skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes and no.

Yes, almost no one needs a watch to tell time. I counted the clocks in my house a few years ago, counting anything that displays the time as a "clock" including things such as my microwave oven, my stove, computers, phones, tablets, DVCR, thermostat, TV, etc, and found something like 20.

But no, there are still functional reasons to have a watch. I do not want to deal with keeping all the aforementioned clocks actually set to the correct time. Some aren't a problem, such as computers and phones, because they automatically sync to time servers over the net.

With a watch I can reduce my clocks to those on my computer, phone, and tablet, and my watch for when I'm not using those, plus any clocks on things that actually need the correct time.
Thanks for the response. Honestly, I do see a few things there that sound deeply concerning to me, but I appreciate the fact that you're willing to say that you don't know.

Just for my own edification, are you religious at all? I'm asking, not as "an opportunity to preach" or finger wag or whatever, but just because I've found this kind of position to generally be followed by unbelievers more frequently than not. I try not to assume to know too much about complete strangers though, so I try to challenge various assumptions I form about others.
https://www.notion.so/help/notion-for-startups
Scratchwork – an online board with LaTeX support
How many humans (1-10? 10-100? 100-1000?) from the Mastodon community signed off on the Mastodon feature/policy which enabled admins to (inadvertently?) delete user content without advance notice to affected users?
So the rise of SUVs isn't a problem?
They're certainly trying. They bought up the old Intel modem IP and team. Qualcomm is an existential threat to their business so it makes sense to try to get them out of there.
I just want to say thank you for introducing me to Keyboard 71. I've never heard of Nintype, but this thing is incredible!
The report by dappgambl (which incidentially is a crypto casino) has sparked international attention. The report has been cited by international media, and has been wrongly interpreted. The most obvious flaw is that they confused the fundamental difference of price and value.

See RollingStone
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/nfts-worth...

The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/sep/22/nfts-wort...
I mostly agree with this, nobody likes `fobricate(true, false, true)`. I do have to wonder if this is a cure for the lack of named function arguments in C++.
Should be “hellocomputer” but you have to say it out loud in a Scottish accent.
As an anglophone, I really enjoyed the Water Margin podcast [1] which is a tranlastion of one of the great classics in full length, and with appropriate explanations for contemporarty cultural context.

1. http://www.outlawsofthemarsh.com/
I actually feel the same way. Facebook actually has relevant ads to local events (some of which I am even interested in). As opposed to Google which is trying to drive my purchasing behavior. or Twitter which is borderline useless. It is really the local part the others I missing and where value is provided.

I wonder if that is an ease of use facebook thing for small marketers, better location data, or lower ad costs making it more worthwhile
> "They just open the pump for them automatically," said Mo, the gas station owner.

> FOX 2: "And then cars just keep coming up and filling up?"

> "Yeah they meet up with them and tell them to come over here," he said.

It sounds like they find paying customers, then have the customers go get the gas from the unlocked pump. So essentially they are running a black market gas station within the actual gas station.
I've been using Firebase functions and Firebase function cron jobs for this purpose... but it's definitely a roll-your-own situation.

This project could go so many different ways and solve a bunch of my problems.
Errr all these companies eventually took VC
It’s more efficient to pay after you’ve completely filled your tank. I guess there is a trust issue, which is why it isn’t common in the US anymore.
After trying and failing to get MS Access to function on a DEC Alpha server, I finally gave up and installed SQL Server. It was a massive performance increase for many reasons, most of which related to MS Access being trash, but the better memory management in SQL server was part of it as well.

Sadly MS dropped support for Alpha, and changed the pricing models on NT and SQL Server so much it became unaffordable for small businesses. In 2 cuts, I watched the future of databases crumble.
maybe she turn on her phone just for the call to come, then back to normal
Airtable offer about $2,000 and is handy as a dumping ground for data and running no/low code experiments depending on what your company does.
There are crimes with dozens of witness clearly seeing the perp, caught on camera, etc. That's what they're talking about.
They don't care about the policies. If you believe that any of these people are good faith actors or care about the benefits of policies then you haven't been paying attention for the last 13 years.

This is pure politics. They know they're going to get smashed in the next election. They're just trying to get as many of their number to hang in there like barnacles.

In order to do that they have to throw a bucket of chum to their base to get them up on their hind legs to do a little dance.
The market pays what their skills are worth given the demand for their skills in that location. That's all. If someone is in India they will not be paid a SF salary for many reasons. But the market sorts all of it into a quantifiable price for labor. If you want to voluntarily pay more than what the market demands, that's more akin to charity.
Okay I can't try it out anyway. "Blocksparse is not available: the current GPU does not expose Tensor cores"

My "best" GPU is an RTX 2070 Super, Turing architecture.

I've seen similar messages when using stable-diffusion... either with -webui or with automatic, can't exactly remember, but they both run fine on that RTX 2070 Super, so I can only guess that they revert to some other method than Blocksparse on seeing that it doesn't support Turing. Or something. I haven't looked into how they deal with it.

I've submitted an Issue [0] for it. I don't have enough knowledge to know if there's some way of saying "don't use Blocksparse" for fontogen.

[0] https://github.com/SerCeMan/fontogen/issues/2
> To successfully get an application into production, you need to be an expert in the application itself, the deployment target and the deployment methodology.

I've solved this. I've built this.

> My analogy for this is how complex modern cars are, but you push a button to “start” them.

Yep. Press a button, and it does the job. It takes effort and time to get there, but it works, and it works well. And it's well worth the effort to set things up. Absolutely loved when this was up and running the way it was.

> In addition, the desire to create Terraform modules that meet every single user’s possible use case means that often, the module will expose the entire surface area of the APIs the module is managing to the user.

"Often?" No. Not in my experience. There are very few times you need to expose everything, and most of the features you want to expose are fairly standard for your company. Yes, if you are building modules for the community at large, yes. But you don't need to do that.
And yet it's still not enough for nearly every single person who made it to that point
> I am probably missing something then

Yes :) There can be multiple implementations using the same specification and still be compatible. For example, the new "facelift" they talk about in the submission article would be a new implementation, but still compatible with the old one, as they would (publicly) mostly have the same interface, so they can still talk.

There are many IPFS and libp2p implementations already, and they mostly aim first to be compatible with each other, so even if they work differently inside, they can communicate.

Similarly as with BitTorrent where many clients implement the same specification and can therefore exchange data still, just like TCP or basically any protocol.
I have one that was completely unexpected. My mother loves her apple watch - for apple pay! She doesn't have to fish anything out of her purse. She just double squeezes the watch, taps and pays. If five years ago you would have told me my 70+ year old mother would be a touch less pay enthusiast I would have said you were crazy - yet here we are.
I have been using it for my new project.
it's really gold, because I don't need to run another instance of NestJS for the background jobs.
Here in British Columbia, Grants law was passed requiring all gas purchases to be prepaid after a gas station worker named Grant was ran over and killed as he tried to stop someone attempting to gas and dash. Back then gas was much cheaper so someone died over like $50. Doesn’t need to be a lawless society just one where someone makes a stupid choice. And we have lots of stupid people out there.
> democracy has absolutely nothing to do with the value of innocence, otherwise angry mobs would be effective systems for justice

Juries are democratic in that they devolve power to a body of citizens, not the government. The unanimity requirement is a check on the mob, alongside various court procedures and the appeals process.
A Reality TV Show Rescued a Small Mississippi Town
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32681241

But yeah.. I've always found it shocking how many Americans think of type 2 diabetes as just a regular part of getting older.
Probably the best remediation option is to create a “permission” tab within the npm package page, just like how it’s with phones app, and once that package is submitted, it will be analyzed to show what access is needed, if I’m installing a package that doesn’t need to access my host and there’s a permission needed for that, it should raise some questions. Or just node/npm will be running in its own sandbox.
The worries of the worried people (a minority) are not even about ads that much, but rather about the privacy violations - which are not even touched by this proposal.
Does equal pay for everyone work out? I think it's a great idea, I just believe that it would lead to very good pay for people in cheaper countries and bad pay for people in more expensive locations? I mean if someone in London, New York or Munich could live from the wage, it must be a huge salary for someone in rural India? I wonder if this is fair (same skills, same pay) or unfair (lack of equal opportunity depending on location).
At a guess I expect its because the VC has vetted the business model and saves amazon from doing the same. e.g. if accel, a16z etc have stumped up seed money or an A-round it means the company would have a tested model, or at least one sufficient for them to throw serious amounts of money at. This saves amazon from having to do the same and allocate resources to vet the founders and startup themselves.
Has any jurisdiction in the US banned single family development? I am not aware of a single one.

Some have done away with single family zoning, but it's still perfectly legal to build SFH there; it's just not the only thing that's allowed to be built.
“pickled weights”?

serious question, how on Earth should someone like me, who has completely missed the last 12 months of AI development, catch up with the state of the art?
Scandinavian spy drama: the intelligence chief who came under state surveillance
No problem, just sell their user data for a premium so they can be advertised too in other ways. Its worth squeezing this one in many extra ways since, as you said, they've signaled they are valuable targets.

Plus Meta can also change it to limited ads later and sell those for bigger money.
Anonymization is a myth. If you sell ads on proxy data, that data can be deanonymized. Also, Facebook may not directly sell your social security but they sure will buy it from the less scrupulous (but more honest) companies.
What a terrible take. We should also make it legal to throw rocks in people's windows to ensure all glass is tempered. We should also make it legal to steal so that all stores have sufficient security presence. What kind of silly logic is that?
They had to change the date on Cyberpunk 2077 because 2020 arrived.
This is odd, I could have sworn mine rang the bell when the carriage return returned to the start of the line, so it was more of a "swoooosh ding!", but I watched a video and you're right. Very odd.
HN routinely acts as if luxury brands hypnotise their customers or something.

> There is a trick the fashion industries pull […] convincing new wealth that they need to flex their wealth.

Do they? Do they “convince them” that they “need to flex their wealth”?

> They do this by presenting an aura of exclusivity to certain products, usually by gating it by being expensive and hard to acquire.

I think you’re trying to describe Veblen goods but without the necessary vocabulary.

> New wealth tends to fall for it.

It’s just baseless assertions (and a dog whistle about “hip hop artists”) all the way down, I guess?
The average family isn't that spread out in their work-life habits as you make out. Most cities have an urban core where most commercial enterprises are, and most people commute into that area.

The vast majority of Dublin City Council (population ~600,000) is <15 minutes away from the city centre by bicycle. As such most people are within a 15 minute journey of most places of business that they could need, and most workplaces. Little work has been put in to make it this way, it's just a consequence of being an old, dense urban core. By contrast, people who live in the surrounding suburbs have woeful commutes that only make sense by car.

This is a consequence of building sprawling cities - it's not some innate fact of life. Developing dense cores that people commute to from relatively nearby areas results in short commutes for most people and makes active travel feasible. One core serving an ever expanding catchment area results in long commutes pushes people into cars.

Regardless, the main point of "15-minute cities" isn't to solve everyone's existing commute. It's to develop areas so that all essential services are available by active travel. It's to make shopping, education, healthcare, businesses and leisure accessible so everyone has the option to conduct their life with less travel, as opposed to a model where a vehicle is strictly necessary.
Just because my phone can tell the time, doesn't mean a watch is obsolete.

It gives me an ambient sense of the time because I end up glancing at it randomly. I lose track of how far along I am in the hour if I forget my watch.
Odds are its some techbro that lives in Oakland country, went down to some pump in Detroit where people DGAF, and did their exploit.

Also, I just call it south east Michigan. Detroit is subordinate to Oakland County now. Maybe we should call it Oakland-Macomb for better accuracy.
No cap gains on the house you treat as your primary residence for three out of the last five years up to $250,000 ($500,000 if married filing separately).

Less than a quarter of Americans own their own homes. [0]

[0] - https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnwake/2023/03/31/us-has-3rd-...
> Total inflation is up over 37% over last year and half (when you combine over quarters)

I don't think you have that right. If they say inflation was 8% for a quarter or whatever, that means it's 8% above the year-ago quarter. You don't sum the 8% over consecutive quarters. Each instance is comparing to a year ago, to account for seasonal effects.

(Also, remember that all these year-over-year numbers are skewed by pandemic effects. Inflation in 2022 looked high because demand was pent-up and time-shifted into that year. Inflation in 2023 will look less compared to the high baseline of 2022.)
But if I pay for no ads, do they need me to engage? Their income is fixed to 14$/month no matter the amount of engagement. Actually, they save server costs if I engage less.
My personal anecdote is that I stopped wearing a watch once I got a smartphone. I only recently picked one up because I was interested in the biometric data and tracking my running.

That all said the fact that they are wearing a rolex isn't to tell time, it's to wear a rolex.
GitShed: An idea for both a familiar and “low-tech” Git forge
RCX on android[0] gives a reasonable experience for pecking at files (Also handles media streaming reasonably well and supports the Crypt remote mentioned in the parent)

[0] https://github.com/x0b/rcx
To be fair, the gold Apple Watch was not just gold plated, a substantial part [0] of it was actual 18k gold.

[0] https://twitter.com/gak_pdx/status/568310194406469632
You understand you took that quote out of context right?

I think the OP meant:

>better to lose some money than risk losing a longtime customer...[as a] policy makes a lot of sense
I'm sure it happens all the time. I'm just wondering what their process is.
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Oh, also...

>How many of the 1.8 million monthly active Mastodon users are doing weekly backups of their Mastodon data?

I obviously do not have that information, but I would say this:

Anyone who makes a habit of actually exploring the Preferences of a new thing they're trying out, will have gone and looked at the Preferences area of their Mastodon page.

There they will have discovered the Data Export page, where it is explained to them that they have the option to do weekly backups, generally speaking.

Anyone who thinks about backups as a thing they try to do will just naturally start to do backups of this very personal data as soon as they feel the data is important enough to rate backing up.

People who have been using a Service to handle their backups, well, they might just kinda blow over that aspect of things and trust Big Machine Daddy to handle that, like the vast majority of internet users do.

As I keep saying, the problem here is people's expectations, which is born of not really understanding what the thing is in the first place. I read an article here on HN sometime back on some business times or financial post maybe, I don't remember, but I do remember they called Mastodon a "Vendor".

So many people simply do not understand so much. It was not so easy to say that in earlier times because it was not so easy to see that. It is now quite easy to see.
Ditto for Forth.
Different hammers on an old typewriter made different sounds likely due to differences in mass and the angle of approach.
> Sure, just like a necklace or a ring. Because that's what those expensive watches are: pieces of jewelry.

> So what's the point of jewelry? Fashion, and signaling your wealth mostly.

That's a sweeping generalization, pun intended... I guess "expensive" is relative but I own a few four-figure watches and appreciate them for their aesthetic and the engineering that went into creating them. Being able to tell the time mechanically without cellular service or an Electron app is a welcome reprieve in today's world. I suppose my Casio F-91W is more accurate but it's also much less whimsical and doesn't really feel like "my" watch the way that my Damasko does. Ditto for the Rolex that I inherited from my Grandpa - the German watch that's worth 15% (but still 50 times the cost of the Casio, i.e. "luxury") and has zero brand recognition gets worn way more often because it's my jam.

My next purchase will likely be a Seamaster Professional not because I want to signal that I can afford a $4000 watch but because I like the aesthetics and the movement. Obnoxious Rolex bros are certainly a thing (I see them in public fairly regularly) but that doesn't mean that everybody that enjoys nice watches does so for the sake of conspicuous consumption :-).
Building personal and organizational prestige
Fairphone phones have a good history of supporting alternative operating systems, like lineageos: https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ or /e/ https://doc.e.foundation/devices/FP4 (which also sells fairphones with their os pre-installed.

They document how to unlock the bootloader here: https://support.fairphone.com/hc/en-us/articles/104924762388...
Not going to buy, because I anticipate remaining happy with my FP 4 for several years :)
I'd be shocked to discover that it's had one :)
Yes, they can. But it's different from saying that no-one uses them.
TiDB: A Raft-Based HTAP Database
My hypothesis is that the construction of gas pumps were using parts that have Bluetooth features that although not used by the pump or the station, are left in for speed and cost.

There are many single board computers that have BT, WiFi, and other radios enabled and forgotten.

For example, try to get a laptop that does not have a built in camera. It is significantly higher price that with camera. I am guessing similar is happening in gas pump manufacturing.

The firmware stack would also fall into the similar 'laziness'. "The [chip/radio/whatever] driving library is already made, why recompile it without the BT when it could be working right now"...
Neat! Does it have prompt capabilities for things like FVAR, GSUB, and GPOS? E.g. "okay now include a many-to-one ligature that turns the word 'chicken' into an emoji of a chicken in the same style" or "now make a second, sans-serif, robotic style and add an axis called interpol that varies the font from the style we just made to this new style"?
Oh I actually agree with you. It's the hyperbolic, "That $230,000 was taken from the pockets of my non-homeowning friends," grandstanding that gets under my skin. It's (usually) empty virtue-signalling.

IF someone actually means it, though, (which is a very big IF), taking out a HELOC and giving the money to friends for their own down payments is nothing like giving cash to a stranger with a demonstrated history of ending up without money.

If someone really does think their position is a fortuitous accident, and that their friends are equally deserving, just less lucky, they can settle the score. They can take the fruits of their luck, give it to their friends to afford them the same advantage of home ownership, and place themselves in a financial situation similar to their friends. Similar interest rate. Similar equity in the home. Even things out again.

There might be people who really do believe they should right a wrong, and they have the opportunity.

Realistically, I think it's like the richest people who bemoan the injustice that they don't even pay taxes as high as their hired servants, but wouldn't dream of using the IRS's easily available option to pay more taxes voluntarily.

I don't like it when people get points for pretending they care.
Give them the option of medical assisted death.
Running Stable Diffusion XL 1.0 in 298MB of RAM
This made me chuckle, here's a copy of the original article [1] for anyone interested.

1. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/technet-...
They also support Ubuntu touch
Who?

Paris Hilton's time was pushing two decades ago. She seems an odd choice to be seeking out to re-establish the prestige of a top social media site.
I hope I don't regret asking, but I'm genuinely curious about the details here. What religious/political implications are there (in the US, I presume?) for babies and mothers dying a lot in the old times? I've never seen this discussion become polarized before.
Okay speech recognition will be implemented in future, maybe with openai whisper.
How is banning multi-family housing from being constructed on privately-owned land the same thing as your city’s subsidized housing commission? Ones banning humans from being able to physically move into town at all (or existing landowners from exercising their property rights), the other is using city funds to subsidize/incentivize some people’s housing costs. You seem to be equating the two.
The Upcoming Mazda RX-9 Will Keep the Spirit of the Rotary Engine Alive
Framework Laptop 13.5 Ryzen 7 7840U review
You can doesn't mean you should though