skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, internalizing the idea that “better gear won’t allow me to skip the hard work” has taken time, but it is so true. Gear can make certain tasks easier, and it grants access to a bigger/different palette, but that stuff is nearly orthogonal to the creative effort itself, especially as an amateur.
We gave our dogs canine genius toys - basically a rubber log that you stuff treats in. As they chew and play with it, the treats come out.

My dog would take it up the stairs, stand it on end, and cartwheel it down the stairs - dispensing all the treats at once for easy consumption. Kind of blew my mind that she came up with it. Her brother never figured it out.
Lucid lets shoppers customize cars like a video game character
Usually if one cannot afford a car, there are bicycles, motorbikes, horses and wonder public transport to choose from.

Just like there are plenty of Internet capable smartphones that aren't made by Apple.
You seem to think the author is writing this paper with the goal of espousing a viewpoint or tying it back to current affairs. It's possible to write and read about history purely for the interest.
Scaling Erlang Developer Experience at WhatsApp [pdf]
"Sabulum in apparatu" makes me smile.

"Sand in the machine!" suddenly sounds less contrary and anarchist in Latin :-)
the provincialism and groupthink on HN is incredible
How do you do partial file commits with the CLI? E.g., commit one hunk in a file but not another? (Theoretically, you can do this with `git add -p`, but I’d say that’s a comparable downgrade from a GUI like Magit to using `ed` as a text editor is today.)

It’s also just silly to view a multi-file diff, which is hierarchal (File > Changes) just as a flat terminal dump. It's fine for quick diffs that follow a simple pattern, but I wouldn't want to review a complex diff that way.
He's renting right now so him and his wife are going to buy a house.
One of the easiest ways is to start using emacs for something you didn't use vim for before, like org-mode. Or just for magit, but not text editing yet. Either way, you can stay in your fast, happy path in vim as long as you like, and trickle in small edits in emacs until it becomes more comfortable.

So you can avoid the heavy slam of new-editor-awkwardness in your important work.

I do recommend spacemacs, it (looks like, I'm vanilla emacs myself out of habit) has many packages and customizations atop of a vim-ish keybinding.
This is the same line of thought Mark Manson (Subtle art of not giving a Fuck). He says seeking happiness is a bad idea and the same that telling kids you can be whatever you want is damaging just as you said. He says things that I feel like we know most of the times but just don't want to admit.

This[1][2] is what he has to say about depression. It's largely about acceptance.

[1]: https://markmanson.net/youre-okay

[2]: https://markmanson.net/the-uncomfortable-truth
I can’t recall the last time I saw a Pringle’s ad, but wasn’t their slogan “Once you pop, you can’t stop?”

Although that’s a double edged argument. If you say the marketing is true (we need the pop!) then you’ve just stated that don’t think the can needs to be resealable...
The new URL is a nice overview but doesn't mention at which commit the code got merged: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/94faadaca4e1704f...
This is very true, i think the guy you're responding to is thinking more in terms of when there are more jobs then devs, not the other way around.

Even if that becomes the case, since this stuff goes though phases, a lot of college students or kids right out of high school would still jump at the chance to gain this sort of experience, alongside people like you, who just want their needs taken care of, a bit of spending money, and a job where they can focus on what they enjoy without too much demanding or stress. Same for older people with a lot of expertise, but who again want something less demanding but still enough to support them until they retire, or give them a purpose after they do so.

Like my dad, he's a network engineer, in a job like I described. He and my mom are a little over retirement age and plan to retire soon, but he's not one to just sit around the house all day. I think that's one reason he keeps saying he'll retire in 2 - 3 years, but says that year after year.
Cybernetic Revolutionaries – The MIT Press
Holy smokes guys, I went to sleep after posting this and woke up to the tiny server running my blog dead and about a 100 comments here. I'll get my kid to school and then sort everything out.

Thanks!
It could be done gradually. The first step is to introduce the assessment and remittance infrastructure. Governments could then choose to start with a 95% discount on the fee for example, and ramp it up over time. It could also choose to reduce the fee or entirely exempt certain products. You could see these as "environmental subsidies" on things that we consider important. The important thing is that costing in the environmental economic externality[1] would become the norm, rather than the exception.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externality
Some don't seem to care, which makes sense to me. It's not like people go into research math for the money. Andrew Wiles gave up their prize for the Fermat's last theorem.
> I will never in a million years install the privacy and security nightmare that is the Epic Game Store on a PC I own.

It turns out that in a surprising number of cases, you don’t have to. Control, Journey, and Beyond Two Souls (as of this writing, it launched with Denuvo) are all completely DRM Free and will run without EGS. You can download them via the open-source “Legendary” unofficial client, or even in a Virtual Machine if you feel so inclined.

There are a tiny handful DRM-free Steam games but in my experience, it seems to be way more common on the Epic Game Store, particularly for AAA titles. I’m not sure if this was intentional of a happy accident, but it’s caused me to choose EGS for several titles recently. Mind, you still need to check before buying!
A young man of my acquaintance has on the headset of his bicycle

"There's only one way to get home".

Something his father told him during a long bike ride once, when he was in despair of ever finishing.
Companies don’t let you use production code in any language you choose. There is usually a discussion.

I was in a Perl shop many years ago and introducing Python was strongly discouraged.
> I'll also add, I have yet to hear a peep from Epic w.r.t having to go through Microsoft, Sony, and Nintendo for releasing Fortnite

Don't fight five enemies when defeating one will defeat all five.
> No government will force that - there’s too much risk for malware and spyware as it is.

Since when does any government anywhere on this planet care about "risk for malware and spyware" on operating systems? If they did, they'd turn up the heat on software developers in terms of responsibility for blatant security violations and security-related software bugs. The fact that no government does any of that tells us that they don't care about secure software. Some governments - I'm not calling names now - may even have active interest in insecure software due to their law enforcement and intelligence arms depending on security flaws for their work.
Even with a salary of 200k per year, it's unlikely they will be able to afford a 2 or 3 bedroom flat in South Kensington. According to Zoopla/Foxtons, the average price is around 2M.
Instead of paying volunteers would contracting critical tasks to an FOSS friendly software consulting firm be less controversial for Debian (although that might not be an option due to expense)?

Just curious
It "...never gets easier, you just go faster." -- Greg Lemond

About the refusal to be at ease in your comfort zone. If it's easy for you now, you better push harder before the competition catches-up.
Thanks! I think I got the server sorted out.
I grew up with a father in the army so moved around a lot also but I found the best friendships have come from those I was at college with in my 20s. I'm in my 40s now.
I don’t know much bridge so please correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t that “cheating” basically applying steganography to game moves? It’s not like touching your ear at the right time or some other kind of back channel. It’s all represented by game moves. That sounds tractable for an algorithm.
Drink/drug/smoke are all the same thing and faux nihilism is often an excuse for hedonism.

Said faux nihilism was also a product produced by the music industry and sold a lot of records.
English is currently overwhelming in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_languages_in_the_Eurov...

but 40 years ago it would've been 3 dutch and 7 english to 11 french.
That's the reason my sense is that it doesn't rise to the level of it's own monopoly. But those "cheap" phones are still a major expense for a lot of people.
I've always been partial to "Do your duty, come what may" not that applied it. I believe the quote is attributed to the Knights Templar
And you deserve to have it. Just let other users also use another platform if they want to.
That is what Epic is trying to achieve. Let there be multiple App Stores on iOS so people are free to choose.

You can keep using the App Store and be inside your curated platform or you can alternatively also use Epic's or Amazon's, whoever tries to make their own platform on iOS and Android, so that people are free to choose.

Either that or the App Store needs to be separated from Apple Inc. which makes the hardware. Currently, the App Store doesn't cover the user's best interests but Apple's best (financial) interest, and as long as it is under one company, App Store will always push to the benefit of Apple and detriment to all others. Think Spotify and Apple Music, Chrome and Safari, Google Maps and Apple Maps.
I don't know about packet recycling, but at least with the 'for the most part', packet collision and packet loss used to be a lot more common for some reason. Nowadays the only times I see them on local networks is when cables get badly kinked or terminations are poorly done.
I'll fix it, thanks. The problem occurred because it was not translated, but more "rewritten", and this particular figure was changed.
Regarding actual question, that wouldn't work unfortunately. "Dumping" isn't possible as effects are complex and nonlinear. Maximizing total dose hardness via back gate voltage would require complex voltage control.
But there could be something, for example, if one tries to use accelerated high-temperature annealing.
Regular trash costs extra money after a couple bags, here, so we're encouraged to put anything in recycling that can go there. Our city has us put recycling out at the curb, unbagged and uncovered, in plastic bins.

Meanwhile, wind exists.

It's more of a littering program than a recycling program, really.
That is extremely astute.
I agree. But an average human won't. A perceived cost increase or to put it more generally a perceived life standard decrease incurs a strong emotion in humans. Let earth and our future be be damned, I want more dopamine in my brain as soon as possible. This is the reason why most people live in debt, instead of an obviously optimal alternative of saving up for your purchases. We evolved in an unstable world, where future was uncertain and happiness now was worth a lot more than the possibility of happiness in the future.
Amusingly, both are useful and valuable statements.
ByteDance, propriétaire de TikTok, investira des milliards à Singapour
So we need Pringle’s Extra (you can fit your hand in there!) and a little campaign about mesh networking...

I’m guessing the diameter and length are also wrong for 5Ghz as well?
Yes, it would differentiate. Use QR codes to quantify.
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On board with mandating recycling and encouraging use of infinitely recyclable materials in container manufacturing.

A couple nits to pick, though.

– You have to be specific when advocating for reuse. Some like to keep using—for long periods of time—bottles made from cheap thin disposable plastic. That plastic, when repeatedly emptied, may quickly accumulate tiny cracks and leech chemicals, which in case of P(V)C may well be BPA. How harmful this could be depends on country’s regulations.

– Pure aluminum containers are rare, if exist. Aluminum cans & bottles contain plastic inside.

I personally advocate for glass, and if glass is not an option—recycle, don’t reuse disposable plastic or aluminum containers more than a couple of times for the sake of your and your descendants’ health.
Do they still have a plastic bin? Where does it go I wonder, now that China isn't taking it.
For people interested in magit-like features, but don’t use Emacs, I highly recommend tig (https://github.com/jonas/tig).

Here’s a tweet with a quick video with me using it (https://twitter.com/robenkleene/status/1299415895262081024).

It works particularly well with Vim (I prefer it to fugitive, mainly because it’s more accessible directly from the command line, so it makes a nice complement to CLI git).
Draws aren't something that need to be eliminated. There are beautiful draws. Only issue is when draws become too easy (for varying definition of easy). Even today, & even for computers, draws are not too easy. But they are getting easier
This is effectively the same as sending an encryption key first to paying customers, and then broadcasting to non-paying customers later.

I am dubtfull this would hold in a court of law.
MIMO cantenna! Now with more M’s.
We're in an era of companies worth trillions and their owners worth billions. It's silly to say we have too few resources to provide enough economic stability for people to care about the environment, meanwhile mega yachts are being made and islands are being purchased by an uber wealthy elite class, and there are people who will defend that behavior, all because they have a lot of money, so it must be okay.

Market driven economies that do not take into account environmental destruction and which cannot come to terms with wealth inequalities will be a huge danger to the future plight of humanity. Waiting for the market to "naturally" react by raising prices due to resource scarcity and destruction of supply chains due to environmental hazards will be too slow, and too little too late.
That looks like hand-edited config to me. At least, I've maintained files similar to that in past gigs. It's a nice example of how CSV can work well if you don't need to worry about quoting.
I’ve had a turntable in my life since I was six playing children’s 7”s on a Fischer price setup. My parents records were my introduction to music, basically. Learning how to operate the big turntable when I was old enough to be allowed to felt like a big deal, and I’d spend hours going through their small collection of 60s pop records, blues and random classical selections. They weren’t especially musical people but that experience made a big impact on me, and helped me get to know my parents better as well. Anyway, it happens.
That's how I've always interpreted it.

1. This place is perfect for us

2. Why did we end up in a place that's perfect for us?

3. Perfect places for us are possible

4. We could only evolve in one of those perfect places

Number three is the (often unstated) assumption. The anthropic principle doesn't (even attempt to) answer why perfect places are possible; it merely states that because we're in one, they are possible.
CDs have two layers of error correction, and with special equipment you can monitor the Block Error Rate.

CD players attempt simple interpolation to hide errors, so the sound has started to degrade long before you start getting clicks and skips. Clock jitter is also an issue.

I started ripping my CD collection to FLAC in the mid-2000s, because it was obvious that ripped FLACs were cleaner and more accurate than the audio from my not-cheap CD deck. Now all my music is on a NAS in a spare bedroom with RAID and a separate occasional manual backup to yet another drive.

I have no interest in vinyl in at all, or in analog nostalgia, or in having yet more stuff to manage in my space. I spent too many hours moving huge boxes of vinyl around and trying to hear music through crackles and pops. So I wouldn't care if every LP and turntable in the world disappeared overnight.

While a lot of vinyl fans would be very upset if this happened, I wouldn't be one of them.
Don't believe everything you think.
There is an awful lot of middle ground between the scale where it's faster to just click through a GUI, and the scale where a database engine makes sense.

Sure, if I were provisioning 10K+ more-or-less-but-not-entirely-the same objects, I'd be reaching for a SQL database engine of some sort.

For about 10 things I'd just grit my teeth and click through a GUI manually.

In between 10 items and 10K is where things get interesting. Inefficient tools can waste more time than they save. Full-on programming languages are right out. You have to consider dealing with people who aren't programmers. People that aren't DBAs.

This in-between-land of, say, 50-5000 instances is where configuration data files live. It's where Excel works well enough at the moment, but I feel that something better is just waiting to be invented.
>See the CEO anecdote I posted upthread.

I think there may be some survivorship bias in your thought process. As an example, Enron displayed some massive short-term bias when it had a market cap more than 10x that of Apple. Sure, the market eventually corrected (and wiped out a lot of investors along with it), but pointing to current thriving large cap stocks as evidence of the market only rewarding long term thinking disregards this. In theory, Enron should have never been priced so high had it not had a short term bias to inflate numbers
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"Electronic devices are more reliable with tin-lead solder"
That would've been true, if lead solder didn't cause Single Event Upsets in storage cells.
This doesn't really surprise me. Between music streaming, cars more commonly having extra inputs (AUX, USB, Bluetooth), the market for CDs is probably shrinking while vinyl appeals to the same enthusiasts year after year.
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Security advantages of pull-based CD pipelines
Interesting! May I ask what you're using it in production for?
There's no chance that buring is better than a landfill. There's so much empty (useless) surface area on earth. Burning puts poison into the air and requires a ton of energy.
> I believe the current system for protecting iOS and its users could easily be split in two.

Correct!

My phone downloads the App from the Play Store and then does a scan locally, on the device.

There's no need to have a centralized, proprietary, anti virus...
> We say we care, but in the end, we don't.

Others who care are fighting this fight. Facebook's message at the recent f8 was "privacy is the future"... It is not everyday you get giants like those, even superficially, to pay lip-service to something like that.

> But they're up against Facebook, Google, etc.

It isn't a losing battle, I don't think so. A lot of hardworking and smart people are putting in the effort, like you mentioned, but that effort isn't in vain. May be you're not paying enough attention to know the impact their work is having?
Variations of this motto are said regularly in my office, particularly around prject integration points. I find the truth as well- it is one of my favorites. Much more time is wasted finding a mistake than is saved by making it.
You seem to have thought this through pretty thoroughly, how do you intend to incentivize people to go to these communal meals vs cooking at home or getting a “personalized” meal at a restaurant?
agreed - 'solved' is wrong term. Maybe peaked to the point top players are almost equal.
If we start with the theory that universal constants are random (big if) then the question he is pushing towards doesn't make any sense. Why does a random number take on a specific value? That is a question for philosophers, not physicists. If we were observing a truly random number then it doesn't mean anything for it to be a specific value.

It is a fair point if nobody has proven (or indeed, can prove) that something in physics is a random number. But alas that does not mean the theory is weak. It is perfectly consistent with the evidence, and mathematically satisfying.

It would be quite exciting if someone can find a reason why we observe specific values and rule out the random number idea. But at some point we know we'll run up against the impossible questions of "why does anything exist at all?", "is it possible for something to not exist?" and "what separates existence from non-existence?". We can't expect to find causal answers for everything.
Identifying someone from their heart beat
> games go on sale on most platforms at the same time, for the same prices.

No they really don't. Spend time shopping around, games on Humble, GoG, and Itch often have different prices during different sale periods. I just got Into the Breach at 50% off on GoG a day or two ago, it was full price on Steam at the same time.

Different stores also cater to different niches: GoG prioritizes older games that wouldn't be updated for modern machines, itch has really experimental 'true' indie games. Neither one of those storefronts could handle the volume and diversity of both categories at the same time.

Unless you're only playing AAA games or something, I don't get the assertion that multiple storefronts don't increase consumer value. From my perspective as a user, they very clearly do. Having multiple storefronts has been a huge boon to the indie market.

> which is marketing, not competition

What on earth is the difference? Would Epic be offering those games for free if they weren't trying to pull users away from Valve? That's what competition is.
No apologies necesaary.

Nationstates, ideologies and those who profit off their miasma are all bastards, but there are still actual people out there and you're one of them. If it all amounts to nothing --- it has still been great hurtling through the cosmos on a wet rock screaming in terror with you brother.
The new IE from the dragging things down point of view. Microsoft did not dare to not allow other browsers on Windows and because of that we can complain about Chrome.
Can you give an example of something you have to do all the time in Python that's a lot nicer in R?
Upvoting but want to add a cave-at, you can get lead poisoning from handling pure lead to, if you do it enough and are not rigourous in hand washing. (Licking lead laden fingers can't be good.)
Well, that was because developers demanded it. Apple initially didn't allow in-app payments for free apps.
Artwork is the only thing that vinyl really wins at, but today you can find more information about any artist or project on the web.

I sometimes wonder about selling limited edition physical artwork off the back of music projects.
ever heard of konsequente kleinschreibung?
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Does anyone have any blogs/books/training courses or exercise they can recommend on getting started on VueJS?