skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not just Paris, it's most of Europe. Also Paris has suburbs, and it is reasonable to consider owning a car if living in them. Many of my coworkers commute into the middle of the city from the suburbs on the outskirts.
I can't speak for youtube given that I don't really actively browse it, but I'm not sure how it's "braggy" when the entire purpose of "Show HN" is to demo things that were made by the person posting it (https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html):

> Show HN is for something you've made that other people can play with.

At most, it's redundant, but not in a way that hurts anyone.
I can't quite put my finger on what it is, but I think there's more at play than just "Americans no longer believe that a public space should be nicely maintained". I'm sure a lot of the people who vote for policies that enable the the things you mention would also be incredibly unhappy if they saw you littering or chopping down a tree in a public park.
This is nice! At first I thought it was wheel-reinvented https://justwatch.com, but unlike that site, this one shows you which services in each country have the content you're looking for, so that you can watch whatever you want, simply by traveling internationally, or by using a VPN.
"Viral" is the word Steve Ballmer used to describe the GPL as a negative thing.

It remains that the owner of the copyright can release the software under any terms they deem fit. Including changing their mind about what license to use for future versions. The license is, well, a license for anyone that's not the copyright owner; it's absolutely non-binding on the copyright owner themselves.
Untitled map app says goobye
Right? So like in the late 1700's, in the "Rococo" period, we had lighting like this:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Palazzo_...

then by the time we get to the "Edo" period of the 1600's, it got reduced to almost bare pragmatism, along the lines of something very similar to this modern reproduction:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Toshima_House07s...
There are plenty of nice spaces in San Francisco, but you won't find them in the tenderloin. The literal and figurative shit is not smeared evenly over the city, and I'd go as far as to say that certain parts, such as the Outer Richmond, are thriving.
This sounds like an explanation that is found in a future history book where cultural context is absent and the researchers are looking for a simple answer. There are plenty of ostensibly nice places that sport the exact same public infrastructure as SF. It’s just become standard and any deviation to more ornamental pieces is almost always seen as a quaint throwback.
On these previous comments it seems like no one bothered to try it. I wonder if we'll get some people with some better feedback this time around because the product does look stunning.
There's definitely selection bias in play, but I think for household objects (such as you may find in a junk/antique store) material science plays a role.

Two things come into vogue in the mid 20th century; plastic and electricity.

Plastic does not age well. It decomposes with exposure to light, so pretty much all old plastic looks pretty bad. Personally I never buy old plastic even if it looks good, because, well, plastic.

Secondly electricity. Electricity things again do not have good longevity. (In the shop were a few old-style hand cranked cast-iron meat grinders. They'll still work perfectly 200 years from now. The plastic attachment to my Kenwood mixer; not do much.)

For furniture, material again comes into play. Solid (hard) wood new furniture is very expensive. (As it should be.) So most wooden furniture made now is either soft-wood, or manufactured wood, or both.

I buy old furniture from time to time, but I also do what I think lots of people did in the past (and which has not survived) recycle wood i have to hand for practical purposes. I don't expect these to live beyond the room I'm making them for.
A Strong U.S. Dollar Weighs on the World
Yeah, it'd be great to see something come of it. Been a while, though.
Final rule: Greenhouse gas emissions standards for heavy-duty vehicles
Happy for you that you have a decently monetizable passion!
The ability to quickly parse, understand and reason about code is not superficial, it is essential to the job. And that is essentially what those verbose blocks of text get in the way of.
It's less offensive of an order as the complete shit that's in cigarettes and it also doesn't stick to your clothing and linger in the same way.
Cascadia Code 2404.23
It's disappointing that this guy can call cannabis users "drug addicts" and get away with it, but we can't really respond in-kind without breaking HN rules.
Because we already disposed of the more-plain, less-durable stuff that didn't survive the cut between "Keep," and "Trash heap"?

(Yes, it is perhaps the case that this all conspires to form a bit of circular logic. It happens sometimes.)
I love Kevin Kelly, but I really wished he would have done more with his recent book "Excellent Advice For Living" which is essentially a similar list of extremely brief "advices". They are all excellent, but it's an overwhelming list of nuggets of wisdom without any context or stories or anything else for the mind to process. So I end up going from point to point and quickly burn out on what quickly becomes a shopping list of unrelated wisdom points.

If this had just been a calendar of a point of wisdom per day that you can ponder, that would have been much better. Or better yet, a book with short chapters that elaborate on each point with a story so that your mind has the time and context to absorb it.

Hopefully he does that at some point, because there are a lot of gems here which are underserved in the no-context list format.
Progress comes in spurts. Due to the negative reactions to AI by some (artists), the system wants it to appear that nothing is happening so that the next wave of AI can be created in relative peace, at which time it will be too late to stop it.

We have been conditioned to only react to hype and "news", rather than analyze reality and see the danger.
You can erase stuff on any app?
If it has been illegal to sell cannabis commercially, how have cannabis companies been allowed to form and be publicly traded? I would think that federal regulation to be publicly traded would cause issues.
Sure, I just don't think it's that significant. Humans don't read/parse code character-by character, we do it by recognizing visual patterns. Blocks of `if err != nil { }` are easy to skip over when reading if needed.
But a company isn’t a democracy. They don’t have a right to protest it.

If they as employees refuse to work (what they’re paid to do), then the employer has every right to fire them. They aren’t forming a union or something.
Paul Auster has died
I think it is because ornamentation feels out of place quickly in a world where ornamentation is scarce. If there is ornamentation everywhere, the ornamentation is natural. Like in a church. In a church the plain post modern clean design would look out of place. It would be shouting for attention.
In some European churches you see this happening. Where you have a modern glass or minimalist pulpit. It just looks so out of place.

I think many people dont understand this dynamic. It is about overal design. It is about attention attenuation. Its not that people think the lush baroque or a art deco designs are ugly as an individual piece. Its that they associate it with a certain aesthetic (that has also been butchered by tasteless people), then even when they see a beautiful piece of furniture or decoration. It seems out of place.
Discussion [0](25 points, 6 hours ago, 64 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40217894
Probably a lot more UI dark patterns such as the “Click here to read more” embedded inside an ad, login pages embedded in ads, etc. Can’t erase that stuff if you want to get to the content. And of course the immortal ad that randomly decides to move around the screen.

Check out those illegal live tv streaming sites if you wanna see how bad this can get.
I think that’s a bit simplistic. There are still a lot of plates, some of them go for $20 a piece are on people’s wedding registries. They’re “artisanal”. They’re what the fancy restaurants serve your food on. They might even be mass produced. They’re in the Williams Sonoma catalog. But they certainly aren’t decorated like old plates were.

There’s a lot of art-historical and economics and social factors that shape these kinds of things. While I think the author is right to look at consumer capitalism, I don’t think aesthetics can be so neatly boiled down in the way that he tries to.
Not sure I follow, can you elaborate on the contrast between “ethnic” and “scalability”?
No, because the title is honest. An Android tablet means exactly that. An "AI Assistant" does not. That implies it's something much more than it is.
I have no idea. I guess it's tailored to me, but maybe someone else finds it useful. And this IS the way I solve pains. But I don't have physical pain or PTSD.

I find in general, what works for me in pretty much everything gets to be so far out from textbook that I have to invent ways to even describe it.
The simple fact of the matter is that people have essentially zero expectations when it comes to aesthetics in the public realm. This lack of expectations also comes with a lack of education, which means that they both lack aesthetic literacy and don’t care about correcting it.

Hence you get hoodies and sweatpants as the default fashion and boxes as the default building style. It has very little to do with actual cost of making the items. None of this will change until it becomes socially unacceptable to dress poorly or build an ugly house. And considering that H. L. Mencken commented on the “American lust for the hideous” a century ago, it’s probably never going to get better.
At first, I thought you built a justwatch.com clone. But, after a quick inspection I realized you solve a related but different use-case where the user already paid for the streaming service holding the rights to the media, but not necessarily match the user’s country location.
By enabling the user to check in what countries the media is available you also unlock a new business model based on VPN affiliation programs (brilliant!) instead of streaming service affiliation programs like justwatch does. I wonder if both revenues models are complementary in the long run.

It’s nuts that watching media from another country for a streaming service I pay for is as easy as changing my IP to the desired country. Does it really work in this way?

Also, I hope you can provide some light on whether you are gaining any traction and unlocking vpn subcriptions revenue.

Suggestion: let the user select from what country it connects And/or automatically detect it. I’m in Europe and it’s confusing it offers me to stream from my own country using a vpn.
beautiful music notation. The main page of the site also has a tasteful use of position sticky!
Yes they are. It's not an AI assistant. It's a smartphone with fewer features and slightly different form factor.
I dont have tattoos, but I would suggest that it's a way of expressing individuality in a world where the people all around me are increasingly homogeneous.

Our living spaces, work spaces, and public spaces seem less able to express our individuality, but our body space remains our own.

Ironically when they become ubiquitous their value and interest diminishes. In a recent visit to Florida the number of folk with visible tattoos was -much- higher than I'm used to at home. Here visible tattoos aren't "rare" but uncommon. In Florida I could see 10 people with tattoos just by swivling my head.
TechRolepedia – A wiki for tech job roles
Ah yes, because communism had such a great environmental record.

Fact is, it’s humans that like to destroy the biosphere: the economic trappings don’t really matter much.
> Sure, but that doesn't mean you should argue with faulty logic.

The faulty logic is undoubtedly jumping to conclusions that just because you personally don't know the origin of something, that automatically means it's a fantastic story. It just means you don't know. That's it.

That's how you get lens flares being described as aliens.
Big Discussion [0] (289 points, 2 days ago, 312 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40200081
There are maybe a few hundred thousand violins from Germany circulating in the United States that are between 100 and 300 years old. In my high school, nearly every violinist was using an instrument that was affordable and older than 100 years. These are still delicate. It's a weird piece of insight porn to always point to selection bias, I mean it's very well possible that as long as it weren't destroyed by some big trauma like a fire, maybe every old violin has pretty much survived.

Is it a selection bias, a survival bias, that says that violins are particularly durable and fancy if they didn't accidentally light on fire? No. I think the author is completely right that it has to do with functionality and taste.
I find it far more likely it has not been studied to the degree alcohol has been, and as a larger sample of users is tested these results will change.

I’ve heard every drug under the sun affect adhd for people lately, so I don’t know if that’s a divining rod for truth.

Had a guy say Fentanyl really helped his adhd… hm okay. I think our definitions and condition criteria need to separate into more discerning terms for a lot of medical conditions
I’ve done it in New York City, in a really clean and hipstery shop in park slope, Brooklyn. Paid with a debit card, the whole process felt legit and professional, that was a great experience. They also offered really fancy teas and coffees.
Hopefully these jobs go away sooner than later, they are not exactally fufilling work & there are much better jobs out there.

I am now buidling an aprove deny API, going to call it dPANEL for deterministicPanel. Also chatGPT seems ungodly enthusiastic to help me build it...

Pricing Strategy for Health Insurance Approve || Deny API
Pricing Structure
Base Subscription Fee:
Annual Subscription: $120,000 per year, covering up to 50,000 API calls.
Volume-Based Pricing:
Beyond the initial 50,000 calls:
Tier 1: 50,001 to 100,000 calls at $1.50 per call.
Tier 2: 100,001 to 200,000 calls at $1.25 per call.
Tier 3: Over 200,001 calls at $1.00 per call.
Multi-Year Discounts:
2-Year Contract: 10% discount on the annual subscription fee.
3-Year Contract or more: 15% discount on the annual subscription fee.
Additional Services:
Custom Integration: $30,000 one-time fee.
Premium Support Package: $25,000 per year for dedicated support and quarterly performance reviews.
Early Termination Benefits:
Early termination within the first year incurs a 50% fee of the remaining contract value.
Termination in the second year or later incurs a 25% fee of the remaining contract value.
Cost-Saving Benefits
Labor Cost Reduction: Automation of approval and denial processes reduces the need for manual labor.
Increased Efficiency: Faster processing times improve operational efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Error Reduction: Minimized human errors reduce costs related to claim reprocessing and disputes.
Scalability: Efficiently manages varying loads without significant staffing changes.
Regulatory Compliance: Helps ensure decisions are consistent and compliant, reducing potential fines.
Data Insights: Offers valuable analytics that can lead to better risk management and operational adjustments.
and then there are the stress testers

https://whereto.stream/movie/364905 https://whereto.stream/movie/108049 https://whereto.stream/movie/385757
“gash” oh my, what a name. Do you think they know?
> I think we actually agree largely on the education piece, that’s why I gave the parenthetical. I don't get the impression you really think a more educated populace is worse, but we may disagree on how one gets educated. There are many routes to education, and I think it’s wrong to think all people need the same route. But I think you’re committing the same error by assuming the library route works for everybody.

The library was just an example. People can use their own money and time to pursue whatever route they wish. They can attend schools (and pay the fees), they can go to the library, they can read Wikipedia, they can do an apprenticeship, etc, whatever works for them.

> I do also think over-credentialism is a problem, but that is largely up to the employer. All they have to do is start hiring people without credentials if they aren’t warranted and the problem is solved (for non regulated industries).

Alas, no. Employers aren't stupid (and neither are workers). Employers are paying attention to the credentials because they signal useful qualities in the prospective employee. Mostly compliance and conformity.

For an individual worker and an individual company, the credential is a useful signal. Just like it's useful for an individual country to get some extra nukes.

But from an economy-wide perspective, it's just an arms race. (Similarly, there's no global benefit from every country getting some extra nukes each.)

> I’m glad the food I buy is credentialed by the FDA, and the doctor I e see is credentialed as is the engineer who designed the bridge I drove across to get to work.

I'm not an American, but I think the FDA is pretty much useless. (But that's mostly because it's a federal agency, and the relevant authorities should probably sit at the state level at the highest or even lower. With voluntary coordination between the different states. Very similar to how traffic signs and rules are regulated and coordinated.)
Yes. And some test messages will decode fine and then suddenly no.
What the heck is going on? This is literally top post on HN and the comments look like a wasteland of nonsense and bots.
Ansible is only as idempotent as the module it calls though.
The greatest thing about tight, upcoming elections is that governments actually start to do a tiny bit of what people want. Great result.
And the main question remains unanswered: why do they sell a whole device rather than an app?
Communism is when multinational corporations can't operate in any market that they want, using any practices they see fit, with complete impunity.
Every time? No.

But the ornamentation thing is specific fixation of theirs, I have seen it literally dozens of times. There are entire openly white supremacist substacks devoted to the subject.
I switched to penpot for a little bit after the Adobe acquisition was announced because I figured Figma as we knew it would cease to exist. However, I found that there were little differences between the two that gave it a learning curve and I noticed that I missed little niceities in Figma. I went back to it after a few weeks and after the acquisition was revoked, I feel better about sticking with Figma. I love the company and the story behind it's creation, and plan on continuing supporting what I think is a better product. I'm happy that penpot exists though to keep Figma in check from excessively pricing their product.
Using an Option instead of a pointer buys you the inability to forget to check for nil.

Just need to make sure the Option exposes the internal value only through:

func (o Option[Value]) Get() (Value, bool) {
return o.value, o.exists
}

Accessing the value is then forced to look like this:

if value, ok := option.Get(); ok {
// value is valid
}
// value is invalid

Thus, there's no possibility of an accidental nil pointer dereference, which I think is a big win.

A Result type would bring a similar benefit of fixing the few edge cases where an error may accidentally not be handled. Although I don't think it'd be worth the cost of switching over.
The Moon in the sky seen from the surface of the Moon is wrong? Poetic? Funny? Recursive? A demonstration that these models don't understand anything? Add to the list.
Governments actually do a lot of what people want, alas.

See https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691138732/th...
It’s hopeless. Both Washington DC and New York pretty much constantly smell like weed even though people are not smoking on the streets. Its not a particularly bad problem and doesn’t bother me but I could see some people being bothered by it.
Copyright protections exist explicitly for the advancement of the useful arts and sciences. This seems like an advancement to me.

On that note, I would like someone to point out which bits in the model file contain the copy that's infringing.

Copyright is not some kind of divine law handed down by god.
It's not as pacifying as alcohol -- in fact it tends to make one curious about the world.
people have been hard on rabbit r1, but ultimately it is a step toward future I feel. And they bury further down in the article that it requires permissions that the android won't grant.
Growth does not equal jobs and you probably know that.
It's been a few years since I've used a VPN with streaming, but I recall some services not working well with it. I was in Australia with NordVPN to the US on a fibre connection.
Socialists really hate freedom, don't they? Somehow, it's always "capitalism" in question when it is, in fact, freedom. It's none of the government's business what somebody takes into their body. All drugs should be decriminalized anyway.

Smoking and alcohol take millions of lives every year, yet we say "people have the right" to drink or smoke. Why is marijuana different, which is way less dangerous than alcohol, which is pure poison?
stick 'em in a fortune(6) file?

> The best way to criticize something is to make something better. —KK
Man, there are a whole bunch of sites that cover the Netherlands, but they always seem to be out of date or dog slow to the point of timeouts and ad-laden.

This is fast and accurate - just type it in and boom. Why can't the web be more of this? Made for people, you know?
Qantas reports of customers receiving other people's boarding passes
> Whenever you hug someone, be the last to let go.

Well, that one doesn't survive Kant's golden rule.
I don't advocate communism. Even communism supported technological development, which I do not. And humans don't like to destroy the biosphere at all; it is just a byproduct of our basal instincts in large social groups, and we should learn to get past that.
Example: https://videocardz.com/newz/asus-adds-intel-baseline-profile...
They go into the next machine to be made.

The scenario you describe happens if sufficiently many such people exist, and if they are all placed in machines, and the rate of new machine construction plus the rate at which the current patients die of other causes is higher than the rate at which such people are being born.

I don't think that's a plausible scenario.
> Dieter Rams to teenage engineering...

The intention against ornamets started way ealier with Adolf Loos[0] and the design at Bauhaus. It's somehow the result of what modernism did to arts/design and what two world wars did to society as a whole.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornament_and_Crime
It seems really distasteful to take the name of an important religious and cultural figure from a different country and appropriate it for some pet project.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rama
There are plenty of sane people who use Bitcoin as a currency. Making blithe moral declarations like this doesn't spark curiosity and is incredibly tired after so many years (you're not the first).

"Unsound ponzi scheme" could just as well be applied to any fiat currency. It has all the same rules (early entrants are more privileged in "the game" and can invest to out-perform younger players). It is very odd to hear people applying such qualitative judgments like this when the alternative is a currency that is actively debased by its issuers. Or do you think the inflation we've all suffered under isn't a problem?