skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What other good alternatives to amazon for publishing books? Preferably not filled with garbage ones.
ISB Global, the most advanced waste management software
> There's also zillions of youtube compilations that should be trivially findable. eg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=970c-takyAs

that video is 1h long, on which timestamp "hobbyist-level FPV racing drone" disables tank?
Is or should be their main editorial goal to exactly mirror the political affiliations of americans? Is that the issue Berliner was raising in his essay?

I didn't read it that way, and I do find this relevant to the points he was making, which were much more about journalistic practice and ethics than about the demographics of listeners per se.
I couldn't agree more with this.

Internet pricing really hasn't changed at all all that much and my speeds have improved drastically from the "internet of old". Not to the speeds your getting but enough to show a dramatic improvement from what was before (50/50mbps).

Apart from the quality of websites themselves with ads, what we can do with the internet has improved immensely.
GOTO is useful when used in the right context.
Heavy use of exceptions are more of a problem today.
Question is how well it handles unseen variations and environments? This is a well controlled lab setup, with probably cherry-picked videos showing positive results.
Even if it’s perfectly synchronised, there’s likely no guarantee of deterministic playback. Perhaps a background process is dealing with some network activity or other OS task and throws the timing off fractionally. Or maybe a disk access (even for something in the background like streaming music) takes fractionally different amounts of time per run and affects the precise time at which the input is polled.
Having read his article and then checked on the stories, I came away with a different take, that Berliner's characterization seemed fair.
> This USB server solution is perfect for allowing USB devices to be used remotely over a LAN network, over the Internet, or in the Cloud without the USB device needing to be physically attached to remote client machine.
Is it legal to pass a law that pre-empts other legislation on the same subject?
Ghost.org or Substack.com for Blogging?
Hi,

I'm looking to start a new blog and I would like someone to please share with me their experience using Ghost.org or Substack.com.

Thank you so much.

Best,
Carlos
I went down some Covid quest of lunacy where I made literally hundreds of genesis cartridges. Yes, I’m aware of and own everdrives and multicarts, too. Got very intimately familiar with those pcbs by the end of it.
He's got the two box solution, so I guess my memory served me correctly about the workaround and I'll try to check the discord in the sibling comment for more help, thanks!
People who use tankless electric hot water heaters in their bathrooms to avoid waiting for hot water spent quite a bit for the privilege.

Recovering significantly energy without causing plumbing issues with clogged hair etc seems difficult however.
Amazon is not incentivized to do so for as long as they maintain a monopoly in the book market, just like they are not putting enough effort in removing knock off products.
> ... a single armchair is surrounded by thick curtains made of blue velvet — a nod to Lynch’s 1986 film Blue Velvet.

Or, you know, it just means the curtains are fucking blue! (for anyone who gets the reference).
> Car talk is a production of Dewey Cheetah Howe...

Dewey, Cheatum & Howe. It's a joke name like Sillius Soddus or Biggus Dickus.
This is awesome! Will be using it
What if everyone jumped at once? [Xkcd's What If?] [video]
I was talking about leadership. Making broad appeals to all constituents, to encourage people to do societally beneficial things without having to resort to the force of law. "Stay home and wear a respirator when you do go out" would have gone a long way to obviating the draconian state responses. In my state, the governor made such a stay at home suggestion but no actual order. It worked great because most people followed the advice rather than seeing the subject as an impingement on their rights to rage against.

I do agree that half of the sensationalist media reflexively reaches for the racism card to create outrage, and often times it's baseless or a red herring at best. But it takes two "sides" to stoke the "culture war", and Trump most certainly played the part.
seems overpriced?

Use unistrut or superstrut
A single atom layer of gold–researchers create goldene
I don't read the NYT as much as I used to, but I'll be a NYT subscriber for the rest of my life because they're the only media source creating content of quality and depth across such a wide range of American society (and of the rest of the world).

Some of their editorials are nutz but many, on both the left and the right, are exemplars of journalism.
The general rule I use is that libraries should not specify upper bounds on dependencies but applications should.

I use Poetry for all my projects, but I agree that it exacerbates the issue somewhat with its default npm-style version syntax.
Used to like NPR back when talk of the nation was decent circa 2005 ish. But it's really changed and a lot of the news reporting is of lower quality and so much more of the overall content has distinct viewpoints on purpose.

In all fairness, I think generations of folks aren't really able to set viewpoints aside and have come to believe that attempting to is bad. Which is complicated. But it no doubt meant that they needed to meet that audience to keep donations up.

And at least it's better than Fox News or talk radio and their ilk.
This doesn’t make sense to me because other questions seemed to follow the trends you’d expect.
You still have to spend time adding content. I enjoy doing that, but not everyone has the time.
Since the light seals are different shapes how was this tested?
It wouldn't be a federal security document if it didn't avoid the intractable core problems in exchange for deep obsession with the details
I recall using a plugin for it! I can imagine a place for it today.
With an eyewitness, simply saying that you think they are mistaken, with no evidence as to how they are mistaken, is sufficient. In this case, it was easier for the courts to believe hundreds of people were lying and committing fraud, then that there might have been a problem in the software. The only way to change the court's perspective was to provide evidence that was not even accessible to the defendants.

There's no reason to think that programmers are less fallible than other people.
"Why give something away for free if you could charge for it?"
Proton is what made me ditch Firefox.

I don't want my screen real estate taken up by bigger and bigger toolbars, which was exactly one of the motivating reasons Firefox evolved its UI back in v4, circa 2011 [1].

I went to Vivaldi. It has tons of customization options, like classic Opera.

[1]: https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix/wiki/%5BArticle%...
Do you get your McDs delivered to you instantly at no cost? If not, then takes less time to cook than drive to McDonalds, wait in line to make an order and wait for your meal to be cooked.
I treasure this site and the insightful comments I read. It’s one of the last places I’ve found on the internet where someone can bring up a controversial topic and get legitimate responses.
Discussion was gas vs EV braking, op was guessing it's impossible to kill an EV with stuck accelerator...

Of course stuck accelerator is dangerous in any situation in any car...
You probably want to look into the following attributes:

* spellcheck

* autocorrect (Safari non-standard)

* autocapitalize

* autocomplete
The quote saying that people from 18 to 25 need a safe environment to "explore the world" and "find their purpose" seems very infantile and backward.

First off, it's not realistic at scale and presents a very sheltered worldview. Majority of worlds workforce is between those ages and no automation, nor AI will change this.

Second, even in the first world it's backward because you can also explore the world and find your purpose while working, infact working will teach you much more about the world than any college and you can always decide to get education when you're more mature and better off financially.
> don't work against violent bullies.

De escalating is about dealing with angry people, especially people who aren’t usually violent.

Habitually violent bullies aren’t doing it out of anger, they’re using violence to provoke and manipulate.
Regular Joe is so bad at trading stocks that hedge funds literally give him a discount on the national best bid/offer for the privilege of being allowed to trade with him.

Giving retail traders access to the "actual market" would most likely result in worse execution on average, according to some studies.
It's just a blog post, and it is indeed good news. The author doesn't really need to bait any clicks.
There is, but if you consistently win, they’ll stop taking your bets. And there’s limited options for who will take your bet.

Granted, cash poker is all about sitting at the right table. It’s really the poker tournament structure that legitimizes it.
You literally know nothing about either companies
You haven't listened to enough of the end credits.

https://www.npr.org/people/2100834/tom-and-ray-magliozzi

In 1977, Tom and Ray were invited to the studios of NPR member station WBUR in Boston, along with other area mechanics, to discuss car repair. Tom accepted the invitation, and when he was invited back the following week, he asked, "Can I bring my brother, Ray?" The rest, as they say, is history. The Magliozzis were subsequently given their own weekly program, Car Talk, which soon attracted a large local following.

In January 1987, then host Susan Stamberg asked Tom and Ray to be weekly contributors to NPR's Weekend Edition and on October 31, 1987, Car Talk premiered as a national program, presented by NPR.

...

Car Talk is produced for NPR by Dewey, Cheetham & Howe and WBUR in Boston. Doug Berman is the Executive Producer.

---

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510208/car-talk

> The Best of Car Talk From NPR

> What are you going to do if two NPR hosts proclaim that you are so friendless you have to hang a porkchop around your neck just to get the dog to play with you? And what if those heartless hosts were your very own uncles? Find out on this episode of the Best of Car Talk.

That's listed under https://www.npr.org/podcasts/organizations/s1 which is "NPR Podcasts & Shows" with "NPR" in the top left corner of the icon.

If you go to Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/7y4fsFiHniACpBxFbvYKzY - this is from NPR and not On The Media (which I also listen to on a public radio station) https://open.spotify.com/show/3ge9HkAgzE1PP6193I1Vet and in https://www.npr.org/podcasts/452538775/on-the-media it is listed in a different organization ( https://www.npr.org/podcasts/organizations/s552 ).
The answer may surprise you
Same seems to have been happening on hn from the last several months.

had actually posted a question about this around that time, but the only reply i got was by a guy saying it is not likely, because the hn hive mind would drive down such posts.

not sure if he was right because I still see evidence of such stuff.
who determines what is "a solid profit"? If an artist can sell 70,000 tickets, why should they limit themselves to 20,000? Do you work for 2/7 of your potential salary? And what about the 50,000 fans shut out of the show?
Cool video. I would say that the clothes folding task in the UBTECH video is much, much easier than the ones in Google's videos. In fact, it could potentially be performed by simple replay of scripted motions with no sensing at all (with low reliability). I have some things I always look for when I'm watching robot demo videos:

1. Are there cuts in the video? If so, the robot may not be able to perform the entire task by itself without help. UBTECH's video has a couple of cuts. Google's videos have none.

2. Is the video sped up? If so, the robot may be very slow. UBTECH's video is 1x which is good, but you can see that the robot does move somewhat slowly and does not switch fluidly between actions. Google posted both 1x and 2x-20x videos so that you can easily see both real time speed and long duration reliability. In the 1x videos Google's robot is also somewhat slow, however it seems to switch more fluidly between actions than UBTECH.

3. Is the initial state at the start of the video realistic? If not, the robot may not be able to start the task without help. UBTECH's video starts with a carefully folded and perfectly flat shirt already in the hands of the robot. Google's videos start with shirts relatively messily placed on tables and somewhat crumpled.

4. Is the task repeated? If not, the robot may be very unreliable at finishing the task. Google's videos show a lot of repetition without cuts. UBTECH's video shows only one instance (with cuts). You could still produce this video even if the UBTECH robot fails 90% of the time.

5. Is there variation in the repeated tasks? If not, the robot may fail if there is any variation. Google shows different colors and initial states of shirts, and also a much larger sweater. That said, almost all the shirts are small polo shirts and the robot would certainly not generalize to anyone's real closet of varied clothes.

6. Does the robot react to mistakes or other unexpected events? If not, it may be mostly playback of pre-recorded motions with little or no sensing influencing the robot's behavior. UBTECH's video shows alleged sensing, but doesn't show any unexpected things or mistakes. Google's videos show the robot recovering from mistakes.
>Only half of those of those born in 1980 have surpassed their parent’s family income

If you are talking about relative economic mobility, more than half of people cant end up in the top half by definition. Only 50 percent of people can improve in social class- and 50% of people have to go down in social class to make that happen. Of course I understand that the case is different if you are talking about nominal income. The biggest Issues there is that it is calculated using household income, and the number of adults/household has gone down quite a bit in the US. The last Issue I would point out is that these metrics rarely include transfer payments, which for the lowest quintile have gone up quite a bit.
Interesting, I had assumed breakup happened because of structural failures related to aerodynamic pressure and weakened material properties as the material approaches melting. But of course vaporization would account for most of the “burning up” during reentry
Although I've looked at the original report, it isn't clear if this $1M in annual income that they're comparing to the 1950's is inflation adjusted. The only comment I can find on this point appears to say that it isn't which makes it an unfair comparison because that's the equivalent of more than $13M today.

The article avoids a bigger concern which is the size of government spending. In 1960 (I couldn't find older data) federal government spending was $144B. If we adjust for inflation, today's spending would be $1.6T. It's $9.7T.

Perhaps the rich are paying less, but a government that increases spending by 6x is certainly contributing to the problem.

Population has doubled size 1950 explaining some of the spending increases and spreading out some of the costs, but not all. It would be interesting to see if the number of "millionaires" has rise proportionally.
> If NPR were broadcasting the rantings of flat earthers, Sasquatch hunters, and anti-vax weirdos, it may be entertaining but it wouldn’t be news.

Surely you can see the difference between airing the view that it's reasonable and expected for the modern IRS to have significantly fewer employees per capita than they did before the advent of computers, and airing the view that autism is caused by Lizardmen.
I looked at their source, which turns out to this google sheets page: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q2zxQihvTduZy-u0IADm...

which in turn seems to be based on IRS aggregate taxpayer data. Based on a quick of the IRS data referenced, the "effective rates" does seem to be actual effective rates (ie. calculated based on how much the IRS is getting, rather than calculating based on what the brackets are). That said, I can think of multiple reasons why they don't correspond to the graph above:

1. At least in the early data, millionaires don't make up that much of overall tax take. For instance in 1945 they only made up of 0.1% of overall tax receipts. That means the effective rate of 64% makes a negligible contribution to the effective tax rate of the entire economy as a whole.

2. The threshold for millionaires is also not adjusted for inflation, so you'd expect the effective tax rate to drop as the brackets are moved up to account for inflation.
Thanks so much for the tip!

Do you happen to know if Airtable documents rank on Google?

One of the reasons for preferring Google Sheets is because I know from experience that I come across many public Google Sheets through Google. I don't recall coming across Airtable documents, but it might be just because there are fewer of them.
I didn’t think Berliner’s article made very good points, but did appreciate that the conversation was being had. Suspending him doesn’t look good, even if there was some rule he violated. The article mentioned other instances that he wasn’t punished for.
What do you dispute as fiction?

- civilian deaths in Donbas during 2014-2021 from Ukraine military action?
- Coup
- legislation measures for gross restriction of Russian language usage

Calling data you do not like Russian propaganda is weak.
It’s partly this but also the artists benefit in other ways from large strata of their fan base being able to attend live shows, but merch in person and mingle with each other. The venue and Ticketmaster only benefit from the ticket sales.
> As a Tesla customer, you are part of the QA team.

Tesla sells more cars now than BMW or MB.

They have least hardware recalls in industry.

This issue is on a brand new model thats sold less than 10k vehicles.
Yeah, same. My first thought was "oh hey, this will help me get some Rust syntax under my fingertips!"

It's a very large ask but I do look forward to other (spoken) languages being expanded. Could definitely use this for Japanese practice.
The most telling part about this "debate" is conservative activists blasting center and center-left outlets for barely off-center comments, while ignoring the blatant extreme partisanship coming out of right wing media outlets like Fox.

Why do these "activists" always seem like they're operating in bad faith?
> Although I've looked at the original report, it isn't clear if this $1M in annual income that they're comparing to the 1950's is inflation adjusted. The only comment I can find on this point appears to say that it isn't which makes it an unfair comparison because that's the equivalent of more than $13M today.

So far as I can tell, they're not. See my sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40059084

For instance for the 1945 figures you can clearly see that they pulled the figures they pulled were for millionaires ("1,000 [in thousands] and over").
This is what Comic Con does but it's more like 130,000 people
(edit: I was copying from the auto-generated YouTube transcript)

https://www.cartalk.com/content/history-car-talk

> Nine months after starting with Susan, in the fall of 1987, NPR agreed to launch "Car Talk" nationally. So there we were, following in the footsteps of award programs like "All Things Considered," "Weekend Edition," and "Morning Edition." We, like you, remain entirely mystified and have no idea what combination of prescription medicines brought about a decision like this out of NPR's management. We can only assume that they were looking for some cultural diversity, trying somehow to balance their high quality programming with crud like ours. Stations turned to us in droves - much in the same way that lemmings flock to the sea.

> We discovered pretty quickly that producing a national radio show is a lot of work! Shortly after going national, we decided we needed a staff. That way, our afternoon naps could continue uninterrupted and, when not napping, we could still pursue our CAFE study. (Don't confuse this with the government's Corporate Average Fuel Economy report. Ours is about latte and cappucino in the greater metropolitan Boston area.) So, in 1989, we founded Dewey, Cheatem and Howe.
https://archive.ph/uwUis
I mean Amazon and Hulu are chock full of terrible B VOD movies that never went to theaters.
It is objectively worse than it used to be because it tries to be too "smart" by rewriting queries in a way that genericizes them. Instead of getting 10 search results that are actually relevant to the question being asked, you get "10,000,000" results that are only vaguely related. I suspect the reason for this is that more search results -> more pages the user will likely click through just to make sure they are looking at the best links -> more ads served.

Related to this is the dumbing down of query input. Like, in many cases, even using double quotes around search terms doesn't guarantee that the page that will be shown in search results actually contains the quoted word anywhere. I've had one case where Google would helpfully find articles talking only about Linux given a query like '"freebsd" foo bar' (and where it showed the snippets for them, highlighting the phrase it treated as a match, it would say 'linux foo bar', so you could tell right away what exactly was substituted).

It used to be a power tool that had well-defined knobs and buttons that you could master to find exactly what you want. Now it's a magic wand that tends to do something inscrutable every time you wave it, and you "master" it by flailing around until it kinda sorta does what you want.
What makes this special to me is their claim of using cheap robots. So, how much would one of those robo arms cost?

In other words, what would it set me back to recreate this?
Very interesting take, thank you!

Of course, my favorite David Lynch movie is "The Straight Story" - what a heartwarming tale!
>They then send agents unannounced to inspect inside every home/unit in the area for any potential breeding grounds. Everything is checked from potted plant trays to dish drying racks to toilet bowl scrubber holders. If any breeding is found, there’s fines in the thousands of dollars. The agents are empowered to enter without a warrant; it’s taken THAT seriously.

Came here to say this. I lived in SG for 14 years, we had the "mosquito police" show up to our office (shophouse in Emerald hill) and do an inspection.

If you're getting mosquitoes in your place, you can call the NEA and they'll send people out looking for the source.

Grass is mowed religiously in Singapore to help keep the mosquitoes under control and there's always a ton of spraying. During COVID lockdowns, a lot of the lawn guys were stuck in the dormitories so the grass got tall. Also, the coconut palms went untrimmed. The morning walks became fraught with danger as the palms were overloaded with coconuts and were consistently falling onto the footpaths. I know COVID sucked for a lot of people, but I find a weird sense of nostalgia for that time.
Both companies are valued in trillions.

Mission failed successfully.
https://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/01/31/44-public-radio/
Republicans had better like this. This is literally the fundamental solution to the migrant situation at the southern border, economic development of the near south.
Generational wealth is a thing...
>We’re Europe’s security guarantor.

I'd love to see polling on this this question:

"Is the United States Europe's security guarantor?"

...for the U.S., countries in Europe, and other countries around the world.
have you seen https://youtu.be/8MRDF2pkIRs ?
That’s a graph showing federal tax receipts being roughly constant?

Good find but that supports the article, not contradicts it.

receipts constant while millionaires taxes rates decreasing = the middle class pickup of the tab.