skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhhh yeah I see what you mean. I'm probably thinking a bit too literally about 2nd person vs 3rd person. My example is an imaginary side conversation, where "you" = "Chat", so it's 2nd person, but the intent to me "feels" third person when spoken, as chat/God/Mike etc would never refer to someone in the room. (not that it matters in the context of labeling something 1st/2nd/3rd person in this case though) That's what's messing me up I think. Sorry about that.

And your God example, yeah maybe this is not a new linguistic phenomenon haha. I can very much imagine some middle age priests taking a jab at one another with "God, are you seeing this?" as father Percival takes another swig from the hip flask.
We all start out with good intentions. Do we all know if we would follow them to the end?
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> It somehow works almost anywhere outside of NA?

Is North America unique in allowing local municipalities to set their own taxes?

> It's really not a crazy concept - estimate it based on geolocation and say "more exact will be available once you enter your address".

That’s exactly what happens now, except the advertised price is actually correct instead of an “estimate”. I have an intuitive sense for local tax. How can I know what method was used to compute this estimated price?
> 6430 days...

Wow wow wow. I had one that nearly reached 10 years of uptime: a dedicated server at OVH. At some point I just kept it to see how long it'd stay operational without any reboot.

Now, kids, don't try this at home: of course it wasn't secure. At some point it got hacked and that's when I cancelled the subscription for that one dedicated server. I still have other servers at OVH.

But yeah: I made it to 3400 days of uptime. Something like that. Don't remember the price of that one server but it wasn't expensive.

Let say it was an... Experiment.
Yes let’s keep a shitty UX for most users because of a few abnormal users. Be honest, frequent travel and shopping over VPN is an edge case here. The vast majority of users are shopping and buying from home with a VPN.

Or better yet, give municipalities an incentive to stop layering a kinds of taxes. Just have a VAT and be done with it.
Amazon Autos?

https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Autos/b?node=10677469011
You learn matrix multiplication in algebra, not its application to do affine transforms in 2D graphics.
is this available anywhere yet or still not outside of Google? it would be great to test it on our K8S which uses nginx-ingress
Russian UVB-76 radio station broadcasts burst of mysterious messages
8 years and still going on a Dell R430 rack server (8X SSD in RAID 10, 2X Xeon CPU, ...)

One of the drives failed last year, but used one of the hot spares on standby to put out the fire as it were.

Amazing longevity, perhaps I've just gotten lucky while avoiding obscene 24/7 cloud instance costs. It will die at some point, much like the HN server storing these very words.
You are right that the quality of the scans is paramount! Unfortunately I don't have access to the physical books and have to work with the scans as they are (they're not good). But I will look at Scantailor, it looks interesting.

For now I reconstruct paragraphs in html but I could do markdown just as well (where paragraph breaks are marked by double line breaks, and single line breaks don't count).

Collaborative proofreading would be cool but it would require some way of properly tracking who wrote what, and I'm not sure what to use or if I should build a simple system from scratch. Do you have recommendations?
It has a very Monroe Institute / Esalen at the peak of its history when Terrence McKenna and Timothy Leary were around vibe. Think of it as smart people with wide interests and often heterodox views shooting the shit but with some funding and a quasi-academic structure.

I don’t know a ton about it but I’ve followed it for a while and that’s what it looks like to me.

We should have more of this. Much of what this kind of place generates is kooky or art rather than science, but it’s also the kind of mountain stream that feeds into things like the 1990s Santa Fe Institute that in turn helps give us modern agent based simulation — to pick one random example.

I also don’t get the sense this place has been turned into a vehicle to inject race science or other “heterodox” “just asking questions” fashy on-ramp stuff into the discourse like some other forums for free thinking.
I was just copying the phrase of the parent commenters.

I like to speak freely. I like knowing I can defend my home. I like remaining silent when questioned by authorities.

So if I can do those things- it's working. If I can't do those things, it's not working.
> what is essentially a complex single player board game

Perhaps this sounds silly, but I think that’s actually deeply interesting. There is a profoundly deep relationship between calculation and games. This applies not just to ordinary arithmetic, but also things like game theoretic proofs to prove the soundness of logical inference rules. Exposing children to that relation, even with a toy case, sounds like it could be fruitful.
> Not all of these people may be willing to admit their reasoning in writing

They are not willing to admit it in any domain, which is exactly why we want it in writing.

It's called accountability.
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I hope you can come up with more than he makes jokes and is humble. That's not proof that he's a good person.

I'm curious, how did 'woke culture' get in the way of Tesla or SpaceX? Seems like they are doing fine to me.
HN is full of people who think they will one day be the billionaires scamming people.
Right, and that effect is comparably enormous when you look at the period when the steam engine was taking hold and today. We are unimaginably wealthy compared to then.
I find it ironic that as JS/TS begins to pick up more and more steam (and market share) that I find myself loving Rails more and more each day.

I have never felt as powerful or productive with JS (as much as I love it) as I have with Ruby on Rails.

I’ve “almost built” countless projects that never actually shipped with Node. Whereas with Rails I have shipped so much I feel like I was cheated out of the first few years of my career not knowing Rails.

All that to say. I love JS (and especially TS), but they’ve got to find their “Rails” before I can truly come all the way back.

There’s a few contenders (Redwood, Adonis), but none of them have been battle tested the way Rails has—yet!
That hardly matters to the friendless losers who support the RTO; these people have had literal years to acquire some other social outlet but would rather sit in commuter traffic than have hobbies or join a club; they must have you in the office so they don't feel the need for introspection about the confluence of bad life choices that led them to such a position.

They will never yield on the RTO because its not being driven by anything more than vibes.
North Korea and Russia: A Match Made in Hell
Idealist: "the free market is perfect!"

Realist: "the free market has flaws, which can be addressed by..."

Replace "free market" with anything you like
Can you describe some of those basics? In my experience, the JS ecosystem is surprisingly good, and most of the issues tend to be due to a lack of experience rather than directly tooling issues. For example, NPM is one of the better package managers out there, but like all package managers, if you haphazardly chuck dependencies at it, and don't pay attention to what you're going, you're going to have issues. A lot of people run into those sorts of issues and assume that this is a general NPM problem, but it doesn't have to be that way.
Everything is ideology to some extent, but not everything is ideological to the same degree. The beliefs that a level playing field is good and that winning by means of political favoritism is bad are almost universally agreed on. Almost all political philosophies, including various shades of socialism and communism, agree that markets are needed to some degree if only for price discovery.
Would love to see what gymnastics the incoming FTC head uses to undo this rule.
That's fantasy. The same thing is true in China. All it means is that the local culture doesn't tip.
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>I'm talking about these yellow price tags that show lower than "Club" prices, which are only valid if you collect a coupon online.

Which store is that with the yellow price tags?
SF has something called Healthy SF where employers have to offer health insurance plans, or pay into a city-managed health account. I think the last time I looked, for a lot of businesses, it's basically a $2.25/hr raise for your employees.

edit: The best part is, if your employees don't use the money (maybe they don't know about it or don't have any health care expenses), the business can eventually reclaim it...

The restaurant association balked at this, and encouraged businesses to list out the increased cost as a separate line item on the receipt, instead of raising menu prices, basically raising a middle finger and saying "see what you idiots voted for, now you pay for it!" I don't know why I'd be mad that I have to pay for someone's health care. That's sort of how it works, doesn't it?

Since then, it has taken on a life of its own. Some places call it a health care surcharge. Others call it a SF surcharge, or a cost adjustment, or inflation fee. It's not a tax, it's not a service charge, it's not anything but whatever arbitrary number the business wants to charge without raising their menu price. And thus, it's taxable.
I worked at an agency that did this (they were rather religious when it came to the "no frameworks" rule) and I can absolutely say that it is far less productive for complex UIs.

It's basically a home-spun version of backbone, and the reason people don't do that so much anymore is the same that backbone fell out of favor- you don't naturally get composable components without lots of manual management and excess paints and reflows.

It's certainly possible to build what 75% of websites actually need with this approach, but I wouldn't consider it for a moment for any UI that I actually consider to be complex.
> Knowledge-based access is inherently problematic: if you don’t police passwords, most people will be compromised because they use weak and/or shared passwords.

I don't like it that the solution is to usurp control from the user and gate authentication through what will, in my opinion, ultimately be a small number of big tech companies. We'll eventually be dependent on having an Android phone, an iPhone, a Microsoft account, or similar. It'll be a world of "trust me bro" credential managers and you'll have to hope you never get banned by the big tech companies because it'll have a life altering impact if that means losing access to all of your accounts.

The reality is that big tech has proven we can trust them because we're nothing more than 1 of a billion customers as far as they're concerned.

> Passkeys avoid all of that, but you need backups either in the form of a Yubikey or a recovery code in your wallet.

Passkeys create a huge burden in the context of managing devices and recovery codes.

To start with, I'm not a fan of recovery codes. I have so many accounts that it's almost impossible to keep track of all the recovery codes. I have to organize them well enough that anyone who would happen to get access to my file cabinet would own my life.

To mitigate that, I need a system for tracking which recovery codes I have in my file cabinet and I need a plan for rotating / revoking them if anyone gains access to them. Even worse, printed recovery codes are observable without altering the owner (aka me). Someone could photocopy all my recovery codes and I wouldn't know I've lost control of them.

As for devices, I use Yubikeys for my high-value accounts and managing them is a huge pain in the ass. I have 5 sitting beside me. One is old, two are v4, two are v5. I didn't keep a list of all the accounts I used them for from day 1, so now I have to keep all of them. Forever. Just in case.

The only way Passkeys will solve those problems is by taking complete control of authentication and treating it like a managed service. You'll be giving up control of your ability to prove your identity and, eventually, you're going to be paying a subscription fee for it.

In my opinion it's almost a guarantee that Passkeys are going to be used as leverage against users, not to benefit them. The sad thing is that once 99% of oblivious users are fooled, the rest of us are going to get the choice of using them or being shut out of everything.
flight 1549 took on a fair amount of water, but did not sink completely

https://www.reddit.com/r/submechanophobia/comments/7qse0g/us...

maybe it would have had it not been tied up, but it never did.
A zipcode should be plenty and grocery websites do that already.

There's probably a Things Developers Believe About ZIP Codes list out there somewhere.
I think a MAME driver is in the works, but maybe also a whole series of blog posts about roadblocks on that journey.
Why don't you give us some examples?
It is still not the PIN in the same way the password to the password vault isn't the password to an account. If you had a physical TPM that got removed, your pin wouldn't do anything. If the TPM got reset in the BIOS, the PIN wouldn't work. It's a step in the authentication workflow, but the PIN itself is not the credential. If a person tried to RDP to that computer with the PIN, they wouldn't be able to access it.

If your kid fails the PIN too many times, the PIN gets disabled. No more PIN retries until the real password gets used. If they tried the password a bunch of times, they'd get a timeout but could come back in a few minutes and try again.
I've been working at FAANG for the past 10 years, so this made me absolutely chuckle!

I can totally image a PM somewhere calculate the negative bps for this and call the experiment a failure!
The few months when I actually had a non-compete in place it was quite specific and didn't apply to me.

But, yeah, as a generic thing below the level of a CEO becoming the CEO of a direct competitor (in which case lawyers have presumably put specific contracts in place if they're competent), they don't make a lot of sense beyond NDAs in play. No properly-managed company was ever going to pay me a bunch of money to not work at a random company in the industry who was probably a partner anyway.
Original source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/12/17/vitamin-d-w...
> look like absolute garbage and are uselessly low resolution.

I wish you'd chosen a different tone

Plenty of things are low resolution, flawed, impractical and lacking in fidelity and still look gorgeous. In fact - people are drawn towards things that have these kind of qualities. Some of it is nostalgia, some of it is that the flaws add a quality and richness of their own. People spend a lot of time and money trying to recreate older technologies because of these aspects. The examples are too numerous to list.

I wouldn't have quibbled if you'd chosen words that didn't come across as sneering. I think there's a core validity to what you're saying but it's just the way you said it.
lead

follow

or get out of the way

and cheer!!!
For those of us who are not pilots, but have played with flight simulators: in case of an emergency where we have to take the controls the airplane already belongs to the insurance company, try to save your own life.
No one here is stating that physics stops working for fat people. Obviously, your body needs an energy source to function and when you deprive it of that energy source it will go to your energy reserves. There might be some woefully ignorant people that claim otherwise elsewhere, but that's not the position of the person you are referring to.

But you're saying "it is as easy as doing activity x" without concern for the difficulty of that activity. There are a wide variety of reasons some people might get fat, but once you are fat, it is far more difficult to get not-fat than it was to get there in the first place. There are a wide variety of feedback loops within the body, including epigenetic ones, that make it much harder to lose weight and keep it off.

Once upon a time, it was trivial for me to not eat garbage food, or too much of any sort of food. I had more trouble trying to eat enough to be in a large enough caloric surplus to get enough protein in and stay in a large enough caloric surplus to build muscle. I never had "food noise" or anything of that nature. Then life happened, my circumstances changed, and I had less time to worry about food. I spent more time going out with co-workers and friends eating and drinking. Other nights, I was too busy to cook, and ordered in more. My weight went up, and before I really realized it, I had put on significant weight. And I realized that something I had found trivial before, something that had taken zero willpower, that I had never struggled with... was something that was incredibly mentally taxing.

Could I count calories and lose weight? Of course. Could I add exercise back in to my routine? Yep. But it was difficult in a way that I never had understood back when I was fit, in a way that I never would have believed could happen to me. And as soon as I got busy again, or had other things occur in my life that took priority, the mental effort to keep "just counting calories" and push down my food cravings and hunger no longer seemed worth it.

I could exert a huge portion of my willpower on this, struggle with it, remove my capacity to spend more time having care and empathy for others, forcefully deprioritize other things in life... or I could use a GLP-1.

I know which path made sense for me, and it's been a hugely beneficial thing in my life.
Spain introduces bill to combat online fake news
Why not use a credit card for that?
Killing phishing in messaging apps with passkeys
I really don't understand why people are still using an inferior tool chain to build JavaScript in 2024. The type checking alone has the potential to save countless of bugs.

I wish we could get rid of "vanilla js must imply going back in time 10 years" ideology because it's so unnecessary. Using typescript doesn't mean you have to go react or other libraries.
A license implies permission, and permission certainly can be revoked. Why and when are the details that matter.
The future this (and similar legislature from other countries) points toward is extremely concerning.

I run a small site with some user interaction; though it doesn't seem the intended target of this particular legislature, it seems inevitable that there will be a law enacted somewhere that leaves the site vulnerable unless I'm constantly staying on top of the increasingly varied and specific requirements across the world. I don't see how anyone but big corporations can expect to deal with that, frankly.

I wish there was an international standard of reasonable moderation and data handling specifically for small sites. A static checklist of requirements like manual screening of user-generated content within a certain time period, gdpr-esque transparency of user data - things that any responsible webmaster should be doing anyway.

I suppose there are potential problems with that too, but either way that ship has already sailed. Instead we're all on the Titanic, ignoring alarm bells as we careen towards the iceberg of siloed corporatocracy.
Perfectly fine to make whatever profit the business/market supports.

But if a company is making profits while underpaying their employees relative to market rates, yes, that's backwards.
Be honest, frequent travel and shopping over VPN is an edge case here.

Everyone is an edge case in some form. You, included.

Just have a VAT and be done with it.

This just illustrates that you don't understand the that taxes have multiple purposes, and why taxes are the way they are. Attend a few city council meetings.
Same in UK.

As a kid, having grown up in the UK I knew that if the price label said £1.99 and I had £2 in my pocket I could afford it, with £0.01 change. First time I went to the USA as a young teenager I remember being quite embarrassed when the thing I thought I was getting for $1.99 was actually not $1.99 but $2.17 or whatever, and I had to leave without buying. Felt quite deceptive and totally incomprehensible.
I would love to do this. However, if you are building a heavily interactive application, wouldn't it be easier to manage with a framework instead of jquery ? Wouldn't you want to manipulate DOM more easily than with jquery ? Unless the web app is not that complex. Thoughts ?
That's not in the US so unaffected.
That method came from code that I accepted in a PR from December 31, 2019: https://github.com/seleniumbase/SeleniumBase/pull/459
Not a true representation of most of the code today.
Pedestrian and cyclist protection, emergency braking, etc. have been in the criteria for Euro NCAP for a while. American regulations are probably under siege by the auto industry.
My Internet provider charges $50 per month exactly, and even the taxes are included! How cool is that? They aren't doing that out of goodness of their heart though. It is due to competition from T-Mobile 5G internet, which also has this policy.
Occlusion could be done with head tracking for one observer (not both eyes though); but defeats the point. I'm guessing AR glasses will work for much of this.
Agreed. The FCC should act even more broadly. Why doesn't it?
I've found it especially useful, in recent years, to eschew a lot of JS and go back to the "stone age" so to say, when developing non-public components.

I'd still not go without React (or something similar) to manage DOM in the user-land, but there's something blessed about using barely any to no JS at all in an admin/moderator UI, or in dev tooling. Don't have to consider any of the compatibility/update headaches outside of the user space.

That rant aside, I feel that the best approach to JS is a static one. Build your code and your artifacts, package them long-term... serve them when needed and you're done. It's somewhat retro, SPA style, but it works like a charm and doesn't require building all the time, nor babying all the dependencies and build steps.
Dish is terrible. After my mom passed away, they were one of the few things that my Dad had trouble cancelling. Even with a copy of her death certificate, my Dad could not get the service cancelled. He just ended up throwing the bills (and their equipment) away.
Yep, where I currently live based on IP geolocation I would be quoted incorrect state sales tax 100% of the time. Though it's sort of the perfect geography to be problematic (Vancouver, WA side of the greater Portland, OR metro area spanning a sales tax/no sales tax state boundary).
those tags are working as intended - some people don't read the "online only" part, grab the item, assume the discount is applied at checkout, and end up paying full price. other people will download (and probably never uninstall) the spyware app and start feeding a juicy profitable data stream back to HQ.

because how are you ever going to stay in business doing something as niche as selling groceries without leaning hard into surveillance capitalism
A new method for liquid-cooling data centers could make waste heat useful
there is no crisis. stop teaching students to write trash, using ai or not. if the essay is good, it should get an A.