skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really care about who spies on who, check with AIPAC and similar groups that said that openly, and no one gave a dime.

TikTok is less censored compared to FB, Instagram, X.com etc..
Look how many Israel supporter funded this action (banning/buying Tiktok) Always look for the one with most interest in having Tiktok controlled, you will know who are are the lobbyistes behind. (Follow the money)
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The blur is a great decision, btw.

Something I observed in the late 90's/early 2000's with my experiments of outputting video from a PC to a TV is - something that looks really rough even at the same resolution on a PC looks significantly better on a TV. The reason being twofold:

1. TV pixels on a CRT are usually diagonally arranged, instead of side-by-side, which helps to hide jaggies.

2. The phosphorous illumination on the glass itself isn't super sharp on a CRT like it is on more modern displays.

The result being - something a little fuzzier makes for a better viewing experience. You can perceive individual pixels (and resulting artifacts) less.
I loved movie watching with my AVP but I agree it's too uncomfortable, even lying in bed and having less weight on my cheek bones. I watched two hours of Guards of the Galaxy 3 and got tired of wearing it and finished the last hour on my 13" laptop screen
thanks for fixing and explaining that, I thought '' would work and forgot about escaping characters.
"In my experience, people who like things because they are hidden"

Sounds a bit like a strawmen. No one here said, they like something, because it is hidden.

But hidden places are quite free and can cultivate a very different culture, than one that plays by all the legal rules. And where money took over everything.

The best places I have been, were not listed in lonely planet. And I could not book them online. I had to find them.
I try to work on complex problems. Sometimes they hide something easy
? Drones submarine ala ukraine in mineconfiguration buried in the silt, you don't even need a navy for that..
The article summary indicates that payment processing was affected. I'm not sure what possibilities there are for offline payment processing, but that's different than just not being able to report sales numbers or something. And opening cash-only is probably not worth the hassle for many locations.
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It'll be nice to see increased competition and, hopefully as a result, costs being driven down along with more advanced designs.
The Midwest is smoothly populated with regular towns and farms. If you look at darkskymap.com, the darkest areas in Midwest are darker but not the darkest. It is only leave Corn Belt that get dark spots. But taxes going to the western deserts to get really dark.
Dupe of

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39715161

and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39712618
NPM Install Everything, and the Complete and Utter Chaos That Follows
well, after https://yuri.is/not-julia/, the above is a very valid statement.
Does anyone have anything resembling statistics on how often the HN auto-de-clickbaiter actually improves article titles? I only notice it when it wrecks them, which it seems like it does really often, but maybe there are dozens of cases where it's just quietly making things a little bit better. Or not.

[EDITED to add:] Of course I'm not suggesting an automated system that assesses which changes are improvements, or anything like that. But maybe there's something somewhere that logs every title change that gets made, and every now and then someone could look at the most recent 50 and see whether it's making things better or worse on net.
One piece of advice is be brave and try things out in your interactions with real humans. People will generally be empathetic and patient if you pick your moments to try to talk, but you need to practice with real humans. For example when ordering your daily coffee or whatever, if the place isn't too busy ask the barista how their day is. Listen to what they say. If they ask you how you're doing, prep something short to say ahead of time (like "I'm doing fine thanks"). Then in private practice saying what the barista said to you. Make sure you understand it. If you like it, wait for an opportunity when someone asks you how you're doing and try out the thing that the barista said. So now you don't just know how to said "I'm doing fine" you how to say "Pretty darn awesome" or whatever. Then the next day try a quick conversation with someone else.
Why is it monthly? What happens if you don’t renew?
Doesn't work, wsj blocked it
I doubt it. Federal highway infrastructure mandates only 14.5 ft clearance. These things are larger than that in diameter and must go on a flatbed (that is itself 2' off the ground or so.) Turning radii on highways are not sufficient for something 300 feet long either, I don't believe anything over 80' can be towed. Many states have lower limits than the federal government on length.

The real question is how will it get from wherever that plane lands (which I assume must only be large airports, unless they plan on building private runways near installation sites, which I guess might not be cost-prohibitve relative to the cost of flying the world's biggest plane in once for each blade) to wherever it is going? So it may still be last mile by helicopter, I don't know how else you'd move it.
Nice job representing HN's large dolphin and whale audience.
There is a camp ground just across the CA border on Goose Lake north of Alturas. Quiet, hookups, small town near by and not much light pollution.
My cynical ass assumes it's because they know goddamn well no one under 60 years old has $4,000 to spend on a properly made sofa, irrespective of desire or taste. I make six figures and I certainly don't.

My furniture is all cheap particle board shit because I can't afford anything nicer because I'm spending all my money on a mortgage, food, gas, and student loans. I don't think it's a matter so much of nobody wanting to make good quality products so much as all the companies that did do that and priced their products accordingly are running out of customers, because we're all getting strip-mined by the rest of life's expenses going up all the goddamn time. I would love nothing more than a gorgeous, well made sofa that will last me a solid chunk of my remaining life, but where the fuck am I getting the money for it?

It's the boots theory of economics applied to everything. I'll spend $7,000 on sofas before I die and still have a sore ass.
If it was an operational warship, then a battleship would have a lot of firepower...the great majority of it very short-range, by current standards.

The last time that any battleship was returned to active service, from merely being in reserve, doing that required more than 1 1/2 very expensive years of shipyard work.

Now, the battleships have been left rusting for almost 3X as long as they were before that re-activation in the 1980's.
When I was a young man I was taking a language course while I was temporarily living in a foreign country. There was an older man in the course (not elderly, more like mid-fifties) who was very bad at the new language we were both learning. Yet I noticed he had, what seemed to me, a magic power: he could always make people laugh. He would often whisper something to one of our classmates and they would always get a giant smile on their face or even laugh out loud.

I was intensely curious and I spent some time wondering how he did it. One day, out of the blue, he invited me out to lunch after class. We just chatted for most of the lunch, exchanging backgrounds and stories. Then his face took on a serious expression and he slowly and carefully began to explain something to me as if he was passing on some wisdom.

He said that he never spoke a single sentence without fully saying the sentence in his mind. He said he would often think of the words several times in his mind, revising the phrase until he was happy. He would imagine saying the words to the person in front of him and he would imagine their reaction. And he would continue to revise until he felt confident the person who heard the words he would say would react in the way he wanted them to react. If he could not imagine the person reacting how he wanted them to react, he would not say anything at all.

It was clear to me that he was passing along this advice but also that he was calling me out a bit. He was letting me know that I spoke without thinking. I say what pops into my head. It was like he read my mind honestly, he knew exactly what I was curious about and he answered the question I had for him that I never asked.

I wish I could say that I learned the lesson. When I have tried the technique it has rewarded the effort. But I haven't formed it into a habit and I still tend to let my mouth race ahead of my mind.
I think that this entire debate is skewed based in rather broken concepts of benefits. In the ways that ought to matter, rideshare drivers seem like contractors:

They set their own hours; overtime pay would odd, but perhaps too many hours should be banned on safety grounds. They bring their own equipment. They owe no particular allegiance to an “employer” like Uber or Lyft (and can work for more than one of them at once!). Even family leave would be somewhat odd, at least in the way that family leave works in the US.

But, in the US, this results is a problem: they are low-paid contractors, and contractors don’t get certain critical employment benefits (automatically tax-deductible health care at group rates is the big one), and the result is extremely problematic.

Perhaps a much better solution would be to let drivers be contractors but to fix the benefit situation. Insurance should not be tied to employment! I, as as independent contractor, should be able (or required) to purchase (or have provided to me by the state) insurance under identical terms to those that employees benefit from. In fact, changing jobs or taking a break from work should have no effect on my insurance plan or the taxation thereof! Contractors should be eligible for Medicare and Social Security just like employees. And perhaps family leave should even be a state benefit: after all, the presence of children benefits society and the state (future labor and tax revenue, not to mention that children are nice to have around), and this benefit does not depend on whether the parents are employees, college students, low-paid contractors or high-paid contractors.

With all of that fixed, allowing people to put miles on their car to provide a useful service for not-amazing contractor pay doesn’t actually seem so bad to me.
If we need to go the AI route, isn't the timestamp of someone's last TicToc/X/Instagram post a better indicator of time of death?
I've purchased two sofas, one for $1200 from a trendy company and I returned it the day after it was delivered. And then one for $3500 from Design Within Reach that is absolutely terrific and built to outlast me. I'm not advertising for that store, I'm just agreeing that quality is still available but it was never inexpensive. Mentally I compare furniture to the quality of stuff my parents and grandparents had, and I remember that the couch my parents bought in the 90s cost $2000 then.
The alt energy transition needs some SERIOUSLY LARGE scale. I wish I had a super-caps lock for that.

The fact that a custom transport plane and dedicated landing strip for massive wind farms is economically feasible should give you a hint as to what is at stake.

For review, both wind and solar, allegedly with storage bundled in and without subsidies, is cheaper than the next cheapest (and fossil fuel based) generation method: natural gas turbine, per LCOE numbers from Lazard LAST YEAR.

Natural gas turbine is basically topped out in terms of efficiency and cost, I believe they have already exceeded Carnot efficiency with downstream exhaust heat capture and other maximization techniques. They can't go lower. Wind? Likely has a decade of gradual cost improvement. Solar? Successful integration of perovskites might drop prices 50% or more in the next decade, plus usual economy of scale improvement.

The economics are basically settled. The details are massive scale, load leveling, grid adaptation.
The ice cream machine is actually down today.
wow, that's a start, thanks!
Show HN: TinyApps – Upwork but for tiny software development tasks
Hello, Kiran here.

We have been working for the last few weeks on building TinyApps.
A lot of us have come across situations where in we want to offload some of our work but at the same time we don't want to take the pain of finding developers, agencies and the cost that comes with it. This would help in focusing on our core work and at the same time get some bandwidth.

So, we are launching a platform where in you can post your tasks which could be just a bug fix, a simple infrastructure setup using terraform, a dashboard in react or anything related to software development for a fixed tiny price similar to the price of a coffee.

Unlike upwork, we only focus on software dev.

Would love to get any feedback and thoughts.
> * A one-line code change doesn't bring with it a 500-line style change because the file passed between people with different style tastes.

In general, one should refrain from drive-by refactoring.
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The forum post you linked doesn't even demonstrate what you claim, since users just a few posts in were showing Siri giving the correct answers. Testing just now, Siri still gives the correct answers.

I think it was actually demonstrating a different problem: Siri's inconsistency of answers. Sometimes you will ask Siri a thing, and it will get it right. Other times, the exact same query will give something totally different (and totally wrong).

Anecdotally, I've encountered this issue less and less over the year. IMO the public has a brain worm regarding Siri's badness that doesn't really match reality. I'm guilty of the same thing—and yet I constantly see people using Siri for things I would have bet money it couldn't do, successfully. Just recently I asked it a followup question, and it worked perfectly. I didn't think Siri could do that. I was stuck in ChatGPT mentality, or I wouldn't have even tried.

I am not claiming Siri is perfect. I am not claiming it's as good as anyone else (largely because I haven't tried the other voice assistants in a long time). I'm not even saying it's particularly good, let alone "good enough". Apple has dropped the ball, no question.

However, I am saying it's better than online sentiment would have you believe.
IMO it's better to think of programming languages in the same way as frameworks in cases like this: because they are. Frameworks present a tradeoff in many areas, but the big ones tend to be solving issues specific to some domain, and the "framework cost" which is needing to work within the constraints and expectations of the framework. Typically the hard part about learning a new programming language is not learning the syntax, it's learning the semantics and the standard library, something that you will pay some amount of when adopting a framework. Maybe to a lesser degree, but most programming languages tend to have consistent semantics around core things like control flow.

If you want my personal opinion, I think you'll spend more time getting cut by the razor sharp edges of `mmap(2)` (or whatever the Windows equivalent is) than picking up Elixir, must less the difficulty in handling edge cases such as extremely high load and network failures. Elixir (or rather, BEAM + OTP) is built specifically with the problems you will face in mind, and it would be naive to not at least take a serious look at it.

I'll also add, that while I don't know the specifics of your system, message broker/passing systems tend to have very hard boundaries with serialization in-between, making it easy to build polyglot systems.

Edit: also w.r.t. picking up a new language, I'm referring to the cost of a team picking up a new language, not you as an individual :)
I found a single VR porn website that worked with the AVP. It was super finicky (around 30 seconds to load a page and actually get it playing, involving 6 button presses). Also was a paid website.
Like "canadaandback" suggested, more talking is the way!

Just out of curiosity, what is your native language?

One of the things that came to mind when considering your question… your struggles are likely common to other folks who share the same native language as you.

For example, certain sounds may be hard to make, and you're accustomed to saying certain letter combinations in one way for your native language that may be different for English.

If you can find others locally, who also share the same first language as you, they may be able to give you pointers to help with the same challenges.
I'm sure they get a lot more people if they just advised: hey you can watch 3D p*rn unlike elsewhere.

it's nice for browsing the web, but you have to deal with ads inside their chromium fork.

for working with it as a monitor for work though. it's usable but the resolution is not there yet.
Thanks! My timeline was way off. I tried everything to find this on Google but wasn't able.
Am I the only one visualizing some of my most creative thoughts in a mental palace that is formed by many distinct (euclidian) spaces, whose axis connect to each other through a graph ? Closest thing that can describe this I found are simplicial sets:

picture: https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRx5Xam...

It seems it's used by cognitive models, although I'm not formally trained enough to tell exactly how:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.08314.pdf
Hybrid social networking with immersive, virtual 3D spaces
really cool concept. Is this only available in US?
lol this is the clean version. Can't imagine the other one.
There are live events on meetup com for people to meet and learn new languages
> Take the initiative to talk to other people. That's honestly the best way to improve.

Yup.

If your goal is gaining native/near-native fluency then there is no other option but to talk/write to people.

Lots of people will try to tell you "just use Anki", just use some AI-gimmick, just read books or just listen to lots of podcasts. But they are wrong.

The problem with the one-sided immersion as I listed above is that you will become very good at comprehension. You will be able to perfectly understand what people are saying, you will be able to perfectly understand complex written documents, or documents with lots of native slang and abbreviations.

But comprehension != fluency.

If you want to be able to speak and write like a native, then there's no shortcut. You have to get off your backside and interact with the natives in live bi-directional form.

AI will NOT help you with this. AI is very good at being very confident at being very wrong, that is not what you want. You want humans, real life humans, the more the better (then you get exposed to different dialects, different age groups etc. etc.).

If you absolutely must have an app, then look at something like HelloTalk which is basically 21st century pen-pals, find a human language partner and chat with them.

But really, just join a sports club, do some hobbies, go down the pub .. whatever gets you in the room with humans.
Looking at the number of articles which compare m3 macbooks against "intel" but mean "the intel macbook from years ago", I totally expect to read lots of articles which pretend non-apple devices don't exist.
Same with Dart. You may not like the style too much, but at least it's consistent and everyone uses it.

Dart also has a kind of "standard lints" (one for Flutter, one for just Dart): https://dart.dev/tools/linter-rules

Even though you can write your own lints to verify every little detail of the code, the fact that standards exist is great.

Check out the rules enabled by the default lints, it's pretty amazing: https://github.com/dart-lang/lints/blob/main/rules.md
That does not explain why they were doing fine before; the US has had universities for centuries. Why did Parkinson's Law not set in from the beginning?
There are live events on meetup.com where people meet to learn new languages
It's obviously personal opinion, but I think you made the best choice! (Gnome on Fedora). Welcome back!

It's remarkable how much more polished Gnome is from a few years ago. If you use 2FA TOTP, make sure to install Gnome Authenticator if you haven't already. If you use Aegis on Android (or a handful of other formats) it can import/export your seeds. It is downright luxurious having this on my laptop/desktop:

# If you haven't setup flathub yet
sudo flatpak remote-add --if-not-exists flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo

# Install Authenticator from flathub. Source: https://gitlab.gnome.org/World/Authenticator
sudo flatpak install flathub com.belmoussaoui.Authenticator
I regularly replace my screen 1-2 times between iPhone upgrades, and have never kept one until end of security update support. I've never managed to replace an android screen, and have only replaced one android phone that still had security update support (I've only bought flagship androids.)
That's a long brave path you had.

From my experience, once you understand the "bottom/low level", you will go back to the "up/high level".

I studied and used at university Assembly language and C (and C++) and I am not willing to write an e-commerce application with ASM 80x86
Maybe for this generation, but give it time. I think expectations will shift.

Children used to be told "don't sit so close to the TV" and now we're strapping monitors to our heads.
To be notified of updates. Why in preference to email? Web feeds are typically presented as information streams while email is presented as interpersonal dialogue. Organizing your information streams into an aggregator is clarifying.
>Which LLM will on its own go and write a novel?

Which human will?

We get prompts all the time, it's called sensory input.

Instead of "write a noval" it's more like information about literature, life experience, that partner who broke our heart and triggered our writing this personal novel, and so on.
I love my 2019 Leaf. Harsh unsubstantiated criticism sucks.
A scanned signature would work, I think, on a form mailed in by the user. The form would need to be clearly identified as coming from the data broker but could be provided by the company ultimately seeking your data.
A chance to be famous for bringing justice? Absolutely!
I took 9 to be missing without a trace rather then missing due to an accident.
I think it's more likely that psychology offers a lot of potentially marketable propositions, such as lie detection, effective lying, covert behavioral control, secret information about the movements of financial markets, etc. Therefore, a lot of snake oil is sold, and people's careers advance proportionally to the amount of snake oil they can sell.

The job has often been to come up with a marketable theory; to design experiments and write papers to imply that that theory is true without quite proving it; and to avoid the possibility, through any means, that someone will weaken or disprove the theory.
Relevant XKCD https://xkcd.com/1968/

Glad to see were going to start letting the justice system become dependent on black box stochastic parrots.

After all the government + technology is always right and incorruptible it's not like horrible things like hundreds of innocent government employees being imprisoned and prosecuted over errors in software ever happens, right? right?
I wonder if anyone has had experience importing a BYD to the US - it looks like you need to get independent certifications to prove that the car is safe if it doesn't conform to US automotive standards. I might need a new car in the next 6 months, so I hope it's cheaper than paying for an EV sold at a dealership here.
Because they are dumping... With their contractors.
> the problem with old.reddit.com is that it actually is a terrible UI

I know I'm pretty bad at UI/UX, so could you explain how the old.reddit.com is terrible? Like it's not usable on mobile, but on desktop I have no issues with it.