jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
* A redesign of touch-based text input.

* A music player with a unique interface.

* control Youtube on your computer from across the room

* A fork of the stock Android home screen

* Automatically do anything in response to anything.

* The best todo list.

* Get notifications for Gmail labels

* Get notifications for Craigslist search terms

* Easily track packages

This list would appear to prove Gruber's (subtextual) point. Most of these don't seem interesting enough to break into "Featured", "Top Free", or "Top 25" (for utilities) on the app store.
A bit of googling around shows that Greenpeace has never seemed to have a problem with using WiFi. They have lots of dumb opinions -- I won't pretend to be neutral here -- but they don't seem to be against WiFi.
I'm using it in conjunction with AdBlock which takes care of most ads. Are there any particular ad services that you've noticed?

https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepj...
I'm a climber and I don't see this gaining traction against supertopo, 8a.nu or rockclimbing.com. No reason not to give it a shot though.
Thanks!
I'm not a designer, but will definitely think about a better logo in the future.
In reading this article I was struck by the value judgements implied by the choices of terms within the context of contemporary American culture :
Engineers == self-centered == bad
Managers == other-centered == good

Another perspective might be that engineers are more interested in the value of the work they do whereas corporations are only concerned with the economic benefit they can obtain from that value. I'm not an economist but I'm convinced that value and price/cost/profit are two very different things. The first measures the actual benefit to a person or society of a given good while the later is determined by market dynamics/economic context. For example a laptop may only cost a few hundred dollars due to abundant supply but if I use that laptop to solve a problem worth millions then isn't the value of that laptop really much higher ?
In what way has the very act of asking made you worse off?
Those of us who unwittingly leave coffee stains, tend to leave more than one and at different concentrations (color of stain) so I'd like to see a bit more complexity in the image...
If one is home-schooled by parents who give the child a well-rounded education, why not. In this case, one parent is explicitly considering history to be a useless topic.
> The main difference is that it chose javascript instead of lisp as its universal language, which, in the current world, is a much better choice for adoption.

That at best bifurcates the community (possibly along the age lines). I for one consider it to be a bad choice for me personally. JavaScript ain't a particularly pretty language. And it's nowhere as nice as Emacs Lisp.

> saying app can share data easily because the format is text buffer is either a tautology or a non-sequitur

I'd agree, though with caveat that an Emacs buffer is not just an array of text. It's an array of text with bells, whistles, and a semantically well-designed API layer. This lets extensions to mostly compose nicely.

But I'd say the more important feature is that nothing is sandboxed. That means extensions can detect and work around potential conflicts with other extensions, up to the point of extending or replacing any function such conflicting extension uses (though with proper extension design - which is by this point a part of Emacs culture - this is rarely needed). It's easy for any extension to expose an API layer for interop, and Emacs itself provides enough of an API surface that usually you don't even need to do that explicitly.

More importantly, I myself can trivially extend or fix extensions as well. Something conflicts and errors out? Flip a debugger trap, wait for it to error again, poke around the source, find the culprit, patch it in your config. Granted, you need a passing familiarity with Emacs Lisp for that (though IMO, one should consider getting comfortable with Emacs Lisp a part of becoming a power user of Emacs). But you can do that, quite easily, and the entire environment supports you in doing this.
GA gives people the option if they want to enable / disable usage for ad personalization.
> Elbakyan's project really is a shining beacon of anti-capitalist action (...)

The scientific journal racket is all but capitalism. It's largely rentism disseminated and fostered by entrenched state and institutional interests and status quo. These publisher's devised a scheme where they not only force highly-educated and trained specialists to produce cutting-edge work for free but also afterwards demand high fees for them to access that same work.
Yes SpaceX's Raptor engines would be built in Hawthorne, CA and tested in McGregor, TX like the Merlin before it. But at Boca Chica, TX they are not just fitting the components into the an already completed fuselage, but welding the entire air frame together, including the pressure vessel bulkheads and stacking the stainless steel rings into Starship and Super Heavy. As far as I know Boca Chica receives stainless-steel sheet metal and turns it into the rings segments. The rings have a 9 meter diameter, so cross-country road transportation would be a problem.
It's like a tax on confirmation bias.

It's easy to imagine having early awareness of cryptoassets but dismissing them as tulips when the total market value was $1m.

It's also easy to imagine not admitting the mistake after the next 10x to $10m. In fact, that explosive growth helped confirm the skeptics' thesis that it's a Ponzi about to implode.

So now that we've 10x'd five more times since then, it would be a tremendous psychological blow to capitulate now.

Those who preferred the comfort of confirmation bias to the discomfort of admitting they've been wrong all these years have paid an enormous price for that comfort.
It’s a piece from a hedge fund. What can we expect?
If it wasn't considered a solved problem, we wouldn't have public CA's for our browsers to trust, as their very premise is based on having a secure way to store private keys. I think a FIPS-140-2 level 4 HSM and hashicorp vault enterprise will cover 99.9999% of all other use cases for private CA's and PKI.
> the debate was "keyboard vs touchpad".

I didn’t mean for it to be that exclusively. I tried to say that keyboards are the best text input device, but gaming mice and controllers are the best gaming input device, graphics tablets are the best graphics input device, and video editing input devices like the ones I linked in my original comment are probably best for video editing (while trackpads are at best decent scrolling/browsing devices, but IMHO I personally prefer keyboard scrolling like in the terminal pager less, the PDF and other document viewer Zathura, and vi-inspired browsers/browser plugins like luakit, qutebrowser, and Pentadactyl).
Keyboard, SSD, one of two RAM sticks, WiFi card, and honestly basically everything else except one RAM and the CPU/GPU look replaceable on the T14 and P14s, with a publicly available manual to guide you: https://download.lenovo.com/pccbbs/mobiles_pdf/t14_gen1_p14s...

Comes with 2x USB-C, 2x USB-A, HDMI, Ethernet, 3.5mm headset jack, MicroSD.

That said, the Lenovo online shop is a customer service disaster. Don't buy there. Misadvertised the smart card reader as a SD/MMC/... card reader, defrauds customers by advertising a "best price" policy that they then refuse to honor, 3 months to shipping with repeated delays, they play stupid games with their pricing (e.g. they jack up the price during week days by about 30% to milk business customers), zero flexibility (e.g. if the shipment is delayed because they're missing the removable RAM, they can't change the order to ship you a unit without the RAM, your only option would be to cancel and go to the end of the queue).

Also, poor hardware support for the GPU and possibly Bluetooth under Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
I have a free subscription through one of my credit cards to one of these delivery services--which I've never used. I noticed they have a Five Guys listed. But they're 20 minutes away. Whenever I've entertained the thought I've told myself to just pick up a pound of burger meat and grill it because I'd hate the result of the delivery.
Even more nitpicky, it is an interface. It is where you get into problems with nil interfaces and not returning an explicit nil value for the error.
Not to mention that the colors change if you move the disk to another mac.
This could be one of the reasons the SEC hasn't approved the ETF for sale to the public. The first S-1 for this ETF is dated 2013-07-01, so it's not like the SEC hasn't had time to look at it. That said, there is a whole universe of bizarro exchange traded products in the US equity market so who really knows. I don't think the feedback from the SEC to the Winklevoss brothers has been made public.
Well, you're both right! From Wikipedia:

> The bodyshop painter became frustrated with the sample masking tape and exclaimed, "Take this tape back to those Scotch bosses of yours and tell them to put more adhesive on it!" The name was soon applied to the entire line of 3M tapes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_Tape
> "Entire History of You" kinda defeated its own point, if you ask me. His wife actually was unfaithful and he figured it out...The moral was, "Don't marry a cheating harlot", but that one's over 9000 years old.

I hear this point of view often from those who don't realize that people (even women!) are human and make mistakes. Sometimes everybody is better off when we can forget momentary transgressions, or perhaps even if the one partner never learns about the past mistakes of the other. The theme of the episode being that this can never happen due to this new technology.
I was able to set the width of the body using this command:

document.querySelector('body').style['width'] = '40em';

However, setting the max-width did not work:

document.querySelector('body').style['max-width'] = '40em';

Any idea why?
Who supposes that one life is worth any cost? Clearly no one even values their own life infinitely. If they did, for every decision they would choose the least risky option.
All I can think of is the FBI statement about how they in consultation with other federal agencies have conclusive evidence that the "hack" emanated from NK. I seriously hope that is rubbed in everyone's face if this turns out to be an insider action that almost and possibly even caused a cyber attack by the USA on a sovereign nation, no matter how much we have been trained not to like NK.
Can confirm. Github and archive.org are not accessible. (From South India)
Can't tell what you're saying here lol. But what the original commenter commented wasn't an opinion (replete with reasoning, argument, etc.); it was the mindless recitation of a phrase they'd indoctrinated themselves with (equivalent to regurgitating the propaganda of a totalitarian regime)
This case is something to keep in mind anytime Amazon comments on any labor matter, be it minimum wage, visas, diversity, work conditions, contractors, anything at all. Amazon is not commenting on those issues with anything in mind other than its own interests.
Humans do not necessarily reproduce exponentially. Hans Rosling's TED talks feature, as a central theme, that the population can stabilize at 9 billion with the right initiatives and social changes.
http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_g...
Another new and novel treatment for MDD is called rTMS or repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Its effects are probably more durable than Magic Mushrooms from the literature, up to a year or more in some cases from a single round of treatment. A quick search in pubmed will bring 1000s of articles on its efficacy.

Any loss for big pharma is a big win for consumers.
What are the runtimes?
“Meditation” is such an umbrella term that it is impossible to make general statements about it without being too specific. Benson, for example, was studying advanced techniques practiced in Tibet (such as the “tummo” technique mentioned in the article), which are not common in the rest of the world. “Meditation” research done in other contexts would probably yield some very disparate results.
Super placebo is a scientifically incorrect description. These drugs suppress activity of the default mode network of the brain, which is a sort of "conductor" of the brain, which chooses which "instruments" to prioritize and how to allocate the train of thought. All of the different parts of your mind are able to sing out more creatively and independently, forging new paths that they are not accustomed to taking -- this is why it's great for mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, alcoholism, smoking -- it allows your mind an incredible flexibility.

In my personal experiences with psychedelics, these drugs remove mental heuristics, allowing the mind to think unimpeded by usual thought patterns, simply accepting raw data as it comes in. This was striking in sensory information, if you closed your eyes or just stared at something long enough, you observed incredibly different visual input, geometric patterns, greatly strengthened colors (a strawberry was INCREDIBLY beautiful, I almost felt bad eating such a beautiful entity). There was also an incredible inter-disciplinary thought process, I felt the musical, mathematical, computational, logical, natural, all these parts of my mind mixed together wonderfully.

LSD was much longer lasting, around 12 hours, whereas psilocybin was around 6 hours. Psilocybin enhanced my connection with nature, the flying bugs, a handful of berries, and the plants all around me caused an effusion of love and connection. Whereas with LSD, I felt an extremely powerful visual stimulation, the changing fall leaves were extremely vibrant and beautiful, it was akin to 12 hour, mentally-clear cannabis high. I didn't experience any "flashbacks" per se, there was a positive glow in my mood and thoughts for around 5 days, and the day after LSD I still had lingering effects...I also wonder if I will evermore look at the surface of ponds and lakes differently, they have an incredible dynamism and vitality that I appreciated even more on first trip.

For anyone considering psychedelics, do it thoughtfully and methodically. Read the book mentioned in the parent, practice meditation, explore your mind, and really ensure your mindset ("set") is positive and open. Further, plan to occupy a peaceful, quiet place, hopefully lacking too many strangers/social interaction ("setting"). If set and setting are good, you're in for a wonderful time.
I am fairly sure that rigorous scientific research has shown that this is not the case.
At least for shrooms, you can (legally) source the spores and grow your own (illegally). No worries about street drug impurities unless you don't trust your own tap water and fertilizer.
In my experience, the efficiency benefits aren’t as clear-cut as you think. I have a client who is a big Fortune 10 company, with most of their engineering teams located in the same high-rise office building for this collocation efficiency benefit.

They’ve actually seen a huge increase in productivity by moving to a virtual model during the pandemic — exactly because nobody is wasting 2 hours of their day waiting on elevators or waiting for meetings to start. People have more autonomy to block off their day and there aren’t the distractions present in a normal open office.

If I were to informally poll all of the product development organizations I work with, I would expect to see at least 90% of folks want to maintain the remote workplace going forward. They’ll still probably go back to some level of in-person work later this year, but the difference is that remote will still probably be the default for most folks. I don’t think we’ll ever get back to a model that assumes all or even most of the team is located in the same room — it’s just too much better to do things this way.
lol. Try: "fleeing $900k 2-br houses, and falling salaries"
why WSL and WSLv2 hasn't been mentioned by anyone.
By the way this bug does not appear on Community PostgreSQL 12
I've pondered this a couple of times. One Ask HN I posted: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6773980

A reply to a comment I made on another post says that the CLR and JVM suffer from GC pauses, which would not be acceptable for web apps.
Same could be said about postagon.com or tryghost.org.
why not use a heat pump for heating given its >100% relative efficiency?

Edit: apparently some VW models include a heat pump for this reason.[1]
Edit 2: Apparently some Teslas have it too. [2]

[1] https://www.speakev.com/threads/heat-pump-yes-or-
no.16768/

[2] https://electrek.co/2020/03/13/tesla-model-y-has-a-heat-pump...
You don't need to run your own Mastodon server. It's like email: you can run your own, but it's easier to join some of the numerous existing servers.

Also, I don't see how decentralized service can live without decentralization of control and ownership of nodes. Without the latter, you just get a multi-DC centralized service. So there's no alternative to a certain degree of self-hosting. Either you yield control to a central authority, or you care enough to maintain a node under your control.

OTOH self-hosting should be made as simple as possible for an average user. Much like running a Skype node, or a torrent node did not feel like hosting, and felt like just running an app. This is ruined by the need to run on mobile clients (can't be reasonable servers) and exacerbated by the widespread NATting of home networks, so your desktop can't easily be a server, too.
> the BLM riots were terrorism and equivalent to what happened on Wednesday

One group is rioting to protest frequent ignored murder of their community.

The other riot to attempt to halt an important democratic government process. That's clearly and demonstrably premeditated sedition and treason anyway you spin it, or ignore it in your case.
My whole line of thought on this subject changed when we decided to have a child. I am/was an enthusiastic user of public transportation, but the idea of trying to have a baby and not be able to get around on precisely my own terms (that is, on my own schedule, and with the burden of stuff my little family requires to be clean and comfortable) seemed absurd to me and now, though I still take the train to/from work every day, the idea of not having a car seems untenable.
Seamus Heaney - Digging

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.

Under my window a clean rasping sound
When the spade sinks into gravelly ground:
My father, digging. I look down

Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds
Bends low, comes up twenty years away
Stooping in rhythm through potato drills
Where he was digging.

The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft
Against the inside knee was levered firmly.
He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep
To scatter new potatoes that we picked,
Loving their cool hardness in our hands.

By God, the old man could handle a spade.
Just like his old man.

My grandfather could cut more turf in a day
Than any other man on Toner's bog.
Once I carried him milk in a bottle
Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up
To drink it, then fell to right away
Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods
Over his shoulder, digging down and down
For the good turf. Digging.

The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap
Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge
Through living roots awaken in my head.
But I've no spade to follow men like them.

Between my finger and my thumb
The squat pen rests.
I'll dig with it.
It's not hard to find auto wholesale prices online. Most dealers these days you can call up and say, "hey, I know your wholesale price on this car is $x, can you give me the car for $100 more than that?" They're pretty used to this anymore; they don't expect to make anything on "internet orders". If nothing else, it adds revenue and sales volume to their aggregate numbers.
They have links to real studies at the bottom. It's not marketing, they're just trying to makes studies seem more interesting.

Links at bottom of article:

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research

http://www.econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/GraduateTheoryUCSB/Be...

http://www.princeton.edu/~kahneman/docs/Publications/prospec...

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7802.html

http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/ayelet.fishbach/research/Kle...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sensation-Seeking-Behavior-Marvin-Zu...
A not very stealthy shill. Current profile:

user: RRRAMA
created: 56 minutes ago
karma: 1
avg:
about: Tiempy.com

Protip: If you create a shill account and don't have enough imagination, at least leave the about field empty.
Because everyone at the 51st percentile and below for intelligence forms a voting majority, and systematically disenfranchising people based on their intellect would invite abuse of the voter qualifications systems.

So we can't just put the smart people in charge. We have to slowly educate the stupid people out of existence, until the dumbest 51% are finally capable of determining the best people to make decisions, based primarily on their aptitude, rather than on their popularity.

When voting for county dogcatcher, for instance, people would look for "D.V.M." after the candidate's name, rather than "(D)" or "(R)". When people want to hire me, they look at my resume, not my hairline, lapel pin, or party affiliation.

Hey, here's an idea! What's the political science equivalent of FizzBuzz? Whatever it is, you can't get on the ballot unless you can do that thing, live, unaided, and in front of witnesses.
Reminds me about how I nearly got kicked out of highschool for changing the background color of sol.exe.

Back in my HS days, the "computer class" teacher (in quotes because it wasn't a computer class at all, rather a typing class) used to walk around and say "I don't want to see any green screens". Green, of course, being the background color of the built-in solitaire card game back in Windows 3.11 days.

I took a screenshot as a bmp, and found the hex value for the background color. Then I fired up debug, having nearly no idea what I was doing, searched for that hex value, found it, and then changed it to a nice mauve color. Thought it would be funny, maybe even praise-worthy.

Instead, the teacher lost his shit. These computers were "locked down" by basically just putting all the admin-type shortcuts into a password protected program group. But File->Run was still there, and it had no problem firing up COMMAND.COM. I didn't think it would be a big deal, but of course it was completely blown out of proportion by the teacher, who didn't exactly like my attitude.

I still dislike that man.
They thought about it...

"Some URI Templates can be used in reverse for the purpose of variable matching: comparing the template to a fully formed URI in order to extract the variable parts from that URI and assign them to the named variables. Variable matching only works well if the template expressions are delimited by the beginning or end of the URI or by characters that cannot be part of the expansion, such as reserved characters surrounding a simple string expression. In general, regular expression languages are better suited for variable matching."
Easy, parody and satire doesn't pretend to be the truth?