skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reverse-emulated NES – unmodified NES hacked to play SNES games
You only need one tool to run your business. You can use Excel for bookkeeping, inventory, salaries, invoices, project management, budgeting, presentations, planning, forecast, brainstorming, timetable, to-do list and so on. If you would use a separate app for each of these you would go insane. Easier to learn one powerful tool than hundred small ones.

Take a look a talk by Joel Spolsky called You Suck at Excel. It's on YouTube. It will give you a quick glimpse into how Excel powerusers are using it and how fast you can create something useful.
>Everybody knows that only poor people have Androids/PCs.

Having worked on several university campuses, I agree with you about Apple promoting themselves as a status symbol, but - I think you might have to run in upper-class or at least urban circles to even notice this difference. I grew up in small town America, where nobody was buying laptop computers the price of a used car. Doctors, lawyers, pretty much everybody I knew as a kid ran Windows. Most people had a traditional desktop tower, whether or not they had a laptop.

The few exceptions tended to be geeks, or people who were devoted to the Apple ecosystem because they had been using Macs since at least the early '90s.

Now that I'm in urban university circles, I'm the only person using Androids / non-Apple PC hardware. Apple really seems to be the "default", and people using other things are doing so for pretty solid technical reasons.
Is more a mass of jungle with some old boggy wastelands and an escalating series of slash and burn plantation forestry monocultures all intertwined with unruly canopy vines and invasive fungi.
When the touchbar macbooks were announced,I immediately went out and bought a used 2015 macbook. The great thing about them is that they are good for quite a long time because macs dont tend to get bogged down over time

I love the unix lineage on Mac OS with a consumer ready GUI.

By far the #1 thing that keeps me from using windows as my main machine is the registry.

I do have an old windows desktop that I upgraded with SSD and maxed out the ram and it runs great with windows 10.

I also run windows 10 in parallels on my Mac (for the office suite and a few windows only programs. Time machine backup works incredibly well and I can 100% rely on it. I can be up and running in minutes even if my windows 10 image gets completely destroyed.

I had a mac stolen, went to the store, bought a new one, restored from time machine almost immediately.

The only thing Ive been disappointed in is that the stability of the last two versions hasnt been great. I used to go months without a reboot, now I crash about once every two weeks.
Two dead after YouTube conspiracy video claims drinking bleach cures autism
I've volunteered with a local ambulance corps for the past 2-3 years. I've driven and more recently became an EMT. It's worthwhile. We sign for at least 4 shifts a month. There is a fair amount of training and retraining to keep the cert active. Some shifts are distressing and it is a bit hard to compartmentalize...

I am glad to have it though. I have contact with a whole different world than my NYC tech job and have a different relationship to my city than I would otherwise. The EMTs (and trainees) are younger, different racial and socio-economic backgrounds. Not uncommon for me to be on a shift with a crew chief who is 20 years younger and different race and or gender. And it be a person I trust and respect.

As for the work itself - it can be harrowing and you second guess almost everything and try to figure it out better. While trying to help the patient(s) you have to manage radio contact while filling out a chart which you are constantly reminded would be the basis for legal discovery if needed. Our Corps does about 6k calls a year out of one location with 3 ambulances. And you get all the variety you expect in a city.

I question it sometimes. This volunteering eats into my work life and family life. Occasionally dream about it or think about it. To the point of the post - it does connect me to community in a different and meaningful way. There are other ways to achieve the same thing probably - just adding my experience.
For me it really was. I think it was Mondo 2000 that first pointed me to James Gleick's excellent Chaos book. After reading that I was looking for anything else like it. Eventually I found books on artificial life and genetic programming and these talked about neural nets and other machine learning systems.

Those were exciting times. I was just thinking about Mondo 2000 and recurring stories about smart drugs (nootropics?). I always wanted to try some of it but never had the guts. I'd be curious to know if there were any long term consequences for those who used them.

Edit: I just did some searching and found that R.U. Sirius did a followup article:

https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/03/09/smart-drugs-nutrients-1...
Couldn't they just say they use an auction mechanism, so there's one price, but it's a clearing price?
Yes, set aside liabilities for 75 years in the future. They effectively have to fund people before they're born, unless you think they've got a lot of workers who'll be there over 75 years old.

So, yes, they have to fund. And they're struggling because they're being subject to deliberate and malicious political attack on public services.
I mean, cool, great. I like React and I like TypeScript more than I like Elixir so that does nothing for me, but great.

But I'm not sure why you replied to me.
Where did you get your EMT training? (context: I am in NYC and would take EMT training and volunteer at my own expense if I understood how it worked)
Slightly off topic, but one of the weapons I fear the most is a non-visible spectrum anti-personnel laser.
Hey! Yeah, that was me. Sorry for being so rambley; I hope that you still enjoyed it.

https://github.com/n64dev/cen64 is the emulator that I use
Why are we _still_ delivering paper?

There is 0 reason to be doing this in the communication age. Millions of tons of CO2 and acres of forests could be saved.
A duplicate of this story that is still on the front page of HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19969133
Wouldn't the "Black Domain" concept introduced in Death's End be a better metaphor here? Communities are choosing to seal themselves off from the greater Internet, even if that means they cannot collaborate/engage with as many other people.
And yet the Bay Area has the worst-rated road maintenance of any American metropolitan area. I still can’t understand how that happens in a region with the most billionaires per capita on Earth.
Boeing dismissed chance of bird strike that may have caused second 737 Max crash
You wouldn't happen to be a commentor/author for this Reddit post[0], would you? Your sentiment here seems quite similar. I have no experience at all with hardware design, but it seems like that domain is especially geared towards closed-source for specific reasons.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/FPGA/comments/a5pzs5/prediction_ope...
I've done that too. It's an improvement, but it's made things a little more difficult in other ways - like for some reason it's very easy for me to confuse Tab and Escape/capslock now. In some typing scenarios, I just can't seem to keep them straight.
> You are not being forced to reveal anything

You are arguing that I should be, though. Whether or not I "own" the data is irrelevant to this point. If I don't have a choice about it being revealed, then I am being forced to reveal it.

> Data that identifies you might own and keep private.

Given that very powerful databases and data mining technologies are commonly employed, I think that this category covers the vast majority of all data that is created as a result of my actions or the actions of machines that I own.
I struggle with this everyday
Unfortunately you generally have to sue where the corporate HQ is. That makes it impractical for most people.
Well that seems dysfunctional to have kids to try to cure your loneliness.
IMO the NYT deserves $0. Even blogspam is better than the narrative pushing they do.
I think airline cabins are absolutely the best example of a class warfare issue, especially since so many other industries are trying to copy the cabin stratification model.

If that's not a good example of different classes rubbing up against eachother and getting angry about it then nothing else on the planet is, either.

You know that coach used to be better than first class is now, right? This idea that the back of the plane is bad and horrible suffering is a new invention, a new construct of the airlines that everyone just bought into all at once.
I think you could generalize that to "population density", since there are reasons people in low-density areas think the way they do, just the same as there are reasons for people in high-density ares to think like they do.
> Not sure why

really?
Apple has always made aggressively experimental design changes that were a mix of steps forward and backward. Hockey puck mice, mass logic board failures, soldered flash drives and batteries, ports and dongles, etc.

People always forget the flaws of the past.
I've been attending a local UU Church for the last few months (raised no religion, this is my first spiritual community). While there's mention of the spiritual life I think about half the congregation would identify as atheists. There's no creed or mention of 'religion' and the individual search for meaning is repeatedly stressed. It's been a good addition to my life and very nurturing for the soul.
That’s why I love redshift, I shove everything way over into the red and turn the gamma right down, I also killed the overhead lights in my office so it’s a comfortable quiet cave to work in.
Tarsnap and/or BackBlaze are saner alternatives.
I use Firefox Developer Edition as my dev browser these days (as part of degooglification) and the latest version - 68.0b2 - is excellent. The UI seems to finally be as fast, if not faster, than Safari.
Sam Altman on Twitter: It's gross seeing so many root against Tesla
The Chromium Chronicle: Fighting Test Flakiness
Not necessarily. That has been the traditional economic opinion, but it has been challaneged as of late. Employers don't always raise wages, harder to save for retirement (unless you want to take higher risk in the stock market, your money shrinks in real value).
For any significant crypto holdings you should be using a hardware wallet, and for serious holdings you should also use a multisig setup.
A few of them. It won't stop logic errors (although enums help here) but it will prevent buffer overflows, use-after-free, some cases of type confusion, uninitialised reads, and a few other problems.
I have seen people doing amazing and complex things with Matlab, including fancy GUIs and stuff. But it is almost exclusively used for internal tools as far as I know.
That's exactly what them person you're replying to said.
Bettors in the Know Cashed in on ‘Game of Thrones’
On balance, this is to increase consumer confidence in the product - knowing that they can get a free replacement makes them more likely to buy.
Developing a headset to transfer visual perceptions from sighted to the blind
San Francisco has highest salaries of any city in the world, new survey shows
Completely tangential, but Clojure is definitely a Lisp, and it does have cons https://clojuredocs.org/clojure.core/cons
> You will absolutely get into some kind of trouble (social or legal) if you put a camera on a sidewalk and start filming whoever goes by.

In the US, you won't get in any legal trouble for doing this. You do have certain restrictions on what you can do with the images you capture, though.
Kraken crypto exchange is offering 0.255% of equity over Bnktothefuture
but how does that explain the sharp rise in suicide rates amongst WASP males approaching middle age?
The untold story of Venezuelan aid violence
I get vastly more spam paper than actual mail. As long as it is effective as a spam vector it will continue.
By all means, please go after any pursuits that you like and also climb any mountain, that you wish. But, please do not write 'web' and 'excel' in the same sentence. There are bigger and better problems that we should be going after.
Sometimes people care about different things than you do.
Dont disagree. I have been doing BJJ the past 2 years and currently have a blue belt. It has meaning for me in a way that running on a treadmill or playing ultimate frisbee... You get to know people in a specific way and develop a trust - its a great feeling. Different than volunteering though.
I continue to be amazed by releases on Macs about how "powerful" they are.

I use a Dell XPS running Ubuntu with 12 cores and 32GB of ram with a 1050 in a 15 inch. It is a really amazing platform, doesn't have these keyboard or screen issues, and cost less than a MacBook Pro.
> The reviewer should download the branch to their local environment, follow the deploy instructions (if present) and make sure the code “does what it says on the tin”

This looks like a very onerous requirement for reviewers (although tools like gitlab or getdockup.com automate it), I wonder if a) is really useful in catching issues, b) the process they used to convince the team to spend this extra time when reviewing. In my experience is that devs don't really want to spend more than a few minutes skimming through a PR.
I know someone who has considered looking to volunteerism to combat loneliness. In all the places they've looked, what has put them off of it in every case is the up-front commitment required - a certain set of hours in a day and days in a week, for a minimum number of weeks. This is understandable - volunteer-driven efforts need reliable people just like anything else does - but it makes it hard to dip your toe in.
George RR Martin Consulted Japanese Game Studio
Hi,

as a Create React App maintainer I'd love if you could share some scenarios where CRA itself would cause performance issues. CRA itself is mostly just developer tooling and every other feature is opt-in. The team and many contributors (including people on WebPack team) have spent quite a lot of time on optimizing the production builds CRA produces; building an React only app won't have much else than React and React-DOM itself, while we also automatically do more advanced things like bundle spitting too.
Sounds like college
Really?! I'm not saying we should have all expected it or something, but there were decently strong hints in retrospect she wasn't what we all wanted her to be, whereas Jon was what we wanted but lacked the ambition or whatever -- which almost perfectly mirrors Ned and everyone else in the story.

The only thing I can't believe is that the prophecies were pointing toward Arya as Azor Ahai, or the (apparently now) more likely theory that the "darkness" mentioned in the prophecy didn't have anything to do with the army of the undead (http://time.com/5589654/game-of-thrones-jon-snow-azor-ahai-p...)
You're focusing too hard into the "process" of sport without looking at the "outcome".
When you're volunteering, you see that person or cause or community thrive. The confidence boost that it gives you when you give food to someone is incomparable to having a team lunch chatter.

Get out of the process thinking and look at the outcome of what it does.
how do you do this? like what's the basic requirements to be able to volunteer?
USPS delivers packages too. You're either not looking closely enough at the shipping labels or you don't order from a variety of merchants. In general, USPS seems to make sense for smaller businesses that ship small packages. There is also MailInnovations/SmartPost where UPS/Fedex dumps packages at the local "inefficient" post office for last mile delivery.

Raising the lowest price for sending junk mail to the prices of UPSFedex would certainly reduce spam, but this has nothing to do with how the services are governed.

FWIW it appears you're free to individually act on your desire: https://www.quora.com/U-S-Postal-Service-Do-I-legally-have-t...
No. It doesn't. I don't understand where your presumption of 'need' comes from.

There is no physical dicta that mandates that just because something should happen, means that it must.

Pervasive data collection is not a need. It's a want, by every business out there because of the B2B revenue generating possibility.
I should have qualified that with US. You can rent a mud hut for few bucks in some remote backward village, but that is obviously not a lifestyle anyone reading this would wish.
Quoting a tweet from my feed:

"Married people are happier than single people. Frequent church attenders are happier than people who rarely (or never) attend. "Liberation" from religion and marriage has made millions miserable. Sexual revolutionaries have some explaining to do."

And the quoted article which it is in reference to:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/happiness-...

There was also research done to try and show that the “gender pay gap” will continue to rise due to an increase proportion of single/unwed mothers. Turns out when you have a support system consisting of a spouse and their families, you are able to also have more economic mobility as well. I couldn’t imagine my wife climbing the ladder at her Finance job without me to help take half the parental responsibilities, and a very supportive grandma and grandpa.

Turns out maybe marriage wasn’t a tool of the patriarchy after all.
I think it's more that prior to 2001, investors gave web companies a free hand to figure out how to make money. We saw how that went -- both in the giddy highs and crash.

Afterwards, the MBAs came in and decided that ads and saas were the ways to make money, and if you diverged they needed to understand it. Which makes sense, and I think it's why we haven't had exactly a 2001 repeat. But it's making tech work far less of a giddy job.
Definitely. Depending on how serious one's issues are, volunteering could be a shortcut remedy for loneliness and the need for therapy could be reduced. But if doesn’t work then therapy could help with underlying issues (my therapist suggested volunteering to me).
I don't limit this to cars, personally. I think the principle applies across the board. That's why I go to great lengths to prevent all software from phoning home without my express permission.
The USPS is largely funded by the direct-mail advertising industry, all the "junk mail" that ends up in your favorite mail receptacle. It's sad but that's the state of affairs Congress has forced them into. Switching to electronic delivery makes it much easier to avoid those promotions and also removes the primary revenue source for the USPS.
i am sticking to my 2017 macbook air. This is from a time when apple knew what they where doing, and it has a proper usb port. And the handy magnetic connector that saved my laptop more times than i care to mention. My next laptop prob wont be a mac.
Maybe you don't want to comment, but are people inside Apple that use a MacBook all day generally happy with the keyboards? I know there's going to be a mix of opinions, but here and on sites like Reddit, it feels like there's a majority opinion that the new keyboards are worse.
Good list, and I would add using multisig for serious amounts.
> Which is why I didn't stop writing after those 5 words.

I don't see that explanation anywhere. Something being popular does not mean you need it; that should be pretty obvious. If you need something then it is necessary regardless of how popular it is.

> Have you ever considered that other people may know more about their own lives than you do?

That's a nice platitude but not an explanation for why someone saying they need something means that they actually need it. A pothead might claim to need weed but that doesn't mean society should have an obligation to accommodate him based on the justification that "people may know more about their own lives than you do"

> It's a factor when considering what to do with Facebook.

It's not a factor because convenience is not something you are owed.

> That means you need to wash the dishes. If we restrict "need" to things where you have no choice, all you need to do is breathe. I don't want to eat, but I still do it because I prefer not to starve.

Damn that is some disingenuous semantic foolishness. I don't need to do the dishes because I could buy a box of paper plates instead which is a decision that will not at all impact my health or livelihood. I need to eat because the needs that underpin survival are the default assumptions made by an intellectually honest individual when the term "need" is used. When I say need I mean a physiological or psychological requirement for the well-being of an organism.

> True, but not an argument.

So what are you saying? An individual's right to access Facebook is more fundamental than Facebook's right to operate their computers in a manner that is consistent with their prerogatives?
That might make sense, for where you, or the writer, are located.

I'm in the US, and we have ideals (not always respected) about due process, and systems to support that.

You might want to consider: how much proof did you actually have when you called for doxxing, and how easy would it be for an adversary to manufacture that amount of proof?

Also, it seems that doxxing tends to result in people with the worst judgment taking vigilante action first, so the standard for doxxing must consider that.
With the result that if I'm reading a random name from an Asian nation I have absolutely no idea which is the personal name and which the family name. Usually that's inconsequential, but it would cause problems if I ever had dealings with business contacts overseas.
It's why most of 2FA implementations is BS. It's truly only whoever has access to your number or email can do whatever.
This is great news! I do hope they had kept the Open Tracing name though, instead of introducing a 3rd name to the mix.
Is that western name official (on birth certificate or passport) or informal?
The issue is that the forgot/lost device flow allows you to remove your more secure 2FA with only SMS verification.
He was quoted saying "get woke go broke" so it seems like he is a reactionary who is upset about perceived left wing values among YouTube leadership.
I've seen them driving along interstate 10. It was getting dark and I thought I was seeing things at first. I'm glad I never had to cross the tracks.
A Clojure cons is something completely different to a Lisp cons.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34347985/clojure-no-cons...
Worth it, I'm sorry that you'll never know the joy of having your kids drag you away to play Minecraft with them.
The point of recommending volunteering is that the group you're volunteering with provides the people. It's much easier to become one more in a pre-existing group than is to create an entirely new one from scratch.
My most absurdly productive episodes have been when I've worked through the night. I love the amount of focus I get when there is nothing to distract me!
> I was part of those meetings. Not a single thing the residents asked for was offered in their plans.

Because Better Cupertino refused to work with the developer in any way. It is impossible to negotiate with a group that is operating in bad faith; conspiracy theories and accusations of "corruption" are a hallmark of bad faith debate. The goal was simply a wish to prevent any housing whatsoever from being developed. There is inconsistency in your very post about whether you want affordable housing (which you have not proposed a funding mechanism for) or retail on the site. Steven Scharf made his intentions very clear when he made a disgusting joke about building a wall around Cupertino and making San Jose pay for it.

There isn't anything more I can say on the topic of Vallco that hasn't been already written by others. Suffice it to say that that the NIMBYism of exclusive suburbs like Cupertino is not a good look to ordinary Californians, which is why SB 50 for example polls so overwhelmingly well.