skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Generally speaking, convenience is king. I find a lot of like-minded people will easily overlook or not even consider what is happening behind the scenes. There is a tradeoff for low prices/convenience and it's not always obvious.

I cancelled Prime about 6 months ago and I thought it would be difficult, but it's actually been fine.

I shopped at Whole Foods for over a decade and there are staples I thought I couldn't find elsewhere. I discovered through a combination of Trader Joe's, my local grocery store, and Aldi, I found replacements for everything, items I like better, and I save way more money!

As for non-grocery items, I'll often try to buy from the manufacturer directly, even if that means paying a little bit more. If I can't find something directly, I'll check Walmart, Target or other established retailers and usually can find something for a comparable price.

I've also made a slow shift to buying used items. For books, on eBay I can often find them used, in like-new condition for a fraction of the cost at Amazon and with free shipping. It's a gamble and sometimes I get books with highlighted pages or cosmetic damage, but it's rare.

And when Amazon is only the cost effective way to purchase something or I can only find it on Amazon, I'll wait until I can hit $25 for free shipping and wade through Amazon's dark patterns in the checkout process. Turns out, "standard shipping" still ships in 2 days because I'm guessing logistically it's better to just keep inventory flowing with all other Prime purchases. My wife managed PTO orders for teachers at our local school through their non-Prime Amazon account... guess what, every order shipped "early" anyway and received within 2 days. Prime is kind of a scam IMO if fast shipping is the draw (although I never utilized other value-add services like Prime Video or Music).

When someone asks me about Amazon and I mention I don't have Prime, I often get shocked responses. I'm not trying to actively dissuade people from Amazon/Prime if they like it, but I'm hoping it will get people thinking.

Convenience is a hell of a drug.
Funnily enough, real malware does this correctly. Usually by just ShellExecing "ping -n 3 127.0.0.1 >nul" followed by "del" - no temporary file needed.
Oh. I thought MSI and WinGet (sorry, AppGet in fact) designed to solve these problems.
People living longer and cancer being diagnosed and reported more are the reasons for higher cancer rates. The rates of all kinds of cancer have been rising. If it was being cause by radio waves you would expect it to be certain kinds of cancer. Radio waves from mobile phone don't penetrate flesh very far, so you would expect skin cancer to increase more than other cancers.

High power radio transmissions have been used since the 40s.
Has Google made a single good decision under their current CEO?
French person here. Public institutions in France are notorious for taking their time.
Kyiv residents fear property grab
Once you include the screened-out sample of mental illness, it would be better for the whole society to have government provide this basic shelter for the homeless along with reduce basic income than to give outright basic income.

Otherwise, our housing market will take on the extra (hit) economic dynamism for the rest of us (ranging from worker class to middle-class).
Well, if it helps, I am really sorry about your life and that of millions of people.

I get it, I order there too occasionally, but...
A smooth mix of dissimilar substances is an emulsion. Keeping them mixed is called emulsification. Something that does this is an emulsifier.

I don't know what it is, and it could be something natural, but what was there and now isn't is some kind of emulsifier.
I'm not on a side.

I'm just saying there's no point flat out stating that things must improve when a) for a lot of people they're good enough right now, and it's about effort invested vs additional numbers of people to reach, and b) real experts are already constantly working on this.
China Flags ‘Security Incidents’ with Apple’s iPhones
You're looking for `fmap . ap fromMaybe`
https://archive.ph/YZn1d
And being the only authority also happens to be conveniently aligned to their financial incentives.
Agreed. I have a 13 mini personal and a normal 12 as my work phone. I hate the regular size so much.
I think that ndarray is the most successful abstraction I've come across. Numerical computing is a domain ripe for terrible code, but multi-indexing, broadcasting, mask arrays, .reshape(), .where(), linspace(), and all that are so well made and useful they are now the standard grammar of data science. Yes you've seen horrible numpy code before, but how much worse would it be if it had been written by the same person in raw C with only malloc and pointer arithmetic?
Those examples are nuts. Who would ever write a config like this?
The other side is funded and heavily influenced by the ”buy our Goji berries to shield your body from toxins and our shielding bracelet to stop harmful radiation from altering your chakras” quacks. There are no neutral parties in the argument
I doubt it works this way. Regulatory bodies check your paperwork. They don't test things themselves.
Ah, gotcha! Absolutely, as we've seen with USB-C.
> I think the part you're missing here is that the punishment must be proportionate to the crime.

i'm going more for the "death by a thousand cuts" angle, because that's just the nature of most large-scale interpersonal harm among otherwise well-off nations. i drive an automobile, knowing full well that the impacts on air quality from my actions causes illness and premature death. Caplan's an economist, so let's say my portion of that pollution accounts for 0.1 premature deaths, or 2 life-years (made up numbers). i'm complicit in this act, i have knowingly and willingly harmed other beings: looking at this act in isolation it's surely a moral failing.

"eye for eye" retributive justice says "i cut a life short by 2 years, so throw me in prison for 2 years". most people who consider retributive justice make _some_ sort of carveout here: "this is ridiculous: the infrastructure in my country is such that i can't live a reasonable life without burning fuel, 2 years jail won't change that!" but author explicitly goes out of their way to suggest punishments like these actually are merited "even in the absence of any deterrent effect".

i threw out "one in three people" pretty casually. add up all these individually small harms i've willingly inflicted: maybe "one in ten" is more reasonable. either way it's too large to ignore if you take seriously that every wrong-doing is to be punished without regard to deterrence or broader circumstance.
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It seems like their strategy the last few years has been to pretty much just downgrade last year's Pro model to be this year's non-pro. The only differences between the 14 Pro and the 15 are:

- no telephoto lens

- USB-C

- smaller battery

- new GPS and Ultra-wideband chips
https://archive.is/Fiwpa
Writer gives the right definition of liminal, and then says a bunch of extremely non-liminal spaces are liminal.

There is a similar problem with the internet's obsession with the term - only the term. The internet at large also does not understand the nature of liminality, even if they have all probably read the real definition, just like this writer.
Just looking at the source, the SVGs can be made smaller. Would be good to have a minified set.
Don't know about Indian varieties, but in European goosberries the sourness comes from their skins and dissipates almost completely when given time to ripen properly. That is, ripe goosberries aren't sour at all.
I use Bitwarden's TOTP feature for all the sites where 2FA is mandatory, which is trading websites in my country.
Years 2020 and 2021 are rich for topic about propaganda. I never understood why there was something like holocaust in history. After covid, I understand how fear, media and oppression shape behavior.

What bothers me more is question, if we can ever learn from history.
GNU emacs was created at 1984.
XDG Base Directory spec was started around 2003..
I used and loved this framework years ago so happy to see it’s still thriving.

I’d love to start making games with my son now he’s getting older, but I always used to hit a roadblock with the artwork. In this age of AI, can anyone recommend free/cheap ways of acquiring good animated sprites for hobby projects?
For those who didn't know (I didn't):

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/19/how-did-the-huy-fong-foods-s...
I've cycled around Copenhagen and the vast majority of cycle lanes are smaller than a car sized lane.

We should be copying the infrastructure designs of European cities that have been successful at getting people onto bikes etc. (Although not the "kissing bridge" as that's a stupid design for bikes). I thought you were pushing the idea of building as many roads as possible - that's clearly not pragmatic.

The other very noticeable aspect to travel around Copenhagen is that they have excellent public transport. It's incredible to see the number of bikes they manage to squeeze onto their trains during busy times.
is google's profit and/or revenue growing?
> It's also a ton of fun until you segfault 3 mins into gameplay and you have no idea why. But then you can only blame yourself!

Raylib has a ton of language bindings. I've been using it with Zig, the integration was seamless and have not encountered these types of bugs yet.
Here ends the story of 10K Riders Publishing
...a bunch of extremely non-liminal spaces are liminal.

Where exactly do I say this? I'm not sure what you're referring to. All of the examples I give as liminal spaces are pretty clearly liminal spaces...
> Yes. But if you stick everything into a single .exe, the user can't interfere.

Alright cowboy, so where are you storing preferences and settings?
They still have you guys fooled with the income/capital gains trick huh?

When corporatist dems say "tax the rich" they are talking about income tax, but that isn't how the rich make their money. Paul Pelosi's insider trading profits shall not be infringed!
Just FYI, numpy by no means pioneered this concept. There was Fortran before, as a language built around n-dimensional arrays. And even Fortran was not the first one, as some stack based programming languages (such as APL, IIRC) have similar concepts. Also languages such as R and evventually Matlab (as a kind-of nicer frontend to Fortran libs) pioneered this concept. However, Numpy was the first library bringing this into a general-purpose language as Python is.
Should that count towards user disk quota?
Excel sheets are an underappreciated tool for sharing technical info with analysts. They're easy to write and read from both dev and analyst side. They can be safely zipped, archived, emailed, saved on a USB drive by the user without any additional programming. Editing in Excel makes the expected schema clear. It's an excellent data interface.
Can non-google use the flock? I really haven't bothered learn anything about how this works but I had the impression Google does some sort of semantic integration on its end that adds meaning to the tracking numbers.

Basically, I would be pretty upset if my browser is disclosing interests in plain text to websites I visit. I think Google's idea is that they play bouncer over the semantics. So I'm skeptical the method can be used by non-Googles.

I also suspect Google will break things often enough that a competitor ad network couldn't really keep up. But that's just my very uninformed read of whatever this all actually is.

Understanding this whole thing had been on the back burner. I am open to something clever (and some things I have read long ago about it hint at clever) and have a similar position you do, but everything I have encountered about this is either super technical or sky-is-falling FUD or flowery PR bullshit.

The pop-up's vague language and smooth-brained cheerful explanations just made me take the easy route of turning everything off in the privacy settings and uninstalling Chrome. I usually use Firefox anyway and all the work machines have Edge, so who needs it. "I don't know WTF this is and don't have time to figure it out. I turned the settings off in preferences and uninstalled Chrome." is how I'm answering questions from friends and family.
it's obvious you don't have kids, or have ever been in a position of tutoring someone else's kids
Makes some sense at highway gas stations, but hardly any in cities.

I'm not even arguing that I hardly ever do or want to have longer stops at gas stations. Restrooms only when it's urgent (so maybe once per 5h drive), food only when needed (overpriced and not good). So I'm the 90% "stop, fill tank, go pay, drive off" person, so if I had an EV this would be.. mostly as unpractical as everywhere else.
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Will go ahead and start off the config wars as undoubtedly the OP intends.

FWIW my best config experience has been with HOCON via typesafe|lightbend/config in Java. The ability to compose environment specific defaults in a reasonable way just felt good. Of course /internal/config to dump the config was a necessity, but trivial, so I tend to be less sympathetic to DRY is not necessarily good arguments.

Have been missing it in Go, unfortunately Java's ability to publish files within packages (that can be imported in config) was a key part of the UX that is missing in any compiled language I've seen.
The biggest benefit of llama is that you can get it uncensored so you don't get the weasely lawyer disclaimer crap all the time.
> Hmmm…

Why did you stop quoting it there?

> There are several factors that help to explain the increase in incidence: population growth, population ageing, exposure to risk factors, improved screening and improved outcomes in other diseases (meaning that more people are reaching an advanced age, leaving them at risk of cancer). The incidence of different cancer types varies widely between different European countries, due to these factors.

There are better epistemic standards available than "numbers went up so my hobby horse causal ideal is doing it" despite its popularity on social media.
Is it completely under control of the user? Do you get to choose the list of topics to send to websites?
Of course, yes, but for an "OpenMoji" project I would have expected a bit more professionalism.
https://archive.is/6LmIP
> How about being able to replace the main battery myself, in my home, without trashing the entire fu*king phone?

You can already do this, either getting the parts/tools thru Apple or on your own [0]

> How about using formal methods to ensure some Israeli spyware group cannot constantly find zero-days in my phone and put my life in danger without constant after-the-fact patch-and-pray security upgrades?

> How about a 1/8" jack so I can listen privately on $15 wired buds from one of 1000 different suppliers without paying $300 for buds that are going to become e-waste as soon as their batteries refuse to charge?

Those are fair, altho personally I've been using bluetooth headphones for 5+ years, only going wired when cycling or gaming, and I'm pretty happy with it.

The rest, approximately 0.01% (uneducated guess) of the consumers in the smartphone market will want or care about those things. The regular consumer doesn't want their phone to do everything and be everything, they want it to work for their use-case when they're expected to work, and be relatively easy to use.

Anyway, you seem to be a niche consumer, why aren't you looking for a niche product to match instead of complaining about a mass-market product that never has and probably never will fit your needs?

Genuine question, btw.

[0] https://support.apple.com/self-service-repair
ground-based ICBMs and a couple fully-stocked Ohio-class subs

(as in medium to long range nukes, and nuclear-powered subs) ?
This is interesting. But I just don't understand why they can't test them in similar conditions - with known weights etc. ?
EDIT: I'll admit I overlooked the US system's origins origins and concepts in France - but even though these concepts are not American in origin, the US is where all the mentions lead-to today.

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It is an Americanism because the term implicitly assumes two things:

1. That the government is split into branches, following how the US system evolved.

2. That executive power must be confined to a single branch, also how the US is organized.

Then, consider that other-countries-that-are-not-the-US do exist, many of those are liberal democracies that arguably function better than the US for various scores - and of those very few (if any?) of those are modelled on the US’ system. While some other countries have a US system but score poorly overall (e.g. Liberia).

It is demonstrable that deep separation between the agents of the government - and the state - is unnecessary for a functioning liberal-democracy today: many countries using the Parliamentary system have an executive cabinet and an executive PM role which, under the US system, is considered part of the legislature - and the US is hardly the best example of “separation” of the judiciary when you consider how explicitly political the judge appointment process is - and the volume of politically-motivated and arbitrary SCOTUS rulings over the past 120+ years.

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I understand that (non-crackpot) political-scientists would agree that judicial independence alone is far more important to a functioning democracy than a system that constantly pits an executive President against the legislature whenever their political party affiliation differs.

Don’t get me wrong: accountability is of paramount importance; I just want to communicate that having “separate but co-equal branches of government”, “separation of powers” (and other thought-terminating-cliches from middle-school civics class) is both unique to the US - and is demonstrably unnecessary for a functioning liberal democracy.
Yes, it's very much not a recipe book, that's good to highlight.

I think many here would like the style - it's a cover of the history, why and how something works and then a set of examples to showcase the variety with tips on how to use them.

For example, it'll explain what lacto-fermentation is & how it works, then give an example of fruit / berry / vegetable / mushroom / something else. Each comes with "how we'd use this at Noma". Given that it was a restaurant regularly chosen as the best in the world, sometimes they are a bit "extra". The base things aren't, but while I've made vinegar from things we picked I've not embarked on the more out-there projects. For anyone who hasn't read it, it'll also go into koji, shiso, misos, garums, kombuchas and vinegars.

> Those results will be incredibly interesting almost unique ingredients in their own right and for that reason will not be easy to just substitute in for other things.

I'm not sure I'd quite agree but I don't think we're at opposite ends here. The results are lots of base ingredients and information on how to use them. Substituting things is heavily encouraged (it's not saying here's how to do blackberries it's "here's how to do things like blackberries"). I've walked away from sections of the book with many more ideas and more confidence about what could be done.

I find it a very interesting book because it's less about giving a set of rigid things to do and more about showing the range and variety of what you can achieve. Also, it's written in a way that's not flowery but very passionate. I find it hard not to be excited when reading it.

I think a lot of techies would like it, but other sources are also excellent for taking you through how to use something.
Now imagine Spotify using this to generate individual earworms for everybody based on their personal tastes (likes, playlists).

Yes, AI is partly hype, but had someone told me this even two years ago, I wouldn't have believed it.