skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's even easier if you don't spend at all. So many of the things we buy are temporary, ephemeral pleasures.

I'm not saying don't invest in fun and experiences; life is short, and you should enjoy it. But picking up random things at Target and idly browsing Amazon might not be necessary. And might be keeping you working harder, longer. Cheap drinks are just as enjoyable as expensive ones.

I've started putting money I would spend on stupid things into savings and investments. Nothing would be better than buying my freedom to work on whatever problems I want to 100% of the time.

I've got mutual funds and growth stocks, but my favorite thing is my dividend stocks. I like watching those returns come in because I'm doing nothing to earn them. It feels magical and has helped curb the desire to buy anything I don't need. If I put it into an investment, the money works for me instead of me working for the system.
'corroborated', eh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douma_chemical_attack#OPCW_inv... Well, that is a word one could use. It certainly is a word that one could use.

Incidentally, note that it was leaked through the good offices of a Russian cutout better known for selective leaking of DNC (but not RNC) emails and forged Macron emails. Sure is excellent company Sy is keeping these days.
well sure, why not. this decentralization thing is mostly a fiction anyway, might as well re-centralize our superficially p2p money network back into a p2h2p model, since that actually works.
I'd love to see a site curating products and where they are made. How much of my iPhone is made in China?
10/10 very easy
Such is not the reputation of Christie's.
1 million you say? I dunno... Jamie, pull that up!
The long line of sed is out-of-date and thus "broken". For something simpler that works, try this:

nyt tr |sed 's/ *//;/</!d'|uniq > travel.html

This will produce a simple web page of titles and URLs for each article page.

An interesting point of discussion might be the amount of third party cruft on the template article page versus the more dynamic front page. When Javascript is disabled, on each article page all images display and there are no ads. Downloading any video in the page is as simple as

curl -O `grep -o https://[^\"]*mp4 article.html`
What is an individual? Information theory might provide the answer
The artifact in question was purchased LONG before COVID19 happened.
if you can buy less of the same thing with the same dollar, is it really worth the same in different areas? (no)
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it does come across as them supporting it, yeah. they may as well just say they like to silence people. we all know they can kick alex jones off if they want, and there are plenty of people who dislike him. cheering it on though? i guess it's whether you want people you don't like silenced or you have principles. a major source of the 'think of the children' book-burning emotional behavior seems to be the ones they cheer on too. infantilized and scared into cheering on the infantilization. similar to how the corrupt will become a corrupting influence to others, but with more a denial of cognitive dissonance rather than a darkening of the heart.
The Information Theory of Individuality
> If you don't trust your ISP, you are savvy enough to use a). a different resolver or b). a VPN. In both cases, the decision is opt-in (which is what it should be).

So you think that non-savvy users don't deserve privacy?

> Edit: or option c). apply pressure to your government representatives to update their privacy laws so ISP snooping doesn't happen in the first place.

That's definitely desirable. Heck, the snooping in question might already be illegal in California under the new CCPA. But I don't see federal legislation happening anytime soon, and the US is not the only jurisdiction lacking privacy protections. And while privacy laws can prevent snooping for advertising purposes, good luck convincing the government to outlaw snooping by intelligence agencies. Ultimately, legal and technical measures are not mutually exclusive, and we should use both.
He said that in the context of the physicality of someone who was fully grown, recently transitioned and was actually brutalizing women in MMA fights.
Also interesting how NYTimes doesn't even mention Christie's until paragraph 20.
What makes content discoverable on Twitter? Reposting and linking to other posts.

Bloggers should do more of that.
> Figure out how to do it with reasonable limits and then I might worry.

You mean, do it within the 'reasonable limits' which aren't there in the default package or in any versions such as provided by eg Debian...?
3/5 starters were all stars, not much different than Jordan Pippen Rodman. Kobe + Gasol or Shaq was honestly much more impressive than either.

lebro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyYmJnM9eQs

kobe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzwCh3qbpp4&pbjreload=10

Maybe I just miss kobe tho...
Admiral Rickover was known for walking into the engineering spaces of nuclear ships and just throwing a valve handle that would force a reactor scram. Not infrequently on a submerged submarine. Just to make sure the team was on their toes.
This reminds me of that Upton Sinclair quote: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.'

I think banks benefit from a certain amount of sloppiness. Get hit by a finance charge here, accumulating unnecessary interest on a credit card there? Who cares! Let the bank handle it, don't worry, banking should be convenient...

So despite endless paeans to customer service and 'community' and whatever horns the banks are tooting these days, seeing how you spend your money simply remains difficult.

By design.

Which is why the fix is not coming, and never will be coming, unless you implement it yourself.

Because it is difficult to get a bank to build a tool when the bank's profits are improved by them not building it.
The thing you have to be really careful about is escaping.

Compared to the Object Oriented PowerShell where every column is just an object property, strongly typed and everything, the string-based bash programming to me seems absolutely bonkers.

Like... what do you do if some text doesn't fit into the space available?

How do you handle Unicode?

What about simple escaping of names like O'Toole, embedded double quotes, leading or trailing spaces that are meaningful, embedded line feeds, etc...

Eventually you have to use a full parser, not a bunch of regexes. I've found that "eventually" to mean: almost immediately, even for supposedly simple problems.

Even seeming trivial things like correctly splitting up an X.500 name as seen in LDAP or PKI is deceptively difficult. Now, if it's a LDAP name that includes quotes embedded in a CSV... err... I don't even know where to begin.
I don't have a horse in this discussion but...

> There is a very real choice

I don't see a 'No' button... I love the app, really, but that isn't nice. Also a GDPR violation for those in the EU.
>>>There's also the question of whether or not you believe WSL as a whole is good or bad for Linux.

IMO it's a good thing. Given that windows accounts for 90%+ of the desktop OS share, Windows might very well become the world's most used Linux distro.
> Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort and successfully write a profiler, if they wanted to. Few people make a career in math.

Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort to write a profiler... but few people make a career of it. Anybody can expend a lot of time and effort on math... but few people make a career of it.

> If you're not a native English speaker, you might want to get checked for ADHD, since your post wasn't very coherent.

That's a strange suggestion to make after reading a single HN comment, especially when you're basing it off of your own subjective interpretation of said comment.

I thought the parent made a coherent point that people may avoid hard problems because of the assumption that 1) they need expertise that they don't have and 2) someone else is already working on it. The question raised was: how, in general, do we verify those assumptions?
Good example. There are so many, not all of them are made public.
Ah that sucks, for a moment I thought I would be able to run Wine from within WSL2 and get my game on.
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Old, but this article[0] shows that many of the components are made outside of China. Final assembly happens in China.

[0] https://www.lifewire.com/where-is-the-iphone-made-1999503
A lot of Haskell jargon is just simple everyday concepts dressed up with complicated neologisms.
Got it.

EDIT: my tone wasn't good here. Assuming good intentions. I am leaving the original below just so people can see what the replies where to.

Original: Got It. So the above is a flat out lie.
Infra teams: good, bad, or none at all
The challenge with giving an equal platform to bad-faith disinformation artists like Alex Jones is that it's simply not a fair fight.

Respectable news reporting organizations are bound by an obligation to research and vet their stories.

People like Alex Jones are not, and they can look 95% as slickly presented as a "real" news organization for 1% of the cost and 0% of the moral obligations. They can churn this stuff out at a rate that sources of respectable reporting cannot even begin to approach.

It's like the information equivalent of a DDOS attack, or the "Gish Gallop."

Give the Alex Joneses of the world an equal platform and the world will eventually be nothing but Alex Joneses -- whoever screams the most sensational stuff the most often is going to win.

What is dangerous is a handful of platforms dominating communication

I agree with the terribleness of this.

But I do truly believe it's less terrible than giving a platform to bad-faith creeps like Jones.

Ultimately, the answer is an educated populace with strong critical thinking skills that can do a better job of deciding for themselves. That is truly the goal.

I'll let you decide how feasible that is in the short term, the long term, or any term whatsoever.

20-30 years ago we all thought the WWW was going to be this incredible marketplace of ideas where the truth would win. What an idealistic crock of shit that was.
Google had a project called unladen swallow which was about having a JIT in CPython.

Google has also created grumpy, python to Go translator.
Notion recently published "How Notion Uses Notion" [0] which I found insightful in terms of how Notion's flexibility is put to work internally.

It's interesting seeing where teams hit the limits of the tool & wish for (or move to) something else though. I wonder if "The Notion Way" will emerge at some point, which would be useful for quickly qualifying yourself in or out.

[0] https://www.notion.so/How-Notion-Uses-Notion-616f41d2f5124f3...
Isn't the rule in the US that any bill that's more than 50% there can be exchanged for a new one? Obviously it has to be that way to avoid people ripping their money in two.
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Clinical study of hair regeneration using stem cell constituent extract
Ohhh, such a smart move. If there was any momentum of gaining developers on Linux for gaming this will crush it.

Microsoft is eating Linux with a "loving" embrace.
I did listen and have watched it more than once. I understand the context, but at the very least, he's being a dick. And he shouldn't be surprised when his words are interpreted in that way. It's a vulnerable population and there are better ways to talk about sensitive issues like that.
Now there's something you don't see every day.
"It's not like they're kicking math off of YouTube."

Actually, a funny thing happened to me recently that is sort of in this vein. I made a simple app for tuning theory nerds, for examining how a given equal temperament approximates different whole number ratios. I couldn't link to it when posting on a Facebook group; I was told it violated Facebook community standards (I think they just completely blocked the 1mb.site domain that I hosted it on).
Q3 bars go 2 1 3 4 5.
Hm, why not add an encryption-upgrade path to the protocol using the same port? Why must we use another port?
if they try and control who he can have on and what they talk about, i hope rogan gives them a good 'fuck you!'
The Soviet Union was systematically vandalizing their history to prop up dogma. I hope we rescued anything we possibly could. Thirty years of sanity after that is nice to see but a pretty modest track record.

But I think I'm with Danny Hillis, anything buried and forgotten is safer than anything in a museum.
PlayStation games need to download more than that to install. Many steam games push updates bigger than that.

A single 10TB hard drive would take over -92 YEARS- to fill up at that rate. And again, most people don't ever need to sync with the chain, they let servers do it for them.

What is your point?
He's not shrinking by moving to one of the most ubiquitous apps in the world. You're just going to see some brief internet rage before people type "rogan" into the Spotify app they already have running all day.

That is nothing like XM radio where I've never met someone who said they had it.
I'd be willing to pay more as a subscriber (currently) if they took ads out of the website and podcasts. I've emailed them about it and got some response about how the ads allow them to provide world class journalism. Yes, but I'm willing to pay MORE.
Ah yes, the old "never mind whether these leaks are true, look where they came from!" And of course god forbid we might exercise some skepticism of our own intelligence community or Crowdstrike's conclusions on that front.

I guess it's unfortunate that the RNC had better opsec than the DNC during 2016, I certainly would have been interested to know what they were sending back and forth during their primary. Whatever it was it probably would not have done much damage to Trump's campaign though.

It's really amazing what an effective sheepdogging campaign Russiagate turned out to be. Sy Hersh reached some conclusions which align in some way with what Russia might want, therefore MK-ULTRA wasn't really a thing or the government wasn't involved in Frank Olson's death?
People who know more about self-driving technology trust it more
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i love jeff bezbos
Sure, they were done, but not nearly as effective - hence all the effort to gather data for targeted ads.

If you want completely integrated ads you'll need about twice as many to get the same revenue. And I'm not even sure what's so terrible about targeted ads in the first place (leaving aside how the data is handled which varies enormously).
If Java had been able to provide it historically, "cross-platform sandboxed acceptable-to-high-performance execution of untrusted code" effectively describes WASM, which seems to be a fairly major emerging technology these days.

Perhaps JVM bytecode is arguably just too complex for safe verification... (although JavaCard interpreters manage to do it for a restricted subset (with similar restrictions to WASM!) without too many problems)
I see all the Microsoft team members are here in votes and comments as always. dang, this is not a fallacy with Microsoft. There are huge numbers of marketing employees in these threads
Don't they also have a checkout platform coming in the future? Wouldn't that be a good Shopify competitor.
It seems like they were warned in 2010.[1] They're a museum, surely they have experts on staff who can evaluate and verify what they're buying.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/05/nyregion/hobby-lobby-arti...
I think there's a distinction to be made between "guilt-free" and "dumb/wasteful" spending. I can totally understand spending $150 on a pair of sweatpants if they "bring you joy" and are useful and will last you a decent amount of time. But just because you're willing and able to spend your money without guilt, doesn't mean any and every purchase is a good one. At the very least, spending a lot of money on a series of low quality items that you end up having to replace is a sustainability issue.

And that doesn't preclude you from getting a good deal either. That doesn't mean you should spend days shopping around for a few dollars off every purchase, but "voting with your wallet" is always worth doing.
Would be a nice addition to be able to toggle the dark / light themes on the linked site.
I was troubleshooting a computer once that would randomly shut off during boot and, one component at a time, I replaced everything on it including the motherboard to no avail.

Finally I took all the parts out of the original computer and put them in a different chassis and it worked! Put them back in the old chassis and back to the old problem.

Eventually I noticed that there was an extra stand-off in the first computer case and it was shorting out the motherboard.

It was literally the chassis causing the problem.
It's because once I started doing it I found that I didn't actually know what I spent money on, not really. I found that my rough estimates for where my money was going were way off and lagged actual changes in my behavior by a number of months. Just as an example, I still don't feel like my family is spending close to double what we used to on groceries during the pandemic, but I know that we are because I have months of history to compare against.

So then you could say, great, so you know that for sure now, so what? Well, this is actionable! Continuing with the example, now we can look at the upward trend in groceries and ask whether we're happy about that. Is it an overall upward trend, or is it coming from something else that we've deprioritized? In this case, yeah, it's pretty directly coming out of eating out and socializing, so not something we need to worry about. But in other cases it has provided data to inform hard decisions about where to cut.

And that actionable trade off thing isn't even my favorite part! My favorite part is peace of mind when we buy stuff. I don't have to wonder whether we can afford things, we either have the money for it, or we can move money for it from some other thing we were gonna spend it on, or we just can't afford it. But there's no guesswork, which is so much more relaxing than what I used to do (guess and hope).

Your mileage may vary, but for me, it's some of the best invested time I spend.
Yep, this is the same reason I've been using https://github.com/clovett/myMoney.Net for the last 20 years and I have to say the data I have now is invaluable. But I have noticed a lot of banks are shutting down their OFX gateways which is disturbing. I think Intuit is moving them all to online backend closed systems which sucks. We should start a citizen initiated referendum to stop that trend and force banks to remain open, letting consumers download their data!!
In Australia, the "consumer data right" is about giving fintechs (and probably AUSTRAC too) standardised access to banking data, but if you go and say "I'm a consumer and want to access my data", the banks are all "lol no":
https://github.com/ConsumerDataStandardsAustralia/standards/...
The more you pay, the more the value of the advertisements go down since the people who have the ability to pay are the most worth advertising to.

They would need to be guaranteed sufficiently many people who are willing to sufficiently enough to offset all advertising revenue. Unfortunately, time and time again, people prefer free over paying for quality.
Covid-19 Will Expose the Many Ghosts in the U.S. Economy
eBook sales declined 5.7% in the first 3 months of 2020
The thing with WSL is that it doesn't win back the ML segment from Linux to Windows for production workloads. This is just a developer workstation friendly move that explicitly doesn't tie you to Windows itself.

It seems like Microsoft is continuing to see Linux as a production server target while positioning Windows to remain relevant as a workstation OS.

Ostensibly, this is a move to compete with Mac OS and not Linux.
That would require some JS. Wouldn’t be hard to do, but I don’t think it would be feasible within a pure CSS framework.
I think there are a couple of great points here, and I'll try to break things down and address each point independently.

1. re: "real" user reviews — right now, we do do this, just in a different way vs. what I think you're thinking of. For all of our guides so far, we've conducted a lot of interviews with founders who've used each product. However, we ultimately synthesize this data, pair it up with our own findings from our testing, and draw our own conclusions.

We think this is close to the optimal way of doing things. We found that sites which rely 100% on user reviews usually hit a ceiling in terms of usefulness, as the reviews are typically on the shallower side, which compounds b/c high-level reviews typically end up talking about the same things, so they're often redundant as well. By getting founder feedback, we're able to get a lot of datapoints to guide our findings and to surface less common issues, but by testing and ultimately writing these guides ourselves, we're able to both spend the time to elaborate on important aspects in depth (e.g. caveats, background info, etc.), while also being able to present info from a bigger picture perspective (e.g. this is how X, Y, and Z compare, etc.). The main downside is that it requires a lot of additional work.

2. re: Gartner + incentives — I believe that you identified the problem correctly, but misattributed the underlying cause. Gartner's incentives are misaligned b/c vendors who pay have an edge up on those who don't, for reasons you correctly identified. Importantly, this is not isolated to Gartner — in fact, the incentives are just as misaligned for a lot of the 100% UGC review sites. For those sites, if a vendor pays, they're allowed to cherrypick their own users to invite for an "organic review." If the vendor doesn't pay, then their rating will be relatively lower b/c it becomes much harder for them to get their best users to write a review on the site.

So in general, the problem isn't caused by whether you're a UGC review site or write guides yourself — it's caused by, well, whether or not you're doing something slimy to make money.

Edit: Oh, and I just saw that you mentioned Capiche at the end. I just want to say that none of this comment is directed at them — I sincerely think that they're passionate, motivated founders who deeply care about doing good for the startup community.
So them more than halving prices and boosting core counts massively in the space of a couple of years just coincidentally coincided with AMD competing with them again?

I wont argue there wasn't lots of R&D going on behind the scenes, but their current improvements are still on the same architecture they've been using for years - this wasn't something they couldn't have done earlier (especially the prices - surely being able to lower them so much and still make a profit means that consumers were getting screwed earlier?).
>Why is delegating (effective) censorship to Big Tech suddenly a good idea?

Because they currently have alignment with the correct political ideology. When that changes, so will this attitude. History shows that it will eventually change. History also shows that those currently in control will erroneously believe they will forever be in control.
Google still allows http internally?
lebron has at least 3 more good years left. unlike jordan, lebron doesn't have to deal with a jerry krause dismantling the team out from under him. if AD rises at the same pace lebron declines, it's many more exciting years for the lakers.

with that said, zion and the lakers-b-team pelicans are the most exciting thing in basketball right now. brandon ingram made no sense as a #2 to lebron, but he's blossoming in new orleans next to zion, jrue holiday, and an also-revitalized lonzo ball.
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