skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember begging my parents to take me to a Radio Shack to get one of these when I was in second grade. The idea of being able to scan various items around the house was such a wild concept to me for some reason. Once we finally tracked one down, I scanned every book on my shelf into a trial copy of Winnebago Spectrum that I had obtained. It was the software suite that my elementary school's library ran off of, and I installed it on a Windows 2000 PC that my dad had passed down to me after upgrading the office computer. God knows how many hours I spent playing library with my younger sister and aimlessly scanning ISBNs - such simple times! Surprisingly I still have that same PS/2 CueCat in my drawer, though it hasn't been plugged in for at least fifteen years.

I know many of us in this community tend to look back at the earlier days of the internet very fondly and feel the nostalgia hit strongly, and I think it's because of the innovations (or maybe gimmicks?) like these that were novel and groundbreaking in many ways. Off the top of my head right now, I can't recall anything in recent times as quirky as the CueCat that would have evoked a similar excitement and genuine intrigue to a child today like I was fortunate to have experienced twenty years ago. But then again, I'm sure back then there weren't many seven year olds hunting down library database software and messing around with it for fun - so maybe my perspective is an outlier...
No it will not:

fn requires_static(_: &'static str) {}

let long_lifetime: &'static str = "";
let closure = |_input: &str| -> &str { long_lifetime };
let short_lifetime = &String::new();
requires_static(closure(short_lifetime));

This code compiles currently as the returned `&str` is inferred to be `&'static str` because this is what it actually returns, but with #10 fixed it will not because lifetime elision rules say that the lifetime of the output is the same as the lifetime of the input.
I think what GP was suggesting was that this person might have a chance to redeem themselves if they were surrounded by, and came to respect, people like you're describing. Do you think that's ever possible?
Turing machines? Not really. Infinite loops[0]? All the time. The designers generally try to avoid those being legal in "Standard" unless it's extremely unlikely to happen (only the most recent few years of cards are legal in tournament play. In casual play anything can be legal if your group is okay with it).

A common trope is to have a card that allows you to create mana, and then a way to infinitely bring that card back from the discard pile, allowing for infinite mana. Then you play a card that says something like "spend X mana to deal X damage" and you deal a trillion damage.

[0] the above commenter is correct that a true infinite loop is not allowed. But you're allowed to create a scenario where an infinite loop happens according to a repeating choice you can make (essentially a while loop) and repeat as much as you want within the match timer while still allowing time for your damage card. The general etiquette is just to say "I can do this a billion times and so I deal a billion damage".

I've actually been at a local (mostly informal) tournament where someone with an Elf deck managed to pump their life into the thousands (you start with 20 or 40 depending on the ruleset), and his opponent with a Goblin deck got an infinite combo for infinite damage. But the Elf player refused to accept "I can do this infinity times" and made him actually try to perform his card combo over a thousand times before the round timer ran out. Goblin deck did not win.
Imagine if you snuck out your phone to do something, and the response was forcing a factory reset.

If you're not treating kids' devices as special in a bad way, you'd never even think of making that the rule!
Israel investigates possible trading knowledge ahead of Oct 7 Hamas attack
> "This is a 1080P mini Shower shelf spy camera that looks like an ordinary can of Shower shelf. The camera is so well hidden that no one will know that the Shower shelf actually contains a mini bathroom spy camera. Because it is so well hidden, you can put it anywhere, even in the bathroom, and no one will be suspicious. "

I don't know who buys their "Shower shelves" in cans but this whole blurb makes no sense. The picture shows a shower head, not a shelf or a can.

The malicious intent is clear at the end of the quoted paragraph though. Not to mention that I wouldn't know where else to use a shower head other than "even in the bathroom".
SML is great, but I always suggest OCaml. Still my favourite language that I never get to write these days!
As opposed to archaic parenting being about what exactly?
My application is I want to be able to drill a hole and fill it with food and fungal spores. Later I want to come back and harvest a giant mushroom which will be full of lithium that the mycelium has pulled from the ground and concentrated at the surface.

Can you suggest a species for me to use? I know that there are ones that do this, more or less, for arsenic, but I want lithium instead.
I think protists (like the amoeba) are considered a fourth kingdom within the eukaryotes. But that isn't even the highest level of classification: eukaryotes are only one of three domains of life, the other two being bacteria and archaea. (Eukaryotes are believed to have originated as symbiotic unions of ancestors of archaea and bacteria.)
Another interesting example is "Delay No More", which in Cantonese, sounds very much like a local slang with connotations referring to one's mother.

Reference: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=23455
Exactly, and it was the right move too. It's saved MS lots of money, and eliminated a function that just wasn't necessary. The users can do the QA; why should MS pay money for professionals to do it? My Microsoft stock price has done great as a result of smart cost-cutting moves like this, and also adding more advertising to the OS.
> unless you run your own company

That just changes the boss to clients, investors, business needs.

Plenty of company owners work harder for longer for higher risk. We get a job so we don't need to deal with most any failure case more dramatic than getting sacked (which has some obvious mitigations).

There is a selection bias - the type of person to run a business is usually highly motivated and they often sell the dream about how amazing their life is (which it often isn't).
>People who are sure that the completely arbitrary, save-our-rolls-of-film 24 FPS is actually some magical, perfect number. It is insane. Everyone else is simply handcuffed to that completely obsolete choice from years ago, and will be for years more.

Instead of trying to jump to 48fps or 60fps, maybe they should just adopt 30fps as the new standard for a while. The 24fps fans won't have too much to complain about, because it's not that much faster (and it's the same as the old NTSC standard), and the HFR fans will at least have something a little better. Then, in a decade, they could jump to 36fps, then 42, then 48, etc.

As a bonus, the file sizes for movie files won't be that much bigger at only 30fps, instead of 60+.
Interestingly, some of The Hobbit fan edits changed the frame rate back to 24fps; watching those on my regular IPS screens, they look just fine.
Discussed at the time:

Common Rust Lifetime Misconceptions - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23279731 - May 2020 (43 comments)
Usually after about the third layoff, that typically means a company has been "caught with its pants down" so to speak, correct? So they are having severe money problems I guess.
A %12 tax is relatively mild, but you're right that a transition to a tax system that taxes land more and taxes everything else less will screw over existing investors of underutilized land.

Another pain point is that homeowners who have been sitting on lots that are highly desirable and infilled will be taxed considerably more. This is in the long run a major benefit of the LTV: that underutilized land is put to productive use. That doesn't mean the political optics won't be difficult to square.
>$1500 isnt going to pay for many nights in a hotel either.

You're right: $1500 will only get you a few nights at an American hotel chain like Hilton here in Japan ($400/night at Hilton Tokyo). If you use local hotels, you could spend a month here for that much money, but Americans can't stay at non-American hotels, just like they can't go anywhere on public transit and need to rent a huge SUV to drive everywhere.

It's extremely expensive for Americans to travel internationally, because they simply can't live and travel like the locals, and need to do everything like they're back in America.
Hey, XSLT is functional, and functional languages are sexy, right?

What XSLT did do was standardize XML on a transformation language. JSON never really got that, and the ecosystem is worse for it.
The U.S. sorta did this in the copper days: the local/incumbent phone company owned the copper from the home to the CO (central office) and then phone service could be handled by either the ILEC or CLEC. And you could dial-in to whatever ISP you wanted. This was intended to provide some amount of competition.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive_local_exchange_car...

https://www.bandwidth.com/glossary/competitive-local-exchang...

But once you could get voice & data from either the telco or the cable company, this all went out the window.
When they ask about conflict, they're not talking about a scenario that is already violent. And why are you going to such an unpleasant extreme?
Jon Fosse won the 2023 Nobel Prize for Literature. It's not nothing.
> want to increment the version number of things like React, MUI, webpack, TS by.. one!

To be fair, in semver that means a breaking change of some sort.
I'm another data point that confirms this. ADHD has become harder to manage close to when I was diagnosed with hypertension, almost to the point of complete executive dysfunction.

Guanfacine helps significantly.

I'm also on BP medication, and if I miss a couple of doses and my BP rises, it becomes impossible to think clearly. So the link to cognitive decline seems unsurprising to me.
Looks like their CoLab works (and they've provided open access to a cloud-hosted NexusRaven-V2), but the links to HuggingFace and GitHub are not yet live.

https://colab.research.google.com/drive/19JYixRPPlanmW5q49WY...
> But there are many neighborhoods that are not that lucky

I think this is probably the most important point. Much of the crime is concentrated in the city's far west and far south sides, where I generally don't go. These stats are old, but the map is roughly correct and shows the disparity I'm talking about:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Chicago#/media/File:2...

The effect is that most of the city is safe, but people on the far south side are impacted by crime. Not to defend the situation—I of course wish that all of Chicago was safe and want to see our city make progress on that. Just trying to provide nuance.
The web page doesn't work in Firefox :( Looks neat though, I checked it out on my phone. Right up my alley!

The error it throws is:

TypeError: WeakMap key must be an object, got Be
This is a great critique, and something important to address if "pragmatic versioning" actually becomes a thing. I think one solution is to have "LTS Pragmatic Versioning" as a subtype e.g. LTS.ANNOUNCE.INCREMENT could be "LTS Pragmatic Versioning", if you're not committing to LTS you can just use the more vague base "Pragmatic Versioning" until/unless you're willing to commit to more as a package author. The main tension here is some package authors will want to indicate LTS, and others won't (I might only commit to LTS for 10-20% of my packages, since every change needs a tiny bit of extra evaluation)
A case like this shouldn't be allowed to settle. It should go in the criminal court and set a clear precedent that this is not ok.
Bitcoin Core 26.0
On one hand I absolutely believe this does routinely happen. On the other every researcher/inventor out there with a project that went nowhere claims that they were on the cusp of a breakthrough and only silenced because of the government/corporations/illuminati. I'd wager the vast majority are in the second category.
Ask HN: Who wants to give back to HN community?
I just accepted a buyout offer from my company and am privileged to be able to take a sabbatical for the next 1-2 months without worrying about money ( too much).

I've been on HN for more than 14 years and this community is a huge part of my online and real life. So I thought: Maybe I can be of help to the HN community by donating my time and skillset.

My last job was a senior product manager, with deep knowledge in Retail and T&L industries. My focus was on new product/business development.

* At a high level, I can evaluate product plans, PM fit, capturing and managing user stories, developing metrics, etc.

* Additionally, I can also help with UI design, site testing

* For young members, I can offer mentorship (currently doing that for a number of students and junior colleagues), resume editing, personal brand building

Please feel free to reach out, no request is "below me". My email is in my signature.

Maybe others can also offer to volunteer their time and this can be turned into a regular site feature like the monthly hiring posts.
> we all can’t pump a huge amount of future CO2 out of the ground for almost nothing and sell it for a lot

But a lot of countries have done this while also not achieving the outcomes Norway has achieved. Lots of rich oil countries out there.
Note that the original article was written in 2018. I wonder what kind of advances there have been since?

My wife and I have four cats. There are cats we have lost in the past due to kidney disease (and other complications). We would be very interested in this research.
> If you make a camera as a towel hook you need to have good know your customer policies to ensure only legitimate porn producers buy it.

Legit porn producers won't buy this for 2 reasons:

- The quality will be unusable for real porn

- The models know they're being filmed so there's no need to hide the camera. You can just put a real cam on the wall to simulate a hidden cam.
Many of which can also have lots of good intent. I would not blame a doctor for wanting to do genetic testing to look for specific markers. But the whole plot of the movie Gattaca is employers and insurance companies discriminating against people due to risks, even if the risks are small because they can find people without those risks. (Which often creates a self fulfilling prophesy of gene-socioeconomic class status. Scifi not always about future issues...). The problem with cliques is that we get annoyed at them but we do seem to keep forgetting that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. But maybe cliques aren't good because they don't end up reminding us but instead teach us to ignore them and convince ourselves we've learned the lesson because we know the clique.
It's a common myth, but he wasn't drunk, and the deal didn't happen that day. Several meetings later with several more officials and the deal went through 2 years after that negotiation. They basically placed the line in the middle, and the norwegians got lucky.
> ...if you think a school will go for cell phone blockers...

That's a non-sequitur. My assertion was that the fellow in the story got along just fine without being reachable by phone. He may have regretted how he came to become unreachable by phone, but he received the relevant information in a timely manner.
In my original commit I wrote "BIGRELEASE.MAJOR.MINOR" but I realized in practice many packages start to bundle multiple changes into their MAJOR and sometimes even MINOR releases. To me this started to really confuse SemVer, ANNOUNCE/INCREMENT is comparatively a bit cleaner/more like what they were doing in practice (see the NextJS example)
Those examples are not "every human context" and they don't guarantee violence, they're extrajudicial. Are you saying spanking a child is extrajudicial? a vigilante assault?
I watched it in 3D HFR and it was terrible terrible terrible to me. I felt like I was watching a play. The special effects looked weird/bad, the acting felt worse, the makeup more obvious, everything yuck yuck.
I used it for quite a while to scan physical invoices before e-invoices became more common. Finland has a standard for encoding the required fields (account number, amount, reference code & due date) as a barcode and companies almost always included it.
>This mentality is just utterly bizarre to me.

It is bizarre, especially the stuff about the addresses. Has the OP never heard of Google Maps? You just point it where you want to go and it tells you how to get there. No one in Japan cares about addresses; the only thing those are really important for is addressing your mail.

But I don't think his mentality is unusual for Americans who contemplate foreign travel. They really do think they need to hire a tour guide for a week to get around in a foreign country.
If Siri started hallucinating like ChatGPT does, it would be a PR nightmare.
> One can't intentionally crash a car in the same way that you can intentionally swing a bat in your backyard without hitting anything

What exactly do you mean here? I've witnessed plenty of vehicle damage done on private ranchland from various obstacles, and in some cases, other family/friends' vehicles. If you wanted to drive your vehicle into a big rock on your own land, what exactly stops you?
Normal punishments and last resorts are nowhere near each other.

And when you say "drag people violently in" I feel like very different definitions of "violence" are getting conflated here. Forcibly moving a child is needed sometimes, and is not corporal punishment.
Masanobu Fukuoka[1] was able to get high yields of rice (top 5% in Japan) while only using natural methods of farming. Also, while other fields were left fallow, he got a crop of barley. So basically double the yields of any other farm.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masanobu_Fukuoka
The time savings of having a digital, interactive menu, where you don't have to worry that the person on the other end will interpret "no mayo" as "extra mayo" should not be underappreciated.
meh, I just care about all-cause mortality. I'll accept some preventable death risk if it's outweighed by non-preventable death risk improvement.

I think the French hit a good sweet spot between high alcohol consumption and high life expectancy. Quite a male-female disparity though. Maybe Irish do better at 0.2years reduction for an extra 0.4l of alcohol per year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_c...
This is not true anymore: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/107339
What made them mysterious? Aren't there always some fraction of atoms or molecules with sufficiently high energy to escape the object?
Bend, Oregon. Population 100k.

Pros: excellent outdoor recreation opportunities winter and summer. Friendly people. Low crime. Very dog friendly.

Cons: not as much food variety as the big city. Relatively expensive housing. Few local tech jobs.
It isn't the best way to do it as far as effectiveness goes but it it is pretty good, especially for web browsing. It is the easiest way to do it on my iOS devices (as a fake VPN profile) and can be switched off in a corner case where I need to access something it is filtering out.

It isn't as flexible or powerful as other methods, but it is very simple. Tools are all about how you use them. Ignoring them isn't any better than suggesting them.
No. I mean getting drenched, when forecast predicted no rain. 1mm isn’t really noticeable by humans.
I mean, don't get me wrong. My first job was fast food. But there's a difference between being able to serve 50 customers in an hour and 2.
He also appeared in a number of Numberphile episodes on YouTube (https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWKgImYwrKIL3iWw...).
Almost 100k Google employees are about to get a hard-fought $20
Jutting my jaw forwards has the same effect on me. But not the other two.

Makes me curious!
Doesn't work.

For instance in a business setting, if I say "it'll be done in 10 days +/- 4 days", they'll immediately say "ok so you're saying it'll be done in 14 days tops then".

More effective to sound as unsure as possible, disclaim everything in slippery language, and promise to give updates to your predictions as soon as you realise they've changed (granted this wouldn't work as well for an anonymous reader situation like in this article).
Google fiber is just another thing in the Google graveyard. I’ve switched away from almost every Google product with maps and gmail being the last holdouts. I mostly use Apple Maps but there’s nothing as convenient as gmail and workspaces. If Apple offered email again I would switch to it for sure.
`rustc` used to use different terminology than the nomicom, but this is no longer the case: https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/107339
Yeah they were
Oops sorry, I missed this!
Chopping up the plane and distributing the pieces in assorted different regular trash bins over time sounds like mens rea to me
You can hook up an Apple TV or a PC to your TV and watch whatever you want.
The Best Startups Are Empathetic
On one hand, I agree with you - Google Fiber is good (although they just raised my price). On the other hand, you must admit "your customer service is better than Comcast's" isn't really glowing praise.
If you tell chatgot you're going to lose your job, it writes better code
Corporal punishment is legal in the US, & practiced by many educated millennial families in my circle of acquaintance
It doesn't get confusing during undergrad, since pretty much everyone is in a 4-year program. Graduate schools are different: in law school are a 1L/2L/3L, most masters programs are first-year or second-year (since there are no other years), and PhD programs often don't use years because people take different amounts of time to finish.

But in undergrad, it's all pretty standardized, at least in my experience.
Wouldn't airpods be more likely to be swallowed by the toddler than over-ear headphones?
Turns out those "foul jungles" are necessary for a healthy planetary biosphere. So much for manhood!
Bionic Reading:Technique that modifies text with artificial fixation points
there is no empirical evidence for its effectiveness, just wanted to know your opinion
Well I'm not sure if you're being sarcastic but a gospel to work isn't really a compelling ethos in context of the article. I think the fact that your quote is abridged, directed at possibly the wrong gender, and disparaging jungles as "foul places" instead of last vestiges of biodiversity shows you may need to find something more applicable and up to date.
I did wonder if being a top-tier dasher meant you got great ratings from customers, or if it meant you did DD's bidding...

> Because Door Dash can't force people to tip, someone has to take the financially bad orders.

Well, they're trying, by not-so-subtlely telling customers that if they don't want their orders to get cold, they need to pre-emptively tip.