skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm very pleased to see this. I hadn't thought about Slate Star Codex still being available on the Internet Archive. After seeing this post I was thinking about going through my bookmarks and finding copies of my favorite SSC posts in the Archive. Downloading an ebook is so much easier.

Thank you for posting these links, and thank you to the people who created these ebooks.

P. S. Fuck New York Times for fucking with Slate Star Codex.
- Super simple and clean product
- Congratulations the revenue and other good figures
- Does whatsapp allow automated messages thing? or i am understanding it wrongly?
> This is not a left vs right thing, it's a liberty vs autocracy thing. If the popular autocrats win, they punish the people who have "mindsets that are different from" their supporters.

... Idk why you chose to use liberals in your example when their push for woke political correctness is nothing short of autocratic thought control.
Left hand side vs right hand side has a really complicated history. A lot of Europe was left hand side first as well, although I just learned from Wikipedia that that might be myth:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-_and_right-hand_traffic
Even increasing the content limit will go a long way towards deescalation. I find that, on Twitter, one often has to resort to oversimplified hyperbole and sarcasm because it's very difficult to fit more thoughtful and nuanced messages in the content limit.

Yes it's possible to write multiple tweets. But that takes significantly more effort.
Feels strange to have single decimal places in your inch figures. I’d have expected something like eighths, sixteenths and thirty-seconds of inches, even though the decimal representation of them is unwieldy (1⁄32″ becomes 0.03125in). That also helps you avoid fractional pixels, which is worth doing if convenient: 1⁄32″ is 3px, because 1in is defined as 96px.

(As an Australian, the main place I’ve ever seen fractions of inches is old tools like spanners from before the adoption of the metric system, and that’s all fractions with powers-of-two denominators. But maybe Americans use decimal fractions of inches? I suppose I have seen laptop screens described in that way, e.g. 13.1″, 15.4″ and 15.6″, though people typically truncate to the inch.)
Website unreadable on mobile. Commands cut off and not scrollable.
Or, use a type safe language.

Will web developers and rocket scientists ever learn?
What do you mean exactly by "brown" people? Who do you include in that category?
For clarity, this is not the same Clapham as the area of central London.
Whose to say they didn't build their own Arduino controlled CNC to do the wood working?
Hah! Yeah I hadn't even noticed that I do this too.

I'm writing this on a 42" display, it was sold as a "TV" but it's just a dumb display as far as I'm concerned, so cheap 1080p monitor really.

Everything bigger than 42" is, in my mind, just unnecessarily big as you have to sit progressively further away from the display to comfortably watch motion pictures.

So, from my perspective, huge displays are what you need for unnecessarily huge houses.
Flowers and free love, just the other side of the coin:

>4. The Malthusian trap, at least at its extremely pure theoretical limits. Suppose you are one of the first rats introduced onto a pristine island. It is full of yummy plants and you live an idyllic life lounging about, eating, and composing great works of art (you’re one of those rats from The Rats of NIMH).

>You live a long life, mate, and have a dozen children. All of them have a dozen children, and so on. In a couple generations, the island has ten thousand rats and has reached its carrying capacity. Now there’s not enough food and space to go around, and a certain percent of each new generation dies in order to keep the population steady at ten thousand.
The lack of any style on the page tells you it's legit.
Probably, but he's far from alone. It's practically the definition of what the nobility and the gentry/bourgeoisie have in common.

In contrast, workers and professionals must sell their personal skills in the labor market to survive. Unless they are extremely lucky, opportunistic, and hardworking and doing so become part of the gentry, their children will have to do the same.
It's probably my thread from yesterday you're referring to.

There's a pretty big divide here between what archaeologists/anthropologists say to the public and how they interact within their communities. There's a lot of reasons for this that I'm more than happy to go into (e.g. preventing looting, caution about the use of our works to justify bigotry, or simply because there's a lot we don't know). This essentially manifests as "the safest thing to communicate is the basic consensus." It's also the easiest thing to provide layperson accessible resources for. Internally though, the fields are quite aggressive about challenging popular narratives. That's pretty much the best way to make a name as a young researcher and grad classes tend to settle into a debate format, where you take turns trying to rip (sometimes each other's) arguments apart.

Secondly, if we're going to point out issues in an entire field, it helps to be specific. No one can actually respond to the assertion that "archaeologists don't talk about things I haven't named." Like, do I list a bunch of things that have been rewritten over time?

Finally, archaeology is hard and the record just doesn't answer a lot of the questions we want it to. The field as a whole is moving back from resolving big questions and producing grand narratives to answering little questions and small narratives the record allows us to support. These aren't the things the public asks about, so there's quite a large gap mostly filled by the kind of people too ignorant to realize why there's a gap. The challenge that we need to do a better job filling it was Jared Diamond's most interesting idea, in my opinion.
The idea of travelling to another star in a little ship that is launched from earth and is barely able to make the journey is both a very bad plan and a persistent trope. I dont wan't to travel on a wing and a prayer.

You have to have a large space industry, mining and construction, to be able to build large ships and send autonomous drones, supllies, etc. You would do that ahead of any colonists actually arriving.
I made a comparable upgrade path and I’m unexpectedly stoked with where I landed with the SE. It’s a wonderful little device in its own right, and a significant upgrade over a 6S. I didn’t expect to like this phone as much as I do.

Someone else mentioned the screen brightness isn’t great outdoors. It’s perfectly usable but my previous phone was noticeably better. It really doesn’t matter to me, though. I’m typing this without issues in direct afternoon sunlight.
Hyaluronic acid does not hold a thousand times its weight in water
This seems kind of like a bullshit excuse where they just didn't really want to fix the issue. There are a number of waterless cleaning systems that have been available for years, for example [1]. Additionally, why the hell would you throw away the water used for cleaning? Filtering the dust particulate out of the water is pretty straightforward (hell, you can go from muddy to fairly clean water with nothing more than a cotton t-shirt), then you reuse it to clean more panels. 1L/panel with even basic reclamation is ridiculous.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdidbRQaUEY
https://www.windows93.net is quite fun! I opened a terminal and typed reboot. Voila! it did reboot
You can't fund potentially breakthrough innovation and research and only get one tail of the distribution. It's a good thing, not a bad one, the the US government providers funding, and in this case, interest free loans for projects that sometimes fail.
A Lens on Racism
A lens on racism.

Gotama Bhudda, when he was a young prince, was oblivious to to the suffering of the world. There was a prophesy about him, that when he saw an old man, a sick man, and a dead man, he would be set on his way to enlightenment.

His parents were fearful of this prophesy, and worked hard to shield him from these things, and with abundant wealth, they did it very well.

To release Gotama, the latest of the Buddhas (according to the Mahayana sect), many gods crawled out of the sky to become the old, the sick, and the dead.

One god also became a hermit, to provide the prince with a functional path.

The many gods did this because they too wanted release and enlightenment, and in so doing, the Bhudda of our time left his home to fulfill his destiny.

Tonight, I passed a man who was not of my race, not of my skin color, but his eyes were full of tears. I don't know why. He wanted to shake my hand, and I extended it to him gladly. He walked on, and after a few seconds, I called after him, "I'm sorry." He did not pause.

It drew this parable to mind.

John 10:34: Is it not written in your law, I said: "You are gods?"

Who are you in this parable, the parent, the god, the unaesthetic, or the prince?

As for myself, I don't know.
One way of thinking about it is that nuclear power is the only type of power we have at the moment where all of the negative externalities are baked into the process.

I really want renewables to work but so far grid scale batteries just don't exist. The biggest lithium battery isn't even a blip, it's roughly equivalent to what the UK receives through French over production every 6 minutes.
To me the most interesting question I didn’t see answered was: how did you acquire those users over 14 months?
Ugh, agreed. I miss having a jack all the time. I’m so reluctant to buy an adapter for good headphones so I’m still using the ones it shipped with. They’re not great.
"might" - so it won't, again.
Apple is so famous for this that there is a wikipedia page about the word for it[1].

Does Shopify have a reputation for doing this? I'm not really in that world but my impression is that they value their third party developers better than Apple does.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)
> As outside civilizations compete against you, your conditions will become more and more constrained.

This explains why I think China is currently "winning at economy" and will do so even more in the future, simply because they can see long term since the removal of the two-term limit of their president[1], and other[2] tactics[3].

From a "god’s-eye-view", countries should not withdraw democracy & freedom from the hands of their citizens. But logically, I think this gives an incentive for all other countries to also take this unfair advantage (become capitalist dictatorships) in order to compete with China. But I'm not sure how logically this will play out in the next few decades.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/feb/26/xi-jinping-chi...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road#Railway_(1990)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Hong_Kong_extradition_bil...
Would the salt be abrasive & damage the panels/coating decreasing efficiency?

I would imagine another challenge is the transporation costs. The nearest fresh water source appears to be Sutlej River ~18 KM straightline. The nearest seawater source appears to be the Arabian Sea, ~800 KM straightline.

The cost to a problem like this would never be labor as that can be trivially automated if it ever gets costly enough. Water is expensive at these scales.

That being said, it's probable that there could be solutions here. Automated scrubber/blower might be able to get most of the efficiency back without the cost (whether integrated into the panel or a robot on a track). Could potentially use any water more judiciously too when needed (moisten a scrub rather than blasting it with water). Don't know enough about the project but I would hope the domain experts responsible for the project would have considered something I only thought about for 30 seconds & there are reasons that they don't do that.
For some reason i was reading something on the CERN website a few days ago and while noticing the layout was odd, it never really clicked it was modelled after a desktop GUI. That's pretty cool though.
Let us know when you spend some time honing your CSS skills to develop a timely relevant bit of theming, and we can all come back and leave some irrelevant opinions about it.
The oversimplified hyperbole is also a primary key to twitter's success. If you remove that feature it just creates a vacuum for some other aggregated micro-blog to fill.
How to install macOS on any PC
Most modern browsers have require()? I thought they only have import?
There won’t be any fun hidden in there. Once a game developer passes the barrier of accepting cash for progress it won’t be balanced in any way that makes it fun to play.
A streaming service where I pay 5€-10€/month and see whatever I want (live TV, series, films, sport events)

No geo restrictions, no censored content.

Is that too much?

The unique service until now that works perfectly is Kodi with add-ons.
It's an odd kind of rule following though, that includes driving at seventy kilometers an hour down a narrow street just because it's permitted, or roaring past a cyclist with a kid on the bike just because that's also legal.

I don't know if my native country (UK) has unusually good drivers, or if the germans are unusually bad, but my feeling is that german drivers are very good at following rules, and also quite good at killing pedestrians and crashing.

PS: just checked it up on wikipedia, and the data half-heartedly supports my position, depending on what metric you think is relevant. The German death rate from road traffic is relatively low, but the 'road fatality per kilometer' is relatively high. So essentially, when germans do drive, they frequently kill people, but thankfully, they don't do so much driving as other nations do.
A bit disappointing, I thought it's going to be a GitHub for audio
So Canada has a recording of a guy who was not responsible for the situation on the day the downing happened, making a "What if we had done X" speculation - in the form of a question.

The title of the post here is quite misleading.
Just the Prime subscription 30 days free trial
Gemini is awesome and fun. Sure, it's kind of a toy, but's that's kind of the point.

Go read the mailing list. Implement a client in your favorite language, or that weird language you've been wanting to try...

Write a blog, or some fan fiction, or a screed or some poetry. (There's a choose-your-own-adventure you can play.)

Have fun with it.
Giving Code Presentations
My entire agile process to redesign scrimba.com
That has really piqued my interest. How did this happen? The article says charges were dropped, but does not explain the wider context or how these very serious charges got so far with no evidence.

I found some more information from an article[0] from 2018. The only evidence appears to have been the testimony of a young child. The disturbing allegations, like a needle in the eye and multiple rapes, would have presumably left physical evidence of injury.

That article I linked makes no update about the charges being dropped. That falsely accused family has been split up for two years because of this, yet their exoneration didn't seem to get much coverage at all.

I would really like to understand the sequence of events that initiated this. I find it unlikely that the kid came home one day and came up with this completely unprompted.

Do you know of any resources for gaining a better contextual understanding of this bizarre incident?

Surely somebody has written about this case, but I haven't found it yet. I'm torn between thanking you for pointing this out and cursing you because I'm not going to be able to think about anything else until I figure out how this went on for so long.

[0] https://www.news.com.au/national/nsw-act/courts-law/bail-gra...
this is a great idea, and that's precisely why twitter would never implement it
How high does the dust go? Maybe they could cut down on cleaning by just building a wall around the power plant, or add some fans to keep the dust out?
> By admitting a mistake, the poster stops the runaway train of replies and amplifications of their mistake, and the reputation damage that follows.

No matter the apology of the mistake, those who demand them to apologise will still reject it and push further for calls for the accused to be cancelled. The replies and amplifications will divert into real life instead of Twitter.
Boogaloo Bois and Nazi Bronies; clearly the people at the Atlantic are besieged by right wing terror recently. I'm personally waiting for the ranks of marching Nazi's with rainbow uniforms and strap on unicorn horns, haven't seen any yet but thanks to the vigilance of modern media I know to listen for the menacing "clop" of approaching hoof boots.
FreeDVDBoot Project Getting Its GitHub Issues Page Spammed
That is true. But note that they are based in Bangalore, 25K USD MRR is a ton of money (it is a lot of money even in the US). If they maintain this for just a year or two, they're likely set for life.

Sometimes it works out to just ride the wave :)
thanks seen and corrected.
That's exactly the reason why we use certificate based ssh access at my employer's: for our suppliers. It looks like the author went far away to find alternate reasons to deploy this :/
Absolutely terrible. Corporate abuse doesn't just stop at lower-tiered jobs, it affects all levels of industry, including knowledge workers, like the article explains. I had no idea that workers at MS had unionized, only to be stomped out like they were nothing. I feel all those efforts described in the article are too localized, I wish there was a way to build a union of different professions that can back each other up.
The Chinese QQ website had a similar desktop style back in the day! I was quite impressed by it, the windows could be dragged around too.

I wish I could see more classic Mac OS style sites; the platinum interface really appealed to me.
IIRC, while they couldn't cheat the need for squarings, each squaring/multiplication itself has some internal parallelism which can be exploited, and GMP does some of that, and the Cryptophage team took that even further in conjunction with their exotic hardware. So the serial step could be accelerated more than Rivest predicted.
Can Any Honest Comparison of Trump to Hitler Escape Emotional Bias?
But it would make screens great again! Especially retina screens.
For those not following, the Red Tailed Hawk’s call is nearly universally used as a substitute for the sounds of Bald Eagles in most media. Bald Eagles don’t sound similar.
I think the mockup emphasises the original tweet too much and the apology too little.

Suggestion: put the apology first. Use black color for apology, faint gray for original.
I enjoyed "our mathematical universe" by max tegmark. It's not the books intention to teach mathematics, but rather explain how the author sees a link between mathematics and the universe.

It will be some new mathematical concepts for him, but I reckon he will be able to Google what does are.. I also find it extra motivating to learn a new mathematical tool when I know what type of problem it can solve!
That healthcare spend is not medical research, most of it is ruitine medical procedures like treating someone's broken rib. That's like taking all of global spend on IT, motors and robotics and claiming thats our automation research.

It has no bering on making us live forever, and I am willing to bet that 'curing' aging for good is impossible unless we figure out brain uploading, which could be impossible and opens a new can of worms - is the new copy actually you?

By contrast we are making a massive investment to automate more or less everything, for instance advances in robotics and machine vision clearly help to automate both healthcare and car assembly.
From organic App Store searches. Probably for “cart” or “abandon”. This is a very big vertical in the app store.
As a former PM at Shopify, I think the risk of this is pretty low. Shopify optimizes for building things into the core product that at least 80% of the merchants can use. On top of that, they are pretty slow to get things to market given they are a big company. That said, the risk is not zero. But if you pick a good niche and stay differentiated, it’s less than you’d think.
This is excellent. Great thinking
Power over information is consolidated to a very small number of gatekeepers, and mainly Facebook.

I run a modestly large Facebook group. I haven't noticed any way that Facebook prevent me from whatever sort of information I want to be. So I can't see Facebook as an absolute filter.

But certainly, at scale, Facebook does wind-up being a filter but through the default, predictable laziness of the average person.

Remember, Hypothetically, if you had a network of thousands of moderators and millions of people in civil, well moderated groups, you could have a debate in almost social media forum you chose; FB, Reddit, some BBS, email, whatever. The exception would Twitter or any media that doesn't allow moderation. But at a point, if we had actual community, it could trump the media it was on.

This is not to say that this is at all likely. Rather, the point when you have passive mass of seething people, yes, sure who is turning the spigots on the hot-button issue content is going to be an "influencer" but this status is by no means cure-able by the elimination of a given media outlet (well, some portion of "#deletefacebook" seem to be weird introverts with a sort of daft "the problem is people who don't know each talking at all" approach and who hope that eliminating platforms can stop this).

What countering forces could or should break the deathgrip that Facebook and Google in particular hold over communication and information publication today?

I think the hostility these entities face today expresses a situation of them not having a tighter grip (at least a much tighter grip) on the public imagination than The New York Times, CNN, right-wing radio, corporate public relations etc. There are many forces struggle here. In many ways I shudder to think what a Facebook under the control of whatever corporate consensus might appear (and I'm further to the left than the right).
Burn down the white house?
I know very little about unions but I feel like it is a dirty word. A very "us versus them" type of idea.

Companies don't start out wanting to mistreat people. Companies grow in the market they are in, and the conditions are set by their competitors.

Standing up for "I want to work less, make more, get better benefits" just isn't competitive if your competitor isn't doing it.

Strong-arming your employer almost never seems like a good idea.
And in fact they have (there are two that I know of!):

- https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/
- https://proxy.vulpes.one/ (also does gopher)
That was DLSS 1.0 they compared with.
Is it not a bit risky naming your app with "WhatsApp" in the name? Might be worth a rethink in preparation for that day you get served papers by Facebook (unfortunately).

https://whatsappbrand.com/#:~:text=WhatsApp%20doesn't%20perm....

"Don't use the WhatsApp Brand Resources as part of a name of a product or service of a company other than WhatsApp."
This is inaccurate.
The first three paragraphs of the linked article talk about an attack on two federal security officers in Oakland and the pipe bombs that were used against sheriff's deputies attempting to arrest the suspect - a suspect who "had scrawled boog, along with various boogaloo slogans, in his own blood on the hood of a car"

This is possibly one of the first things they've done, but I'd hardly characterize that as doing nothing bad
The Progressive Coders Network
Nonsense. No one's going to use lithium ion batteries for this use case.
No, it is abandoned. But there are some bugfixes at https://flaterco.com/util/index.html
Soon we'll be able to define the graph to only display per folder; this is on the Obsidian roaemap.
As a Rust newbie, how do I learn how to read this?

pub struct Stream<'s, S: Seed, A: Copy> {
next: Box<dyn Fn(S) -> Step<S, A> + 's>,
seed: S
}

Can someone summarize in a sentence or two? Or point to some docs?