skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tried Google Bard. It's hilarious. You ask it a non-trivial question... and it starts to give incorrect or contradictory answers within the same conversation. And if you correct Bard, well it just apologises and says "I am still learning".
they're mostly doing nothing. they're sleeping on every emerging video category. they got a video podcasts section only this year. their gaming catalog remains barebones. it's like they just don't want to make any "controversial" content curation decisions, even if it means that the platform is stagnating.

let's not confuse creators and creator communities progressing and evolving, with state of platforms they happen to be on.
The other day, when the news about the Fukushima water was on tje HN frontpage, some folks talked about "time to buy farmed fish only". Oh boy.
That’s physically impossible. The color receptors in our eyes are unlikely to have spontaneously gained the ability to process blue wavelength light only after a word was invented for it. More likely is that people simply didn’t use a separate word to distinguish colors of wavelengths between green and violet.
Why Linux is Safer than other OSes
“this bottle of water is gluten free, vegan friendly, vegetarian, keto friendly, paleo friendly, lactose free, and has zero calories”

Yeah no shit … reminds me of ye olde xkcd about asbestos-free cereal: https://xkcd.com/641/
I haven't exhaustively checked the diff but it rather seems like the built-in report tool that used Twitter is now gone, and they just replaced some menu entries which used to point to their Twitter account to go to YouTube instead.
I don’t think the name is important for Zillow site visitors so they don’t publish it. The value and features are important.

I imagine Zillow sells marketing databases with actual names.

And of course you can just go to the county assessor to look up the name. But I don’t think Zillow even links to their source.
Yes, I am in favor of doing our best to return America's savannahs back to their previous state, though that state was not quite "wild" as you rightly point out, as Native Americans tended to the land and practiced regular burning of both the forests, savannahs, and plains. Likewise, bison did a huge part and sadly they cannot do that huge part anymore. But we can still get the land back to something healthier for everyone.

My cattle (Jerseys, I do not raise commercial beef cattle) prefer my savannah land. I have approx. 100 acres of oak savannah which I have worked hard to restore to its former glory. My savannah (I don't call it pasture, it's not) is far more productive and biodiverse. I do have to remove my herds from it because trees cannot handle the constraint weight and trampling of large animals, and so I do also have a small 20 acre pasture that I keep for the off-time. I also have a 5 acre lot I keep for the winter months (Jan-April) so my cattle don't destroy dormant plants and so the grasses have time to mature in the spring.
This is a myth generated by people with little knowledge of chemistry and mineralogy, which prevented them to understand the Greek words that they were reading.

Already in Homer, the Greek word for blue was frequently used: "cuaneos", which means "the color of cuanos". "Cuanos" is a word borrowed by the Greeks from Anatolia and which initially designated the blue pigment now named "ultramarine blue", which was imported from Afghanistan. Later, the same word was also applied to other cheaper blue pigments used as a substitute for the expensive ultramarine blue, like azurite and the Egyptian blue.

English has the word "cyan", which is derived from the Greek word for blue, but which is now erroneously used with the meaning of blue-green. The Greeks and the Romans described blue-green as the color of the beryls, or of turquoise, or of the littoral sea. They never used "cuaneos", i.e. "cyan", for blue-green.

Unfortunately there are many dictionaries with erroneous explanations for Greek words referring to chemical substances, minerals, animals or plants, because the philologists who have worked at the dictionaries have not consulted experts in the other sciences.
I had 15 people, including myself, at one point. I wasn’t terribly good at marketing, and all of our business was word of mouth in a cyclical industry. It was always stressful to not know where future business was coming from, and the overhead meant I often kept less, rarely more, than I would have by just remaining a solo entrepreneur.
I'm proud to see a study supporting the hypothesis that I have long been proposing when going out for a meal with friends! In fact I explained it not long ago on HN [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37094223
America’s surprising partisan divide on life expectancy
Huge corporation, centralized IT, sanity doesn't enter into it. There are no admins with any clout, only some with slightly elevated privileges to execute tasks approved at a much higher level. Requests like this will filter up through the ticketing system and get autorejected as not compatible with security policies.
> > No, that's not what superposition means a priori.

> The word was originally used to describe the decomposition of waveforms into sums of sinusoids, which is as canonical an example of a linear system as you can get.

You are right, I was being a bit too sloppy with my usage of the term "superposition". I guess once people realized that a QM system being in "two states at the same time" is just a linear sum like for waves, they started calling it a superposition. Anyway, my point (in my original comment) was a completely different one: You still have to assume all that linear structure to start talking about how canonical the tensor product is.

> But that's not what's going on. A system is only ever in one state at a time: the ability to treat it as a sum (modulo the norm) of other states is linearity of all operators

Again, you are right, that's why I put it in quotes. Nevertheless, if we start just from the observation that a system can occupy two states "simultaneously" (in the sense that sometimes we measure one, sometimes the other state) we might think of other ways to encode that beyond vector sums, e.g. Cartesian products without any linear structure.

Anyway, I don't think we disagree fundamentally, we're merely arguing about terminology.
The thing is, when "background actors" get replaced by AI, how will acting get new actors? Or what protects even large actors from studios using their face metrics and voice data which they have from CGI work to just use these datasets to "recreate" the actors without their consent?
I know many other people who survived cancer who decided that life was too short to take it too seriously and now they are more care free, play more video games, smoke more pot, etc.

I’m glad you had a personal revelation that works for you (maybe), but being a cancer survivor doesn’t make you a better arbiter of other people’s time and energy.
If it’s a massive burden to do something as simple as pay for goods and services then why not? There is a whole world out there that doesn’t suffer from this problem.
I myself tend to lean toward stock-heavy allocations, but this is not something I'd recommend to everyone. I don't know if you remember the 2008-2009 period, or if you even were an investor back then, but those were... interesting times, to say the least. Almost-retired and newly retired didn't sleep well back then.

Your portfolio lost 26% of its value that year, and losing 1/4 of your life's saving isn't something most people are ready to stomach, especially when they need it the most (year just before or just after retirement, typically).

At the same time, Browne's allocation lost less than 1%. Since 2007 it had just one really bad year (2022, -13%, and even then it wasn't as bad as the above allocation), other than that, it was always positive or close to zero.

A simple portfolio that almost never loses money and still has a decent, yet significantly smaller than its competitors, CAGR. That's a pretty good option for very conservative investors, IMO.
Microsoft is removing WordPad from Windows after nearly 30 years
That's not what I said, and it's also not what we're talking about. We're specifically talking about Apple, who ship to customers all across the EU.
Voting on a comment on my phone is always a gamble. "Have I upvoted or downvoted?" "Who knows!"
Related. Others?

Vale.sh: open-source linter for prose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31782688 - June 2022 (3 comments)

Vale: A syntax-aware linter for prose - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479010 - Feb 2022 (1 comment)
When burning things not 100% fully you produce carbon black, which has a greater greenhouse effect than if you would release carbon as CO2.
Further harvesting wood leads to younger forests, which store less carbon than old growth forests. A better use-case than burning is using it for durable goods like in construction, which binds the carbon for much longer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_carbon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_sink#Forests

p.s. I'm not telling anyone to stop doing bbq, just to stop lying to themselves about the negative effects it has
I agree with you, but nitpick/warning about Clover specifically: I would not say they have "lots of" vegan options; last time I went they had two vegan sandwiches, one of which is on the "secret menu" -- except for the time when they swapped out the vegan mayo on it for a dairy mayo without telling anyone because of supply issues. They've also been actively hostile toward vegans on social media and even in-store media (they briefly had a "vegan wall of shame" at their DTX location) -- their owner is petty as they come. If you are looking for vegan food in Boston there are so many better options -- I would recommend literally anywhere else.

My preferred example of non-exclusive labeling in the Boston area is Red White Boneless Ramen in Back Bay. Their store and menu are devoid of any mention of "vegan", "vegetarian", or "plant-based" (beside the recent addition of "Boneless" to their branding) but they are 100% vegan (and crazy delicious).
Microsoft removes TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 in Windows
A simple dark mode would be nice, and so would not clicking flag all the time by accident.
There are plenty of hacker news apps with different interfaces
AutoDubber: A Video Translation tool to 10x your viewers
Waited long enough to launch this in my solopreneurship journey. Please try out and let me know if you like it. We will launch new features like lipsync and multispeakers very soon, like in a week or so.
Does this graph include multiple tipping points that we might trigger along the way? I am afraid it might not, please correct me if I'm wrong. Many of them are becoming "likely" after passing 2 C [1].

[1] https://climatetippingpoints.info/2022/09/09/climate-tipping...
> Although the Amen Break is nearly omnipresent

I thought that break-beat was not present last decade as much as it was between 1990-2010.
My dad is a brilliant 73yo electrical engineer but he gets fooled by those fake ad “download now!” buttons when looking for, say, an old driver for old hardware. It makes me mad that people are making money taking advantage of people who don’t know better than to click the ad, esp when it installs adware.

(I set him up with an adblocker since)
It's already on the road driving millions of miles. Someone should just count how many accidents it has had, and compare to how many are expected given the number of miles driven under each driving condition.

If FSD has more accidents then ban it.
When using gamepad(PS3, Xbox 360)or steam deck I'm loosing feeling in my hands while playing, but mice(vertical) and keyboard (FPS and programming) doesn't cause such problems. I'm thinking if there are more ergonomic gamepads I could use instead?
> chelation therapy because her blood had so many heavy metals from eating sushi 2-3 a week for a year.

Was this because of a blood test showing levels indicating chelation therapy or was this for some other reason? What heavy metals? What is the evidence that it came from sushi? What kind of fish?

Mercury in fish is partially, but not fully, humanity’s fault, and the evidence that it’s problematic (at least if you’re not eating whales) is mixed.

For a surprising and fascinating rabbit hole, there are papers like this:

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-021-12361-7

As far as I can tell, the jury is very much out as to the significance of dietary mercury.
Ok, but why do you need to calculate longitude of the island five years later? Seems like a one-and-done thing.
The wording of that issue could come across as overly aggressive. The submitter should test it with a linter.
I'm not sure that's a fair comparison. We have plenty of energy, in the form of untapped solar and wind, for example. The challenge is storing and distributing it, for which energy dense hydrocarbons are very effective. (Even coal is more energy dense than lithium ion batteries, and that's nothing compare to oils and its distillates).

There was an interesting article discussed at length on HN recently about using electrolysis for synthesising propane, which along side the book The Material World has made me start questioning batteries as the storage solution of the future.
I got an AMD gpu recently, as I had just recently switched to Linux. Seems there is a bug in the AMDGPU driver as I will get a driver crash during roughly 1 out of 10 game starts for certain games. After trying everything I could think of I switched back to Windows and have not had any crashing for a week.

I had Nvidia card before that whilst it had other issues on linux, at least it didn't crash.
DeJoy should be in prison for subverting the election to maintain Trump in office. These are aren't technical problems and they aren't accidents. This is willful, malicious infrastructure decay.
I gotta be honest, I find it almost a little disrespectful that everyone started naming their shit „x is all you need“ even for very mundane stuff.

Attention is all you need was a breakthrough paper. It fundamentally changed the ML landscape and got us out of a huge roadblock with rnns.

If you seriously think you have something similarly impactful on your hands, then sure go ahead with that name.
But there’s been a bunch of papers where I found it distasteful. At best its just not funny. But this isn’t even really much of a paper. I’ve seen blog posts with more substance. Hell, even YouTube videos.

I don’t know, I guess I just don’t really get the joke.
It feels like almost every history-related research news item I've come across on HN lately on closer inspection appears to involve lots of guessing and wishful thinking, often in 3+ convoluted steps.

I suppose only the most sensational things make it here and they probably tend to be more bogus than the non-sensational findings.
Having used it myself, though maybe not the usual way, I have a feeling you might like it more with a bit of context. If you take a huge rule set, like Microsoft’s style for example, it can definitely have the effect you’re talking about. That’s what I love about vale though. It makes it very easy to build up rules for my own projects, import ones we care about, and not run anything else. I work on a number of API and programming language standards where specific “words of power” are used, and must be used, to have specific effects. Being able to write rules for common mistakes with these has helped me many times. Having one for weasel words I can run on my papers, or those of my graduate students, can save a good deal of time. It’s the flexibility to make it fit my needs/wants on each thing that make it so useful. To the point about poetry, I haven’t tried it, but it wouldn’t shock me if you could make some rules useful to certain styles of rhyming or verse to help catch technical mistakes.
Yeah. We pretend to do it in software. If the liability isn’t placed legally on anyone’s shoulders, then it’s not actually being done.

That’s indeed what makes it easy for management to consciously or subconsciously allow outcomes that do real harm like people not getting paid. There is no incentive not to be a %#^*up. At worst a manager looks bad. But they can always blame the engineers since there’s a system in place, so it couldn’t have possibly been the manager being a %#^*up.
Wow. Son of a gun you're right. Here's more info on why coal dust turns out to make an ideal binder for charcoal briquettes:

https://mineralmilling.com/coal-dust-a-superior-choice-as-a-...

I had no idea. Key quote:

"Research and patent literature show that when charcoal briquettes are produced using an organic binder such as anthracite, the binder is present in quantities of between approximately 2 and 8% by weight."

And "coal, anthracite" is clearly listed as the third most common ingredient in the safety sheet for Kingsford Charcoal Briquettes, after charcoal and ashes.
> you can't even seek the video back and forward.

You can copy the video ID into the URL of the normal player and play it like any other video. There's a Tampermonkey script that changes the player automatically: <https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/439993-youtube-shorts-redi...>
Data point of one, but my feeling is this worked for me. I was and still am open to feeling the wonders of nature, rolling in the rushes down by the riverside and so much else.

Reading fiction and non-fiction with themes including respect for other living beings helped, and much credit is due to my parents letting me explore and also taking me out camping, canoeing, and hiking. I spent a lot of time at an off-the-grid neighbor farm observing and tending animals, riding horses, and playing in and around stock ponds.

I'm now aware of, and wary of, shifting baselines, and am working towards and lobbying for land trusts with forests old enough to span many, many human generations.
Every generation seems to think the technical limitations of their era produced superior art; the previous generation was always too limited, and the following always have it too easy. They might be right for themselves, but it's clear the situation is much more subjective than the absolutes that get thrown around.

The 1980s gave us samplers that could only do a few seconds of audio, and entire genres were built on it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJf9Jptq7VY

People who came up then probably feel the same way you do, but about samplers with no practical limits.
Maybe a hand curated list of feeds that could be extracted would be better? :)
Email the HN mods for issues such as this at hn@ycombinator.com. They can fix URLs.

(I've done so in this case.)
In other words, Tesla may very soon become the reason we can't have nice things.
I agree about the colors but the text-centric nature of the site otherwise makes it better than most places I visit.

Resizeable text would also be good on mobile, where zoom is not always available, and is often of the wrong type to be useful¹.

Dark Reader handles the colors well enough to be usable imo, although it makes the OP on text posts kinda ugly and low-contrast by default.

> HOSTILE towards basic UX practices?

As someone who is mildly to moderately visually impaired (and whose vision continues to degrade rapidly compared to that of healthy people), I don't actually trust UX professionals with accessibility, especially on the web. This is unfortunate because that's also the only group that ever has any expertise with it. But generally speaking, extremely simple, text-centric websites are way easier to work with than professionally designed ones.

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1: Magnification is an 'intuitive' form of zooming but it's god awful if you need to be zoomed in all the time. Old school resize-and-reflow zoom is way more usable because then you still only have to scroll/pan in one direction.
Assuming it can be done by a solo dev, then pull on 10 guys out of body shops in India/Pakistan, seek the cheapest possible credentials that they can be called developers, call yourself project lead/architect.

Bill as a fixed price project with milestones — you want the work assignments to be ambiguous. Plan/budget by your own workload, consider using offshore resources as a bonus (keeping in mind you intentionally pulled them on as just bodies).
It obviously wasn’t heavily prepared as Musks Tesla tried to kill him during the livestream.
Lobbying: >In politics, lobbying or advocacy, is the act of lawfully attempting to influence the actions, policies, or decisions of government officials

Corruption: >Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with companies trying to influence government policies. It's only a problem when government officials abuse their office for personal gain (eg. taking bribes). In this case it's not really obvious that such improper behavior has occurred, other than a vague kneejerk reaction of "pesticides bad, therefore the only possible reason why the regulators approved it was that they were corrupt".
“The mistake here is not that the company poured dioxin into the waterway but that regulators didn’t stop them”

Regulation is a trailing thing, we need people not to be default evil for us to have a society.
People that want to be able to pay for things during their stay?
Literally the main reasons for the push for self-driving cars are to drive operating costs down for private taxi services by removing humans and to have a marketable feature that can be upsold on luxury vehicles. These are a net negative for society as they drive up unemployment and consumption.

It's ego because it's a gold rush revenue source if it plays off and various CEOs have been pushing because while stock price is rising for the bubble, they're earning.
1. Zoom all the way in on the buttons
2. Observe the animation while your fat finger hits the arrow
3. Weren’t sure? Unvote and revote

60% of the time, it works every time!
You're being downvoted, but another comment in this thread proves you're right:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37373903

I'm as surprised as anyone. I had no idea.
Decimate is already fixed. It means to destroy a large number. It meant killing one in ten in Latin. But there are lots of words that have different meanings in the original language and have changed over time. This meaning is centuries old and the dominate one.

I don't know why decimate gets this pedantry. Maybe because it has interesting source but why not talk about the source. It is especially weird coming from online people who use new definitions all the time. Nobody is like the real definition of computer is person who computes. Or hacker is somebody who chops.
LWN review of Mastering Emacs (by Mickey Petersen)
Shorts have just downsides in my mind:

- not enough time to provide quality content

- dilution of engagement, because the lack of meaningful content you can produce and consume in a few seconds/minutes

- further promote short span focus which is bad for long term development
Innovating your own wheels to sell carts requires capital investment, time, effort, and risk. The saying is a rehash of common advice to focus on core competencies and not overextend.

If I sold, or even manufactured carts, I would not be eager to enter the enormous, competitive, highly commoditized, and mature wheel market. It sounds like a real battle to get production costs even on par with wholesale, lacking all the economies of scale, experience, and supply chain agreements the major manufacturers have.
Software Foundations in Coq by Michael Ryan Clarkson [0] is great introduction to this topic.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLre5AT9JnKShFK9l9HYzk...
No, pitting members of the union against each other would be an absolutely stupid idea. The union is supposed to be working to benefit all of their members.
> "Have I upvoted or downvoted?" "Who knows!"

It's easy to see which way you voted. If you upvoted, an "unvote" link will appear on the line. If you downvoted, an "undown" link will appear. These allow you to change your vote (for a certain period of time).