skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The question actually asked is also published. It was:

Suppose that you have an emergency expense that costs $400. Based on your current financial situation, how would you pay for this expense?

If you would use more than one method to cover this expense, please select all that apply.

a. Put it on my credit card and pay it off in full at the next statement

b. Put it on my credit card and pay it off over time

c. With the money currently in my checking/savings account or with cash

d. Using money from a bank loan or line of credit

e. By borrowing from a friend or family member

f. Using a payday loan, deposit advance, or overdraft

g. By selling something

h. I wouldn't be able to pay for the expense right now

https://www.federalreserve.gov/publications/2024-supplementa...

Edit: The people running this survey also had the same thoughts about ‘maybe some people are choosing to not this directly even though they could?’ And added this question:

Based on your current financial situation, what is the largest emergency expense that you could handle right now using only your savings?

1. Under $100

2. $100 to $499

3. $500 to $999

4. $1,000 to $1,999

5. $2,000 or more

This is discussed just below the stats @Jabble sites!

To explore this potential difference between how people would pay for a small, unexpected expense and whether they could pay for it with cash or the equivalent, the survey included a question asking people what the largest emergency expense was that they could handle using only savings. Eighteen percent of adults said the largest emergency expense they could handle right now using only savings was under $100, and 14 percent said they could handle an expense of $100 to $499
Sure, if you're Canada, you probably need to go ahead and build nuclear. Even if solar keeps getting exponentially cheaper, it'd be nice to be reasonably efficient with land use.

What has surprised me is that a solar/wind/battery grid is starting to look feasible anywhere, even if not everywhere. It could probably handle a decent portion of the US now.
There seems to be $44 billion missing from this accounting
Basically ^

- Prompt style is starting to standardize across models. Something we see happening more and more.

- There are keyword triggers and prompt styles that perform better in certain models over others. Prompt Engine first runs your prompt across 5-6 different models, then ranks the output over each run. The pool of models gets smaller, and we pick one that best fits, and the prompt gets more optimized towards that model.
We are the only creatures that can choose compassion over selfishness. The rest of creation is on auto-pilot, guided by and incorporating the Creator's loving compassion for us in their every behavior.

Our intelligence is not only on a far different order than theirs via our capability for abstract thought (not oft used, TBF), but we also have a moral compass (conscience) that tries to influence our behavior towards the selflessly compassionate and away from the selfishly callous. We can choose either, the free will being our real distinguishing feature and is the reason we have a conscience and access to mind.

Ask your dog about their intelligence, and they will reply, "So long as you keep feeding me, I'll keep licking my everywhere, and then licking your face. So keep it coming, or I'll have to show you who the alpha is around heeerrrre."
HN now defending crackpots. The US truely is over.
This is cool. How do you intend this to be different from general chat-based AI tools out there? Meaning, I can already do something like this with ChatGPT or similar.

Is the idea that your site works with sites that are blocking ChatGPT, or is the goal to be a more native browsing experience (via chrome extension)?

If I give ChatGPT your comment (slightly edited):

”
I’ve spent a lot of time reading articles that promise a lot but never give me what I’m looking for. They’re full of clickbait titles, scary claims, and pointless filler. It’s frustrating, and it’s a waste of my time. gives you a shorter version of the content without all the nonsense. I’m tired of falling for the same tricks. I just want the facts, not a bunch of filler.

Here’s the URL: https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2024/1...

I get this:

” President-elect Donald Trump attended the reopening of Paris’s Notre-Dame Cathedral, marking his first international trip since the election. French President Emmanuel Macron hosted Trump at the Élysée Palace, where they were joined by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for discussions on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. The reopening ceremony, attended by over 50 world leaders, celebrated the cathedral’s restoration following the 2019 fire. First Lady Jill Biden represented the current U.S. administration at the event.”

Cut-The-Crap gives me this, which is also good, but not necessarily a benefit over what I already have:

” French President Emmanuel Macron welcomed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to the Elysée Palace in Paris ahead of the reopening of Notre-Dame Cathedral, which has been closed since a devastating fire in 2019. This marks Trump's first trip abroad since his election.

Macron is set to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after Trump, and the three leaders will meet together. Approximately 50 world leaders are expected to attend the cathedral's reopening, although President Joe Biden will be represented by First Lady Jill Biden.

Trump and Zelenskyy last met in September during the UN General Assembly. Despite speculation of a meeting during this visit, a Trump transition official stated no such meeting was planned.

Macron has positioned himself as a mediator in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict, which began in February 2022. The U.S., France, and allies have imposed sanctions on Russia to support Ukraine's territorial integrity. Zelenskyy has urged the Biden administration for more support, including lifting restrictions on Ukraine's military actions against Russia.”
Back in 2015, Time Warner Cable testified they make a 97 Percent Profit Margin on High-Speed Internet Service for residential customers. I would guess Verizon is doing okay.
Got any sources to back that up? First I've ever heard about this.
Much of the trash on the internet has nothing to do with AI, but instead is caused by using AdSense type funding. If you have a site and use revenue from ads as your funding, then the way to in increase your revenue is more show more ads.

So add more fluff, move the actual thing people are looking for to the bottom, etc. Oh and add controversy, "The only authentic". Then add sex - a suggestive photo.

The thing is that AI can now generate these sites for you so no need to do anything yourself.

Finally pay Google to feature your ad - I mean recipe - and do other stuff to ensure that real recipes do not steal your traffic. :-)
Hi,

Congratulations on the release! I noticed a potential issue in the dropdown menu for "Surface 1 Orientation." It seems the "SE (South-East)" option is missing. Could you please check?
Same temperature, same product and vastly different result.

Technically the same, practically not.

I can do some of the most magnificent potatoes in an air frier, all that without a touch of oil.
This is written in order to give the impression that Democrats did not have economic support from donors while there was overwhelming superiority in fields like Hollywood and Arts that favoured them that are not shown in the pictures they display.

In fact, in tech if you remove Elon Musk from the picture that got late to the party, there was an enormous superiority in donations from Google and Meta people. As a leftist press it is, had that superiority remained and had they won like in the last elections, the Guardian would have remained in silence.
Allocated is not the same as delivered
While I haven't been directly involved in the negotiations, at three separate companies the internal comments indicated that what they were quoted for GitHub Enterprise Server pricing was just not in the same universe as Gitlab EE.

One migrated from Github Enterprise Server explicitly as a cost saving measure. One migrated from Bitbucket Server because the writing seemed very much on the wall for Atlassian's self-hosted solution with the Jira pricing model change and a trial migration from Jira Server to Jira Cloud had gone so badly the whole thing was called off (though they did pay up for JIRA Data Center, JIRA was deemed less replaceable than Bitbucket apparently). The last went from Gitlab CE to Gitlab EE, so maybe there wasn't the hardest investigation of alternatives on that one, but they did at least claim they looked at Github Enterprise server as an alternative.

Now none of these companies used Exchange, Azure, Office, Teams, etc. etc. so maybe there's a bunch more discounts and synergy if you're fully bought into the MS ecosystem
I read some of her books and it also sounds weird to me. The only thing that struck me is that she saw the tribe of Israel in the ancient testament as a nasty example of one group crushing another, something she also didn't like in the roman empire, and also in how french regions were culturally crushed at the expense of the center.

Googling turned up this criticism:
- Simone Weil, whose life was devoted to witnessing oppression and injustice, and was almost silent about the persecution of Jews by Nazis — chose to instead focus on the fate of France at the hands of the Germans
https://levecenter.ucla.edu/mary-gordon-2013/

It seems a stretch to call her antisemitic.
We have so little respect for the fungal colonies in the leaf litter that process the organic matter back into sustenance for the trees.
There was research done, that annoys me I can't find the bookmark. But you can measure communication using fungi as the access point.

It's known that fungi can act as a trading point for plants in that lend some, borrow some when plants are in need. If you hook fungi to a device you can measure communication.

"Trees can communicate with each other through networks in soil. Much like social networks or neural networks, the fungal mycelia of mycorrhizas allow signals to be sent between trees in a forest. These mycorrhizal networks are effectively an information highway, with recent studies demonstrating the exchange of nutritional resources, defence signals and allelochemicals. Sensing and responding to networked signals elicits complex behavioural responses in plants. This ability to communicate ('tree talk') is a foundational process in forest ecosystems."

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4497361/

And would highly recommend this book: https://www.merlinsheldrake.com/entangled-life
This is hardly ‘basically forced to have a credit card’.
> Even the Supreme Court justices have been revealed to be on the take, lavished with "gifts" from the wealthy.

The reporting on this is highly debatable. SC justices are allowed to have friends, just like any other person.
What a beautiful post. I've always had a difficult time explaining how having a child has fundamentally changed who I am to people who don't have kids. This captures some of that well. Thank you for sharing!!
Advice To HN: Don't tie your identity to a technology:)
There was a strong anti-semitic feeling in Europe in the past centuries (including the XXth) [0][1].

The theory that the Jews were conspiring to sacrifice Christian children had started to spread in the 11th century. The legend proliferated first in England and then in France. [2].

Martin Luther in his early days naively imagining that the Jews, to whom he was attracted by his studies, would flock to the Church in his reformed version. When nothing of the sort happened, he denounced them in a set of pamphlets written in vituperative fury. He had produced the early, favorable "That Christ Was Born a Jew" in 1523, but after he turned on this so-called "damned, rejected race," he wrote Against the Sabbatarians (1538) and On the Jews and Their Lies (1543) [3].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Europe

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism_in_Christianity

[2] https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/how-christian-europe-cr...

[3] https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/initi...
Well, there are Persian texts talking about c-sections more than 3 millenia old. So I guess if you adjust your timeline you can argue C-sections are also "how it has always happened" for some of us.
Just because we have not discovered an underlying reason behind our compassion yet does not mean it is selfless.
Adding some data here:

Total size of installation is roughly comparable between NixOS and, say, Ubuntu.

My laptop's Nix closure of 1 generation is 33 GB. My desktop Ubuntu has 27 GB (20 GB /usr + 7 GB in /var, where snaps and flatpaks are stored).

Indeed the disk usage of Nix comes from multiple generations. Every time there is a new version of glibc, gcc, or anything that "the world" depends on, it's another 33 GB download. Storing the old generation is entirely optional. The maximum disk space needed is 2 generations.

Updating Ubuntu to a new LTS version almost always costs me multiple hours, caused by interleaved questions on how to merge changed config files in /etc (which unfortunately one cannot seem to batch), apt installation being rather slow, and during recent years, the update generally breaking in some way that requires a major investigation (e.g. the updater itself dies, or afterwards I have no graphics). On NixOS, these problems do not exist, and the time to update is usually < 30 minutes.
> transactions with multinational clients and banks were successfully carried out, including domestic transactions within Switzerland and cross-border payments in US dollars, Swiss francs, Euros and Chinese yuan. In addition to that, the pilot also included the transfer of liquidity between various UBS companies.

So they could send some transactions abroad (wow), and transaction between different UBS entities (wow wow). And this is is a press release.

Is there a press release about someone successfully creating a tag in git, instead of just creating a new folder called "2.0"?
Its all about tech here
You do not have to be rich.

Anyone choosing to eat meat is feeding into the system of abuse and torture. Anyone.
I'm not a native English speaker, but I've noticed this writing style a few times here. Is there a name or adjective for the writing style that the parent comment is using?
It seems their performance matters more than ever.
Show HN: VocAdapt – YouTube Speech Modifier for Language Learning
Hey guys,
I'm building VocAdapt, a browser extension that helps you learn languages from real content—like Wikipedia articles or YouTube videos—instead of relying on textbooks and flashcards.

How it works:

1. Choose any text or YouTube video

2. VocAdapt adjusts content to your 90% comprehension, letting you naturally grasp the rest from context

3. The app injects words from your vocab list into content - giving you frequent and natural exposure to words you want to master

It's in early alpha, so expect bugs and limited features.
Try it out and let me know what you think!
It would be a good thing that it removes incentives for the creators to create. Read between the lines: for the majority of current low-content creators, who are driven by the incentives that exist today.

That would leave us with another set of new creators that would emerge, those people who would be driven just by the desire of sharing a tiny piece of their lives or knowledge, purely for the fun of it, without needing more incentive than the joy of doing it.

you know... like the internet was in the begining.

I'd like seeing that :)
App creator here. I very much agree with your analysis, thank you. I keep trying to figure out a free trial that makes sense so I appreciate your input and could possibly show the user a subset of the job listings as a free version.

Currently you can browse the jobs without paying so its not entirely paywalled but I don't think that is obvious to the user. But asking the job seeker to pay is quite meh indeed. However if the job seeker is willing to pay then the service has an incentive to make features more for them (rather than the employer as a customer). I am trying to make this more like an ongoing search for job seekers who can create highly curated filters and stay up-to-date when things pop up on company websites. And I would like it to not stop at the point of interview but rather become a papertrail for your job search (while also being able to do things you can't do on employer ad driven sites)

Anyway appreciate the very solid feedback and this is still a WIP indeed
I guess "fighting fire with fire" is a valid response, but historically it's also lead to the much worse arms race in many situations. Instead of trying to win a game I believe is illegitimate, I prefer not to play.

This chain is also kinda funny: "Cut the BS!" > Streamlit App > Streamlit bought by Snowflake to push their pretty low value (IMO) but very expensive AI play. You should figure out how to run this against the output of Snowflake AI; you'd probably end up with an SQL query result set :)
One of the main points of the New Testament is that Jesus is the Jewish Messiah. If you're not a Christian, you'd say that Christianity was originally a sect of Judaism; but to a Christian like myself, Christianity is Judaism.

Of course, this sadly does not stop some people from being antisemitic, especially if you go back a few centuries. But for them, the Bible has a few paragraphs (Romans 11:11–32) specifically explaining why it is wrong for Gentile Christians to think that they are somehow "better" than the Israelites. For example, it was only through ancient Israel's rejection of Jesus that Paul (himself a Jew) went to preach to the Gentiles in the first place, and thus arrogance is unwarranted. Also, God will still save Israel in the end and has not abandoned them. To me, this last point feels like a slam dunk case against anyone who calls themselves a Christian and yet is antisemitic—why would a follower of God hate those whom God wants to save?[0]

All this to say, I think that Christianity's own scripture preaches the exact opposite of antisemitism, and so it's inaccurate to call Christianity "antisemitic on a rather deep level."

[0] Frankly, this applies more generally to Christian attitudes towards non-Christians in general. We have no grounds to be holier-than-thou, since no one is saved by their own goodness. And yet, at least on the internet, there's a general perception that that's how (American) Christians are towards others. That is precisely the opposite of what Jesus did (Mark 2:16–17), and He actually was holier than the rest of us.
Seems fairly simple to have a smart contract do a DNS validation to unlock funds. For example, someone sends to a contract "$1 to example.com". Then the URL owner publishes either a TXT file or DNS record that has a list of crypto wallet addresses. Contract then forwards the payments. You could even make the keys just the ISO codes for each currency.

It's as good of a proof for TLS certs, but it's susceptible to DNS hijacking, etc. Make the contract immutable to meet tornado.cash standard. There are already oracles for DNS lookups so this contract might already exist somewhere.

Add in a couple of features:

1. Allow tracking per domain so publishers can know that there is a demand to set it up on their end.

2. Allow refunds in case the publisher never opens it up.
>A city for sale and doomed to speedy destruction if it finds a purchaser.

Jugurtha after leaving Rome and walking away from his bribery scandal.
My blog posts go over the factual ways in which the claims of Russian bots on social media have been incorrect in the past. Bad use of statistics and logic, things like that. To my knowledge there are no factual errors in my analysis but if you find one, let me know.

To make this clearer: if someone asserts something objective about the world and their proof is invalid or missing, we have to assume they are wrong. There have been many claims about politicians being successful only due to Russian influence campaigns, and each time those claims were investigated the proofs were invalid or missing. That is a factual claim.

What's a subjective opinion is that this generalizes: if the last 99 times were wrong, the 100th time is probably wrong too, even without a deep investigation. You can disagree with that, but why would you? Your priors should be strongly against these claims having any merit by now.

> The candidate himself declared 0 campaign expenses despite obviously spending for a campaign. The court also noticed this obvious fact.

And yet that's not the justification for annulling the vote that's being presented. The rest of your paragraph slides smoothly between assertions of fact and speculation - that he must have spent lots of money, that the money must have been coming from foreigners, that those foreigners must be Russian, and that such funds are the reason he won. Those are all very subjective. For instance, Trump was outspent massively in both elections that he won. Apparently you can't just "sway" an election with money: other things matter more.
Someone needs to make a phone a lawyer service where you can just put a lawyer on speaker, they record everything and argue with cops.
Here in Norway they haven't been very aggressive with the advertisements, which I guess "helps".

Unlike the Kia Nero EV and Hyundai Kona, two similar competitors, the Megane e-Tech was designed to be 100% BEV from the start, which I think is advantageous for an EV.

I'd say worth a look.
The contract does say things like "standard of care", which is why they need an actual MD to reject a claim. The AI (or whatever) can help but in the end there is a doctor claiming to read the file and say you didn't need whatever it is.

You can bring a suit, and often the threat alone will work. They're counting on you to give up rather than fight. Or be unable to afford it because most lawyers won't take something like that on contingency.
The linked blog post talks about historical FDA prestige (the title is The Forgotten Side of Medicine) but should be leading up to ivermectin:

A small number of capitalists did get rich selling ivermectin. We all noticed the emergent social media energy toward ivermectin and someone was going to sell it at a profit.

The FDA noticed that this had stature on algorithmic social media and made the mistake of trying to also get on social media. FDA does not prevent doctors from picking a treatment. FDA does not criminalize anything. But FDA is required to try to protect people even if they don’t believe in the FDA.

A small number of doctors sued because of that social media messaging. Not because ivermectin was better than or safer than a vaccine.
Microsoft open-sources GW-Basic (2020)
There shouldn't be billionaires, nor royalty, nor kleptocrats. But I repeat myself.
This depends on the technology. When I had a PON connection (FiOS), the ONT belonged to the ISP but was on my premises. However, with the cable Internet I have now (Xfinity aka Comcast), there is nothing between me and the street save a splitter and PoE filter, both of which are passive.
To add to this it should be noted that some consider Christianity inherently antisemitic, either because they believe all Christians blame all Jews for Christ's crucifixion, or because Christians believe the New Testament presents a new divine contract that replaces the old contract (Judaism).
If I were to summarize your point, referencing The Guardian's information but addressing the fallacy at the end, I would say: Power (e.g. influence) is not solely about money. However, for a casual reader of the article, it might seem that way.