skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
More backstory: The ID assigned to posts is a sequential incrementing number. So it is possible to "aim" for a nice round number by posting at the right time

When people notice that their post IDs start approaching a large whole number, a bunch of people might try to get ("GET") the post with ID, say, 2000000 by timing it

It's not really a marker of anything, just a semi-random event that people have fun with. It's sort of... tolerated, as long as it's infrequent and doesn't cause too much noise
Amazon Music lets you turn off notifications but has blocking modal advertisements for upgrades or whatever (so like when you go in to start a playlist it makes you dismiss an advertisement first).

I gripe at them pretty consistently and the various customer service people don't even know the basics of how the app functions. I'm sure someone is really proud that their campaign to harass all of their paying users has led to some number of subscription upgrades though.
I've taken to just disabling all notifications from food delivery apps when I don't have an order pending.
> Bold ideas are welcome. Burrying heads in the sand not an option.

It's simple. It's more mobility options, especially safe active transportation. EVs are still cars. It's a change in the margin. What is really needed is people biking, walking for their daily errands instead of using a car.

As for the safe part, it does not require anything special. The aspirational world of the future will be made real with bollards and trees. The american brain today cannot comprehend this. Yet it is a certainty.
> CERN’s data store has now crossed the remarkable capacity threshold of one exabyte, meaning that CERN has one million terabytes of disk space ready for data!

1MTB -> 1EB ready for data. It is _effective space_, not raw space. And it keeps growing.
that was 10 years earlier

i was there...
> I dare you to find the fertility of Münich or Köln or Frankfurt, in summer time, elsewhere

How can you not mention Berlin? Splendid city to experience in spring and summer.
The ribbon ruined office. I bet I could still open office 97 and get everything I want to do wordprocessing wise done, though.
Positive externalities? How does someone else driving a car possibly have a positive external effect?

Perhaps you don't know what an externality is. Congrats, you are one of today's lucky 10000.
Great post, thanks for the insight.

I have a question regarding this point:

> 2. never expose real tables to an application. Create an "API" schema which contains only views, functions, procedures, and only allow applications to use this schema.

Would a view-based indirection help with rollbacks? For example, in scenarios where a column is added/dropped, would it work to just join with a new relationship column? Rolling back would consist of updating the view to include/exclude the join operation, and the old data would remain in place.
total Bavarian victory
You seem to have lived through a different pandemic than the rest of the world.

It's hard to say the GBD was wrong when Sweden didn't lock down and they weren't exactly seeing bodies pile up in the street.

Covid is now here to stay, ranking somewhere in severity between the common cold, flu or pneumonia.
We'll see. Companies like Abelton aren't going to throw out their whole codebase and start from scratch, just to accommodate advancements in technology. But if I can just talk to the LLM, and say "hey, gimmie a drum beat, now add in a bass line, no not like that, like <hums into mic>", do I really need the overhead of the traditional view of separate tracks and midi and plugins? When making music is as easy as describing something to Stable Diffusion, it's not that old is automatically bad, but we don't operate car like the Flintstones. When I'm walking, I use my feet, one at a time, over and over again. When I'm in my car, I don't use that same interface to operate my car. I don't take foot steps to make my car move. There's just a button press, with my foot, to make many many footsteps happen. If AI is able to similarly accelerate music production, the old interface may just simply not make sense anymore.

Is the old in this case the wheel, which is fundamentally the same, except there have been thousands of years of technological improvements surrounding it, or is it the computer, where modern day computers have only a passing resemblance to the original thing.
From the comments:

>They never got anything off of Microsoft. They got this incriminating evidence from a recording made by one of the people after the FBI showed up at his house, having noticed the trades: “[they can’t get the 360 chat recordings] Viggiano allegedly told Salamone in a recording made by the latter after both were first interviewed by the FBI in June.”
It's been a long time since my DSP classes at uni, but I don't think this is true. 44.1kHz sampling is enough to reproduce up to 22.05kHz sound accurately without aliasing. Unless there is another type of distortion you might be picking up. This stuff is pretty far out of my realm these days.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyquist_frequency
I don't think it's made for us to be kept from applying, I just think the flow is horrible and nobody bats an eye cause it's working and there's nothing else out there...I mean people are slowly catching on now.

If you're technical, I'm down to streamline this if you are. When I created the post I had an idea...it's turned into a full-blown platform now.

Let me know if you're down!
> These devs didn't even notice it until they tried to rip into the inner workings.

I mean, considering the source isn't open. Yeah, you need to do that.
The Y axis is dollars, not BTC.
Bias in meta-analysis detected by a simple, graphical test
Are we talking mp3 or other codecs here? mp3 has a a couple of encoding ”tells” that a trained listener can pick up on (although it gets increasingly hard to do so beyond 128kbit IIRC). Other codecs don’t even have those & at higher bitrates people can’t pick them out in blind listening tests.
Good point about dolphins ans whales, but, if you've ever watched parrots, they have feet and a beak/tongue that can grasp and manipulate in a way that's analogous to human hands.
With trains, the hardware isn't the problem. The property rights are - specifically those of people owning land and real estate on, or near, the planned tracks. But it's still a possible (if uber expensive) problem - the government could eminent domain its way through. But expecting people to spontaneously abandon cars and demand trains? That is impossible in practice.
> Vitamin D is manufactured in our bodies when the UVB rays in sunlight react with a chemical in the skin called 7-dehydrocholesterol. Bone and muscle cells use it to regulate levels of calcium and phosphorus, which are needed to keep them strong and healthy

If you are at all active over age 30 — by which I mean you EVER run, jump, or otherwise put pressure on your spine — you need to get lots of sunlight.

Most people have insufficient if not downright deficient levels of vitamin D. Spondylolysis and eventual spondylolisthesis is not a prognosis you want for your back.
Higher UV exposure associated with lower mortality: UK Biobank Cohort Study [pdf]
Maybe, but I think playing with meta-metrics is a dangerous game. I know plenty of people that just let notifications pile on. Some people have weird flows — e.g. see notification, don’t interact with it directly, then manually navigate to and enter the app that notified.

I really just think individual notifications (not apps) just need an explicit “this is spam” report button.
Buying cheap in the US is more often due to ignorance of the item, quality, and frequency of future use.

Even most poor people, when educated about certain products can afford the quality item or change their habits to not need the item at all.
Huh. It really worked well for me so far. Interesting.
I straight up uninstall apps that send me unsolicitated notifications.
"You haven't played this game in x days..." yeah you are right, time to uninstall it :)
First-party Sony studios are reportedly “uncomfortable” with pivot towards GaaS
Never feel sorry for raising dragon-slayers in a time when there are actual dragons.
> I wish the nationwide 55mph speed limit were reinstated

In places like SF and LA, even existing traffic laws are not enforced due to "equity".

https://www.ghsa.org/resources/Equity-in-Highway-Safety-Enfo...
Same happens with phone calls themselves. People on the other side seem to assume they take automatic precedence over whatever else you were doing.
I’ve gotten lots of anti vaxxers to be into vaccines by saying what the parent said, most of them are just allergic to the word vaccine and don’t know what it means, (specifically I’m referring to using dead pathogens not just a low dosage of live ones)

so just describe the procedure, and call it a secret that big pharma doesnt want them to know, and theyre into it. be anybody but a doctor lol

slam dunk
Well for college kids and young people you need to know if an event is being created or you're being invited somewhere. I don't want to check my phone every 30 minute throughout the day and nobody around me is rigid enough to plan everything days in advance. Sometimes you wanna go on an impromptu road trip or to a party or maybe there's a test you didn't know about and the study group is organizing a session. Maybe you just wanna be a part of the conversion when you're friend group starts taking instead of always pitching in hours later.

Typing this all out, these are all young people things so i don't expect someone with kids and a mortgage to have the same experience but imagine if your sms app was littered with ads and you couldn't turn off their notifications without missing messages from your children needing assistance. That's basically the type of dirty attention capture these companies are engaging in.

If you don't understand why someone would use snapchat or other image based social messaging apps then you won't understand this particular issue as you don't have it.
Next year, maybe :)

https://www.bundesregierung.de/breg-de/aktuelles/cannabis-le...
Thanks. I've been to Europe a bunch of times, including once east of the Iron Curtain when it was still up. If I were to go back now, the Balkans, Poland, and Lithuania would be the destinations (the last two are for ancestry reasons).

They're just more interesting.
> this idealism and desire to force companies to support everything

I'm sorry, where did I proposed we do that? As far as I am aware my proposal would only force Apples to split itself in 2: a hardware company that sells top notch hardware (so top notch in fact that even the hardware interfaces are as clean and slick as an iPad's case), and a software company that sells a top-notch integrated software suite on whatever hardware they chose to support (and no other hardware).

This idea that Apple's hardware is somehow better because they don't publish their spec sounds incoherent to be honest. As is the idea that their software is better because it runs on company hardware. If there's still a company selling good hardware, one can still write good software for that particular hardware.

So… forcing hardware companies to support all software? Nope, though publishing their spec does automatically provide some level of support for arbitrary software. Forcing software companies to support all hardware? No more than they do now, possibly even less: hardware vendors will be incentivised to harmonise their respective interfaces to appeal to a maximum number of software vendors, so software vendors will be incentivised to support a relatively limited set of interfaces.
Consciousness must be related to connectedness. A microchip is like a prison where transistors sit in isolated cells and don't interact with each other, so while each prisoner is conscuous, a group higher-order consciousness doesn't form. A brain is more like a pub where neurons interact with each other freely, each contributes its small consciousness, so a group consciousness form.

However I don't believe that consciousness is a property of a thing. Rather, it must be like sunlight, and each neuron acts as a lens to collect and shape that light.
I can’t focus on the table because I’m trying to figure out how these flowers are floating in mid air above the table.
I just wish he was able to keep http://canv.as/ going.

It was such a good product.
The problem here is that the HN title is incorrect for this article. I'd say a clickbait title matching the submisison is much better than an incorrect title.
Ok, a lot of people feel this about their cities they view through the lens of the past. I think the same of Nashville, but I at least acknowledge I am extremely biased and basically just a grumpy 30+ year old. Munich is easily one of the best -big- cities in the world. Literally everything you just said could be applied to virtually every large city on Earth. Munich has roughly the same population as Manhattan, it is a huge city and yet is clean, safe, accessible, has great transit, close to tons of lakes and the Alps. I know Germans are fairly pessimistic, so not really surprising to hear this, but also, I will vouche that it's not really in touch with reality when you compare it to cities of similar sizes in Europe and the US.
For sure there are some apps that abuse the system but most are quite good with it. And I can say that e.g. Doordash and Uber Eats both give you granular control over notifications related to your delivery updates, Uber actually gives you about a dozen categories of alerts.
That’s him posting to his own list. Think of it as an old-fashioned blog post.
On HN, reposts don't count as duplicates unless the article has had significant attention (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). That one hadn't, so this one doesn't.

The reason for this is that we want good submissions to get multiple chances at getting attention, i.e. to mitigate the randomness of what achieves liftoff from /newest.
the only means of expressing yourself is by virtue of your ideas

what do you mean by that?

how is it any different on HN?
>Japan's democracy story is even more sordid)

How so?
> 15 euros for a liter of beer? That's bloody ridiculous.

Better cross Norway off your vacation list, then!
Yeah there’s an inflatable version but it doesn’t work well if the person in front of you reclines. If it was four inches taller you’d have the bottom part on your lap rather than the tray and it’d be pretty great

https://www.amazon.com/Inflatable-Airplane-inflatable-Sleepi...
GLP is a Monsanto-fronted publication [0], so there is a significant bias and I'd take anything they say (i.e. a company that really would like you to buy crop treatments) with a pinch of salt.

[0] https://usrtk.org/industry-pr/jon-entine-genetic-literacy-pr...
This is identical to the Ostrich pillow that was on Kickstarter about 10 years ago. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/studio-banana/ostrich-p...

I remember it because they demoed it at TechHub.
facepalm

Whoever asked this have not considered for one second what would it mean in a way that can be put into legislation to "make drivers that work equally in linux, windows and even macOS". This is an incredibly, incredibly difficult topic. How would you phrase and likely measure "equality" here? I have no clue how to answer this even in layman terms. Perhaps someone would need to create and maintain a test suite covering all class of peripherals covered by the legislation and mandate this test suite passes. But even that would not cover performance. Much good does it to you if the video card tests pass unaccelerated.

And then the way this question is put forward also shows this person is not at all familiar with how the EU works. The EU does not have laws in the very first place. It does not. But that aside, the amount of study and coordination that goes into creating or amending an existing directive is just monumental. You would need a strong, compelling need to go through a multi year process, costing many millions of euros. In this case, the need was crystal clear: "these new obligations will lead to more re-use of chargers and will help consumers save up to 250 million euro a year on unnecessary charger purchases. Disposed of and unused chargers account for about 11 000 tonnes of e-waste annually in the EU". How many EU consumers are even affected? Because mobile phone chargers, these days, affect everyone (above the age of three or some such).

Here's a quote from the relevant USB C legislation:

Stakeholder consultations

The following consultation activities were conducted between May 2019 and April 2021 in order to assess potential areas for revision and the impacts of the suggested policy option in various areas:

– an inception impact assessment (2018-2019) targeted citizens, consumer
associations, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), manufacturers’ associations, and individual manufacturers;

– a public consultation (2019) targeted member states, citizens, consumer associations, NGOs, manufacturers’ associations, and individual manufacturers;

– two consumer surveys (2019 and 2021) targeted citizens;

– a stakeholders survey (2020-2021) targeted Member States, citizens, consumer
associations, and manufacturers;

– targeted interviews (2021) targeted consumer associations, environmental
associations, market surveillance authorities, NGOs, manufacturers’ associations, and manufacturers;

– expert group meetings targeted consumer associations, Member States, market
surveillance authorities, NGOs, manufacturers’ associations, and manufacturer

And all of that was to survey compelling to use an existing, well understood, already ubiquitous standard.
I'd love that option, but highschool mandates a smartphone, go figure: let's give attention deficit teenagers an always on distraction device and then complain about how hard it is to keep them focused.
Honestly, the gloom over Germany’s economy is fairly overblown. Germany is facing challenges, but they're by no means as apocalyptic as people make them out to be.

It’s not really a German recession, but instead a global manufacturing recession. Germany’s economy is highly exposed to manufacturing, and so it shows up more in the country-wide economic stats. If you look at almost any major manufacturing country right now, their manufacturing sector is also in recession.

Many other economic sectors of Germany are doing just fine, especially services. Unemployment is also very very low, so the country is well positioned to re-absorb any jobs that may be lost if some manufacturing companies go under, and those jobs may end up going into more productive companies or sectors anyways.

I moved here from Canada two months ago and I’m really liking it so far.
They're being an unprofessional asshole. That they enjoy doing so hardly does them any credit.
It's a courtesy for the delivery person, so they don't have to ring and wait for you to get to the door. Instead you get a notification when they are getting close to your house (via GPS tracking).
Usha's Pickle Digest is a great resource for pickling recipes: https://a.co/d/cOPoPni

There was a NYT writeup back in 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/06/dining/indian-pickle-quee...
One of the things I hated about moving to iOS from Android is that the Garmin iOS app doesn't give you per-app controls over what notifications are pushed to the watch. At least on Android, I could easily control watch notifications per app, so that only "important" apps' notifications would buzz my watch. But on iOS, some random slack DM is going to wake me up on my days off..

So if I want to sleep in, I need to remember to both put my phone in "sleep focus" and either change the Garmin notification hours, or just disable bluetooth.
Late middle-aged Pacific Northwesterner here. My wife (same situation as me) and I have argued over the meaning of "a couple" since about half-past forever. I was raised to understand that "a couple" means two, no more, no less. She was raised to believe "a couple" is more like "a few" -- two to, say four or five.

However, the argument no longer exists, as she has come to understand that if she asks me to bring her "a couple" of anything from the pantry, she will receive two. She has learned to speak precisely...or at least precisely enough for me.
McCabe and Mrs Miller is a great movie about creating a prostitution business in the Wild West.

There Will Be Blood also (for obvious reasons)
A post on a public forum by the leader of Asahi does reflect on Asahi, whether the post is "official" or not.
How the tax prep industry enabled Meta to harvest millions of taxpayers' data [pdf]
And some apps (like Play Store) just have too many to wade through - pages and pages, with labels which in some cases aren't obvious as to what they do. The kitchen-sink overload is equally problematic.
Yes, but good luck getting those people to see things your way.
It is the project lead for Asahi however. As such it’s indistinguishable behaviour
I think the severity of long Covid might be more debilitating as it is my understanding that the long-term consequences of pneumonia is not as long lasting. I've not known of people that have had to change their whole way of life, and possibly their career, because of pneumonia or flu but have met a few that have had to do so as a consequence of long Covid.
The only joke is the laughable enforcement of the ADA, including shallow-as-hell obvious ploys to exclude disabled people without saying "we don't want to work with cripples". And pregnant people. Again, to business fucks, these people are liabilities - we can't use their body up since it's already used up.

Take a look over here to see a bunch of anecdotes about this very US based 'policy' https://old.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/15dvtwa/why_do_so...

This also goes directly along side that retail workers are NOT permitted to have chairs at a register, because of the similar reason (standing constantly excludes disabled and pregnant folk). And somehow sitting=lazy unless it's white collar work. We're allowed to be 'lazy'.
Exactly this. People who don't value Bitcoin or what it stands for say it's a waste of resources. Same can be said about AI image generation and LLMs
if you want to know what to expect, try this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan
So if you had an 88k recording, you could run it through a well-known anti-aliasing filter to create a 44k recording that sounded the same?

So the only situation where 44k and 88k can sound wrong is if... the 44k file is different and wrong?
Reddit: Dumb acting smart.
4chan: Smart acting dumb.
HN: Smart acting smart.
I still remember making a thread on /b/ when bitcoin hit $100, with a pic of vegeta going super Saiyan.

See you space cowboy
you're mixing apples and oranges.

Replacement rate in a country with a good health system where people average longer life expectancies is 2.2 births per woman.

Replacement rate needs be much higher than 2.2 in a country with high infant mortality, long wars, etc, such as exists in much of Africa, where birth rates are the highest.
What's wrong with a little bit of Rock Paper Scissors structure?
I just want to add that a "report spam notification" feature would be a godsend and is the single best idea I've heard this month. It would change the attention economy entirely! At least until app developers began running bot farms to report each other's apps and poison the models
Google Wave was too far ahead of its time. Even now, products are just starting to pivot away from the paper-centric view of documents and take baby steps toward living document collaboration (intersection of multi-player documents and chat/comments).
Another piece is that all “time sensitive” notifications come with a button underneath to not let that app send time sensitive notifications anymore
If its an iPhone, have your son add you as an emergency contact and enable overrides for text and phone.

I had the same problem with my son running his phone 24/7 in DND, and this helped a lot.