skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably my having a few (or one?) very large servers where most people join.

As much as I wished that wasn't the case, most people just want to join an established network and don't care about federation as a concept. A long as a single server doesn't take over altogether, however, I don't think there is a problem with large servers.
It is literally litigation financing. As in "I don't have enough money to pay my lawyer, but my lawyer doesn't want to work on contingency, so please LEND me some money to pay upfront and I will pay you back later... if everything works out..."

It's litigation financing. It does exactly what it says it is.
Probability theory. Multiple books/courses/videos and I still have problems with recalling basic formulas or solving fairly easy problems. I find it weird because I don't have the same problem with other branches of math.
"It’s a great decision to destroy old used things" - so you're just assuming they're not going to re-sell them like the article stated that they would? Isn't it more reasonable to wait and see what they actually do with them before criticising them?

"Used old IKEA furniture was made from wood and had some level of quality." - They still make furniture out of solid wood. I just bought some nicer solid wood bookshelves from them. You have to pay a bit more, but that should go without saying. You're probably not paying more than what you would have payed back in the day when taking inflation into account.

I wouldn't presume what's more sustainable in the culture we have today. Making something out of solid wood, and having it thrown away after 20 years because it wasn't fashionable, or wasn't taken care of properly, could easily be way worse than making something out of veneer, wood fiber and cardboard if it's used for at least 10 years.

"Current new things there are made from paper!!!" - Yeah, some things are. So what? In my experience they're still engineered to do the job they need to do for as long as you need it to. I know there's cardboard core in a coffee table and some wall shelves I have. I've taken the shelf down and up several times without issues, and pushed it quite hard to test it, since I knew my kids might try to pull on it.. it was just fine. Kids have been jumping on the coffee table without problems. If you can get sufficient strength with less materials, why not? You have to be DAMN sure that the table will be used for 50+ years if you're going to make it out of a more resource intensive solid hard-wood.

"New IKEA things can’t be moved, because assembling and disassembling them does not work anymore. " - Uh, I just disassembled and reassembled a not very old cabinet made of wood fiber from IKEA. It was fine.

The article stated that the furniture should be returned without disassembling it. At my local IKEA I can rent a van for just 3 hours for a very low price, that should fit a couple of bookshelves without disassembling them.

I don't think the idea that we should make everything out of solid wood and have it last for 100 years is actually sustainable today. We're resource-constrained today, making everything out of solid wood would put a huge strain on the environment at a time where it's already under extreme pressure. The population in western countries is already starting to decline, so I don't see the point of sacrificing the environment today to reduce resource consumption in 50+ years. I don't think it's likely that solid wood furniture will be exported to Africa and South-East Asia where there will be population growth in the coming decades either.
I might find it obvious but would probably still like a rewrite, also maybe trusting it depends on how much you trust the person writing it.

But definitely the point stands, the readability of code is often a function of experience and ability on both the reader and writer's sides.
Went from night owl to early natural (no alarm clock) riser (5-6 am) doing covid. Best productivity decision ever.
Because they’re largely dependent on internal, non-public infrastructure and libraries.

Open sourcing things is nonzero effort.
Kallax was never made from "wood". The new one is quite study particle board filled with honey comb paper, the old one was very thin MDF with carton spacers. I have both an old expedit and a new kallax and there is no noticable difference. The main downfall of both is the coating with is thin and easy to destroy.
Hopefully someone will come out with a compact POE board for it - I only need ethernet and USB

Really want something similar to the Ubiquiti CloudKey form factor (though ports could be on same edge)
I think you are looking for a greenhouse, all evaporated water will condence inside and you will need dramatically less for your plants
It was hard to get to a working demo and here it is: http://www.p01.org/MONOSPACE/monospace-compatible.htm
You can do things like "brexit -express" in search or get an extension if you want that in all searches?
> Current new things there are made from paper!!!

Another point of view: the IKEA cardboard honeycomb material is AWESOME!

It's made from recycled material, it doesn't weigh anything, it's very strong when compared to weight and price, the surface is pretty resilient and it doesn't produce a lot of waste when it is inevitably discarded.

In today's single use culture (which needs to go away) it would be a terrible waste of resources to use nice hardwood to build cheap coffee tables that get swapped out when the fashion changes.

You can still get hardwood furniture that will last several lifetimes. It will make you feel a little lighter in the pocket, but you buy once and cry once.
(Shrug) You can go argue with Neil deGrasse Tyson, it's over my pay grade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ELA3ReWQJY
Yes it is truly an egregious injustice that thousand year old castles remain out of reach of the middle class. Something like 100% of castles are owned by the top 1% wealthiest people. Unconscionable.

Yeesh.
Maybe some less Orwellian context: It's very normal now for friends/family to have some kind of permanent location sharing. Snapchat has this feature built in and I was quite surprised to see dozens of friends have this feature turned on and widely sharing by default.
Even as a Firefox-user, I would recommend running this in Chrome.

It's clearly optimized for that target, and it's getting a much higher FPS in Chrome than Firefox.
All of the mainstream "left-wing" publications are more centrist and neoliberal than anything. The Overton window has been moved so far right that they only seem vaguely left-wing in context of the overall media landscape.

To actually find anti-war sentiments, you have to go to the small independent media.
In recent years it might have been very limited. It used to be very widely available in the 70's and 80's.
Is there any evidence that the new stuff is worse? Because as far as I can tell, the wardrobes at IKEA today is the exact same models as the ones I bought 7 years ago. Billy bookshelves looks to be the same as the one I bought 15 years ago.
As the parent comment says, everything in physics depends on how you observe ("... best described").

Like Sean Carroll said in the Veritassium video about the "many worlds" [1], there's no such such thing as "pressure", it is just the interaction of fluid molecules. For practical purposes though, it is best described as a scalar called "pressure".

[1] https://youtu.be/kTXTPe3wahc?t=1043
Yeah; I don't understand why they're being hidden behind a sign-up/wait wall like this.

Show us the draft routes in an interactive viewer, please. The page at the moment is a glorified mailing list sign-up box.
> a tacit supporter of Leininsm and Stalinism

..."tacit" meaning that Brecht never actually said it. An ad hominem argument addresses the person and not their claims....
How is it absurd ? It is in a nice neighborhood, close to the water, walkable to the Golden Gate bridge, and sits next to a massive national park.
Hey, I am the guy who wrote this article.
This is definitely not what you want to do as it will backfire more than it will help. I only responded to tweets where people were asking for a solution to their problem. Many of them even asked specifically for an app. So that's not "obnoxiously spamming social media endlessly"
Impact of GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) on AI
Spain and the UK were a ZX Spectrum zone.
Imagine you're in a revolution in some country, and every day people are marched out in front of your window to be executed.

This is bad for your well-being. But blaming the window for your problems is false to the fact.
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I think by trying to find evil in their scheme you miss the pretty obvious business logic:

- IKEA will only accept things in decent-ish condition and will (if necessary) refurbish and resell them.

- you get a voucher, not cash

So an assumption that they try to kill the second hand market seems absurd - on the contrary they become a marketplace for good-condition second hand products AND get people into the store with a voucher in hand (which means they might spend even more to buy something and like many vouchers may also end up unclaimed).

So no nefariousness here, just good business sense. Nonetheless having used options in the store, allowing you to decide to take that shelf new for 130 or that used one for 70 seems to me as a net gain for everyone.
> Virtually nothing in healthcare is a technology problem except for new treatment development.

Again, that's a heavily over-simplified view. You are absolutely right that incentives and policy play huge roles (even more so in the US). I agree that my online doctor example was not the best choice.

However, my point stands that there is a fair share of difficult technology problems that will meaningfully contribute to healthcare:

1) Symptom checking: Identify the state of a patient prior to the point of care.
2) Triage: Prioritise treatment options in conjunction with 1)
3) Assisted decision making: Improve professional decision making, especially for rare diseases.
4) Patient follow-up: Manage the process after care has been received.
5) Symptom tracking / monitoring: Quantify disease severity over time.
6) Adherence to medication: It's estimated 50% of medication is not being taken.
7) Personalised medicine: Match treatment/prevention options to patients (e.g. genetics, gender, circadian rhythm)
...

These are some broad themes from the top of my head, of course there are many more disease specific problems, e.g. the early detection of Parkinson in voice samples, automation and delivery of CBT for insomnia, the list goes on.
Joe has a real talent for getting people to talk. I think he holds the conversation at an accessible level, he makes sure the audience is bought up to speed. If you watch what he is doing he is actually really good at his job.
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I just tried it for W3schools and it worked
I don't understand how you handle your furniture. Even the cheap ones can be reassembled carefully, but you need to handle it gently and slowly. There is a second hand market for all of it.

The disparate experiences across people lead me to think that some people are unknowingly handling it roughly and quickly without much thought.

Also, if you can afford to get better ones, get them. Although Ikea is already not the cheapest, we used to be lower middle class in Hungary and couldn't afford Ikea stuff and bought similar particle board stuff from no name places that was way harder to assemble and was less structurally strong. For all the hate it gets, Ikea is well designed for average Western European and North American students and young adults. Once you earn like an average American middle class family, you can afford better furniture, so if it's important to you, do it. But many people know what they are getting and are satisfied with the tradeoffs.
Some random things I use find my friends and Snapchat's map for:

1. Seeing if/when friends get home safe after a late night (they may forget to text before going to bed)

2. ETA of friends I'm meeting that travel by bike

3. Is X in the neighborhood if I wanted to stop by? (avoids the check message, still will check for most friends before showing up at the door)

Sharing your location is a personal choice I'd never judge someone for not doing, but I very much enjoy it with close friends I trust.
Even the newest IKEA furniture survives moves just fine. We have been selling and buying used IKEA furniture on an Austrian second hand market for the last 5 years and generally no issues. Also the things that often break you can get fixed for free at the store if needed.

I think the idea that IKEA furniture does not last is a result of IKEA being very transparent about how the furniture is made.
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Using an iPhone, or (soon) Mac, That will have ARM and PowerVR Tech. ( Of course ignoring ownership ).

You know what every single Modern ( Not just leading edge ) manufacture have as bottle neck? EUV / TwinScan from ASML in Netherland. ( Or you could include the Trio ASM, ASML, and BESI )

You know 60%+ of Fortune Global 2000 will be using the same ( dreaded ) thing for their Supply Chain Management ( And possibly ERP and CRM ). Its called SAP. I remember a year ago someone on HN said they never heard of SAP, well if you are only working in Software Tech side of things you wont heard of it. But just like Excel it is pretty much everywhere in non tech, large size enterprise.

Spotify

If you count Qualcomm as tech, then every mobile network in the world would have either ( or Both ) Nokia and Ericsson behind them.

Those are just few on top of my head. I am sure there are plenty more.
I remember seeing sketches of catapults and military inventions, which Leonardo da Vinci put together as marketing material and a sales pitch (I believe to the lord of Milan). Like, "I can create all sorts of machines both for the protection of a city and for siege." It struck me how being an entrepreneur - learning to swim in the realities of the market - was (and is) an essential part of being an artist.
> Furniture like a simple table should last you a lifetime

Furniture might last. Living arrangements don't, especially in the early part of life as an independent adult. The fate of quite a lot of cheap furniture is to be dumped in the street, unfortunately - but that's also mostly mattresses and couches, which aren't part of the IKEA re-use scheme.

There's an existing charity shop economy of used furniture, much of which is house clearances of the dead; it's pretty cheap, because the cost of moving it around dominates.
Tanked my firefox instance, which I closed, and the noise from the page continued. Do no open this in firefox.
None? The message clearly says that a side project is being ditched, not the kid.
Yep, which is somehow funny to see people discussing what you can or cannot do on ESP286 and ESP32, when compared with CP/M and MS-DOS early hardware, they are server class.
Isn't this what email filters do in outlook and what labels and filters do in gmail? How would this be different?
I've never felt that Lex's interviewing was so poor that it was a reason not to listen to one of his interviews. He still gets interesting people to talk about interesting things.

Yes, amazing guest list, I do wonder how it took off like that.

Edit: in contrast, Rob Reid's After On podcast has somewhat similar guests (not an all-stars list, no AI folks except Stuart Russell & Rodney Brooks), but he's my favourite interviewer. The amount of research he does before each interview is insane, to the point he already knows what the guest will say and what are the most interesting items to talk about. But he still lets the guest tell the story themselves.
You could do that, but I'm not sure that would be conducive to a great experience.

There really is no guarantee that just because you follow person X, that you will be at all happy about what the people person X follows talk about. In fact, I'm willing to bet that if people started reading messages from most send-level connections we'd see a lot more flamewars.

Of course I haven't done any real research on this, but I have at time decided to randomly follow people who are mentioned by some of the people I follow. It inevitably led to a lot of bad content that I did not want to engage with.
However you measure life outcomes, the best possible cocaine and heroin intake is exactly zero. The report cites statistical agencies' numbers and they match the sources.

Whoever Dalgarno is or was is irrelevant.

Appeasing drug addictions is a dead end.
I listened to his interview of Jim Keller and had the exact same feeling. At multiple points Keller straight up roasted him for the kind of questions he asked. One of them is one of my favourite roasts to date, where Fridman asks him what achievement he is most proud of (is this a phone interview for a junior position??) and Keller pretty much laughs at the question and tells him he has kids.
Yep, Turbo Pascal 3.0 supported them.

And you could also use tricks like TSR for simulating multiprocessing.
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> that's not a counter anecdote - they said the old stuff would last, the new not.

I would like to see some evidence on this. I read this all the time and it does not reflect my experiences.
That would probably require Garda to be registered and regulated as a bank.

If they only do this in response to thefts and catastrophes it's more like an insurance payout.
The Atlantic is a _monthly magazine_ with articles about "Literature, political science, foreign affairs, lifestyles".

These articles are political science. For me, a European, they are a valuable analysis of your collapsing country, so I can get out of the way of the pieces as it crumbles down.
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Took the traditional desktop word processor and chopped a bunch of features out.

Unfortunately some of them, like captions for images / charts / diagrams, numbered headings and the like were really useful
Right off the bat:

> Money is simply trust. It is not backed by anything.

This is only true of fiat currencies. Not all currencies are fiat.

> A critical piece of information is missing from our education system. A clear definition of money.

That's because the notion of what money is has changed over time and, quite often, people can't agree on a proper definition.

> Because governments are incentivised to inflate the money supply and make debt easier to pay back, the critical “trust” component of the money has a non-zero probability of erosion. That means it’s just a matter of time until the currency fails.

This is definitely not a widely held view.

The main insight the author claims is:

> If money is trust, what are we trusting? We are trusting that a dollar maintains purchasing power. Purchasing Power is what you can buy for each of your dollars when you spend them.

Again, not a widely held view, and it's not clear that's where the value of a currency comes from.

With the risk of being too harsh, the author is clearly not an economist, doesn't have any deep insight into what money (more precisely dollars, in this case) is, and also comes off as biased (he works in crypto, which usually has an agenda against "mainstream" currencies).
Perhaps it's a deliberate plan as part of the slow movement - encourage the anticipation, and release it when it is ready?
'normal' salt mined from the ground don't have microplastics in it,
You still need more than you'd expect. Plants need CO2 to live, and with CO2 at just 0.04% of atmospheric air, you need to let a lot of air (and accompanying water vapour) in and out of your greenhouse to let the plants have the CO2 they need.

Or you burn natural gas to produce CO2 (and some water), but then your carbon sequestration goals go up in smoke...
I don't mind him, it feels like he is figuring things out still but I like that at times it can turn in to what feels like a quiet conversation between friends. Which can be illuminating and heart warming. Quite unexpected for a podcast like this.
I'm not sure it was ever designed with that in mind. Almost all my interaction is with people on other instances, and I'm pretty sure that's true for most people (unless you're on gab, as they are blocked by everybody)
umm, yes and no...

the key principle of general relativity is the equivalance principle: there is no (local) way to tell if you're being accelerated (in a spaceship for instance) or in a gravitational field. in other terms the inertial mass is the same as the gravitational mass.

this, and lorentz invariance, yields general relativity almost uniquely, so it's a very strong principle.

so yes, in some sense gravitation shift the notion of "inertial frame of reference"
Slightly more friendly for sideloading books out the box; Kobo Glo HD

Its my favorite gadget.

Pretty sure kindle are better value though, and can still be hacked/sideloaded onto.

E-Ink is marvel in itself and it is disgustingly uncommon. I hope more products emerge that use them.
The cheapest IKEA-stuff is indeed cheap, but buy stuff somewhat over that and they are still really durable.
Large vendors like Macys generally sell furniture which can be moved or disassembled without breaking said furniture.
This reminds me moves in the fast fashion business were you can dispose your clothes and receive vouchers. The consumer feels good because he is caring for the environment and the store can keep selling more stuff.