skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If this is true, I find this utterly hilarious.

Other than grad school (and a few years as a toddler), I’m a life-long Texan and a former resident of Austin many, many, (urp) many years ago. Even then, Austin was becoming increasingly lame over time. It’s still a fun place to visit occasionally - better scenery than Houston! - but the fun, chill, outdoorsy, live music scene has been twisted into some sort of bizarre playground for sheikh failsons, libertarians who couldn’t hack it in California and the low-tax pilgrims who stepped on the rake of our very high property taxes (and suspiciously low services, but that’s neither here nor there). And the whole vibe of the city is strange - it’s generation after generation of adults who live like they’re still in their 20s, forever and ever - and not in the good, young-at-heart way. More like the “trivia night, then ultimate, then pub crawl” circuit every week well into their 50s. Maybe later!

The way I feel about Austin is if the smartest, most interesting girl in your high school class turned into a trophy wife soccer mom who … lives in the hills outside of Austin. It’s an appealing life in some - many - ways, but so, so vacuous and, in my mind, just not that interesting at all.
Hah! A variant of the liar's paradox!...

For those who don't know about this paradox, let me explain it. We have now the situation that GPT-4 itself states it can hallucinate. Let's say this is true. Then case closed. GPT-4 can hallucinate. But what if this is not true? Then case closed. We have proven that GPT-4 has hallucinated in at least one case.
As the other commenter said, "private company gets to deputize the state legal apparatus".
Consuming the most random novel information that exists is I think the only one for me haha
A company with revenue in billions fails to reward someone who does QA for them.

Consequence: next vulnerability is sold to malicious actors.
She got everything dropped and her record expunged and didn't pay a dime in lawyers fees... seems like she estimated her competency with the legal system pretty accurately actually.

* EDIT: fixed gender pronouns
Ask HN: One Time Pricing Option on SaaS
Is it a good or bad idea? Think of lifetime deals like the ones found in AppSumo. It could be for a limited time only (suitable for early access) or as the only pricing option for our SaaS. What are your thoughts on this?

What I like the most about SaaS is having a single codebase that works almost everywhere. You deploy your software and it is instantly available to all your users. No need to support old versions of your software; development is straightforward, syncs out-of-the-box, etc.

The problem I see is that almost everything is subscription-based nowadays. Of course, users pay for what they get; like having access to always up-to-date software and support.

But, what if we can set some limits and provide users with pay once, use forever?

For example, for a finance app, let's say that users pay for up to 1 year of transaction history for just $19. Or even up to a max of transactions, per period. If limits are reached, then the user may have the option to upgrade either by a monthly/yearly subscription or even by expanding their current one-time plan.

For me, one-time pricing option seems like a good differentiating factor, and a quick way to get funding since users may be more inclined to pay for one-time rather than recurring plans. Also, it is a good way to pass savings to your users.

What are your thoughts?
Isn't this the point of JWTs that are signed with a shared secret (or public-private) but contain the right / necessary scopes?
I got a PowerBook 5300cs as a high school graduation gift. I think it spent more time in the repair shop than I actually ever got to use it. Those were some rough years for Apple.
I can never get past the endless captchas on this site.
OK. I have never needed or used fix-qdf and forgot about it, so your typo (fix-pdf) made me think it was from a different package.
Vibration Analysis of Rotating Machines Using Bytebeam
If one group submitted 100 photos and the other group submitted only one, I’d argue that the first group was simply given 99 more chances to impress their professor.
If you are using Cloudflare for DNS you will run into that issue. It is by design.

https://community.cloudflare.com/t/archive-today-does-not-re...
Love it. My copy is next to Art of Electronics, Go4, and Knuth.

LaMothe is special because I’ve actually had it since I was 8. I still didn’t “get” matrices for years… but I implemented em!
Curve fitting. There has to be an XKCD for this!

Some economies, like New Zealand/Aeoteoroa were not populated until 1200/1300 CE which would be interesting to see in the stats. Other economies populated as translocation/transmigration of the population of other places wholesale. Indonesia had this, at scale. Millions of people moving. Hong Kong. 1949 partition in India caused massive shifts between two economies. Do we discount this happening in past times?

Estimates of population based on the number of individuals reported killed in battle would be very culturally informed. I have no idea how many camp followers a hoarde has, facing off the Roman army in Farther Gaul or Spain. How do you estimate population under migratory communities in steppes, or climate change effects in northern Europe?

It feels very guesswork-y

I liked the circularity reference. Easy to buttress yourself in a chain of references to peer review legitemacy, so economy estimates inform population and vice versa? use economic indicators when you don't have pop stats and don't ask too many questions where they came from!
I guess that seems reasonable, but now it makes me wonder about the graph - it can't be that the people who take gun ownership and security safety only know people who do likewise - how many people who take these matters seriously still have friends they hang out with who take it less seriously.

Why? Well bad apples and stuff, it's hard to believe perfect discipline is maintained when some of those around you have less than perfect discipline.

It seems like a question that one could probably get pretty close to answering (although not perfect).
A few hot summers in Austin can really highlight the value of San Francisco's milder climate and access to water. Both cities have their perks, but these factors tip the scale.
A whole section of this article is people discovering that yes, it gets hot in Texas.
Yep . . . just as I thought. Your source uses ages 0-19 as "children and adolescents." Guess what happens when you lump in those extra two years of 18-year-olds and 19-year-olds, who are legal adults?

You also lump in a disproportionate amount of street gang-related shootings, which have different causes and different solutions, and make it look like suburban teens are uniquely at risk from firearms . . . when they're not. The vast majority of firearm homicides in this country are suicides, and the next-most involve street gangs and the drug trade, and involve young men with criminal records killing other young men with criminal records using illegally-obtained pistols.
reported 8 years ago... why is this relevant today?

also, this is a bug report for imgur, not Facebook so this is super misleading title.
1. Drink a glass of water

2. Dress as if going out

3. Start grains

4. Start coffee

5. Read HN

6. Eat grains / drink coffee

7. Shit

I'd like to introduce "go for a run" in there, somewhere. Perhaps as a replacement for "read HN."
Atlas Obscura has lots of interesting oddities, and they put them on a map.[1]

[1] https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/all-places-in-the-atla...
Firefox does that for me but it opens fine in Chrome.
https://archive.is/gTQt5
But there is no bright line test for what is and isn't fair use.
Professor Samuel Moyn Finds the Roots of Liberalism’s Woes
It turns out high cost of living areas cost so much because they have lots of desirable traits and not just because everyone's out to lunch.
Each of those steps is distinct and requires it's own process.

Those in the know can switch.

Those who just have a phone are looking at a hard to judge effort that might take months of "where was that?"

Don't just discount the literal day it would take a tech person to switch their primary phone as meaningless. Nor should you discount how many people don't even know it is meaningfully possible.

I am pretty sure I knew people back in the early days who wanted to switch so they just lost everything from before.
https://archive.ph/uZise
True, I have caps lock mapped to control. Even that gets me sometimes though on a fresh raspberry pi for example, if I’m plugging in a keyboard.
I'm sure this article is a data-driven approach as full of journalistic integrity as the ones 2 years ago about everyone fleeing California, and definitely not just a cheap clickbaity attempt at schadenfreudeporn.
He wrote 17F on twitter, and said 18F in the video. Which is it? :)
I would bet money that the creator didn't make anywhere near minimum wage, if anything, from this. Add up the time of designing and getting this project done over ten years.

It's also a niche, specialist hardware project made in extremely small quantities. They probably should have charged more, not less.
The issue is that a good DSL shouldn't be a "language", it should be a tool, a textual UI that is designed by and for power users for a particular task. When you are doing something 500 times a day you want a hyper efficient tool to accomplish that. Learning curve is irrelevant, only efficiency and expressibility. A DSL is a great fit. If you are doing some task once a month you just want something simple you can wrap your head around quickly. The problem is that the former often forget that the latter exists and so recommend their workflow to everyone, forgetting they have different needs. But both sets of needs are valid.
If your really making it once a week, just get seeds for holy basil. Herbs are simple to grow.
Knowing about a phenomenon and experiencing for oneself are sometimes two different things. The article also cites record-high temperatures which presumably they didn't have foreknowledge of if they've never happened before.
The difference lies in the original intent, which is super hard to figure out even after the fact.
> but a distributed scraping program was developed (the name was something@home... not scraping@home?).

Wait I remember - it was called crawling@home.
Good question. Those are quite valuable team players and not easy to find. As a funder your expect your team to perform 100+%
Linkedin where you can see past experience. I found my best teammates using LinkedIn search and having initial chat there, less formal, more to the point. You spend time searching, but save a lot of time not having to interview the wrong candidates.
TDD Doesn't Force Good Design
Austin calls itself the musical capital of the world, but it has about as many venues as bleecker street.
I always thought it had more to do with a sense of personal agency than reasoned expectation of using a firearm to protect myself (or someone around me) from harm.

Firearms can, in many situations, allow you to enforce your will over that of other people who may be intent on harming you or others.

The thing I never quite understood is why so many of us believe they'll encounter those situations walking to train station in the urban core.

So in one sense, I think I can understand the thinking behind it but at the same time think people are mistaken for how often you'll need to shoot someone while walking home in the city or in the burbs.

That being said... I worked part time as an agent for a bail bondsman to pay for college and frequently carried large sums of cash with me through bad neighborhoods. I open carried with the approval of the sheriff's office and municipal police departments largely as a reminder that I could shoot back. But I never had to. The last person a potential criminal wants to shoot at is their bail bondsman... I never drew, aimed or fired my firearm in two years of working that job. In many ways I think it was like part of a "costume" that communicated I had the weight of social convention on my side.
Can you ELI5 please?
i'm interested in the sense imgur is terrible for not rewarding a bounty, and should be called out. 8 years may be a little too late though.
I know what you're getting at, I wondered the same thing, but my results were the opposite of what I expected for compression.

I enabled lz4 compression and set recordsize for database datasets to 16k to match innoDB... turns out even at 16k my databases are extremely compressible 3-4x AFAIR (I didn't write the DB schema for the really big DBs, they are not great, and I suspect that there is a lot of redundant data even within 16k of contiguous data)... maybe I could get even more throughput with larger record sizes, but seems unlikely.

As you say, mileage will vary, it's subjective, but then I wasn't using compression before ZFS, so I don't have a comparison. I have only done basic performance testing, overall it's an improvement over ext4, but I've not been trying to fine tune it, I'm just happy to not have made it worse so far while gaining ZFS.
1. Alarm goes at 8:00. Snooze it.
2. Alarm goes again at 8.10, snooze it.
3. Second alarm goes at 8.15, snooze it.
4. First alarm goes again at 8.20, snooze it.
5. Second alarm goes again at 8.25, turn it off and get out of bed.
6. Brush teeth, put in contact lenses, get dressed. Pack raisins/nuts snack for wife and myself.
7. 8:40, head to work.
No bounty was paid for this, and the average imgur payout is only $100.

I feel the bug bounty scene is very crowded and most companies will treat you as an imbecile.
Like they “improved” California, the very state they ran away from?
Oscilloscopes measure current too. Differential measurement across a resistor (channel b subtracted from channel a) will result in a current measurement. Also current probes do exist - I own two.
Spotify’s $1B Podcast Bet Turns into a Serial Drama
Well then maybe we should do this at night, i.e. always on the dark side of the Earth, not the one that's facing the Sun. Basically passing through the radiation that reaches us.
did they build their own litho machines ? Breaking ASML monopoly here ?
Pretty sure this is based on one of those "login with Facebook" oAuth apps where your just using Facebook as the IDP. They were probably using the token to lookup the email address (via 'profile' scope) but not validating that the token originated from their connected app. Also, this is why the "client secret" needs to be kept secret (so a hacker can't trick users to login via your connected app)
Yes, tides do naturally dissipate energy. The main source of tidal dissipation is friction between the moving seawater and the seabed. [1]

Current tidal generators work either by inserting a turbine into the moving water; or by a dam that captures the high tide, then releases it through a turbine at low tide. Depending on the exact details, it could slow down the rate at which the current later flows over the seabed, which would reduce the energy dissipated from friction with the seabed. But, there's no guarantee that this would compensate for the energy taken by the tidal power generator.

You could imagine a different type of tidal power generator: covering the seabed with a giant treadmill. As water flows past, it drags the surface of the treadmill, generating power. My guess is this would dissipate less total energy than the natural friction of the seabed does. But, it doesn't sound very practical.

(Anyway, all of this is a moot point. As other commenters have noted, if human energy consumption actually were to grow 2% annually for 1000 years, we'd have way bigger problems than the moon becoming tidally locked.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidal_acceleration#Angular_mom...
https://archive.ph/PI7fR
Even though this webpage seems like it is actually sending to GPT-4 it seems that it is not as I tried a few and get very different answers.

Many that the webpage claims are wrong GPT-4 actually gets right. Maybe it's some recent changes, but the flight time question for example, I tried many and was never able to get GPT4 to return any incorrect answer.
It looks like it is feasible to build an ultrasonic anemometer from cheap commodity ultrasonic transmitters and receivers. Here's a paper on building one from 4 common HC-SR04 ultrasonic modules [1]. The modules are around $2 each on Amazon.

One thing I haven't been able to get good information on is what animals think of those. If I were to deploy an anemometer the only good place I've got for it is near a place birds and squirrels like to hang out. I don't want to drive them away, or harm them.

I had a similar issue with lasers. I was thinking of deploying a laser distance sensor module to try to detect when something was in front of a wildlife camera. The information from the manufacturer assured me that the laser would not harm a human eye even if the human was staring right at it at close range. But it said nothing about other animals.

[1] https://www.e3s-conferences.org/articles/e3sconf/pdf/2020/62...
Evidently Paradise Lost has been in development so long, that someone scooped their game concept (metroidvania where an alien is terrorizing the humans), Carrion[0]. Although, Carrion leaned significantly harder into the horror element than what I saw from the Paradise Lost trailer.

[0] https://www.gog.com/en/game/carrion
Ranked fourth for Germany, a nationalist and likely an anti-Semite [0]. Why is it so difficult to rename stuff? Programmers managed to rename millions of branches from `master` to `main`, just for consistency with their values. I believe a nation should be able to rename a couple of thousand street names and schools as well..

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Ludwig_Jahn
Yeah, even accounting issues are unresolvable today. My cable company started charging me for an ultra HD TV supplement... While I have internet only.

I didn't notice right away so a couple months went by. I called them, they stopped charging me, and credited my cable account back. But what is utterly crazy, is that that credit is never used. The months come and go by, and balance is still -$50 (i.e. I have an over payment of 50)

I called a few times to get to money back, because, it's my money. I received 3 different explanations that were obviously made up and contradicting each other (call centers make shit up all the time). Eventually someone told me the balance will be paid off when I close my account and the only way I have to recover it is to change operators. Except they don't have competition where I am.

It's trivial, not a jail time, but this simple enough process of "take that amount and write a cheque" is already impossible because a) no-one knows b) no-one cares c) I'm not gonna sue on such a low amount d) I can't leave e) there's no incentive whatsoever for anyone to expand some effort to understand what is happening to my account f) no-one has any sort of any power, and escalations are a myth
Bunnings sell them as plants and you can cultivate from that. Holy Basil is actually native to northern Australia.

Those are my Australian Holy Basil facts.
Yes, plus we certainly have too many independent vector DB products as it is.
This already exists.

It's called taxes, death, and children. Billionaires only have a single lifetime to spend their wealth, taxed at pretty high rates when they actually liquidate their assets, and it eventually evaporates over a few generations.

There's ~3k billionaires and they're powerful enough that they'll be able to avoid those caps through loopholes, like through shell companies. There's no real practical way to prevent someone from accumulating wealth if they wanted to continue to do so.

That quote about no more billionaires is from someone that cares more about making a point than actual policy.
You are entering a legally binding contract with the seller. They must oblige or else refund you.

Now of course anyone with any smarts runs a Kickstarter through an LLC to avoid being liable but it isn't a completely free space.

Think of it like preordering from a local store. If they go bankrupt you are SOL.

Kickstarter just isn't the one taking on the risk in contrast to, say, buying from a random merchant on Amazon works. Where Amazon guarantees completion (as well as it is willing to).

Now if a nationwide Kickstarter runs and fails is the original developer's LLC impossible to sue if they don't deliver as long as they take reasonable steps towards delivery? 100%.

But again there is a difference between a contract with a random and a playground.
It's not clear she's not just trolling against abortion. Is that what the article is? Because I looked up the author and she was disabled her entire life to to a genetic disease. It seems pretty reasonable to allow abortion for cases like this. Which is why it IS legal and even recommended in most of the western world.
A hypothesis? That's just a fancy name for "model".
The small glass bottles still have the best taste imho.
it's not just exposure but writing PLC is like going back to 1991, no source control, no tests, no deployment because you're writing in production. it's easier to bring cheap hardware up to par than it is to replace a vendor software.
The license issue in the very worst case (but even that is quite questionable and I would say that Linus is a bit paranoid here) could only be a problem for a distro that ships it by default, you as the end user can freely use both linux and ZFS, as well as their combination.
the jwt isnt tampered with. imgur servers did not validate the decoded payload matched their fb app id. it says in the docs be sure too match on the app id because fb isn't going through the ceremony of checking that your oAuth key is registered to a specific app id and therefore only valid together. app id is considered arbitrary payload metadata in this sense.
You know I really don’t care if you believe me or not. I’ll sleep just fine. But since you asked oh so nicely… I had a Corolla and it cost me just under $800, and I’m just over $200/mo in electric