skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate the idealism but that's an incredibly naive take. The idea of "just walk" or "just ride a bike" or "just move" or "just grow your own food" is nonsensical when talking about US infrastructure.
Humans have limits and those that are at the bottom of the economic status, the ones who would be affected the most don't need another self imposed hurdle. Their lives are already hard enough as it is.

There was a solution and it involved beating the corporations into submission before they ever amassed such a massive amount of power. This idea of endless growth needed to be stopped and society needed to transition to a more sustainable way of living. But it's honestly too late. Corporations are made up of people but those people aren't in control.

The most impactful action that a single person can take is to not have children. Let the population drop and kill all demand. Thankfully cooperations are making this choice easier than ever.
In Calibre (the ebook management software) there are two fields: "author name" and "author sort name", both free-form text. The latter serves as the sort key when the books are ordered by author. I have found this solution both elegant and practical.
Ally derives from "alliance". US is not part of any alliance with Vietnam nor Mexico.

If you want to redefine ally to mean something closer to "partner", then Vietnam is also a "China ally" because it has a good partnership with China. Mexico could also be called a China ally by this loose definition.

But if you follow Vietnamese IR, you would know they take geopolitical neutrality very seriously, due to drama of 20th century. Both US and China separately invaded Vietnam because they thought it a Soviet proxy. No chance of Vietnam becoming an actual ally of either in the short term.

Similar for Mexico. US-Mexico relationship is extremely complicated right now. Right-wing US calling for invasion of Mexico on "drug war" grounds. Mexico purchasing and nationalizing Texas oil company, etc.
Well at least the lawsuit is filed, hopefully this nonsense crashes in a ball of fire.
Of course we need to question victims, the idea that we shouldn't is completely backwards. Especially sexual assault, victims not being able to withstand questioning is an element of what allows perpetrators to not be caught. Victims need to be expecting investigation into their claims and ready to provide reasonable evidence and reporting in a timely manner.
If your web app doesn’t work in Firefox
Side comment: that’s a gracious response. I appreciate that.
'Poor' is not usually considered an expression of 'compassion' in most contexts, certainly not on HN.

Are you learning English? If so, it's best to follow the dictionary meaning and examples.

For example, when HN users write 'poor engineer', 'poor dev', 'poor software', 'poor working environment', 'poor commute', etc... they most likely don't intend to attach any connotation of compassion.

I think most readers will interpret 'poor suckers' literally as in 'suckers' who are lacking wealth/income/means/etc...
sign up for a free Usenet provider

Any suggestions?
That's true. I ran a simple model a few years back. I expected my population to last for a few centuries at reproduction rate like 1.5, but they all died super quickly after an initial bulge.

Next 30 years are going to be a huge surprise for the population of all developed countries that they has successfully shrugged off till now.
> Is democracy the only acceptable endgame?

In my opinion, yes.

Any other system of government means that you're being governed without consent and without a means to remove those in power without violence.

In short, any regime without a democratic mandate is an illegitimate dictatorship. No mater how enlightened it claims to be.
Scientologists Ask Federal Government to Restrict Right to Repair
Gift link:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/books/review/zadie-smith-...
someone needs to tell China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe

> China, India, Indonesia, Turkey and Zimbabwe were the only countries that both added new coal plants and announced new projects. China accounted for 92% of all new coal project announcements.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/coal-burning-capacity-cli...
What are the competitors and what is their market share/active user base like by comparison?
I really don’t see why you should have a moral obligation to continue the unsustainable overpopulation of the planet. Every single scrap of science tells us that we have overshot the planet’s carrying capacity along every dimension we care to measure. And yeah, one more person may contribute a tiny bit to a GDP and SP500 number, but those numbers will be irrelevant when the soil no longer yields food.
Having a good circle of friends or being part of a serious book club. You form personal connections with people of similar taste. You get goos recommendations from such people.

There are books mentioned inside books and movies that you like. Try those.

Search for a book in particular topic, append reddit. Go to reddit thread, and try books that appear in many comments are the most upvoted.

Search "books" on HN. You will get ~10 years worth of reading in about ~30 mins browsing.

You must have people that you look up to- professionally, among relatives, etc. There must be some people that are bookish? Take recommendations from them.

You must have a niche area of interest? Follow forums/groups of that group. What books come up more often? Read those.

There are a lot of such advice that I can continue with. Probably a whole blog post. But, that's for another time.

All advices above are practised by me. None are theoretical.
Emulator users are generally only pirates because they cannot just buy the software and dumping carts is costly due to proprietary formats. There is tons of evidence that most piracy is due to unavailability.

I would 100% pay $70 to buy Zelda that just runs on PC at 4K...but nope, gotta have it at 720P @ 28FPS.
children went from around an 8 year burden on resources and then immediate source of labor to approximately 18-24 year drain on resources. what you're describing is the result of getting 1 bet instead of 7. It's unsurprising many in the (downwardly mobile) middle class or upwardly mobile lower class have fewer children in those conditions.
The era you're describing is possible today if you build your own e-bike.

You can pick up a kit from ebikeling which includes standard throttles, hub motors (or mid-drive if you're into that), pedal assist sensors and displays.

You can buy one of thousands of batteries with XT60 connectors or solder one to any battery you'd like.
There are other options for this where that's their primary product, Mozilla need to decide what they want to be, or at least fix the plethora of Firefox bugs before doing anything else (current one present after years: auto fill of android still shows up after being disabled, suggested logins...)
Yes, but the NHL stuff wasn’t explained whatsoever. I had no idea what was going on there.
I don’t think they were the same difficulty at all as some of the upper divs. Classes like CS 170 (Efficient Algorithms), Cs 189 (ML) and CS 182 (Deep Neural Networks) were all significantly more difficult than any 61 series class.
As someone who did this for years, it’s like methadone or a nicotine patch. Harm reduction, but you really are better off quitting. There really is nothing of value left on r/all, and outside of some small niche or highly moderated exceptions, almost nothing of value left on the site.
What do you mean? One of my failed projects, or one that I like that failed? And another shot by the person who created it in the first place, or are you looking for ideas of something to build?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37340061
Depending, as always, on the packet size and the distance.

An interesting thing to note is that according to their graph, pigeon transit time is non-linear at large distances. Obvious possible explanations include pigeon fatigue and increased potential for navigational error, but the curve seems awfully clean, possibly quadratic - perhaps an artifact of the pigeon's routing algorithm?
I remember when I was diving deep into Docker for the first time a few years ago, I would have really appreciated seeing something like this. I wrote something kind of similar in a blog post [0], but that was only a semi-confident note to self that took quite a bit of digging through READMEs and GitHub issues. All the different container runtimes/engines/interfaces are really enough to make your head spin.

[0] https://blog.janissary.xyz/posts/docker-gripes , see `Conclusion` section
Using Photoplethysmography (PPG) for Designing Optical Heart Rate Sensors
Yes, I've found that to be the case. There are certainly people who buy Teslas and other EVs to save the planet.

But I don't think it is the majority. Most enjoy the cars for other reasons (lack of vibration, high torque, reduced gas station visits, lower operating cost and burden, cabin overheat protection, dog mode, preconditioning, etc).

Even among the environmental types, that often ends up being more of a fringe benefit.
I really don't like mac os's graphical shell. I am constantly frustrated by how terrible its window management and virtual desktop support is.

I also find developing on a mac is so frustrating. The package management experience is just such a downgrade.

And then there are the apps. All my daily apps are open source, and the apps I use just tend to work so much better on linux then on mac os (if they are even available on mac os!)
AMD Open-Source GPU Kernel Driver Above 5M Lines, Entire Linux Kernel at 34.8M
A friend of mine did woodwind instrument repairing at college, and the final project was to build a saxophone from scratch. It proved that you could work with every part of the instrument, but she said if you did it for real you'd make much better money flipping burgers.
> with a small minority of surnames being two characters

I was confused for a long time when I saw the name of Namkoong Min, I thought they wrote it reversed for some reason. Now that he's in the news again, I realized Namkoong 남궁 is the family name -- never seen one like this before.
Given the time lag - even with FTL! - it still seems much more reasonable than Star Trek's flawless, synchronous video with automatic translation that works flawlessly and is never remarked upon (Unless the plot requires it).
Less resources to be shipped from Earth for future habitats/missions that require a lunar base.
Without modern fertilizers which heavily rely on fossil fuels to produce, roughly half of the world population cannot be fed. Further, agriculture becomes much more labor intensive and we pretty much revert to the past where the majority of the population on earth were farmers. If you don't know how to farm effectively using past methods, you probably also get added to the "cannot be fed" list. That is a substantial immediate pain. I would much rather work to gradually reduce carbon emissions while mitigating the damage done.

I'm curious how you think that the damage of climate change can be worse than this.
KeyOne, not Bold, but: To this day I use (and prefer) my KeyOne to anything else - though I do occasionally try to switch to the Pinephone Pro.

It's just... better. Better battery life, better typing (including blind or without looking down), better notifications with the LED, better with hardware buttons for mute/speaker/end call, better at surviving drops, and less of a headache to repair.

Less than 12 hours ago I dropped my KeyOne with enough force to make the back cover un-snap, and the phone shut down. But parts are not serialized, the back isn't fragile glass, and repairs are easy - and in this case, I just snapped the back into place.

This isn't even the best BlackBerry. I still keep my Q10 on-hand, in a drawer, sadly wishing there was a functional Matrix client for it. If there was, I'd still carry it.
I think it is at least 50% for crude oil.
A good read, but I'm pretty sure that there was usenet spam before then.

I was looking through my archives of old text files a decade ago, and noticed that, to my horror, in 1982, I had spammed Punternet for water filters I was trying to sell as a teenager. Punternet was like Fidonet, but for C64 Punter BBS systems.

And I'm sure someone spammed before me.

Amusingly, I received a reply from someone on Texas, which blew my mind in 82, in Canada.
I doubt it. So far Denuvo's claims to prevent emulation are just that, claims. Even if they do, people have an unlimited amount of time to work on bypassing it.
I am using Portfolio Performance for a while now. Need to check how it compares.

PP is easier to set up though, it's a plain old Java desktop application.

https://www.portfolio-performance.info/en/

Edit: it works well for crypto too, you can track anything that has a count and a price.
Try Claude or Bard, I am also an AI CSV-parsing enjoyer and they both work well. Claude has size limits unlike ChatGPT’s Continue” button thiugh
No. I'm suggesting that if you won't buy dead animals from a particular store on ethical grounds, then you also shouldn't buy dead plants from that particular store on the same ethical grounds (with which I may or may not agree).

I suggest that because farming plants also involves killing animals (using poison or mechanical means) and it is unreasonable to believe that someone who fails your ethical standard when raising animals for sale will take more care about rats/birds/… when raising plants for sale.
May I ask some questions:

Your white cell counts were indicative of viral infection?

PCR was positive, indicating infection?

Do you supplement zinc, C, B6, magnesium?
I don't think people really know what "the consequences" are. There's a lot of flak in the zeitgeist about how awful, expensive, and horrific kids are - but precious little about how wonderful it is. It's false advertising! There is nothing you do with your evening that is better than mine reading bedtime stories to my kids. And your morning cannot be better than mine waking up to the smiles and laughter of my kids, ready to play.
> The US was designes as a republic specifically to prevent tyranny of the majority.

The phrase “tyranny of the majority” was rarely used by writers and thinkers in the founding period. It was alluded to in one of the 85 essays that made up the federalist papers and the coining of the phrase is generally attributed to a French writer several decades later.

Your characterization is largely historical revisionism.
Very successful at getting your Amazon account banned, I’m sure.
X is still merely acting like a BBS. It is not offering a tech-solution. Community-Notes could become that if AI moderation is trustworthy (judging for facts, and tone).

...

Forums for political discourse are chock full of opinion. Facts are under-quantified.

This article's set of rules describes a Gentlemen's Handshake, and offers nothing technologically-speaking.

"No":

> .. posting or sharing content that may suppress participation or mislead people about when, where, or how to participate in a civic process

> You may not impersonate ..

> may not deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media that are likely to ...

Nothing here is enforceable from a tech perspective. It's all requiring passive human moderation. To contrast, Reddit's Up / Down vote mechanizes moderation, making it active. And one naive evolution could be an AI judging factuality and tone-appropriateness.

Clever voting schemes (Reddit, +) don't scale. AI scales but could be "wrong". Human moderation is easily subject to astroturfing.

Q: What is the right next-step in moderating conversation to fit within the boundaries of the forum?
I think that's a vast overdramatization based upon reading the most fringe elements into everything else. The reality is the vast majority of people exist well within the edges and aren't anywhere near as fatalistic as you describe
Why young children don't understand 'pranks'
> but the bundling of Teams is among the least of my concerns.

I don't understand this point of view. We should be addressing all forms of anti-competitive behavior. This included. The fact that this is being addressed at all even though it's a "minor" (which is laughable, considering it's Microsoft, one of the biggest tech companies in the world) issue is an incredibly positive event. I look forward to further anti-competitive behavior being looked at, whether Microsoft or Google or whoever else.
more like dragster around it. You know how it goes.
It's a joke server, specifically in response to x.com.
Has Eevlog done this one yet?
If it really speaks to you, if you find it interesting in and of itself, go ahead.

I don't believe it is the next big thing that will change the world though.

I've revisited the "Web3" concept lately because I've gotten involved in the Fediverse and it seems to me that it is missing a universal system for authentication. To add new services to the Fedi it seems fundamental there should be single sign-on so I can log in and prove I am a certain person on mastodon.social.

The traditional way to do this put the server in charge and I guess I would trust mastodon.social as much as I would trust Facebook or Google but there will always be people running small servers who are dishonest who might reset my password and steal my account.

So the "Web3" concept where I have cryptographic keys and some immutable database that verifies those keys is appealing to me, but (1) it is so tied up with scams and I think the whole idea of "ownership" bothers people, it seems something like a timeshare scam or Amway or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclosure

and (2) boy people hate managing their own cryptographic keys, I mean Che Guevara was one of the most disciplined revolutionaries in the world but he reused his one time pads so they tracked him down and put a bullet in him. I look at how people have really struggled with gpg, whenever I have published some open source project to maven or something I've always made up a new set of keys because I lost the keys I made three years ago when I published another project.

Something like "Web3" that is low resource consumption, cheap to run, still secure and doesn't have all the bullshit, grifters, ugly apes, and all that might appeal to me but people will still hate managing keys
I'm not familiar with European prepaid debit cards, but they sound similar to what in the USA we call "gift cards": the latter are "preloaded" with a certain dollar amount which the holder of the card can spend in transactions using the gift card, and they are practically never "refilled".

If the above describes the prepaid debit card you are referring to, putting myself in eg Google's shoes re your (heavily paraphrased) question:

> why don't certain "global" companies like Google not accept payment for some of their services via prepaid debit?

I'm in business providing a long-term open ended service (cell, ISP, household utility). I want to ensure ongoing receipt of monthly payments for the service I am delivering with minimum hassle to myself and my customer. If I accepted autopay from a prepaid debit card (as I define it above), the card is certain to "run dry" at some point, guaranteeing a need for future intervention in the payment setup, and (unless the consumer is closely monitoring the prepaid card's balance as the months pass, which is unlikely) likely an interruption in the stream of monthly payments, with an associated likelihood of me interrupting service to the customer due to lack of payment (all costing me administrative overhead), resulting in me possibly losing the customer's business for good.

With autopay tied to a bank account, the primary payment risk is insufficient account balance; with autopay tied to a credit card, the risk of insufficient balance is nearly nonexistent; in general, the risk of interruption of payments from these two payment sources is low (vs nearly certain with a prepaid debit card).
Samsung has been, at times, almost 20% of South Korean GDP. The others are big, but Samsung is enormous. Between them they are ridiculous.
perhaps long forgotten, but PC parts sellers (ones who'd buy lots and then break bulk to consumers) used to charge 3% more than advertised price for CC transactions. iirc that was often the entirety, or more, of their margin.
How exactly does that expectation work? What happens if you only pay 30% of your income to rent? Will you get passed over for a promotion if your boss sees you live slightly below what he is paying you, or something?
Hackernews has higher standards for discussions. Attacking strawmen is not worth either of our time.
Rich countries will just keep importing labor. The large aged population will throw out any government that threatens their quality of life in retirement.

Middle income and poor countries with low birth rates may suffer greatly from having their working aged populations poached.
I could fork any MIT, BSD, or Apache-2-licensed project without a CLA and start publishing new versions under HashiCorp's BSL tomorrow.

HashiCorp's CLA doesn't assign copyright. It just licenses it. Hence CLA---contributor license agreement. Contributors keep their rights to use and license their work otherwise.

Seeing legal FUD via throwaway account here doesn't make me happy for HN.
Ok thanks for clarifying.
Does it handle stock splits, consolidations, dividends etc? Calculating returns (basically tracking growth) is a non-trivial problem.
There are also little oddities, such as the impact on gas stations along common commuter routes. There are a lot of marginal stations on those routes now. In some places, you'd only have to lose a couple of stations for commuting to be an annoyance.

And commuter traffic is an obvious easy target for EV automakers, once they move out of more premium segments.
> whether this is due to the need to radiation harden stuff?

It's been a very long time since I read about it so I cannot provide my source but yes that is likely part of it. There's also the resilience of the components to trauma to consider.
This is actually super interesting because they have. In China they allowed Nvidia to ship a Wii emulator on the Shield.

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2021/08/nvidia_shield_shut...

What is really wild to me is that they could 100% ship Zelda for iOS and make a killing. The Switch has absolutely nothing on a modern iPhone/iPad, even heatsoaked and it would immediately be the best game on iOS.
You might run out of local disk space while waiting for whatever is there to transfer. Assuming you are continuing to take more pictures/videos and want to save them until they can be transferred.
$2000 seems very expensive for an afternoon unless you’re making $1M/year. The other thing missing from your calculus to consider is that it’s a learning opportunity which offsets the actual time for creating it.

Also, plenty of people have hobbies. That’s why we have OSS.
Why would they need to lie about that? They control the entire OS and all of the applications, including the app that their users use to access Twitter.
A tutorial on fine-tuning GPT-3.5-turbo for Natural language to SQL
there used to be a $10/GB overage fee on some plans. That would occasionally bump me into "cheaper on other carriers" range.
Abso-fuggin-lutely
Nah, it’s the companies that lobby to maximize profit. Cities used to be human scale, but cars took over the streets.

Now we know thousands of people die every year in car accidents but it isn’t a priority for governments because freedom to give a shitload of money to oil and car companies matters more than human life.