skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No you're absolutely right -- it's a great point and I was imprecise with my response. The key is really to differentiate a "how much is my collection worth I kinda want to sell it" request from a more formal "I'd like an appraisal" request.

I conflated the two but they really are separate requests and are to be treated distinctly.

The former (which is much more common) is what most dealers hear. It's a request from folks who happen upon a collection and want to sell it and turn it into cash (or gold or silver or whatever near-cash equivalent they desire). That's where a call to a dealer isn't so much a request for an "appraisal" (in the formal definition) but more "how much money can I get for this collection now". It's implicit that the number the dealer offers is what they'd pay for it, which also happens to be the number the dealer believes it's worth. I don't have any moral qualms about that.

(Side note -- speaking of "not wrong just low" -- one of my favorite old-school dealers who's been doing this for 40 years and is appropriately salty lives by the mantra "I like to pay on the low end of fair".)

The second type of request - which is for a formal, written, insurable, usable-in-court Capital-A "Appraisal" is where there might be more potential for a conflict of interest, but if we as dealers are clear this is the job we're being hired for then we're going to issue a valuation which is based on published price guides (and the appropriate disclaimer that is is retail replacement value, not necessarily the price a dealer will pay).

Hope that clears it up - and thank you for the comment.
The way to get around this is to have it "quote" or at least try to quote from input documents. Which is why RAG became so popular. Sure, it won't right you a contract, but it will read one back to you if you've provided one in your prompt.

In my experience, this does not get you close to what the top-level comment is describing. But it gets around the "nerfing" you describe
They let go of the advertisers too though. 8chan doesn't have a lot of employees either.
1.7C degrees of warming later and the Maldives will not. be. submerged. LETS GO!
My Aeron is 12 years old now: warranty just expired. Yup: 12 years warranty. And never an issue although I WFH and use it daily. Been with me through four countries already (yup I move a lot).

I very never seen anything as sweet to sit on as that "pellicle mesh" they invented. It was first created for old people who couldn't t move a lot anymore then they pivoted into office chairs.

You simply never sweat while sitting on that pellicle mesh.

You MUST spend 20 minutes to set it up correctly (it has to lean back when you put your hands behind your head) and you must have one of the correct size. But once setup, in 12 years, I didn't t have to change the settings even once.

To everyone's bad taste but that s one darn quality chair.

I prefer it to other Herman Miller chair that do not have that pellicle mesh and I also think it lo9ks better.

In addition to that it s on permanent display at MoMA and it s the "Web 1.0" icon too.

Last chair I'll ever use.
Very cool function - thank you!
Related paper - https://arxiv.org/pdf/2402.03300.pdf
I like TikTok, but the number of TikTok Shop related videos is way too annoying at this point. I would say over half of a set of 10 videos is related to some TikTok Shop item, "eligible for commission" aka random people shilling this product of the week as the "greatest invention ever" and its some cheap dropship product that will break after a few months of use.

I think this all started with the hype around the Ninja Creami, and TikTok saw that if you got enough people on there talking about one product to the point that it drove them to sell out for months they saw their new revenue stream. But there is a difference between real organic word of mouth, and this fake TikTok Shop "eligible for commission" nonsense.
You can eat styrofoam without digesting it.

I'm not sure about mealworms, but insects generally have different gut pH levels than humans. I'm not certain their microbes would thrive in the human gut.
I have YNAB and the most annoying part of the entire thing is that you cannot see your total expenses? I mean, the most basic feature is not in this app.

If I want to see my monthly expenses (total), it doesn't let me. It just shows me how much I need to save this much in each bucket.

Weird.
Amazon delivery worker out of job – accused of trying to steal customer's puppy
US Secretary of Transportation: Don't Use the Apple Vision Pro While Driving
I like it as an optional feature. Some people enjoy it, some people don't. Turn it off by default, but let users choose.
This desire can sometimes be so strong that people insist on truly wacky decisions. I have before demonstrated that Postgres performs perfectly well (and in fact exceeds) compared with a niche graph database, and heard some very strange reasons for why this approach should be avoided. A lot of the time you hear that it's engineers who chase shiny technology, but I've seen first hand what can happen when it's leadership.
Do you have an expectation of privacy when you broadcast signals out of your house using the public electromagnetic spectrum?

FWIW, I'm on the side of privacy being an overrated concern. I've been hearing people yammer on about it since the Slashdot days. It's well-tread territory and I've heard every argument in support of privacy on forums like these.

What I don't see very often is an examination of the negative sides of privacy and the positive side of public information. After decades of privacy, dare I say extremism, we have people who would, eg, do away with public records for private property ownership, which seems anthemic to the very notion of a republic.

EDIT: I'm serious, just downvote away, I know that this is an unpopular opinion, but I would appreciate if at least one person engaged in this dialog beyond clicking a button!
Studies show that there's enough studies to claim any type of car is more reliable, usually by (not) adding in people who complain about bluetooth etc. Or lumping expensive EV sports car tyres in with everyone else
For personal projects, it's probably fine to just use environmental variables and .env files the traditional way. The security risk really increases when you start to scale and work with other team members.
Isn't it now two weeks not six months?
Well he didn’t think he was burning the money when he bought Twitter.
> but I'd need an inexpensive fast charging car

> Given my driving habits, I'd only use gas for infrequent long trips.

Why do you need a "fast charging car"? Lack of overnight charging setup?
What is your point? Are you saying that, because some servers have limited federation, so there is no 'Fediverse'?
Just looking into Vanilla, and hey, I like it. They've found workarounds for a lot of Linux architectural problems:

- A/B root partitions so you can update without worrying about bricking your install.

- Multiple driver sets available on install, minimizing the need for driver futzing.

- Runs Android apps out of the box (instantly increases the number of supported apps by, millions, and you don't need to install the compatibility layer, it's just there)

- No more running things with sudo (about time Linux caught up to modern desktop operating systems)

- The distro installer looks more user-friendly than any I've seen

- A GUI for switching between graphics cards

So yeah, I can see this becoming more popular in the future. These features are just too good.
GFiber looking for external investment to expand to more cities
What gotchas are there? The stuff required for doing guis is lgpl, without any kind of other licenses
Good. I hope the union doesn’t sell out its members like they did a decade ago.
Sure, that's the gap that needs to be filled. In the age of deep fakes even more urgently than before.

But which work cultures will find it easier to effectively deploy countermeasures?

Informal ones, where everybody acts like first names buddies all the way to the CEO, where they believe they are invulnerable because all those pretend-equal underlings are invited to speak up when they sense something fishy? What if they don't sense anything?

Or formal environments, where authentication tools could be systematically added to the preexisting and deeply entrenched set of rituals?

"That guy is not just acting like a colonel, the device we now all have to hold while saluting confirms that the biometric checksum embedded in his uniform insignia matches and is signed with central command keys". Yes, that protocol is not in place, but if it was introduced it would actually work. Now try the same in an informal environment where everything is supposed to be solved through good personal relations. The exact same tools, deployed in a buddy-org, would only ever get used retroactively, for pushing blame down the hierarchy.
There are tons of websites listing all commercial flights. If you don’t want to be tracked, you just need to travel like everyone else rather than on a private jet, the most wasteful form of travel.
Yes, looked just like that colors and all. The latency on those mice was really low in comparison to ball mice.
The graphs of water temperature over the last 2 years have been off the charts - literally; required adjusting the y-axis:

https://twitter.com/LeonSimons8/status/1754540413350732180
They will know where she is going to so they can plan to get there. Not saying that's justification for the action against the tracker.
In this case, it's more likely to be flagged by the recurring contingent of climate denialists that always show up in these threads.
I'm not sure I want to give my information to Mozilla, should they get hacked, it's no different than my information being held by another entity. (I don't use pocket or Firefox sync, etc.)
It's right in the second sentence:

> These newly revealed paleoclimate records suggest that sea surface temperatures (SSTs) began rising in response to industrial era fossil fuel burning around 1860.

(Also, "jibe": https://www.grammargiant.com/confused-words/Jibe-or-Jive)
Ask HN: What's the coolest / most engaging data visualisation you've ever seen?
Yep, I should add that. One of the libraries in my list (that I maintain) is WalEx: https://github.com/cpursley/walex/issues

It subscribes to the Postgres WAL and let you do the same sort of thing you can do with listen/notify, but without the drawbacks like need for triggers or character limits.
I'm at 27/45 when I ran out of available time (IRL), which is pretty depressing for someone who once knew them all :(

The ones you never hear about slip the mind. Sure I can still say Zambia is near South Africa, but which one is Mozambique, which one Botswana, and which one Zambia? Hard

I even had trouble remembering Yemen! Always found that easy for some reason, especially after I remembered that the order is "YO!" (Yemen, then Oman). Again not a country much news comes from
I think the issue is that micropayments shouldn’t be user-to-website, but rather website-to-website, with users being given some allowances via trustlines to spend.

https://qbix.com/ecosystem

Notice that almost none of the above is “Web3”, but it can use Web3 (or other means) to do periodic settlements between websites.
As with many problems, the cause is suit-and-tie hand-shaking. The 1% exists because we let it. We should be asking a lot more of our governments/legal systems such that businesses are forced to run in the interests of consumers.
There's a number of schemes to do this, art trading is just one vehicle to accomplish this but they all support the same basic two principles:

1 - get out of paying taxes by "showing a loss" somewhere

2 - don't ever lose money trying to get out paying taxes

Show tax deferrable losses only when you make gains elsewhere sufficient to cover at least the basis as well as the capital gains that you would have earned had you sold the item.

It works best if you do this across completely unrelated asset classes: offset real estate taxes with collector cars, offset art sales taxes by taking a loss in some shell company. It takes a lot of money to get in this kind of scheme, because you have to vacuum up property that's likely to grow in value. For example, don't buy cars (which depreciate), buy one of kind sports cars for which there's a collectors market. It also takes a lot of time to tap into various collector markets and find ones that are likely to yield or will soon yield growth for your asset classes. Not all collector markets go up forever, they're as fad driven as anything, but some markets have reliably shown growth -- like fine art.

My favorite scheme is one you see on the "Real Housewives" show. Start a nonprofit charity, get all your friends to donate to it (they're all trying to skip out on taxes also), pay yourself an exorbitant salary out of this "charity" and hold elaborate fundraisers that are essentially parties as the operating costs for the charity. Give the remainder to another charity downstream. Attend your friend's charity fundraisers/parties, donate to them in turn.

Looking at the circle of "philanthropists" they get to attend socialite functions, party, get paid, and do it all by helping each other offset taxes on gains they're making in other investments within their own households. They also get to inexpertly run "charities" where the hotel ballroom they rent for the function costs more than the remainder of the donated money they actually send to their claimed cause -- but also if the tax man comes they can just say they had no idea what they were doing.

Tie it to some personal event (e.g. "my second cousin fell from a bike and broke her wrist and now I'm running a charity for bone density research") and people outside the main circle might get sucked in and also augment the entire thing with additional heartfelt donations, which only increases the size of the parties and the salaries. Advertise you "raised $x" at an event, but don't mention how much went to actually supporting the cause.

It works because:

- it both obfuscates and mixes up everybody's money to the extent that it becomes very hard to pull apart

- the individual charities don't become large enough for the IRS to spend time on if you file all the appropriate paperwork

- it's not really an asset class in the same way investments are, so it's nearly impossible to show tax avoidance by simple substitution

- the government wants to encourage charity

You have to get really large and egregious before anybody in the IRS cares. Like NRA large.
To note - the platform’s content is steered for information operations shaped at the demographic of the scroller re: foreign policy goals from CN.

So what you’re seeing is a good content, but worth considering when you get shown policy-charged content - when and why is this in my feed.

Edit - or, to put it more simply, you should try to answer the second part of your comment - why is a state-sponsored social media company the only one showing me this right now?
The 1860 census counted just over 4 million enslaved African Americans in the South, out of a population of about 31.4 million.[0][1]

There are about 1.9 million people incarcerated in jail or prison in the United States today.[2]

The scale of incarceration in the US today is mind-boggling, but is itself under half the number of people enslaved at the height of the Southern slave economy.

[0]https://usafacts.org/articles/the-1860-census-counted-4-mill...
[1]https://www.census.gov/library/publications/1864/dec/1860a.h...
[2]https://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2023.html
XL: An Extensible Programming Language
I agree. It's ridiculous. I was simply explaining why this behaviour happened.
pgvector[0] is supported by AWS RDS, Azure, etc.

I haven't gotten a chance to try out Latern[1] yet, but have heard some good things[2].

[0] https://github.com/pgvector/pgvector

[1] https://github.com/lanterndata/lantern

[2] https://tembo.io/blog/postgres-vector-search-pgvector-and-la...
Humans have been a powerful geological and biological force on this planet for quite a while. The first inhabitants of any land typically triggered a wave of extinctions, and deforestation. While preindustrial climate change might suggest that a natural process at play, you might also conclude that the impact of humans is substantially bigger than we might expect. The little ice age is an interesting example here. We don’t know the exact causes, however some have suggested that the population decline of the black plague and later measles/smallpox in the new world were the culprits. This would of course make the situation for geoengineering a solution that much harder.
Hot damn they are.
My bad, fixed!
why? firefox performance will always be worse than blink, if only because of spidermonkey

the last thing people want from electron is a worse version of it hogging more resources
Now that discussions are ranked by pay, when you read a tweet thread it seems to be just all onlyfans promotion quasi bot accounts but paid blue check, even on machine learning threads and stuff.
There's a whole demographic of people that stalk and threaten her, and now a political party and a news platform that are pushing a narrative of war with her to their irrational followers who have shown they are willing to act violently and criminally. And unsurprisingly, the comments here predictably sound similar to that group.

Personal safety is a perfectly reasonable concern to have.
Actually Kye the original incarnation of the fediverse pre-dates the ActivityPub protocol (this shifts your "most of a decade" statement back to 2008) but I think you know this too.
> Barack Obama ran for president on the platform that marriage was between a man and a woman. Is he homophobic?

No, his administration ratified nationwide gay marriage. He's a straight person too, that doesn't stop him from empathizing with the gay community and promoting marriage equality.

> Dr. Jay Bhattacharya has spoken out against vaccine-related policies. Is he anti-vax?

Vaccine-related policies are not vaccines. So you could say he's anti-vaccine politics I guess. I've never heard of the guy before though, so I can't really say for sure where he lies.

> I come to Hacker News to avoid this kind of divisive rhetoric.

I'm sorry to hear that you're disappointed by the curation of a user-moderated forum.
They are hot swappable. I'm just a fool. Laptop just got cooler ;)
Yes I'm set now, at the time though it seemed like it might not come back in stock
I think there are two issues with your analysis.

First, the problem you describe is an expected one to have for a relatively new brand. And for a new, novel way of making old laptop components useful. While you may be right it's a problem to solve, I don't think it's existential.

Which leads me to my second point. I think framework laptops are fairly high quality, regardless of whether I find myself upgrading the motherboard alone. I like the screen form factor, the easily replaceable battery, and the modular ports.

And like others have said, the resale value of PC laptops is low. I have a stack of them at home because I never expect to get more than shipping for them, since technology moves so quickly in laptop space.
Can't read anonymously anymore, which makes it more like facebook/instagram rather than a grassroots news site (which it used to be for a lot of people). It's a big loss I think.
AdGuard Home: Network-wide ad- and tracker-blocking DNS server
That figure of 7m is not the total incarcerated population. It's the total correctional population, which includes parole and probation.
the industrial revolution is not the only cause of greenhouse gases. We burned basically all forests in europe before we had alternatives.

In fact the industrial revolution was only set in motion because the british ran out of firewood on their islands and had to resort to coal. The need to continuously operate pumps to stop ground water from flooding the coal mines led to steam engines.
I make no judgement of which users or if the discussion will objectively be bad. Just answering GeoA's question.
I use the "Reports" section for this - breaks down expenses just fine in several different ways with a calendar widget as well. Have you tried that out?
Dance central spotlight for Xbox one

Nike kinect training for Xbox 360

Stepmania for pc
Handling business logic in the database is often going to be an order of magnitude faster than the application layer of some of the popular language stacks (looking at you, Rails, Node, etc). It also will outlive whatever webstack of the day (and acquisition which of en requires a re-write of the application layer but keeps general database structure - been there done that).
But it's not everyone's travels. It's the travels of an airplane. Which are all public information.

Her problem is that she feels entitled to tens or hundreds of thousands of times more airplane travel than the average person (private plane only carrying her/her friends), and is trivial to deanonymize.

She should try flying coach. Or at least charter. I've flown on aircraft that also broadcast all their flight information, yet you have no idea about which flights I took - because I am not so vain and self-centered (and wealthy) as to fly in a private, personal jet.

(If she can't handle coach, she could always plane-pool with her other billionaire friends. Then we'd have no idea of where she is at any particular moment. But I understand that takes most of the kick out of private jets.)
I postulate that there are other warming sources that could have been on the rise prior to the industrial revolution - do other timelines such as farming/ranching, coal burning for metal forging, deforestation, etc line up with the start of what's measurable via these sponges?
>Retiring the entire laptop always felt so wasteful.

It's only wasteful if you throw it in the trash. If you sell it on the used market, someone else gets to use it for longer, and so on.
the fact that im always hearing about it leads me to believe its not dead
Given human variation I'm not quite willing to generalize that much. I'd say pretty much anything our minds do is of questionable utility when taken to an extreme. But this extreme will vary between people.
There's plenty of that, possibly even more on Mastodon/Fediverse, you just have to go look for it and follow relevant people and/or hashtags.
It may be my bubble, but so many of my followed accounts have left, or stooped using it mostly, that my timeline is almost entirely US politics[1] and meme videos

[1] I am not even American
Yes, people have looked into this, but I don't have many details. One proposal was to put charged tethers into orbit in the magnetosphere. Particles would be deflected by them, some into the loss cone where they'd enter the atmosphere and be removed.
Most Americans Wary of Self-Driving Cars as Trust in Tesla Wanes: Study
google hires 27k devs (as per google search)

Do you honestly think all 27k devs are 10x certified geniuses?
Not all startup bros are primarily scientifically curious, some are just driven by profit. Or, as a wise man once said: "nature decays! But Latinum lasts forever."
Oh yeah, I'm not denying that Netscape pioneered a lot of stuff. They also would have went out of business had they not been bought by AOL at a stupid, dot-com inflated price.

You can do something that creates a lot of changes in the world, but if your business model involves giving people things for less than it takes to produce then I don't see how that's a business. What are VCs expecting to get a return on their capital? What's the plan to actually make a profit? Is the plan just to get bought out at a stupidly inflated price, similar to your inspiration of Netscape?
What you're describing in 2) sounds a lot like paper terrorism[0]

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_terrorism