live debugging etc.
Pretty fun! I played a few rounds. I'd probably bust this out at a hang out if we we were looking for something to do. I got used to the UI quirks, but thanks to other commenters I had a leg up in figuring it out. I used it on desktop btw.
The quality of film and Kodachrome in particular is stunning. So much information captured that the scans look great on a modern hi-DPI display.
There used to be some restaurants using relatively large-scale (typically 45mm gauge) model railway kit to deliver food to your table. The wagons were large enough to put a basket-style meal or a couple of drinks in each one.
Well, the person you're replying to did, to be fair.
What Goes on Inside a Semiconductor Wafer Fab [video]
Posse – Pretty simple static site generation and deployment
Plugging in USB into a government device at the border isn't what I would call secure...

For either party to be clear...
I find it funny that he said he didn't know what to pick between 5 types of IDictionary in C#.

* Hashtable

* SortedList

* SortedList<TKey, TValue>

* Dictionary<TKey, TValue>

* ConcurrentDictionary<TKey, TValue>

I don't even know C# (just Java), yet I know that you'd probably want to use Dictionary<TKey, TValue> most of the time.
If anyone has issues with headaches or eye strain, try lowering the brightness of your device, like to the lowest you can bear. In conjunction with that, use flux or night shift or set your monitor to a warm white. No one needs to buy glasses for this. For TVs, HDR usually requires max brightness for the best colors.
Call center scammers looted $10B last year from U.S. (2022)
Japan’s ‘miracle town,’ with soaring birthrate amid demographic crisis
HM comments are better than no comments. it means your content is engaging enough to community
Forgive my ineloquent contributions, but Kris was amazing. This was one of the hardest and easiest hours of my life, an eternal honor.
From the MIT GenAI Summit: A Crash Course in Generative AI [video]
It's funny I get downvoted for things that'll outlast technology whims and fads.

Learning how to communicate well, will serve you well no matter what industry you're in.

Knowing how to sell will serve you well, and also solve problems for LOTS of businesses.

Being a good human involves a hell of a lot more than just technology.

We'd do ourselves well to get out of our collective tech bubble. There's a MUCH larger world out there than just we see on the screen.

It seems as if there is perhaps a narrow-minded view here that assumes technological skills are the only ones worthwhile.

Nothing could be further from the truth.

ESPECIALLY in this era where folks are so paranoid about AI replacing people/jobs.

Being more human will win. Those are skills absolutely worth investing in.
There are (or at least used to be) a number of datacenters filled with crypto mining equipment.
(I did read the article) -No the reading wars won't end. Because this was never about "settled science" it was about control of teaching and ideology behind teaching.

"both sides" is huge in this because teachers and academics got sidelined by careerists who had tied their KPI to delivery of an outcome. Didn't matter which side you were on, if you engaged in this debate, outside of a classroom, you were in a fight divorced from the realities.

What are, and were the realities? You use both phonics and whole-word. "it depends"

Oh, if you want a related fun time, get into a pub conversation about "learning styles" which is almost universally junk science. Or Myers-Briggs. And like the phonics/whole-word debate, a lot of future outcomes for kids vests with somebody deciding to formalise, pen on paper "your kid has ADHD" or "your kid does not have ADHD" or "your kid is dyslexic" or "your kid is not dyslexic" -Decisions which go to which stream you can enter, what funding you can secure, how your kid is treated in class, by teaching staff and peers.

I was incredibly lucky to co-raise a child who loves books and reads. My heart goes out to anyone who is fighting the problem when a kid doesn't like reading, or struggles with reading. It would be wrong to assume what worked for me works for anyone else here. I do believe starting reading with/to him, before he was lingual was key. By the time he could speak, books were a normal part of life.
It’s because the homeless activists intentionally mix the two populations in the conversation. When people talk about homeless in Seattle they typically are taking about the criminals that form the illegal encampments. Activists will lump all the people who are sleeping on couches and in cars and pretend those are the same group.
38% apparently in Canada. https://news.westernu.ca/2021/07/tattoo-ink-chemistry/

I think around here with my demographic, I might be in the minority with no tattoos. Makes me feel rather countercultural.
A place to start would be the 1807 Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves. Of course this didn’t prevent slaves from being born in the USA nor did it prevent internal slave trade. But there was a non violent movement to end slavery through gradual means, which had already worked in northern states. A good book on Gradualism is “The Scorpions Sting”[1]. To be clear I’m not arguing for an innocent south as that’s not supported by historical documents. I am going to maintain my position that the US population has been bloodthirsty from its founding to the modern day (albeit thankfully less so now than in the past).

[1]https://books.google.co.kr/books/about/The_Scorpion_s_Sting_...
The vicious cycle I see so many teams in is, the costs have gotten so high with SaaS tools, and the management of those costs so poor, that the solution is telling all teams "Don't for gods sake add monitoring to any more services, we can't afford to monitor anything more"

Not only is this a bad way to decide what gets monitored, it's also going to bite you during an outage.
This ignores the relative realities of then and now, and we are speaking of now. Then, medical care was not what we have now. It was true quackery. While doctors and hospitals existed, and were certainly some of the best in the world in that age, they still did very little compared to medical care now. While they were rich compared to much of the world (but not all of it, let’s not forget at this time Rome and China were ascendant as well, and likely superior in terms of health, science, and economic development - although South Asia had a focus on preventive health that is an envy today). However, none of this is even similar to the quality of economic, medical, scientific, educational, or other dimension in any society outside the most abject in todays world. They’re incomparable. Just antibiotics and pain medication existing alone and distributed globally to any nation no matter how impoverished is enough to make my point.

So, despite what should be abject misery by todays standard, how did people attain a lack of suffering in the age of the buddha? By the same routes we do today. Buddha just wrote down a reproducible route.

Buddhism doesn’t offer eternal happiness with magic beings absolving your wrongs and ensuring you live forever with your friends and loved ones. It only offers a way to use meditation to end your suffering, with it changing your reality or destiny. From that alone a major world religion took root. No bribery. No promises. Just a way to meditate and construe our reality. Maybe there’s something there?
> there is no actual fact of the matter.

This is true of all categories, so not a helpful comment. I suspect someone has a good enough definition.
> I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion

It’s really annoying to me that you cannot hide your karma on the top in the settings.

Like, I don’t need to see the number changing constantly. Worse thing about this site IMHO. Even Reddit does not display it so prominently.

Given how easily it is to nice if you’re being “steamrolled” via downvotes, I get it. The site conditions you if you’re a maximizer of the number.
This is fun.

My main complaint is the map isn't scaled correctly on mobile. I'm not sure I've ever seen that problem on any webpage since it's usually handled by the map library.