skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You may have some form of APD [1], and if so there is basically nothing on the market for you. It affects me, and it's frustrating as hell when people get angry at you for it, and especially when they think you're just making it up.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auditory_processing_disorder
The Quicksort of Science
Related:

Liero can be played in browser now, for those who remember - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22980676 - April 2020 (86 comments)

Show HN: A browser-based multiplayer clone of the DOS game Liero using WebRTC - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20668273 - Aug 2019 (7 comments)
Will add lot of it... before it can navigate precisely, it has to know what's in front of it. Lidar is a one-laser, it cannot see what's above or beyond that one pointer, so it's bumps and tangles with wires/tassles etc. all the time.

Imagine if you could only see just one-inch ehigh of what's in front of you -- not below or above -- then you'd un into tables or chairs all the time. Single pixel lidars are sort of like that.
Aliens of New York, AI Art – Mourning
I had an interesting conversation in CA with a cop that pulled me over regarding the [then] plausible legalization of shrooms. Apparently, there had been quite a bit of discussion among their rank and a civilized perspective of the inevitability had been reached. Damn shame those representatives of our republic didn’t have the nerves to see that one through.

Edit: pulled over for tail light, rest was just chatter ;)
Kami: A Platform for Hardware Specification and Verification
The easy solution is to stop letting everyone deflect blame onto black-box systems.

Teslas too-- a self-driving car mows down a crowd and nobody is held responsible?

Taking illegal action based on what GPT told you doesn't excuse you pulling the trigger. You pulled the trigger. You go to jail.

Don't normalize "just following orders" or it's going to end predictably.
Yeah. "I know it's not right, but it's not totally wrong and probably better than not doing anything" actions as maddening as the behaviour he describes. A world where that's the standard would be chaos.

When you work with _precise_ systems, they sometime take _precise_ input to work. That's kinda just part of the job.
Completely agree. Copyright should be abolished. All intellectual work is information, information is just bits and bits are just numbers. It's quite simply delusional to believe you can own numbers in the 21st century, the age of information and ubiquitous globally networked pocket supercomputers.

This is just a felony contempt of business model issue. Computers invalidated their business models and they're doing everything they possibly can to hang on for dear life. Society needs to move on already.
It super pisses me off that Google Chrome never stepped up to support registerContentHandler, and lack of support got the feature axed. This would have been such an incredible extensibility mechanism for making a multi-format multi-media web where sites could have defined yaml viewers! https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/630
1) agreed, it is bulky and a bit ugly, but it also fits perfectly under the sink in my kitchen, so this isn't an issue for me. It isn't like a regular vacuum isn't bulky and ugly either.

2) it is loud for about 30 seconds as it sucks what is in the robot into its own bagged storage. not a big deal at all.

3) it is a lid sealed container of dirty water that you just pour down the sink or a toilet after it is done cleaning. this isn't rocket science here.

4) I'm not worried about someone in China seeing me in my underpants. My house and images and what I paid for it are already listed in MLS. This is classic making a big deal out of something that really isn't a big deal.

5) Do you know how many S8's have been sold? That would be the real comparison with your pre-orders. My bet is that they are orders of magnitude higher.
> Every foreign employee getting that tech job is a US citizen from the Midwest not getting it.

This concentration of high paid tech jobs would not exist in the first place if it weren't for the foreigners. Look at the number of tech startups founded by immigrants. More broadly consider that if a different country became the global hub for top tech talent, capital would go there, and that country would become the home of high paid tech salaries.

The main input into a tech company is 'human capital' (hard working, highly intelligent, people) - Americans benefit from the spillover effects of having their country be the global nexus of human capital.

BTW, India is seeing significant upwards pressure on tech salaries and a boom in the number of domestic tech companies and jobs. This is at least partly spurred by restrictive American immigration policies forcing Indians to go back home. Purely economically speaking, I don't think America is the winner here.
I guess your media conveniently skips the part where joining NATO means destroying your own long range weapons. This is what they forced Bulgaria to do and they made a very big deal out of it.
There isn't a bank in the World that will not comply with local laws.

The AMLD is not secret. You can read it here: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A...

The AMLD is not dissimilar to any other anti-money laundering regulation in the World, including the USA, Switzerland and others.

If you have large cash flows, you will be asked by banks to explain the nature of them to ensure they are not illicit. If you are not prepared to explain that, the bank is not under any duty to do business with you, and depending on the nature of your transactions may be required to report them to law enforcement. If you do not answer to law enforcement, they will likely start an investigation to ensure you're not involved in organised crime.

Once your bank or law enforcement are happy you're not involved in organised crime, they'll leave you alone.

That's it.

If you are not involved in organised crime, but not prepared to explain that, yes, law enforcement are going to be interested and banks may not be prepared to do business with you. This has been the case for hundreds of years, it's only now there are more strict guidelines and rules around when suspicions should be raised and reported, and how they should be investigated.

I really don't see what the paranoia here is actually about.
the trouble with "do what I mean" is that if the software guesses, and guesses wrong, the results are far worse than just not doing it. an "if you really meant to do this here is the correct incantation" error message seems like the best possible thing to do.
You're not kidding about modern cars being a privacy nightmare: https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/article...

Some notable takeaways:

- The car companies claim not only the owners' data, but the data of _any passengers_. I don't think people reasonably expect that sitting in a friend's car grants consent to collect data on them.

- Almost no brands allow people to request their data be deleted.

- Nissan claims the right to know their owner's sexual activity. Kia claims the right to know their owner's sex lives.
Ultimately these banks are acting on government regulations (as you note, for example, AML laws) and governments for sure want to track and monitor how money is being exchanged
I think it's just XML, not SVG.

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="no"?>
<xournal creator="xournalpp 1.2.2" fileversion="4">
<title>Xournal++ document - see </title>
<preview>iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhE...............</preview>
<page width="612" height="792">
<background type="pdf" domain="absolute" filename="somebook.pdf" pageno="1"/>
<layer/>
</page>
<page width="612" height="792">
<background type="pdf" pageno="2"/>
<layer/>
</page>
...
<page width="612" height="792">
<background type="pdf" pageno="16"/>
<layer>
<stroke tool="highlighter" color="#00ff007f" width="9" fill="60" capStyle="butt">120 457.20601 540 457.20601</stroke>
<stroke tool="highlighter" color="#00ff007f" width="9" fill="60" capStyle="butt">394.78 515.76399 540.01 515.76399</stroke>
<stroke tool="highlighter" color="#00ff007f" width="0" fill="60" capStyle="butt">540.01 520.26399 540.01 520.26399</stroke>
<stroke tool="highlighter" color="#00ff007f" width="9" fill="60" capStyle="butt">120 527.76399 156.1 527.76399</stroke>
</layer>
</page>

Here's the top of the file for context.
I feel this post. I can relate.

I once said - and still maintain - that all devs need a life-long lesson in empathy. For our users and our library consumers and so on.

It will be impossible to fix every conceivable issue and sometimes we will have to deprecate or break backward compatibility or features or whatever. But if maybe some more effort to understand and respect our users was made as a matter of course, then when we are users we will be more inclined to give the benefit of the doubt to the developer who created the thing.

Also the post made me laugh.
Great list.

Would be nice if they had a fully filled robots.txt for download (I could only find the example file).
Large cars aren't inherently safer for passengers. They are only safer in collisions with other cars that are smaller, at the expense of the safety of the people in the smaller cars.

Having an arms race where people buy bigger and bigger cars to be safer in collisions with other cars is really not ideal, because it doesn't improve overall automobile safety on a national level even just for drivers, and it hurts safety for pedestrians.
It's time to put REST to rest
I'd have done both the hint and the actual result. Like this:

>>> print
<built-in function print>
>>> exit
<built-in function exit>
Hint: Use exit() or Ctrl-D (i.e. EOF) to exit
>>>

This way, it does do the thing you literally asked for, but also does help a newbie out.
Related:

Particle Life Emerges from Simplicity - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34156592 - Dec 2022 (1 comment)

Particle Life Simulation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680845 - Nov 2022 (1 comment)

Particle Life - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21875720 - Dec 2019 (7 comments)
Ask HN: What about CSS "visited" style for HN comments links?
I spend hours reading Hacker News, and I'm mainly interested in reading the comments. 90% of the time they're better than the linked resource.

Right now, I can tell when I've read a linked article because the link color changes.

Wouldn't it be great if the comments link changed color too after being visited?
The last example is actually a great argument in favor of this “user-unfriendly” mindset. The removal of that CLI flag forced the user to actually figure out the root cause of the problem rather than paper it over with a workaround they didn’t really understand, which would inevitably metastasize and explode later in an even more frustrating way.

All of these examples are devs trying to make sure users understand what’s going on. Nothing wrong with that when it is necessary complexity. The trouble I think comes when you’re making sure the user understands something that really shouldn’t matter - unnecessary complexity. Especially complexity that is just a byproduct of a disorganized group of people building a “bazaar”, like in the Node ecosystem (and apparently Rust too). Who cares if X is actually a fork of Y that was merged into Z.
Config Files: INI, XML, JSON, YAML, TOML
Yes, it would help to have more pedestrian only streets, ban drive throughs, reduce curb cuts, ban right turns on red, and reduce speed limits in urban areas to more reasonable safe speeds like 15 mph.
They're about the same thickness and number of pages and I've read them at about the same age. Timescape got the Nebula award, Red Mars got the BSFA and Nebula awards. They have about the same number of stars on Goodreads, so roughly the same reception? I haven't finished reading Red Mars, I think I grew tired with the endless descriptions. Maybe the other two Mars books are better? Dunno, never got around reading them, moved on. Both might be okay books to turn into movies, with Red Mars just use the lenghty descriptions as documentation for filming the scenes.
Simple: organised crime and tax evasion.
I'm sure that somewhere, someone, has data confirming or denying this.

But, anecdotally, it's what I've seen to be the case.
I’m guessing, at the very least, vim cursor movement as described here:

https://vim.rtorr.com/
He's also much more likely to drive it at 3x the speed limit. Also, the fact that he's Formula 1 driver actually works against him here: F1 cars that he is used to are far more sophisticated technology, and F1 tracks are not your regular highway, making it easy for Verstappen to end up at the side of the road, after overestimating his Mercedes' capabilities.
I’ve usually had this attitude in the past and for me it came from my background: I worked IT, help desk, PC repair, etc for years before I got into programming and none of those contexts allow customization. And then for a while I did infra work where I’d be ssh’d into a vanilla VM or container instance to debug a deployment issue. Even though I mostly work in my own bespoke environment now, I still try to stay fairly vanilla with my tools. It’s pretty nice to be able to reset my workstation every year to get a clean slate and know that it’ll only be a couple of hours of customization to get back to what I know.
Video Feedback Kinetic Sculpture: God Machine II, Sleater-Kinney Version
Pedestrian bridges on every intersection? Cars mandated to use only yet to be digged underground roads? Any other idea?
A First Look at Matic, the Reengineered Robot Vacuum
Hello HN, we have completely reinvented Robot Floor Cleaners with tesla-like cameras only approach with just 5-RGB cameras and all processing on device (no cloud). It's private by design. Please ask any question you may have and send us your feedback. Thanks!
Such a weird rant. Yes, some tools do some things, but not others. Making tools do everything for everyone just bloats them to unmaintainable messes. And it’s a special kind of entitlement to believe that the way _I_ imagine things must be working is the only possible correct interpretation.

Reality is messy, there are trade-offs, and a lot of smart people think very hard about what the correct trade-offs should be given a particular situation.

And, the last pet peeve of mine. If I got a dime every time someone says ‘why don’t you just’ without even beginning to start to realize the depth of an issue, I’d be a very rich man. That’s about this quote here:

> What would it possibly take to “stabilize” such a feature? It is a completely trivial feature!
They also will typically stop slower and are often more vulnerable to rollovers...
Voltage is exactly what solves the cable thickness/resistance problem.
i have the same issue with reflux, asthma and post nasal drip, except i already take allergy meds daily and they dont help. im my case i think treating GERD with a regular ppi helps my situation after a week or two. Talk to a doctor for your specific case.
Thank you for this -- listened to this last night, and it was indeed very affecting. I have always loved This American Life (it is, in my view, the renaissance of audio narrative[0]), but I haven't listened as much in recent years -- and it's a good reminder that they (unlike many/most long-running shows!) continue to turn out terrific stuff.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8qiDhlFVCE
Do you mean on average they are safer or inherently? Is that a function of the average on the other side of the collision and most importantly is there data proving your position.
XulRunner existed before Electron. Node.js used v8, but could have use SpiderMonkey instead (this is what Gnome did). These were choices, not situations where using Mozilla tech was impossible. In the end that cemented Google stronghold on the web.
Vim iirc has a similar hint telling you to exit when you try something that should exit. I don't remember how it's triggered, ctrl-q maybe (edit, ctrl-c). I see the point, if you know what someone is trying to do, better to just do it, or ignore it, not give a condescending "nudge". Though personally the hint doesn't bother me.
(Thanks for that link.)

Agreed, one of my favourites. I also liked the background art, and the animated clips in between some of the different levels, and the CD's Redbook audio soundtrack. It kind of reminds me of the game Creaks.

I also remember it was one of the games that used WinG[0], before DirectX game out.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinG
Is it DB? Have you been using crypto (did you get a payment from an FTX in the past year?)? Are you also using Lunar?

DB regularly goes into scaremongering whenever a client does something they don't like/understand. Using some "modern" banks (Lunar, Revolut, etc), crypto, or anything of the like triggers alarm bells--undoubtedly physical ones considering how ancient their processes are.

If you're a foreigner, you can double the amount of transactions they will question, and if you don't speak Danish, quadruple. Banksters are sadly very racist in Denmark.

Edit: Remember that DB just got finished dealing with the fallout of their money laundering scanal in Estonia. They "oopsied" away billions, and got less than a slap on the wrist for it. They have massively increased the size of their Financial Crime divisions (hundreds or thousands of people), and all of these people need to "show" their usefulness.

Edit: I'm a DB customer, shareholder, and my gf is a DB employee. Feel free to explain the downvotes.
Kagi – Sourcing from Brave Search, improved image search, and new Safari ext
Good points.

> Jack Ma

I think once you have lots of people like this guy (and much less rich people than him) bribing and elbowing their way to special treatment, it might undermine the concept of a totalitarian state to the point where it loses it's credibility with the bulk of the population. Even the strongest government needs people to believe in their power for it all to work.
> But people with allergies don't disregard the labels, they buy a different product.

And sometimes you get people like me, who eat yoghurt without checking the ingredients because you shouldn't need to, only to then find out that for some crazy reason American food companies put beef gelatine into theirs.

For me vegetarian is a choice rather than mandatory, but if you rely on "common sense" people will die, and have died. It's happened with surprise nuts, despite that one being well known.
I don't think having an exception for any high-level professional driver, regardless of their win count, is an arbitrary exception when it comes to renting sports cars.
You should. Surveillance is crazy these days. Can you realistically move your business over to in-person cash transactions, or alternate forms of money - precious metals, BTC or similar, etc?
That's one of the reasons I'm in bitcoin. I also like to pay with cash.
From what I have seen, the "fact checkers" do not actually check facts. I'm familiar with Snopes and PolitiFact, two of those mentioned in the article, not familar with Logically or the Australian Associated Press FactCheck, but Snopes and PolitiFact do not do fact checks. They do propaganda. Which is not always bad, but propaganda is not fact checking.

They "fact check" satire web sites. They "fact check" an undeniably true statement with a "lacks context" label and respond with their own talking points.

Which I think is unavoidable. I would find it hard to "fact check" a true statement from someone I disagreed with without providing additional information that I considered important. But at that point, it's not a fact check. I do not need Snopes to fact check the Babylon Bee article "California Considering a Tax on Breathing" for me.

None of these fact checkers are doing fact checking. Fact checking is impossible. Facts lack context, and the decision as to what context is important is always going to be contested. It's going to be political.
They're also being weaponized as offensive tools now too. I don't know about the EU specifically, but if you supported the trucker protest in Ottawa, the full force of the state was used to lock your financial accounts and shut down all of your economic activity.
Launches 'Fandime' NFTs to reward users with movie-related content
If you asked the average person to name an EV brand I’ll bet you 99/100 will say the same name too.
And tax advantages for “business use” vehicles when they weigh over 6000 pounds:

https://www.taxfyle.com/blog/list-of-vehicles-over-6000-lbs
The main business of any industry is manufacturing demand.
You forgot to add 'for the children'. There is no reason any government needs to be THIS far up a private citizen's colon without a warrant.
> SQL isn't meant to be used without joins.

Agreed. There was nothing to suggest otherwise. Did you not bother to read anything before replying?

> "users" and "posts" in the example are not unrelated.

They are related as per the graph, but that does not make them related in a relation. These are not equivalent models. After all, if they were suitably related in a relation you wouldn't have two tables in which to join. They would already exist in one relation. A simple `SELECT * FROM kitchen_sink` would do.

> On the contrary there are very good reasons for doing exactly that.

Yes, we went over them in detail. How did you end up here without reading a single word?

> consequently it's not true that there's no business joining them.

That's right, there is a good reason to join them: To overcome the overhead problem, better known as the n+1 problem. That would still be a hack if using an idealized system, or even a practical system that focuses on minimizing said overhead, like SQLite.

In fact, the SQLite docs even tell you should not resort to such hacks while using SQLite as it is not necessary.

> there's nothing inherently wrong with it

That's right. Nobody said there was anything wrong with it. I even explicitly stated it was a good solution in many cases. I still don't understand how you managed to get here without reading a single thing.

> the people who created GraphQL said what they meant and this isn't it

I also said what I meant, but that didn't stop you from going off to la-la land. What makes you so sure you understood what they said when you can't even manage this simple conversation?

> In my view, you are causing real harm but spreading false information on this subject.

You haven't even read the discussion... But go on, let's assume I spread some falsehood. What harm has been caused?
A framework for applied category theory in the Julia language
Should have a (2017) in the submission.
>we used to refer to as “Compact” up till the early 90s.

source?
> The American market wants and expects BIG.

I guess the question is, why. It is because marketing works? Or a sense of safety? Bigger is associated with wealth, power? etc.
Large cars are less agile, making it more difficult to avoid accidents. SUVs in particular are also much more likely to rollover than passenger cars. This makes larger vehicles less safe for their passengers.
You can replicate this yourself.

I came across a similar occurrence with a problem-solving agent encountering a human NPC blocking a doorway. Murder ended up being an option if negotiation failed.
Aspirin has "severe (but rare) side effects", too. Many of the OTC pharmaceuticals we take have potentially nasty side effects. The only 100% safe stuff is homeopathic, and that's because it's not actually chemically active. I'd be a lot more convinced by the argument if it weren't widely OTC in most of the rest of the world.

Interestingly, there do seem to be long-term side effects of sildenafil/tadalafil - though they seem to be positive. There is a possible link between long-term usage of ED drugs and cognitive protections in old age:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6705107/

https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-alzheimers-...
At least that was plausibly related to browser development, vis-à-vis ChromeOS. With "AI services" they're totally dropping the pretext of caring about Firefox.