skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is there some kind of service out there that handles the Bitcoin automatically, so neither users or devs have to actually ever own any and deal. with all the manual tax data entry that can happen if you own any?

I remember buying a few dollars of crypto to test something, and spending an hour trying to figure out the taxes on it.
Great, we need to get back to buy from local producers. For now, global supermarkets set prices that are not sustainable for competition - like those local producers.

Decentralisation is even more broken chain supply and regulation proof.
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> If only we had actual Engineering certifications for software engineers.

See Canada: Software Engineers are called Software Developers there, problem solved.
I appreciate your watching out for the HN guidelines! but "Be better" is also a swipe, so it would be good to omit that bit in the future.
I've noticed a lot of z-wave adopters seem to be shifting towards zigbee. I guess because it is closer to thread and matter? Some devices seem to be upgradeable for that too.
Italics mine:

>The study, described as "a wake-up call", also estimated that exposure to the toxic metal causes young children in developing countries to lose an average of nearly six IQ points each.

>Their model estimates that 5.5 million adults died from heart disease in 2019 because of lead exposure, 90 percent of them in low- and middle-income countries.

>The research also estimated that children under five lost a cumulative 765 million IQ points due to lead poisoning globally in 2019, with 95 percent of those losses coming in developing countries.

In the article, the 1 IQ point loss level is shown at about 0.25 ug/dL. I don't think this is likely in the US from brass pipe fittings containing 0.5% lead or whatever. I'm not saying that tight lead regulations are/would be bad, but this study seems to focus on the far higher disease and death burden of lead in less developed countries.

Dealing with lead exposure in developing countries would likely have large returns for the global economy, and since plenty of lead pipes were probably laid by colonial powers, has the ring of a moral imperative. But how?
This is why I stopped eating paint chips.
just a fair warning that you should close that quarter-turn valve very gradually when there is running water if you ever find a non-leaded version... water hammer can and will burst the weakest of your pipes.
The stupid thing is that (I understand) the USPS is prohibited by law from offering such services. Go figure.
Setting the world on fire, yeah right.

Please show me the total emissions of US coal, stacked up against global emissions, and then China's emissions and their emissions growth (ideally with a break-out on their coal emissions expansion, which is ongoing).

China added a hundred new coal plants in 2022 alone. That's half as many coal plants in the US, added in just a single year. And they're still going. Those are new plants, they no doubt plan to operate them for decades.

What do you think about China adding 500 new coal plants over the next ten years?

US coal is not going to make a difference whether it continues or not.
I got the airpods 2 recently, it’s not just that they work real nice with my iPhone, the sound quality blew me away, and spatial audio with an iPhone is almost unnerving in it’s realism, albeit not much use.
Helix is easier to jump into as it supports a lot of useful code editing features out of the box, but Kakoune has a more elegant and discoverable modal editing experience.
How do databases execute expressions?
I've found that USPS has a vast gulf between their IT systems (generally good!) and their line workers, as well as a huge training spread from line worker to line worker.

The best approach is usually to go to another postal branch when you run into a bad egg... and/or go during a time of day that it's quieter.
No, the US is responsible for 15% of global CO2 emissions. China emit around twice as much (with around 4x the population), but their emissions aren't growing over the last 10 years. In fact, they have increased their energy consumption by a lot in that decade (commensurate with becoming much richer), partly with renewables and partly by replacing bad uses of fossil fuels with better ones. Neither is their population growing. India and Africa together emit less than the US for around 6x the pop. They have a lot of population growth ahead of them, and a fair amount of getting wealthier, before they start to eat up a 1/4 drop in US emissions.

A bit ridiculous to claim that global warming is caused by the dirt poor and the not yet born 'wanting to consume like Americans' when it's obvious that at least half of Americans are determined to continue consuming like Americans whatever the cost.

Your argument basically seems to boil down to "the most polluting country can't reduce use of its most polluting energy source because other countries exist and emit anything at all".
Ok, what do you call it when someone tries to conceal the origin of money?
> affordable healthy food

If the convenience store across the street from my city apartment that has bananas, onions, garlic, and a wide assortment of frozen, canned, and dehydrated food doesn't count, the rural local general store likely also doesn't count.
It looks interesting but where is the pricing section? Do I have to contact you to know how much I will pay? That's a big deal for me
> recall a case where family members and doctors held someone down who was fighting and forced lethal poison down the person's throat

Shockingly, this is not a legitimate method of euthanasia. At the point that you’ve defrauded an autopsy to that degree, you could just have a doctor shoot them in the head and write heart attack on the death certificate.
I get your point, but I think it does create a lower bar to clear than if there were no screens at all. A software flash is quick, easy, and cheap compared to installing and integrating your own custom equipment. More people will pay $500 to unlock / replace their head units than would pay $5000 to have their screen-less car retrofit with one.
Forget the term "bank." If you use the term "financial institution" instead, you'd be surprised how encompassing it is.
reminds me of those comic where the adult explains to the kid that every physical attribute was explained by genetics

and then stumbles over his words trying to explain cognitive ones as inherently different

was just a funny perspective I’m not trying to start a pogrom with this observation
There's a fair amount of silly legislation that gets passed in the EU, but forward-thinking (or maybe just here-thinking?) laws like these (and the GDPR!) make me glad I live here.
Metal Slug on the PS4 was jarringly unresponsive compared to my expectations, though I'm not sure I've played it on an arcade machine in 20 years so maybe it's my memory or physiology at least partly to blame.
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I wonder how much overhead does the rendering or react on server add ?

If I have an API sever and then instead of calling those apis from client, I make all db calls on the server and then render the html.
How much of processing that was done was spent on rendering html.

Also I wonder how react server components and serverside rendering go with localfirst software?

I love localfirst web apps, they seem kinda incompatible with serverside apps
black mirror episode: evilcorp turns off the lights until you install their app, but you can't find your phone in the dark
I don't have a huge issue with the expense, but I don't think it should be a requirement. I think it should be more of an upgrade. For example, let me get a personal code signing certificate for $50 per year and then treat an organizational cert as an upgrade where I pay $500 to have my business name on the cert. I could even see a case for having $5000+ high value certificates.

The problem with that is the way companies like Microsoft handle them. Instead of telling the user "this is a low value cert", they put up a massive warning telling the user their computer is going to melt down if they trust it. It makes the decision of whether or not to run something binary and it's not.

I think a system where I could sign things as trivial as PowerShell scripts would be better than what we have now. Anyone I give something like that to is going to know me personally and can easily judge the trustworthiness of what they're running by seeing my name.

> This sort of "price people out of being annoying or doing things they don't remotely need" technique is extremely common in society.

From what I see, it makes things difficult for someone trying to provide fair value and favors anyone willing to price gouge their customers. Even worse, criminal activity is extremely high margin and industrial scale bad actors have no problem paying for things like EV code signing certificates.

> EV certs involve a pretty lengthy number of checks, by the way. Having a PO box isn't enough.

And, based on my experience, it's all a big clown show. The people doing the verification are at a huge informational disadvantage because (I'm assuming) they're in a processing somewhere with minimal training and are expected to verify identities for every jurisdiction in the world. It's like me trying to verify the identity of someone in China. No matter how much training you give me, I'm probably never going to be as good at it as a local would be.

The whole system could be better. I would prefer to see something where everything starts with a personal code signing certificate for a natural person and where getting an EV certificate requires an attestation from someone with a personal certificate. My identity is more valuable than a shell company.

There's no incentive for anyone to fix it either. The platform owners benefit immensely if people abandon a standardized code signing system in favor of the signing certificates they issue for their app stores. IMO that's half the reason Microsoft abused their market position to kill AppGet. Anything that improves competition for app distribution isn't going to be allowed.
The problem with ZeroWater is it filters out everything. I would be always thirsty after drinking from ZeroWater, it was a weird feeling.
And really, the stuff banned by the STOCK act is separate from insider trading which is why it needed a separate rule.
This shared inbox approach reminds me of helpmonks.com, but more.

This is a neat concept - reminds me in some ways of mailgun when they were able to take a spin on email hosting to allow multiple domains relatively cheap but measure the number of emails.

I'll be signing up at least two things I can try it out with. The pricing information seems limited at present - until you realize it says 5000 poeple. Having one more paid category listed would be ideal.
This is a great example of something GPT-4 gets confidently wrong, today. I just ran this query:

Prompt: "The year is 894 AD. The capital of France is:
Response: "In 894 AD, the capital of France was Paris."

This is incorrect. According to Wikipedia, "In the 10th century Paris was a provincial cathedral city of little political or economic significance..."

The problem is that there's no good way to tell from this interaction whether it's true or false, because the mechanism that GPT-4 uses to return an answer is the same whether it's correct or incorrect.

Unless you already know the answer, the only way to be confident that a LLM is answering correctly is to use RAG to find a citation.
There's a key difference between writing for the screen and writing for software - making software engineers more efficient makes software cheaper will raise its demand. This is similar to how there are more accountants now than pre- spreadsheets. But writers in TV and film are not the bottleneck, making them more efficient will not lead to more demand for entertainment. It's clearer to me that the latter camp are in serious trouble, whereas we may just need to adapt.
Let's say I own a bunch of SPLK and want to make some passive income. I am the counterparty to the call purchaser in this example.

I can sell call options 10% out of the money each week and make some nice cash. If my plan was to hold the stock long term, there's no downside risk because if the stock goes down, I get to keep the cash (premium) from selling the calls. If it goes sideways or slightly up I get to keep it as well.

The only "downside" is it goes up >10% in which case i've made that 10% + premium, but I've now had my stock taken away from me.

In this case, I lose out on an additional 10% in upside because it went up 20% overnight.
Oh weird. I was soon planning 5o throw out my 300 bucks worth of hue hardware
> In what other industry would the market tolerate such well-understood and severe dangers for users of products for decades?

Transportation. Motor vehicles are a huge chunk of the market despite the existence of less deadly alternatives.
why not just asyncio.gather?
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Since you didn't actually answer the question "why should I care?", perhaps you might deign to answer these instead:

>>I'm not a fan of many organizations/individuals. Should I survey them all to create a database of software those folks use and refuse to use any software they use? What value would I derive from such actions?

Why are those useful questions? Pick some software -- any software in wide use -- and you'll find that someone you find objectionable is using such software.

That includes OS's, browsers, databases, web/application servers, BIOS firmware, chat clients/servers, etc., etc., etc.

If using software that's also used by someone whose actions and/or rhetoric are objectionable to you is "capitulation" to those with whom you oppose/disagree, then you should power off all your electronic devices, smash them into little pieces and never look back.

But (IMHO, at least) taking such a position takes "guilt by association" to ridiculous extremes, especially when talking about open source software that can be audited and modified to suit your purposes.

Don't want your sensitive information shared? Don't share it on platforms not under your control. Full stop.

I'll say it again[0], "three can keep a secret. If two are dead." Food for thought, no?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602606
FOSS has nothing to do with that. Companies providing products based on FOSS need to do their homework and check what they're using. If they can't guarantee that the FOSS library is reliable, they shouldn't use it.
That's a terrible way to make tea, fwiw.
And the one day thing. What would a more modest number of options one month or six months out have looked like. That falls well into the I had a feeling territory based on these things I read.
I Failed Two Captcha Tests This Week. Am I Still Human?
Stretching is probably good, no? That's part of curiosity.

It's impossible to gratify all curiosities equally because people differ a lot. That means there will always be something on the front page that you don't find interesting, but also hopefully several things you do.

It's true that the better "stretches" have to do with topics that are little-known and little-discussed, and Ghibli and
Miyazaki aren't that.
> No Stargate reference in commentaries

Son, I am disappoint.
It's not as bad as the National Post, but the Opinions Pieces they host have a distinct PC (Progressive Conservative) tinge to it, and they have had a history of endorsing the Conservatives. This can be seen as well in their endorsements within Ontario (which is basically the only part of Anglophone Canada that matters tbh)
Social media has caused the largest brain drain we've ever seen.
Happened to me with some Kasa Smart devices I had owned for years. One day to be able to use the app I needed to create an account.

A couple of months later the same thing happend with a Mi Band smart watch. The app required to create an account.

Personally I won't be buying any smart devices ever again.
Yep for part A. B and C use Ruby and Scheme I think
What's the issue here? There is a TON of disinformation from the coal industry (and energy industry, generally) to counteract.

If the data this effort produces is grounded in decent research, it's a net positive for everyone.
While a lot of this appears to be estimates... it's pretty wild of 30% of deaths from cardiovascular are caused by lead.

Mostly in low/middle income countries.

> It's items in the kitchen that are poisoning them

On a positive note: This is something that can be fixed.
One of my fondest memories as a summer student at CERN in 1993 (in the Electronics and Computing for Physics department) was the visit to the basement beneath the main computing facility, where a colossal tape robot was in operation. Even at that time, CERN was grappling with exceedingly vast amounts of data.
Yikes. Jaded perhaps, I read the headline and assumed it was another frivolous suit, but this poor guy had everyone working against him. I'm not sure who all is to blame, but the setup is ridiculous.

A bridge collapsed for years, with no barricade and likely inadequate or non-existent signage? Insane. People asking Google to remove the route, and them just completely ignoring it? Also pretty damning IMO.

I hope this family finds whatever peace they're able to obtain.
It’s a pretty common occurrence in r/wallstreetbets
Goodhart's law strikes again.

As soon as IQ becomes a measurable thing, populations that measure it will act in ways that increase it. Shocking, I know.
This is a well established trend. I dropped razer when they tried to get me to login to something to use my fucking mouse.
‘Unacceptable negligence by CSIS’ - how will this be perceived by countries like UK and India whose citizens were killed in the attack?
You should switch to using the cold water tap to fill your kettle! Also, when you see what kind of build up can happen in a hot water heater, you'll definitely want to avoid drinking from the hot water tap.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAzKts6Wp1Q&t=207s
See my other comment WRT to ownership: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37602718
> Shutting down coal, blocking natural gas, and ending up with energy shortages and blackouts is terrible.

Is anyone suggesting this as a policy direction?
Once more, Kudos to Arathorn/Matthew (the head of Matrix/Element) taking the time to answer most Hacker News comments, as he mostly does for all Matrix-related HN threads.

It's really nice to see him answer in a calm and mostly objective tone while people are blaming him for shortcomings and problems of all the different Matrix-related software projects. Admitting to failures and problems that Matrix definitely has, while still defending the overall project and giving insight into the status of MSCs/projects is admirable.

Thank you Matthew. I wish you an endless amount of patience for the future.
So it looks like you actually have something behind your opinion. That's worthwhile.

> To be very fair his youtube titles tell a lot about their content. To any persona with more than a handful of working neurons, that's more than enough.

I can't agree with that. A handful of working neurons doesn't magically give you the ability to divine the contents of a book from its cover.

But it seems like you've at least watched some of his content and have your own opinion on it. I can respect that.

What I can't respect is when people happily form their opinions based on vague impressions gleaned from other people who also aren't familiar with the subject matter, and then pass that opinion on as if it's worth something.
DMSA, which is the treatment for lead poisoning, is cheap, can be taken orally and has a good safety profile. Shame that doctors are not more familiar with it.
And you can't, with a straight face, tell me that lead free solder matters, while we're still using lead acid batteries with dozens of pounds of lead in every car out there (to within a rounding error, and, yes, it includes almost all EV/PHEVs). The list of exemptions is very long.

Lead free solder is objectively worse as a solder for just about any metric related to longevity. So you have to weigh the risks of lead in solder against the reduced longevity of entire electronic devices from solder joint failures. Lots of BGA components have had problems related to their solder, and the usual result is that the entire device gets thrown out.
Compared to the likes of log4shell, shellshock or heartbleed, yes. It feels like the immediately exploit possibility of it is arguably more than heartbleed, but I don't see every security person chasing after it in the same way.

I've been following the progress of some of the fixes in apps I use and it's meandering through intermediates at an urgency that is more akin to the ssh 9.1p1 vulnerability which required peopel to ssh into an affected server.
Poland does this too, if you want to create a trusted profile (essentially an SSO account for government services), in-person verification at a post or municipal office is an option.

A far more popular option is logging in via your bank, which is an excellent idea IMO, as they already have your data anyway and can usually verify that it's you with fairly high confidence.
> Are you fluent in Japanese? I always find it odd when people prefer a sub to a dub.

You don’t need to be fluent in Japanese to notice a lot of context that (by necessity) gets left out in a dub. How characters address one another, for example. Also, if you’re trying to learn Japanese then the more Japanese you hear, the better - even if you don’t understand it all.

Not to mention the usual arguments about the original voice acting being a better reflection of the authors’ intent, etc.

I’ll still watch dubs if I don’t want to give something my undivided attention, though.
Oh they definitely have tools to find who stole bike in city where CTTV is on every corner.
It leans left and elitist. An American running for president use to call it the Havana Times.
And this is how it should be. Vendors need to be responsible for what they deliver, if it is FOSS or not.
Is there a way to sign up without a Google or Apple account? I have neither.
Probably color control?
A double edged sword[1] for sure.

[1] https://edri.org/our-work/why-chat-control-is-so-dangerous/
Sounds like an aneccode from a layperson who saw or heard about a bring up board (or protoboard) and went away with the wrong insight.
Yeah no - if multiple people reported this issue to Google Maps and no action was taken, then personally I consider Google eminently sue-able. I would say that most personal injury lawsuits would take this into account.
Did you read the article? Seems not.

This is for research, advocacy, and lobbying to get them shut and have the localities favor green energy. They are not building new energy sources, just pushing along and speeding up the transition.

In that light, this is a ton of money.
"Can you cast a smaller set of rays first, and only cast the in-between rays if certain conditions are met "

Yes I can do this. But my case is really special as in basically the players have to do this by themself. As it is (also) a hacking game, meaning they have a limited scan budget and need to figure out to spend it the most useful for their bots.. but since they also want to evade projectiles and other bots, they want to scan as much as possible to not miss a threat.

So it works the way it is. Just would scale better, with better raycast performance.

I probably should have hinted more above, why my case is really special, but that was kind of my point, there are always special cases. And I do not want to limit my design, because of a bad raycast implementation.
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