skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Somebody spent ten dollars, so they must have a ton of disposable income that they're just itching to throw around?

Very much yes.

> Most hackers / computer enthusiasts are cheap skates and if there's an opportunity to get something for free instead of paying a dollar, they will spend hours or days to get it for free.

Not really. But consider you're talking about two distinct groups here. Being a "hacker" / "computer enthusiast" is one of the cheapest hobbies possible, and while it may end up giving you a well-paid career in tech, until it does, as a "hacker" you're probably without any money of your own.

Spending hours or days to get something for free? That's what people do when they can't afford what they want. Unsurprisingly, when your poor, parent-subsidized "hackers" turn into software industry professionals, they suddenly become good spenders, because they can afford to stop wasting time on bullshit.

> They are highly insulted by the thought that anything on the internet would cost money. Maybe because they started young without an income and when commerce was not online.

Not "they" the "hackers / computer enthusiasts", and not insulted. Rather, it's general population that got culturally used to things on the Internet being free. Obviously, almost everyone younger than ~50 got exposed to the Internet when they were too young to have any income, but ultimately, this is something companies inflicted on themselves. "Free" is the singularity of commerce, it breaks competition; "free but subsidized by ads" is an anti-competitive business model. It won not because people demanded it, but because no one can compete with it.

> Then if somebody else spends a few dollars on a subscription, they consider it so outrageous that they assume that this person must be made out of gold

It may have been a view people had at some point, but that's more because the Internet was new and everything on it felt frivolous to those who didn't grow up in it. That's becoming a past now.

Now, for the actual key point:

> Why wouldn't advertisers have the same attitude towards people who spend frivolously on things such as buying a bus tickets or buying a coke? They clearly also have ten dollars in disposable income.

But they have! Why do you think there are so many ads in sports events, in cinemas? Why do you think advertising metastasized to cable TV so quickly after it was created? Why do you think malls are set the way they are? Merchants and advertisers are, and have always been, hunting for those with money to spend. This was true off-line, and it is true on-line.

It's not always easy to tell who has disposable income and who counts every penny. However, one of the most reliable signals here is spending. People buying stuff have money to buy stuff. The more frivolously the buy, the more money they have that could be redirected to other frivolous purchases. And that's the whole thing advertising is after - redirecting people's purchasing decisions.
This was obvious even before the Microsoft deal got penned.
Yes, I had a pleasure do deal with two courts that use two different alphabets this year. They one of the two referenced the other. The name written in neither of two matches whats actually written in my passport. It isn't a complicated name by any reasonable metric.

Taxes are easier -- they just ids and names are display only kind of stuff, sourced from the base registry.
This is absolutely fascinating and immediately one of my favorite articles of all time, full stop. Along the way, it implicitly illustrates a path to successful engineering x product thinking path that I've never seen written down somewhere and I think is crucial for sustainable impact. Thank you!
To add to your point.

The food industry, like any other industry, focuses on numbers. Consumer spending favors new varieties of fruit with sweeter taste (e.g., increased glucose/fructose content). This process has led to our current comical situation where fruit, which is perceived as natural, has become unfit for consumption by animals.

>Fruits have gotten too sweet for some animals and zookeepers have had to find alternative foods.

https://weather.com/news/news/2018-10-03-fruit-so-sweet-zoo-...
I found a text version of the same (?) thing:
https://czep.net/weblog/52cards.html
No, I'm saying that it's easy to stand on principle, especially on a bullshit one, when it doesn't cost you much.
Thanks, I didn't know about it - and it seems like an awesome addition to the machine!
http://archive.today/nwYcd
"You take my breath away, Mr. Holmes." --Silver Blaze's owner from Doyle's "Silver Blaze", once he sees that Holmes has found his missing horse.

And, earlier, how Holmes describes the man who hid Silver Blaze, Silas Browne (?), is precisely apropos here, for ElMusk, "A more perfect compound of the bully, coward, and sneak, I've seldom met." And then, "A faker like him knows many a dodge." He reminds me of those tall, blond, high-cheekboned folks that began appearing in South America in the 1940s, with the thick German accent and no past to speak of.

This is, of course, from the Granada Productions Holmes serieses starring the one, the only, the inimitable, Jeremy Brett.

Of course, you can find many ElMusks in the various bad guys throughout the serieses, as there are lots of rich guys being very naughty, indeed.
Once we can use popover and anchor positioning, tooltips and drop downs can also be in the top layer. I can’t wait
That's so different from my experience. When I first met <dialog>, I thought I understood its purpose (as a modal) was to block user input from reaching anywhere else on the page. I have no idea why would anyone want to use it non-modally, since you can just use a div for that.

Nevertheless, I was also let down by it because it turns out if your <body> has a scrollbar, scroll wheel events bubble. There is a CSS property to stop them from bubbling but it doesn't work!
I apologize for saying simple math in a kind of an “absolute” way but I meant it in a “math” sense that I know my expenses and as well how long of a “cushion” I need to feel like I can FU out of a bad situation (or if get into a bad situation beyond my control). I also know my known expenses are just that - known expenses but of course there is always the unknown. But I am guessing adults could ballpark a figure that will get them through X number of months
Its the same story that gasoline went through

but yeah the current situation is currently bad, let me say something louder for the entrepreneurs in the back: undermaintained last resort fast-charging is one thing, but if you have a slow-charging network I'm not downloading your app
Tencent launches HunyuanVideo: open-source text-to-video model
all sources are biased, so i would prefer it include all of them. i dont really care if some of the money goes to russia. i'm not deflecting. i don't know how i could speak more clearly.
I can't tell if this is a parody or not. Are any of the things they just said bad? Why do we need a nanny state to step in and tell banks who they are and aren't required to platform?
Northern California earthquake threatens rare fish in remote Death Valley pool
The upside in this case is zero.

There are compassionate treatment exemptions for research procedures, but they need to have a snowball's chance in hell of working. It's nice that the people behind this think that this meets that bar, but I'll believe it when independent experts in the field can vouch for the procedure having a reasonable chance of working.

If they do, great, go for it. If they don't, no amount of rabble-rousing of the uninformed (people like me) should permit them to operate on humans.
I'm the opposite. The magic is not in what the magician shows, but in what they elegantly manage to hide.
[Edit: Never mind; I misread the docs]

The easiest way to update the firmware is via USB? What year is this?
the densest part of LA is so underserviced - midcity

wealthy apartment dwellers that can't charge at home, being neglected by supercharging networks that believe its a last resort for long trips
Regardless of the implementation I think this was a step in the right direction.

There's a <combobox> proposal in the works which is like a <select> on steroids [1].

Also the Popover API [1] already in browsers for toast alerts. And a popover hint proposal for tooltips[2].

[1] https://open-ui.org/components/combobox.explainer/

[2] https://mdn.github.io/dom-examples/popover-api/

[3] https://open-ui.org/components/popover-hint.research.explain...
Allowing foreigners to broadcast speech into your country is protected by the First Amendment. It's exactly why every American can consume 24/7 PressTV if they choose to
Nice, although I wish it had 10Gb Ethernet. I wonder if there is a 3D printer design file for the case? One could also print the antenna housings I expect.
But in practice, that means the only global social network—one that is accessible in both the US and in China—is one that agrees to Chinese censorship laws. IMO, this is a massive backfire to the purpose of freedom of speech.
You are making the same mistake as bytedance.
It’s not about applying the law equally, it’s about the abhorrence of such laws.

When you have no say in the law, all you can demand is that it is applied equally. When you have a say in the law, you can question its existence.
It's the opposite. You'll add more sucrose to hit the same sweetness experience as most HFCS blends, not less.
I wouldn't think so, as alcohol, fructose, and/or being overweight seem to be the main factors. I would ask your doctor to look at your blood work with relation to that the next time you get a physical.

Oh, and at least in my case, it's not related to cholesterol or diabetes. I'm fine there. {shrug}
GaussianSplatting.jl – backend-agnostic Julia implementation
I remember in school learning that technically speaking on Unix you could have the backspace character as part of your password too

But for the same reason with ^W and ^U I have no idea how you'd implement that in an interactive prompt without escaping
It’s pretty common in places that handle Tax data.

At the end of the day, pushing opinionated bullshit doesn’t belong in utilities. If there’s a security vulnerability, sell that and push for incorporation into NIST standards.
The (Anarchic) Gift of Gelassenheit
Anyone know if there’s a a good solution to manage multiple OpenWRT devices on the same network, akin to Ubiquiti Unifi or TP Link Omada? Feel like that would be amazing.
does seem like an interesting way to do a bug bounty
>This is Hacker News, not Computer Scientist News.

Or Basic Internet Search News.
In my tests, with all these settings, if you hammer SQLite with reads/writes, it won't be able do any WAL checkpoints (needs no active transactions), and the WAL file can quickly grow from, say, 8 MB to tens, hundreds of GB until your machine runs of out space (the docs mention this). So my default is to also keep track of the size of the WAL file, and if it grows beyond some threshold, temporarily suspend all reads/writes and checkpoint manually.
There is a HUGE difference between emergency fund and FU$

If my lifestyle currently is:

- summer vacay in Bali

- two ski trips, one US, one in the Alps

- eating out once per week

- daily Starbucks

- …

FU$ means I continue doing EXACTLY this, for 6/12/18 months.

Emergency fund would be I cut down all my expenses to a bare minimum until I find new source of income. Can’t say FU if I can’t go to Bali (I love Bali :) )
Aren't all of these just variants of incorrect (often due to not being explicitly validated) assumptions?
Considering that part of the point is being able to use end-of-life devices, it's doing this in Termux that would be silly, don't run an OS which isn't getting security patches.
So you're saying I should mentally divide homeless people into two "camps", and that one of those camps will be full of guys wearing dirty Keds whom I should scorn?

I don't know if ranting at the people with the least amount of power will accomplish much. I'm also not stoked about the dehumanization that goes along with thinking about people in terms like this.
More like "discount anything coming out of the mouth of a CEO", which makes perfect sense.
HolyC Compiler and Transpiler
I toggle Num Lock a few times in the rare event my workstation doesn't immediately respond, if the status light on my wired keyboard remains on things are likely good and borked. Though, I feel like this was more a more dependable test in the days of PS/2 (and PC/AT before that) than it is these days with USB because the former dumb serial interfaces were implemented at such a low level.

As far as Caps Lock is concerned I've had that mapped to Ctrl for as long as I can remember.
Looking it up, the mrz are only there to validate that the information stored on the document is the same as the information provided by the chip, and to make any eavesdrop attacks between the reader and the chip less likely to succeed. Its an optional standard.

The data on the chip is authenticated through a country signing key. This part is mandatory and prevent the person who carries the document from falsifying the information on the chip. There is also an optional active authentication chip to prevent someone from copying a passport even if they copy of the mrz and a copy of the traffic between chip and reader.

The MRZ is also part of the older standard which is intended to be replaced by a newer system that has card access numbers, which mean that the mrz and the ascii it embeds could very well be gone from passports. This new standard was implemented in EU by 2014, so there might passports issues now without the MRZ.
"July fourth" kinda sounds like there are multiple Julies this year and this is the fourth one :D
To make Maya blue, May places ch’oj leaves in alkaline water – using lime or ash – for 24 hours in a concrete vat at his home. Then the mixture is strained and palygorskite clay, collected from nearby caves, is positioned at the bottom of the vat to absorb the tint. After the resulting blue clay is baked in an oven at about 250 degrees Celsius (480F), it is then ground into a fine powder and inserted inside a small flask, ready to sell.
I live in a senior home converted to apartment buildings, and all the senior people (who still live in the building even after the conversion) have been shocked throughout this war, as if a person they knew flipped 180 and turned out to be nothing like you thought they were.

The newer apartment renters (20s-40s typical young urban dwellers) are not surprised by anything they see on the news regarding the conflict. I think they had ways to see what the older generations had just been blind to since before this latest flare up happened.
I got married in a public park. It was free and everyone can convene there. What it doesn't do is insulate you from people you may find disagreeable or distasteful, which a church does.
"Trying something?"
Interesting. Do you have a reference for that claim? I am somewhat skeptical if only because of an analogy with cochlear implants - deaf people can start hearing once the signal starts!
I assume the cancer ate all of the sugar instead of it floating around in her blood (or whatever the liver produces in excess sugar situations)
>OM's map server (CF worker) albeit under MIT license was de-facto closed source all this time. Roman opened the repo for public access. Alexander revoked Roman's GH permissions and closed the repo again.

I'm not sure if there is some distinction between software and map-data entailed in the discussion of this "server", "software repo", etc. but assuming it's all one thing:

if the content in question was MIT-licensed as specifed by the license in the repo, any one of the members of the project with access to the material would be within their rights to make copies public. There is no de-facto closed source wrt open licenses.
> Unicode case folding decisions can also be made at that point

Ok I will bite. How do you indent to do case folding without knowing the language the string is in? Will every filename or whatever also have its language as part of the string? I am not sure what the plan is there.
That should be regulated by parents. If the government does it it means needing a digital id
Hi, I'm a hobbyist coder with lots of personal forks of open source projects. I frequently spend a lot of time merging in changes from upstream. Can you suggest tools that would help with this?
Unfortunately for our collective sanity, Trump's promises have the predictive power of /dev/random. He was all aboard the original train to ban TikTok, so he'll just as easily flip-flop back and forth based on whatever his cadre of puppeteers whisper into his ear today. And also the bill already passed and was signed into law in April: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protecting_Americans_from_Fore...
IANAL but I'm not sure if this is accurate. You're, of course, allowed to consume PressTV but AFAIK I don't think there's any First Amendment protections for non-citizens outside of the US.
https://archive.is/r90rE
Hehe 12345678-b00b-4123-b00b-b00b13551234
But most Americans didn't want Hamas to rule Palestine ever from the beginning. It's not as if they went mask off last year only. The entire root of the conflict is that all of Palestine basically is not sovereign. Us deciding who rules Palestine just makes that issue worse.
USB is ubiquitous, proven, and reliable but you are welcome to use RS485.
Most forms of passive income are going to wind up tending to below market average. Which is fine, if you plan for it. Longterm market average is 7%. So, bear that in mind, the amount of capital you need to invest to deliver a comfortable lifestyle may be significantly higher than you think because to be "safe" its going to be a lower rate of return. This is why annuity income fell out of fashion: people expected higher rates of return.

They are also rarely hedged against inflation, and can incur capital gains taxes distinct from the income.

Investments in small business incur huge risks. If you don't understand the pizza business putting your dough into dough is a mistake. Small business is hard work.

Your best bet may be to put surplus into your own home and post-work retirement investments with tax advantages. That means keep working. Sorry.

Some FIRE people wind up regretting dropping out.

I'm not a financial adviser. If you really want to pursue this, pay up front: avoid sources of advice which profit from a tail income on your investments and remember if a suggested return seems to good to be true, it's probably a scam.

Government service is often tedious, full of paperwork and boring. It's also necessary, and Musk aside, comes with good benefits and some job security. Older people do well in government. They can't discriminate as freely.

Learn Cobol.
It is par for the course that businesses will lobby for their interests. That doesn't excuse our representatives for selling us out for a steak dinner and a first class flight to the Bahamas or whatever. We must holder our leaders to a higher standard than that.

The anger here on HN seems focused on the greed of the insurance companies, but that corporations tend to optimize for profit should surprise exactly no one. Where's the anger at our corrupt government?

To be be 100% clear, I'm not saying don't blame or criticize insurance companies executives. I'm saying that only blaming the insurance companies implicitly gives a free pass to our representatives who pass laws written by lobbyists. That is both unfair and counter productive, since the government is actually in a position to fix these issues.
Terrible day to be a very specific kind of literate.
As another nonascii character named individual who's lost hours of life calling service reps for companies that used my utf-8 name, I second this.
And? It's restrictive but equal - hire 100ks of local moderators at extraordinary cost vs cheap out on human moderation and wrecklessly cause anti-social events. If anything PRC laws are prescient considering the reason they existed was lax US platform enforcement causing 2009 minority riots in PRC after which western platforms (twitter/fb) were blocked for literally refusing to censor calls for violence. Wouldn't be until NZ shooting and Rohingya genocide years later that western platforms took a page from PRC model and increased human moderation - incidentally after which when both FB and Google had internal programs to build PRC compliant services - after they learned unlimited speech is stupid, and human moderation was neccesary cost. After realizing scaling up human moderation made complying with PRC laws possible. And the only reason those initiatives failed was corporate internal drama, i.e. it wasn't PRC that stopped them from reentering market. At the end of the day - western plaforms are converging towards PRC model, not vice versa because restrictions fine. They just can't square PRC platforms operating on same local restrictions which says a lot about US laws.
I think the closest thing that exists today is OpenWISP[1] but I haven't had a chance to check it out personally yet.

[1] https://openwisp.org/
OneDrive breaks that convention. Last two companies I was at, the corporate location was something like "$HOME/OneDrive - $COMPANY". That the two companies had the same format tells me it is a default and/or suggested practice for some reason.
I think it's really worse than that. I'm always surprised how much psychological buy in you can get out of people with the right social incentives. It seems difficult for people surrounded by people with cultural attitudes and way of thinking to not slowly become corrupted by it.
There’s lots of dumb things that you can do. Where do the safety bumpers stop?
This site isn't the place for Reddit-quality mudslinging. From the guidelines:

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken.
Just came to say that Electrify America in late 2024 is NOT the Electrify America of 2023.

Legitimately you are looking at >90% odds that all stalls will be working at full power.

Idk how they got it together but knock on wood.
If they want to elect him, they can do so the proper way the next time.
> It is in the best interest of China to amplify that outrage and make it seem stronger than it is for a variety of reasons:

I'm just not comfortable with a widely used platform for Americans to speak to other Americans being taken away because it might skew one way politically or another, no matter what evil country is advantaged by that. Even if it were heavily edited by enemy of USA Xi himself, I am uncomfortable with that. We are not a country that bans things because it's too dangerous for people to know them.

The government doesn't get to decide what's good for us to learn and say and hear. We do. That's the entire idea of free speech. And this tramples on it significantly
Quite a bit of discussion on Sunday:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42285689
My point is that our personal views on his positions and character are irrelevant. You seem to be discussing a different point.
That is an understandable statement, and probably fair as well I feel.

Much of this comes in reference to statements from fchollet w.r.t. replacing deep learning -- around the time of the initial prize, with a lot of the much more hype marketing, this was essentially the thru-line that was used, and it left a bitter taste in a number of peoples' mouths. W.r.t. misquoting, they did say that we needed something "beyond" deep learning, not "other than" here, and that is on me.

The utility is certainly still present, if I feel diminished, and it probably is a case of my own frustrations due to previous similar issues leading up to the ARC prize.

That being said, I do agree in retrospect that my response skewed from being objective -- it is a benchmark with a mixed history, but that doesn't mean that I should get personally caught up in it.