skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is like a highschooler tried to makeup a convincing story. If they had DNA it would have been sequenced and the code shared the next couple days. It would have been THE BIGGEST find in molecular biology, ever.

All that happened is some idiot Senator invited some idiot scammer to give a talk about his scam. I don't think they really had to "entertain" it and it has no legitimacy.
It’s so severe that even if they improved the terms, nobody would use them because US debit cards' reputation is tainted.

Say what now?

“According to the 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study1, “Debit cards, including both prepaid and non-prepaid, were used almost twice as often as credit cards in 2018, but the value of credit card payments exceeded the value of debit card payments by almost 30%.”

And

In Visa’s Operational Performance Data4 report for the three months ending on Dec. 31, 2020, it reports $741 billion in U.S. debit transaction volume, a 17.4% increase over the previous year. It compares to $542 billion in credit card volume.

(Source: https://www.creditcards.com/statistics/debit-card-statistics...)

Debit cards in the US are widely used.
They force the "associates" to unpack them and file lots of paper work. 30% suffer paper cuts. 20% are reported to CCP for complaining about "cheap Chinese crap" and of these many end up in Chinese gulags making the amazon Dick sign stickers against their will. And 5% must attend "Jeff and Andy"'s seminar on Capitalism with Amazonian Characteristics sessions. 5 individuals last year were hospitalized with PTSD after these sessions which included self-criticism of the workers and enumerating the exceptional leadership characteristics of Amazon's central committee.
"PayPal USD" sounds like it would be misleading to many users in UIs.
The knockdown argument against consequentialism in the article is the effectiveness of familial punishment. Even granting that, it only seems to apply to some sort of collectivist consequentialism focused on minimizing crime.

Looking at it as an individual consequentialist, the individual would be worse off being punished for the actions of their family. An individual criminal, who care for their family, would also be worse off. So there are significant costs against the (presupposed) benefit of being more effective at deterring crime.

Every individual does this moral calculus for themselves, and the result in the aggregate is very little political support for familial punishment. How often is someone victimized by crime vs. do they have a family member on the wrong side of the law?
The popup I got was different from the one mentioned here (I supposed they're A/B testing). It had something other than "Got it", it was more clear that something was going to be activated when I pressed the button.

However the text used was quite short, and in my opinion, extremely misleading. It implied that I was going to have extra privacy with regards to ads, while in reality this was adding yet another way for my browsing information to be shared, which is the opposite of what I wanted. Compared to the general web user, I am a "power user", I knew about Google's incoming changes, and still the language used in the popup made me enable everything by default (which I promptly disabled once I realized what had happened).

Regular users have no chance against this. But as for me, Google has earned my distrust completely.
I think it is some of both. Doing without or compromising for your own financial well being is well established pattern. For example, don’t buy or lease a car beyond your means is a perfect example of a poor decision that holds one back. Our society doesn’t help with offering 8-year car loans and sales people convincing a young adult how affordable the vehicle is.

So in some ways younger generations are not setup for success. Their own fault. In some ways they create their own self-demise. Eating out constantly when making your own food or coffee is a perfectly viable option.

In total, society owes it to itself to ensure future generations are successful. I don’t think we’re doing that well enough.
I did rush and buy a new iPhone for a feature i had to have once. Unfortunately it was the iPhone 4S.

Havent seen anything really enticing lately.

Do you remember the time when a new phone model was noticeably faster than last year’s? I do. Vaguely. Barely. Those times are gone.
It's almost as if respecting people's agency and trusting them proves to be the best cause of action. There's always going to be a minority who won't help themselves but the vast majority of people want help and are trying to help themselves.
> Also, you are becoming dependent on countries like China for solar panels and other non-free or semi-free countries for rare earths, lithium etc.

Bought a 115Wp rated solar panel earlier this year, made in China.

For the foreseeable future (years, or 20y+ rated lifespan of such a panel), I can generate power from that panel without making ANY additional purchases.

At the end of that lifespan, market conditions will be very, very different from today.

How does that "make me dependent on China, etc"?

Any renewable installed = long-term, independent power generating capacity obtained. Regardless where initial materials came from.

Dependency is hitting gas station every day & not being able to move car when oil company fails to supply gas station. Long term investments like solar panels don't work like that.
Show HN: AI Search Engine for Academic Research
Get answers to research questions with citations to academic literature.

Some ways Epsilon is different from other AI research tools

- Has inline citations to peer reviewed literature
- Can process up to 25 papers for a single query
- Has deep links to the relevant passage in the source paper
- Let's you save papers and run queries only across your library
- Let's you run multiple questions across multiple topics in one view

It's free to use and doesn't require sign-up to test it out. Would love feedback from the HN community!
How do you compare the learning curve of Love to p5.js? Do you think Love could be used as a teaching / steam tool in k12?
The inline table syntax is awesome! Details:

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/blob/main/toml.md#inline-t...

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/pull/235

https://github.com/toml-lang/toml/issues/516
I got a peripheral neuropathy and a left leg DVT from the first two Pfizer shots. There is no way I am taking a booster.
I think you misunderstand, 2kW is not the heat output of the system, but the energy consumption. That heat pump (AR09BXFYDWKEE) is rated for ~7.1kW of heat output.
Yes: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-04/sydney-airport-bus-gu..., and you can see more fires at Sydney Airport at https://discover.abc.net.au/index.html?siteTitle=news#/?quer...

I'm confused why you think a fire at Sydney Airport (of any cause) wouldn't be news?
They can just use VALL-E or ElevenLabs to clone somebody's voice and let AI talk over these points. Trivial.
There’s a Raymond Chen article (or maybe it’s in his book) about people that complain “why doesn’t windows just let me do…”, and he then goes on to give several examples and show what some of the downsides are if you allowed it. This article looks similar, but I’m not sure it is[0].

The name calling and lack of actual examples shows that you probably haven’t even thought about potential downsides. I haven’t either, but it’s because I don’t really care about this particular issue. I just care enough to point out that the “mentally-challenged foot soldiers” at Microsoft may have actually run into some exploits or malicious behavior because they did “allow useful things” at one point.

[0]: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050607-00/?p=35...
In my experience they aren't too bad. I typically use an exacto knife and just scrape around the bottom of the port for a while until I stop pulling lint out.
Do those protocols have dispute resolution mechanisms? If not, they are not directly comparable to PayPal.
> it is morally impermissible intentionally to punish the innocent or to inflict disproportionately large punishments on wrongdoers.

> What if harming Hitler’s baby was the only way to save the world? As a moderate deontologist, I reluctantly endorse this implication

So the author believes that it is not permissible to punish an innocent person, regardless of any positive benefits that arise from its deterrent value. But he also believes it is permissible to harm a baby if it confers tremendous benefits. Clearly there is no logically coherent moral philosophy here.
I have been trying to figure out how to fine tune codellama. Will the llama2 examples work for codellama as well?
The "authoritative opinion" is indecisive. Microsoft frameworks tend to be high quality, but there are too many. ASP? ASP.Net? ASP.Net Core? ASP.Net MVC? Razor? Blazor?
That's not uninstalling it though. For example on Fedora I can uninstall Linux with sudo dnf remove linux, or even remove the package manager (arguably what makes Fedora: Fedora) with sudo dnf remove dnf

So not quite what I'm looking for :D
Even if you get < $10 it can still be worthwhile for money laundering purposes.
The correct function to minimize would be θ(-f(x))*(-f(x)), using the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside_step_function
Notice that products get more amazing towards the bottom of the chart.

Building a great product is the challenge. Once you choose target customer and problem to solve, PMF is trivial but the hard work is still ahead. iPhone, Falcon 9, Starlink - none of these ever pondered PMF. They set out to build the most batshit amazing product for a specific purpose, and you can add Figma to that list

The whole concept of PMF seems to be based on the lottery-ticket view of startups, "I don't know who is the customer or what they need, but someday I will randomly stumble across it".
Talking about Hitler is boring but maybe it makes sense in this context. Inflicting suffering on Hitler would have absolutely no deterrent effect, but I think the vast majority of people would do it given whatever confluence of magic and time travel made it a possibility. Someone on the level of Hitler or Stalin or Mao deserve the suffering regardless of any deterrent effect it may or may not cause, simply because of the raw amount of suffering they caused.

I don't think it's unreasonable to think that at that level of 99-100/100 evil that can be true, but even just a few steps back and it's not so clear-cut anymore.
> JSON is good enough for anything I've done.

I want comments in config files.
That's more for binaries and scripts manually installed by the administrator because they weren't available in the package manager or are custom.
The term "Swedish" as used in this headline likely implies to many more than just this pedantic and America-centric definition of nationality. It's fair to bring up that point.
chocolately too
IBM had used B+ trees for implementing the VSAM "catalogs" (IBM lingo for directories a.k.a. folders) already about a decade earlier.
From the union's perspective, isn't it good to have more prisoners whether or not the prison is privatized?
Andrew Ng: How to be an innovator
To me, this UI style of "highlighting" an option signals that "this option does something significant". This is evident in most confirmation dialogs, as it should be.

Most naggy popups seem to drive users into clicking that highlighted option, and I think this has trained me to consider the dull-coloured choices first.

Microsoft's move intends to confuse users, at least by subverting the usual expectations around privacy nagging.
JSON is the runner up on the top crap list right below Windows Registry.
I do use fermenting lids, I was just trying to make modifications to the original article's protocol with the same equipment
The IntelliJ/CLion plugin does, so I’d imagine so.
Lots and lots of scrolling up and down now. The glance view is not there anymore.
Public schools were not within the lifetime of my parents (high school classes of 1943 and 1945), I don't think. The old one-room schoolhouses of course weren't divided even by age.
This service HackMD looks pretty cool.
Thank you! My mind is clearer now! Don't know why I didn't think of that!
Related (specific to music) Oink and What.CD [0]

[0] https://qz.com/840661/what-cd-is-gone-a-eulogy-for-the-great...
Spotify also doesn't want to remove fake artists. The company doesn't really care about listeners.
And keep it up. Name and shame, just like the stalking by car companies. Do not let this become normalized
I really don't think you can just import scientists and engineers and essentially develop TSMC. It's not the sixties anymore, Intel has a massive R&D budget but they are not currently able to compete with TSMC. Technology is also quite advanced, I doubt it's just a few years of R&D. In fact, it's so expensive, there are only a few factories on earth capable on producing those chips. China would have done it already if it's so simple.
Elon Musk may have violated FTC's Twitter privacy order at X, DOJ says
Indeed. From what I've read, excellent quality fake USD go for a 50% — or more — discount from face value.
while i do agree mindless screen time on children is/may be damaging; i think there is a huge difference in using a tablet/laptop as a modern version of a notebook vs. using to watch Youtube Kids with Ads in between etc.
In practice, this isn't really true? Like, when do users delete programs manually anymore? Its almost always some uninstaller doing it from some installed appstore type program (Steam, Adobe Cloud, etc). And usually the user is deleting the whole directory, which almost always has additional files that the program needs to actually work. Those files will be deleted so their install already gets corrupted either way.
Some folks in Congress are attempting to initiate a probe, so more information should be available soon. It probably will not look great.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/08/28/elon-musks-sha...

> To the dismay of Pentagon officials, Musk volunteered that he had spoken with Putin personally. Another individual told me that Musk had made the same assertion in the weeks before he tweeted his pro-Russia peace plan, and had said that his consultations with the Kremlin were regular.

> On the phone, Musk said that he was looking at his laptop and could see “the entire war unfolding” through a map of Starlink activity. “This was, like, three minutes before he said, ‘Well, I had this great conversation with Putin,’ ” the senior defense official told me. “And we were, like, ‘Oh, dear, this is not good.’ ”
Cool article! I can see why TOML's verboseness can definitely be an issue once you start working on larger and larger TOML files.

I'm assuming StrictYAML is your favourite out of all the different config files you could have currently?
…or a 4th and a 5th, and have voting rounds — an idea explored by Stanisław Lem in "Golem XIV", where a parliament of machines voted :-)
Teacher's unions becoming so strong that schools cannot fire bad teachers, and in the end it's the students who pay for it.
I would agree. I'm 15 and I usually spend my time away from the culture, news and technology of today. I don't even know how to use Spotify, never owned Bluetooth headphones, don't plan on dropping Windows XP on 2 of my laptops anytime soon, and use Winamp. I didn't even know Apple was making a VR headset until yesterday and I had to ask what a Thunderbolt port was.

I don't like making this the typical "oh im so unique my generation is stupid" but everything from my past is fading away into obsolescence and the things I like are so dumb now. Games are getting way shittier, barely anyone makes a finished game with a standard bonus multiplayer coop/deathmatch anymore, now every game is a fucking live service e-sport that's free to download and expensive to actually get good items in. Technology is driven by surveillance capitalism and whatever fad this week catches on with the false promises pushed by AI bros and crypto bros, hardware is getting less open and harder to repair. Thank god I was raised with a homemade PC built out of the crappiest parts imaginable because it taught me a lot. Countless hours of trying W7, W10, random Linux distros, overclocking, figuring out why it won't post, upgrading things, maxing out the DDR3 RAM, plugging in a fan found in the basement only for the cable to start pouring smoke, exploding a hard drive after playing TF2 one Friday night for like 3 hours because I bought 5 MvM tickets.

Maybe I'm just some edgy kid going on about how woe is me and the world sucks but it seems to me things are getting harder to enjoy in the world.
My dad has hearing aids. 100% this.

Hearing aids magnify sounds, so when people have hearing aids often talking slower, or talking facing them, is better.

Here's what happens for Dad.

He'll go up to the car, and and the driver will wave him off sitting in the front seat. I hate that moment. Dad always looks so sad. Dad is pushing 90, and I try as much as I can but sometimes I can't always take time off work to drive him places.

Anyway, the back seat is the worst place for Dad's hearing aids to work, since the driver is talking forward. And usually drivers have the radio on.

Then, the driver will say something, and Dad will come back with, "Pardon, I didn't catch that." (Or he'll just smile and nod.)

And, unless it's some other older person, the driver will then shout back what they just said.

This blows up Dad's hearing aids, and then Dad will be busy trying to adjust to compensate the volume.

It hurts to hear super loud sounds. It's just unpleasant. So at some point Dad just gets mad at the driver for shouting at him.

And the driver could have just said, "Nice weather we're having?" or he could have said, "Did you want to go to the front or back of the VA Hospital?" (The answer there could mean a 5 minute walk for Dad, through a busy parking lot.)

Dad has had drivers take him to the wrong address, even when I put the address in correctly. Who knows how that happens.

Now... the sensitive part, this is all so much worse with people who are non-native speakers. (But not nearly as bad as it is people from New York, or the East Coast in general -- accents and aggressively loud people are never a good mix.)

Dad really doesn't like trying to deal with language barriers on top of hearing aid issues, all while the driver is shouting at him.

They should have mandatory training for how to talk to people with hearing aids -- make sure every driver knows that raising their voice is not the way to do it.

But... that would require Uber / Lyft to care about the elderly, and they clearly don't Uber is basically non-functional when you try an use it with larger fonts on an iPhone. You can really tell how little shits someone gives about accessibility based on how their app works with non-default font sizes.

(Haven't used Uber in a year, disclaimer. I reported the issue about fonts like 20 times over 4 years and then just gave up on them.)

It sucks to get old. But it would be nice to have an "old people friendly" option on ride apps.
I think all of those are micro-transactions. A nice blanket rule would be no additional payments past the initial purchase. Of course it doesn't stop a developer releasing v2/v3 etc., but it would ensure that the original application is maintained as per the promised features and service standards. Perhaps most importantly, it would reduce the incentive to build dark patterns into applications to encourage micro-transactions.

I don't see governments doing this, but I think we'll see something like this soon in the EU when we can install competing app stores.
It's worth a visit to Noma's fermentation lab + restaurant, too. It's a fun place. My favorite "bite" in the lab was fermented black truffles, which was such a unique and vibrant flavor.
Many parking lots in Saskatchewan have block heater outlets at all parking spots. That's fantastic EV infrastructure.
The joy and pain of living with ADHD
While not really python, there's Coconut language that has the infix pipeline operator and compiles into python.
This is a fascinating theory/perspective, and it makes sense, though reading it I've felt an itch in the back of my mind: What about photography? We now have the fortune of having a camera with us everywhere. My parents derive great enjoyment from showing their childhood photos, and I must imagine this phenomenon will continue – though maybe it won't? Conversely, the accessibility of photography lends itself to potential over-utilization and hence devaluation. This year alone, I'm nearing 2000 photos taken. In 20 years, how will I pick out the ones that matter? Before, photography was for the special things, now it's for everything. Even though my parents have smartphones, they still have this mentality of photos as a precious resource. My dad has taken less than 200 in the whole lifetime of his phone. This just doesn't exist anymore.

Sorry if this wasn't coherent, you just got my mind turning and I started spitballing! Thank you.
Having a clear separation between actual user data files / documents and stuff like cache for different reasons:

- easier to cleanup/wipe without risking deleting works/personnal files

- backup solution doesn't have to have a town of entries in an ignore/exclude file

- same as above for syncing software

- tier storage separation possibility

- disk space allocation separation depending on data vs volatile stuff
America-centric? I'm European! It's not a statement of nationality, it's one of location.

If French people start a company in the US, it'll be an American company. Same with these Swedish gangs, it doesn't matter where the people are from.
> You may have to ask the user to pick one of the possible resolutions. "Keep version A, version B, or both?"

For structured data, with compound entities, linked entities, both, or even both in the same entity, that can be a lot more complicated.

If a user has updated an object and some of its children, is that an atomic change or might they want the child/descendent/parent/ancestor/linked updates to go through even if the others don't? All of them or some? If you can't automatically decide this (which you possibly can't in a way that will satisfy a large enough majority of use cases) how do you present the question to the user (baring in mind this might be a very non-technical user)?

Also what if another user wants to override an update that invalidates part/all of their own? Or try to merge them? Depending on your app this might not matter (the user might always be me on different devices, likely using one at once, that is easier to understand than the user interacting with others potentially making many overlapping updates).
I thought this whole EM radiation fear was bogus. How does it even interact with the body? There are obviously no neutrons flying around..
Why do we still need to install stuff? Why can I run webpages just fine without installing anything? Installation shouldn't exist, at least not from the user's point of view.
Lots of things are contagious. What indicates to you this is a protein misfolding issue?
If you have 10 bucks lying around, the comprehensive Kenney pack is good value (on sale, usu. $20), and with consistent art styles.

https://kenney.itch.io/kenney-game-assets

(no affiliation, it's just good stuff)
Market rates for whom? Programmers? It was never my impression that private-school teachers were paid as well as public school benefits or had comparable benefits.

The reason you pay for private schools is the same reason that you buy a house in a good school district: to select your child's classmates and their parents.
Apple's, Noto, and OpenMoji are far more legible to me than Teams. I'll take being able to quickly recognize the emojis over consistency any day.