skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The section where it compares results of Viking warrior to Zulu warrior to Samurai is a reasonable critique but I think prompts like "person eating a mayo sandwich on white bread" is reaching.

Racism is a real problem and it's also a very complicated topic that tends to get heated responses, not reasonable discussion. Much of what you get, even from well-meaning people, is just a laundry list of their biases.

I once asked online for help with names for fictional characters. I wanted names that could be mistaken for something else, such as names that are usually one gender but sometimes the other in a different culture or names that you think suggest some specific ethnicity but also happen to be common in some entirely unrelated population.

One of the things I learned is that a lot of Native Americans have "Western"-sounding names because Europeans arrived and some tribes were like "They have cool names. We shall name our kids that!"

So my idea of "Native names" was rooted in me not knowing that much about history.

And also you find that, say, what an American (USA "American") thinks of as a Black person might be viewed as Mulatto someplace else or White some other place. The US has this idea that if you are one eighth African you are "Black" and it is rooted in historic slavery.

Furthermore, concepts of "Native" tend to conflate it with ethnicity as if it cannot be a nation-state identity.

This is deeply political and not comfortable for people to discuss. The US requires Natives to have a certain percentage of Native "blood" to still call themselves Native. It is often referred to as blood quantum and Natives tend to really hate this because it essentially treats them like dog breeds, not nation-states.

If you are a French citizen and your wife is a German immigrant, your child can marry another immigrant and not worry about their children losing French citizenship for "not being French enough." But Native Americans can endanger the tribal membership of their future children by falling in love with someone of the "wrong" ethnicity.

It's a means of breeding them out of existence and saying "You are too White to still be a member of the tribe." which ironically is the opposite of the policy we had for Blacks: You are not White enough to stop being a slave.

Both policies have one thing in common: Robbing both groups of essential human rights, an ugly truth no one wants to hear.

So posts like this don't tend to foster any kind of constructive discussion because the ugly truth is not socially acceptable and, thus, it tends to just end up being horrifying racist garbage with a smattering of protests against so-called "Woke" culture in the name of "Well, sure, I would like to foster constructive changes too, but not at the expense of telling the truth." or something along those lines.
Aside from the typical planned obsolescence for the purpose of recurring revenue, I found this particular example very interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32462954

It’s classic greenwashing - a more efficient fridge is obviously better, right? Except they use extremely thin oil so it dies in a few years.

Another interesting narrative is how Segway shut down the production of their scooter because they were so well made that they weren’t selling enough! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23621279

It’s a weird world and I wish I could just have my cake and eat it too.
Yes. Try justifying jobs paid 700€/day every day for years.
Cohost is pretty close to that, minus the use of real names and photos. It's pretty much a dumb feed of people you've chosen to follow.
Dictatorship exists in varous forms. Russia has democracy though in bad shape. There various flavours of democracy. But what about total dictatorship in China has no opposition and many countries with theocratic monarchy.
This says it's possible: https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/8016/is-a-railgun-...

Note: I cannot vouch for its correctness.
Dude, I'd totally love to be paid lots of money to work on my pet projects. Just think of the beauty I could bring in to the world. My talents, livelihood, journey and so on just can't find a market though.
Who do you define as “people”? Because there are the HN people who probably could even install a separate firewall to block/monitor all outgoing traffic, and then there are normal folks who don’t even know that their TV collects data. The majority of people are technologically illiterate who certainly can’t go into all the trouble of blocking ads and changing dns servers and installing firewalls and what not.
This is why I manufacture a lot of my own appliances these days. The parts are all available online, and I trust my engineering moreso than manufacturers these days.
The infrastructure spending is indeed mind boggling, but I have the feeling similar to their real estate glut that they are building too low quality and are making a grave mistake in this because they will be stuck with this infrastructure for the next decades (comparable with how the US is stuck with its aging airports, highways and congress centers).
The escape velocity for Earth is 11 km/s. The escape velocity for mars is 5 km/s. The situation for a ground launched projectile is of course worse because of air resistance losses.

It's still really difficult to accelerate something to 5 km/s. (It's 2.5 km/s on the moon)
Chaos is just another possible consequence of non linear systems. And newtons's fractal is also generated by just another iterative process. That doesn't mean the origin is necessarily random.
There is some fundamental disconnect in your position if you think applying an objective framework will correct scientific and educational practice. The fact that you seem to be neglecting is that science and science education are social practices. All activism is, is an attempt to change social practices. It's not all somehow unclean or wrong or anti-truth.
This has more sinister implications in some places. For example, Apple app store in Russia can get banned at any time. So if I understand this correctly, if that happens, Signal will stop working for all iPhone owners in Russia in 6 months. And guess where you really need something like Signal?
You probably didn't watch the video. These are exactly the earrings used in the video to create the matrix LED ones. These earrings are just a fake jewel with an LED back light.

The article showcases a programable LED matrix, which opens up a lot more possibilities.
God's Algorithm
Also, I want it to do everything that this really cool house I saw does. But, I only want to pay for a day or two of labor in order to accomplish every feature that massive contruction project had, plus this one key feature that that house didn't have.

What? You can't do that? My husband/ son/ nephew/ gardener knows how to draw with pencils, I can have them do it if you won't see reason!
In #2, you're 100% right - if doing a bit of janitorial work was enough to obtain an upper class lifestyle, there'd be mile long lines of people anxious to become janitors. But don't you see the problem that immediately entails? You have neither enough resources for everybody to live these sort of lifestyles nor enough jobs for this many janitors, and so paying janitors this sort of salary becomes a nonstarter.

This is why in capitalism, wages are not determined by some subjective measurement about a job (difficulty, desirability, etc) but a simple balance between supply and demand. The reason janitors are paid poorly is because there's lots of supply, but not nearly as much demand. The same's true in high skill positions. Post-docs are some of the most highly skilled individuals who often have years of specialized education in very specific fields. Yet there's lots of post-docs but not much demand, so their pay isn't that far removed from that of a janitor.

Automation feels hand-wavey to me on these topics, because it's not realistically coming anytime soon for many of these jobs. While we take janitorial work for granted, think about how absurdly difficult it would be for a robot to be able to clean an arbitrarily designed bathroom, which may be defouled in an equally arbitrary number of ways, and also possibly depending on an arbitrary selection of third party tools/replacements. In all reality I think it's extremely safe to say that's not happening in our lifetimes.

There's also an economic issue that the jobs automation replaces needs to be substantially cheaper than a human doing the same work. Stuff with moving parts breaks down and tends to need regular maintenance, while wages for most low skill work are very low. We could largely automate something like fast food production, but economically it's still cheaper to just use humans.
Having worked in construction/contracting I can say that architects usually get badmouthed on the jobsite for being totally ignorant of the actual intricacies of construction and finishing. Obviously this isnt always true but it still made me smile to see something that could be interpreted as a bit of goodhearted architect bashing on HN tonight.
Hetzner has one of the worst customer support I've ever seen. Get really, really, faraway from this company.
"hot-swappable toilets" was not a mental picture I expected to have today
Once again people think they can productivity their way to results as if it's a quantifiable and profitable resource. Culture, Creativity and Art are HUMAN expression of a HUMAN condition. To generate it with a computer means to create 'content' for the sake of profit. Not ART for the sake of expression. At the start of every argument reducing any human output to nothing more than a repeatable and reducible resource is the same arrogant fallacy thinking that, and anything we create just will appear in a vacuum. The worlds people benefit from standing on each others shoulders. This reduces that to the company with the biggest pockets. Otherwise, why secrets?

Everything you argue facilitates the reach of human expression. This pilfers and silences it. This plagiarism machine cannot even deal with 'current stimuli' in ANY way what so ever so it cannot express anything. It can only remember what you've told it, and it can barely do that successfully. It can't hold a fact for 2 messages. It cannot feel, it cannot predict, it cannot agree or disagree. It outputs based on master's filter and its expression based on financial agenda.

To think artists want to retain control over their own voice and ideas, and not have a company steal the aesthetics of it and sell its skeleton at a discount, and not realise the hypocrisy of trying to shift the power away from the individual to a private single for profit company is just... Beautifully poetic in its own right.

> the invention of the phonograph decimated live musicians

What history have you been smoking? The invention of a technology that could mechanically reproduce the message of an artist only sought to spread awareness and increase musical access and interest. It cannot replicate the aura of art which is why people to this day squeeze into expensive live shows. You argue the phonograph has completely cleaned live music off the table. It hasn't. It facilitated its growth.

You can replicate the art, but you can't create the artist. If ever I hear a balanced argument from the other side that includes the word 'aura' I'll have known they didn't just spend half a night researching these matters and deciding it's easier to remain ignorant.

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

"in the age of mechanical reproduction and the absence of traditional and ritualistic value, the production of art would be inherently based upon the praxis of politics."
nand2tetris: https://www.nand2tetris.org/

I like the book better than the online course.
Privacy concerns aside it’s problematic that a grocery store chain has enough money to buy a TV manufacturer. So many of the brands in our lives have become too big and powerful in my opinion.
Tech communities can get a bit overzealous with this, but this is definitely one of the situations where I'd just pirate. They are giving me an inferior service due to discrimination of devices that are 4k-capable, and on top if that they increased prices and added ads late last year. They aren't even trying to earn my subscription.
The public infrastructure (especially the newer one) is actually quite decent even by Western standards. The private buildings are not, at least the old ones (actually they are quite bad). The Chinese government recently banned high-rises because of this. Many of these buildings are now a liability to the public.
Is it really “pretty clear” when people have been making the same mistake since the late 90’s/early 2000’s when the forum was launched?
1) Industrial processes are stupidly hard to duplicate.

It doesn't even have to be something as advanced as semiconductors, duplicating a line that manufactures something as prosaic as paint is an exercise in patience and frustration. It's like building software from source using documentation, you may think you wrote down all the steps, but you find all the crap you missed when you actually try to execute the task.

2) Top-down command is anathema to engineering progress

American corporations are bad enough for only reporting good news up the chain (see: Intel and deep UV lithography). A dictatorship like China is going to be ridiculous. You will deliver good news to Dear Leader, and you will deliver it when expected, or you will find yourself in the doghouse. So, especially if your task fails, you will make bloody sure that it either gets reported as successful or that you leave someone else hanging with the consequences (see: China and water and rocket fuel). This slows the engineering process to a crawl as nobody can trust anything delivered from anybody else.
They can do that in any case if they want to, just by taking photos of their phone screen.
This is so true! While planning a trip abroad last year we were unsure about whether $thing is legal in $country. Google proclaimed in bold letters that, yes, $thing is legal in $country, but this line was taken from a site with the title "common misconceptions about traveling in $country" an in fact $thing was not legal.

Such a basic mistake, I haven't trusted the instant results ever since.
If Architects had to work like this, you'd likely earn a reputation as a cheapskate and get the "sorry but we're busy with other projects" line, or get the design for a barn from some desperate junior architect.
One honest question for all people who miss the "good old days" of on-prem: have you ever worked in a shop that ran their own private datacenter? because I did and it wasn't lovely.

My first job ran their own datacenter. We started with a rack of about 50 nodes and some odd computers here and there. By the time I left we had a rack of 250 nodes and we had thrown away all individual servers (oh Solaris I won't miss you).

> Truly, why not try to run your own private cloud? How many old laptops, desktops, PIs, etc must we all have lying around?

Although VMs and Containers have done a world of difference on running your own datacenter, there are still reasons why just use the hardware that you have lying around for a business is a bad idea.

First, random laptops and desktops don't have a good ratio of price, performance, and energy consumption. Second, despite virtualization, all this heterogeneity in hardware and software is bound to cause an ongoing maintenance headache. Third, I hope your business doesn't have a sudden spike of demand, or you'll be struggling to find hardware to support it. Fourth, say good bye to quick iteration and experimentation when you have huge lead times and tons of capex.

Bottom line, cool for a hobbyist project, not cool for starting a business (and a maybe for a well establish and mature business).
Fridges and washing machines and so on?

Have you documented any of the builds?

I would be very interested in open-source plans like this, and joining (or helping form) a community around the idea of appliances built to last, or more importantly, using modular standard parts and designed for repair.
Your pencil to draw the diagrams will be managed by a completely different person, you are not allowed to sharpen it yourself. However that person may not be available as they will be sharpening everyone else's pencils, as well as adjusting desks.

They are all from Blue Pants, so won't work the same time shifts as you
Some slopes are slippery and some people have the cause of their deeds in their [material] characteristics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motive_(law)
Also check his YouTube channel to see them in action and for more background information: https://youtu.be/CHoGIvOi-jw
they are there to protect everyone from people like you who want to walk around naked.
Vizio is among the TV brands that were already caught spying on people through their "Smart" TVs (1). I do my best to stay away from that junk as my Kodi box is more than enough, but if I had one, I'd either never connect it to the Internet, or do that through a huge list of banned IPs, as mere DNS filtering pi-hole style could not be enough. Also beware of Ethernet equipped HDMI cables and unprotected WiFi.

1- https://www.forbes.com/sites/bernardmarr/2017/02/08/shocking...
You know this how ? I stand by what I said your comment is malicious
> China is still a few decades from commercially viable high end semiconductors.

I'm going to set a reminder to check in on this comment in three years to see how it has aged. My guess is, very poorly.
Oxide is offering you radically different -better- terms. The price they mean to charge will almost be based around what they need to a) fund more development, b) grow, and probably also relate to what their competition charge. The actual price you would actually negotiate surely depends on other factors, like how badly you want those better terms. If the better terms aren't enough to make you talk to them about pricing, then Oxide surely isn't for you.
That's a very funny take - but I wonder how architects feel about it, because I'm pretty sure that there is similar stuff happening when designing houses...

The biggest difference though probably is, that the architect who creates the blue prints - will not be involved in the actual construction work. Therefore the blue-print (which the customer signed off on) has to be ground truth.
They are also checking your account .. and as easy as you can lock an account, as easy you can soft lock it via a flag because the billing system says enough. And the few cents in between they swallow easily (as with so many other inaccuracies).

They do not want it, that is the only reason.
Calling Walmart a "grocery store chain" is like saying GE is a "light bulb company".
There is if the average size of said business is between 2 and 1.
From what I understand, the issues with flying high on earth is that engines don’t work as well at high altitudes, and you get into ‘coffin corner’ where an aircraft’s stall speed approaches the speed of sound (that is inconvenient for high aspect-ratio aircraft). These problems are not as challenging for electric aircraft flying in generally lower density atmosphere.
Can't you just not connect it to the internet? I prefer Microsoft to spy on me on my Xbox.
Yes, but they were outliers.
And Hugo is much more political than the Oscars. Always was.
I'm going to contest that statement.
For extra amusement, make it so that you have responsibility without authority.

I.e. you know what is broken and roughly how to fix it and in everyone's view it absolutely is your responsibility to "git'erdone", but you can't since you either don't have access or resources to do what needs doing and you won't get the access or the resources due to office politics or some other equally unfixable issue.

That's a fun little stress-biscuit to eat.
Stef/blog/ – Why and how to use OPAQUE for user authentication
"This day and age, the knowledge is at our fingertips."

I disagree, there's lots of 'information' at your fingertips, but not knowledge. It's really a ton of work to find well designed and built appliances, that can be repaired etc, but that also have modern efficiency and essential features.

You can no longer necessarily even trust the expensive brand names, as many of them seem to be cashing-in on their, um, cachet, and reputation, and churning out similar junk to the rest of them.
Because of all the downsides. The utilitarian choice is about practicality, not pure performance. This line of questioning is silly.
You could buy a USB SDR device and get most of the same functionality but without the convenient form factor.
I don’t think you can spin the blades much faster, as Earth-bound helicopters already have issues with blade tip speeds approaching the speed of sound. Short blades are less efficient anyway, and I’m not sure why pushing larger blades will require more power; that would have to do with the balance between density of atmosphere and its viscosity.
I love it. Any more of these? I love 80s and 90s programming humour. Real programmers don't eat quiche, story of mel, etc.
Every scientist is painfully aware that their field of science is “wrong”. That’s why they are employed. It’s just the least wrong thing anyone has thought of yet.
Could a US pensions revolution be on the cards?
Maintainer of `react-querybuilder` here. Couple of things:

Firstly, both RQB and RAQB facilitate the `WHERE` clause of a query, not the `SELECT`, `FROM`, or other clauses that would control aggregation.

Secondly, I would strongly discourage you from passing SQL from the client to the server, even if you parameterize it. For RQB, we recommend passing the native query object as JSON to your API and using our provided export method on the server to transform it into SQL (or whatever format you need).

Once in a blue moon I get requests for aggregation support in RQB, so to address your last question: yes, I think there would be some demand for something like that.
This article appears to be setting up debate over the meaning of a word without defining the word or outlining tests to tell what the word means to the author. The points being made are meaningless without more foundational definitions. Knowing whether status is a zero-sum or positive sum game requires knowing what the rules are. Unfortunately the word is so fuzzy that I don't think a HN comment can usefully outline what it means. And in some sense, useful discussions of status mechanics are taboo, people get uncomfortable and high-status people tend to dissemble on the topic because nothing good can come to them from more people understanding the game.

Friedman explicitly acknowledges the lack of definition with: "One conclusion is that the last thing we want is a system for objectively ranking people, for defining status in a way that everyone agrees on". That is the sort of thing I mean about dissembling. Society is actually quite cruel to delusional people who misjudge their own status or don't bend to the commonly accepted status tells. Status is communally held and not just in one person's head; individuals will be given hard feedback until they conform to the externally developed status hierarchies. Their beliefs do not overrule the collective belief of their status. Evolution has also made humans remarkably sensitive to status signals and hints from the people around them to try and stop misalignments.
It’s interesting to see a very pragmatic approach towards “better C”. There’s so many “better C” languages out there gaining popular interest like Zig, Hare, Odin, Jai; but none (I don’t consider Rust a better c) try to tackle memory safety, even when stating from a clean slate. Then there’s this thing, which is still mostly normal C, so it’s very easy to apply to existing code, and it does solve memory safety head on.

It’s not clear from reading but it seems like most checks happen at run time, and not at compile time. How much feedback goes the compiler give to the user about mistakes?