skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one's perfect, but I'm a fan because she'll tell you if something is her-possibly-unpopular opinion (see particle physics), well-accepted scientific fact, or her pet opinion. You know where she stands, and tells you her agenda, if any. Or, if she's trying really hard to stay away from _any_ bias (see her video on trans).

More generally, I don't like the "stay in your lane" opinion. To more forward as a society, we need _more_ interdisciplinary work, not less. Mathematicians need to work with engineers and architects, psychologists with economicists, etc.

Of course, let's call out bad science or bias, but let's not ignore valuable insights because they came from the wrong lane.

I like her videos because I'm generally curious what a fairly unbiased intelligent person thinks about trans issues, economics, etc. Even if I don't agree with them on everything, not should you.
You can still buy mushroom growing substrate (or diy r/unclebens) and buy spore prints in the US as far as I’m aware.

Whether you get put on a list to get a knock at 3am later… probably not unless you start selling grown shrooms.
>I also learned that Apple techs can essentially "VNC" into your phone and view things, change settings etc.

Am I the only one seeing this as a potential security vulnerability? Is there a way to permanently disable this?
Maybe, but the chronology is a little off--Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815) famous for mesmerism (hypnosis).
The intention and explanation is all right there in TFA.
Why do people borrow so much money to go to school? I don't understand why kids do this shit, are they just stupid? I'm not special but family was poor and when I graduated HS, I went to work for 2 years to earn enough to go to a local State School. It cost approx 5k a semester. I did live at home but continued to work part time. I managed to graduate in 4 years without owing a single penny to anyone.
No, that is the current situation, that a stolen iPhone has very little value due to the lock. If it could be broken down into reusable parts, as the post I was responding to suggested, you could break down stolen iPhones and make money that way.
We are laughing, but not at your misplaced competitive jibe, but at you for stooping even lower by saying it.
People have more chronic issues because they are living longer.
The "add to your reading list" feature is excellent, and a nice carrot/reward for completing the survey.
This. If I'm talking to someone, I want to see his face and his reactions. The default "show whoever is talking in big" makes zero sense when you are talking.
Most of their iCloud infra is built on instances of Cassandra. There’s a good paper on it which I can’t find right now.
Felt.com is doing something similar, but with focus on collaboration. It looks like Enernite has a lot more analyses and GIS operations implemented. It indeed could open possibilities
The last stop: what happens when a US city’s subway starts to die?
It is storage. Rightly or wrongly, most people are going to think that one storage location is as good as another.

I would assume that syncing would get bogged down (re-syncs full blobs rather than incremental bytes) rather than expect any kind of data integrity problem.
I suppose foot works best with a tiling window manager, it's also very often the default with swaywm
Sadly nobody archived it.
> Do you even need ai?

Doesn't matter if you need it, AI is used here as a magnet for VC money.
At some point an animal is different enough to be called a new species. Android passed that threshold on release day.

But if you still somehow think so. Why not install some deb files, open up that native terminal and install steam.
All those billions of dollars are focused on making sure you can't replace your screen with an aftermarket part.
> Women only date across and up status hierarchies, whereas men date across and down.

Yeah, citation needed. I see this everywhere online, often used as a rhetorical device to blame toxic dating culture on irrational female behavior vs reasonable men willing to settle. But I don't think this claim even shakes out in the surveys. I remember having this conversation with a friend, and IIRC we found an okcupid study showing that both genders are generally hypergamous. Dating app dynamics make it so men act slightly less hypergamously than women, but both men and women ultimately try to date up and shoot for the top 20% if they can. People don't want to settle. Anecdotal data point: me - as a man, I still definitely have standards.

Edit: yeah in fact okcupid found basically the opposite to be true https://archive.ph/2017.01.21-154729/https://blog.okcupid.co... "As you can see from the gray line, women rate an incredible 80% of guys as worse-looking than medium. Very harsh. On the other hand, when it comes to actual messaging, women shift their expectations only just slightly ahead of the curve, which is a healthier pattern than guys’ pursuing the all-but-unattainable."
Or someone with physical access for five minutes can set themselves with a lifetime subscription to whatever you may have thats worth stealing on that machine in the future, without installing anything that can be detected as malware.
Everyone will get cancer if they live long enough. So as human lifespans increase, rates of cancer increase with it. It's as simple as that.
How does "it works" go together with "it produces a lot of garbage"?

I understand that it also produces some correct (or correct looking) results, but the code sounds like it has lots of false positives from what you're saying, so it's probably not the correct algorithm.

As for the time it takes, it doesn't sound like something that should take so much time, but not sure how it's in the code.

I'd look for these things:

Is the DB storing the color info as CMYK? If so, maybe go through your existing table and add another table or extra columns with pre-computed columns for lightness, hue and chroma.

Then you can get a CMYK value as input, translate it to lightness, hue and chroma, and select only the rows where the query attribute (e.g. lightness) is different to the one you got. You can even apply the scale factor in the SQL query directly (e.g.

WHERE
CASE
WHEN $direction = 1 THEN lightness > $lightness + ($scale_ratio * $lightness)
ELSE lightness < $lightness - ($scale_ratio * $lightness)
END

Is the DB the slow part? Do you even need the DB? Perhaps you can loop through the colors (creating each in memory), and if you need to lookup some unrelated attribute like an assigned per-row id, you could query the DB for that after you found the N "matching" colors, and only for those.

Can you express the distance algorithm in SQL (or a PL/SQL function)? Is it faster?
Scientists probe the source of key hydrocarbons on Earth–and in space
Agreed, I should've written it better.
Its not an ideal market, but no real markets are.
Reverse-Engineering Gen7 Pen Data Format
"Not all those who wander are lost." -Tolkein

You and I obviously have different value systems so this thread will never coalesce.

Enjoy your travels towards your goals.
I see you opted for a reduction ad absurdum. Never mind comparing manufacture of soap bars to creative output of voice actors.
Ironically I always put the lid in for protection so food doesn't explode and stain the oven. Guess that was a bad idea.
The lid is not in (much) contact with the food, so there's no leeching, plus you can remove it when microwaving.
There’s a special place in hell for these domains squatters, parasite or trolls at best.
You can find some more information here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/5mnpt2/comment/dc5n4...

It's similar to FaceTime screen sharing, the support employee can only see a video feed of your screen but can't directly interact with it.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212734
Little Metal Boxes
The PROGRAMS. Who wants to rewrite everything because you can no longer pipe or redirect?
Probably not. Time Machine should protect you against the problem I had unless you purge old backups. I don't think Time Machine ever deletes the one and only version it has of a file.

But dominikmayer has a very good point there in the sibling comment. I think this would only affect files that change though.
Thanks for the feedback!

You can use to start sandboxed playgrounds where you can run LLM generated code, run headless browsers, let LLMs do data analysis, and more.
"Still, Hussain’s team found these types of containers shed plenty of microplastics when heated.)"
Everything is a potential security vulnerability...
Longtime free open source guy here.

Right now, it's simple; it's because Discord is THAT GOOD. I kind of love and hate that about it. Discord's just infinity better than anything in its class.
Validating JIT Compilers via Compilation Space Exploration [pdf]
While box jellyfish are fairly simple creatures when compared to mammals, I’m waiting for the inevitable study “announcing” that animals have their own thoughts, dreams and emotions.

Something people who’ve been around animals will respond with “duh”.
Ask HN: Chat based search engine with googles old query (2006 – 2012)?
People make do with all sorts of things -- until someone invents the alternative!
Not excusing the footgun but I'm honestly amazed you could get an Apple rep to help you with notes syncing, let alone recover them. And they helped even if it seems like it was your own fault!

My employer pays (a lot) for Google products and even then there's no way they would ever help with that, let alone on the phone.

In the past I did get a rep on the phone to help with things like access control but I can already hear her tell me (politely) to get lost if I needed help with Keep notes disappearing (which they occasionally do!).
Well, in terms of Covid-19, data scientists and programmers did a much better job than epidemiologists at predicting spread and infection rate.
you can, with "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec foot" for instance.

GNOME is just as configurable as KDE; the difference is KDE bothers to make any of these settings discoverable.
There is no reason to trust this service. There is no about page, nothing explaining how it works (beyond the gif). This makes me think that the service is currently free, only to change it in the future so that either the seller pays, or the links get redirected to something of your own.

Basically what I'm saying is to add content to your site so its not _only_ a simple button and a gif
I understand gambling for money, but not gambling for, as you say, pixels. Is there nothing real to spend on or save for?
You sound like a fellow Sway user. I switched too for a bit, as it’s the new blessed terminal, but I had a couple glitches in a TUI app and switched back. Not really sure what I could have really gained by switching. They are both great.
Maybe you should try looking at them as people?
Reaction to headline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller

Arguably the richest American of all time. His father was usually absent, and little more than a vagabond in any case.
this side note leapt out at me

8<--------------------------------------------

The ongoing maintenance budget for the statue these days, I’m told, is about $6 million a year—$5 million for managing public access, $1 million for physical maintenance. And any year the $1 million is not entirely spent, the remainder is banked so that the fund will become sufficient over time to pay for a major overhaul.

8<--------------------------------------------

what a refreshing change from the whole "use it or lose it" mentality!
7% is not unreasonable by any stretch of the imagination.
I’m not sure what that would solve? I’m fairly confident in my backup system it follows 3-2-1 so a paper printout seems unnecessary and would possibly weaken security?
You're right, it's an essential service and a human right.

Everyone should have access to reasonably well maintained, warm / cool, shelter they can call their own.
Human insecurities and fear keep the windmills turning and generating electricity!
Yeah exactly. I probably have some form of rheumatism and fertility issues. Since forever I have avoided my country’s traditional bread based lunch and instead microwaved leftovers in plastic containers. I feel bad about that. I also heated baby formula in plastic bottles. No bpa but it turns out: still bad.
Robot to help patrol Times Square subway station
Saturday, September 23, 2023 1:22AM

Robot to help NYPD patrol Times Square subway station

TIMES SQUARE, Manhattan (WABC) -- The newest member of the NYPD weighs 400 pounds, gets paid $9 an hour and works midnights without a single complaint. And transit commanders couldn't be happier.

K5 is a robot that will patrol the Times Square subway station in the overnight hours. It's equipped with multiple cameras and two-way communication and intended to deter crime and to capture crimes in progress.

And it is equipped with a panic button that riders can use to alert patrol officers.

"We are taking an expensive camera network in the subway system and adding to it- supplementing to it, if you will- and adding a series of cameras that not only moves but a device that can connect subway riders to immediate assistance if the need arises," said NYPD Transit Division Chief Michael Kemper.

The number of daily subway riders now tops four million--the highest number since the pandemic.

Crime underground is trending lower but the number of violent assaults is still more than 50% higher than it was four years ago.

The NYPD is ramping up its use of robotics-- from dogs to drones to tracking devices and now robots.

K5 is being leased from Knightscope, its manufacturer. It has facial recognition capabilities and listening devices-but Mayor Eric Adams insists neither will be activated.

"While I believe it is our duty to utilize state-of-the-art technology advancements to help keep New Yorkers safe, I believe we must do it wisely and not intrusively," Adams said.

K5 will be accompanied by a uniformed police officer for the first two months of a pilot program-mainly to answer questions from curious riders.

A solo deployment is planned just in time for the holiday tourist season.
I hadn't noticed chess engines had replaced human players. Do we have more or less professional human players today than back when Kasparov lost that historic game?
Great, as if box jellyfish aren’t bad enough, now it turns out they can think, too.
Why would I even try to capture your actual words? It's all there already, you can re-read this thread. And I definitely did not try to reword anything you say, unless now you are saying you did not claim that the Amazon is a counterexample to the https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37614850 ? Well it's either that or your "True Scotsman" accusations make no sense, pick either, I don't care.
What if Instacart groceries came delivered by a pro chef to cook your meal?
Would you pay $100 plus groceries for a gourmet meal cooked in your kitchen? $250 for a week of meal prep?
That's what I've noticed, too -- even casual trail walkers are much more likely to greet you and smile.
Setting aside the fact that it's no fun waiting around when you accidentally cat a gigabyte log file to stdout, a more efficient terminal has two main advantages: it runs better on low-end hardware, and it uses less power to do the same job. If you have a fast computer and don't care about battery life, there's no real reason to switch.
It depends on what you want to manage your tabs. For example, a good tiling window manager will handle tabbing for you. In i3 Meta-w will swap into tabbed mode.
The Man who Trapped us in Databases
Very similar to CoreOS'[1] directive

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/coreos/
Don't let this spider get near a Sony movie studio executive
Freshpaint (YC S19) is hiring engineers to enable privacy-first marketing
From cradle to grave, plastic everywhere: :-\

- Food supply and packaging: eat un-packaged, unprocessed food, leftovers in ceramic, glass, and metal
- Clothing: use cotton, hemp, wool
- Medical (PPE, masks, Covid/Flu vaccine syringe, IV administration set): stay healthy

I remember the old days of tin canned soup and TV dinners in metal foil trays.
> microwave covered by a plate to contain the inevitable food explosion

The default (maximum) power setting dumps so much energy so fast into the water in your food that some of it boils, and the expanding steam spatters food everywhere. This is also what causes the "burned on the outside, still cold in the middle" effect with leftovers, which aren't engineered to be microwaved on high the way most frozen packaged meals are.

Use a lower power setting for longer, and pause to stir if possible. That way there's more time for the heat to dissipate into the bulk of whatever you're microwaving, and few to no tiny, messy steam explosions.
From the Wikipedia article: "Silicone compounds are pervasive in the environment. Particular silicone compounds, cyclic siloxanes D4 and D5, are air and water pollutants and have negative health effects on test animals. They are used in various personal care products. The European Chemicals Agency found that "D4 is a persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic (PBT) substance and D5 is a very persistent, very bioaccumulative..."
So maybe silicones aren't great either
Blumenkrantz Optimizes Mesa Vulkan – Some Test Cases Improve 1000%+
I'm using syncthing to keep bare repos of my git dotfiles and alikes. Never any issues.
I find there's already too much written about 'good software', 'best practices', 'design patterns', 'refactoring' etc.
These books/articles almost try to force sw engineering into an harness as if it was the military.

A lot of sw practices and solutions are in the area of 'it depends'. That is where good (system!) domain knowledge, cooperation and argumentation comes into play.

More often than not, discussions are stalled because of ego, stubbernness, 'i know better', 'the standard practice says...' etc.

What's needed to arrive at good sw is good collaboration. 'I understood we need to implement this or that because the customer needs..., do you agree?' and 'the current system works like this so i would propose... what do you think?'

For some reason, it is hard to have such fruitful fully interactive, open and iterative discussions, which is a pity.
As some one in the demographic that would have benefited, I saw he promised it, followed through implementing it (although in a wishy-washy kind of way that should have been bigger), and then had it snatched away from me for political reasons from the other party. It's exactly how I have come to view political issues when it comes to race, gender, etc.

Better to have the Democrats over promise and sometimes kind of follow through than be targeted (either myself or family members/friends) for negative actions for a slightly lower tax coming out of my paycheck.
Ask HN: How are you hosting multiple small apps?
Curious how everyone handles hosting multiple side projects and apps? I have a few small apps with different frontend and backend stacks, and I've found it surprisingly difficult to deploy and host them without paying ~$5/mo per app. The monthly overhead starts to add up with 5 or 10+ apps, factoring in domain costs etc.

Lately I've been using an AWS Lightsail instance with an nginx reverse proxy and Let's Encrypt for managing the SSL certs for each domain. I've been able to run a few apps on a single instance for ~$5/mo. It takes a bit of time to setup each new app, but overall hasn't been terrible. Would love to find an easier way though so I don't need to keep updating my own nginx config.

How are y'all hosting your apps? Should I stop being cheap and just use Heroku? Let me know
This is the only sensible comment. This whole thread reads like a HN parody.
Which children shows from a century ago emphasized surveillance?
The article was about cancer rates in people under 50.
And in the end, it feels good and fresh. Just like any other (meaningful) skill, decent social skills put forth significant effects on one's awareness of their local surroundings, and with good social skills, invaluable experiences. I've struggled with it for the best half of my life, and later ignored the need to take action and improve. I moved on to finding out the subtle beauty of just pulling up a conversation with a completely new person, of course our perspectives and opinions might differ, and that's where I see the beauty and without it, the world wouldn't have been so dynamic so I think.
Right but in that case the housing price and not the interest rate is the problem, isn’t it?

Housing prices: record high

Interest rate: pretty moderate

Problem: the pretty moderate thing?

The solution to either of these problems is different. Answer to high housing prices: build more. Answer to high interest: lower interest, which then inflates housing prices, which without more building means just more people priced out.

The issue is prices which is an issue with supply.
Taiwan is using generative AI to fight Chinese disinfo
I've never microwaved wood, but I'm going to start, thanks!
Configuring OpenID Connect in PyPI
Known to gophers as a "big rat": https://pkg.go.dev/math/big#Rat
I’m developing a Mac app for backing up iCloud Photos here

www.ibeni.net
The prices are high. Not the interest rate. And yes the distinction is important because the solutions to each problem is different.
Given one I purchased became brittle and shattered a few years after I bought it, I'd dispute that.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37619819
Link: https://medium.com/@moh.aboelez/mark-zuckerberg-jeff-bezos-b...
And why phones are routinely hacked
Their operational forces are almost exactly that and could be engaged by the US military without troops even crossing the border.
Is it actual pollution or just water droplets?
It's hard enough for me to verbalize complicated or emotional thoughts -- not worrying about how I appear to the other person on video or in person lets me focus a lot better. Sometimes they need to be able to see your face for the message to really get across, but sometimes they don't.
NYC leases security robot to patrol Times Square subway station overnight