skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know that people can chose to build a home that’s better insulated on their own right? Poor building standards is a very loose term. Let me explain the problems with your term.
1. Poor - poor to whom? By what measurement?
2. Building standards - do you mean building codes? Building regulations? Consumer demand in design? Something else?

Strict building codes aren’t the answer.

Also, 110 degrees is uninhabitable to who? I can build a home that works just fine at 120 plus and passes ZERO building codes.

Think outside the box, don’t reach for government intervention!
according to the DMV and Passport office just having bangs is enough to fool the system
Honestly I just want government backed digital ID for this stuff.

I know the concerns.

I no longer care. The benefits outweight the costs, imho. I want to be able to tell a site "yes I'm Martin here's proof either ban me or let me in but stop making me jump through hoops to prove ID.

And so that social sites I use will no longer have to deal with undesired non-unique accounts for bot swarms and sockpuppets and the like.

The political usefulness of swarms of bots and sockpuppets is why I have conspiracy theories about the conspiracy theories about digital ID.
Contra Microsoft which tried to use Windows as a beachhead to everything, Apple has actually been pretty successful. I do expect to see more convergence over time. But, even if there are self-interested reasons for not sprinting in that direction, I also think there are good reasons for keeping use cases (e.g. phone/consumer/creator) a bit separated in the near-term rather than forcing everyone in one bucket.
That approach isn't working in the education system and it's not working in law enforcement
If you are attacking the tone in order to avoid engaging with his actual arguments, then you are exhibiting the exact behavior which I described.
I think SOM is more of a narrative tool that helps you explain part of your market approach rather than a binary classifier that either leads to or away from fundability. Specifically in healthcare, there's a great passage [1] in an article by Steve Kraus, who's one of the most well regarded startup healthcare investors that I think has stood the test of time and at least expresses part of Bessemer's thinking on this pretty insightfully:

```

Healthcare represents approximately 18% of US GDP or, in other terms, $3.6 trillion of annual spending, and continues to grow by low, single-digit percentages each year. Despite the impressive scale of the US healthcare industry, not a single healthcare company has a $3.6T total addressable market (TAM).

Instead, healthcare looks a lot more like several thousand billion-dollar markets that include everything from healthcare technology, commercial and government-sponsored care to drugs, medical equipment, home health services, out of pocket costs, and more, all of which together comprise the $3.6T industry figure.

```

[1] https://www.bvp.com/atlas/roadmap-10-laws-of-healthcare
To be fair, there's an extremely strong correlation between GDP and absolute health care spending, regardless of underlying funding money.

And the US is near the top of the GDP rankings.
Now that LLMs are so readily available it would be interesting to see if there were any browser extensions that could rewrite news articles in a more positive light

Being able to read your normal news website but have the topic being discussed written in a more positive light

Or generate the articles with a balanced view instead of negatively one sided
Bankrupt - Chuck E Cheese's is a great 30ish min doc I highly recommend, actually everything put out Bright Sun youtube is super good: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbI3zOm2BkE
CSIRO reaffirms nuclear power likely to cost twice as much as renewables
Without the async keyword, it was far superior to anons. Also, named functions showed up on stack traces making it easy to know what is getting called

No serious person is going to claim that any form of callbacks is superior to async/wait
So what you're suggesting is we do whatever we can to avoid hitting 2 degrees of universal facial recognition precision? Given that the 1.5 degree target is now inevitably impossible.
> The only thing that JSON is really missing are comments and trailing commas. I use JSONC for that. It's what VSC uses for the config format and it works.

I disagree. Human-friendy multiline strings aren't really optional for a serialization format that will inevitably also be used as a config format sometimes because those are the same problem.
The Gencost report [1] now takes into account long term operations for nuclear plants, and unsurprisingly does not find that it lowers the cost per kWh.

It also reaffirms that baseload is dead. Sure you can technically run nuclear plants at 90% capacity factor like how it is done in the US.

But as the article reports:

> What's more, Mr Graham said that while Australia didn't have any nuclear plants, it had plenty of black coal generators, which were analogous in many ways because they were designed to run full throttle most of the time.

> And Australia's black coal generators, he said, were operating at ever lower capacity factors as cheap renewable energy — particularly solar power — flooded into the market and squeezed out conventional sources.

> "But we continue to also use a range which recognises that some base-load generation can operate down closer to 50-53 per cent."

What is incredible is that renewables deliver. From a nascent industry 20 years ago to today making up 2/3 of global energy investment due to simply being cheaper and better.

We are now starting to work out the large grid scale models including storage, transmission and firming and for every passing year the calculations become easier and cheaper.

We have an interesting decade ahead of us as renewables disrupt sector by sector allowing us to decarbonize without lowering living standards.

[1]: https://www.csiro.au/-/media/Energy/GenCost/GenCost2024-25Co...
Perhaps giant solar powered bulldozers? The article is a joke when it comes to details and citations. It reads like a press release.
> he's your drunk uncle

The way you've bitterly dwelled [0][1] on something Crockford once said about async during a Q&A for 15 years or something is maybe a little bit weird.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41142972

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22365466
I would argue the opposite. Worst are the only childs. There is just something off socially. Kids with only siblings that are 8+ years older have the same but less severe. You can pick them out from a mile away.
That's a great question! I have no idea. At low frequencies it should be very easy, because the sound is just a pressure measurement, so you can compare against a calibrated pressure reference. So the main challenge is measuring the high-frequency amplitude and phase response. If I had to do this, I'd probably set up a speaker in a long box with standing-wave resonance modes, and put both the microphone-under-test and a laser interferometer at an antinode to measure the change in refractive index that occurs with air pressure. A photodiode should have a flat frequency response out to well beyond 20 kHz, so that would do well as a calibration. But this is probably overkill for audible frequencies.
Someone just needs to write “JSON5: The Good Parts” and an aggressive linter to enforce it.
Okay so you’re going with even given the circumstances. That means you need to provide cites for how, at the time and given the information they had, their decision making was flawed.

Further, it means you can't just jump back to free-speech absolutism. Please explain how, at the time and given the circumstances, their actions were flawed to the point of deserving the criticism you're dishing out.
can't forget

> The music video is fantastic too and so, so beautiful except for the rap part which I don't like.
> Why even bother with lossy? Lossy audio is tech from a quarter of a century ago.

I know I'm rehashing the same argument that has been had around and around for decades but - because it often doesn't matter. In 2024 a 320Kbps or whatever high quality lossy source over a recent bluetooth codec into a Chinesium amp + DAC into a mid-range $500 pair of speakers sounds _awesome_ and the amount of time and money you spend going above that may be a fun hobby but it's really not worth the effort for most people.
This is a tangent, but I feel like we can't talk about LED christmas lights without linking to this video by tech connections: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBFPJ3_6ZWs

the tl;dw is that most color LED lights work by emitting a single frequency of light. Compared to classic christmas lights, which are incandescent filaments filtered through dyed glass, the LED lights look a bit... radioactive.

My personal pet peeve are white LED lights. If you're not careful to buy the ones labeled "warm" they look cold, and imo, not very festive and inviting.

Of course, this is all a matter of taste, but once I became privy to the difference, I could no longer ignore it. I guess I'm just a millennial nostalgic for the lights of my youth.
Rule 1: easy to add, easier to delete.
US congressional districts being an order of magnitude larger than UK constituencies probably has something to do with it. Also, there are significantly more MPs than representatives, so you have to swing more legislators to your side in the UK vs the US to get your pet policies adopted.

(Sources: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_congressional_ap... , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliame... )
Those decisions are usually made years in advance
What are some examples of people doing this?
Her Star Wars hotel video was effectively just her talking to a camera for four hours (2 hours at 2x speed), occasionally sharing a photo or clip, and somehow it was genuinely compelling viewing. Really impressive.
Phones tho have a default security model which isolates apps from each other, unlike desktop OSes where each app can read anything on the system
You don't have to "truly" correct for the room for EQ/calibration to be worthwhile - you just have to make it sound better than it did. I've used the built-in calibration in my WIIM Pro and it subjectively made a massive improvement.

I used to be in-principle anti-EQ, but the AutoEQ project for headphones completely changed my opinion (though obviously headphones are far easier to EQ).
How is abusing comments any different than abusing a top-level property with a key like “__comment”?
That wasn't what I was asking. I was asking what the failure mode was.
What's wrong with Unix? Or is the complaint that there's no data type for time stamps specifically?

I agree it would be nice to have something with more data types. Binary b64/hex would be nice.
Haven’t played Codenames in a long while, but made this 8 years ago to play with family and friends on TVs. Right in time for the holidays!

demo: https://dsa.github.io

code: https://github.com/dsa/dsa.github.io
Why not just a parser? Should be easy enough.
Also take a look at ASON [1]. ASON is a data format that evolved from JSON, introducing strong data typing and support for variant types.

[^1] https://github.com/hemashushu/ason
bluesky will be popular for at max another two months
Having closed spaced siblings was normal in the entire world forever until a couple decades ago. There wasn't even birth control.
The whole reason JSON rules the world is because it's brutally simple.

We already have 5+ replacements that are far more robust(XML, YML) and IMO they are not great replacements for JSON.

Why? Because you can't trust most people with anything more complicated than JSON.

I shutter at some of the SOAP / XML I have seen and whenever you enable something more complicated inevitably someone comes up with a "clever" idea that ruins your day.
This. I hate how all these serialization/config formats come out of dynamically typed languages. Static typing is a must. Then so many classes of errors go away.
I'm a huge fan. We use it for all our configs.
I can sum this article up as "I can listen to an album with a feature turned off, and listen to it again with the feature turned on, and it will sound different".

That... Doesn't feel like a problem to me? First music I remember "owning" as a kid was mix tapes I listened to on a portable radio. Later I grew up listening to crappy MP3 rips of albums on tinny earbuds. I got better headphones. Blasted the same albums on vinyl on big speakers. Listened to stuff compressed as hell over FM radio. Listened to albums in my car with an aftermarket subwoofer. Listened to FLAC rips of remastered albums. And yeah, a few Atmos albums on Tidal recently.

I can have listened to like 10 different iterations on the same one album and just enjoyed hearing the differences and the nuances of each medium or production version / remaster. You listen obsessively to one variant of an album enough to know every intimate detail, every imperceptible flaw in the recording, it becomes very familiar and then hearing new sounds in new variants is novel.

Edit: to give a concrete example: Pink Floyd albums. Listening to dark side of the moon, I equally have enjoyed the different warbly qualities of gradually degrading tape and vinyl, the tiny hiccups of slightly scratched CD, the squishy high frequencies of old MP3 rips, and just how clear everything sounds in hi-fi formats, and the atmos version. And like, listening to it over different generations of speakers and headphones etc. It's not an evolution or a progression; it's just hearing stuff different.
Not in Toronto, Canada.

Barry and Honey Sherman were killed in late 2017.

see https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/money-and-power/a6... and https://www.thestar.com/news/sherman-murders/
I’ve tried to use nixos for my homelab and ran into undocumented errors
Except that JSON is a valid JavaScript object, and JSON5 is not.
It's infuriating that we're still struggling with this after so many years.

Every time I learn a new format I want to scream "why can't you be normal?"
The ideal heuristic is to only deduplicate towards more orthogonality.

Suppose you started from first principles and navigated down the ontology tree taking one of the shortest paths (well, shortest-ish since it's a hard problem that'll burn up too much time otherwise.) Would you encounter your deduplicated function on the way? If not, it's making it worse.
> her macbook was full of malware

I’m guessing her OS was very out of date? Because I’m having a hard time imagining how this happens in 2024 with XProtect, Gatekeeper, and Notarization all turned on by default. Non-technical people are unlikely to turn these off.
> but you still don't know their offset from standard length.

But that's fine for microphones -- the question here isn't to determine their absolute volume, which is of course unsolvable. It's to determine the relative "volume" (response) at each frequency. It's the shape of the curve that matters, not its offset.

And again, I'm not looking for a practical solution (like getting the info from a manufacturer) -- I'm just curious about it in theory. If it's inherently solvable or not.
Hopefully! that will be the comeback of blogs and personal websites.
ASON – a data format supporting strong typing and variants
False equivalence, and a disingenous one at that.

You can build single-page applications with React, you cannot with HTMX.
> I still disagree because individual freedom is more important than majority opinion.

this read suspiciously like a stereotypical US opinion regarding individual rights vs rights of the majority.

so i went and looked through your comment history and i now i suspect even more strongly that you are US based.

> Its because I don't want the government, people who I've never met in person and honestly are not the most moral of individuals, making moral decisions for my children on my behalf.

it’s not your government doing this. you can relax.

also, we in the UK value the balance between individual rights and collective societal rights more strongly than you do. it’s our thing. if you don’t like it, it doesnt matter, you don’t live here.
Yeah, you might be totally right! But in this specific topic, it really doesn't matter. That's much bigger topic of discussion. My point was, most likely people will move on and forget about it once a new hot topic comes up. Everything that could've been said online, has already been said. Markets and people have decided multiple times within US policy making that the way it is structured right now is what people want. It would change a huge outrage to start changing the infrastructure around it.
Pat Gelsinger was wrong for Intel
This is a really good one. Just added it!
Viacom vs YouTube is how we ended up here, unfortunately. The system didn't just spring forth from nothing.
The issue for me is privacy, practically all AV are root level spyware, you don't know what are they sending or how, EULA are nightmarish.
They can send logs, files to outside server because so, the code is not available or even opt out of diagnostics.
They monitor browser data and send it to outside servers.

I mean I can't say all of them do it, but most of them and those I have checked out.
Examples: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/avast-avg-data-collection

For paid one lets look for EULA (that one mentioned above with VB100 100% Detection )
eset

https://help.eset.com/eav/18/en-US/eula.html
>b) Forwarding of infiltrations and information to the Provider. The Software contains functions which collect samples of computer viruses and other malicious computer programs and suspicious, problematic, potentially unwanted or potentially unsafe objects such as files, URLs, IP packets and ethernet frames ("Infiltrations") and then send them to the Provider, including but not limited to information about the installation process, the Computer and/or the platform on which the Software is installed and, information about the operations and functionality of the Software ("Information"). The Information and Infiltrations may contain data (including randomly or accidentally obtained personal data) about the End User or other users of the Computer on which the Software is installed, and files affected by Infiltrations with associated metadata
...
>For the purpose of this Agreement, it is necessary to collect, process and store data enabling the Provider to identify You in compliance with Privacy Policy
People sometimes ask why there are fewer independent artists or writers, or small artisans like in Europe.

The reason is if you want to live, you need to get healthcare, and for that you need to be employed by BigCorp (because marketplace insurance is overpriced and crappy thanks to OBAMA).

The system is set up in a way to keep extracting and exploiting people in their prime years of age
The Order of Anarchy
I loved learning about the carpool system. I also appreciate the great summary of James C. Scott's work, which has also deeply influenced me.

But I'm left at the end with a reminder of how tough anarchist approaches are to effect. The carpool website asserts that "everyone" runs the system. But is that really true? one person wrote that. I bet very few (entrepreneurial) people actually started it. If there was something to be improved/fixed in the system, could "anyone" achieve that? Or could no one?
I'm not saying it's better! I'm saying it's not that far worse off that it would start an introspective for people to question the current state of affairs. Most people get a decent amount of care, despite all the negative side effects (debt, premiums, uncovered areas due to lack of private hospitals and etc.).
The highly processed stuff found in supermarkets definately should be. If you haven't ever tried real honey, go find some and thank me later.
That’s fine, but if the immigrants move from the developing to the developed world, that incurs a massive increase in their carbon footprint.
You can ditch the Hue Bridge entirely and just get a Zigbee dongle for Home Assistant: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/migrating-from-a-phili...

Especially since Philips is going the same route as all the other enshittified / cloud home automation services (requiring an account, pushing mandatory terms of service updates after the product is launched, cloud lock-in). It's probably just a matter of time until they stop producing Zigbee bulbs altogether but the current generation works fine with private / free home automation solutions.
You don't need fresh produce to not eat animals. Beans, whole grains, potatoes, canned vegetables are the cheapest foods around.

These people already weren't eating fresh produce, so why would they need fresh produce to swap meat for beans?

Though I think debating your idea of exceptions is a red herring unless you yourself are vegan and already concede that pretty much anyone reading this on HN should be vegan. But you probably don't grant that, so there's no need to go line-by-line through your idea of the exceptions when we can discuss why you still eat meat without making excuses for other people.
> Pretty much all the major players were democracies and it isn't that unreasonable to think that democracies can be persuaded to do sensible things.

Again though, how many people were actually in a position to direct that democracy to do something different than it did, but were unable to do so because they were not sufficiently informed with available information for their position? I'm not suggesting that if people who were in power knew different things than they did that things couldn't have been different. I'm arguing that it wasn't a lack of reading available news by every day people not in power that allowed things to get to where they were.

> The world is hardly hopeless and the people in it are not helpless.

I wholeheartedly agree, I just think people vastly overestimate how important "being informed" is over just actually doing something about a local problem. How many things do you read in your daily feed that fundamentally alter or make a difference in the things you plan to do? Let's say you're interested in helping make a change with regards to child abuse. A noble and worthwhile cause. Who is actually helped by you spending even an hour every day scrolling "child abuse tik tok"? Or reading through a daily list of updates on child abuse cases and statistics nation wide? In my opinion almost any time you spend being "informed" about child abuse by mass media would be better spent actually volunteering for local abuse shelters and safety organizations. And the little actual good you or anyone else gains from you scrolling through mass media coverage could be gained in much shorter and more sporadc review of recent events rather than a daily firehose of news.
Can wearing realistic face masks and contact lens that changes iris color possibly fool modern face recognition software?
So UK doesn't have freedom of speech any more? If the products are bad for people/kids/etc, why not ban the products instead of just the ads?
Little plastic discs are killing the Earth but building massive datacenters which require continuous power, cooling, and other resources, not to mention all the intermediate network transport - whether or not they're being used, all for the sake of convenience - is little impact?

A CD requires no power sitting on your shelf unplayed. The same as cups and dishes sitting in a cupboard. If the threat to the environment is as real as you say, consider pouring food directly into your hands.
at least a top-level metadata property can be explicitly defined in a .json.schema[0] and formalized, rather than being some kind of ad-hoc pre-processor step you have to evaluate before actually using the JSON data. I didn't even know about that approach before I read your comment but it instantly makes more sense to me in terms of maintainability and interoperability.

[0] https://json-schema.org/
is yaml robust: no
> a huge outrage to start changing the infrastructure around it

that's my "tuesday" :) (infra)