skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean to suggest it's one thing. Countries with expensive gas usually have public transportation, but that's mostly unusable here, and sprawl means affordable housing is far from the work, so there's a lot more required commuting for people who would, in Europe, be taking public transport. Gas is $4.80/gallos ($1.26/L) where I am, right now. That's not all that "cheap", even by European standards, when you consider average commute distance is around double (according to a quick search).
Show HN: HNRelevant – Explore Related HN Discussions in an Integrated Sidebar
I've noticed that whenever I'm on HN, I feel intrigued and want to explore more discussions. I needed an easier workflow to explore related submissions instead of googling and going back and forth. If a submission is interesting enough for me to click on, chances are I'd like to dig deeper into this topic and there are more related discussions that offer new context or perspective.

I made this browser extension that adds a section for related submissions automatically. The results are displayed in a sidebar right in the page's layout using HN native style just like other elements. I paid special attentions to UX to make it intuitive and seamless and now the extension is just part of the HN experience for me.

Implementation-wise, it integrates HN algolia search API and uses the submission title as its initial query with the ability to change the query and other options interactively.

It's available on: Chrome, Firefox, and as a userscript.

I shared it earlier last year when it was barely a prototype, at the time wasn't yet published and was only for chrome (hence the update): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610. I've been using it daily since and I'm happy to share it now for you to give it a try.
Paid API access?
The alternative being?...
The complexity of these forms combined with the fact that getting them wrong is a felony means that filling them out without any help is out of reach for the vast majority of the population.
the government's own system is shit, because Intuit has an interest in keeping it shitty. If it weren't, like other modern countries, you wouldn't pay them to help you with it. So they lobby heavily to keep the government from modernizing its system.

https://www.propublica.org/article/inside-turbotax-20-year-f...
It would be nice if there was a link to the paper, if there is one, what the genetic modifications were, and what the points of failure were.

Similar studies with human blood have been done by my mom’s research group (https://www.massgeneral.org/transplant/cts/research/pierson-...) with up to 850 minutes of perfusion with six genetic modifications to the pig liver. The main point of failure was that pig liver acts like a sponge for human platelets, which is not supposed to happen.

hEPCR.hTBM.hCD47.hHO-1 with donor clodronate and DDAVP treatment improves perfusion and function of GalTKO.hCD46 porcine livers perfused with human blood
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35166407/

The pig liver can also chop up human reb blood cells for unclear reasons:

Human erythrocyte fragmentation during ex-vivo pig organ perfusion
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35112383/

eGenesis in the Guardian article is a competitor to Revivicor, in the articles I linked.

My mom’s lab led in this area of research and when she was dying of cancer she wanted to be used for this type of experiment, but her wish wasn’t granted. It’s good to see that more people are willing to donate their body to this type of research. However it seems like the various groups working on xenotransplantation are more and more silo’d from each other instead of collaborating, which is sad.
their hardware is great. The software is horrible. Drivers, their apps, firmware all suck. Also their support is also poor but I suppose on par with Lenovo
Still, you can gain a lot of knowledge just by learning the introductory texts.

In this case, Programming in C.
Will it make you an expert C programmer? No. But it will absolutely increase your knowledge on how a modern computer works.
Cromemco also had a 68K line and their own UNIX-alike, CROMIX, which even ran on the Z80! I've got a System Three with 68K setup, a mining and minerals exploration company in West Virginia was using it, running CROMIX on 8" hard disk, to manage their business.
We definitely need daily meetings to discuss this and find collaborative solutions :-)

But seriously, is this a surprise to anybody?
Balancing efficiency in auditing is fascinating to me.

It always seems to boil down to "likelihood of auditing" vs "penalties for failing audit."

In single-business industries (e.g. selling gas), I'd imagine penalties are highly effective. A gas station banned from selling gas because they were caught mis-measuring amounts isn't much of a gas station!
Ask HN: What's an outdated technology you can't let go of, and why?
Despite all the advancements in technology, I still find myself attached to my old mechanical keyboard. It's outdated, but nothing matches its feel and response. Do you have any such 'outdated' technology that you can't let go of?
Jar Jar Binks: The greatest thing that ever happened to Star Wars
They address this in the linked article, under the heading "Wait... Doesn't Cash Rule Everything Around Me?".

f.e.,

> Zed Channels is one example of such a service. It's free for anyone today, but we intend to begin charging for private use after a beta period of experimentation. Providing server-side compute to power AI features is another monetization scheme we're seeing getting traction.
Don't forget Canadian Bombardier!
Improve your finances with a New Year cash diet
Consumer devices have never been known for color accuracy and goes back a very long ways. The running joke in broadcast was that NTSC stood for "Never Twice the Same Color".
Most people can't name any mathematicians, but amongst those that can I think he's top 5, behind more famous names like Newton, Archimedes and Euclid
Matches my experience, too.

Unfortunately, some companies approach culture and DevEx as an additive system where they keep piling more meetings, more engagement, more activities, and more process on top of everyone’s responsibilities.

When a company approaches DevEx and culture by subtracting things that aren’t working it’s like a breath of fresh air.
It is my opinion that the United States will not be able to effectively participate in the AI arms race due to its culture of intellectual property. The most intelligent AIs will be trained by everything (as will be the most intelligent humans), and stateside, everything is restricted usage. Unless we see some changes, we have already lost, and are at the mercy of those who do not respect our regulations.
Not sure 2. really matters any more. Even the last few "safe" brands, like Brother, have gone down the tubes.

The question I'd really be asking is, do you actually need a printer? If it's once a month a less... any of the Office stores will do printing at about 10-15 cents a page for B&W, probably a bit more for color. They'll also have a ton more choices of things like paper/card stock. Many of things things you "needed" to print a decade ago are now often electronic tickets - I'm thinking things like confirmations, flight confirmations, that sort of thing.
> the government's own system is shit (which is why many people choose to pay)

The reason the government's system has historically been terrible is because of lobbying on the part of Intuit (maker of TurboTax) and others.

There was a great episode of Patriot Act a few years ago that discussed this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xQQkzWhMOc
Your argumentation isn't very strong, because you're presenting random jury selection from the population as being the only viable alternative, due to issues in other alternatives, without considering ways in which those could be mitigated or fixed.

Elsewhere in the thread, there are comments about how some countries have eliminated random juries; so a good start would be to study how things work elsewhere.

> non-random juries were way more likely to convict students

All that matters is whether they were more or less likely to correctly convict or acquit.

If it so happens that all the accused liars, thieves or cheaters are actually guilty, then the higher the conviction rate, the more accurate it is.

Honor Society members are not professional jurors; they are just a set of people from which a jury is less randomized than from a broader set.
> prise

Use a knife for extra style points.
I have a form telling me about the interest the IRS sent me because amendments to forms are almost always paper-sent, and it took so long to process my additional return that they owed interest on it.
Speaking of Linux, are there any other editors we can use today? I tried to look for one recently but couldn't find anything. (edit: I mean collaborative editors)
You can actually read the translated version of the source post https://toyotatimes.jp/toyota_news/1055_1.html

"However, one billion people around the world live in areas without electricity. In the case of Toyota, we also supply vehicles to these regions, so a single BEV option cannot provide transportation for everyone."

"Toyota believes that freedom of movement should never be taken away from people in any region, country, or income group."

"No matter how much progress BEVs make, I think they will still only have a 30 % market share. Then, the remaining 70 % will be HEVs , FCEVs , and hydrogen engines. And I think engine cars will definitely remain."

The whole point is that Toyota wants to maintain a diverse offering.

And I personally don't understand the flack they get for a lack of EVs when their hybrids are selling like gangbusters. They don't even have the battery production capacity to keep up with demand for their Rav4 Prime or Sienna. Cutting into those product lines to produce a Tesla competitor would probably net more carbon.
Acquisitions lead to struggles for Windows and Linux device management
Interesting to see something that definitely used the Tarbell double-density controller! That's a pretty rare controller, and one for which I have not found a lot of extant bootable media/disk images.

The single-density Tarbell controller was ubiquitous and common and sort of set the standard for 8" floppy controllers on S-100. Reliable as a hammer.
Ring steps back from sharing video with police – mostly
If there's truly a glut of unleased office space in downtown San Francisco, it should be available for cheap (eventually). This could usher in a whole new wave of startups who could offer individual offices as a perk. It would send a strong signal to prospective employees that they are valued. A company could use this signal to attract people who are a good match in terms of shared values.
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It's probably lower barrier to entry - as soon as any generic shopping plaza nearby sets up a few chargers, customers will probably choose hanging around Starbucks or a grocery store rather than a gas station.
For me this is not about anyone's ability to watch the camera feed whenever they want to.

> A camera is an extension of our eyes. If we have a right to look out from our property and observe so do the cameras.

Personally, for me, it's about recording and storage that I'd be uncomfortable with. I have a hearing aid and I it's "recording", sure, but only to apply some kind of amplification/equalizing and then the audio is gone. Not stored, not sent to Amazon, not sent to police. If doorbell cameras worked the same way, then that'd be awesome. But afaik they don't.
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Good on the family for being clear minded enough to allow the experiment
I'm not a PM, but you are exactly the kind of PM I love to work for.

So many PMs are either over bearing or scared to make decisions; or, the worst, that do both, over bearing and micromanaging all the time and then blames the team when their decisions back fire.
Germany's system is shitty without Intuit. They don't have a monopoly on this.
boeing has replaced the enginneers and "engineering and safety quality first" by MBA whose motto is "MOAR MONEY"

another example of short-term benefits, making shareholder happy and MBA getting nice bonuses, ending up with destroyed planes, killed people, and a reputation in the gutter.

another one to add to the already thousand-lines long list of MBA and short-term stupid people only interested by money achievements.
+1 for restic. I tried various solutions and restic is the best by far. So fast, so reliable.

https://restic.net/
Subscriptions can be cheaper for the business overall, and that savings passed on to customers. Because there is a subscription their incentive is to use less ink for the same thing, and make printers that last for a long time, both of which long term reduce costs.

Note that I said can above. Just because things can be cheaper doesn't mean the costs will be passed on. Just because the costs can be cheaper doesn't mean you will find that savings.
I'd say so, but for many, it's "dead on arrival" for a variety of reasons: Java-centric, unabashedly dynamically typed (favoring instead a slightly more eccentric way of enforcing contracts), etc. Unfortunately, a lot of Scheme and Common Lisp people don't like Clojure a whole lot because it gave up on a variety of things that group has treasured.
But for most people (although perhaps not most of the HN crowd), taxes aren't terribly complex. And in theory, the IRS already has the majority (if not all) the necessary information needed to file taxes. But Intuit and others lobby to make this more difficult.
They are fake. Ultimately it’s not recovering lost detail, it’s making shit up
Great news! Looking forward to it.
Thanks, will check out LTT's gripes, but I've been watching the following HDR channels forever and they look great:

https://www.youtube.com/@SeoulWalker
https://www.youtube.com/@Rambalac
https://www.youtube.com/@Relaxing.Scenes.Driving
Oh I didn't notice you were getting downvoted up there in the parent comment, it wasn't me! :)

Anyway, I'm now going back to read Prigogine's book, Order Out of Chaos. It's also brought me around to think and study more about self-organization and emergent properties of complex systems.

About "A New Physics Theory of Life", and the idea that life exists because "the law of increasing entropy drives matter to acquire lifelike physical properties".. I see this is what you meant by "entropy is the process that drives life".

> Besides self-replication, greater structural organization is another means by which strongly driven systems ramp up their ability to dissipate energy. Thus, England argues that under certain conditions, matter will spontaneously self-organize.

Re-reading the article, I'm struck by how entropy and organization are, seemingly paradoxically, two sides of the same coin. It feels like there's something profound there, some principle that explains many phenomena at different scales all at once.
This is reducto ad absurdum. It's not a 100% or 0% thing.

Obvious means that there is a 51% chance that decision a is better than decision b.

I'm advocating against just guessing when it's 50/50
The work I am interested in this broader domain is conversion (say, via some NeRF) of existing standard video into spatial video e.g. MV-HEVC for immersive experience on the Vision Pro etc.
Interestingly it seems that there was no (extended?) mention of Common Lisp on the JVM: Armed Bear Common Lisp. It is not central to the argument, but if one were to decide to migrate from clojure to common lisp, I'd say that one low risk path would be to first validate that you are capable of working with common lisp, and only then start preparing to forego / replace all of your dependencies, which is one of the strong parts of clojure: the ability to leverage everything under the sun that exists in the java / jvm world.
One of our two political parties here has the stated goal to make paying taxes as difficult and manual a process as possible in order to turn public sentiment against the very idea of taxes. The belief is that if paying your taxes was automatic and easy, there would be little pushback to tax increases.
Great tool. Secret sharing always felt needlessly complicated and clunky. I love that this lets you securely share secrets with zero barriers to entry in seconds. No need for "what's your email" or "hey make sure you accept the share on lastpass" or any of that. Just a quick one-two secure envelope exchange.
The major issue out of the box vs any deduping backup software is that S3 doesnt support any deduplication. If you move or rename a 15GB file you're going to have to completely upload it again and also store a second copy and pay for it until your S3 bucket policy purges the previously uploaded file you've deleted. Also aws s3 sync is much slower since it has to iterate over all of the files to see if their size/timestamp has changed. Something like borgbackup is much faster as it uses smarter caching to skip unchanged directories etc.
Negative news makes better clickbait. And this journalist and outlet probably have long given up on anything resembling serious journalism. I clicked on the author's name to get a list of titles. And you are right. Not great. To put it mildly.

Tesla is most of the EV market in California (80% or so). So are their chargers. Most of those work fine of course. And all of those fine chargers are now becoming available to non Tesla cars. Problem solved. A minority of chargers (i.e. the ones not provided by Tesla), are a bit problematic. Some companies are improving what they do. Competition tends to bring out the best in them.

If you are holding onto your gas guzzler because you are a bit suffering from (range) anxiety, you might want to consider what will happen to your favorite local gas stations when double digit percentages of their customers buy EVs and stop buying petrol. I'll sketch what will happen for you. It's just simple economic reasoning:

As the number of chargers goes up (like by 2025-2030), the number of still operating gas stations will go down. The least profitable ones will go out of business first. Anything remote and rural will be at risk sooner rather than later. Basically any areas where it is currently still challenging to find a charger will also be the first where long struggling petrol stations will start closing doors first.

That's happening a lot sooner than people realize. All the people spending lots on fuel right now will be switching sooner rather than later. Commercial fleets, people that drive a lot, etc. All of them are switching to EVs. In a few short years very few people driving for work will be buying petrol or diesel. Technically it's cheaper now already and it's only going to get cheaper from now. Some companies may put off making the switch for some time but we're talking years, not decades. This will be over by the early 2030s.

It's the small users that will drag their heels for a bit longer. Decades even maybe. But they don't buy a lot of fuel and most of the fuel business is commercial traffic. So, logically the petrol business is going to decline a lot more rapidly than the EV sales percentages suggest. Another logical consequence of increasing petrol station scarcity is people raising their prices as it becomes harder to find a working petrol station. That's just market forces kicking in. You're more than welcome to drive 50 miles to the next station also selling fuel at a premium. Oh wait, you are nearly out of gas. 10$ per gallon it is for you! That's going to speed things up further of course.
I often think the once-a-week-no-meeting-days should be reversed to once-a-week-meeting-days. Put all status, retrospective, planning and other recurring meetings into this one day so people can actually work the rest of the week.

During Covid my company had a 32 hour week for a year and we lost zero productivity because the first thing that was eliminated were the meetings that just fill time but achieve nothing.
I looked up his twitter and he just seems like an average conservative Trump supporter
I mean, sure, there can be complicated cases, but for the vast majority of people doing person taxes, a 1040EZ is all you need and it’s like 2 pages.
This is 2024, not 1492.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of Python, but Max and Chris are world-class in that domain, so that's what we're doing for now.

Max has already started working on a meta scrapscript compiler: https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript/pull/100

One thing I think we all agree on is that the implementations should be simple enough to easily port themselves to other languages. For example, one could probably port the existing scrapscript.py to Rust or Javascript using GPT in a single weekend.

You can see echoes of what I'm talking about in my tiny JS POC: https://github.com/tekknolagi/scrapscript/blob/trunk/scrapsc...

Some languages like Rust and Go put a lot of weight on the "official" implementation. I think scrapscript can be more like Lisp/Json where the spec guides parallel implementations. There are obvious downsides to this in general, but I think that content-addressability makes some of those problems moot.
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> my brother laser printer is such a piece of shit.

Mine has been going for nearly a decade with no issues to report and almost no one has anything bad to say about them, so I'm curious what issues you had?
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In the end owning a printer is only worth it because getting to an office supply store is such a pain when I need to print something.
Epson went ahead and embraced these users, and built a line of printers for them. [1]

[1] https://epson.com/ecotank-ink-tank-printers

Haven't used them personally but it seems like a positive step forward.
What? JS is the only ecosystem I know of that really cares about file size, to the point that it's expected to see the size of a library in release form (minified, gzipped) on its homepage. That's vanishing rare with any other language, including C.
Yes, presumably that is intentional by the tax industry lobbyists. You Google "what is my agi" and the first result is from TurboTax, you try to read that but keep getting distracted by all the big buttons that say FREE, so you click one of those and end up getting conned into paying Intuit.
90 percent of everything is crap but I’ve seen plenty of creative people make compelling films with digital tools. This technology puts that capability within each of people who aren’t also 3D modellers or graphic artists so we’re bound to get more output, good and bad. Same deal with when film cameras became cheap and widely available or digital cameras or iPhones.
See above. What people did 400 years ago is not relevant to my point about how things are today.
Tea and beer are pathogen-depleted and so it makes a ton of sense that they were both imbibed 'to excess'.

History of the World in Six Glasses claims that tea and coffee more or less caused the enlightenment. One, it stopped day drinking by the intellectual class. And two, they were foil for socialization.
My printer is like my checkbook at this point. It's something I drag out once every year or two when I have some archaic process, usually involving returning something by mail, that I'm stuck in. I hope it's going to become all the more rare and I wish there was some very basic, compact, and long lived emergency printer I could buy.

Otoh, I worked in an office with a high volume printer / copier, and I definitely see the value in paying for some managed subscription instead of actually owning the machine, unless they really make it absurdly expensive. Just like cloud, it's easier for lots of companies to not have to own and maintain physical infrastructure.
> think how good it could be if fancy stylists and designers made it

I'm thinking about how bad it would be, actually. That's the kind of thing that brings you the infamous steering yoke because it "looks cool". Or touch controls everywhere instead of physical knobs, because the latter are "ugly".

When it comes to cars, I want function over form, especially when it comes to UX.